Maxim Wakultschik

Born in 1973 in Minsk, Belarus.

1992 – 2000 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, with Prof. Jannis Kounellis and Prof. Beate Schiff

1984 – 1991 Belarusian Lyceum of Fine Arts, Minsk, Belarus

2017 Lecturership at the Alanus College of Art and Society, Alfter

Lives and works in Düsseldorf
 

Experience abroad:
2017 3 months "Work Stay" in the USA
2015 3 months "Work Stay" in the USA
2013 6 months "Work Stay" in the USA

Individual exhibitions:

2026
Beyond the Surface, House of Arts, Salzburg, Austria
Solo Show, Art Gallery 7, Cologne, Germany

2025
Equations of the Light, von fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Unfolding Light, Gerhardt Braun Galerie, Mallorca, Spain
All about Love, Galerie Ludwig Kleebolte, Essen, Germany
Solo Show, Gallery at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Solo Show, Art Gallery 7, Cologne, Germany

2024
Behind the Point of infinity, Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Divine Infinity, Gerhardt Braun Gallery, Madrid, Spain

2023
Maxim Wakultschik, Impulse Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
Maxim’s Birthday, with Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany at Bazzar Café Rösterei, Neuss
Maxim Wakultschik, HOFA Gallery, London, UK

2022
CONTINUATION, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf

2021
URBAN JUNGLE (with Dorothee Liebscher), von fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf

2020
Sighting (with Christoph Rode), byfraunberg art gallery Düsseldorf
Pointillism 5.0, Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf

2019
Inter-Moment, gallery at Schlosspavillon Ismaning
Alyosha – Bioethical Aberrations / Maxim Wakultschik – Polymorphism, Städtische Galerie “sole 1”, Bergkamen
Reflecting, flickering, trickling (reflecting, flickering, trickling), Galerie Seidel, Cologne
Shape Shifting, Städtische Galerie Schwabach
Perception, ART Gallery 7 / Meike Knüppe, Cologne

2018
Way to the East, Art Center La Recova, Tenerife, Spanien
Heimat, Galerie Simon Nolte, Münster
The New Art Order, Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
The Illusion of Perception, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf

2017
Blurred Boundaries, COVA art gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Maxim’s World of Art, Art Gallery 7 / Meike Knüppe, Cologne

2016
New works by Maxim Wakultschik, Galerie Simon Nolte Münster
Perspective Three, TRIBU HOUSE, Geneva, Switzerland
Monuments, Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf

2015
Art meets Fashion – Inline unlimited, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
portrait. Form, colour, illusion, NEW AG, Mönchengladbach
Faces, Unique Gallery, Galerie Claudia Junig, Cologne
Facetime 2.0, Galeria Simon Nolte, Portocolom, Mallorca, Spanien

2014
The Secret View, Old Honey Factory, Kunstverein Ibbenbüren
The second view, Galerie Palais Walderdorff, Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst Trier e.V.
Face to face, Museum in Haus Hövener, Kunstverein Ostens Sauerland, Brilon
Face Time, Galeria Simon Nolte, Portocolom, Mallorca, Spanien
Face Time, Galerie Michael Nolte, Münster
The Poetics of Everyday Life, Kunstverein Aurichy
Time window, Kunstverein Gundelfingen
VIEW TRAINS – Painting and Objects, Kunstverein Heidenheim a. d. Brenz
The Art of Shadow, Kunstverein Nümbrecht
Face to Face, Old Distillery, Kunstverein Ebersberg

2013
Kunstverein Biberach
Maxim Wakultschik, Gallery Frank Pages, Geneva, Switzerland
New Objects, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
Hall of Fame, Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
Trainspotting, Municipal Gallery, Grevenbroich Shipping Hall
FaceTime, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Schilderijen / Wandobjecten, Galerie BMB, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Roland Gallery, Cologne
Raymond Banas Art Gallery and House of Culture, Metz, Frankreich

2012
The Secret View, Art Collections of the City of Limburg
really – not really, Kunstverein Barsinghausen e.V.

2011
East-West night train, Städtische Galerie Petershagen
Maxim Wakultschik – Painting, Tower Gallery Augustusburg Castle
Maxim Wakultschik – Painting / Yukiya Izumita – Sculpture, Gallery at the Pinakothek der Moderne / Barbara Ruetz, Munich

2010
East-West Night Train, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
 

Group exhibitions (selection):

2026
Summer Flow, Group Show, von fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Boundless Forms, HOFA Gallery, London, UK
Austin Bound,Laura Rathe Fine Arts, Austin TX, USA
Tribute, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Art matinee, Galerie Felix Höller, Vienna, Austria 
Tour with Art Gallery 7, Cologne, Germany
TRIBUTE, von fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

