Arvid Boecker

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Arvid Boecker (born 1964) in Wuppertal) is a German painter and curator. He is a representative of concrete art and focuses on color field painting.

Biography

Arvid Boecker studied from 1987 to 1989 at the University of Trier Art history, continuing his studies at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar in Saarbrücken.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}} There he studied until 1994 with the professors Jochen Gerz, Bodo Baumgarten, and Ulrike Rosenbach.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}} In the following years he was Artist-in-residence in London (Acme Studios, 1994-1995), in Katwijk aan Zee in the Netherlands (1995-1996), on the Isle of Skye (2005), in La Ciotat in southern France in 2006, and in 2018 he went to Paris for a residency at Factory49.{{cite web |url=http://factory49.blogspot.com/search/label/Arvid%20Boecker |title=Arvid Boecker |website=factory49.blogspot.com |accessdate=2019-02-05}}

Since 1996 Boecker has been a member of the Saarländischer Künstlerbund{{cite web |url=http://www.saarlaendischer-kuenstlerbund.de/mitglieder/arvid-boecker |title=Saarländischer Künstlerbund. Arvid Boecker |website=Saarländischer Künstlerbund |accessdate=2019-02-05}} and since 2019 he is also a member of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg.{{cite web |url=https://www.kuenstlerbund-bawue.de/mitglieder/?first_name=Arvid&last_name=Boecker&user_category=&user_place=&um_search=1 |title=Arvid Boecker |website=Künstlerbund Baden–Württemberg |accessdate=2020-09-11}} He lives and works in Heidelberg, since 2018 he also has a studio in Frankfurt am Main.{{cite web |url=https://www.atelierfrankfurt.de/portfolio_page/arvid-boecker |title=Arvid Boecker |website=Atelierfrankfurt e.V. |accessdate=2020-09-11 |archive-date=2020-08-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814133653/https://www.atelierfrankfurt.de/portfolio_page/arvid-boecker/ |url-status=dead }}

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Artistic work

Arvid Boecker's theme as an artist is color itself. He uses oil paint, which he manufactures himself from pigments and applies to canvas. Priming the canvases requires long drying times, so Boecker always creates entire rows of canvasses with the same dimensions, on which he works alternately. He numbers the images and adds a hash tag to them, for example: "#1103". He describes these series as "picture families". Arvid Boecker determines right at the beginning how he deals with the surface, dividing it up for certain color applications. His works are either rectangular or square. Since 2014 Boecker has concentrated on the format 20×16 inches, which he divides by a longitudinal line into two fields, which he then paints with different colors.{{cite book |editor=Verein für Aktuelle Kunst Ruhrgebiet e.V. |title=Arvid Boecker. Watching Paint Dry |publisher=Das Wunderhorn |place=Heidelberg |date=2018-07-06 |chapter=Grenzerfahrungen. Anmerkungen zu den aktuellen Bildern von Arvid Boecker |trans-chapter=Crossing borders. Remarks to the current pictures of Arvid Boecker |ISBN=978-3884236048 |page=6}} The color is applied in up to 40 layers, partly wash, partly impasto. Arvid Boecker uses squeegees to remove older layers of paint or applies new layers of paint with the painting knife.{{cite web |url=https://www.artipool.de/ausstellung/21246 |title=Ausstellung in Heidelberg. Arvid Boecker: Malerei |trans-title=Exhibition in Heidelberg. Arvid Boecker: Painting |website=www.artipool.de |accessdate=2019-02-05}} This processing can take up to one year.{{cite web |author=Ulrike Spiegelhalter |url=http://www.badische-zeitung.de/bernau/farbschichten-erzaehlen-von-der-entstehung-der-werke--143958607.html |title=Farbschichten erzählen von der Entstehung der Werke |trans-title=Layers of paint tell of the creation of the works |website=Badische Zeitung |date=2017-10-25 |accessdate=2019-02-05}}

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During this long period, his pictures mature. He often stops working on a painting to give it time to dry. For Boecker the painting of a piece becomes a process of reflection on the function of color and its effects. The artist reflects upon, how which effect is produced in the viewer, how the colors do interact with each other and to which result: "So wird der Maler manchmal zum Forscher in seinem eigenen Werk, indem er wie ein Archäologe alte Schichten und Zustände sucht und wieder zum Vorschein bringt. Er ist Schöpfer und Zerstörer in einem, lässt entstehen und löscht wieder aus, kreiert und verwirft. Aber nicht aus einer Laune heraus, sondern immer im Hinblick auf das Gelingen des Bildes als Ganzes." (in English: "Thus the painter sometimes becomes a researcher in his own work, searching for and revealing old layers and states like an archaeologist. He is creator and destroyer in one, lets arise and extinguishes again, creates and rejects. But not on a whim, but always with a view to the succeeding of the picture as a whole."){{cite book |last=Debatin |first=Sarah |editor-first=Ralph |editor-last=Kleinsimlinghaus |title=Arvid Boecker: Kilmuir Walk |publisher=Artax Kunsthandel |place=Düsseldorf |year=2006 |chapter=Selbstvergessen |trans-chapter=Oblivious |page=7/8}} The painting created in such a long working process clearly shows the traces of its creation, e.g. through shadows - darker layers of paint were painted over by light ones – or through scratches, which allow views of the older layers of paint.

