Julio Rondo Biography

Born 1952, Sotrondio, Spain, lives and works in Stuttgart and Berlin

EDUCATION

1974 to 1980 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Germany under Prof. KRH Sonderborg

1989-2021 Professorship at the Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany

1997-1998 Studies in the USA

SOLO SHOWS (selected)

2024 New Works, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2024 New Works, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2023 Floating Shadows and Invisible Traces, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, CH

2023 Memory of Order: Joint Solo Exhibition of Julio Rondo & Jin Rilong, Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou, China

2023 Julio Rondo, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China

2022 A Go Go, Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany

2022 Blue Prologue, LAN Gallery, Shenzhen, China

2021 Julio Rondo: Going South, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany

2021 Julio Rondo: Let There be Light, LAN Gallery, Shenzhen, China

2020 The Brake, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

2020 Terribly so, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany

2019 ‘GO BUY YOUR OWN RED!!’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2018 ‘O.K., Let`s Panic Later’, Grölle pass:projects, Wuppertal

2017 ‘Report_Images’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich  2015 slope, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris

2014/2015 ‘Revolve’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2014 ‘Little White Lies’, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

2011 ‘Miles From Here’, Adam Gallery London

2009 ‘Amp’, Adam Gallery, London

2009 ‘Buy A Bigger House’, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne

2009  Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2008 ‘Rented Rooms’, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

2008 ‘Comb your Hair with Water and Go to Church, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris

2007 ‘You know, I know’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2007 ‘Julio Rondo’, Galerie Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca 2006 “Mating Call”, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

2006 ‘Julio Rondo’, Kunstverein Leonberg

2005 ‘The Mating Call’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2005 ‘Julio Rondo’, Galerie Stephan Röpke, Cologne

2004 ‘The Mating Call’, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

2005 Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne

2004 ‘Julio Rondo’, Galeria Arnés y Röpke, Madrid 2002 Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

2001 ‘Julio Rondo, Neue Arbeiten“, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2001 ‘Meta Memory’, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

2001 ‘Julio Rondo’, Galerie Arnés y Röpke, Madrid

1999 ‘Julio Rondo’, Gasser & Grunert Gallery, New York

1999 ‘Julio Rondo’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

1998 ‘Julio Rondo’, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

1997 ‘Julio Rondo’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

1996 ‘Julio Rondo’, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne

1996 ‘Julio Rondo’, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

1995 ‘Julio Rondo’, Galerie Klaus Peter Göbel, Stuttgart (catalogue)

1993 ‘Julio Rondo’, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Köln

1991 “Julio Rondo“, Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart (catalogue)

1991 ‘Julio Rondo’, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg

1990 Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne

1990 Galerie Marc Jancou, Zurich

1989 Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg

1988 Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne

1998 Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart (catalogue)

GROUP SHOWS SINCE 1988 (selected)

2023 Sydney Contemporary Art Fai, Sydney, Australia

2023 Summer Break. Behind Closed Doors, Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany

2022 Winter Show 2, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

2021 Listing, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China

2020 Summer Exhibition 2020, PIFO Gallery, Beijing, China

2020 Amish Quilts Meet Modern Art, State Textile and Industrial Museum, Augsburg, Germany

2020 MORE: VALUE, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany

2020 It all about Colour, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany

2019 Salon der Gegenwart 2019, Hamburg

2019 ‘KEIN ZUFALL’, Grölle pass:projects, Wuppertal

2019 ‘HORIZON’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2018 ‘Abstract Art 11 – Abstraction As Painterly Rhetoric. A Case Study between Germany and China’, Pifo,  Gallery, Beijing, China
2018 ‘RICA PULPA’, Estudio Pablo de Lillo, Oviedo, Spain
2018 ‘Focus III’, Selections from the Collection of Rebecca and Jack Drake, UAB Institute for Visual Arts, South Birmingham, AL, USA
2018 ‘Fifty-Seventh Show. 3654 Days after’, Bendana|Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris

2017 ‘GEOMETRICS’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2016 ‘CLAIRE OBSCURE’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2013 ‘1825 Days’, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris

2012 ‘Summer in the City’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2011 ‘Rainer Gross, Julie Oppermann, Julio Rondo’, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne

2011 ‘20 Jahre Galerie Andreas Binder’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2011 ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man“’ Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

2009 ‘365 Days’, Bendana-Pinel Art Contemporarain, Paris

2009 ‘Playing With Space’, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne

2007 ‘Jubilee’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2003 ‘… you sure about this place?’, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA

2002 ‘ten years phase #1’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2002 ‘… you sure about this place?’, The Pond, Chicago, IL. Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

2002 Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne

2001 ‘geo&metric’, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

2000 Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

1999 ‘Drei Positionen in der Malerie’, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

1997 Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc. New York, NY

1996 Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne

1995 Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich

1995 Galerie Brandstetter und Wyss, Zurich

1995 ‘Inbetween’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

1994 ‘Inbetween’, Landschaftsverband Rheinland, Archäologisches Museum Xanten 1993 ‘Inbetween’, XLV Biennale Venedig

1992 Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne

1991 ‘Das goldene Zeitalter’, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

1991 ‘Gullivers Reisen’, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Köln

1991 Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg

1991 ‘36. Salon de Montrouge, Jeune Création Allemande’, Paris

1991 ‘Das goldene Zeitalter’, Kunstverein Stuttgart

1990 ‘90 a.s.o.’, Auvers sur Oise

1990 ‘Vanitas’, Galerie Janine Mautsch, Cologne

1989 Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne

1989 ‘Jet Lag’, Turon Travel, New York

1988 Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne Galerie Ralph Wernicke Stuttgart Galerie Marie-Luise Wirth, Zurich

Selected Bibliography

2021 Julio Rondo, Galerie Andreas Binder and DISTANZ Verlag GmbH, Berlin, Germany

2014 Julio Rondo-O.k., Meta Memory., Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Merz Akademie, Munich, Germany

2012 Philipp Ziegler, Julio Rondo, Peaceful, Peaceful, Ssh., Ssh., Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany

2002 Birgit Sonna, Julio Rondo – Meta Memory, Galerie Andreas Binder, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Munich, Stuttgart & Berlin, Germany

1999 Jörg Heiser, Kathryn Hixon, Julio Rondo, Galerie Andreas Binder, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc., Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Munich, New York, Stuttgart, Germany & United States

1995 Michael Dreyer, Ausschnitt des Himmels über Stuttgart / Stammheim, 18.Oktober, 1977, Galerie Klaus Peter Göbel, Tanja Grunert, Stuttgart & Cologne, Germany

1991 Michael Dreyer, Diedrich Diederichsen, Julio Rondo, Ralph Wernicke, Tanja Grunert, Stuttgart & Cologne, Germany

1990 Françoise Claire Prodhon, Alain Reinaudo, Diedrich Diederichsen, 90 a.s.o, La Mairie d’Auvers Sur Oise, Auvers-sur-Oise, Francia

1986 Reinhard Hauff, Nicola van Felsen, Jutta Koether, Julio Rondo, Ralph Wernicke, Tanja Grunert, Stuttgart & Cologne, Germany