2025
Homage to Marc Chagall, Galerie Seidel, Cologne, Germany
Diversity Sculpture, Sight Gallery, Offenbach, Germany
Anya´s Eye, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston TX, USA
Colors of Light, Essenheimer Kunstverein, Germany
Artist Position, Sight Galerie, Offenbach, Germany
Compromise, Galerie Seidel, Cologne, Germany
Architects of Texture, HOFA Gallery, London, UK
Rhino, Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Group Show, Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

2024
Winter Edition 2024, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Face to Face, Felix Höller Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Groupshow, Gallery Ysebart, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium
Kenneth Blom – Maxim Wakultschik / Recent Works, von fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Encounter, von fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
Discover, by Fraunberg art Gallery, Düsseldorf
Highlights, Burkhardt Eikelmann Gallery, Düsseldorf
Essencen, Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
Group Show, Gerhardt Braun Gallery Art Window, Palma de Mallorca
Illusionary Essences, Galerie Galina Seidel, Cologne

2023
The small format, with Art Gallery 7, Cologne, Germany
The Pulse of Art, Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Nudes, Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Charity Art Auction in cooperation with Sotheby's + Rotary International clubs, benefiting
Desideria Care e.V., Palais Oppenheim, Cologne, Germany
Favorites, fromfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Artist Positions 23, Sight Galerie, Offenbach, Germany
Autumn Salon III - New Romantic 3.0, Stiftung Kultur Korridor, Aachen, Germany
This is a Group Show, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA
Maxim Wakultschik and seiLeise feat. 'Young talents from Contemporary to Urban Art', von fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany 
The Diversity of Expression, Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Nachtbrötchen, Roermond, the Netherlands
20 years Art Gallery 7, Art Gallery 7, Cologne

2022
To Square One, Taylor Wessing, Düsseldorf, Germany

2020
Masterpieces II, curated by von fraunberg art gallery, Taylor Wessing, Düsseldorf
Katharsis, Galerie Seidel, Cologne

2019
Gallery Choice, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
Sun, moon and stars / The small format ART Gallery 7 / Meike Knüppe, Cologne
Wood – Body – Context, Municipal Art Gallery Wertingen, Wertingen
Wood – Stone – Iron – Plastic, Galerie Kleebolte, Mayor’s House, Essen
Artist Night – Night of galleries and museums in Münster, Galerie Simon Nolte, Münster
Art Ruhr Zeitgenossen, Auktionshaus an der Ruhr, Mülheim a.d. Ruhr
Viva Frida! An Homage to Frida Kahlo, Go Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Flowing Colors, curated by von fraunberg art gallery, Taylor Wessing, Düsseldorf
Academy Artists, Quirin Bank, Düsseldorf
Personal Structures / Open Borders, presented by ECC European Cultural Centre in the context of the 58th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Mora (Room #3A5), Venice, Italy
Summer Contemporary 2019, HOFA Gallery, Namnos Village, Mykonos, Griechenland
Belkina, Dóka, Wakultschik: Portraits and Storytelling, Faur Zsófi Galéria, Budapest, Ungarn
Rarity Summer Contemporary 2019, Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Giechenland
Behind, Galerie Simon Nolte, Münster
1×1 Detonation, Galerie Seidel, Cologne

2018
illusion or deception, Galerie Seidel, Cologne
The large format, Art Gallery 7 / Meike Knueppe, Cologne

2017
New works, Galerie Simon Nolte, Münster
All in ..., byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
Masterpieces, Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
Defragmentation of the Reality, Galerie Seidel, Cologne
salondergegenwart, Hamburg
The small format, Art Gallery 7 / Meike Knueppe, Cologne
Biało – czerwono – biali. Współczesna sztuka białoruska / White – Red – White. Contemporary Belarusian Art, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Polen
MONOCHROME – Art Utilizing Primarily One Color, M A N I F E S T, Non-Profit Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Discover as on a Journey, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
Uitnodiging (Invitation), COVA art gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Group exhibition on the sculpture projects in Münster, gallery Simon Nolte, Münster
Sculpture, Objects, Christian Marx Gallery, Düsseldorf
RARITY SUMMER CONTEMPORARY 2017, Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Griechenland
WE THE WOMAN, Atelier des Bains, with Frank Pages Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
New Works, Gallery at the Pinakothek der Moderne / Barbara Ruetz, Munich
Inseparable, Galerie Seidel, Cologne
Happy new Drawings and other Objects, Gallery Burkhard Eikelmann, Düsseldorf

