Tim Berresheim has been called a ‘pioneer of computer-based art’. The image-worlds at the heart of his practice combine digital and analogue methods, weaving together disparate references from art history, technology, science and nature in a process he has described as an ‘artistic contemporary archaeology.’ By toying with preconceived notions of actuality, Tim’s works give the otherwise senseless sheen of digital art an enhanced sense of anima – a life or soul.

Artist biography

Education. Tim Berresheim (b.1975, Heinsberg, Germany) studied at the Hochschule der Bildende Künste in Braunschweig and the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf.

Select exhibitions. Flag, Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany (2024); Between pixel and pigment, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (2024); New Old World, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany (2024); temporal spelunking, Belmacz, London, UK (2024); The Cicerone and the Phoenix, Galerie Elisabeth and Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany (2023); Caverna, Augen & Welt, Aachen, Germany (2023); La Grotta della Fenice – Una passione inconfessabile, Falko Alexander, Cologne (2023); Expect the Unexpected, Kunst Museum, Bonn (2023); Screen Time – Digitale Wirklichkeiten, Kunsthaus NRW, Kornelimünster (2022-23); Der Cicerone und der Phönix, Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart (2022); Hartmut Neumann. Foreign levels, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Germany (2022);  Neverending Stories. From the Oehmen collection, Museum Ratingen, Germany (2022); Tim Berresheims Bilderreise, Kreis Heinsberg, Germany (2021); AR Biennale, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany (2021); I dialogue, Kinch, Belmacz, London (2021); Aus Alter Wurzel Neue Kraft Teil 3, Mehrere Ausstellungsorte, Wassenberg und Heinsberg, Germany (2020); Störgrösse (AAWNK), Galerie Falko Alexander, Köln, Germany (2020); Das Auge im Neuen einüben (AAWNK), Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany (2020); Musterung. Pop und Politik in der zeitgenössischen Textilkunst, Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz, Chemnitz, Germany (2020); Sleep Walk, Ruttkowski 68, Paris, France (2019); Tim Berresheim. Works 2007-2018, Office Reiner Opoku, Berlin, Germany (2019); It’s All Black and White – Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA (2019); 14. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Alte Kelter, Fellbach, Germany (2019); Harry Rag, Belmacz, London, UK (2018); Smashin´ Time II, Kunst Raum Riehen, Riehen, Germany (2018); Die Macht der Vervielfältigung, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2018); Becoming Animal, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen & Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, Germany (2018); Aus Alter Wurzel Neue Kraft, Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles, USA (2016); Tim Berresheim. 2003-2015, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany (2015); Auge und Welt, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2014); The New Romantics, Eyebeam, New York, USA (2014); Dumb Rocks, Belmacz, London, UK (2013); Tropical Dancer (seeing is believing) 2007–2011, Cardi Black Box, Mailand, USA (2011); Future Gipsy Antifolklore What?!, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, USA (2010); CONDITION TIDINESS. RUDE, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, USA (2009); St. Moritz Art Masters, St. Moritz, France (2009); Scheuche (Mild), Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, USA (2008); Faces and Figures (Revisited), Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, USA (2008); Violett (Haar), Patrick Painter, Inc., Los Angeles, USA (2007); Räume für Kunst, Sammlung Grässlin, St. Georgen, Gernamy (2006).

Public collections. The Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland; MoMA Collection, New York; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles; Adrastus Collection, Ávila; Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung, Aachen; Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf; Nationalbank AG, Essen; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart; Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart; Kunstmuseum Celle (Sammlung Robert Simon), Celle; Kunstsammlung Benedikt Taschen.

Tim lives and works in Aachen, Germany.