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
2023 BLOW UP II, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, Nov. 4,
Emotionair, Grand Hall, Old Billingsgate Market, London, UK, Dec. 22.
2024. Portsmouth Arts and Cultural Centre, Portsmouth, Virginia, Feb. 24; https://balloonmuseum.world/lp-london-2/
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
2023 Pop Air - Napoli, Mostra d'Oltremare, Naples, Italy, Coordinated by Balloon Museum-Rome;
Pop Air - Madrid, Puerta del Ángel, Madrid, Spain, Coordinated by Balloon Museum-Rome;
BLOW UP II, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas;
BLOW UP II, Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin;
2022 Requiem, NetherMind, St. Anne’s Anglican Church, Toronto, Canada;
Pop Air - Milan, Super Studio, Milan, Italy, Coordinated by Balloon Museum-Rome;
Pop Air - Paris, La villette, Paris, France, Coordinated by Balloon Museum-Rome;
BLOW UP II, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, Oklahoma;
BLOW UP II, The Jepson Center at the Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia;
BLOW UP II, Museum of Art|Fort Collins, Fort Collins, Colorado;
2021 Crazy, D’art Chiostro Del Bramante, Rome, Italy;
BLOW UP II, Dennis Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan;
BLOW UP II, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan;
2020 BLOW UP II, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, USA;
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.