Max Streicher
Pneumatic Sculpture / Installations
Contact: max@maxstreicher.com
Curriculum Vitae pdf
Current Exhibitions
BLOW UP II
Travelling group exhibition coordinated by Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek (San Francisco), California.
https://www.bedfordgallery.org/exhibitions/past/blow-up-in-inflatable-contemporary-art
Upcoming
2021 BLOW UP II, Dennis Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan. Feb. 27th – May 16th;
Crazy, D’art Chiostro Del Bramante, Rome, Italy, Autumn;
BLOW UP II, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan, June 11th - Oct. 3rd;
BLOW UP II, Museum of Art|Fort Collins, Fort Collins, Colorado, Oct 29th - Jan. 9th, 2022;
2022 BLOW UP II, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, Oklahoma, Feb. 8th - May 1st;
Requiem, NetherMind, St. Anne’s Anglican Church, Toronto, Canada, April;
BLOW UP II, The Jepson Center at the Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia, May 27th - Sept. 18th;
BLOW UP II, Appleton Museum of Art, College of Central Florida, Ocala, Florida, Oct. 15th - Dec. 18th;
2023 BLOW UP II, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, Jan. 19th- April 9th;
Selected Solo Exhibitions Past
2020 Alma Löv Museum, Östra Ämtervik, Sweden;
2019 Livstid (Lifetime), Galleri Mårten Pers Källa, Brantevik, Sweden;
Exmuro: Passaged Isolites, Quebec City, Quebec;
2018 Le Cheval dans l’art contemporain, Atelier 34zero Muzeum, Brussels, Belgium;
Cloud, LuftMuseum, Amberg, Germany;
2017 Die Luft ist Rein, Städtische Galerie Ostfildern, Ostfildern, Germany;
2016 Portraits of Self, with Parag Sonarghare, Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, India;
2015 Waking Army, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, British Columbia;
2014 Outside In, St. Mary’s Church, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny, Ireland;
Battle of Cannae, Public site installation, Plaza de Platerias Martinez, Madrid, presented by Galerie Ponce/Robles and Radisson Prado, Madrid;
2013 Giant Babies, Skövde Kulturhus, Skövde, Sweden;
Quadriga, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario;
Schlafende Körper, Luftmuseum, Amberg, Germany;
2012 Breath, Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario;
2011 Quadriga, The Varley Gallery, Markham, Ontario;
2010 Architecture of Cloud, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario;
Ashwamedh, Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, India;
Silenus, Confederation Centre, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island;
Sleeping Giants, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, New Jersey;
Quadriga, Magda Danysz Gallery, Shanghai, China;
2009 Alto cumulus, (Great Hall installation), Art Gallery of Mississauga;
Max Streicher, Tjolöholm Slott, Gothenburg, Sweden;
2008 Metamorphosis, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, New York;
Interlopers, Violetray Gallery, New York;
Breathe, Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, India;
2007 Mammatus, Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain;
Sleeping Giants, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK;
Blow, Felix Ringel Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany;
Quadriga, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon;
2006 Mammatus, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba and Museum London, London, Ontario;
Four Horses, Galerie d'art Louise-et-Reuben-Cohen de l'Université de Moncton, New Brunswick;
Respiración, Galerie Raquel Ponce, Madrid, Spain;
Quadriga, Ludwig-Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany;
2005 Metamorphosis, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario;
You and Me: Body Talks, Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin, Germany;
Respiración, Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain;
Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany;
Silenus, Glassbox, University of Erfurt Art Gallery, Erfurt Germany;
Four Horses, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick;
Silenus, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
2004 Quartet, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, New York;
Cloud, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario;
Silenus, Apothiki Gallery, Paros, Greece;
2003 Sculture Gonfiabili, Galleria Traghetto, Venice, Italy;
Floating Giants, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden;
Four Horses, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario;
2002 Silenus, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta;
Lamentation, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario;
2001 Hyperworld, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan;
Sleeping Giants, Neutral Ground, Regina, Saskatchewan;
2000 Giant, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia;
Sleeping Giants, Karlskoga Konsthall, Karlskoga, Sweden;
Sleeping Giants, SAW Gallery, Ottawa;
1999 Hamm & Clov, GnadenKirche installation, Hamburg, Germany;
Endgame, rooftop installation, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario;
Swan Song, Gallery Stratford, Stratford Ontario;
Sleeping Giants, Galleri Rostrum, Malmo, Sweden;
1998 Sleeping Giants, The Library and Gallery, Cambridge, Ontario;
1997 Pleasure Dome, Pyramida: Centre for Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel;
1996 Tight Rope, Synagoga na Palmovca, Prague, Czech Republic;
1993 "this flesh...", Galerie Articule, Montreal;
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 BLOW UP II, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, USA.
Alma Löv Museum, Östra Ämtervik, Sweden;
2019 Blow Up II, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek (San Francisco) California;
Endgame (Nagg & Nell), Exmuro: Passaged Isolites, Quebec City, Quebec;
Reunion, Site projected coordinated by Sunday Drive, Peterborough, ON;
2018 Le Cheval dans l’art contemporain, Atelier 34zero Muzeum, Brussels, Belgium;
CLOUD, LuftMuseum, Amberg, Germany;
2017 Time, Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, India;
2016 Summer, Travels, Tales, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan:
2015 Mediated Memory, Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing;
2014 Sterling, NetherMind collective with Art Spin, Toronto, Ontario;
Futurotextiles, Technopolis, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Sleeping Giants, Alma Lov, Museum, Ostra Amtervik, Sweden;
Coral Organ Collaboration with Garnet Willis, Open Ears: Festival of Music and Sound, Kitchener, Ontario;
2013 Vom Luftholen und Untertauchen, Sanitorium Gaisbühel with Voralrberg Museum, Austria;
H20, Museum of Contemporary Art, Calgary;
Airs and Graces, Millenia Walk, Singapore;
Apprivoiser L’Espace, Centre d’exposition Circa, Montreal;
NetherMind, University of Waterloo Art Gallery;
2012 NetherMind: Mirabilia, St. Anne’s Church, Toronto;
Vertical Constructions, Nuit Blanche, Toronto;
Festival des Folies 2012, Maubeuge, France;
Futurotextiles, European Center of Innovating Textiles, Lodz, Poland;
2011 Metamorphosis, Biennale Internationale D’Art Contemporain de Melle, France;
The Horse Show, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland;
Futurotextiles, Marine Museum, Barcelona, Spain;
Futurotextile, El Palacio de la Merced, Córdoba, Spain;
Giants Ascending, Chemins numériques #4, Corps numérique, CORPS / MOUVEMENT / MOTRICITE/EXTENTION,
Centre Culturel Saint-Exupéry, Reims, France;
2010 Endgame (Coulrophobia), Nuit Blanche, Toronto;
2009 Metamorphosis, cafka: contemporary Art forum/Kitchener & Area, Kitchener, Ontario;
Pieces à Part, Galerie Eric Mircher, Paris, France;
Gothenburg Cultural Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden;
Oxygenarte, Festival Segovia, Segovia, Spain;
2008 Faces A Faces, Galerie Eric Mircher, Paris, France;
H2O, Izotz, Ur, Lurrin, Kubo-Kutxa, San Sebastian, Spain;
Futurotextiel 08, Kortrijk, Belguim;
HeartQuake, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel;
Galway International Festival, Galway, Ireland;
2007 Spirits, Galerie Eric Mircher, Paris, France;
Das Motiv Säugling in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany;
Floating Artworks, Curated by Art Gallery of Ontario, Luminato Festival, Toronto;
Sculpture Now, Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin, Germany;
Huge, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Ontario;
The Great Indoors, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK;
2006 Naked Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei:
Lifeforms, Kinetica Museum, London, UK;
Plastiken Kunstkörperlich – Körperkünstlich, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany;
Summer of Love, Virserums Konsthall, Virserum, Sweden;
Alma Löv Biennial, Alma Löv Museum, Östra Ämtervik, Sweden;
Blown, Kenderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon;
2005 Figur/Skulptur, ESSL Museum, Vienna, Austria;
Blown, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan;
2004 Gonflables! Inflatables Gonfiabili…, Lille, France;
Ironic Turn, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto;
Chassez le naturel…, 4th Liege Biennial, Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Liege, Belgium;
Plastica d’Artista, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Contempranea, Pordenone, Italy;
2003 The Ironic Turn, Faux Mouvement, Metz, France;
Du lilliputien au gigantesque: l’imaginaire de la démesure, Musée Régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Quebec;
The Ironic Turn: Kanadische Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany;
Il Palazzo delle Liberta, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy;
The Mortal Coil: Ruminations on Human Physicality, Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario;
2001 Good Place, Taichung, Taiwan, curated by Manray Hsu, Hungjohn Lin and David Liss;
Mortal, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois;
2000 logocity, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario, curated by Barbara Fischer;
Balancing Act, Kunstvaai4, Amsterdam, NL, curated by De Parel Gallery;
1999 Mediawave, International Media Festival: Gyor, Hungary;
Between Body and Soul, Saidye Bronfman Centre and Concordia University Gallery, Montreal;
Version City, University of Buffalo Art Gallery, curated by John Massier;
Artifice, coordinated by Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal;
1997 Ulappa '97, symposium and exhibition, Turku, Finland;
1996 Once Upon a Time, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, curated by Joan Stebbins;
1995 NetherMind, collective exhibition, Toronto;
Hermit, symposium and exhibition, Plasy, Czech Republic;
1994 Naked State, curated by Louise Dompierre and Arthur Renwick, The Power Plant, Toronto;
Mediatrics, coordinated by Cold City Gallery, Toronto;
1993 Communion, Johnson County Arts Center, Iowa City, Iowa;
NetherMind, collective exhibition, Toronto;
Hermit, symposium and exhibition, Plasy, Czech Republic;
1992 NetherMind, collective exhibition, Toronto;
1991 Outrageous Desire, Rutger's University, New Brunswick, New Jersey;
NetherMind, collective exhibition, Toronto;
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
2021 Helios, Public Art Commission; Edmonton Transit, Edmonton, Alberta;
2020 Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; Trio, 2004: (kinetic inflatable consisting of three
seated figures);
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario;
2016 Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick;
2015 Norfolk Art Centre, Simcoe, Ontario;
2014 Alma Lov Museum, Ostra Amtervik, Sweden;
Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarboro, Ontario;
2013 Luftmuseum, Amberg, Germany;
2010 University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto;
2009 Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick;
2005 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan;
Museum 21, Louisville Kentucky;
1989 York University, Toronto, Ontario;
RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2018 Momento Mori, “I Heart Your Work” edition project, curated by Rebecca Carbin;
2012 Mirabilia Arts Festival, Arts and Music Committee, St. Anne’s Church, Toronto;
2007 Tate Modern, Take a Deep Breath Symposium presenter, London, UK;
1998 Mercer Union: A Centre for Contemporary Visual Art, member of Board of Directors, 1992 – 1998;
1996 Visiting Artist: College of Educational Sciences, Department of Fine Arts, Erfurt, Germany.