2016
Now U see it's Xmas Season, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
Foundation Starke, Löwenpalais Grunewald, Berlin
Christmas Exhibition 2016 (Christmas Exhibition 2016), Stiftung Starke, Löwenpalais Grunewald, Berlin
Pure Pop – The Art of Popular Culture, Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
Galeria Simon Nolte, Palma, Majorca, Spanien
50 Contemporary Artists, EAF / ENTER ART FOUNDATION at ABC Berlin, Berlin Art Week, Berlin
Art After Work, Kunstakademie.gallery, Düsseldorf
Zeitgeist, Galerie Simon Nolte Münster
Rift or split?, Gallery Galina Seidel, Cologne
XX Part One – 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Revision, group photo project for ZBOR. BELARUSIAN ART MOVEMENT in IZOLYATSIA, Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kiev, Ukraine
SaisonstArt (Season StART), Galeria Simon Nolte, Portocolom, Majorca, Spanien
SUPREME Sculpture – Painting – Installation, Art Gallery 7 / Meike Knüppe, Cologne
Pixel of Identities – The Body Language, Bogota Arte Contemporaneo BAC Gallery, Bogotá, Kolumbien
Liquid Rooms – The Labyrinth, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi & VENICE ART HOUSE Gallery, Venedig, Italien

2015
Gallery Artists, fromfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
100 years Black Square by Kazimir Malevich. 10 artists x 10 m2 art (Centennial Anniversary of Kazimir Malevich's Black Square. 10 artists x 10 square meters of Art), 20th gallery anniversary show, Galerie Seidel, Cologne
Grand Opening, Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
New works (New Works), Galerie Simon Nolte, Münster
Art Boulevard 2015 Painting and Photography, cultural council Steglitz-Zehlendorf with Boulevard Berlin
#BYOA #Proudcollector, Woeske Gallery, Berlin
Revision, Foundation Izolyatsia Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kiev, Ukraine
ZBIÓR (ZBOR) (Set (Zbor)), group project Revision, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, Polen
Magic of the Real, gallery Simon Nolte, Münster
Naked, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA 
Behind the Scenes, Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
Future Identities – Bodies. Places. Spaces., Laura Haber Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentinien
Future Identities – Bodies. Places. International Photography, Painting, Installation, Video Art, and Performance Art Festival at Palazzo Radetzky, Milan, Italy
Saisonart 4.0 (Season Art 4.0), Galeria Simon Nolte, Portocolom, Majorca, Spanien

2014
Portfolio: Reality and Illusions, Galerie Seidel, Cologne
MODERN VENUS, Kunstraum Gerdi Gutperle, Viernheim
Men's Worlds, Kunstverein Burgwedel-Isernhagen, Isernhagen
NordArt 2014, KiC Art at the Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf
Myth & Muse, an Homage to Frida Kahlo, GO Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Under 4 Eyes – Language of the Portrait, Old Town Hall, Kunstkreis Gräfelfing, Gräfeling
AFTER THE FAIR & NEW POSITIONS, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf

2013
Gallery's Choice, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
No Time Like the Present, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
small but just in size ..., BESPOKE, Düsseldorf
20 years Galerie Ruetz – Jubilee Exhibition (20 Years Galerie Ruetz – Anniversary Exhibition), Gallery at the Pinakothek der Moderne / Barbara Ruetz, Munich
Menschen-t-raume (Human Dreams / Human Spaces), Galerie Seidel, Cologne

2012
Gallery at the Pinakothek der Moderne / Barbara Ruetz, Munich
On the eternal Journey, E.ON Galerie, E.ON AG, Düsseldorf
NEWart.21, Galeria Simon Nolte, Portocolom, Majorca, Spanien
Nomads, CMG Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
Summertime, Von Fraunberg Art Gallery, Düsseldorf
Radius Zero, temporary space, factory “Horizon”, Minsk, Belarus

2011
In between Days, byfraunberg aart gallery, Düsseldorf
New States of Contempory Art, Galerie Michael Nolte, Münster
Review and Outlook – 7 years Galerie T40 (Review and Outlook – 7 Years Galerie T40), Galerie T40, Düsseldorf

2010
Ambivalences, Galerie Michael Nolte, Münster
Mobility 6: Inside Movement, supporting association for young artists e. V. – Gallery in the Griesbad, Ulm
ON WHAT?, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Seewerk 2010, the SEEWERK, Moers
Gallery Artists, Galerie Michael Nolte, Münster
 

Trade fair participation:

2026
Art Salon Zurich 2026 with von fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
San Francisco Art Fair with HOFA Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Art Cologne Palma Mallorca with Gerhardt Braun Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Art Madrid with Gerhardt Braun Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Arte Genova with Unique Contemporary, Genova, Italy
Art SG with HOFA Gallery, Singapore
Art Karlsruhe with Art Galerie 7, byfraunberg art gallery, Christian Marx Gallery,
Karlsruhe, Germany
Art Palm Beach with HOFA Gallery, Palm Beach, USA
Naarden the Art Fair with Okker Art Gallery, Naarden, Netherlands
Baf Bergamo with Unique Contemporary, Bergamo, Italy

