Tobias Buckel (*1978) received an MA Fine Art with Distinction at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London (2011), supported by the DAAD. He studied Fine Art/Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and graduated as ‘Meisterschüler’ with Prof. Thomas Hartmann (2010). He was awarded working stays at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris, France (2014), in Atlanta GA/USA (2016) and the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria (2010).

EDUCATION

2011
MA Fine Art (with Distinction), Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (UK)

2010
›Meisterschüler‹ with Prof. Thomas Hartmann, Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg

2006–2010
Studies Fine Art/Painting with Prof. Thomas Hartmann, Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg

2002
Diploma Communications-Design, Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg

1997–2002
Studies Communications-Design and Illustration, Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Nuremberg

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2028–2019
Working stay at Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig

2016
Artist swap Nürnberg–Atlanta, Atlanta GA, USA

2014
Cité internationale des arts, Paris, 6-month studio grant from the Free State of Bavaria

2013
Pulse Prize ›Runners Up‹, Pulse Art Fair Miami

2010
DAAD scholarship for postgraduate studies, London UK

2010
International Summer Academy Salzburg, scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria

2008
2nd annual student prize, Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024
Um uns der Raum, Tobias Buckel and Planetary Intimacies, Kunstmuseum Erlangen*

2023
Tobias Buckel, Die Ecke, Gorizia IT

2021
Raumnotizen, MUK Kunstverein Zirndorf

2018
Cascading loops (with Gloria Zein), VR experience, Galerie Sturm, Nürnberg

2017
Overlap (with Aleschija Seibt), Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg
Loose a Wall, García Galería, Madrid

2016
Raumaufstellung, Galerie Sturm, Nürnberg

2015
Peter von Kant Gallery, solo exhibition, London UK
Between fluid edges (with Christiane Bergelt), Galerie Kramer, Bremen

2014
Display, Galerie Sturm, Nürnberg

2013
PULSE Miami, Miami USA
Tobias Buckel und Christiane Feser, advotec/Neuer Kunstverein Gießen
Revue, Kunstverein Kohlenhof, Nürnberg

2012
Verwandlungen, Kunstverein Hof (in cooperation with the Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg)

2011
Räume (with Anna Bittersohl), Galerie Bernsteinzimmer, Nürnberg

2010
Christiane Bergelt und Tobias Buckel, Kunstverein Kirchzarten

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Midnight Sun, Peter von Kant, London UK

2023
NN-Kunstpreis Ausstellung, Kunsthaus Nürnberg

2022
Open House, Galerie- und Atelierhaus Defet, Nürnberg
Falling apart (with H. Gallmeier, S. Werner, G. Zein), Kunsthaus Nürnberg
Das Bernsteinzimmer – endlich gefunden!, Kunstvilla Nürnberg
15 Jahre – 25 Ausstellungen – 48 Künstlerinnen und Künstler, Kunstverein Kirchzarten

2020
Arcadia (online group show), curated by Barbie Chatsworth, Peter von Kant Gallery, London
NN-Kunstpreis Ausstellung, Kunsthaus Nürnberg

2018
SHIFT, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin
Blick-Fang, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren
Dozen, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL/US
Hartbreaker, Akademie Galerie, Nürnberg
The Performativity of Painting, Stephen-Lawrence-Gallery, London UK

2016
Was aber bleibet, stiften die Künstler, Rotary-Collection Nürnberg-Sigena, AdBK Nürnberg

2015
Jahresgaben-Salon 2015/2016, Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht-Dürer-Gesellschaft
Form is What Happens, Archiv Massiv, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei
Connexion en cours, Goethe-Institut Paris

2014
Q 2051, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris
VOLTA 10, Markthalle Basel
Parallelaktion, Kreuzbergpavillon, Berlin
Ching Chang Chong, Haus Kunst-Mitte, Berlin

2013
Prototypen, Städtische Galerie Speyer
SCOPE Basel 2013
Papiere, Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg
Auf direktem Umweg oder: Malerei als Haltung, Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg

2012
Thomas Hartmanns Meisterschüler, Galerie Rigassi, Bern, CH
Buckel, Hanisch, Klahre, Decima Galerie in der Zehentscheune, Herrieden
Sichtbarmachen, Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft
Ausstellung zum 20. NN-Kunstpreis, Kunsthaus Nürnberg
Der erste Wurf, Kreis Galerie Nürnberg
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011 Exhibition tour, BayArt Cardiff, Lanchester Gallery Coventry and Burton Art Gallery & Museum Bideford (UK)*

2011
Wanderlust, Kingsland Road Studios, London*
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011 Exhibition, JVA at Jerwood Space, London*
Rotary Collection Nürnberg-Sigena, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nürnberg
Chelsea Salon Series, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Sürvey, Kunstverein Marburg
B:EAST, Temorary Art Organization, Nürnberg*
Mostyn Open 2011, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales

2009
Von Menschen und anderen Tieren, Galerie Hubert Schwarz, Greifswald (DE)
Students of the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga (LT)

2008
Rotary-Collection Nürnberg-Sigena, Zumikon, Nürnberg

*catalogue

PUBLICATIONS

Tobias Buckel: ›Raumdilemma‹

Catalogue/artist book
With texts by Harriet Zilch and Rasmus Nilausen.
Snoeck, Cologne 2020

›Everything in the world exists in order to end up in a book‹

Artist book by Oana Paula Vainer
T.C.L., Stuttgart 2015

X/I tenwordsandoneshot vol. 5

K. Krumnikl 2015

Tobias Buckel: ›Räume‹

Catalogue. With a text by Mareike Spendel.
Self published, 2012