Lives and works in Berlin
2024
Objektwahl, Esther Schipper, Berlin
2023
Present Past Perfect, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2022
Annette Kelm: Die Bücher, ICA Milano, Milano
Annette Kelm. The Books, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Bloom, König Berlin (St. Agnes), Berlin
2021
Annette Kelm: Die Bücher, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
2020
Annette Kelm: Apples, König Tokyo
Annette Kelm: Die Bücher, Museum Frieder Burda – Salon Berlin
Geld, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt
2019
Annette Kelm, Auswärtiges Amt Berlin
2018
Tomato Target, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Light Double, König Galerie, Berlin
Fosun Foundation Shanghai,
Springs, Gió Marconi, Milano
Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung, Aachen
Knots, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2017
Annette Kelm: Leaves, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
2016
Detroit City/Detroit Affinities: Annette Kelm, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
Herald Sq, London
VOX – Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal
MOCAD – Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit
Pizza, König Galerie, Berlin
2015
Synchro, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Archive, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2014
In the Realm of, Gio Marconi, Milan
Johann König, Berlin
Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Munich
Dust, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
2013
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Taka Ishii, Tokyo
2012
Johann König, Berlin
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (with Michaela Meise)
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
2011
Johann König, Berlin
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
2010
Gio Marconi, Milan
Andrew Kreps, New York
2009
Herald Street, London
Camera Austria, Graz
KW – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Kunsthalle, Zurich
2008
CCA Wattis, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco
Witte de With, Rotterdam
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Annette Kelm, Marc Foxx (West Gallery), Los Angeles
2007
Vier Jahreszeiten, Johann König, Berlin
Oranges and Stripes, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
2006
Errors in English, Art Cologne – Award for Young Art, Artothek, Cologne
2005
Promotion Booth Art Cologne, Cologne
2004
To a Snail, Galerie Crone, Berlin
Friendly Tournament, Ausstellungsraum Hinterkonti, Hamburg (with Judith Hopf)
Breakdance, Die Blaue Kugel, Hamburg (with Nina Könnemann)
2003
Als Kriechtier ist das Pferd edler als der Esel, HfBK, Hamburg
1999
Galerie Nomadenoase, Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg
2023
Der König ist tot, lang lebe die Königin, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
Touch. Politiken der Berührung, EMOP, Berlin
2022
Changes, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Bibliomania – Das Buch in der Kunst, Villa Zanders Art Museum, Bergisch Gladbach
Mimicry—Empathy, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
Something New, Something Old, Something Desired, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Tiefenschärfe, Kunstmuseum Solothurn
2021
COME BACK, Galerie Valentien, Stuttgart
So wie wir sind 3.0, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
Neu#01 Zeitgenössische Fotografie, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
2020
Boy Vereecken. Back Matter, MACRO Museum, Rome
X, Frac des Pays de la Loire French Regional Collection of Contemporary Art, Carquefou
Fuckers, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Tyrol
Things Things Say, Fabra i Coats: Contemporary Art Centre, Barcelona
Albrecht Fuchs. Album. Portaits 1989-2020, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig
Die Sonne um Mitternacht schauen, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Portrait II – Positionen zeitgenössischer Fotografie, Schloss Neuhardenberg, Berlin
Kleine Geschichte(n) der Fotografie, Sprengel Museum Hannover
Highlights of the 21st century collection, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
New Visions: The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden
Berlin – there must be something in the water, Collaborations, Copenhagen
2019
Tell me about yesterday tomorrow, NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, Munich
Objects Recognized in Flashes, Museum für Moderne Kunst Wien, Vienna
PHOTO The First Survey of All Photographic Works Made by Artists for Parkett since 1984, Parkett, Zurich
Sammlung Unruh, Galerie Crone, Berlin
Szene Berlin Okt.19 – König Galerie zu Gast bei Ketterer Kunst, Munich
The Skin of the Visible World, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna
I will be dead, König London, London
2018
Berlin-Sofia. A Shortcut – eine Abkürzung – пряк път, Structura Gallery, Sofia
Camera Austria International. Labor für Fotografie und Theorie, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Soft Focus, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Mimikry-Empathy, Lajevardi Foundation
[CONTROL] NO CONTROL, Triennale der Photographie, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Stilleben in der Fotografie der Gegenwart, Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna
Camera Austria, Museum der Modern Salzburg, Austria
The Vitalist Economy of Painting, Galerie Neu, Berlin
Fictive Kin – Sarah Conaway, Annette Kelm, Kim Schoen, UCR, Riverside
LICHTEMPFINDLICH 2, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen
German Encounters, Doha Fire Station, Garage Gallery, Doha,
Future Perfect, M.K. Ciurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas
Portrait, Kunstraum Düsseldorf
Portrait II, Kunstverein Oldenburg
I dreamed that I was leaving on a trip but I forgot my money, Galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin
2017
Portrait II, Kunstverein Oldenburg
FaceTunes, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld
Über den Umgang mit Menschen, wenn Zuneigung im Spiel ist. Sammlung Klein, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
OPTICAL ILLUSIONS – Contemporary Still Life Photography, C/O Berlin, Berlin
Exit, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver
Das Abenteuer unserer Sammlung II, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
2016
Béton, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Kalte Gesellschaft #2 – Stadtgalerie Schwaz
Herald St, London
Invisible Adversaries: Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
With different eyes – The portrait in contemporary photography, Kunstmuseum Bonn
2015
Perfect Likeness, Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Function Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
AIMIA Photography Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
I Got to Have One of Those, Lenbachhaus, Munich
Looking Back: The 9th White Columns Annual, Selected by Cleopatra’s, White Columns, New York
