Dana Greiner

Dana Greiner

Artworks

Exhibitions

CV/Texts

Dana Greiner, Preplex (R.Caillois) 2025
120x85cm, spraypaint, acrylic on acrylic glass in lacquered timber frame
Dana Greiner, Preplex (Mr. Bighead) 2020
120x85cm, spraypaint, acrylic on acrylic glass in lacquered timber frame
Dana Greiner, Preplex (Knotty Embrace) 2021
120x85cm, spary paint on acrylic glass, painted wooden frame
Dana Greiner, Preplex (GODG) 2020
120x85cm, spraypaint, acrylic on acrylic glass in lacquered timber frame
Dana Greiner, Preplex (Mr. Bighead) 2020
110x90cm, acrylic, vinyl, polyester threats on canvas
Dana Greiner, Preplex 121 2020
120x85cm, spraypaint on acrlic glass painted wooden frame
Dana Greiner, Risen 2021
180x130x12cm, acrylic, oil, chalk, spray paint, gouache, tape, wooden frame
Dana Greiner, Stay calm, think thrice 2020
180x140cm, acrylic media, vinyl, oil, acrylic markers on canvas
Dana Greiner, Brand New Bromeliads 2022
110x90cm, oil, acrylic, chalk, waxs, perspex, wood on canvas
Dana Greiner, Desert Hope 2019
110x90cm, acrylic, vinyl, spraypaint on canvas
Dana Greiner, anti-super 2017
100x80cm, paint, acrylic media,epoxy on canvas
Dana Greiner, Der Nachtmahr 2017
180x130cm, encaustic, spray paint on canvas
Dana Greiner works across media and installations. She combines painting, music, sculpture, film, theater, light, and sound installations into a unified whole, creating visual worlds both within and outside of social contexts. Originally coming from a background in painting, digital media and 3D printing are now increasingly finding their way into her work. In this multifaceted approach, she usually creates several works at the same time, which she then connects with each other, marking out spaces and filling them with content. People, both the main actors and the most important audience, are at the center of her work. Intermedial and comprehensive, she makes use of a wide variety of media and uses them as a means of translation to emphasize the subtext. This creates space for poetry, pop, politics, and aesthetics, whereby these concepts never clearly lean to one side, but always seek the diametric opposition within a work.

Exhibitions

Selected exhibitions

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE 08.03.-12.10.2025 „Doppelkäseplatte. 100 Jahre Sammlung. 20 Jahre Kunstmuseum Stuttgart“

Exhibition view of the work „Jamais- Vu“
“Jamais-Vu” consisting of 441 glass blocks and 2 kneeling frames, total dimensions approx. 1000 x 400 cm

Schloß Agathenburg, Agathenburg, DE 15 Sept – 3 Nov 2024, “Fusion” with Lars Breuer, Lukas Glinkowski, Dana Greiner, Maria Visser

Room installation “Sanctuary II” made of glass blocks, swing (“Arboreal”), projection, sculpture, and images.

 

Toskanapark, Lindau, DE May -Sept 2022 “Insitu Paradise”, 1. Biennale Lindau

Installation view „I see who you are, what shadows we are“ (Reflexionsmaschine), Interactive light and sound installation Pump house

Galerie der Künster*innen, München, DE 2021 ” NonForTreamers”

„Bildaufbau im Raum“ 2021, 26 painted canvases, mixed media, 120 x 81 cm

Hamburger Kunstgalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg, DE 2021, „Die absurde Schönheit des Raumes. 7 Künstler*innen vs. Ungers“

Abstract theatre play, „Lüde in VII Ekcten“, (75min) – Room, sound and light installation , 2021

Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE 2020  „Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland“

Exhibition view

CV

Dana Greiner

* 1988 in Munich, DE lives and works in Munich, DE 2010 -2017 the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Jerry Zeniuk, Myriam Holme, Thomas Scheibitz and Pia Fries  2015 Graduation with distinction from Pia Fries

Fellowships/Awards

2023-2026 studio sponsorship from the city of munich 2021-2022 nomination for Villa Aurora, L.A., nomination Cité de Paris, Stiftung Kunstfonds sponsorship, project sponsorship by the Erwin and Gisela Steiner Stiftung 2020-2023 studio sponsorship from the city of Munich 2022 nomination for villa aurora, LA (USA) nomination for Cité Paris, FR 2018 sponsorship by the Erwin and Gisela Steiner Stiftung 2016 sponsorship by the Karin Abtstraubinger foundation, prize winner of the Deloitte Sculpture Contest 2013 sponsorship for the „Sommerakademie Salzburg“ class of Norbert Bisky

Projects

2025 founding of the publishing house “boo!Häme” and catalogue release “jamais-vu” 2024 production audio book, “under milkwood” by Dylan Thomas, release of the wind pop song “poem of my mind”

