simon
pasieka
German painter. He lives and works in Paris.
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Since the 1990s, his pictorial and drawn works have depicted ritualistic situations on the margins of a disenchanted civilization. Born on June 30, 1967, in Kleve, he is the second child of an art and religion teacher and a painter. He spent his childhood first in Cologne, then at the Rudolf Steiner boarding school. At the HBK Braunschweig, he obtained in 1995 both the title of Meisterschüler and a diploma with distinction. He has received several grants and awards, including a DAAD fellowship in 1998 for the ENSBA Paris.
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Since the beginning of his career, Simon Pasieka has been associated with figurative painting. He has exhibited in institutions and galleries mainly in Germany (Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Galerie Anita Beckers, Arp Museum Rolandseck, Kunsthalle Göppingen); in Austria (Taxispalais Innsbruck); in Greece (Frissiras Museum); in Japan (Kasuya Museum, Yokosuka); and in France (Galerie Romero Paprocki, Centre Pompidou, MOCO Montpellier, Galerie Eric Mircher).
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public collections
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Baden-Württembergische Landesbank, Stuttgart
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt a.M.
Frieder Burda Collection, Baden-Baden
Frissiras Museum, Athens
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Sammlung Hurrle, Durbach
Kunsthalle Göppingen
Land Niedersachsen, Hanover
Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
Sammlung Oehmen, Hilden & Kunstsaele Berlin
artists residencies
2018
Artist Residency, Chamalot, Corrèze, France
1999
Cité des Arts, Paris, France
solo exhibitions
2024
Tas mental, Galerie Romero Paprocki, Paris, France
2022
Grave, curated by Marie Lepetit, Le Carré Noir, Amiens, France
2020
Un Nu, Galerie Guido Romero Pierini, Paris
2019
La promesse des Saisons, curated by Amélie Adamo, Espace Chamalot, Paris
Révolution à Barbizon, RDV Galerie, Nantes (duo with Anne-Sophie Yacono)
Malerei, Künstlerhaus Meinersen, Germany
2018
Zwiegespräch bei Mondschein, Centre d’Art Contemporain Gera (duo with Wieland Payer)
Peintures, Chapelle Saint-Libéral, Brive
2017
Peintures, À cent mètres du Centre du Monde (duo with Nazanin Pouyandeh), Perpignan
Fenestration Sauvage, Le Pavillon, Département Arts Plastiques du CRD de Pantin
2016
Paintings, Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka, Japan
2015
Je suis bosquet, lac et glaise, Galerie Municipale Julio Gonzalez, Arcueil
Paintings and Drawings, Frissiras Museum, Athens
2014
Draussen im Freien, Städtisches Museum Engen
À l’air libre, La Lune en Parachute, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Épinal
2013
Utopoly, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany
2012
Drawings, Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka, Japan
17th Contemporary Art Meeting, Villa Saint-Cyr, Bourg-la-Reine
2011
Idylles Apocalyptiques, Galerie Eric Mircher, Paris
2010
Fortunas Hütte, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany
Green Horn, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
2009
Green Horn, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst
2008
8, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt a.M.
Christina Doll, Sculpture – Simon Pasieka, Paintings and Drawings, Kunsthalle Lingen
2007
Gelandet, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen; Forum Kunst Rottweil; Rudolf Scharpf Galerie, Ludwigshafen
2006
BY-BY, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt a.M.
Scheinbildung, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart
collective exhibitions
2023
Immortelle, curated by Numa Hambursin, MOCO Montpellier, France
Crosswalk, curated by Pat Andrea, Strouk Gallery, Paris, France
2022
Le monde clair des bienheureux.s.e.x.s, Quartier Général, La Chaux-de-Fonds, France
2020
Anderswelten, Malerei heute, curated by Marco Hommes, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
2019
Geheimnis der Dinge – Malstücke, curated by Hartmut Neumann, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Nous qui désirons sans fin, Galerie Jeune Création, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville
Jardinons les possibles, curated by Isabelle de Maison Rouge, Les Grandes Serres de Pantin
Geheimnis der Dinge – Malstücke, curated by Hartmut Neumann, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen; Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018
Vendange tardive 2018, with Nazanin Pouyandeh, CAC de Meymac
Léopold Rabus, Stéphane Zaech, Simon Pasieka / David Moses, Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2017
Auf unbekanntem Terrain / Landscape in Art after 1945, Sammlung Hurrle, Durbach, Germany
Drawing Room 017, La Panacée / Galerie Boisanté, Montpellier
Dessins Perturbateurs, Galerie Metropolis, Paris
To Paint is to Love Again, Galerie Boisanté, Montpellier
2016
Cabinet, Galerie Da-End, Paris
2015
Under Realism / Sous Réalisme, Galerie Da-End, Paris
Het nieuwe verhaal, À cent mètres du Centre du Monde, Perpignan, France
Who is Afraid of Picture(s), École des Beaux-Arts de Grenoble and Centre d’Art Contemporain À cent mètres du Centre du Monde, Perpignan
L’arbre, le bois, la forêt: lieux du mythe, du fantasme, de la peur, supports de l’imaginaire, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Meymac
2014
Under Realism / Sous Réalisme, Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2013
Wahlverwandtschaften, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Under Realism / Sous Réalisme, La Lune en Parachute, Épinal
2012
Künstlerkinder. Von Runge bis Richter, von Dix bis Picasso, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
Leopold Rabus & Guests, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Ach. Auf Papier, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany
Voir en peinture III, Galerie La Box, Bourges
10 Years After, Galerie IUFM Confluence, Lyon, France
Under Realism / Sous Réalisme, Galerie PROGRES, Belgrade, Serbia
2011
Thrill, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg
Arc-en-ciel, Galerie vom Zufall und vom Glück, Städtische Galerie KUBUS, Germany
2010
Es werde Dunkel – Nocturnal Representations in Contemporary Art, Stadtgalerie Kiel / Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
New Narrative, Heskin Contemporary, New York City, NY
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Annual Grant, Kunstfonds, Germany
1998
Annual Grant, DAAD
Annual Grant, Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung
1996
Annual Grant, Land Niedersachsen
1995
Annual Grant, Brauerei Wolters Förderpreis, Volkswagen Fellowship, Artist Residency at Künstlerhaus Meinersen
