FRED KLEINBERG
Fred Kleinberg was born in 1966 in Paris. He trained at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He has been exhibiting his work as a painter since 1983 internationally. His work is presented in private and public collections. Since 1983, he has produced nearly 200 exhibitions. He conceives his work as a succession of thematic projects and naturally, intuitively, he draws on trips around the world to create his new series. He is selected for artist residencies: Villa Medici in Rome in 1996 in collaboration with the novelist Kits Hilaire, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow in 2001, Art Residence of Pondicherry in 2004 in India, in China in 2010 in collaboration with the Hong Merchant Gallery Shanghai and in India in 2018 within Shantiniketan University. He is the winner of the painting awards: The Prix du Salon de Montrouge in 1998, The Coprim Foundation Prize In 2000, the Taylor Foundation Prize in 2008, The Charles Oulmont Foundation Prize in 2008 and the 1st Monaco Contemporary Art Prize in 2014, the 2nd prize of Luxembourg Art Price in 2023.
Its main exhibitions retrace these thematic series: “Memory in the body” at the Coprim Foundation in Paris in 1999; “Of obscenity and fury” at the Passage de Retz in Paris in 2002; “Made in India” at the Koehnline Museum of Art in Chicago, USA in 2006; “Baroque Flesh” at the Polad-Hardouin gallery in Paris in 2011; “A land of heroism and fury”, his first retrospective exhibition, at the Messine Gallery in Paris in 2012; “Reborn Project” at the Frank Pages Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland in 2015; “Odyssey” at the ART Elysées fair in Paris as a guest of honor in 2017; “The Indian years 2000-2010”, Loo & Lou Gallery, Paris in 2021. In 2023, he presented ” Odyssey”, a retrospective exhibition at the Espace Niemeyer in Paris. Fred Kleinberg lives and works in Paris.
2024 | “L’eau” group exhibition, Galerie Horae, Paris.
2023 | “Odyssée” retrospective exhibition, Espace Niemeyer, Paris.
2022 | “Mue” Pierre Cardin Museum, platform 36, Paris. France.
“Un mur, un artiste” Galerie Point Rouge, ST Rémy. France.
“Coexister” Capazza Gallery, Nançay. France.
“Rencontre fortuite” Point Rouge Gallery, ST Rémy. France.
“Gainsb'art” St Anne Cultural Space, La Baule, France.
2021 | “Les années Indiennes 2000-2010” Loo&Lou Gallery, Paris. France.
2019 | “Germination” Loo & Lou Gallery, Paris. France.
2017 | “Odyssée” solo show, ART Elysée, Paris. France.
“Reborn Project II” Messina Gallery, Paris. France.
“Portrait” National Gallery, Dubai. United Arab Emirates.
2016 | “Face to Face” National Gallery, Dubai. United Arab Emirates.
“Reborn génération” Krajcberg Museum, Paris, France.
2015 | “Reborn project” Frank Pagès Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland.
“Du paysage à l’intime” Adriano Ribolzi Gallery, Monaco.
2012 | “Territoire d’héroïsme et de fureur” Messine Gallery & Polad Hardouin Gallery, Paris, France.
“Chinese feast” Wei Wei Gallery, Beijing, China.
2011 | “Chinese Feast” Hong Merchant Gallery, Shanghai, China.
“Baroque flesh” Polad-Hardouin Gallery, Paris. France.
“Parade II” Polad-Hardouin Gallery, Paris.
“Flashback” Polad-Hardouin Gallery, Paris.
ArtParis, Rémy Bucciali Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris
Art Karlsruhe, Rémy Bucciali Gallery, Germany.
Salon Internationale de l’Estampe, Rémy Bucciali Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris.
2010 | “Sur les grands airs de Richard Wagner” Pictorial performance on stage, Cité Internationale des Congrès in Nantes.
Collaboration with the Rémy Bucciali workshop, production of prints, Colmar, France.
“Monstre-toi” Polad-Hardouin Gallery, Paris, France.
“Riders” Polad-Hardouin Gallery, Paris.
“Parade” Polad-Hardouin Gallery, Paris.
2009 | “Holy destruction” Polad-Hardouin Gallery, Paris.
“Le festin de la bête” Galerie Polad-Hardouin, Paris.
“Scope Art Fair” Polad-Hardouin Gallery, London.
“Art Élysée” Polad-Hardouin Gallery, Paris.
“Estampes” UP'ART Gallery, Brussels.
“Dessin” UP'ART Gallery, Brussels.
Salon Comparaison, Grand Palais, Paris.
2007 | Bridge Art Fair London, THINKART & Laurie Glenn Gista Gallery, Chicago, USA.
Bridge Art Fair Miami, THINKART & Laurie Glenn Gista Gallery, Chicago, USA.
ART VALLEY Gallery, Larçay Castle, France.
“Tour de chauffe” artist ceramics, GalerieUniver, Paris.
2008 | ACT II “Made in India” Artseefld gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
UP'ART Galerie, Brussels, Belgium.
“Art français — Chicago” The Highand Park Art Center & ThinkArt Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2007 | “7EVEN” ThinkArt Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2006 | “Go” P.Friedland&A.Rivault Gallery, Paris
“Group show” Saint-Germain Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
ACT II “Made in India” Galerie le Rire Bleue, Figeac, France.
ACT II “Made in India” Galerie P. Friedland & A. Rivault & EspaceUniver, Paris, France.
ACT II “Made in India” Koehnline Museum of Art, Chicago, USA.
ACT II “Made in India” Sellem Gallery, Paris, France.
2005 | “Autoportrait” Center for Contemporary Art, Niort.
“Drôle de bête” Galerie P.Friedland & A. Rivault, Paris.
“Aparté” P.Friedland&A.Rivault Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2004 | “Peinture A histoire.” Besancon Museum of Fine Arts.
“Rendez-vous” Galerie P. Friedland & A. Rivault, Paris.
“At Barbés” P. Friedland & A. Rivault Gallery, Paris, France.
“Moscow, Travel Journal” Saint-GermainGallery, Los Angeles, USA
2003 | “Animal et territoire” Artsenat, Senate orangery, Paris.
“Estampes” Institut Français, Hamburg, Germany.
VorbeFallet Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland.
ACT II “D’obscénité et de fureur” Passage de Retz, Paris, France.
ACT II “D’obscénité et de fureur” Galerie F. Vecchio, Cannes, France.
ACT II “D’obscénité et de fureur” Sommer & Stebel Gallery, Germany.
“Retour de Moscou” Hotel d'Albret, Department of Cultural Affairs, Paris France
2002 | ACT II “D’obscénité et de fureur” Center for Contemporary Art, Niort, France.
ACT II “D’obscénité et de fureur” Passage de Retz, Paris, France.
ACT II “D’obscénité et de fureur” Galerie F. Vecchio, Cannes, France.
ACT II “D’obscénité et de fureur” Sommer & Stebel Gallery, Germany.
Michelle Broutta Gallery, Paris.
Lacerte Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
P. Friedland & A. Rivault Gallery, Paris.
2001 | Passage de Retz, P.Friedland & A.Rivault gallery, Paris.
“Autoportrait” Zloto Gallery, Germany.
“Présence et trace” VorbeFallet Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland.
Michelle Broutta Gallery, Paris.
“Tempête sous un crâne” V.Cueto Gallery, Paris.
2000 | “L'Automne des Transis” Contemporary Art Center, Bar-le-Duc.
Schlumberger Foundation, Espace Lhomond, Paris.
Michelle Broutta Gallery, Paris.
“La mémoire au corps” Contemporary Art Center, Bar-le-Duc, France.
“Autoportrait” Koralewski Gallery, Paris, France.
1999 | “À corps perdu, accord retrouvé” CIACC gallery, Paris.
“Ses livres différents” Michelle Broutta Gallery, Paris.
“La mémoire au corps” Coprim Foundation, Paris, France.
1998 | Montrouge lounge.
“Le Livre d’artiste” Michelle Broutta Gallery, Paris.
Eric de Montbel Gallery, Paris, France.
1997 | Contemporary art center, Saint-Priest.
Center for Contemporary Art, Oyonnax.
Salon Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourne, Paris.
“Le livre d’artiste” Michelle Broutta Gallery, Paris.
“Vu de l’intérieur” Eric de Montbel Gallery, Paris, France.
1996 | “La fosse aux astres” Eric de Montbel Gallery, Paris, France.
“Fragment” Paul Ricard Foundation, Paris, France
• Collection of the MAPP, Museum of Art and Archeology of Périgord.
• MAJ collection, Museum of Art and History of Judaism.
• Koehnline Museum of Art Collection, Chicago, USA
• The Cérès Franco Cooperative-Museum Collection.
• Volot Collection, center for contemporary art at Auberive Abbey.
• Manutan Group collection.
• Altavia Group collection.
2024 | 2nd ARTPRICE Luxembourg Prize.
2023 | ADAGP fund award for video creation.
2018 | SSVAD Residence Shantiniketan, India.
2014 | 1st prize at the Monte-Carlo International Contemporary Art Competition.
2009 | Taylor Foundation Painting Award.
2008 | Charles Oulmond Foundation Painting Prize.
2004 | “ON AIR” residence Pondicherry, India.
2001 | Residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.
2000 | Coprim Foundation Prize, Paris.
1996-1997 | Residence, Villa Medici in collaboration with the novelist Kits Hilaire, Rome, Italy.
2023 | Monographic book “Odyssée” Text by Pierre Laurent, Renaud Faroux, Olivier Keappelin, Emmanuel Pierrat. Lord Byron edition.
2017 | Book “Art, Paix &Engagement” AREA edition, no. 32/33.
2012 | Book “Territoires d’héroïsme et de fureur” Criterion Edition Text by Jean-Luc Chalumeau, Françoise Monnin, Itzhak Goldberg and Patrick Lefur.
2006 | Book “ACTE II Made in India” Snoeck Éditions, prefaced by Jean-Luc Chalumeau and by the Indian novelist Arundhati Roy.
Book “Des artistes en leur monde” published by La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot.
2004 | Book “Les 50 ans du Monde diplomatique” published by the Cercle d'Art.
2003 | Book “Animal et territoire” Artsenat, Tiempo editions.
2001 | Book “Retour de Moscou” Culture France edition.
2000 | Book “L'Automne des Transis” published by the Conseil Général de la Meuse, prefaced by Françoise Monnin.
2017 “Odyssée” Special issue from Artension magazine, 64 text pages by Georges Didi-Huberman, Jack Lang, Dominique Attias, Itzhak Goldberg, Patrick Le Fur, Françoise Monnin, Rafael Pic, 64 pages text by Georges Didi-Huberman, Jack Lang, Jack Lang, Dominique Attias, Itzhak Goldberg, Patrick Le Fur, Françoise Monnin, Rafael Pic, Rafael Pic, 64 pages text by Georges Didi-Huberman, Jack Lang, Dominique Attias, Itzhak Goldberg
2016 “Fred Kleinberg” Special issue Beaux Art Magazine, Beaux Art Publishing, text by Claude Mollard, Jeanette Zwingenberger.
Odyssey | 52mn documentary film, directed by Sébastien Guisset & Fred Kleinberg. Co-produced by ADAGP and ARTE studio
