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Born in Hamburg in 1990, Malwin Faber lives and works in Hamburg, with intermediate stops in Tel Aviv and Berlin.

Malwin Faber draws immense energy from gestural abstraction in his paintings, making movement and dynamism visible. He counters this with precision stemming from sharply cut geometric forms and raster elements. "The structure of his paintings resembles improvisation in jazz, blending freedom and discipline into an interplay with alternating rhythms" (Read more: Zwischenräume). Faber impresses in his works with a sophisticated technique, encompassing highlights, coverings, and the experimental use of textures through monotype printing techniques. He consistently employs and evolves this technique across several series of works. "In his painting, this results in an oscillation between static and dynamic, order and chaos, as well as foreground and background intertwining" (Read more: Resonanzfrequenzen). His intricate layering of abstract elements creates an impression of spatial depth. Inspired by this illusionary spatial depth, the artist also integrates real space into his work; objects and installations thus extend painting into physical space.

Pulse and Flow. Ben Post & Malwin Faber — 2025, Lycra, Hamburg

Blue Order — 2024, 17vor, Hamburg

Resonanzfrequenzen — 2023, Kunstverein Ahlen

Rankhilfe und Formschnitt — 2022, Kunstverein Quickborn

Koi Koi Koi. Malwin Faber & Jonathan Esperester — 2022, plan.d. Produzentengalerie, Düsseldorf

Bilder aus dem Irgendwo. Malwin Faber & Sven Scharfenberg — 2021, Raum Linksrechts, Hamburg

Zwischenräume — 2017, Markert Kunstforum, Hamburg

Farbschnitte. Indizien zur Herkunft des Bildes — 2015, Kunstraum Bogenhausen, München

Spurensicherung — 2015, weartberlin gallery at Blond & Blond Contemporary, Berlin

Malerei Malwin Faber — 2015, Siechenhauskapelle, Neuruppin

Re:Nature — 2026, Kunstverein Amrum

Seite an Seite — 2026, Galerie von Wegen, Hamburg

New Year's Reception — 2026, The Space, Hamburg

Von Anfang an — 2025, Galerie Kaufmann, Hamburg

Mausgrau — 2025, Lycra Hamburg

Group Show #10 — 2025, New & Abstract, Berlin

Kunst im Rohbau — 2025, 3×3×3, Hamburg

Tendenzen — 2024, Galerie von Wegen, Hamburg

Bilder heute, Welten morgen — 2022, Horror Vacuii, Leipzig

Ahlener Doppel — 2021, Kunstverein Ahlen

Emotional Sculpture — 2021, Westwerk, Hamburg

Hamburger Kultursommer — 2021, MeetFrida Foundation, Hamburg

add art — Lebuhn & Puchta, 2019, Hamburg

Forma, Figura, Exemplar — 2019, weartberlin gallery, Berlin

Position. — 2018, Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg

Concrete Dance — 2017, Kunstvoll gallery, Hamburg

Material_isierung — 2017, xpon-art gallery, Hamburg

Hexagon — 2016, Galerie Art Supplement, Göttingen

The Hole — 2013, Shenkar, Ramat Gan (Israel)

New Talents 2025 (award winner) — New & Abstract, Berlin

Zukunftsstipendium (scholarship) — 2021, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung & Hamburger Behörde für Kultur und Medien & BBK Hamburg

Ahlener Doppel Award (shortlisted) — 2021, Kunstverein Ahlen

Förderpreis (sponsorship award) — 2020, Carolina D’Amico Foundation

11. Elysée-Preis für Malerei Award (nominee) — 2014, Galerie im Elysée, Hamburg

Scholarship for studies abroad — 2013, Karl H. Ditze Foundation

Malwin Faber. Repeat — 2022, catalog, publisher: KRAUTin Verlag Berlin, edition: 250, pages: 40, ISBN: 978-3-96703-054-9

Sino-German Art Vol.32 — 2022, Interview with Malwin Faber, Hismoon Gallery, Taicang (China)

Malwin Faber. Open Studio ↗ — 2021, artist film portrait by Anne Simone Krüger and Ariane Bethusy-Huc, ArtSceneFilm presents Open Studio, Hamburg

Auf Schatzsuche in Hamburg-Lurup — 2019, documentary film about Malwin Fabers neigbourhood Lurup and his art studio Bö78, Norddeutscher Rundfunk

Position. Forum / Ausstellung — 2018, Berufsverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler Hamburg & Verlag für permanente Kunst, ISBN: 978-3-944173-96-2

Malwin Faber. Zwischenräume — 2017, exhibition catalog, curator: Dagmar Lott-Reschke, publisher: Kunstforum Markert Gruppe