FLORIAN MAIER-AICHEN 

Born                                    
Stuttgart, Germany, 1973
 

Education                  
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, M.F.A. (DAAD Grant)                                                     
University of Essen, Germany
School of Photography and Film, University for Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Lives and works in Cologne, Germany and Los Angeles, CA

One-Person Exhibitions

2013
Gagosian Gallery, London, UK

2011                                   
Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2009                                   
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Snow Machine, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK 

2008                                   
Baronian-Francey, Brussels, Belgium
PhotoEspana 08: Florian Maier-Aichen, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

2007                                    
MOCA Focus: Florian Maier-Aichen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2006                                   
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
303 Gallery, New York, NY 

2005                                   
Baronian-Francey, Brussels, Belgium

2004                                   
The Bridges of Cologne, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2003                                   
Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan

2002                                   
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA

Group Exhibitions

2012
Take Off Your Silver Spurs and Help Me Pass the Time, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Natural History, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2011                 
Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, 2011, Kunsthalle Mannheim; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; Kunstverein Heidelberg, Sammlung Prinzhorn, Heidelberg, Germany
The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

2010                 
The Artist’s Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Show: Mike Kelley, Florian Maier-Aichen, and Anselm Reyle, Gagosian, New York, NY
Nuit Blanche, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Photo Show 2010, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
Crash, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK

2009                                   
Dark Summer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Nothing is permanent: Albert Baronian, profession galeriste, La Centrale Electrique, European Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
Collecting History:  Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, FLAG Art Foundation, New York (curated by Lisa Dennison)
15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2008                                   
For What You Are About to Receive, Gagosian at Red October Chocolate Factory, Moscow, Russia
Damaged Romanticism, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX, traveling to Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY and Grey Gallery, New York, NY
to-Night: Contemporary Representations of the Night, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York (curated by Joachim Pissarro, Mara Hoberman and Julia Moreno)

2007                                   
Mario Testino: At Home, Yvon Lambert New York, New York, NY
Three for Society, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
LA Desire, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf, Germany

2006                                   
Particulate Matter, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
USA TODAY: New American Art, Saatchi Gallery/ Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2005                                   
The Blake Byrne Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Photography 2005, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
Set Up: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Photo London Art Fair (special exhibition), curated by Mario Testino, London, UK

2004                                   
Kommando Pfannenkuchen: Deutsche und Amerikanische Kunst, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003                                   
Gilbert & George, Cristina Iglesias, Mike Kelley, George Lappas, Florian                                    
Maier-Aichen, Nikos Navridis, Tony Oursler, Thaddeus Strode, Bernier/Eliades,Athens, Greece and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2002                                   
Constructed Realities, Grand Art, Kansas City, MO (traveled to Las Vegas Art Museum (curated by Barbara Bloemink)
Anti-Form: New Photographic Work from Los Angeles, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO (curated by James Welling)
Ich ging im Walde so fuer mich hin: Markus Amm, Florian Maier-Aichen, Gondi Norola, Nicole Wermers, Galerie Borgmann Nathusius, Cologne, Germany

2001                                   
Jennifer Bornstein, Mark Grotjahn, Dave Muller, Florian Maier-Aichen, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
Snapshot: New Art From Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami)           
Vision Embraces the World, Echo Park Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2000                                   
Can (Remix), Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA

1999                                   
Gesundheit, Kunsthaus Essen, Essen, Germany

1998                                   
stART 98, Billboard Project Stockholm, Sweden

1997                                   
Galeri Gufot, Gothenburg, Sweden

Bibliography

2013
Castle, Jack. "Florian Maier-Aichen: Photographs Creating Illusions of the Bigger Picture." Artlyst.com, April 24, 2013.

2012
Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman, and James Frey. Funny. New York: Flag Art Foundation, 2012. 

2011                                   
Collection Vanmoerkerke. Brussels: Rispoli Books, 2011: 162-163.
Mizota, Sharon. “Appearances Can Indeed Deceive,” Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2011.
Wiley, Chris. “Florian Maier-Aichen,” Artforum.com, May 2011.

2010                                   
Florian Maier-Aichen: Snow Machine. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2010.

2009
Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century: Season Five. New York: Art 21 Inc.; Alexandria, VA: Distributed by PBS Distribution, 2009.
Dykstra, Jean. “Florian Maier-Aichen: 303.” Art in America 97, no. 5 (May 2009): 147-148.
“Florian Maier-Aichen,” New Yorker, March 23, 2009.
Hudson, Suzanne. “Florian Maier-Aichen: 303 Gallery.” Artforum 47, no. 9 (May 2009): 234.
Zinsser, John. “Florian Maier-Aichen.” Flash Art 42, no. 266 (May-June 2009): 119.

2008                  
De Traux, Wivine. “Le photographe.” Flux News (February-March 2008).
Duponchelle, Valerie. “Florian Maier-Aichen,” Le Figaro, January 25, 2008.
Florian Maier-Aichen. Madrid: La Fabrica Editorial, 2008.
“Florian Maier-Aichen chez Baronian Francey.” L’Evenement, February 2008.
Hoberman, Mara. “City Nights,” in to:Night: Contemporary Representations of the NIght. New York: The Hunter College Art Galleries, 2008: 50-52, 68, 69.
“Un monde changeant.” AAA, February 2008.
Watt, Tom, “Feature: Pedro Barateiro & Florian Maier-Aichen.” ArtReview, no. 23 (June 2008): 62-69.
Wynants, Jean-Marie. “Le brouillage de l’image fausse le paysage,” Le Soir, February 27, 2008.

