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lives and works in Dresden since 2013Founding and artistic director of the Ursula Walter Gallery - exhibition space for contemporary art, Dresden2000-2002Master student/ Prof. Ulrike Grossarth2000Diploma/ Prof. Ulrike Grossarth (comprehensive artistic work)1995-2000Dresden University of Fine Arts (painting/graphics, comprehensive artistic work) with Siegfried Klotz, Elke Hopfe, Claus Weidensdorfer and Ulrike Grossarth 1996/1997Working stay in Senegal/ Goethe Institute Dakar1972* in Buchholz (id Nordheide)

Exhibitions (selection) 
2022
Identity not proven, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn Iforest secret, Josef Hegenbarth Archive, Kupferstich-Kabinett, State Art Collections Dresden IYou couldn't see everything at once, Parcel 3, Kunsthaus Dresden, Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art IWat ons concerned, Gallery Raskolnikov, Dresden 2021 Exquisite - Printmaking, Look window Berlin I As for us, Goethe Institute Rotterdam IWhat the eyes cannot see, the heart cannot feel, Kunsthaus Dresden, Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art  ITerra uligunosa, De Aanschouw, Rotterdam (NL) ILonging for the Now III, World Art Room, Düsseldorf IRealism and East Modernism, Altana Gallery, TU Dresden 2020 Longing for the Now II, GEH 8, Dresden Isilent post, Gallery Ursula Walter, Dresden IBetween sun and earth, German Hygiene Museum Dresden ILonging for the Now I, Biesdorf Castle, Municipal Gallery Berlin I 1,2,3,4 cornerstone, Gallery Wolkenbank guest in the project room of the gallery Schwarz, Greifswald 2019 shift the shadow, (solo) Gallery AG for contemporary art, Schwerin I nonconceptuality, catalog presentation, project room bautzenr 69, Dresden I en bloc, curated by Codex Berlin, Gallery AG for contemporary art, Schwerin 2018 Showcase: contemporary prints, Saxon Representation, Prague, Czech Republic I From something to nothing, (solo) Gallery Ursula Walter, Dresden IRide the high country/Gallery AG 2018, Palace for Contemporary Art, Glückstadt Art Association 2017 paperworks, CODEX, Berlin I1443, Gallery Ursula Walter, Dresden IFranklintonFriday, 400 West Rich, Columbus/Ohio, USA I Funding purchases from the Saxony Cultural Foundation, Saxon State Representation in Berlin 2016DEEP HIGH- Contemporary prints, Gallery Sibylle Nütt, Dresden Icritical moment, Gallery AG / Gallery Kittelmann/ Radike, Bad Doberan IWIN WIN, cotton spinning mill, HALL 14, Leipzig 2015 gems, Old Fire Station Loschwitz, Dresden Inext to nothing, (solo) Old Fire Station Loschwitz, Dresden I OSWALDZ, (solo) Insert Oswaldz, Dresden Iarnea, Athens, Greece 2014 The beautiful sparkle, Kunstverein Meissen I Hand press prints 2014, Gallery Baer, Dresden IThe Approximately, (solo) Teloglion Foundation of Art AUTh, Thessaloniki, Greece IThe approximate, (solo) Gallery Ursula Walter, Dresden 2013 Forest/ Bois, Gallery AG, Schwerin I opening, Gallery Ursula Walter, Dresden 2012present 21, Gallery AG, Schwerin 2009 Looking skywards in a superstore, ROKKAS, Berlin Imushrooms, (solo) Gallery AG, Schwerin 2007 wild cube(Installation), Museum Hofmühle, Dresden 2004/05 wild cube, (solo) Gallery Adlergasse, Dresden 2003 16 moving things(Film), Biennale Bern/ Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Ifair, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf 2002 STAFF, (solo) flash gallery, Dresden 2001 wardrobe(exhibition and campaign), gallery Hellezelle, Kiel I two 2(Action), Kunsthalle, Vienna ISTAFF(Action), Gallery Inga Kondeyne/ Rainer Borgemeister, Berlin I"The stranger is the guest who stays.", Brühlsche Terrasse, Dresden 2000 Four panels to the Odyssey(Action), University of Fine Arts Dresden 1999 original size measurement(Action), Brühlsche Terrasse, Dresden 1996/97 Subject of study(Action), Wiener Festwochen, Vienna I Exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Dakar, Senegal

Scholarships/ grants/ prizes
2021
Residency grant for graphic techniques, graphic studio Minnigh,  CBK-Rotterdam and Goethe-Institut Rotterdam, Netherlands I work grant, Kulturwerk VG Bild-Kunst Bonn I shortlist 10th Felix Hollenberg Prize, Kunstmuseum Albstadt_cc781905- 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_2020 Denkzeit grant, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony 2018Catalog funding, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn I work grant, state capital Dresden 2017Residency grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Columbus/ Ohio, USA 2014Grant/workshop hand press prints 2014, graphic workshop Dresden, Galerie Baer, Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, HfBK Dresden 2014Residency grant, state capital Dresden at the Aristotle University with Prof. Xenofon Sachinis, Faculty of Printmaking, Thessaloniki, Greece 2019-2021 Galerie Ursula Walter – exhibition space for contemporary art, Dresden, concept funding, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony 2013-2019Project funding, City of Dresden, Office for Culture and Monument Protection, project funding, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony since 2003 The children's studio- Comprehensive artistic work with children in cooperation with Patricia Westerholz: project funding2015/2016 bill(Publication) 2012/2013Trickfilm 2008/2009Stage of the State Capital of Dresden, Office for Culture and Monument Protection

Bibliography 
2022 Identity not proven, exhibition catalogue, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, 28 x 24.5 cm, 224 pages Hirmer Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7774-3988-4 I The word for world is forest, magazine, 48 solitaires and woody plants, open series, 29.7 x 21 cm, 84 pages, digital print, open edition 2021 You couldn't see everything at once, Original graphic book, 44 mosses from the collection of the biologist Reinhard Kempe, 28 x 20 cm, 100 pages, risography, edition 25 I Terra uligunosa, publication of 230 words from the archive of a biologist, dimensions variable, digital print, open edition  2019Catalog:Nonconceptuality, Text: Dr. Holger Birkholz, Vtortuous paths of abstraction;Intricate Paths of Abstraction, English by Jessica Buskirk, publisher: Galerie Ursula Walter, 28 x 21 cm, 104 pages, edition 400, The publication was funded by the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn. hesperus print* Verlag Dresden, ISBN 978-946339-19-9 2016text: dr Holger Birkholz,Form and decay – work structures in Andreas Kempe, Form and Decay, English by Jessica Buskirk; text: dr Holger Birkholz,Winding paths of abstraction,next to nothing, English by Jessica Buskirk 2011Catalog:imageling #, Text: Torsten Pear,Discussions with Coprinus, Publisher: Andreas Kempe, 29 x 21.5 cm, 32 pages, edition of 300; Catalog:WILD CUBE/ ...take the hawk into the forest, Text: Torsten Pear,WILD CUBE or … bring the hawk into the forest, Publisher: Andreas Kempe, 29 x 19 cm, 20 pages, edition of 300

Collections/ Museums
Collection of contemporary art of the Federal Republic of Germany I Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden I Art fund of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden I Art collection of the Custody of the Technical University of Dresden I Ostsächsische Sparkassenstiftung I KKR Dublin and Frankfurt am Main 
i Private collections

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