Biografie

1984-88
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München

1989-91
Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg

seit 2001
Professor an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe

Ausstellungen (Auswahl)

2008
Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe

2007   
"Franz Ackermann - From Eden to Lima", neugerriemschneider, Berlin / Fondazione Marconi, Mailand / Domus Artium 2002 - Centro de Arte de Salamanca
"Imagination Becomes Reality - Werke aus der Sammlung Goetz", ZKM - Karlsruhe  
Reality Bites - Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany", Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Sankt Louis, Missouri

2006   
"Franz Ackermann - Home, Home Again - 23 Gespenster", Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
"IDYLLE - TRAUM UND TRUGSCHLUSS", Sammlung Falckenberg Kulturstiftung Phoenix Art, Hamburg

2005   
Works on Paper Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Colours and Trips Künstlerhaus Palais, Thurn
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims / "Franz Ackermann, Luiz Zerbini", Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo / Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokio

2004   
Champs de vision Musée des Beaux Arts, Rouen
Monument to now Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
nonstop with the hhc, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
travelantitravel neugerriemschneider, Berlin

2003   
New Modernism For A New Millennium: Abstraction and Surrealism Are
A Nova Geometria Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Un-built cities Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Hands up, baby, hands up! Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg
Global Navigation System Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Dreams and Conflicts - The Viewer's Dictatorship Venice Biennale
Naherholungsgebiet Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg Eine Nacht in den Tropen Kunsthalle, Nürnberg

2002   
Psychodrome 02 Fundació Juan Miró, Barcelona En Route Serpentine Gallery, London
8th Baltic Triennial of International Art Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Drawing now – eight positions Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City
XXV Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo
Basel Public, Wandinstallation Nordtangente, Basel The Waterfall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Seasons in the sun, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam