Born 1967 in Hamburg, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Hope Love Helium, White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London, UK
2019
Magnus Plessen, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2018
Schablone und Fragment, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany
Magnus Plessen: Mess Dress Undress, White Cube, Hong Kong, China
2016
Magnus Plessen – The Skin of Volume, White Cube, London, UK
Magnus Plessen, Gerhardsen Gerner Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2015
nineteen hundred fourteen, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2014
The Rose Art Museum, Boston, USA
Neunzehnhundertvierzehn, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2013
Magnus Plessen, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Magnus Plessen, White Cube, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2012
Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, USA
Magnus Plessen, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Riding the Image, White Cube, London, UK
2010
Magnus Plessen, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
2009
Magnus Plessen, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2008
Magnus Plessen, Freizeit”, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2007
Magnus Plessen, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2006
Magnus von Plessen, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
2005
For Immediate Release, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2004
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Magnus von Plessen, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2002
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
PS1, New York, USA
Magnus von Plessen, Malerei, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001
Neues Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
1999
Magnus von Plessen, Fotografien 1996—1999, Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg, Germany
1998
Magnus von Plessen, Emigration, Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
salondergegenwart, salondergegenwart Hamburg, Germany
Remembering Tomorrow: Artworks and Archives, White Cube, Hong Kong, China
Memory Palace, White Cube, London, UK
2012
Fruits of Passion, Project for Contemporary Art, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
2010
Wojtec Bajowski, Piotr Bosacki, Magnus Plessen, Iza Tarasewicz, Philip Topolovac, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin, Germany
2009
Slow Pantings, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
HUB, DuMont Editions, White Space Beijing, China
2008
You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil, White Cube, London, UK
(desperately) trying to figure out the world, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection London, London, UK
2007
Imagination Becomes Reality, ZKM — Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006
Imagination Becomes Reality, Part V: Fantasy and Fiction, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Subject, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, USA
Full House — Gesichter einer Sammlung, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Infinite Painting, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy
Havekost / Kahrs / Plessen / Sasnal, Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2005
Bilder von Magnus Plessen und Fotos von Carlo Bottigello, Kunstparterre e.V., Munich, Germany
2004
New exhibitions at the Espace 315: Kristin Baker, Magnus von Plessen, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2003
Clandestine, Dreams and conflict, 50. Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
1999
Missing Link. Menschen-Bilder in der Fotografie, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
1996
Fergus Bremner, Magnus Plessen, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
Monographs, solo exhibition catalogues and artist books
2012
Siegel, Katy: Magnus Plessen: Riding the Image. White Cube, London
2009
Grosenick, Uta and Marzona, Daniel (eds.): Magnus Plessen, Die Augen in der Hand. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, texts by Rainer Fuchs and Eva Meyer-Hermann; interview with the artist by Hans-Martin Hennig.
2007
Bonami, Francesco: Magnus Plessen. Navado Press, Trieste, Italy and Gladstone Gallery, New York
2005
Magnus von Plessen, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2004
