Patrick Ostrowsky
Patrick Ostrowsky
born 1991 in Schwandorf, Germany, lives and works in Munich / Switzerland
Patrick Ostrowsky combines sculpture, object, painting and installation based on a critical exploration of (temporary) architecture and natural spaces, of material and ritual. He is concerned with sculpture and its relation to space, its function and interface with architecture and design; the theories of Minimal Art, Post Minimal Art and Land Art enter his work in many ways. The artist examines the dichotomous tensions between residual nature and technology, past and future, center and border, form and anti-form. Guided by material aspects of places and phenomena of abstract imprints into urban landscape, he is concerned with transferring structures of urban life and strategies of temporary architecture to sculpture.
Vita
Master class, Institute Art Gender Nature HGK, FHNW with Chus Martinez and Filipa Ramos, Basel, CH
Diploma, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich, DE
Master Student of Prof. Florian Pumhösl
Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich, DE
Prof. Florian Pumhösl
Department of Sculpture, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT
Prof. Hans Schabus
Accademia di Belle Arti Roma, Rome, IT
Academy of Fine Arts Munich, DE
Prof. Jorinde Voigt, Kerstin Brätsch, Anne Imhof
Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich, DE
Prof. Gerhard Merz, Prof. Franz Wanner
History of Art, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, DE
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
un-hold, Britta Rettberg, Munich, DE
BENCHER w/ softcement, paraply, Copenhagen, DK
urban ghosts, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
delémont shows, ADW11, Basel, CH
ny drawings, fulton st 1600, Brooklyn NY, US
unrest, Britta Rettberg, Munich, DE
benching, Cobertizo, Jilotepec, MX
A Home, Patrick Ostrowsky @park, Various Others 2023, Britta Rettberg, Munich, DE
PAST LIFE, Patrick Ostrowsky @park, Britta Rettberg, Munich, DE
unkultiviert, Britta Rettberg, Munich, DE
new entries, Lingotto, Torino, IT
Won’t Come Home Today, Degree Show, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, DE
in your face (with Benedikt Gahl), Britta Rettberg, Munich, DE
weeklyissues No.8 – The boundaries of good taste, Fructa.Space, Munich, DE
if you see her, say hello, Galleri Fisk, Bergen, NOR
I walked around the plaza with my shoes off, City Hall for culture, Lichtensteig, CH
BURNING!, DOGO, Lichtensteig, CHE
Paulusplatz 5, Institute of Sculpture, Vienna, AT
Housing as a sculptural process, Raum 21 A.EG, Munich, DE
object/double, Goldberg Galerie, Munich, DE
fountains (landart project), Nissoria, Sicily, IT
object/double, Goldberg Galerie, Munich, DE
fountains (landart project), Nissoria, Sicily, IT
Group Exhibitions (selection)
Regionale ’27, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel, CH (Upcoming)
JAHRESGABEN, Kunstverein München, Munich, DE (Upcoming)
RING RING RING, Baumstraße 8b, Munich, DE
play_ground, paraply, Copenhagen, DK
ONE NIGHT ONLY, Britta Rettberg, Munich, DE
exhausted ghosts and storage problems, neimënster, Luxembourg, LUX
JAHRESGABEN, stretcher and ADW11, Basel, CH
OBJECTIV, Casa del Console, curated by Margherita Martini (Blue Velvet Projects, Zurich), Calice Ligure,
IT
Bonimentheureuses – Regional 25, La Kunsthalle, Centre d’art Contemporain Mulhouse, FR
Opus MAGNUM, Britta Rettberg, Munich, DE
Passage, TIP – Theory in Practice, Munich, DE
HOMIE, Duo Show, Kebbelvilla, Schwandorf, DE
LISTENING, Schafhof, Europäisches Kunstforum Oberbayern, Freising, DE
El Gran Grito, Diploma exhibition Bachelor and Master Institute Art Gender Nature HGK Basel FHNW,
Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH
ENERGIE:ENERGEIA, DELPHI_space/außenstelle, Freiburg, DE
GLÜHEN, Kösk, Munich, DE
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Munich, DE
MIND≈BODY≈MATTER, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich, DE
TACKER, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich, DE
IN SITU PARADISE, 1. Lindau Biennale, Lindau, DE
The milk of dreams, Mini Group Show, Venice Biennale, IT
Summer Show, Britta Rettberg, Munich, DE
Relational Bodies – Young Talent Award City of Munich, fructa.space, Munich, DE
Stasi Frenetica, Artissima Unplugged, Palazzo Madama, Torino, IT
SENSORY SPACES, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich, DE
Junge Kunst, Städtische Galerie Eichenmüllerhaus, Lemgo, DE
VEE, Hof Froh Ussicht, Samstagern, Zurich, CH
DOGO TOTALE, Dogo Residenz für Neue Kunst, Lichtensteig, CH
My issues are sweeter than yours, edel.extra, Nuremberg, DE
Perronpreis, Municipal Museum, Frankenthal, DE
SPARDA Ostbayern, Municipal Museum, Amberg, DE
Kunsthalle(n) Toggenburg, City Hall for Culture, Lichtensteig, CH
citizen, an activity, CoMA, Munich, DE
L’affiso mi piace, Interzone Gallery, Rome, IT
From Romania with Love, Vordere Zollamtstaße, Vienna, AT
Zimmerfrei 17, Hotel Mariandl, Munich, DE
Boxenstop I, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE
Koordinaten, Alter Wasserturm, Dachau, DE
16:13, MACRO di Testaccio, Rome, IT
Eloquentia, CAM Art Gallery, Rome, IT
Omnibus 3000, Galerie der Künstler, BBK Munich, DE
Ich hab noch nie eine Ananas gemalt, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, DE
Deplaced, Salon Kennedy, Frankfurt, DE
Kunsthoch 43, Universität der Künste, Berlin, DE
Komödie der Vereinfachungen, Kunstarkaden, Munich, DE
This is why art is great, offspace, Amalienstraße Munich, DE
Pauls Appartment, offspace, Zweibrückenstraße Munich, DE
Schwellenländer, Farbenladen, Munich, DE
Ersten Fünf, Glockenbachwerkstatt, Munich, DE
Orgeln, collaboration with Lotte Lindner and Till Steinbrenner, Akademiegalerie, Munich, DE
Ersten Fünf, Glockenbachwerkstatt, München, DE
Orgeln, Kollaboration mit Lotte Lindner und Till Steinbrenner, Akademiegalerie, München, DE
Ersten Fünf, Glockenbachwerkstatt, München, DE
Orgeln, Kollaboration mit Lotte Lindner und Till Steinbrenner, Akademiegalerie, München, DE
Awards / Grants
USA Scholarship of the State of Bavaria
DAAD Research Grant, CHE
Scholarship Young -art, Bayern Innovativ
Catalogue Funding, Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art
Catalogue Funding, City of Nuremberg
Catalogue Funding, LfA Förderbank Bayern
Debutant Award, City of Nuremberg and Kunsthaus Nuremberg
Studio Scholarship by the State of Bavaria, Munich
Project Funding, Artist Book, Won’t come home today, LfA Förderbank Bayern
Emerging Artist Award, City of Munich with Kunstclub 13
Project funding, Erwin und Gisela von Steiner foundation
Debutant Funding, BBK Nuremberg
Sparda-Bank Kunstpreis Ostbayern by the City of Amberg, DE
Project award for the exhibition Boxenstop I, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE
Project award for the exhibition Boxenstop I, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE
Residencies
Artist in Residency, VCCA, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, US
Artist in Residency, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
Artist in Residency, Neimënster, Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg, LUX
Artist in Residency, Cobertuzo, Jilotepec, MEX
Artist in Residence, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, AT
Artist in Residence, Sasso Residency, Vairano, Ticino, CH
Artist in Residence, Dogo Residenz für Neue Kunst, Lichtensteig, CH
Artist in Residence, Casa di Pantò, Nissoria, IT
Artist in Residence, Cittadellarte University of Ideas; Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, IT
Artist in Residence, Casa di Pantò, Nissoria, IT
Artist in Residence, Cittadellarte University of Ideas; Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, IT
Artist in Residence, Casa di Pantò, Nissoria, IT
Artist in Residence, Cittadellarte University of Ideas; Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, IT
Artist in Residence, Casa di Pantò, Nissoria, IT
Artist in Residence, Cittadellarte University of Ideas; Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, IT
Publications
Exhausted Ghosts and Storage Problems, Neimënster, Luxembourg, LUX
ghosts, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
homie, with Kateřina Dobroslava Drahošová, Kebbel Villa, Schwandorf, DE
“unkultiviert. sculptural positions”, Britta Rettberg, Munich, DE
„Won‘t Come Home Today“, diploma, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich, DE
“unkultiviert. sculptural positions”, Britta Rettberg, Munich, DE
„Won‘t Come Home Today“, diploma, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich, DE
Selected Works
Patrick Ostrowsky
sometimes you gotta close a door to open a window, 2024
Patrick Ostrowsky
Structures of Existence, 2024
Patrick Ostrowsky
relief #6 (solicitous), 2024
Patrick Ostrowsky
lines of spring, 2024
Patrick Ostrowsky
new monuments for Munich (Hochhaus), 2020
Selected Exhibitions
Patrick Ostrowsky
un-hold
18 09 2026 – 31 10 2026
Patrick Ostrowsky
unrest
04 05 2024 – 15 06 2024
Patrick Ostrowsky
unkultiviert.
19 03 2021 – 29 04 2021
Patrick Ostrowsky
A Home @park (Various Others 2023)
09 09 2023 – 21 10 2023
