Florian Merkel, 1961 born in 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;
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;
project for Fonden Real Dania in Copenhagen, curated by Christian Dam, nine paintings acrylic on canvas, 2007; exhibition
"Goldmund" at Galerie Robert Drees Hannover, acrylic paintings, murals and figures from acrylic glass, 2007;
mural for VOLTA New York, 2008, acrylic on canvas;
polymodular! the performance project of
Knut Baltz Formation,
Die Jasmienz and
Laermvermehrung, 2008;
BEEP OFF,
"be free beep off", video by
Jasmin Schwarz and Florian Merkel, 2008; three figures from acrylox and steel standing on sun deck of cruise liner
AIDAluna, 2007/2009;
Die Gehirne live at Centraltheater Leipzig, 2009;
BEEP OFF 2009, Fatburner, visual for polymodular! live show in Sprengel Museum Hannover 2009 and Jugendbrause, video installation in Neue Saechsische Galerie Chemnitz 2009;
polymodular! live Béi Chéz Heinz, Hannover, 2010;
The Centaur Project, german landscape photographs, 2010/2011;
paintings and acrylic sculptures for Fonden Realdania Copenhagen, 2010;
GIMM by BEEP OFF, 2009/2010;
the realised GIMM at Uferhallen Berlin, 2010;
acrylic paintings 2008-2011;
oil paintings 2011