Bertaux, François (ed.): Magnus von Plessen. Espace 315, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, texts by Pontus Hultén and Christine Macel
2002
Magnus Plessen: Malerei. K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, texts by Julian Heynen and Daniel Marzona; interview with the artist by Ulrich Loock
Magnus Plessen: Recent Paintings, PS1, New York
2001
Heynen, Julian and Loock, Ulrich: Magnus von Plessen. Neues Kunstmuseum, Luzern
General publications and group exhibition catalogues
2010
Rondeau, James: Contemporary Collecting: The Donna and Howard Stone Collection, Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, New Haven
2008
Miller, Harland: You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil, White Cube, London
2007
Imagination Becomes Reality: An Exhibition on the Expanded Concept of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, Munich and Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, texts by Hubertus Von Amelunxen, Gottfried Boehm, Hans Belting, Gregor Jansen, Stephan Urbaschek and Peter Weibel
Images in Painting: Museu Serralves, Museu Serralves, Porto, texts by Ulrich Loock and Daniel Marzona
2006
Bonami, Francesco and Cosulich Canarutto, Sarah (eds.): Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
2005
Von Plessen, Magnus and Bottigelli, Carlo: Magnus von Plessen, Kunsparterre, Munich
2004
Coetzee, Mark: Not Afraid: Rubell Family Collection, Phaidon, New York
Newspaper, magazine, and online articles
2012
Siegel, Katy: The Year in Review, Frieze, No.151, November–December, pp.100—101
Editor: At Gladstone, Magnus Plessen’s painting technique creates collage-style works, Artsobserver.com, 5 March
Buhmann, Stephanie: Magnus Plessen, Brooklynrail.org, 2 March
Kuhn, Nicola: Auf dem Sprung, Tagesspiegel (Kultur), 2 March
de Jong, Caleb: Magnus Plessen at Gladstone Gallery, Thoughtsthatcureradically.com, 17 February
Un-authored: Gladstone Gallery: Magnus Plessen, ARTslant.com, 15 February
2010
Un-authored: Magnus Plessen, Artnews.org, August
Currin, John: “Slow Paintings” at Museum Morsbroich, Contemporaryartdaily.com, 3 February
2009
Turvey, Lisa: Magnus Plessen, Artforum, November, p.228
Fakh, Lney: Magnus Opus, The New York Observer, 28 September, p.22
Frenzel, Sebastian: Magnus Plessen sucht nach dem Ort der Bilder in Berlin, Monopol-magazin.de, 1 January
2008
Neil, Jonathan: Reviews marathon, New York, Art Review, February, p.75
Kurian, Ajay: Magnus Plessen@Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Whitehotmagazine.com, January
Bovino, Emily Verla: Magnus Plessen: Critics’ picks, Artforum.com, 8 January
Un-authored: Magnus Plessen: Galleries—Chelsea, The New Yorker, 7 January, p.14
Un-authored: Magnus Plessen, The New Yorker, 7 January, p.14
Geenbaum, Ethan: Inside Lights, Thehighlights.org, 1 January
2007
Speers Mears, Emily: Motion Detector, V, Winter, p.72
Un-authored: Magnus Plessen, Monopol, January, p.125
2006
Un-authored, Magnus Plessen at Gladstone Gallery New York, Artdaily.com, November
von Burg, Dominique, Magnus Plessen: New Paintings, Artnews.org, November
Un-authored: Magnus Plessen, Artnet.com, November
Buhre, Elke: Art’s blooming in Berlin, Modern Painters, March, pp.93—97
2005
Yood, James: Magnus von Plessen, Artforum, September, pp.309
Jana, Reena: Magnus von Plessen, Tema Celeste, July–August, p.69
Un-authored: Magnus von Plessen (Chicago), Tema Celeste, July–August, p.98
Leffingwell, Edward: Magnus von Plessen, Art in America, June–July, pp. 175—176
Un-authored: Magnus von Plessen, Modern Painters, June, p.114
Elms, Anthony: Focus: Magnus von Plessen, Time Out (Chicago), 30 June
White, Roger: Magnus von Plessen, Brooklynrail.org, May
Halle, Howard: Reviews: Magnus von Plessen, Time Out (New York), 14—20 April, p.64
Glueck, Grace: Magnus von Plessen, The New York Times, 8 April, E4
Marquis, Jocelyn: Magnus von Plessen at the Gladstone, Skuawk.com, 6 April
2004
Kantor, Jordan: The Tuymans effect, Artforum, November, pp.164—171
Poli, Francesco: Magnus von Plessen: Espace 315 Centre Pompidou, Paris, Tema Celeste, September—October, p 97—98
von Heydebreck, Amelie: Magnus von Plessen, Monopol, June—July, pp.106—111
Edwards, Natasha: Swimming against the tide, Art Review, June
Un-authored: Kristin Baker and Magnus Von Plessen, E-flux.com, 9 June
2003
Smolik, Noemi: Magnus von Plessen: Mai 36 Galerie, Artforum, No. 42, November
Un-authored: Magnus von Plessen: Art Institute of Chicago, Artforum, 1 September
Marzona, Daniel: Spatial pictures / pictorial spaces, Tema Celeste, July—August, pp.46—51