John Bock

A-Buba, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium John Bock, Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France Skipholt, Kling & Bang, Reykjavik PestKOP im black rebel motorcycle club, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Hamburg, Germany Girls on Film, curated by Kirsty Bell, Zwirner and Wirth Gallery, New York The Addiction, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin Abnormal, Nyehaus, New York Dionysiac, Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, Paris LI Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 8th Biennale d’Art Contemporaian de Lyon, Lyon, Paris Rough Diamond, Program, London Reykjavík Arts Festival 2005, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík

Im Modder der Summenmutation, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany Der Pappenheimer, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany ll Palazzo Enciclopedico - 55th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2013, Venice, Italy

John Bock – Mit Schisslaveng, Anton Kern Gallery, New York Zero Hero, The Moore Loft, Miami, (FL) Anstoss Berlin, Kunst Macht Welt, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin Dada’s Boys, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh John Bock’s Medusa im Tam Tam Club, Staatsoper unter den Linden, Berlin John Bock: Lütte mit Rucola, Klosterfelde, Berlin The Hugo Boss Prize 2006, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York Nöle, Schauspielhaus, Zürich (……) – Surrogat, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Im Dilemma der ExistoEntropie, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany MultiplexQuasiSiena – “le repubbliche dell’ arte germania”, Palazzo delle Papese, Freestyle: Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (cat.) Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy Eleni Koroneu, Athens Dionysische Monologicus – Gelüste eines Schwachomaten “Aller Anfang ist Merz – von Kurt Schwitters bis heute”, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Ma’am prosciutto crudo, HM Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany MEECHbuildings – “playing among the ruins”, RCA Galleries, London “New Settlements”, Jacob Fabricius, Copenhagen John Bock, Sadie Coles HQ, London

1 = 2 + Kleinodtod, Berlin ArtemisiaSoqJod ? Meechwimper lummerig, HM Klosterfelde, Berlin, MEECHbuilding, Berlin Paramoderne = Rokokkogobrot., “Zeitwenden – Rückblick & Ausblick”, Vienna MienGribbohmWien – la forma del mondo – la fine del mondo, PAC Milan, Italy (cat.) Schon bezahlt, schon Dir, “RE_public”, Grazer Kunst Verein at the EXPO 2000, Hannover, Germany Dionysische Monologicus – Gelüste eines Schwachomaten. Multiple Quasi-Maybe-Me-Be updown, recent works Jacob Frabricius, Copenhagen Captain Sheriff Schippert Dröge, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen Pizza Kiwi Nazionale, Auckland, New Zealand Schon bezahlt, schon Dir, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria ArtemisiaSoqJod ? Meechwimper lummerig, “hypermental - Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit [surreal reality] 1950–2000. Salvador Dalí to Jeff Koons, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (cat.) Ma’am prosciutto crudo, OK – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria

Berlin Biennal, Heu in der Kadernwelle, Berlin $ 1.000.000 Knödel Kisses, pfüti, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Austria, Nov. Rasputin ist Mütterchel, Marstall, Munich, Feb. Regardez le Diskjockey Long John Silver, Eleni Koroneu, Athens Maybe-Me-Be-Microworld, Anton Kern, New York SoonSonicShySONSupernovaSide UP, group exhibition with Siegrun Appelt and Matthew Antezzo, Charim Klocker, Vienna Lombardi Bängli, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (cat.) Memme muss schlafen opening exhibition of S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium opt. APE trouvé Moving 50 Diagram, Giò Marconi, Milan, Italy ApproximationRezipientenbedürfniscomaUrUltraUseMaterialMiniMax, 48th Biennale, Venice (cat.) MolkeMeHindVehikel Klosterfelde, Statement ArtBasel Quasi-Ich-Isoquantenschar-Kammer “Nachbar” Galerie Krinziger / Benger Park, Bregenz, Austria Paramoderne = Rokokkogobrot “Kraftwerk Berlin” Kunstmuseum Aarhus, Denmark Existo – Tour 99 “ars viva – Gernzgänge”, Casino LuxembourgDer Försterfall im Hirschfall oder das Loch der positiven Vernunft Austellungsraum Schnitt, Cologne, Germany Der Fall des reinen Tausches in der Edgeworth – Box “home and away”, Kunstverein Hannover (cat.) Von der Kunst bis zum Warten + drinnen Jungtiere “Education. Information, communication and didactics in contemporary fine art.” Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria NaiAristotelesOchi – Nichtsabsolut The Athens School. German art today”. Technopolis, Athens (cat.) MolkeMeHindVehikel “Children of Berlin”, P.S.1, New York Lombardi Bängli – “German Open 1999 – Contemporary Art in Germany”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Paramoderne = Rokokkogobrot “Zeitwenden – Rückblick & Audblick” Kunstmuseum Bonn (cat.) Koppel op Kop. ars viva 1999-2000, Kunstverein Freiburg (cat.) Yes Sir No Sir, Stella Lohaus, Antwerp

Wie werde ich breühmt?, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Paul Eluard Gesichtskorrektur, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Jackson – Action, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Kunst – Mädchen – Erfolg – Tod, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Mord und Robotermalerei, Pudelsclub Hamburg, Germany

He has participated in various group shows including Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London, and "Laughing in a Foreign Language", The Hayward Gallery, London, both in 2008. John Bock: Maltreated Frigate, a monograph of his work, was published by Walther Koenig Ltd, 2007.

Bock has been professor for sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Karlsruhe since 2004.

Bock participated in numerous international exhibitions, among others the Venice Biennial (1999 and 2005) and the documenta 11 in Kassel (2002). He has also had solo exhibitions in a number of international institutions including MoMA and the New Museum in New York, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Kunsthalle in Basel, Secession, Wien, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.

Bock is a multi-media artist primarily known for his performances. Since 1991, he creates environments hand crafted from found materials which function as symbolic settings for his "lectures." More recently there has been an increased production of film and video work.

John Bock (born 1965 in Schenefeld, Germany) is a German artist. He studied in Hamburg, Germany and lives and works in Berlin.