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Florian Merkel, 1961 born in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz), 1981 - 1986 studies of photography at Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, until 2001 living and working in Berlin, since 2001 living and working in Hannover and Berlin;
Florian Merkel works as freelancing photographer, graphic artist and painter; musical performances with "Knut Baltz Formation", "polymodular!" and "Die Gehirne"; black and white photography, handcoloured photographs, art in architecturetemporary wall paintings, analogue and digital drawings and paintings, music live and in Studio, performances, textes about Florian Merkel, biography;
hand drawings 2005/2006, colour pencil on paper, exhibited in Bernhard Knaus Fine Art Mannheim and Chungking Project Los Angeles; murals in "Futebol" Rio de Janeiro, Voltashow Basel and "Nutzlast" Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2006; exhibition "Silbergrube" in Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie Bielefeld, 2006, painting, inkjet prints and figures from acrylic glass; exhibition "line up" in Gallery Christian Dam, Copenhagen, 2006, mural, c-prints and figures from acrylic glass; Knut Baltz Formation and Die Gehirne performances live at "Magnetbanduntergrund" Volksbuehne Berlin, "Altar-Eck" Galerie im Turm Berlin and in Dortmunder Kunstverein, 2006; Florian Merkel at Art Cologne 2007 - Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, acrylic painting and figures from acrylic glass; Florian Merkel, Knut Baltz Formation + Die Jasmienz at International Push Art Berlin - Volksbuehne 2007, acrylic paintings and performance; project for Fonden Real Dania in Copenhagen, curated by Christian Dam, 2007, nine paintings acrylic on canvas; exhibition "Goldmund" at Galerie Robert Drees Hannover, 2007, acrylic paintings, murals and figures from acrylic glass; mural for VOLTA New York, 2008, acrylic on canvas; work in progress 2008, digital drawings to be painted in acrylic on canvas; polymodular! the performance project of Knut Baltz Formation, Die Jasmienz and Laermvermehrung, 2008; BEEP OFF, videoproject by Jasmin Schwarz and Florian Merkel, 2008; three figures from acrylox and steel standing on sun deck of cruise liner AIDAluna, 2007/2009; Was muss das muss, installation by Olav Raschke, Markus Hutter and Florian Merkel, 2009; Die Gehirne live at Centraltheater Leipzig, 2009; Fatburner by BEEP OFF, visual for polymodular! live show in Sprengel Museum Hannover 2009; silk scarf for lrrh, 2010; polymodular! live Béi Chéz Heinz, Hannover, 2010; paintings and acrylic sculptures for Fonden Realdania Copenhagen, 2010; GIMM by BEEP OFF, 2009/2010; the realised GIMM at Uferhallen Berlin, 2010