2025
art KARLSRUHE with von Fraunberg art gallery
Art Central Hong Kong, China
KUNSTRAI Art Amsterdam
San Francisco Art Fair
Art. Karlsruhe
Arte Genova, Italy
Art Fair Tokyo, Japan
Estampa, Spain
Art Miami, USA
Lucca Art Fair, Italy
PAN Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Others Art Fair, Turin, Italy
Art Verona, Italy
Fair for Art Vienna, Austria
The Armory Show, New York, USA
Kunstmesse Schloss Kammer am Attersee, Vienna, Austria

2024
art KARLSRUHE with von Fraunberg art gallery
Volta New York, NY, USA
Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey
Knokke Art Fair, Knokke, Belgium
BAF – Bergamo Arte Fiera, Italy
17. Art Austria, Vienna, Austria

2023
art KARLSRUHE with von Fraunberg art gallery

2022
Volta Basel
art KARLSRUHE
Frieze Seoul, South Korea
Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt

2021
Volta Basel
Art Madrid

2020
art KARLSRUHE

2019
POSITIONS Munich

2018
art KARLSRUHE, Karlsruhe, Germany / with Art Galerie 7 / Meike Knüppe, Cologne and Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf

2017
KIAF 2017 ART SEOUL, Seoul, South Korea
Cologne List 2017, Fair for Contemporary Art, Cologne, Germany / with Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
art KARLSRUHE with Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf

2016
Kunst 15 Zurich, International Contemporary Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland with von fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
ART.FAIR Cologne with gallery Simon Nolte
art KARLSRUHE with Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf, von Fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf, and Art Galerie 7 / Meike Knüppe, Cologne

2015
art KARLSRUHE with Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
ART.FAIR Cologne, Cologne with gallery Simon Nolte, Münster
Kunst 15 Zurich, International Contemporary Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland with von fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf

2014
Contemporary Venice – It’s LIQUID International Art Show, Palazzo Flangini, Venedig, Italien
ArtPalmBeach, Palm Beach, Florida, USA , with Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
ART.FAIR Cologne, Cologne with gallery Simon Nolte, Münster, and Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
art KARLSRUHE, with Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf
Kunst 14 Zurich, International Contemporary Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland with von fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, Texas, USA with Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA

2013
Kunst 13 Zurich, International Contemporary Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland
ART.FAIR Cologne, Cologne with gallery at the Pinakothek der Moderne / Barbara Ruetz, Munich, Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf, and Galerie Simon Nolte, Münster
HOUSTON fine art fair, Houston, Texas, USA / with Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
art KARLSRUHE, with gallery Frank Pages, Geneva, Switzerland

2012
Scope Miami, Florida, USA with Gallery Biba, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Kunst 12 Zurich (Art 12 Zurich), International Contemporary Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland with gallery at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
ART.FAIR Cologne, Cologne with Christian Marx Galerie, Düsseldorf, and Galerie Michael Nolte, Münster
HOUSTON Fine Art Fair, Houston, Texas, USA with Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
Scope Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland with Gallery Frank Pages, Geneva, Switzerland
art KARLSRUHE with gallery Frank Pages
Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey with Gallery Frank Pages
Art Stage Singapore, Singapore with Gallery Frank Pages
 

Prices

2009 SWITCH ON, Recognition Award, Kunstpreis Licht 2009 (Art Award Light 2009), Graefelfing
2006 Special Prize for Originality, Wesseling Art Prize, Wesseling
2005 Award of PSD Bank, Rhein-Ruhr, Düsseldorf
2001 Art Award of Sparkasse Bayreuth, Bayreuth
2001 Young Art Award of Stadtwerke Herne AG, Herne
2001 Emprise Art Award 2001, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf
2000 Caspar von Zumbusch Award, Herzebrock-Clarhorst
2000 Kö-Galerie Award, Düsseldorf
1987 Third prize at the Union Competition Diploma, Mosu, Russland
 

Collections

Adelta Finanz AG, Düsseldorf

AXA, Cologne

Bach, Langheid & Dalmayr, Cologne

Booz Allen Hamilton, Frankfurt am Main

Denk GmbH, Berlin

Emprise Consulting GmbH, Düsseldorf

Ernst & Young Deutsche Allgemeine Treuhand AG, Frankfurt am Main

Fast Trade AG, Cologne

Hewlett Packard Germany, Böblingen

NEW AG, Mönchengladbach

ProFonds GmbH, Munich

PSD Bank Rhein-Ruhr, Düsseldorf

PwC Deutsche Revision AG, Düsseldorf

Qiagen AG, Hilden

Sparkasse, Herne

Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Białystok, Polen

Taylor Wessing, Düsseldorf