Simone Haack (born 1978) grew up in Gyhum, an old village of 400 souls between Bremen and Hamburg. The North German landscape of her childhood in Teufelsmoor shaped her visual memory. She studied at the University of the Arts in Bremen under Katharina Grosse and Karin Kneffel, of whom she is a master student. After a one-year course at the Unitec School of Design in Auckland, New Zealand, she studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of the Dutch painter Pat Andrea. She was recently awarded the Willi Oltmanns Prize for Painting. Simone Haack lives and works in Berlin.
 

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (selection)
 

2025 | DESSAU. Kunsthalle Dessau, “New Magical Realism” | 2024 | PARIS. Selection Centre Pompidou and Maison André Breton, “Helix of Realism” | PARIS. Goethe Institute, “KAFKA.24” | BERLIN. Cast Collection of Ancient Sculpture, “Untangling the Strands” | DRESDEN/FREITAL. Freital Municipal Collection at Burgk Castle, “Missy Pink - Lady in Red” | SILKEBORG. Galerie Moderne, “Biophilia” | 2023 | DRESDEN. Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, “Trasumanar” | ENGEN. Städtisches Museum, “Hair” | KONSTANZ. Randegg Castle, “Exile”.
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
 

2025 | BERLIN. Haus am Lützowplatz “Berlin Realists” | 2024 | BUKAREST. National Museum / KIEL. city gallery, “Dissonance” | HAMBURG. Deichtorhallen. Halle für Aktuelle Kunst, “Dix und die Gegenwart” | BERLIN. Museum Reinickendorf, “Kinky” | VIENNA. Galerie Ruberl, “Goodbye Paintings” | BERLIN. Haunt, “Les Enchantées” | GERA. Orangery, “Brought to light” | COPENHAGEN. Brask Collection, “Borderlines” | DRESDEN. Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, “Portrait” | SELESTAT. Museé Chapel Saint Quirin, “Kafkaesque” | 2023 | BERLIN. Europäischer Kunstverein, “Vermeer Contemporary” | LONDON. MAMA, “Fetish”.
 

COLLECTIONS (selection)
 

Art Collection of the German Bundestag, Berlin | Frissiras Museum Athens (GR) | Collett Prague - Munich, Jirny (GER/CZ) | Schloss Randegg, Constance | Städtische Sammlungen Schloss Burgk, Freital | Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder | Kunsthalle Rostock | Kunstmuseum Stuttgart | Artistic Museum of Contemporary Arts (AMOCA), Wales (GB) | Private Museum Collection Pallav-Patel, Dubai (UAE) | Private Museum Seibert Collection, Berlin | Kunstsammlung Gera | Brask Collection, Copenhagen (DK) | Städtische Galerie Bremen | Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst | Große Kunstschau Worpswede | Hurrle Collection, Durbach/ Offenburg | Burg Kniphausen Foundation, Wilhelmshaven | Kunsthalle Dessau | SPREEGOLD-COLLECTION, Berlin | CERN Institute | Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Berlin.