Monika Goetz Projects Biography Bibliography Links Contact
1968 born in Würzburg  | lives in Berlin
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Education
1993 - 98  Art Academy of Kassel, Fine Arts, Diplom
1989 - 93   University of Applied Sciences Würzburg, Communications Design, Diplom FH
Selected Public Art Commissions
2018 Inhale/Exhale and Independent Lines, Percent for Art Commission NYC,
122 Community Center (formerly P.S. 122), 150 First Avenue, Manhattan
2015 Sternbilder/Constellations,JVA Stuttgart-Stammheim (jail),
two courtyards, Federal State of Baden-Württemberg
2014 2200 K, Public Art @ Landesgartenschau Giessen 2014, Lahninsel, Giessen
2012 Heaven's Gate, UM-Festival for Contemporary Art, Fergitz, Uckermark
2009 World Flag, RISK, Lab09, Luleå Art Biennal, Sweden
2008 The End of the World, Sculpture Key West, Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, FL, USA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 paper positions berlin, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin
2022 280° C, Haus am Lützowplatz, courtyard sculpture, Berlin
2020 Imminent, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin
2019  Into the Void, StadtRaumBoxen, Kulturquartier Erfurt
Friedrichshain by the Sea, alte feuerwache, Berlin
2018 Esperance, Projektraum Kiosk 24, Herford
2016 within, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin
Unusable Space, University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
2015 Eclipse, Kunstraum Eyes Only, München
2014 beyond, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin
2013 Dark Star, Spor Klübü, Kolonie Wedding, Berlin
2012 a minus 1, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin
2010 Fractured Space, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Kunstkammer, Berlin
Sunrise @ Sunset, public video projection at Kleiner Tiergarten Berlin-Moabit
in collaboration with Kunstverein Tiergarten/ Galerie Nord, Berlin
2008 Blackhouse, Super Bien!, Berlin
2007 Eclipse, Lettretage, Berlin
Dead Space, M & N Projektraum, Berlin
2006 Candle, Silo @ Art Omi, Ghent, NY.
2004 Borderland, Deutsches Haus @ New York University, NYC
2003 - 04 Indefinite Blue, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NYC
2003 Transmission 82.4, Buzzer Thirty, Astoria, NYC
2002 - 04 Realm of the Mind, P.S.1/ MoMA, Special Project, Long Island City, NYC
2001 Wishful Thinking, Universal Concepts Unlimited, NYC
1998 Seelenblindheit, Kunstetage Dock 4, Kassel
1996 Projection, Panorama, Kassel
Move Inside, Stellwerk, Kulturbahnhof Kassel
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 au delà, Galerie lokal_30, Warschau, Poland
Ostfriesland Biennale, Schlosspark Lütetsburg, Lütetsburg
2021 32m ü. NHN, Teltowkanal, Kleinmachnow, Brandenburg
World Flag, ‘Heimat, Herz, Orte’, public art @ main station Bernau, Galerie Bernau
Wo bitte geht’s nach Arkadien, public art @ city hall Ebersberg, Kunstverein Ebersberg
Monika Goetz|Georg Hornemann|Gerhard Richter|Working Title, Studio4, Berlin
2020 Daneben, The Green Quote, Kaarz Castle Park, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
2019 ART Biesenthal 2019, Biesenthal
PEACE - dont make me laugh // You A Two Minute Brother, Spor Klübü, Berlin
2018 Art 2018, Day at Night, Schlosspark Stammheim, Cologne
25 Years Grant for Fine Arts, City of Kassel, Kunstverein Kassel
Ärmel Aufkrempeln Zupacken Aufbauen, Spor Klübü, Kolonie Wedding, Berlin
2017 Transparency, SiC! BWA Wrocław - Gallery of Contemporary Art, Wrocław, Poland
Sense, Art in Odd Places, Public Art on 14th Street, NYC
The Real Estate Show Extended/Berlin, Kunstpunkt Berlin
Kunst ist schön – und macht Freude, Galerie ABTART, Stuttgart
Kunst ist schön – und macht Freude, Forum Kunst Rottweil
Kunst ist schön – und macht Freude, Spinnerei Leipzig, Halle 14
2016 True Mirror, Espace Commines, Paris
Place of Desire, Botanical Garden, Erlangen
2015 RECALL, Art in Odd Places, Public Art on 14th Street, NYC
NADA, Art Fair, Galerie Schwarz Contemporary, NYC
RECALLed, Lodge Gallery, NYC
2014 ausgezeichnet | gefördert. Stipendiaten der Hans und Charlotte Krull Stiftung
2012–2014, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
2200 K, Public Art, LGS Giessen 2014
T2012, Alte Orgelfabrik, Karlsruhe
2013 Remix, Spor Klübü, Kolonie Wedding, Berlin
aus ernst wird spaß... das ironische in der kunst, Projektraum Deutscher
Künstlerbund, Berlin
Gieseler/Goetz/Jäger/Sighicelli, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin
Kunstverein Tiergarten, Kunst jetzt Draußen!, Berlin
2012 UM Festival für zeitgenössische Kunst, Uckermark
2011 29th Annual Awards for Excellence in Design, Museum of the Moving Image, NYC
living on the edge of a silver future, galerie5020, Salzburg, Austria
Leistungsschau, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA
2010 Wassermusik, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Sculpture Key West, Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, Key West, FL
Energische Vorhersagen, Frauenmuseum Berlin / Umweltbundesamt, Berlin
Hier gibt es keinen falschen Hasen, The Forgotten Bar, Berlin
Schnell & Schmutzig, Markthalle Eisenbahnstrasse, Berlin
2009 Art in Odd Places (AiOP), Public Art on 14th Street, NYC
light space, Galerie Weißer Elefant, Berlin
RISK, Lab09, Luleå Art Biennal, Sweden
Passage_09, Universal Cube, Halle 14, Spinnerei, Leipzig
Anonyme Zeichner, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
2008 Inselglueck, Kunstverein Tiergarten/ Galerie Nord, Berlin
Sculpture Key West, Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, Key West, FL
uqbar projectspace, manual©, Berlin
Site 92, Smack Mellon, NYC
Passage_West, KunstDoc, Seoul, South Korea
2007 Aporia: Aporia, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, LA
lauf.werk.tmp.data.rescue, Galerie der Künste, Berlin
Points of Departure, Fox Art Gallery @ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Cabinet of Curious Ties, Roger Smith Lab Gallery, NYC 
