Markus Vater (born 1970 in Düsseldorf ) is a German artist. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Royal College of Art , London . From 2012 to 2016 he had been teaching at the Royal College of Art in London . In 2014 he had a guestprofessorship at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and as of 2016 at the de:Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe. Vater lives in London and Karlsruhe.
2016 "In einer anderen Sprache bin ich ein anderer Mensch", Orangerie Schloss Rheda Wiedenbrueck, Kunstverein Bleichhaeuschen, Rheda Wiedenbrueck 2015 "I imagine how You imagine I imagine You", Galerie Rupert Pfab, Duesseldorf 2014 "Wogegen ist eigentlich die Gegenwart?", Kunstverein Rostock, Rostock 2013 "Die Unendlichkeit ist auch nicht mehr was sie mal war", Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim 2013 "..at the end of the world", No.82, Deptford, London 2010 "Das Metapherproblem", Spot on 05, Animated-Installation, Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf 2009 "Heute denke ich mich in ein Blatt hinein", Rudolf Scharpf Galerie des Wilhelm Hack Museums, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2008 "Briefe an die Schmetterlinge", Sies+Hoeke Galerie, Düsseldorf 2007 "At the end of the world", art agents gallery, Hamburg 2006 Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf 2005 agents gallery, Hamburg 2004 Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf 2002 "The Dandileon-fairy-mass-suicide", Vilma Gold Gallery, London 2002_At the end of the world_, Escale, Düsseldorf 2002 "Drawings and Films", Sies + Höke Gallerie, Düsseldorf 2000 "The Hans Albers Project", SITE Ausstellungsraum, Düsseldorf 1998 "her hands smell of architecture", Ginsa, Tokio 1997 "Malerei", Galerie Geviert, Berlin 1997 "Vaterboy leckt Mutterboy (mein Gehirn sagt Guten Tag)", Mehrwert, Aachen 1996 "Wir tarnen uns für die Sintflut", Galerie 102, Düsseldorf 1996 "Büro für konkrete Symmetrie", Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund 2016 "HOW TO FIND TRUE LOVE AND HAPPINESS IN THE PRESENT DAY" at Bikini Berlin, Germany 2016 "ORBITAL EXPLORER"at Kulturforum Alte Post ,Staedtische Galerie Neuss, Germany 2016 "1. – 21. Mai 2016, Griffelkunst e.V. zur 361. und 362. Bilderwahl Editions" at Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg e.V.,Hamburg 2015 "In Schoenheit auferstehen", Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin 2015 "A man walks into a bar...", me Collectors Room, Berlin 2014 "Equal goes it loose", News of the world, Enclave, Deptford, london 2014 "Hands" invited by Sven Sachsalber, Museion, Bozen, Italy 2013 " Die Woerter in den vier Ecken", Kunstbunker, Ausstellungsraum fuer zeitgenoessische Kunst, Nuernberg 2013 "Video Weekends", Works out of the Museums Collection, Museum Kunstpalast, Duesseldorf 2013 "Drawing Bienale", Drawingroom, London 2012 "I love Aldi", Wilhelm Hack Museums, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2012 "A Perfect day" at WestergasFabrik, Amsterdam 2011 "Der Menschenklee", KIT, Kunsthalle Duesseldorf, Mannesmannufer, Düsseldorf 2010 "Linea,Line,Linie", Kunstmuseum Bonn, an exhibition of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen 2010 "Shudder", Drawingroom, London 2009 "Rank" curated by Alistar Robinson, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland 2008 "Vertrautes terrain", " Streng verdaulich", curated by Ludwig Seyfarth and Gregor Jansen, ZKM, Museum fuer Neue Kunst 2007 Black Mountain, Hans Schulte und Markus Vater, Museum Baden, Solingen 2007 frisch gestrichen, Franz Gertsch Museum, Schweiz 2006 Metropolis Rise: New Art from London,798 Art District,Chaoyang District, Beijing 2005 Goethe Abwaerts, Deutsche Jungs etc.,The Falckenberg Collection, Helsinki City Art Museum Meilahti, Helsinki, Finnland 2005 SV05, Selected by Enrico David and Catherine Wood, Studio Voltaire ,London 2005 "Direct painting", Kunsthalle Mannhein, Mannheim 2004 "Year Zero",Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England 2004 "Malerei", Galerie Schoettle, Munich 2003 "The theory of everything", with hobbypopMuseum, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, rue des Haudriette, Paris 2001 "Death to the fascist insect...", Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London 2000 "Paintings", Timothy Taylor Gallery, London 2000 [working-title], Stanley Pricker Gallery, Kingston 1999 "Live Marslandung",Videoinstallation,hobbypopMUSEUM Düsseldorf 1998 "Keep on Riding , volkstümliche Malerei ", Forum Kunst, Rottweil 1996 "Drive In ", Hansaallee, Düsseldorf 1996 "Good News ", Galerie 102, Düsseldorf 