more Conception Conception now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
IMAGINE REALITY, RAY 2015 Fotografieprojekte, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Other Ways and Means, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
Eat abstractedly, Mary Mary, Glasglow, Scotland
Future Perfect. Contemporary Art from Germany, Memorial do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre
Future Perfect. Contemporary Art from Germany, Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad
2014
Trains, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
DISPLAYED, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Darren Bader: Photographs I like, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Future Perfect. Contemporary Art from Germany, Centre for Contemporary Art Schloss Ujadowski, Warschau
Tennowandthen, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg
2013
Punctum, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Baden, Vienna
New Photography 2013, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Future Perfect, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
2012
Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
State of the Art, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf
March, Sadie Coles, London
Change of location, Sammlung Rheingold, Schloss Dyck, Juchen
Painting in Photography, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
TIME, PLACE, AND THE CAMERA: PHOTOGRAPHS AT WORK, Kosova Art Gallery Prishtina
The city, Which does not exist, Ludwig Forum, Aachen
UM12 FRICTION, voltage, resistance, UM-Festival für zeitgenössische Kunst, Musik und Literatur, Gerswalde
2011
Illuminations, curated by Bice Curiger, Venedig Biennale 54
Annette Kelm – Michaela Meise: Hello but, Kunstverein Bonn
The Anxiety of Photography, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
2010
How Soon is Now, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Evas Arche und der Feminist, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Milk Drop Coronet, Camera Austria, Graz
Die Blumen, COCO Wien
TRUST, Media City Seoul, The 6th biennale, Seoul
Discovery Award, 41st edition of the Rencontres d’Arles, Arles
Nuit Blanche, Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva
SUPER-NATURE, an exercise in loads, AMP, Athens
2009
Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Richard Prince and the Revolution. An Exhibition curated by Jonathan Monk, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
Pierre Bismuth, Mario Garcia Torres, Annette Kelm, Deimantas Narkevicius, Jan Mot, Brussels
The Photographic Object, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Kunstpreis Böttcherstraße, Weserburg, Bremen
phot(o)objects, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
Prose pour des Esseintes, Karma International, Zürich
Short Circuits, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York
To be Determined, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
A Twilight Art, Harris Liebermann Gallery, New York
2008
… auf der Erbse.. on peas…, Galerie der Stadt, Sindelfingen
Re-Used Modernity, Brussels Biennale, Brussels
The Art of the Real, Sammlung von Edith & Mark Vanmoerkerke, Oostende Schatten werfen keine Schatten, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
The Possible Document, Herald Street, London
Egypted, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2007
… 5 Minutes later, Kunstwerke, Berlin (curated by Susanne Pfeffer)
Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Anything You Want, Pump House Gallery, London
At Home, Yvon Lambert, New York (curated by Mario Testino)
The History of a Decade That Has Not yet Been Named, 9th Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Lyon (curated by Stéphanie Moisdon and Hans Ulrich Obrist)
L.A. Desire, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf (curated by Wilhelm Schürmann)
Stuff: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, Mocad, Detroit
Die Wörter, die Dinge, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Made in Germany, Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Lost & Found, Shedhalle, Zurich
Annette Kelm / Mark Roeder, Gallery Sora, Tokyo
2006
Gold Standard, P.S.1 / MoMA, Long Island City, New York
New Ghost Entertainment – Entitled, Or Gallery, Vancouver; Kunsthaus, Dresden
Don Quijote, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
A Lover’s Discourse, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
WRONG, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin
Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Stipendium, Kunstverein, Hamburg
2005
John Taylor. Imagination of Things Imaginable, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin
No Competitive Offers, Artis, Den Bosch
The Berlin School of Art School, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
Foundationers 2004, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
Jetzt und zehn Jahre davor, KW – Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin
2004
Deutschland sucht, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (film screening)
Nobody, Der graue Zylinder, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin
Quodlibet, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Provide it, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
Art Needs an Operation, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Telepathy Curating, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin
Blau in der Kugel, Die blaue Kugel, Hamburg (with David Lieske and Jan Timme)
2003
Zimmer aufräumen, Zupfgeigenhansl Kommt!, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart; Kunsthaus, Dresden
Aktion Brückenkopf / Bridgehead II, Hôtel Belleville, London
Feine Ware I-III, Kunstverein Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
2002
Hossa, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca
andere räume, Kunstverein, Hamburg
Bella Vista– Eine Fotografieausstellung der Gruppe 18, Palais für Aktuelle Kunst, Glücksstadt
2001
Chromosomen privat und öffentlich, Kunstverein, Meppen
Planche, Säbelgefechte, Klasse Cosima von Bonin, Hamburg
Les yeux sont faits, Wir, Comawoche, Klasse Cosima von Bonin, HfBK, Hamburg
2015
Camera Austria Award for contemporary photography by the city of Graz 2015
2005
ART COLOGNE-Award for young art
Working Grant of Stiftung Kunstfonds
Travel-Grant Los Angeles
2004
Artist residency Heanävesi, Finnland
Working Grant for Fine Art, Hamburg
1999
Kodak Young Photographers Award
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Collection of Burt Aaron, Detroit
Collection Deutsche Bank, Berlin
Collection of Hadley Martin Fisher, Miami
Collection of John A. Smith and Vicky Hughes, London
Collection Mario Testino, London
Collection Ringier, Zurich
Collection Schürmann, Berlin
DekaBank Art Collection, Frankfurt am Main
German Federal Cultural Foundation, Halle an der Saale
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Lenbachhaus Munich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate Modern, London