Artist

VIVIAN GREVEN
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Vivian Greven, born in 1985 in Bonn, now lives and works in Düsseldorf. She creates ethereal paintings that borrow visually and thematically from classical arts, pop arts, and digital media world, sliding in fluidity between representation and abstraction. Working in alluring colors and restrained arrangements, her paintings display the interplay between surface and form with a glowing luminosity, dramatically flirting with body structure, dualism, and human existence depicted in serenity and clarity. Recent solo exhibitions include: Water, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, 2023; Your Skin Is My Shield, Gallery Vacancy at Frieze Seoul, 2022; CLOSE, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, 2021; Nabel, Kunstverein Heidelberg, 2021; VIVIAN GREVEN, Kunstmuseum Langmatt, 2021; The Negatives, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2021; and Apple, Kunstpalais Erlangen, 2020. Her works have been featured in exhibitions at: Kunstpalast Düsseldorf; G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig; Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Vestvossen Kunstlaboratorium; Ludwig Forum Aachen; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen; Anthena Foundation, Düsseldorf; Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; and Salzburger Kunstverein. Greven’s works are in the collections of Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Hildebrand Collection, Leipzig; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunstpalast Düsseldorf; Kunstpalais Erlangen; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Li Lin Collection, Hangzhou; Long Museum, Shanghai; Providence College Galleries; Sammlung Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen; Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf; and STRABAG Artcollection, Vienna.
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Vivian Greven, Y I, 2019
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Solo Exhibitions

2025    Solo exhibition, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN (forthcoming)
2025    Venus Moon Square, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, DE
2024    Vivian Greven in Dialogue with Paula Modersohn-Becker, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, DE
2024    When the Sun Hits the Moon, Perrotin, New York, US
2023    Water, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck, DE
2022    Your Skin Is My Shield, Gallery Vacancy at Frieze Seoul, KR
2021    CLOSE, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, DE
2021    Nabel, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, DE
2021    VIVIAN GREVEN, Kunstmuseum Langmatt, Baden, CH
2021    The Negatives, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
2020    Apple, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, DE
2019    Elefant, ak-RAUM, Cologne, DE
2019    0 V, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, DE
2019    Air, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, DE
​2018    a m o r e, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, DE
2017    GRAZIA, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, DE
2017    Eyes Wide Shut, STRABAG Kunstforum, Vienna, AT
2017    VIVIAN GREVEN. BUDUMN, SETAREH X, Düsseldorf, DE   
2016    False Head, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, DE
2014    ​Diana, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, DE
2011    Vivian Greven, Museum Kunstraum Neuss e.V., Neuss, DE
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Group Exhibitions

2025    In anderen Händen Highlights of the Philara Collection in the Miettinen Collection, Miettinen Collection, Berlin, DE
2025    MAMA, From Mary to Merkel, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, DE
​2025    Double Cheese Platter: Centenary of the Collection. Twenty Years of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, DE
2025    WE. Der Körper als Zeichen, Kunstmuseum Mülheim, Mülheim an der Ruhr, DE
2025    From the Collection: By Women, About Women: The Latest from NU’s Collection, Nassima Landau Art Foundation, Tel-Aviv, IL
2024    STREETSPACE BANGER, TICK TACK at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, DE
2024    Between pixel and pigment, Hybrid painting in post-digital times, Museum Marta Herford and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, DE
2024    Licked by the Waves | New Bathers in Art, Museum MORE, Gorssel, NL
2024    IM HERZEN WILD - Sammlung +, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Mülheim, DE
2024    The Infinite Woman, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles Island, FR
2024    New to the Collection, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE
2024    A Small Land of Watery Light, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
2024    ​E G O S T A T E, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, DE
2023    The New Kunstpalast, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
2023    N E W  A C Q U I S I T I O N S  I I, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, DE
2023    MATERNITY LEAVE: NONE OF WOMEN BORN, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, US
2022    Johann Gottfried Schadow – Embracing Forms, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, DE
2022    I’m Stepping High, I’m Drifting, and There I Go Leaping, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, CN
2022    VIERMALVIER / FOURTIMESFOUR, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE
2022    Finger Bang, Perrotin, Paris, FR
2022    Girl Meets Girl, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, NO
2022    Neun Positionen der Jungen Malerei, Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold, ​Detmold, DE
2022    FACE TO FACE – Porträts aus der Sammlung Frank Brabant & Gäste at Museum Haus Opherdicke, Holzwickede, DE
2022    Happiness Is a State of Mind, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
2022    Something Between Us, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, DE
2022    MIXED FEELINGS, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, DE
2021    21/21. – neue malerei in der sammlung, Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen, DE
2021    Art History Selects, Providence College Galleries, Providence, US​
2021    Sweet Lies. Rethinking Identity, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, DE
2020    Poisonous Kiss. Lovely Venom., curated by Vincent Vanden Bogaard, Tick Tack, Antwerp, BE
​2020    MAGNET: Fleeting Forces in Forms, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
2020    On Everyone’s Lips, From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE
2020    High Voltage Two, Nassima Landau Foundation, Tel Aviv, IL
2020    Berührend, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, DE​
2020    Something Between Us, KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf, DE
2020    Now! Young Painting in Germany, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
2019    Image Vision, Pfilipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt, DE
2019    Now! Young Painting in Germany, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn; Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden; Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz - Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz, DE
2019    Touch Knows You Before Language, Lyles & King, New York, US
2019    SHAPED FIGURE, Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld; MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach, DE
2019    ON REPEAT, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK
2019    TO MAKE THE STONE STONY, Golsa, Oslo, NO
2019    Ladies Only, VALLOIS, Paris, FR
2018    Insane in the Membrane, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, DE
2018    The Space Between, with Sterling Lawrence, PRACTISE, Chicago, US
2018    Ecstasy, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE
2018    Classic Beauty: 21st-Century Artists on Ancient [Greek] Form, Providence College Galleries, Providence, US
2018    Dead Eden, Lyles & King, New York, US
2018    L’esule e le Grazie, with Wilhelm von Gloeden, SOYUZ, Pescara, IT
2017    LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY, BRAUNSFELDER, Cologne, DE  
2017    Akademie, KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, DE
2017    A Painter's Doubt, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, AT
2016    STRABAG Artaward International 2016, STRABAG Kunstforum, Vienna, AT
2016    Ghost, with Natascha Schmitten, SETAREH X, Düsseldorf, DE
2016    Die GROSSE Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, DE
2015    Malerei, jetzt., KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, DE
2015    HOLY SHIT!, ruelle, Mainz, DE
2015    Ping Pong, with Mevlana Lipp, SITTart Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2015    Young Positions, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, DE
2015    Genius Loci III, SETAREH, Düsseldorf, DE
2015    Künstler sammeln, Akademie-Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE


Awards & Residencies

2020    Marianne-Defet-Painting-Scholarship, Nuremberg, DE
2018    Artist in Residence, Providence College Galleries, Providence, US
2017    Artist in Residence, STRABAG, Vienna, AT
2016    Recognition Award, STRABAG Artaward International 2016, Vienna, AT
2013    Academy Scholarship for Painting, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
2011    Artist in Residence, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK


Collections

Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne, DE
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburger, DE
Hildebrand Collection, ​Leipzig, DE
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE
Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, DE
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE
​Li Lin Collection, Hangzhou, CN
Long Museum, Shanghai, CN
Providence College Galleries, Providence, US
Sammlung Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen, DE
Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, DE
STRABAG Artcollection, Vienna, AT

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