Né en 1976 à St.Georgen (Suisse)
Expositions personnelles
2011 Tout est construit, Espace international du CEAAC, Strasbourg Un catalogue retraçant le travail de Jörg Obergfell a été édité à l’occasion de cette exposition et de sa résidence au CEAAC 2010 Trabant, Kunsthalle Mainz Second nature, Gallery Muro, Genève 2009 Tower Blocks and Tunnels, Bearspace, Londres Vollversammlung (plenum), Wewerka Pavillon 2, Münster 2005 Frischzelle1, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart Debut, Kunstverein OffenburgExpositions collectives (sélection)
2011 Modeled Realities, Gallery Heike Strelow, Francfort Burgers Simultanhalle, Simultanhalle, Cologne 2010 Diving for pearls in your own soup, Lothringer 13, MunichSupermarket, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Am Rande der Balance, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
.New German Art, German Embassy, Londres
2009 On concrete, Tokyo Wondersite, Tokyo Viking Mountain Funeral, The Celestial Suitcase, New York lives and works in …., Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Nuremberg 2008 wastestate, Bearspace, Londres
me, myself and city, The National Art Studio Changdong, Séoul
2007 Allotment, sevenseven contemporary art, Londres The art of consumption, whitecross gallery, Londres
Jungle Juice, galleryem, Séoul
Black Powder + White Party Kyunghee University Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul Edge, Arts Centre King’s Lynn
Art Students Display Their Works 18th Federal Competition, Exhibtion Hall of German Republic, Bonn
2006 Die Schönheit der Chance (The beauty of the chance), Nuremberg
2005 Junge Kunst 10 (Young Art 10): Sebastian Stumpf . Jörg Obergfell, Gallery Kleindienst, Leipzig
2004 Wenn Feuer Dann Rauch (Where there´s fire there´s smoke), Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft / Kunstverein Nuremberg
9th Triennal Kleinplastik (small sculptures), Fellbach
2003 Positionen und Tendenzen. Kunst in Franken 2003 (Approaches and Trends in Franconia 2003), Zumikon, Nuremberg
Prix, bourses et résidences
2011 Cité des Arts, Paris CEAAC, Strasbourg 2010 USA-scholarship of the bavarian state department for science and art2007 Artstudio Changdong : résidence
2006 Arts and Humanities Research Council Award
Black Forest Art Prize
2005 Academy of Fine Arts, Nürnberg Award
2004 Bourse d’étude de la German National Academic Foundation
2002 Bourse d’étude à l’étranger, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Lyon