Michael Behrens
Artist processes
After graduating from the Academy of Visual Arts in Maastricht, The Netherlands, Michael Behrens started a remarkable career in glass art. His work can now be seen in most major glass art galleries and collections in Europe and N. America. His large scale kiln cast highly polished glass sculpture reflects his fascination with the undersea world.
Behrens about his work:
I began experimenting with glass in 2002. From the very beginning, I was inspired by nature, especially the alteration of the world and its perception, observed through water. Over the years this fascination led me to a profound involvement with the relationship between outer shape and content. Transferring old shapes giving way to a new expressive form language. As with every sculptor, the model is placed in a special context interrelating with its surrounding. While creating glass objects, its transparency needs to be taken into consideration as the sculpture functions as a visible space.
Basch Collection, Ringling College Galleries – Sarasota, Florida, USA
Palmer Museum of Art – State College, Pennsylvania, USA
Seven Bridges Foundation – Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Fort Wayne Museum of Art – Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum – Neenah, Wisconsin, USA
Imagine Museum – St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Novotný Museum – Nový Bor, Czech Republic
MusVerre – Sars-Poteries, France
MAKK, Museum of applied Arts – Cologne, Germany
Glass Museum Immenhausen – Immenhausen, Germany
Museum of Modern Glass – Öhringen, Germany
Glass Museum Frauenau – Frauenau, Germany
Glass Museum Lauscha – Lauscha, Germany
Achilles Foundation – Hamburg, Germany
Ernsting Foundation – Coesfeld, Germany
Kunstpalast – Düsseldorf, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Continuum Gallery – Königswinter, Germany
2024 Hawk Galleries – Columbus, Ohio, USA
2024 Etienne Gallery – Oisterwijk, Netherlands
2023 Glass Museum Frauenau – Frauenau, Germany
2022 Habatat Detroit Fine Art – Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
2021 Sandra Ainsley Gallery – Toronto, Canada
2019 Achilles Foundation – Hamburg, Germany
2019 Continuum Gallery – Königswinter, Germany
2018 Sikabonyi Gallery – Vienna, Austria
2017 Habatat Detroit Fine Art – Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
2017 Etienne Gallery – Oisterwijk, Netherlands
2015 Sikabonyi Gallery – Vienna, Austria
2014 Etienne Gallery – Oisterwijk, Netherlands
2012 Continuum Gallery – Königswinter, Germany
2010 De Glorie Gallery – Oosterbeek, Netherlands
2010 Van Loon & Simons – Vught, Netherlands
2008 Ernsting Foundation – Coesfeld, Germany
2008 Hélène Porée Gallery – Paris, France
Museum Group Shows
The National Liberty Museum – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Frederik Meijer Sculpture Park – Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Palmer Museum of Art – State College, Pennsylvania, USA
Seven Bridges Foundation – Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
Fort Wayne Museum of Art – Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum – Neenah, Wisconsin, USA
Imagine Museum – St. Petersburg, Florida USA
National Glass Museum Leerdam – Leerdam, Netherlands
Michelangelo Foundation, Homo Faber – Venice, Italy
Novotný Glass Museum – Nový Bor, Czech Republic
National Gallery, Kvadrat 500 – Sofia, Bulgaria
MusVerre – Sars-Poteries, France
Kunstpalast – Düsseldorf, Germany
MAKK, Museum of applied Arts – Cologne, Germany
Glass Museum Immenhausen – Immenhausen, Germany
German Museum of Glass Painting – Linnich, Germany
Glass Museum Rheinbach – Rheinbach, Germany
LWL-Industry Museum – Gernheim, Germany
Glass Museum Frauenau – Frauenau, Germany
Glass Museum Lauscha – Lauscha, Germany
Achilles Foundation – Hamburg, Germany
Ernsting Foundation – Coesfeld, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 PAN Amsterdam with Etienne Gallery – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Continuum Gallery, In the heat of the night – Königswinter, Germany
