Michiel Frielink was born in 1979 in The Netherlands. He studied at the AKI academy of art and design in Enschede, The Netherlands and graduated 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
He currently lives and works in Leipzig, Germany.
Solo exhibitions
2026 "HYPERION", ars avanti, Leipzig
2024 "EOS", Galeriehotel Leipziger Hof, Leipzig
2024 "Les prochaines rêves", with Claudia Hauptmann in gallery ARTAe, Leipzig
2022 "Unruhe vorm Paradies", with Claudia Hauptmann in gallery ARTAe, Leipzig
2022 Kunstverein Bad Homburg, with Judith Weissig
2021 "objekt razraboti", with Claudia Hauptmann in gallery ARTAe, Leipzig
2021 "cor· pus de· lic· ti", LindeNOW XVII
2020 "Die Ernte", LindeNOW XVI
2019 "Shortly Before Zero Hour", a&o Kunsthalle, Leipzig
2019 "Brennende Fragmente", gallery fabra ars, Magdeburg
2015 "EXODOS", Theatre Impermanent, Leipzig
Group exhibitions (selection)
2025 Internationales Sommeratelier und Stipendium Aschersleben
2023 "TRAFO", Leipziger Jahresausstellung, Leipzig (with catalogue)
2023 "Leipzig New Painting", Whitebox Art Center (museum), Beijing
2021 auction, Charity Dinner Mondfest, Berlin Capital Club, Berlin
2021 "sublime generous odyssey", Pilotenkueche, Leipzig
2021 KUNST/MITTE 2021, Magdeburg
2021 "Airy Democratic Spirituality", arsavanti, Leipzig
2021 "Leer_Zeit", Begehungen 2021, Chemnitz (with catalogue)
2020 Kunstpreis Sparkasse Karlsruhe
2018 "Dirty Hands Clean Paper", gallery fabra ars, Magdeburg
2018 "Leipziger Dreierlei", gallery fabra ars, Magdeburg
2017 Ostrale 17 re_form Dresden biennale (with catalogue)
2017 Galerie 21, Vorwerk-Stift Hamburg
2017 LindeNOW! XIII
2016 Liebfrauenkirche Leipzig during the Katholikentag 2016
2015 "Kunst und Gewalt", Tankstation Enschede
2015 Super!MACHT 24 hour exhibition, Leipzig
2014 Grosser Fruehjahrsrundgang, "Love in 6 positions", Pilotenkueche, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig
2012 Jahresendausstellung, Kunstverein Emmerich
2011 ArteZ finals exhibition, AKI art academy Enschede
2010 "HeARTTWENTE", AkkuH Hengelo
2010 "3 represents 6", Fase 2, Enschede
2009 "Kunst in der Region", Da-Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst (with catalogue)
Publications:
2025 Catalogue of selected works, 2015 - 2025
2020 "An deutschen Gleisen"
Work in public collections:
Kunstsammlung Stadt Aschersleben
Kunstsammlung Kreis Steinfurt
Residencies:
2025 Sommeratelier Aschersleben
2014, 2022 Pilotenkueche, Leipzig
