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 architecture,
temporary 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