David Ostrowski

David Ostrowski
David Ostrowski, F (A thing is a thing in a whole which it’s not), 2013, Oil and lacquer on canvas, 94½ x 74¾ inches
Born	1981 (1981)^[1] Cologne
Nationality	German
Education	Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Known for	Painting
Movement	Contemporary art
Website	david-ostrowski.com

Work

In his paintings, Ostrowski uses a restricted range of materials from his studio, including canvas, primer, emulsion, spray paint, and found objects like paper, cardboard, and tape. The works are often monochrome and characterized by a process that combines intuitive gestures with elements of chance and error.^[6] Ostrowski’s approach avoids traditional pictorial conventions and his paintings are often left open to interpretation, with titles such as F suggesting ambiguity.^[7] Ostrowski’s work has been described to focus on the exploration of emptiness within the context of painting.^[8]

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Solo Exhibitions

2025: Let me put it this way, Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe, China^[10]
2024: Parliament, Sprüth Magers, New York^[11]
2023: Leeres Wasser (Anti Drawings), Fig., Tokyo^[12]
2024: Concerned with things as their own composition, Ramiken, New York^[13]
2021: So kalt kann es nicht sein / It can't be that cold, Sprüth Magers, Berlin^[14]
2020: Lady Helen, Lady Helen, London (with Angharad Williams)^[15]
2020: POGŁOS / OVERTONE, Avant-Garde Institute, Warsaw (with Tobias Spichtig)^[16]
2020: Lieber Nackt als Gefühlsleben, Jir Sandel, Copenhagen^[17]
2020: Menschen, Bilder, Emotionen / 사람, 그림, 감정, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul^[18]
2019: Political Paintings, Sundogs, Paris^[19]
2019: Political Correction, Piece Unique, Cologne
2018: The Thin Red Line, Sprüth Magers, London^[20]
2018: The Warsaw Pavilion, Wschód, Warsaw^[21]
2017: DONT, Halle 9 Kirowwerk, Leipzig^[22]
2017: Bei mir geht es in den Keller hoch, Blueproject Foundation [ca], Barcelona^[23]
2016: To Lose, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum [de], Düren (with Michail Pirgelis)^[24]
2015: The F Word, Arken Museum, Copenhagen^[25]
2015: I want to die Forever, Kunstraum Innsbruck^[26]
2014: How To Do Things Left, Rubell Museum, Miami^[27]
2014: Just do it, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin^[28]
2013: F, Artothek [de], Cologne^[29]

Group Exhibitions

2023: The Sky is Thin. Drawings, Standard Oslo^[30]
2023: Watercolours, Chapter III, XYZcollective, Tokyo^[31]
2022: Tiere, Catherine Zeta, Cologne^[32]
2021: NOTHINGTOSEENESS, Akademie der Künste, Berlin^[8]

2021: architektura, Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne^[33]
2020: One Moment Please, Triest, New York^[34]
2020: Who am I - VOL I, Mélange, Cologne^[35]
2020: Il Ghirigoro, Pio Pico, Los Angeles^[36]
2019: Dicke Luft, Galerie Bernhard, Zurich^[37]
2019: Bad Actors, KARST, Plymouth^[38]
2019: RAW, DuMont Kunsthalle, Cologne^[39]
2019: 3 Zimmer, Küche, Bad, Braunsfelder, Cologne^[40]
2018: TRANCE, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut ^[41]
2017: Bild des Tages, plət, Amsterdam
2017: THE ART SHOW – Art of the New Millennium, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma^[42]
2016: Fasi Lunari, Fondazione Carriero, Milan^[43]
2015: Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism, M Woods Museum, Beijing^[44]
2014: Ordinary Freaks, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz^[45]
2014: Beware Wet Paint, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London^[46]

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Public collections

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The works of David Ostrowski are held, among others, in the following public collections:

Aïshti Collection, Beirut^[10]
Arken Museum Collection, Copenhagen^[10]
Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne^[47]
Colección Jumex, Mexico City^[48]
Danjuma Collection, London
De la Cruz Collection, Miami^[49]
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin^[10]
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles^[10]
Louis Vuitton Collection, Paris^[10]
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles^[50]
Moderna Museet, Stockholm^[51]
Museum of Old and New Art, Berriedale
Olbricht Collection, Berlin
Rubell Museum, Miami^[52]
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Sammlung Scharpff, Bonn
Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
Syz Collection, Switzerland^[53]
Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo^[54]
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv
Zabludowicz Collection, London

Bibliography

Leeres Wasser (Anti Drawings), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2023. ISBN 978-3-7533-0450-2
Concerned with things as their own composition, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2023. ISBN 978-3-7533-0372-7
Chuzpe, Weinspach, Cologne, 2021
So kalt kann es nicht sein / It can’t be that cold, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2021. ISBN 978-3-7533-0092-4
Poglos / Overtone (with Tobias Spichtig), Avant-Garde Institute, Warsaw, 2021
Time & Life (with Magnus Frederik Clausen), Jir Sandel, Copenhagen, 2021. ISBN 978-87-92332-12-7
Menschen, Bilder, Emotionen, Leeahn Gallery / Sprüth Magers, Seoul, 2020. ISBN 9788995924846
3 Zimmer, Küche, Bad (with Andreas Schulze, Sophie von Hellermann), Braunsfelder, Cologne, 2019. ISBN 978-3-947839-07-0
I strongly object, Weinspach, Cologne, 2019. ISBN 978-3-9819124-4-9
The thin red line, Mousse Publishing, London, 2018. ISBN 978-88- 6749-366-1
DON’T/Conscious Decadence (with Nan Goldin & Galileo Chini), Halle 9 Kirowwerk, Leipzig, 2018
Nothing Happened / To Lose (with Michail Pirgelis), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2018. ISBN 978-3-86335-985-0
I want to die Forever, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2018. ISBN 978-3-86335-896-9
The F Word, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, 2015. ISBN 978-8-7787-5104-1
How to do things left, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, 2014. ISBN 978-0991177035
Even the most beautiful woman ends at her feet, Meurer Verlag, Cologne, 2013. ISBN 978-3-940312-04-4
F Paintings, Peres Projects, Berlin, 2013. ISBN 978-3-00-044189-9
Dann lieber nein, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, 2012
Ostrowski, David / Randt, Leif: Shake Your Tree, Nr. 4, Berlin, 2012
Die Lügnerin (with Philip Seibel), FORMAT:C, Düsseldorf, 2011
Hulk vs. Hulk (with David Fintrop), Acapulco, Düsseldorf, 2007

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