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The Harboring, 2024, oil, pigments and distemper on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
The Shy One, 2025, pigments and distemper on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
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The Assertive, 2025, pigments and distemper on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
The Reliant, 2025, oil, pigments and distemper on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
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The finest things thrive in dirt, 2023, oil, pigments and distemper on canvas, 50 x 59 cm
Flowers never pick themselves, 2021, ink on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
Untitled, 2025, pigments and distemper on linen, 30,5 x 23 cm
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The Insuring, 2025, pigments and distemper on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
Untitled, 2025, oil, pigments and distemper on polyester and wood, 25,5 x 20 cm
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Untitled, 2025, pigments and distemper on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
Granny‘s U.F.O., 2021, ink on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
MISTRESS OF GOOD ADVICE
On sultry Sunday evenings,
faithful only to yourself
we tell many stories with many endings
Lightning in the summer rain maintain facades,
everything is fleeting lalalalalala
You, or maybe not You
All flowers wilt differently,
all of them are good at keeping secrets, and they never pick themselves
Paula Kamps
PAULA KAMPS
Born 1990, lives and works in Cologne and Chicago
EDUCATION
2015 – 2016 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Elizabeth Peyton
2015 Meisterschülerin with Tomma Abts Kunstakademie
2010 – 2012 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Lucy McKenzie
2009 – 2010 Freie Universität Berlin, Philosophy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 My Neighbor’s Flowers, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich 2024 Word of Honor, M.LeBlanc, Chicago
2022 Cold Customs, Eastcontemporary, Milano Art-O-Rama, presented by Sans Titre, Marseille
Shoot the Moon, Mou Projects, Hongkong
2021 Rain or Shine, M.LeBlanc, Chicago At The Pawn Shop, Sans Titre, Paris
2019 Ganze Tage in den Bäumen, Kunstverein Heppenheim Desire/Delivery, June, Berlin
2018 Transit Papers – Aftermath of an Ideal’s Removal, Spazio Nea, Naples 2014 My Vain Plane, Kunsthaus Mettmann
2012 Gone Home, Lille Carl, Copenhagen
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN / GROUP SHOWS
2025 The Pamphlet Show II, Patient Info, Chicago
As if a line, Slip House, New York
IV, with Laura Bernstein, W.I.H.S.H. Projects, Chicago
2024 I’ll give it to someone special, Sans Titre, Paris Beginner’s Mind, Max Hetzler, Berlin
Landschaftsbilder, Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
In sole ambulare, The Merode, Brussels
Pictures and Sundries, with Mari Eastman, Tusk, Chicago Moreover, Green Gallery, Milwaukee
Dass die Göttin…, Secci Gallery, Florence
91st Member Show, Arts Club of Chicago
2023 Homotopy Type Theory, Centralbanken, Oslo
Die Welt ist noch auf einen Abend mein, Galeria Ehrhardt Florez, Madrid
Barely Visible, Good Weather, North Little Rock, Arkansas EXPO Chicago, presented by M.LeBlanc, Chicago
2022 Moonlight Mile, Alan Koppel Gallery, Glencoe, IL
Mon Palais, choir, Sans Titre, Paris
The Armory Show, with Arnold J. Kemp, presented by M.LeBlanc, New York
May Selection, Platform by David Zwirner (online)
Sun Kissed, NEVÈ, Los Angeles
2021 Westbund Art & Design, presented by Mou Projects, Shanghai
Why do you give me no answer?, Slice, Uferstudios, Berlin
What’s Up London: L’univers d’un collectionneur, LVH, London
Make yourself at home, Sans Titre, Paris (online)
She Came To Stay, Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome 2020 Groupshow, M.LeBlanc, Chicago
Material Art Fair, with Basile Ghosn, presented by Sans Titre, Mexico City
2019 Think in Pictures, curated by John Newsom & Matt Dillon, Amelchenko, New York
Chicago Invitational, presented by M.LeBlanc, Athletic Association, Chicago
2018 Ein Tun ohne Bild, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen
I can bite the hand that feeds me and gently caress it too, Carbon12, Dubai
Ich liebe Dich geh weg, with Katharina Schilling, Angela Mewes, Berlin
A Solo Show on Planet Earth, with André Butzer & Josef Zekoff, Sunday-S, Copenhagen Clean Dishes, with Sarah Kürten, Christian Wieser & Fabian Ginsberg, Studio Nostitz, Berlin
2016 Topophobophilia, Gallery46, London
Adler Düsseldorf at Art Cologne, presented by Bruce Haines Mayfair, Cologne
2015 Quando il paesaggio è in ascolto, Capella di Incoronazione, Palermo
Local Color – Class of Elizabeth Peyton, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf
Imagine, NewCastle Space, London
2013 Members of the Family, Kunstverein Emmerich, Emmerich
Painting of today, Artspace RheinMain, Offenbach
2011 Coco Collection, Atelier Max Benoit, St. Tyrosse de Vincent
Fremdgang International, ODG, Düsseldorf
2010 Arz and Friendz, Forgotten Bar, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin