Nora Kapfer *1984, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin

Exhibitions
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    2026

    • Cricket Music, Matthew Brown, New York group
    • Flowers in a box, Misako and Rosen, Tokyo group
    • Image as Trace II, Brunette Coleman, London group
    • The Double, Hanna Hur, Nora Kapfer, B. Ingrid Olson, Dracula’s Revenge, New York group
    • Through Their Eyes, The Pier Arts Centre Collection and the unfolding Asprey gift, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney group

    2025

    • Durée, curated by Reilly Davidson, Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Vienna group

    2024

    • Pretty Serious Stuff, Edouard Montassut, Paris solo
    • Hoi Köln ! Part 3 : Nightmare of Painting, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne group

    2023

    • Jahresgaben, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn group
    • Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München, Munich group
    • Hoi Köln!,  Part 1: Welcoming the Space, Kunstverein Kölnischer, Cologne group
    • Various Small Paintings, Lore Deutz, Cologne group
    • Deux deviennent deux, (with Tonio Kröner), Cento Gallery, Glasgow solo
    • the loan takers, Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin group

    2022

    • Flatlands, Gregor Staiger, Zurich group
    • FriArt Kunsthalle, Fribourg solo
    • Dwellings, Rothschild & Co, Zurich group
    • Les beaux jours, C L E A R I N G, Brussels group
    • Identity not proven, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn group
    • Chloe Elgie, Stefano Faoro, Carl Mannov, Dana Munro, Nora Kapfer, Caravan, Oslo group

    2021

    • Jahresgaben 2021, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg group
    • Parts, The Wig, Berlin group
    • Recent Paintings, Édouard Montassut, Paris solo

    2020

    • Come a Time, Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin solo
    • A House is not a Home, FriArt Kunsthalle, Fribourg group

    2019

    • A Home is not a House, FriArt Kunsthalle, Fribourg group
    • Sunvault, Studioli, Rome group
    • Gertrude, Loggia, Munich group

    2018

    • Whistle and I'll Come to You, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz group
    • Half a zip. Half a pow, Nousmoules, Vienna solo
    • Celluloid Brush, Etablissment d’en face, Brussels group
    • Daisy Chained, Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin solo

    2017

    • Il Nouvo III, Etablissement d’en face, Brussels group
    • Pump, Riverside, Bern group
    • Love’s Labour’s Lost, Loggia, Munich solo
    • Tjigger Fjun, Panicz, Ostende group
    • New Tar, WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels solo
    • Birke Gorm, Nora Kapfer, Jean Marc Routhier, Real Positive, Cologne group

    2016

    • Micro Celebrities 2, Just Married, Brussels group
    • Overseas BF, Glovebox, Auckland group
    • And wiza woiza, Garret Grimoire, Berlin solo

    2015

    • New Needs, Haus Wittmann, Etsdorf am Kamp group
    • Elevation of the Common Woman, Muda Mura Muri, Vienna group
    • Interrupted Meals, Garret Grimoire, Vienna group

    2014

    • P.O.N.Y., Mars@Ohringboutique, Munich solo

    2013

    • Parallel Fair, HHDM, Vienna group
    • Ready for the Beach, Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof, Vienna group
    • Herbst Salon, Galerie Deborah Schamoni, Munich group
    • Journal de la Cité des Dames, Nousmoules, Vienna solo
    • Body Apart, Vesch, Vienna solo

    2012

    • Mr and Mrs Chow, The Chow Mansion, Penang group
    • Kumulus, (with Signe Rose), Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna solo
    • jeanjeannjeanne.blogspot.com, deuxpiece, Basel group
    • Futuregarden Biennale, Vienna group
    • Die / Der Würfel / Le dé, Coco, Vienna group
    • Pubic Republic, L’Ocean Licker, Vienna group

    2011

    • Modeling Agency, Sixtyeight Art Institute, Copenhagen group
    • Coca Braun Show, Fotogram, Amsterdam group

    2010

    • Boris #4, Kunstverein München, Munich group

    2009

    • Boris neue deutsche Fotografie, Weltraum, Munich group

    2008

    • Young Talents, Galerie Dina Renninger, Munich group

Education

  • 2015 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna
    2010 Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich

Publications

  • Nora Kapfer, Tonio Kröner, "Deux deviennent deux". Published by: David Jourdan. Vienna: Westphalie Verlag, 2025

  • KLITTERN (aesopica). Published by: "Bruch", Brüssel: Publication Studio, 2024

  • Nora Kapfer 17–22. Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg. Published by Nicolas Brulhart, 2022

  • Identität nicht nachgewiesen: Neuerwerbungen der Sammlung des Bundes. Published by: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2022

  • Nora Kapfer, "Artist Lecture Series Vienna". Published by Ezara Spangl and Rainer Spangl. Vienna, 2019

  • Postapocalyptic Self-Reflection. Published by: Laura Preston und Tanja Widman. Vienna: Westphalie Verlag, 2019

Selected Press

Collections

  • Graphic Collection, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna
    Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
    Pier Arts Centre Collection, Orkney

  • The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas