1951 Born in Mymensingh,
East Pakistan, today Bangladesch
1957-67 School education
at West End High School, Dhaka
1959-68 Performed as a
drama artist in Radio East Pakistan
1963 Received the President award as the best juvenile artist
of Radio East Pakistan
1964 Received the best
acting award for stage performance
1967-73 Study at
"Bangladesh College of Arts & Crafts" in Dhaka, received
"Bachelor of FineArts"
1968-70 Various
performances for Radio and Television in Dhaka
1972-76 Newscaster, ”Bangladesh Television and Radio”
1973 Played a major role in a renowned feature film ‘’Abar
Tora Manush Ho”
1975-76 Appointed as an interpreter at British High
Commission, Dhaka
1976 Arrived in (West)
Germany, Scholarship from German Academic Exchange Service
1978 Scholarship
from Goethe-Institut, Germany
1981-86 Higher study at
the Cologne Technical School of Art and Design under Professor Werner
Schriefers, Germany, Graduation
with Laudatio
1988 Received the highest degree in
painting ‘’Master Student’’ of Cologne Technical School of Art and Design
Since 1976 Lives
in Bonn
Since 1979 Working
as a freelance Journalist with Radio Deutschen
Welle (DW)
Since 1992 German Citizen
1986-2004 Studio in Cologne
2004-2009 Studio
in Frechen
Since 2010 Studio
in Bonn
1975 Dhaka -
Gulshan-Gallery
1976 Oldenburg – Town
Hall
1977 Erbach/Odenwald
- Historical Town Hall / Bonn -
Hotel Tulpenfeld
1978 Boppard -
Goethe-Institut
1979 Bonn -
Euro-Art-Gallery / Bonn -
Wohnstift Augustinum / Radolfzell
- Kurmittelhaus Mettnau
1980 Wiesbaden -
Tuskulum Gallery / Rheinbreitbach
- Gallery Raum plus Zeit
1981 Dortmund -
Wohnstift Augustinum
1982 Bonn
- Wohnstift Augustinum
1983 Cologne -
Karl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft / Bonn
- Kreuzkirche
1985 Leverkusen – Cultural
Department of Bayer AG
1986 Dhaka -
Institute of Fine Arts
1987 Ettlingen -
Volksbank Art Exhibition / Cologne
- Gallery of School of Art and Design
1988 Siegburg -
Kleinste Gallery
1989 Cologne - Gallery
68elf / Barcelona
- Galeria Atzavara
1990 Dhaka -
Goethe-Institut
1991 Cologne - Historical
Town Hall / Rheinberg –
Town Hall Rheinberg
1992 Düsseldorf -
Gallery Kunsthäuschen / Bad
Honnef – German Foundation for International Development
1993 Dhaka
- La Galerie / Cologne
- Maria und Josef Böhm Gallery
1994 Sprockhövel
- Gallery Wieland / Dhaka
- Gallery Tone
1995 Cologne
- Deutsche Welle (DW Radio)
1996 Sprockhövel
- Gallery Wieland
1997 Rheinberg
– Town Hall Rheinberg
1998 Dhaka
- Shilpakala Academy (National
Academy of Fine and
Performing Arts of Bangladesh) / Lich
- ‘Statt Gießen’ and cinema ‘Traumstern Kollektive’
1999 Bonn
- Wohnstift Augustinum / Ratingen
- Monreal & Poppen Art Consulting / Dhaka
– Shilpangan, the Contemporary Art Gallery
2001 Berlin
– Deutsche Welle
2002 Dhaka
– Shilpangan, the Contemporary Art Gallery / Painting
Collection for Entrance Hall, Globale Krankenversicherung, Cologne: Painting Collection for Entrance Hall / Bundesamt
für Verbraucherschutz, Bonn
2003 Painting Collection for Entrance Hall, Technologiepark, Bergisch
Gladbach / Painting Collection for Entrance
Hall, Technologiepark, Cologne
2004 Bonn – Monreal & Poppen Art Consulting Gallery in Maritim Hotel
2005 Bonn – Monreal & Poppen Art
Consulting, Chamber of Commerce and Industry
2007 Heidelberg
- Gallery at the Castle
2008 Viersen
- Gallery Otto Böhm
2009 Viersen
- Gallery Otto Böhm
2012 Dhaka/Bangladesh,
Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, “Unlimited”
2015 Altenkirchen,
STEP-IN, “Moving Colours”
1967-73 All the Annual Exhibitions of „Bangladesh
College of Arts and Crafts“, Dhaka
1968-69 Dhaka - American Women's Club
1969 Dhaka- Exhibition of „Ghona
Shilpi“
1970 Dhaka- Nabanno and Kalbaishakhi Show
1972 Dhaka- Painting Exhibition on
Liberation war of Bangladesch
1973 Dhaka
- Notre Dame College / Dhaka -
Shilpakala Academy (National Art Gallery) / Dhaka - Art
College Silver Jubilee Show
1974 Dhaka - Three man show,
Shilpakala Academy
1973-75 Dhaka -
Bangladesh National Exhibition
1976 Dhaka - Bangladesh
National Exhibition of Young Artist / Bonn -
Inter Nationes
1979 Wiesbaden –
Art Prize Exhibition: Tuskulum Gallery (received the the first prize nominated
by the audience)
1984 Cologne -
Bürgerzentrum Ehrenfeld
1985 Siegburg - Art Prize Exhibition
in the Town Hall
1986 Cologne - Baukunst
Gallery (100th Birth Anniversary of Oscar Kokoschka) / Dhaka - Bangladesch National Art Exhibition
1987 Bonn – Artist