2006 Peekskill Projects, Trong Gia Nguyen, Peekskill, NY.
Four More Years, Buzzer Thirty, Astoria, NYC
I may be some time..., curator Tanja Weingärtner, James Nicholson Gallery, NYC
I can't quite place it..., Smack Mellon, NYC
APORIA/ Heuristics, EFA Gallery, db foundation, NYC
Once upon a time I, NurtureART, Brooklyn, NYC
Monumental, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ.
Aquarium, Kunstraum Emserladen, Berlin
2005 Artists-in-Residence, LMCC Workspace/ 120 Broadway, NYC
Float, Socrates Sculpture Center, LIC, NYC 
The One, NGC 224, curators Erin Donnelly and Susanne Cole, Greenpoint, NYC
Set it off, James Nicholson Gallery, NYC
New York Connections, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna
2004 5th Gwangju Biennale, "The Club", Gwangju, South Korea
Pierogi a Go-Go, Pierogi 2000, Williamsburg, NYC
Drawing Conclusions, Islip Art Museum, Islip, Long Island
2003 the changing same, Triple Candie, Harlem, NYC
Serene Beauty, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NYC
The Reconstruction Biennial, Exit Art, NYC
Espacios a la Experimentacion II, Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
$99 show, Cynthia Broan Gallery, NYC
2002 P.S. 122 Gallery, New York City
Gruppenausstellung, Pavillon Unterneustadt, Kassel
Reactions, Exit Art, NYC
2001 Interval, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NYC
artist in the marketplace, Bronx Museum of Arts, NYC
2000 Bronx River Art Gallery, Bronx, NYC
elsewhere, WAH, Brooklyn, NYC
1998 Das Verschwinden der Kunst…, Kunstverein Kassel
amanfang, Helmhaus Zürich
1997 Kasseler Kunstpreis 1997, Neue Galerie Kassel
Kunststudenten stellen aus, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
1996 Ausfälle, Kulturfabrik Salzmann, Kassel
1995 Jahresausstellung, Kunstverein Kassel
FB Kunst GHK Kassel, Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Wiesbaden
1992 Aneignung von Welten, Focus 92, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund
Selected Grants & Awards
2022 Publication grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
NeustartPlus, stipend, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2021 Neustart Kultur, stipend, Stiftung Kulturwerk, VG-Bild-Kunst, Berlin
2020 Neustart Kultur, stipend, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2019 District Office of Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Department of Culture and History, project grant 
Käthe-Dorsch-und-Agnes-Straub Foundation, grant, Berlin
2018 Erwin and Gisela von Steiner-Foundation, grant, Munich
2016 School of Art @ Illinois State University, Visiting Artist, Normal, Illinois
2013 Stiftung Kunstfonds, One Year Working Stipend, Bonn
2012 Hans und Charlotte Krull Foundation, grant, Berlin
2010 Design Award, Public Design Commission City of New York,
Percent for Art Project Inhale/Exhale and Independent Lines
Karin-Abt-Straubinger Foundation, grant, Stuttgart
Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin/Aktives Stadtzentrum Turmstrasse, grant, Berlin
2009 Käthe-Dorsch-und-Agnes-Straub Foundation, grant, Berlin
2008 IFA, stipend, Stuttgart
The Bob Crane Grand Esplanade Award, Key West, FL
2007 Erwin und Gisela von Steiner-Foundation, Munich
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, grant, NYC
Käthe-Dorsch-und-Agnes-Straub Foundation, grant, Berlin
2006 Art Omi International Arts Center, residency, Ghent, NY
John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund, grant, Cambridge, MA
2005 LMCC Workspace/ 120 Broadway, residency, NYC
School of Visual Arts, artist-in-residence, computer arts department, NYC
2003 The Greenwall Foundation Commission
Cowles Charitable Found
American Center Foundation
2002 The MacDowell Colony, residency, Peterborough, NH
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Travel Grant
2001 A.I.M., artist in the marketplace program, Bronx Museum of Arts
1998 DAAD, Travel Grant for USA, Bonn
1997 Cultural Council of Germany, Grant for Young Art, Bonn
City of Kassel, Grant for Fine Arts, Kassel
1996 Dr. Wolfgang-Zippel-Stiftung, Artothek, Kassel
Work in Collections
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C.
Smack Mellon Gallery, NYC
Kunstverein Tiergarten/ Galerie Nord, Berlin
Art Omi, Ghent, NY
Frederieke Taylor, NYC
LMCC, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC
Fiduciary Trust Company International, NYC
Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
DAAD
Urs Lüthi
Daniel Marzona, Berlin
Prof. Peter Kroll, Marburg
Artothek Kassel
Visiting Artist / Lectures
2016 School of Art @ Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
2008 Tisch School of the Arts @ New York University
2005 City College of New York
2001 Tisch School of the Arts @ New York University