Boecker also designs entire room concepts, e.g. 2012 for the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen. For this exhibition he created 40 square works, which again were divided into smaller squares and painted with different colors. In addition, he structured the exhibition space with specially made colored tuffets and wall markings with colored adhesive tape that stretched from the wall to the floor and formed a rectangle.{{cite web |url=https://staedtische-galerie-neunkirchen.de/arvid-boecker |title=Rückblick 2012: Arvid Boecker - Take your time |trans-title=Retrospect 2012: Arvid Boecker - Take your time |website=staedtische-galerie-neunkirchen |accessdate=2021-05-09}}{{cite web |url=https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/saarland/zeit-fuer-heidelberger-farbfelder_aid-1285264 |title=Zeit für Heidelberger Farbfelder. Arvid Boecker stellt in der städtischen Galerie aus |trans-title=Time for Heidelberg color fields. Arvid Boecker exhibits in the municipal gallery |website=Saarbrücker Zeitung |date=2012-01-23 |accessdate=2019-02-05}} This three–dimensional installation was intended to enable the viewer to reflect on how he perceives the works of art in the room. In 2016 Boecker created a triptych for the Stiftskirche Sunnisheim in Sinsheim, consisting of three pictures of the same format, which were created especially for this room.{{cite web |url=https://www.sinsheim.de/pb/site/Sinsheim/node/381638/Lde/zmdetail_642830600/Ausstellung_Atelier_und_Kuenstler.html?zm.sid=zm5rghlpmll2&nodeID=642830600 |title=Ausstellung Atelier und Künstler in der Stiftskirche Sunnisheim, Sinsheim: Arvid Boecker, Vanessa May, Silvia Szabó |trans-title=Exhibition atelier and artists in the Stiftskirche Sunnisheim, Sinsheim: Arvid Boecker, Vanessa May, Silvia Szabó |website=www.sinsheim.de |accessdate=2019-02-05 |archive-date=2018-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112021441/https://www.sinsheim.de/pb/site/Sinsheim/node/381638/Lde/zmdetail_642830600/Ausstellung_Atelier_und_Kuenstler.html?zm.sid=zm5rghlpmll2&nodeID=642830600 |url-status=dead }}

Boecker sees himself as a "travelling observer".Helga Köbler-Stählin: Bunte Schichten mit Eigenleben. Atelierbesuch bei Arvid Boecker. In: Mannheimer Morgen 2012, 4th of April His stays abroad, e.g. 1995 in Katwijk aan Zee in the Netherlands, 2005 on the Isle of Skye and 2006 to La Ciotat he perceives as research expeditions concerning light and colors. Katwijk has already had an international artists' colony in the 19th century.{{cite web |author=Manfred Lachniet |url=https://www.nrz.de/region/niederrhein/katwijks-strand-betoerte-die-impressionisten-id12203452.html |title=Katwijks Strand betörte die Impressionisten |trans-title=Katwijk's beach bewitched the Impressionists |website=Neue Rhein/Neue Ruhr-Zeitung |date=2016-09-18 |accessdate=2019-02-05}} La Ciotat in southern France has also always attracted artists, because of the sharply defined contrasts in the southern light conditions by the sea, and the harbor atmosphere, which fascinated the artists already at the beginning of the 20th century. The Isle of Skye is famous for its foggy coastline, which often makes the light diffuse and shimmer.