Forum: Combined exhibition of selected artists from Bonn and Oxford, England / Siegburg - Art Prize Exhibition in the Town
Hall
1989 Cologne - Art
Consulting Ute Mronz
1990 Bonn - IfA
Galerie / Gallery
68elf Cologne / Cult Gallery Vienna,
Austria / Kilátó Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
1991 Gelsenkirchen
- In der Kaue
1992 Cologne -
Volkshochschule
1993 Cologne - Bürgerhaus Stollwerk / Bonn – Artist Forum / Cologne - Offene Ateliers,’Künstler Center’ / Rolandseck - Island Nonnenwerth / Dhaka - 6th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh / Mönchengladbach - Wändepunkte Gallery
1994 Bergisch Gladbach – Cultural Center
«Bergischer Löwe» / Bad Oeynhausen – Center for Heart Diseases / Bonn - German Parlamentarian Society / Cologne – Open Studios, ‘Artists Center’ / Wuppertal – Office of ‘Der Paritätische in
NRW’ / Bremen - Überseemuseum / Munich - Arcais-Palais
1995 Herbrechtingen - Karl-Karpf-Heim / Wetzlar - Town Hall at the Cathedral / Berlin – Artist Forum
of the Grundkreditbank / Cologne – Open Studios, ‘Artists Center’ / Dhaka - 7th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh / Lich – Town Hall Am Wall / Sprockhövel - Gallery Wieland
1996 Sprockhövel - Gallery Wieland / Cologne – Open Studios, ‘Artists Center’
1997 Rheinberg – Art Workshop in the Town
Hall / Cologne – Open Studios, ‘Artists
Center’
1998 Cologne
– Open Studios, ‘Künstler Center’
1999 Bonn - Wohnstift Augustinum / Cologne – Open Studios, ‘Artists Center’ / 1999 Palma
de Mallorca - Rheopheresis Center Mallorca, Spain
2000 Cologne – Open Studios, ‘Artists Center’
2001 Bonn
– Wohnstift Augustinum / Cologne
– Open Studios ‘Artists Center’
2002 Cologne – Gallery Kunsthaus 24 / Dhaka – Shilpakala Academy – 10. Asian Art
Biennale, Bangladesch
2003 Cologne – Open Studios
‘Artists Center’
2004 Dhaka – Shilpakala Academy –
11. Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh
2008 Bonn
– Artproject on the occasion of UN-Biodiversity-Conference at Robert-Schuman-Square
Bonn with 360 students und 40 dancers supported by Help - Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V. and the Cultural Department of Bonn
2009 21.
Rhein-Erft-Kulturtage in der Abtei Brauweiler / Bonn,
Künstlerforum and Art Museum, Installation „Das Buch des Wissens“ with students
of Bonn
2010 Cologne, Ausstellungshalle Alte Feuerwache / Bonn, Künstlerforum „The
Black Light Gallery or The Black Box of Norway“ with students of Bonn
2011 Bonn, Deutsche Welle, “Always
get connected – Sprache verbindet” with students of Bonn
2012 Bonn,
Künstlerforum, „malerisch“ / Chengdu/China, exhibition in the „International
Hall of Chengdu“ on the occassion of the „China International Friendship Cities
Conference“, representing the artists of Bonn/Germany
2013 Bonn,
Künstlerforum, „Die Schätze der Welt auf einer Rolle“ with students of Bonn
2014 Bonn,
Künstlerforum, „Charly und der weiße Elefant“ with students
2015 Bonn,
Künstlerforum, „Baum, tree, ağaç, গ৷ছ (gadsch) unsterbliche Bäume und Wälder“ with students
2016 Bonn,
Künstlerforum, „Kunst im Gepäck“ with students
2017 Bonn,
Künstlerforum, „El Avatar – Die Verwandlung des Menschen“ with students
2018 Bonn
Künstlerforum, „Sharing Heritage – Die europäische Enzyklopädie“ with students
2019 Bonn
Künstlerforum, „Moving Art“ with students
2020 Köln,
Kunstforum St. Clemens, „In Memoriam A. Strack – ehem. Studenten der Kölner
Werkschulen“
National Art Gallery Dhaka Bangladesch, National Museum Dhaka Bangladesch, Baukunst Galerie Köln, Historisches Rathaus Erbach/Odenwald, Bayer Kulturabteilung Leverkusen, Art Consulting Ute Mronz Köln, Galerie Wieland Sprockhövel, Udo Lammerting, LIG AG Köln, Globale Versicherung Köln, Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz Bonn,Technologie Park, Bergisch-Gladbach
Deutschland, Norwegen, Schweden, Dänemark, England, Belgien, Österreich, Spanien, Italien, Neuseeland, USA, Kanada, Bangladesch
1989 Art
Calendar„Impressionen“, Werbedruck Wigge, Essen
1996 Catalogue „Maruf“, Gallery Wieland, Sprockhövel
1998 Bibliography
„Maruf“, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (National Academy of Fine and Performing Arts of Bangladesh)
1999 Catalogue
„MARUF“ durch Shilpangan, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Dhaka
2004 Asian Art News, Hong Kong, Dez.
2004, „The dynamic witness”
2003 TOP-Magazin Bonn, März 2006, „Optimistische
Farbrhythmen“
2012 Catalogue „Unlimited“ durch Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts
2020 diegrenzeorg. "Man versteht ein Land über die Sprache"
© Maruf Ahmed, 2020