Maximilian Prüfer

1986 born in Germany

 

Grants and Awards

2025

STRABAG Art Award (Anerkennung)

2022

Working Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds

2021

Bavarian Art Award (Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis)

2020

DG Kunstpreis, Art Prize of the German Society for Christian Art (Deutsche Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst)

2018

EHF Artist Grant, Konrad Adenauer Foundation

2017

Art Prize of the District of Swabia

2014

Art Promotion Award of the City of Augsburg

2013

Debutant Promotion Grant, funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Research Special Award of the Franz Schmid Foundation / Künstlerhaus Marktoberdorf

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Rockefeller University, CS Art Partners, Greenwich CT / NYC, US
Field and Lab Treasures

2023

Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, AT
First Alphabet

Weltmuseum Wien, Vienna, AT
Fruits of Labour

2021

Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, AT
Inwelt

2020

Kugelmühle, Mühlbach, AT
WIR

2019

Galerie Kandlhofer, AT
Tier

2018

Museum Villa Rot, Sotheby’s Munich, DE
Vieh

Sotheby’s Munich, DE
Nest

2017

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, AT
Brut

2016

Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, DE
EI

Sp-Arte, Solo Booth, São Paulo, BR

2015

LisaBird Contemporary, Vienna, AT
FLUG

2013

MAUSER Debutant Exhibition, funded by the Bavarian State Ministry
for Science and Research, Augsburg, DE

 

Collaborative Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2021

Galerie Sexauer, Berlin, DE
Interactions 5 (with Jeewi Lee)

2020

DG Kunstraum, Munich, DE
Doppelpass IV – Everything will be alright (with Andreas Greiner)

2014

MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, DE
Artefakte (with Nikola Irmer)


Group Exhibitions (selected)

2025

Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, IT
Flowers Forever

Museum Giersch der Goethe University, Frankfurt, DE
FIXING FUTURES

Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL
Flowers Forever

2024

Germanische Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, DE
Hello Nature!

Brucerius Kunstforum Hamburg, DE
Flowers Forever

2023

Kunsthalle Munich, DE
Flowers Forever

Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, DE
The State of Things?

ERES Stiftung Munich, DE
„More Yellow than Gold“

Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, DE
Fantastic Animal Worlds

Mewo Kunsthalle, Memmingen, DE
On the Brink of Extinction
(with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg & Gil Shachar)

2022

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE
Beneat Auction Exhibition

Mewo Kunsthalle (with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg & Gil Shachar), Memmingen, DE
On the Brink of Extinction

2021

Vienna Biennale for Change 2021, MAK, Vienna, AT

ICA Shanghai NYU, CN
ponds among ponds – an exhibition of threshold behavior & nested life

Bavarian Art Awards Exhibition, Galerie der Künstlerinnen, Munich, DE

2020

Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, DE
Art for Animals. A Perspective Shift for Humans

Museum Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg, DE
Flügelschlag

2019

Museum Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg, DE
Artenreich

2018

Leopold Museum, Vienna, AT
Egon Schiele, Reloaded

Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna, AT
I Followed You To The Sun (curated by Ala Glaser)

Forum Stadtpark, Graz, AT
Nach der Natur

2017

Untitled Miami, Miami, US

H2 Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst Augsburg, DE
Bilder Fragen

2016

Untitled Miami, Miami, US

Gallery Site 131, Dallas, US
Site 131: Black Paintings: a response to Jackson Pollock

Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, US