MARKUS LINNENBRINK

exemplary works

biography

1961 born in Dortmund, Germany
lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, USA

After finalising his studies 1988 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany, Markus Linnenbrink started his artistic career by showing in several galleries and institutions in Germany, since 2000 also in an international context. His work is part of important institutional and private collections like ERGO Düsseldorf, Germany, Justiz Vollzugsanstalt Düsseldorf, Germany (wall painting), Ministry of Culture, The Hague, The Netherlands, Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turkey, San José Museum of Art, San José, California, USA or Collection Mark Giambrone, Dallas, Texas, USA. Liberation of the colour from the object represented, developing its own materiality and colourful luminosity is Linnenbrink’s story, referring to Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier and Emil Schumacher in Europe in the mid-20th century, followed in the US by Jackson Pollock and Morris Louis at the same time. Linnenbrink elicits from the colour as matter and material a dazzling variety of individual colours, which he can achieve through different admixtures – covering panels, walls or even floors, be it outside or inside.
The by far largest drip painting is on view in the lobby of the Rockefeller Center, New York, USA.

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exhibitions

solo

UPCOMING

MARKUS LINNENBRINK
KINDFORTODAY
26 Apr – 22 Jun 2024

PAST

MARKUS LINNENBRINK
IWANNABEWHEREYOUARE
12 Sep – 31 Oct 2020

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hereistandknockingatyourdoor
16 Sep – 11 Nov 2017

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whenthepastwaspresentsowillbeknow
1 May – 1 Aug 2015

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so here’s what you gonna do
11 Sep – 27 Oct 2012

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MARKUS LINNENBRINK
listenallthewaythrough
30 Apr – 3 Jul 2010

group

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w/ MARKUS LINNENBRINK
whodunnit
6 Jul – 31 Aug 2018

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w/ MARKUS LINNENBRINK
a few pieces
17 Jan – 7 Mar 2015

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w/ MARKUS LINNENBRINK
3 + 4 b/w
8 Mar – 20 Apr 2013

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w/ MARKUS LINNENBRINK
summer group show
27 Jun– 19 Sep 2009