David Ostrowski

In his paintings, Ostrowski uses a restricted range of materials from his studio, including canvas, primer, emulsion, spray paint, and found objects like paper, cardboard, and tape. The works are casual, often monochrome, and characterized by a process that combines intuitive gestures with elements of chance and error. Ostrowski’s work has been described to focus on the exploration of emptiness within the context of painting. ==Awards==

• 2012 Studio programme Kölnischer Kunstverein und Imhoff-Stiftung, Cologne, Germany ==Solo Exhibitions==

• 2025: Let me put it this way, Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe, China • 2024: Parliament, Sprüth Magers, New York • 2023: Leeres Wasser (Anti Drawings), Fig., Tokyo • 2024: Concerned with things as their own composition, Ramiken, New York • 2021: ''So kalt kann es nicht sein / It can't be that cold'', Sprüth Magers, Berlin • 2020: Lady Helen, Lady Helen, London (with Angharad Williams) • 2020: POGŁOS / OVERTONE, Avant-Garde Institute, Warsaw (with Tobias Spichtig) • 2020: Lieber Nackt als Gefühlsleben, Jir Sandel, Copenhagen • 2020: Menschen, Bilder, Emotionen / 사람, 그림, 감정, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul • 2019: Political Paintings, Sundogs, Paris • 2019: Political Correction, Piece Unique, Cologne • 2018: The Thin Red Line, Sprüth Magers, London • 2018: The Warsaw Pavilion, Wschód, Warsaw • 2017: DONT, Halle 9 Kirowwerk, Leipzig • 2017: Bei mir geht es in den Keller hoch, , Barcelona • 2016: To Lose, , Düren (with Michail Pirgelis) • 2015: The F Word, Arken Museum, Copenhagen • 2015: I want to die Forever, Kunstraum Innsbruck • 2014: How To Do Things Left, Rubell Museum, Miami • 2014: Just do it, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin • 2013: F, , Cologne ==Group Exhibitions==

• 2023: The Sky is Thin. Drawings, Standard Oslo • 2017: Bild des Tages, plət, Amsterdam • 2017: THE ART SHOW – Art of the New Millennium, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma • 2016: Fasi Lunari, Fondazione Carriero, Milan • 2015: Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism, M Woods Museum, Beijing • 2014: Ordinary Freaks, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz • 2014: Beware Wet Paint, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London ==Public collections==

The works of David Ostrowski are held, among others, in the following public collections: • Aïshti Collection, Beirut • Danjuma Collection, London • De la Cruz Collection, Miami • Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin • Moderna Museet, Stockholm • Museum of Old and New Art, Berriedale • Olbricht Collection, Berlin • Rubell Museum, Miami • Sammlung Goetz, Munich • Sammlung Scharpff, Bonn • Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf • Syz Collection, Switzerland • Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo • Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv • Zabludowicz Collection, London Bibliography • Leeres Wasser (Anti Drawings), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2023. • Concerned with things as their own composition, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2023. • Chuzpe, Weinspach, Cologne, 2021 • So kalt kann es nicht sein / It can’t be that cold, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2021. • Poglos / Overtone (with Tobias Spichtig), Avant-Garde Institute, Warsaw, 2021 • Time & Life (with Magnus Frederik Clausen), Jir Sandel, Copenhagen, 2021. • Menschen, Bilder, Emotionen, Leeahn Gallery / Sprüth Magers, Seoul, 2020. • 3 Zimmer, Küche, Bad (with Andreas Schulze, Sophie von Hellermann), Braunsfelder, Cologne, 2019. • I strongly object, Weinspach, Cologne, 2019. • The thin red line, Mousse Publishing, London, 2018. • DON’T/Conscious Decadence (with Nan Goldin & Galileo Chini), Halle 9 Kirowwerk, Leipzig, 2018 • Nothing Happened / To Lose (with Michail Pirgelis), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2018. • I want to die Forever, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2018. • The F Word, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, 2015. • How to do things left, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, 2014. • Even the most beautiful woman ends at her feet, Meurer Verlag, Cologne, 2013. • F Paintings, Peres Projects, Berlin, 2013. • Dann lieber nein, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, 2012 • Ostrowski, David / Randt, Leif: Shake Your Tree, Nr. 4, Berlin, 2012 • Die Lügnerin (with Philip Seibel), FORMAT:C, Düsseldorf, 2011 • Hulk vs. Hulk (with David Fintrop), Acapulco, Düsseldorf, 2007 == See also ==