Paco Knöller

Paco Knöller, born in Obermarchtal in 1950, is a German painter and draughtsman. Knöller was student of Joseph Beuys at the Düsseldorf Academy of the Arts in the early 1970s. He works on paper, wood, and in print to investigate the symbiotic exchange between painting and drawing. In this sense, the artist penetrates the seemingly opposing forces of linearity and pictorial space. In doing so, Knöller strikes a fragile balance between delicate, tentative, and gradually developing lines and bold fields of colour, which results in energetically charged images ephemerally uniting and dispersing the two distinct painterly methods.

Knöller was professor of fine arts at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen from 2001 to 2013. Since 1978 he has exhibited his work in various solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad. Important exhibitions are and were, among others, at the Hilti Art Foundation in Liechtenstein(2023), at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2022), at the Museum Ulm (2020), at the Museum Morsbroich (2019), at the Kunstverein Lippstadt (2011), at the Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus (2008), at the Kunsthalle Bremen (2004), at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin (2002), at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (1997), at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (1990), at the Neue Nationalgalerie (1988), at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1982), and at the Sprengel Museum (1977). Paco Knöller lives and works in Berlin.