Art Hofburg, Sikabonyi Gallery – Vienna, Austria
52th International Award Exhibition, Habatat Fine Art Detroit – Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
Masters of Modern Glass, Shaw Gallery – Naples, Florida, USA
Plateaux Gallery – London, Great Britain
Hawk Galleries, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Raven Gallery Aspen, Colorado, USA
2023 National Gallery, IGB-Kvadrat 500 – Sofia, Bulgaria
Glass Museum Rheinbach, 25 Years Glass Art Society NRW – Rheinbach, Germany
51th International Award Exhibition, Habatat Fine Art Detroit – Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
Masters of Modern Glass, Shaw Gallery – Naples, Florida, USA
Schantz Galleries – Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
Continuum Gallery – Königswinter, Germany
Sikabonyi Gallery – Vienna, Austria
Raven Gallery Aspen, Colorado, USA
2022 Art Hofburg, Sikabonyi Gallery – Vienna, Austria
LWL-Museum Gernheim, InterRegional,– Petershagen, Germany
Achilles-Fundation, Reopening, Sculpture Week – Hamburg, Germany
50th International Award Exhibition, Habatat Fine Art Detroi – Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
Masters of Modern Glass, Shaw Gallery – Naples, Florida, USA
Continuum Gallery – Königswinter, Germany
Etienne Gallery – Oisterwijk, Netherlands
Sandra Ainsley Gallery – Toronto, Canada
Galerie Stölting – Hamburg, Deutschland
2021 PAN Amsterdam with Etienne Gallery – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Art & Antique Hofburg Vienna, Sikabonyi Gallery – Vienna, Auistria
German Museum of Glaspainting Linnich, Caught by Glass – Linnich, Germany
49th International Award Exhibition, Habatat Fine Art Detroi – Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
National Glass Museum Leerdam, United Collected – Leerdam, Netherlands
In the heat of the night, Continuum Gallery – Königswinter, Germany
Glass Museum Frauenau, InterRegional – Frauenau, Germany
Galerie Stölting – Hamburg, Deutschland
2020 Art Palm Beach with Habatat Galleries – Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Schantz Galleries – Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
Sandra Ainsley Gallery – Toronto, Canada
Plateaux Gallery – London, Great Britain
Etienne Gallery – Oisterwijk, Netherlands
Schiepers Gallery – Hasselt, Belgium
2019 Schantz Galleries – Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
SOFA Chicago with Habatat Galleries – Chicago, Illinois, USA
Sandra Ainsley Gallery – Toronto, Canada
Continuum Gallery – Königswinter, Germany
PAN Amsterdam with Etienne Gallery – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stölting Gallery – Hamburg, Germany
2018 Homo Faber, Michelangelo Foundation – Venice, Italy
Art Palm Beach, with Habatat Galleries – Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Schantz Galleries – Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
Fort Wayne Museum of Art – Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
MaMa Salvadore Gallery – Venice, Italy
Schiepers Gallery – Hasselt, Belgium
2017 SOFA Chicago with Habatat Galleries – Chicago, Illinois, USA
Schantz Galleries – Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
Sandra Ainsley Gallery – Toronto, Canada
Plateaux Gallery – London, Great Britain
MaMa Salvadore Gallery – Venice, Italy
Sikabonyi Gallery – Vienna, Austria
2016 Sandra Ainsley Gallery – Toronto, Canada
Art Palm Beach with Habatat Galleries – Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Ernsting Foundation, New Acquisitions – Coesfeld, Germany
Plateaux Gallery – London, Great Britain
Sikabonyi Gallery – Vienna, Austria
Continuum Gallery – Königswinter, Germany
2015 PAN Amsterdam with Etienne Gallery – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Art Palm Beach, with Habatat Galleries – Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Continuum Gallery, In the heat of the night – Königswinter, Germany
Sandra Ainsley Gallery – Toronto, Canada
Sikabonyi Gallery – Vienna, Austria
