biography

1971
Born in Freiburg
1992 - 1996
Studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
1996 - 1998
Studies at the University of the Arts, Berlin
1999
Master student at the University of the Arts, Berlin
2008 - 2009
taught at the ARP Museum, Rolandseck
2013
Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg
2016
2014 - Visiting professor at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
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exhibitions | fairs | awards

solo exhibitions

2018
"Stranded", Gallery Ulf Larsson, Cologne
2016
"Ecorché", Lehr contemporary art, Berlin
2015
"Same same but different", Gallery Alex Schlesinger, Zurich (CH)
2015
"Anatome", Art Cabinet S.M., Bonn
2014
"Transit i", lehr contemporary art, cologne
2014
"Transit ii", lehr contemporary art, Berlin
2013
"Bilder.Geschichten", Gallery Graf and Schelble, Basel, (CH)
2013
"Family pictures", Kirchzarten Art Association
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Max Diel

The painter Max Diel was born in 1972 in Freiburg im Breisgau. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, where he was also a master student in 1999. In Hamburg he taught at the University of Applied Sciences in 2013 and at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig in 2016. Since 2000 his works have been regularly shown in solo exhibitions in Berlin, Cologne, Bonn, Basel and New York. Every year he is also represented at numerous group exhibitions in Germany and abroad. The artist lives and works in Berlin.

"It is my concern to merge the inner world with the outer world in painting."