Artists
Conny Maier

Conny Maier

Conny Maier works and lives in Berlin and Baleal, Portugal.

„I see my work as an impulse that pushes itself to the surface. There is this clear desire to create something. I have a pretty concrete idea in mind and in the end something completely different usually arises.“- Conny Maier (translated from an interview by SMAC)

Conny Maier works with the contradictions and possibilities in a society that is supposedly constructed with set limits. The artist questions the relationship between contemporary cultures and their patterns of behaviour, social classes and body politics. Her works focus primarily on illuminating the grey areas between art and construction, play and seriousness: Maier’s ductus allows the viewer to take up several perspectives and to be confronted with decisions himself. Her presumably ironic pictures allow the question to be posed as to how humans organize themselves in a coded environment and what realities can be hidden behind this facade.

Selected exhibitions

2023
Dorf 7, Überführung in die Bodenlage, sommer.frische.kunst. art:badgastein, Bad Gastein, AT
DER KÖNIG IST TOT, LANG LEBE DIE KÖNIGIN, MUSEUM FRIEDER BURDA, Baden-Baden, DE
Art Basel Art Unlimited, Basel, CH

2022
Durst, Steine, Scherben, Ruttkowski;68, Paris, FR (s)
Deutsche Bank Artist of the year 2022, MUDEC, Milan, IT
Where Have All The Flowers Gone, De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, BE
'HÄNSEL UND GRETEL (Let me in Ruh’)' in collaboration with Jonathan Meese, KV Aurich, DE
Feels like rabies, Société, Berlin, DE (s)

2021
Artists of the Year 2020 by Deutsche Bank, Palais Populaire, Berlin, DE
Grenzgänge 2, KÖNIG SEOUL, Seoul, KR (s)
This Must Be The Place, Sculpture Garden, Villa Schöningen in collaboration with Ruttkowski;68, Potsdam, DE
Grenzgänge, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, DE (s)
Mixed Pickles 8, with Ruttkowski;68, Goldberg Studios, Munich, DE

2020
Domestic, KÖNIG Galerie Chapel, Berlin, DE (s)
10 YEARS RUTTKOWSKI;68, Cologne, DE
Die Zähmung, kuratiert von Cornelius Tittel, Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim, DE (s)
DORF 4 – die Letzte, Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, DE
Mixed Pickles 8, Gallery Weekend Berlin, with Ruttkowski;68, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin, DE
Mixed Pickles 7 – The Ghost Edition, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, DE
002. Conny Maier & Andreas Schmitten, #ruttkoenig project, König Galerie |
Ruttkowski;68, Paris, FR
Nine to know, curated by Jenny Brosinski, Ruttkowski;68, Paris, FR

2019
I didn’t mean to burn the woods, SMAC | OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, DE (s)
Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse 2, Ruttkowski;68, Art Berlin Fair
Im Trüben, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, DE (s)
DORF 3, Wullenstetten, DE
Mixed Pickles 6, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, DE
Mixed Pickles 5, Ruttkowski;68 | Funkhaus Berlin, Gallery Weekend Berlin, DE
Disorder, Los Angeles, USA
‚Atlantis 3000’ 1, Atelier Concorde, Lisbon, PT
Chronik der laufenden Ereignisse, Christian Rosa Residency, Beverly Hills, USA
Atlantis 3000, PM Gallery, Lisbon, PT
04, PM/AM, London, UK
Ruttkowski;68 at Draw Art Fair London, UK

2018
DORF 2, Wullenstetten, DE
Am Rothenbaum, Ruttkowski;68, Paris, FR (s)
Mixed Pickles 4, Ruttkowski;68 | Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne, DE
Grand Opening, Ruttkowski;68, Paris, FR
Tangerian dreams, curated by Johann König, RBMA Funkhaus, Berlin, DE
My body doesn’t like summer, curated by Stephen Kent, Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin, DE
Mixed Pickles 3, Ruttkowski;68, Gallery Weekend Berlin, DE
Provincetown, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, DE
Grand Opening, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, DE
Wasting Time Vol. 1 – The Nature Edition, Objekte unserer Tage, Berlin, DE
Rue Charlot, Ruttkowski;68, Paris, FR
Lichtstraße, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, DE

2017
Mixed Pickles 2, Ruttkowski;68 | Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne, DE
DORF, Wullenstetten, DE
A.Tennis, Paralell Vienna, AT (s)
Alles very good. / Nothing matters, ung5, Cologne, DE (s)
HYPER HYPER, Michael Reid Galerie, Berlin, DE

*(s) solo exhibition