REINHARD DOUBRAWA (DE)
biography | cv
exhibitions
_born 1963, Treysa, Germany
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany
Doubrawa's artistic practice is cross-media and cross-genre. This includes drawing, painting, photography, objects, graffiti, installation, performance and in-situ projects. He deals with questions about the creation of meaning in connection with everyday signs and codes. His interests predominantly lie in the area between language and image.
Photography is a ubiquitous procedure, although we cannot escape the suspicion that Doubrawa is primarily interested in the cropped details, so perhaps it is a technique of release. The concept artist takes photographs, but he is not a photographer. It is not images that are wanted, but signs. Cutting out from the whole is a means of visualization.
His work has been presented in international group- and solo-exhibitions in off-spaces as well as in galleries and museums.
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_group & solo-exhibitions (E) selection
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2025
NACH DER ZUKUNFT / POST FUTURE Das Esszimmer – Space for the arts, Bonn, Germany
NACHTFOYER – SPEZIAL Kunsthalle Duesseldorf, Germany
LAMPENLADEN 2.0 Magistrale Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
2024
PASSWORD 05 Drawing-Institute Kassel, in Cooperation with Schlachthof, Artcenter, Kassel, Germany
ARTIST VILLAGE Make, Eindhoven, Netherlands
ZONDER TITEL / SANS TITRE VTI, Aalst, Belgium
GIMME SHELTER Lage Egal, Brussels, Belgium
TIME SPACE DISTANCE Centre d’art contemporaine, Château de Beaurepaire, Loudun, France
LABIRYNT Festival of new art, SMOK, SÅ‚ubice, Poland
2023
DIASPOREN Temporary Gallery – Center for contemporary arts, Cologne, Germany
OBSESSION – COLLECTION The Collection Theewen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
PLEASE LEAVE YOUR MESSAGE Kunsttempel artspace, Kassel, Germany
FOREST ELEMENT – FOUR COPIES AYNITL art lab, Ghent, Belgien (E)
THE VENDOR Onomatopee, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2022
THE COMPLETE WORLD COLLECTION PART1 IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium (E)
NEUERWERBUNGEN Weserburg, Museum for Modern Art, Bremen
EVEN ODD M_RAM Foundation, Maastricht, Netherlands
20 YEARS Galerie EL, Welle, Belgium
ARTISTS@WORK Antwerp ART weekend, NICC and HART, Antwerp, Belgium
2021
BEUYS GARDENS : IM GARTEN BEUYS : IN DE TUIN VAN BEUYS Poster-Project in public space, Ghent/Antwerp/Brussels, Belgium (E)
OVERDOSE P.O.C. Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
MINSTENS 1 ½ UUR, EN TERUG De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
2020
NOT CANCELLED – city-walks Antwerp, Ghent, Herzele, Kassel, Berlin (E)
CURRY FAVOUR – ONE OF EACH #1 Lage Egal artspace, Berlin, Germany
CONDITION REPORT Vandenhove Pavilion, Ghent, Belgium
2019
SCHLIPSE LOODS 12, Wetteren, Belgium (E)
THE GULF BETWEEN – OVER ZWART, WIT EN ALLES DAARTUSSEN De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
KÖLN UM HALB ACHT Temporary Gallery – Center for contemporary arts, Cologne, Germany
2018
FOOD MATTERS – ALL YOU NEED IS THE LAVATORY Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium
PETERSBURG Weserburg / Museum for Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
KRASJ4 – BIENNALE Ninove, Belgium
LEBENSWEGE Rob Scholte – Klasse, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
JOIN THE DOTS / UNIRE LE DISTANZE Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy
MISS READ - Art book fair, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2017
THE 24 HOURS SHOW Garage Neven, Ninove, Belgium (E)
KÜNSTLERBÜCHER FÜR ALLES Center for artist publications, Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
ZWISCHENEBENEN Galerie Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
2016
CROX – AUCTION SMAK and Croxhapox, Center for Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium
CRSSWORDS 3 Jordan/Seydoux Gallery and Lage Egal artspace, Berlin, Germany
DE LAATSTE SHOW Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium
DANKE–DANKE Galerie von der Milwe, Aachen, Germany
2015
FRIENDS WITH BOOKS Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum contemporary arts, Berlin, Germany
IMAGO MUNDI Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
IM INNEREN DER STADT Museum for Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
ENTWURF FÜR EINE ENDGÜLTIGE AUSSAGE LOODS 12, Wetteren, Belgium (E)
#TABS Temporary Artist's Book Shop, Lage Egal artspace, Berlin, Germany
2014
FANTASTIQUE BELGIQUE Point Éphémère, Paris, France
ARTOTHEK KASSEL–BESTANDSBESICHTIGUNG documenta-Halle, Kassel, Germany
NOPRESSION Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
2013
DUBLIN DOUBLES Broadcast Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
KABOOM – COMIC IN DER KUNST Weserburg, Museum for Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
IK WORDT Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium
DRAWING NOW Paris le Salon du Dessin contemporain, Kudlek Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2012
WAAROM BEN IK ZU BLIJ Instalraam, Ghent, Belgium (E)
UNMITTELBAR–BESUCH AUS DEM WESTEN Lage Egal artspace, Berlin, Germany
2011
