Tobias Rehberger

Tobias Rehberger was born in 1966 in Esslingen, Germany, and currently lives and works in Frankfurt. He received his MFA at Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Staedelschule in Frankfurt where he has been a professor since 2001.

He has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe, including solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Whitechapel Gallery, London, the Museu Serralves, Porto, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. He has participated in group exhibitions such as The Quick and the Dead at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2009, Wouldn’t it be Nice…Wishful Thinking in Art and Design, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich in 2008, and Space for Your Future at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo in 2007. He also participated in the Venice Biennale in 1997, 2003, and 2009. In 2009 Rehberger was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for best artist at the 53rd Venice Biennale. His work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s Hirshbron Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. He is represented by Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York, Neugerriemschneider Gallery in Berlin, and Galerie Barbel Grasslin in Frankfurt.