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2025 “Ilinx”, Petra Rinck Galerie, Dusseldorf, DE 2019 „Balagon“, Super+ Centercourt, Munich, DE; 2018 „Yrwšlm“, light installation simultaneously in a Mosque, Synagogue, and Church, USA / IT / ESP; „Between Sheraton and Hilton“, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, Anchorage, USA; „Yrwšlm“, light installation simultaneously in a Mosque, Synagogue, and Church, Nürnberg, DE; 2017 „Die Vertreterin“, Gallery Karin Wimmer / Young Art Space, Munich, DE; „Sanctuary“, Einraumhaus, Mannheim, DE; „Oui No.3“, Diploma exhibition, ADBK Munich, DE; 2016 „Psychogram9“, mixed-media installation, Akademiegalerie, Munich, DE; 2015 „Ich bin ein Traum, der seine Träumer lieben würde“, room installation, annual exhibition ADBK, Munich, DE; 2014 „Paradise Lost“, Nektar, Munich, DE; 2010 „Adieu-o-Rama. Auf Wiedersehn Europa“, costume performance, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE; 2007 „Living Sculptures“,costume performance, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE

Group Shows (Selection)

2025 „Doppelkäseplatte“, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, DE; 2024 Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Munich, DE; „Fusion“, Schloß Agathenburg, DE; „Winterwonderland“, Akademiegalerie, Munich,DE; “With a Spicy Glimpse of Yellow”, Gallery AOA;87, Berlin, DE; 2023 “No Illusions”, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg, DE; 2022 “Untitled. Young Art from Southern Germany and German-Swiss Region”, Kunstmuseum Singen, DE; “Garden”, Ladies Room LA,in collaboration with Platform by David Zwirner, Los Angeles, USA; “In Situ Paradise”, Biennale Lindau, DE; “Lüde in V Ekcten“. „First Years of Professionalism”, Galerie der Künstlerinnen, BBK Munich, DE; “Clandestine Encore”, Lost Weekend Gallery, Munich, DE; 2021 “Tacker”, BBK Munich, Galerie der Künstlerinnen, Munich, DE; digital art hall, ZDF; “Sexed Power”, MOM Artspace,Hamburg, DE; “Garden”, Ladies Room LA, Los Angeles, USA; 2020 “Früher war schon immer jetzt”, new presentation of the collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg, DE; “The Absurd Beauty of Space. 7 Artists vs. Ungers”, Lüde in VII Ekcten, HamburgerKunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg, DE; “Now! Young Painting in Germany”, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, DE; “
Heute ist morgen vorbei”, Galerie Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, DE; “Minibar”, Galerie Oel-Früh, Hamburg, DE; 2019 “Now! Young Painting in Germany”, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Museum Wiesbaden, DE; “Visual Semiotics”,Gallery Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, DE; “Balagon”, Super+ Centercourt, Munich, DE; 2017 “Affordable Art Fair”, fair, Galerie Karin Wimmer, Hamburg, DE; 2016 “Bodenständig 2000”, mixed-media room installation, Munich, DE; Karl & Faber Auction House, Munich, DE; “Desire”,Alte Feuerwache, Dessau-Roßlau, DE; “9373,87”, Galerie Arai Associates, Tokyo, JP; 2015 salon-der-gegenwart, Alte Bleichen, Hamburg, DE; “Scoop#1”, Galerie Big Pond Artworks, Munich, DE; 2014 “Pandaemonium im Nektar”, exhibition “Paradise Lost” “Water Salon”, music performance, Heppel & Ettlich, Munich, DE; “Page the Image”, artist books, class Thomas Scheibitz, Munich,DE; 2013 Karl & Faber Auction House, group exhibition, Munich, DE; 2010 “Facades”, group exhibition Puerto Giesing, Munich, DE; “Import-Export”, group exhibition IMAL, Munich, DE; “Agit-prop Modern”, text / direction / costume / stage design, Werkhaus, Munich, DE; “ugosi‘s dead“, exhibition with Katharina Dietmaier and Andrea Zabric, adbk Munich, DE „9373,87“ Arai Associates, Tokio, JP

Projects

2025 Foundation of the „Boo!häme“ publishing house; 2024 „You Are a Poem of My Mind“, Release of the Wind Pop song; 2023 „Under Milkwood“ by Dylan Thomas (theatre play and audio-book production); 2022 „Biohackers“, Netflix-Serie, Picture Equipment; 2020 „Top Dogs“, Theatre play, direction, Arthus Theater, Munich, DE; 2018 „Jedem das Seine. Ein Manifest“, Theater, acting, Kammerspiele Munich / Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, DE; „Fack Ju Göhte 3“, visual presentation, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE; 2014 „Biedermann and the Arsonists”, direction, Arthus Theater, Munich, DE; „Indian Smoke“, music performance with Ophelia Plate, Jens Moire, and Sandra Juds (Ms. Ogmore Pritchard), Arthus Theater, Munich, DE; 2011 „Yvonne, die Burgunderprinzessin“, costume / stage design / assistant director, Interim, Munich, DE; 2010 „Stat Crux Dum Orbis Volvitur“, costume performance, KKG, München, DE; „Agitprop Modern“, text / direction / costume / stage design, Werkhaus, Munich, DE