Monday Shrimp Club Dolphin Diary

The artist's book »Monday Shrimp Club Dolphin Diary" by Christoph Knecht describes Christian Herrndorf (deputy head of the local editorial office of the Rheinische Post, Düsseldorf) very aptly as follows:

»Düsseldorf has a tradition of single-making. Cabaret after the Second World War – the “Kom(m)ödchen” has made easy. Punk in the 70s – the Ratinger Hof has made easy. Art around 2015 – the Monday Club Shrimp makes easy. Over the club evenings of living in Dusseldorf artists perform Christoph Knecht, Florian false and Martin Denker at some point to the computer and make it easy. They are distinguished dolphins – funny, wild, charming, kitschy, philosophically. They improvise, let the other room for solos, grow together and reduce the other, where it needs to be. They are also punks and jazz musicians of art. The best part: What fascinated observers of this arose live art has, in the book, which will appear in the SALZ-Verlag, lost none of its power and madness – as a very rare, because really good live album.«

About the artist

Christoph Knecht

1983 born in Karlsruhe
lives and works in Düsseldorf

2004 – 2012 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Meisterschüler of Prof. Peter Doig
2009 – 2010 Chengdu Fine Arts College of SCCM, Chengdu, CN
2011 Royal Academy of Arts, London

since 2012 teaching assignment for painting, Institute of Fine Arts, TU Dortmund

Grants / Awards

2013
Van Bommel van Dam Prize
Jurgen Ponto Scholarship
Bronner Residency, Tel Aviv

2012
Georg-Meistermann-Grant

2010
A.T. Kearney Art in the office artist scholarship

2009
RölfsPartner art award
Artist in residency of the Wang Chen Yun - Foundation, Mumashan Studios, Mumashan, P.R. China

2008
2nd prize of the XVth German International Triennial of Graphic Art

2007-2012
Scholarship of the Cusanuswerk, Bonn

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Solo Exhibitions

2014
Fortuna, Studio John & Joe presents, Düsseldorf (mit Rafram Chaddad)

2013
Monday Shrimp Club, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf

2012
von der Nützlichkeit des Unbrauchbaren, Bruch & Dallas, Cologne
Christoph Knecht, Kunstverein Bretten

2010
Ken Ding, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany (with Yu Ziwei)

2009
Shuangliu, Shuangliu, Mumashan Studios, Chengdu, CN

2008
Christoph Knecht / Gerd und Uwe Tobias, Artleib, Düsseldorf (with Gerd and Uwe Tobias

Group Exhibitions (Extract)

2014
A glorious gift, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
Reality Sandwich, Van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne
Der Traum des Kolibri, Galerie Luis Campaña, Berlin
Paul Pretzer, Christoph Knecht, Stefan Lenke, ATELIER Seidel / Geiss, Leipzig

2013
HIPPIEJUMP, Mintrop 8, Düsseldorf
Stelldichein, Bruch&Dallas, Cologne
Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (NL)
Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie (of Wilhelm-Hack-Museum), Ludwigshafen

2012
Sunday Park, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf
Single im Juli, Single Club, Düsseldorf
THE REALITY OF THE UNBUILT, Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Neuss
richtig schön aber falsch ist auch schön, Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt am Main

2011
Zwiefach, Forum Kunst, Rottweil
Roter Milan, Hawerkamphalle, Münster
Schwarzwald, Dominikanermuseum, Rottweil

2010
Retourkutsche, Künstlerverein Maerz, Linz, AT
Landschaften, Städtisches Kaufhaus Leipzig
You can leave your head on, Schmelahaus, Düsseldorf
Artleib / Die Editionen, Artleib, Düsseldorf

2009
Rundblick, Temporary Gallery Cologne, Cologne
Concrete Spaceroom 4, Blueroof Gallery, Chengdu, CN
First Chongqing Biennal for the Young Artists, International Exhibition Center, Chongqing, CN
Inventur, Etching in Germany, Picasso Museum Münster
RölfsPartner Kunsttage, KIT Düsseldorf

2008
Gottesraum, art award of the Erzdiözese Freiburg, Morat Institut Freiburg
Interchange, Exhibition space of the Aichi Prefectual University of Fine Arts, Nagoya, JP
1001 Bild, Villa de Bank, Enschede, NL
Mischanlage von Dr. Urlaub, Zeche Zollverein, Essen
XVth German International Triennial of Graphic Art, Kunstverein Frechen
Spiegelbild, KIT Düsseldorf
Inventur. Etching in Germany, Kunstverein Reutlingen
Picasso Museum Münster
Unterholz, Dina4 Projekte, Berlin

2007
61. Bergische Kunstausstellung, Museum Baden, Solingen
first view, Kunsthalle Erfurt
Porno total Illegal - für eine Liebe, Meyerhof, Vienna, AT
the great show, open studios, Cologne
Grafik, Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf

SALZ Verlag