Maximilian Verhas

Sometimes endlessly intertwined ribbons of matt or highly polished bronze, sometimes organically shaped, sometimes sharp-edged and architectural. The graceful and dynamic rolling body sculptures by Maximilian Verhas invite the eye to lose itself in their infinity.

Works

Maximilian Verhas: Big Laokoond, 2023 — Big Laokoond, 2023, bronze, 70 × 95 × 80 cm

Maximilian Verhas: Big Two Rolling Rings, 322 — Big Two Rolling Rings, 322, bronze, 100 × 80 × 80 cm

Maximilian Verhas: Rolling Loop, 2020 — Rolling Loop, 2020, bronze, 23 × 29 × 23 cm

Maximilian Verhas: Laokond, 2020 — Laokond, 2020, bronze, 33 × 23 × 25 cm

Maximilian Verhas: Große Achtung, 2023 — Große Achtung, 2023, bronze, 53 × 30 × 30 cm

Maximilian Verhas: Bigger Open Twister, 2016 — Bigger Open Twister, 2016, bronze, 40 × 25 × 35 cm

Maximilian Verhas: Rolling Spiral (Kopie), 2016 — Rolling Spiral (Kopie), 2016, bronze, 100 × 83 × 83 cm

Maximilian Verhas: Toltekian Open House, 2023 — Toltekian Open House, 2023, bronze, 10 × 10 × 10 cm

Maximilian Verhas: Dessau Open House, 2023 — Dessau Open House, 2023, bronze, 10 × 10 × 10 cm

Maximilian Verhas: Archia Open House, 2023 — Archia Open House, 2023, bronze, 10 × 10 × 10 cm

Maximilian Verhas: Marrokkan Open House, 2023 — Marrokkan Open House, 2023, bronze, 10 × 10 × 10 cm

Maximilian Verhas: Babylonian Open House, 2023 — Babylonian Open House, 2023, bronze, 10 × 10 × 10 cm

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Artist portrait

Artist portrait
Maximilian Verhas

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

New eMotions
Sep 2023

Winding Sculptures
Dec 2020

Moving Perspectives
Sep 2018

Jun 2016

Feb 2014

Group Exhibitions

Art Essences XXV
Jul 2021

Art Essences XXIV
Feb 2021

15 Years of Galerie Friedmann-Hahn
May 2020

Art Essences XXI
Apr 2019

Art Essences XVII
Oct 2017

Art Essences XIV - Berlin Berlin!
Jul 2016

Apr 2016

Jan 2016

Feb 2015

Oct 2013

Sep 2013

Kunstessenzen - Sommer 2012
Jun 2012

still in motion
Nov 2011

Fairs

Art Karlsruhe 2023
May 2023

Art Karlsruhe 2022
Jul 2022

Feb 2020

Feb 2019

Sep 2015

Mar 2014

Exhibition list

Solo Exhibitions

2022

"Einzelausstellung als 1. Preisträger 2021 des Skulpturenparks", Stadt Mörfelden-Walldorf, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Germany

2020

"Winding Sculptures", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2018

"Moving Perspectives", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2018

Galerie Berno Sacchetti, Ascona, Switzerland

2017

Galerie Skorpion, Hamburg, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2020

Galerie Berno Sacchetti, Ascona, Switzerland

2020

Beukenhof-Phoenix Galleries, Kluisbergen, Belgium

2020

"Gruppenausstellung im Löwenpalais", Galerie Schmalfuß, Potsam, Germany

2018

Cadogan Gallery, London, Great Britain

2018

"Gruppenausstellung im Löwenpalais", Galerie Schmalfuß, Potsdam, Germany

Collections

2004

Sammlung Ströher, Darmstadt, Germany

Vita

Since 1990 Maximilian Verhas has been dealing with the problem of the immobility of sculpture. His solution: bronze sculptures that can be set in motion as a whole, so that there is no longer a distinction between above, below, inside and outside and an all-visibility of the variety of forms in his bronze sculptures results.

He was born in Essen in 1960 and grew up in Düsseldorf. He studied painting, graphics and figurative sculpture at the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts from 1981 to 1986, followed by his studies at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts. Verhas had further study visits to the College of Art in Canterbury and New York. His works are regularly shown in German and European galleries and at international art fairs and are part of public and private collections worldwide.

Lives and works in Berlin

1960

Born in Essen

1981 - 1986

Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with Prof.C. Fischer (painting/graphics) and Prof.C. Höpfner (sculpture)

1986 - 1990

Studies at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Berlin with Prof.D. Evison

1987 - 1989

Study stays at College of Art in Canterbury und New York

1990

Start of 'Rollkörper' sculptures series

1999 - 2003