Ellen Gronemeyer

Ellen Gronemeyer (born 1979 in Fulda ) is a German contemporary painter and has held a junior professorship at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the academy of fine arts of Germany's federal state of North Rhine Westphalia, since 2017.

Life Gronemeyer grew up in Fritzlar, a small German town in northern Hesse with a storied history. After finishing her secondary education in 1998 she took up studies of Free Art at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK), the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. Amongst her mentors there were Stephan Dillemuth, Werner Büttner, Bogomir Ecker, Sabeth Buchmann

In 2014, Gronemeyer had her first solo exhibition in a museum at the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen.

In 2017, Gronemeyer was appointed to a junior professorship for painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Since 2009, she has been living in Berlin.

Awards

2003: scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2004: Erste Strophe Erste Zeile, Pudelclub/Nomadenoase, Hamburg 2005: Ellen Gronemeyer, Gallery Karin Günther, Hamburg 2006: Ich häng Dir Deine Blässe um, greengrassi, London 2007: Ellen Gronemeyer, (with Michael Hakimi) Andrew Kreps, New York 2009: Drop Me on the Corner, greengrassi, London 2010: Zeitsichtpreis 2009, Schaetzlerpalais, Augsburg 2011: CDU/CSU, Galerie Karin Günther, Hamburg 2012: Affentheater, Kimmerich, New York 2012: I have a difficult childhood, greengrassi, London 2014: Ellen Gronemeyer. Watchever, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (mit Katalog) 2015: Keine Minute Ruhe, greengrassi, London 2015: Raw and Delirious, Kunsthalle Bern 2017: Bochum, Kimmerich, Berlin 2018: frozen, Anton Kern Gallery, New York 2021: Tausendmal Du, Anton Kern Gallery, New York

Works (Selection)

Exclamation-marc, 2015, oil on canvass, 160 × 120 cm, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art