2007                 
Bedford, Christopher. “Florian Maier-Aichen,” Artforum.com, September 11, 2007.
Brooks, Amra. "Must See Art," LA Weekly, July 6-12, 2007.
Buckley, Annie. “Forian Maier-Aichen at MOCA Pacific Design Center.” Artweek 38, no. 9 (November 2007): 17-18.
Exley, Roy. “Florian Maier-Aichen,” in Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century. Köln: Dumont, 2007: 270-273.
Knight, Christopher. "Trick Photography," Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2007.
Morse, Rebecca. MOCA Focus: Florian Maier-Aichen. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007.
Tumlir, Jan.  "Outside the Frame." Aperture, no. 187 (Summer 2007): 46-53.
Tumlir, Jan. "Sci-Fi Historicism." Flash Art 40, no. 253 (March-April 2007): 102-105.

2006                 
Brooks, Amra. “Florian Maier-Aichen at Blum & Poe.” Artforum 44, no. 8 (April 2006): 255.
Brooks, Amra. “Los Angeles Roundup: A Report on Current Gallery, Museum Shows.” Artinfo.com, January 26, 2006.
Davis, Ben. “Look Again.” Artnet.com, February 24, 2006.
Dupuis, Isabelle. “Florian Maier-Aichen.” Flash Art 38, no. 247 (March-April 2006): 110.
Dykstra, Jean. "Scenic Fiction." ArtReview (June 2006): 52-53.
Eleey, Peter. “Florian Maier-Aichen at 303 Gallery.” Frieze, no. 99 (May 2006): 177-178.
Johnson, Ken. “The Listings: Florian Maier-Aichen at 303 Gallery,” New York Times, January 27, 2006.
Gleadell, Colin. "Art Sales: Over-Talented and Over Here," Telegraph,  September 19, 2006.
Knight, Christopher. “Primitive hidden in the Modern,” Los Angeles Times, February 2, 2006.
McNally, Whitney. “Photo Finish.” W 35, no. 3 (March 2006).
Sutton, Gloria. “Florian Maier-Aichen.” Vitamin PH. London: Phaidon Press, 2006: 170-173.                                                      

2005                                   
"Agenda," Islington Gazette, January 13, 2005.
Bodson, Jean-Marc. "Photographies en Vue," La Libre (Brussels), April 5 and 27, 2005.
Casadio, Mariuccia. "Sunset Rising." Vogue Italia (January 2005): 370-376. 
Chapman, Peter. "Private View: Florian Maier-Aichen." Independent, January 22, 2005.
Dillion, Brian. "Photography 2005 at Victoria Miro Gallery, London." Modern Painters (March 2005): 97.
“Florian Maier-Aichen.” Blind Spot, no. 30 (Summer 2005): 32-39.
Güner, Fisun. "Much Ado About Nothingness," Metro, January 18, 2005.
Kennedy, Marla Hamburg and Ben Stiller, eds. Looking at Los Angeles. New York: Metropolis Books, 2005.
Knight, Christopher. "An Illustrative Light," Los Angeles Times, June 12, 2005.
Kunitz, Daniel and João Ribas. "The ArtReview 25: Emerging US Artists." ArtReview 3, no. 3 (April 2003): 118.
"Picks of the Week," Guardian, January 24, 2005.
Pitman, Joanna. "Young and Original: Six Visual Artists in the Frame." Times (London), January 19, 2005.
"Previews." Dazed and Confused (London) (January 2005).
Steward, Sue. "A Focus on Six of the Best," Evening Standard, January 19, 2005.
Wilson, Rebecca. "Tales of the City." ArtReview (May-June 2005): 21. 

2004                                   
Holl, Jess. “Lying with the Camera Eye,” Los Angeles Times, July 8, 2004.
Myers, Holly. “Undermining Perceptions,” Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2004.
Thornton, Sarah. “Nocturnes.” Contemporary, no. 62 (2004): 32-37.

2003                                   
“Portfolio: Florian Maier-Aichen.” Influence, no. 1 (2003): 88-91.

2002                                   
Bailey, Matthew. “Constructed Realities.” Art Papers 26, no. 4 (July-August 2002): 49.
McGraw, Hesse. “Fiction and History: A Science of Disputed Signs.” Review  (May-June 2002): 38-39.
Myers, Holly. “Testing the Bounds of Photographic Truth,” Los Angeles Times, September 13, 2002.
Thorson, Alice. “Everything Here Is Not What It Seems,” Kansas City Star, May 3, 2002.
Von Kisters, Jürgen. “Die Kunst fragt nach Wirklichkeit,” Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, February 23, 2002. 

2001                 
Dambrot, Shana Nys. “Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum.” Tema Celeste, no. 87 (September-October 2001): 102.
Harvey, Doug. “Are We Photographs?” Camera Work: A Journal of Photographic Arts 28, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2001): 18-21.
Knight, Christopher. “A ‘Snapshot’ of L.A. Artists,” Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2001.
Patterson, Carrie. “Snapshot: New Art From Los Angeles.” Flash Art, no. 219 (July-September 2001): 69.
Snapshot: New Art From Los Angeles. Los Angeles: UCLA Hammer Museum, 2001.
Subotnick, Ali. “Snapshot: New Art From Los Angeles.” Frieze, no. 62 (October 2001): 99-100.
Tumlir, Jan. “Snapshot at UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.” Artforum 40, no. 2 (October 2001): 155.
Von Schlegell, Mark. “Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles.” Artext, no. 75 (November 2001-January 2002): 76-77.

1999                                   
“Input.” Self Service Magazine (Spring 1999): 128-135.
 

Awards

1999-2000                 
DAAD Scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst

Public Collections         

The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY