Education
Lives and works in Idar-Oberstein, Germany & Misaki Machi, Japan
1960 Born in Berlin, Germany
1982-89 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe in den Klassen von A. von Hancke und H. Antes
Solo Exhibitions
2016 “The Mediterranean” MIYAKO YOSHINAGA, New York
2013 “Something on Water” MIYAKO YOSHINAGA, New York
2010 "Lodger", MIYAKO YOSHINAGA, New York
2008 "Like a Plant", MIYAKO YOSHINAGA, New York
2007 "je vais t'expliquer pourquoi le cheval a peur des papillons en foret", T&S gallery
& Void +, Tokyo
"Chroma", Galerie S, Aachen, Germany
2006 "Prussian Pink Spice", M.Y. Art Prospects, New York
2004 "Le Vertige", Steph. Marquart & Galerie, Brussels
"Kissing the Ground", M.Y. Art Prospects, New York
"Along the Rivers", Goethe Institut, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2003 "O Jun & Hans Benda / Das Wetter", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
2002 "The Seven Secretaries of Radio Atama Verviers", M.Y. Art Prospects, New York
2000 "Distractions Pour Mammiferes", Galerie Fiebach Minninger, Köln
"Sanpo", art SOKO Gallery, Tokyo
"Damniosa Hereditis", Galerie von Tempelhoff, Karlsruhe
1998 "The Empty Frame of Reason", Gallery DEN, Tokyo
1997 "Tryptichen",Gallery Hilbur, Karlsruhe
1994 "Coincidentia Oppositorum", Rainer Scheerer, Köln
1993 "Neue Bilder", Galerie am Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf
1992 "Bilder & Collagen", Führungsakademie des Landes Baden-Württemberg,
Karlsruhe
"ln Central European Time", Gal. R. Tittel, Köln
Two Artist Exhibitions
2011 "O JUN MALT GOTT", with O Jun, Galerie Clemens Thimme, Karlsruhe
2009 "Bassbara" with Conni Brintzinger, Galerie Clemens Thimme, Karlsruhe
2008 "Carta Non Nata",with Gunter Wessmann, Goethe Institut Dhaka, Bangladesh
1998 "O Jun & Hans Benda - Umi to Yama / The Sea And The Mountain", Art SOKO
Gallery, Tokyo
1997 "O Jun & Hans Benda - Hans no Niwa / Der Garten des O Jun", Galerie Fiebach
Minninger, Köln
1996 "O Jun & Hans Benda - Hans no Niwa / the garden of O Jun", Gallery DEN, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 "Attempt 3, Hans Benda, Chihiro Mori, Hirofumi Toyama", Museum Haus
Kasuya, Kanagawa, Japan
2008 "Matsumoto Natsuki, Ohara Nobuhiro, Benda Hans", Gallery Ginza Ichichome, Tokyo
2006 "Nature Morte", Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
"Ankäufe des Forschungszentrums Karlsruhe", EnBW, Karlsruhe
2005 "10th Aniversary", Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
2001 "S(h)itting in the Mirror" Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Young Germans" Yves Hoffmann Gallery, Paris
"The Drawing Show" M.Y. ART PROSPECTS, New York, NY
"Love You Always/ Love You All Ways" Damasquine Art Gallery, Brussels
2000 "Zukunft Malerei?", Galerie von Tempelhoff, Karlsruhe
1999 Galerie Fiebach Minninger, Köln
1998 "Morphe98" Tokyo-Aoyama & Nansei, Iseshima
“Bildwechsel II/Wand- und Bodenobjekte" Stadtische Gallery, Karlsruhe
1997 "Tryptichen", Galerie Hilbur, Karlsruhe
Westbeth Gallery Kozuka, Nagoya
1996 Galerie am Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf
Westbeth Gallery Kozuka, Nagoya
1995 "Zwei Künstler aus Deutschland", Shiseido Deutschland, Düsseldorf
"Zwei Künstler aus Deutschland", Shiseido Art Space, Tokyo
"Zwei Künstler aus Deutschland", Catalog
Place du Nouveau Marche Aux Graines, Bruxelles
1994 Galerie Hilbur, Karlsruhe
1991 "Semi-Finale", Kunstgarten Galerie, Köln
1990 Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart