Fabian Treiber German, b. 1986

b. 1986 Ludwigsburg Germany. Lives and works in Stuttgart, Germany.
 
Fabian Treiber is an artist based in Stuttgart, Germany. He studied fine art at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design. The artist has dedicated himself, formally speaking, to the subject of the interior and the exterior in his paintings, using it to question subjective projections and our perception of reality. 
 
Treiber’s diptych-panelled format has come to define his practice. Just as the canvas structure is integral to the development of his imagery, so it is form, rather than narrative, that guides his decision-making process. In this way, he provokes a conscious break, thus declaring what is supposedly false as the very quality of painting, with the effect that his works somehow seem both not quite right, and perfectly poised.
 

Fabian Treiber was awarded the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship for his work up to 2018 and was granted by the Kunsthalle Nürnberg withthe Marianne Defet Painting Scholarship the same year. In 2021 he was a finalist for the Große-Hans-Purrmann Prize. Recent solo exhibitions include Bruised, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2024); It‘s Not Late, It‘s Only Dark, Ruttkowski;68 Gallery, New York, US (2024); Most Common Things, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich (2023); Sunrise Doesn‘t Last All Morning, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, US (2022); Doppio III, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen (2021).  Recent group exhibitions include All Walks Of Life, PACE Gallery, Hong Kong (2024); X Pink 101, X-Museum, Peking (2023); Ohne Titel, Kunstmuseum Singen, Purple Rain, Salon Schmitz, Köln (2022); The Artist is Online - Painting & Sculpture in the digital Age, KÖNIG Galerie, Berlin (2021).

 

EDUCATION

2007–15 Studies of Fine Arts, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart with Prof. Reto Boller, Discoteca Flaming Star (Prof. Cristina Gómez Barrio and Prof. Wolfgang Mayer) and Prof. Andreas Opiolka

2015–16 Master Student in the Weissenhof Program of Fine Arts, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Bruised, Cob Gallery, London, UK

2024 It‘s Not Late, It‘s Only Dark, Ruttkowski;68 Gallery, New York

2023 Zu Viel Blau Wird Schnell Nacht, Städt. Galerie Ostfildern

2023 Most Common Things, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich 

2023 No Name Gets To The Heart Of It, Haverkampf Leistenschneider Galerie, Berlin

2022 Bochum, Ruttkowski;68 Gallery, Dusseldorf, 

2022 Sunrise Doesn‘t Last All Morning, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles

2022 Absence Of Presence, Städt. Galerie Ehingen

2021 Plein Air, Ruttkowski;68 Gallery, Paris

2021 Doppio III, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen

2021 For a While Longer, Haverkampf Leistenscheneider, Galerie, Berlin

2020 Painting the Night unreal, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich

2020 Dream Home Heartache, KANT Gallery, Kopenhagen

2019 A Minibar in a large scale Room, Kunsthalle Nürnberg

2019 Common Things, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg

2019 More Feeling, Ruttkowski;68 Gallery, Köln

2018 Candle Candle, Kunstverein Sebastianskapelle Ulm e.V., Autogrill, Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart

2017 Body doesnt know, Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, 

2017 Front Yard, pop;68, Ruttkowski;68 Gallery, Köln

2017 Sleeping in an unmade Bed, Galerie Tristan Lorenz, Frankfurt a.M.

2016 There was always something disturbing, Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart

2015 Move your ass and your mind will follow – Host Kairos, Experimentierbuehne Heusteigtheater, Stuttgart

2014 Blue beach, pink love, pale cobra, Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart

2014 9 Minuten vor Vegas, Schloss Dagstuhl, Leibniz Stiftung, Saarbruecken/Wadern

2013 The Drum beats out of Time, Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 All Walks Of Life, PACE Gallery, Hong Kong; 

2024 Freund, AKKU Kunstraum, Stuttgart

2024 The First Taste, Anat Ebgi Gallery, New York

2023 X Pink 101, X-Museum, Peking, 

2023 My World Play, Haverkampf Leistenschneider Galerie, Berlin, 

2023 Mixed Pickles 12, Ruttkowski;68 Gallery, New York City

2023 How Many Times I Have Left My Everyday Life, 69 Art Campus, Peking

2022 Ohne Titel, Kunstmuseum Singen, Purple Rain, Salon Schmitz, Köln

2022 It Is, It Isn‘t, Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich

2022 Mein Hut Der Hat Drei Ecken, Ruttkowski;68 Gallery, Paris

2021 The Artist is Online - Painting & Sculpture in the digital Age, KÖNIG Galerie, Berlin

2021 Domesticity, VOLERY Gallery, Dubai, 

2021 Contamination, G-art-en Artspace, Como, Großer Hans Purrmann Preis, Kunstverein, Speyer

2020 Hybrids, CFHILL Artspace, Stockholm

2020 Just painted, Kunstverein Neuhausen e.V.

2020 Mixed Pickles 8, Wilhelmhallen, Berlin Artweek, Berlin

2019 Artifacts, Nevven Gallery, Göteborg

2019 Karl Schmidt Rottluff Stipendium – The Exhibition, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Frau A.S. trifft Volker Böhringer, zu Gast 

2019 Fabian Treiber, Villa Merkel Galerien der Stadt Esslingen a.N.

2019 Single, but happy, Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich,

2018 Works on Paper, BEERS Gallery, London, 

2018 Interior Motives, MPV Gallery, Den Bosch, Rue Charlot, Ruttkowski;68 Gallery, Paris

2018 the art of living, Arts Projects Australia, Melbourne

2018 Ciao, Strizzi, Köln

2018 On the Home Front, KANT Gallery, Kopenhagen

2018 Emergencias del acontecimiento, Espacio [Es]positivo, Madrid

2018 Lichtstrasse, Ruttkowski;68 Gallery, Köln

2018 mostly abstract_03, Benoni Galerie, Copenhagen

2018 Rude Assembly, Campbell Project Space, Sydney

2017 paper cuts, tripp Gallery, London

2017 Mixed Pickles 2, Michael Horbach Stiftung, Köln

2017 We are the ones, Carlsberg City Gallery & Art Hall, Kopenhagen

2017 Mulhouse 017, Biennial of young contemporary Art, Mulhouse

2017 TRUNK, Kunstverein Lüneburg e.V.

2016 Gruppe 2, Galerie Tristan Lorenz, Frankfurt a.M.

2016 Practice, Process, Progress, Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Content, Projektraum AKKU (Künstler-

bund Baden-Württemberg), Stuttgart

2015 Übermorgenkünstler, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Small & Mighty, Gallery Filser&Gräf, München, Monochromosomen, Domagk Ateliers, München

2014 Walter Stöhrer Preis, Galerie Friese, Stuttgart

2014 Baby you can drive my car, Kunst-verein Gästezimmer e.V., Möhringen, Stand.Jetzt, Fritz und Hildegard Ruoff Stiftung, Nürtingen

2014 To heaven and back, Kunstverein Neuhausen

2014 Show 3, Soglia Artspace, Leipzig

2013 No Place to Hide – Ort Kontrolle Produktion, Agentur für Arbeit, Stuttgart

2013 No Place to Hide – Return to Sender, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

2012 Vergessen sie nicht die Wuchskraft der Bambuswurzel, Villa Merkel Galerien der Stadt Esslingen a.N.

2012 Closest to Paradise, Kunstverein Oberer Neckar, Horb a.N.