CROSSWORDS Jordan/Seydoux Gallery, Berlin, Germany
WALKING THE LINE III Kudlek van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne, Germany
IN- AND OUTSIDE – WRITING Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium
VON HIER AUS KANN MAN ALLES GUT SEHEN Museum Goch, Germany (E)
DOUBLES Les Brasseures – Art contemporaine, Liège, Belgium
2010
BRAINENLARGEMENT Croxhapox, Center for Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium (E)
MUSEUM DES PORTRAITS Office for Utopia, Galeriehaus Defet, Nuremberg, Germany
REICH SEIN Walkmühle Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
2009
FULLY BOOKED Beethoven Hotel, Bonn, Germany
BALKAN DIARY O3one artspace, Belgrade, Serbia (E)
MISS READ Artist-books, KunstWerke – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
SPECIAL VALUES kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (E)
ST. DENIS INTERVENTION St. Denis, Paris, France
2008
HIM HANFANG Kunstraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
WALKING THE LINE Kudlek van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2007
ALARM VOL. 2 – FEEL SECURE Schmidt Gallery, Berlin, Germany (E)
ÜBEREINSTIMMUNG MIT DER VORSTELLUNG Von der Milwe Gallery, Aachen, Germany (E)
DETAILS AUS DER HEILEN WELT – TEIL 2 Fuhrwerkswaage artspace, Cologne (E)
2006
UNO-BENEFIZAUSSTELLUNG-AUKTION Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
WELCOME Blob-Expo-Pavillon, Eindhoven, Netherlands(E)
MATERIAL WORLD Schmidt Gallery, Berlin, Germany
SYNCHRON Larm Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005
PAPERWORKS Kudlek Gallery, Cologne, Germany
ALL YOU NEED Schmidt Gallery, Berlin, Germany (E)
AUF MEINEM WEG INS PARADIES Museum Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany (E)
PAPIER=KUNST/5 Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg, Germany
2004
PRIVATGRÜN 55 Interventions in private spaces, Cologne, Germany
PASSEPARTOUT Von der Milwe Gallery, Aachen, Germany
SURFACE Kudlek Gallery, Cologne, Germany (E)
2003
KÖLN QUARTETT Fuhrwerkswaage artspace, Cologne, Germany (E)
ARBEITEN AUF PAPIER Völcker & Freunde Gallery, Berlin, Germany
OVERDRIVE 1 UND 2 Stadtgalerie, Tuttlingen und Städtische Galerie, Sindelfingen, Germany
2002
ANNÄHERUNG AN DAS UNBERECHENBARE Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany
PRIVÉ PUBLIC Montolieu, France (E)
2001
SOMEHOW EXHIBITION MU-Art Foundation, Eindhoven, Netherlands
KASSELER KUNSTPREIS Museum Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
ALARM Von der Milwe Gallery, Aachen, Germany (E)
DIE ANDERE SEITE Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
2000
REALITÉ Centre de Sculpture, Montolieu, France (E)
BAROCKHAUS Museum Moritzburg, Dresden, Germnay
BACK TO KASSEL Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
FIRST FLOOR Zumikon, Nuremberg, Germany
1999
TAG FÜR TAG Michael Schlieper Gallery, Hagen, Germany (E)
GASTSPIEL Kunstverein Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg, Germany
1998
MULTIPLES Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen, Switzerland
DOUBRAWA ERKLÄRT DIE WELT Claudia Böer Gallery, Hannover, Germany (E)
MULTIPLES Stadtgalerie, Ravensburg, Germany
1997
MULTIPLES Lindinger + Schmid, Regensburg, Germany
ORBIS PICTUS Galerie Schickler, Nuremberg, Germany (E)
PARA-SITE Gulden Vlies Galerijen, Brussels, Belgium
INTERSECTION II Margaret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans, London, Great Britain
1996
KUNSTPREIS EISENTURM Kunstverein Mainz, Mainz, Germany
INTERSECTION Open Space Gallery, Reading, Great Britain
VIER WÄNDE Plateau - Center for Performing Arts, Brussels, Belgium (E)
TRANSPARENZEN Produzentengalerie, Kassel, Germany
_scholarships / prizes (selection)
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2024
European Mobility Grant, Goethe-Institut, Brussels, Belgium
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2022
Scholarship of Kunstfonds Foundation, Bonn, Germany
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2016
Artist in Residence, FRANS MASEREEL CENTRUM, Kasterlee, Belgium
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2013
Grant of the Ministry of Science and Art for the publication project DEPOT
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2010
Artist in Residence, CROXHAPOX, Center for Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium
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2008
Travel grant for Serbien, BALKANKULT FOUNDATION, Belgrade, Serbia
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2006
Grant of the „Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte“, for the project WELCOME, Eindhoven, Netherlands
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2002
Artist in Residence at HANGAR, Centro de Artes Visuales, Barcelona, Spain
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2000
Grant of the DR. WOLFGANG ZIPPEL STIFTUNG, Kassel, Germany
Artist in Residence at CENTRE DE SCULPTURE, Montolieu, France
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1999
Scholarship of the HESSISCHEN KULTURSTIFTUNG, Wiesbaden
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1998
Artist in Residence at Pearlstreet Studios, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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