Michael Burges
German
Michael Burges was born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1954. In 1981, Burges studied under the painter, Douglas Swan and by 1983 began his own exploration in abstract painting. Exhibiting his work from Hong Kong to Miami, Burges has also participated in group and solo exhibitions in Asia, Europe, the United Sates and Canada. He has been commissioned for several public installation projects in Germany and his work is held by many public and private collections across the world. Michael Burges continues to create his magnificent paintings in his studio in Dusseldorf, Germany.
“These reverse paintings on glass extend a long and deep tradition of placing the image on the other side of a transparent transmission surface, in this case acrylic glass which unlike traditional vitreous and fragile glass, is shatterproof and scratch resistant. In other words, it assumes an ideally modernist stance and updates a material which was first explored by the classical Romans in the second century of our common era.” – Donald Brackett
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 | Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
2022 | Galerie Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg, Germany |
2021 | Galerie Troner, Duesseldorf, Germany |
2020 | Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
2019 | Galerie LandskronSchneidzik, Nuremberg, Germany |
2018 | Reverse Glass Paintings, Galerie LS |
Painting behind Glass, Troner Art, Duesseldorf | |
Painting, Galerie RotherWinter, Wiesbaden | |
2017 | Reverse Glass Painting, Galerie Pascal Janssens, Ghent, Belgium |
Color, Metal, Energy, Galerie Lausberg, Duesseldorf | |
2016 | Behind the Glass, Jan Kossen Contemporary, New York, USA |
New Paintings, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, Canada | |
2015 | Galerie RotherWinter at Henkell & Co., Wiesbaden, Germany |
2014 | Lausberg Contemporary at Armory Art Center, Palm Beach, USA |
Troner Art Center, Duesseldorf, Germany | |
Galerie RotherWinter, Wiesbaden, Germany | |
2013 | OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art, Huntington Beach, USA |
2012 | Galerie Pascal Janssens, Ghent, Belgium |
Galerie LandskronSchneidzik, Nuremberg, Germany | |
Galerie Lausberg, Duesseldorf, Germany | |
2011 | Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada |
Galerie Lucien Schweitzer, Luxembourg, Germany | |
Galerie Winter, Wiesbaden, Germany | |
Galerie Lausberg, Duesseldorf, Germany | |
2010 | Lausberg Contemporary, Miami, USA |
2009 | Galerie Pascal Janssens, Ghent, Belgium |
Galerie LandskronSchneidzik, Nuremberg, Germany | |
Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris, France | |
2008 | Leeahn Gallery, Daegu, Korea |
Galerie Art Felchlin, Zurich, Switzerland | |
Galerie Winter, Wiesbaden, Germany | |
Galerie Harthan, Struttgart, Germany | |
OMC Gallery, Huntington Beach, USA | |
Galerie Noack, Monchengladbach, Germany | |
2007 | Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, Germany |
Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada | |
Moenchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany | |
Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris, France | |
2006 | Galerie Bernd Lausberg, Duesseldorf, Germany |
SAS Radisson Hotel, Media Harbour, Duesseldorf, Germany | |
Galerie Winter, Wiesbaden, Germany | |
Pier 1 Lobby, Duisburg,Harbour, Germany | |
2005 | Monos Art Gallery, Liege, Belgium |
Galerie Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart, Germany | |
2004 | Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris, France |
Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong | |
Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, Germany | |
2003 | Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich, Germany |
Galerie Vayhinger, Radolfzell, Germany | |
2002 | Galerie Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart, Germany |
Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxembourg, Germany | |
2001 | Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, Germany |
2000 | Stadtische Galerie Gladbeck, Germany |
Derik-Baegert-Gesellschaft, SchloB Ringenberg, Hamminkeln, Germany | |
Galerie Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart, Germany | |
Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxembourg, Germany | |
Medical Unviersity of Bonn, Germany | |
1998 | Kunst Aus NRW, Ehemalige Reichsabtei, Aachen-Kornelimuenster, Germany |
Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, Germany | |
1997 | Galerie Alexander Sies, Duesseldorf, Germany |
Galerie Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart, Germany | |
Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Berlin, Germany | |
1996 | Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, Germany |
1995 | Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany |
Von de Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 | Art Toronto, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON |
2018 | Meisterwerke VI, Galerie RotherWinter, Wiesbaden |
2017 | Vivid Dimensions, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON |
Nuovi Orizzonti, JanKossen Contemporary, Venice, Italy | |
Künstler der Galerie, Galerie LandskronSchneidzik, Nuremberg |
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2016 | Cool Mood, Troner Art, Duesseldorf |
2015 | Art Toronto, Odon Wagner Contemporary, Toronto, ON |
2014 | Armory Art Center, Palm Beach, USA |
Galerie Pascal Janssens, Ghent, Belgium | |
Sammlung NRW, ehem.Reichsabtei Aachen-Kornelimuenster | |
Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris, France | |
Galerie LandskronSchneidzik, Nuremberg | |
2013 | Galerie Lausberg, Duesseldorf, Germany |
Galerie Pascal Janssens, Ghent, Belgium | |
Galerie LandskronSchneidzik, Nuremberg | |
2012 | Museum Unteres Belvedere, Vienna, Austria |
Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada | |
Troner Art, Duesseldorf, Germany | |
Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris, France | |
San Marino Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
2010 | Museum VIlla Rot, Burgrieden |
Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada | |
Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich | |
Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris, France | |
Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada | |
Galerie Winter, Wiesbaden | |
OMC Gallery, Huntington Beach, USA | |
2009 | Galerie Schrade-Schloß Mochental, Ehingen |
Galerie Lausberg, Duesseldorf | |
Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris, France | |
2008 | Troner Art, Duesseldorf |
Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Cologne | |
OMC Gallery, Huntington Beach-L.A, USA | |
2006 | Galerie Pascal Vanhoecke, Paris, France |
Galerie Parisud, Paris, France | |
Monos Art Gallery, Liège, Belgium | |
2005 | Galerie Lausberg, Duesseldorf |
Consum, Duesseldorf | |
Galerie Artforum Hannover, Hanover | |
Medienmafia Duesseldorf | |
Galerie Noack, Monchengladbach | |
Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne | |
2004 | Monos Art Gallery, Liège, Belgium |
Galerie Harthan, Stuttgart | |
2003 | Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen |
Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne | |
Galerie Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart | |
Monos Art Gallery, Liège, Belgium | |
Landesverband der Galerien in Baden – Württemberg, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart | |
Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxembourg | |
2002 | Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne |
2001 | Galerie Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart |
2000 | Hommage à Achim Duchow, Kunstverein Lippstadt |
Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxembourg | |
Galerie Erhard Klien, Bad Muenstereifel | |
1999 | Galleria d’Arte Ristori, Albenga, Italy |
Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxembourg | |
Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne | |
Landesverband der Galerien | |
in Baden-Württemberg, Kunstverein Freiburg | |
Kunstverein Radolfzell | |
Heidelberger Kunstverein Karlsruhe | |
1998 | Galerie Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart |
1997 | Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne |
1996 | Schloß Corvey, Hoexter |
1995 | Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne |
Museum Folkwang, Essen |