Christoph Niemann
Christoph Niemann is an artist, author and animator. His illustrations are frequently featured on the covers of The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. His Instagram account @abstractsunday has over a million followers. His oeuvre has been subject to numerous museum retrospectives. He has drawn live from the Venice Art Biennale, the London Olympics, and he sketched the New York City Marathon — while actually running it.Clients include Hermés, Google, LAMY, and MoMA.
Christoph Niemann’s work is featured in an episode of the Netflix documentary, Abstract and a TED Talk on the power of visual language. He is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and was inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2010.
Solo exhibitions: TBT (Nashville, 2026), Hopes and Dreams (New York 2019)
Group exhibitions: Holiday (Nashville, 2025)
See below for selected works and CV.
Christoph Niemann
Dropped Call, 2022
5 color silkscreen
27.5 x 19.6 in (69.9 x 49.8 cm)
Christoph Niemann
Deutsche Oper, 2021
4 color silkscreen
27.5 x 19.6 in (69.9 x 49.8 cm)
Christoph Niemann
The Piano, 2020
1 color letterpress print
15.8 x 13.8 in (40.1 x 35.1 cm)
Christoph Niemann
Moment Musical, 2021
1 color letterpress print
15.8 x 13.8 in (40.1 x 35.1 cm)
Christoph Niemann
Traffic, 2018
Silkscreen
46.8 x 33.1 in (118.9 x 84.1 cm)
Christoph Niemann
Sierra Bonita, 2018
Silkscreen
27.6 x 19.7 in (70 x 50 cm)
Christoph Niemann CV
Born in Waiblingen, Germany 1970. Lives and Works in Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION
1997 B.F.A. Graphic Design, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart, Germany
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 ZieherSmith, Nashville, TN
Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenburg
2025 Plan C Frame, Milan
2024 Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim
Gallery Janet Borden Inc., New York
2023 BITTELvonJENISCH Galerie, Hamburg
2022 Galerie Kicken, Berlin
Gallerie D’Italia, Vicenza
2021 Geistesblüten, Berlin
2020 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
2019 Geistesblüten, Berlin
Schloss Bonndorf, Bonndorf
2018 Deutsche Oper, Berlin
Literaturhaus, Munich
ZieherSmith, New York
2017 Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
SVA Gallery, New York
Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen
Cartoon Museum, Basel
Colette, Paris
2016 Museum for Art and Design (MKG), Hamburg
2015 Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2014 Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
Mercator Institute, Berlin
2014 Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Galerie der Stadt Backnang, Backnang, Germany
2010 NLB Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005 Gallery Nine, New York Times, New York
2000 Galerie Le Lys, Paris
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Schau Fenster, Berlin
“Faces of Mind”, Haus.Kunst.Mitte, Berlin
“On the Road again”, Verkehrsmuseum Dresden
2025 Ostfriesland Biennale
“Covering The New Yorker “, L’Alliance New York Gallery, New York
“Berlin im Siebdruck”, TIP Berlin, Neurotitan Gallery
2024 “Where the Wild Lines are”, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, Munich
“Die lieben Nachbarn! Deutschland und Österreich”, Wilhelm Busch Museum, Hannover
“OPENFILE”, Chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
“anPFIFF!”, Wilhelm Busch Museum, Hannover
2023 “Outside the Box! When Machine Meets Art”, Chimei Museum, Tainan
2022 “Question Mark”, MoCA Museum, Shanghai
2021 “Big City Life “, Cartoonmuseum, Basel
“Illokonstanz”, Turm zur Katz, Konstanz
2020 “Rasenglück”, Museum Penzberg, Penzberg
“CollAGE”, Semjon Contemporary, Berlin
“A Perfect Day 2” Machinegebouw Westergas, Amsterdam
2019 “Look Both Ways”, SVA Gallery, New York
“MiiC”, Abanca Foundation, Santiago de Compostella
2018 “The Therapist Office”, 1969 Gallery, New York
“thinking tools”, 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo
2017 “Talking Pictures”, Metropolitan Museum, New York
2016 “New Gameplay”, NJP Artcenter, Korea
“Drawing After Digital”, Xpo Gallery, Paris
2015 “As far as the mind can see”, EXPERIMENTA 2015, Lisbon and Porto
Blue Rider Art, Taipeh City, Taiwan
“Framed by FUKT”, Satellite, Berlin
2014 “Zelf Weten”, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Berga Urban Museum, Vicenza, Italy
“Complaints,” Wolfsonian Museum, Miami
2013 “Tear Sheet”, PNCA/MoCC, Portland, Oregon
2011 “Being American”, SVA Gallery, New York
“Project Mah Jong”, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
“Der Traum vom Fliegen”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
“It’s about Time”, Ben Maltz Gallery Los Angeles
2010 Design for the flags on the roof of Nationalgalerie at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
“Hall of Fame Laureates 2010”, Art Director’s Club, New York
2007 “When Hansel Met Gretel”, Gallery Met, New York
2005 “Catalysts”, The cultural force of communication design, Lisbon
“The Art of The New Yorker, Eighty Years in The Vanguard”, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
2003 “Neue Illustration”, Deutsches Haus of NYU, New York
“National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now” Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
2001 “Young Guns”, Art Directors Club, New York
1999 “Young Guns”, Art Directors Club, New York