Michael Wolf
Born in 1954 in Munchen.
Lives & works in Hong Kong and Paris.
EXHIBITIONS
2014
- BindWalls - Paris roofTops, La Galerie Particulière, Paris
- Eyes on the Street, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA
- The rush Calm, Moments in the City, Fotomuseum den Haag, La Haye, The Nederlands
- Privat / Privacy, Schirn Kunsthalle, Francfort
- Web on the Wall, Robert Koch Gallery, New York
- The Photographers 2014, Beetles+Huxley Gallery, London
- About Portraits, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, The Nederlands
- Vichy Portait(s), Festival de Vichy, France
- The Real Toy Story, chi K11 art space, Shangaï
- Hong Kong Trilogy, 25 Books, Berlin
- Architecture of Density, Flowers Central , London
- Small God, Big City, M97 Gallery, Shangaï
- My Favourite Thing, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, The Nederlands
- Paris Abstract, Robert Koch Gallery, New York
- Perduti nel paesaggio, Mart Rovereto, Rovereto, Italia
- Urban Spirit, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich
2013
- Archicture of Density, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
- Small God, Big City, 25 Books, Berlin
- Industrial Architecture, M97 Gallery, Shangaï
- Von A bis Z, Ruhr Museum, Essen
- Parallax, M97 Gallery, Shangaï
2012
- Bottrop Ebel 76, 25 Books, Berlin
- von sinnen: wahrnehmung in der zeitgenoessischen kunst», Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
- Street View Portraits, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
- Total City, IVAM, Valence, Spain
- Public: collective identity | occupied spaces, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art,
Toronto
- Making History, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Francfort
- Hong Kong and shenzhen biennial of urbanism/architecture, Hong Kong
- The Near and Elsewhere, PM Gallery, Londres
- Davos Art Exhibition, meeting of the world economic, Davos Switzerland
- Bamboo Theater Exhibition: Portraits of cantonese opera singers, Museum M+, Hong Kong
- Highrise: Idea and Reality, Museum of Design, Zurich
- Virtual Identities, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Fiorenza
2011
- Prix Pictet : Growth : Gallery of Photography, Dublin ; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington Arteversum, Dusseldorf ; Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan ; galerie Christophe Guye, Zurich ; Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Grèce ; Passage de Retz, Paris
- Untitled, Flowers Central , London
- Fotodoks, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich
- Life in Cities, Galerie Christophe Guye, Zurich
- Infinite Balance: Artists and the Environment, Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego
- Real Fake Art / Tokyo Compression Revisited – 25 books, Berlin
- Cities: Visionary Places, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
- Metropolis. city life in the urban age 2011, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, The Nederlands
- sifest #20, Savignano Immagini, Savignana Sul Rubicone, Italia
- sh contemporary, Shanghai
- Life in Cities, Gun Gallery, Stockholm
- Hail Traveler!, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York
- Summer in the City, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
- NY Temporary: the City through Photography, Film and Video, Museum Center of Photography, New York
- Street Photography Now, Uno Art Space, Stuttgart
- 10 years, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
- Metropolis, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
- I’m watching you, Elipsis Gallery, Istanbul
- Fear in the City, Monnaie de Paris, Paris
- Tokyo Compression, Forum für Fotografie, Koln
2010
- We are watching You, La Galerie Particulière, Paris
- I see you, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York
- Paris Street View, Hong Kong, Goethe Institut
- 12 ème Biennale Internationale d’Architecture, Venise, Pavillon de Hong Kong
- Paris Street View/Tokyo Subway Dreams, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
- Paris Street View/Tokyo Subway Dreams, Gallery 51 Fine Art, Anvers
- Life in cities, M97 Gallery, Shanghai
2009
«Transparent City/Architecture of Density»
- La Galerie Particulière, Paris
- Julie Saul Gallery, New York
- Atelier Elipsis, Istanbul
- Entropy Art, Naples
- Aperture Gallery, New York
- Gallery Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
- Gallery 51 Fine Art, Anvers
- Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago
- Landscape as Dream (Group show), Studio la Citta, Verone
2008
- Transparent City, Museum for Contemporary Photography, Chicago
- Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
- Hong Kong Back Door, Lumenvisum Gallery, Hong Kong
- The Real Toy Story/Architecture of Density, China Design Now, London
- Eastern Standard, Western Artists in China, Mass MoCA, North Adams,USA
- Herita ge, Hong Kong Corner Houses, Goethe Institute, Hong Kong
- Real Fake Pictures/Architecture of Density, Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
2007
- Pieces of China - A Retrospective of Michael Wolf’s China Projects (catalog), Museum Center, Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland
- Two Photographers in a Dialog : Architecture of Density, with Stephen Canham’s, Traveling Gypsie’s Homes, Hallische Gallerien, Dresden
- Real Fake Art/100 x 100, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
- China Projects/100 x 100, Real Fake Art, The Real Toy Story, M97 Gallery, Shanghai
- Fake ? Portraits of Chinese Copy Art, Goethe Institute, Hong Kong,
- Hong Kong Industrial, Ursula Huber Gallery, Basel
- New Urban Vistas, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
2006
- Architecture of Density/Architecture of Work, Art Fair Kunst Zürich, Gallery Huber, Zürich
- Gallery 51 Fine Art, Paris Photo, Paris
- Artspace 1918 (exposition de groupe), Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
- 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing
- Janet Oh Gallery, Séoul
- Hasted-Hunt Gallery, New York
- Artspace 1918, Shanghai
- Architecture of Density/China Copy Artists, Gallery 51 Fine Art, Antwerp
- 100 x 100, Gallery of the Goethe Institute, Hong Kong
- Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, Corée
- Gallery Laif, Cologne, Germany
- The Real Toy Story, Museum for Work, Hambourg, Germany
- Hong Kong Architecture, Robert Koch Gallery, AIPAD, New York
- Sitting in China», Kap Forum, Cologne, Germany
- New Work from Hong Kong, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
2005
«Architecture of Density»
- Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
- Robert Koch Gallery, Art Basel, Bâle
- Ping Yao Photography Festival, Ping Yao, China
- Useful, Cute and Collected. The Photographed Animal, Museum Folkwang, Essen
- Hong Kong : Front Door/Back Door, Galerie Colette, Paris
2004
- Truth! - Photographyies Promise of Reality, Ruhland Museum, Essen, Germany
- The Real Toy Story, John Batten Gallery, Hong Kong
2003
- Sitting in China, Kestner Museum, Hanovre
2000
- Peking Shanghai Shenzhen : Cities of the 21st century, Bauhaus Museum, Germany
CATALOGS
2013
- Hong Kong trilogy, Pepperoni books, 2013
2012
- Tokyo Compression - III, Peperoni Books
- Samall Gods Big City, Peperoni Books
- Bottrop Eeel 1976, Peperoni Books
2011
- Tokyo Compression - revisited, Peperoni Books
- Tokyo Compression, Peperoni Books
- Portraits, Superlabo
- Fy, Peperoni Books
- Real Fake Art, Peperoni Books
- Hong Kong Corner Houses, Hong Kong University Press
2010
- A series of Unfortunate Events, Peperoni Books
- Growth, Prix Pictet, Teneues Verlag
COLLECTIONS
- La Monnaie de Paris, France
- The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York
- Brooklyn Museum, New York
- San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
- Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
- Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
- Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond
- German Museum for Architecture, Frankfurt, Germany