Boecker assimilates all these impulses and experiences in his works: "Was ich auf meinen Bildern male, sind Erinnerungen" (in English: "What I paint in my canvases are memories") However, not memories in the sense of landscape pictures, but memories that every artist carries with him unconsciously or consciously and that influence his art. Arvid Boecker takes meditative approach due to the long time taken in creating his artworks. In the months until the completion of a work he can reflect extensively on the effects of the application of paint. He can put his piece away for a while and continue to work on another. Boecker can constantly look at and work on the canvases with squeegees and spatulas until they express exactly what he wants to achieve. Viewed from a distance they sometimes look like monochromes, but when viewed closely one sees the multitude of different layers in the paintings. Not only is the production of his art time consuming, but the viewer must take the time to perceive all aspects of the paintings: "Boeckers Werke strahlen Ruhe und Kraft aus – und auch wenn er bewusst jeden Anschein alles Bildhaften vermeidet, bieten sie dennoch eine Projektionsfläche für eine Vielzahl an Assoziationen." (in English: "Boeckers' works radiate calmness and strength – and even if he consciously avoids any appearance of anything pictorial, they nevertheless offer a projection screen for a multitude of associations."{{cite web |url=https://www.kunsthaus-artes.de/de/26189/Boecker-Arvid?artistName=Boecker%2C%20Arvid&artistPage=true |title=Arvid Boecker |website=www.kunsthaus-artes.de |accessdate=2019-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112021255/https://www.kunsthaus-artes.de/de/26189/Boecker-Arvid?artistName=Boecker%2C%20Arvid&artistPage=true |archive-date=2018-11-12 |url-status=dead }}

Solo exhibitions (selection)

1996: unentwegt,{{cite book |author=Harald Krämer |title=Arvid Boecker: Unentwegt |publisher=Forum Kunst Rottweil |place=Rottweil |year=1996}} Forum Kunst Rottweil, Rottweil, Germany
2005: Milch und Honig,{{cite book |editor1-first=Hans |editor1-last=Gercke |editor2-first=Robert |editor2-last=Drees |title=Arvid Boecker: Milch und Honig |publisher=Wolfsbrunnen |place=Heidelberg |date=2005-03-08 |ISBN=978-3934322035}} Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
2006: Kilmuir Walk,{{cite book |editor-first=Ralph |editor-last=Kleinsimlinghaus |title=Arvid Boecker: Kilmuir Walk. Katalog anlässlich der Ausstellung in der Villa Goecke |trans-title=Arvid Boecker: Kilmuir Walk. Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition at Villa Goecke |publisher=Artax Kunsthandel |place=Düsseldorf |year=2006}} Villa Goecke, Krefeld, Germany
2007: Studio La Ciotat,{{cite web |url=https://galerie-robert-drees.de/historie |title=Ausstellungshistorie |trans-title=exhibition history |website=Galerie Robert Drees |accessdate=2019-02-06}} Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany
2012: Take your time,{{cite web |url=https://staedtische-galerie-neunkirchen.de/archiv/archiv_12_take_your_time1.html |title=Arvid Boecker: Take your time |website=Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen |accessdate=2019-02-06 |archive-date=2017-11-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101105542/http://www.staedtische-galerie-neunkirchen.de/archiv/archiv_12_take_your_time1.html |url-status=dead }} Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen, Germany
2015: Surfaced from his dive,{{cite web |url=http://www.grashey.eu/de/default.html?id=5 |title=Frühere Ausstellungen. Arvid Boecker, 17. März. – 09.Mai.2015 |website=Galerie Grashey |accessdate=2019-02-06}} Galerie Ursula Grashey, Konstanz, Germany
2016: Insomnia,{{cite web |url=http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2016/5365 |title=Arvid Boecker: Insomnia |website=www.nyartbeat.com |accessdate=2019-02-06}} Stout Projects, New York City, United States
2016: On a clear Day,{{cite web |url=https://allevents.in/marrickville/arvid-boecker-on-a-clear-day/530159900512950 |title=Arvid Boecker: On a Clear Day |website=Allevents.in {{!}} Events in Marrickville |accessdate=2019-02-06 |archive-date=2018-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111215356/https://allevents.in/marrickville/arvid-boecker-on-a-clear-day/530159900512950 |url-status=dead }} Factory 49, Sydney, Australia
2018: Watching paint dry,{{cite book |editor=Verein für Aktuelle Kunst Ruhrgebiet e.V. |title=Arvid Boecker: Watching Paint Dry. Ausstellungskatalog |trans-title=Arvid Boecker: Watching Paint Dray. Catalog of the Exhibition |publisher=Das Wunderhorn |place=Heidelberg |date=2018-07-06 |ISBN=978-3884236048}} Kunstverein Brackenheim, Brackenheim, Germany
2019: Free,{{cite web |author=Evelyn Schneider |url=https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/st-wendel/sanktwendel/austellungen-free-und-breathe-im-museum-st-wendel_aid-44145231 |title=Zwei Austellungen im Museum St. Wendel: Boecker zeigt Werke von sich und von Kollegen |trans-title=Two exhibitions in the Museum St. Wendel: Boecker shows works by himself and colleagues |website=Saarbrücker Zeitung |date=2019-07-19 |accessdate=2020-09-08}} (This exhibition was divided into two parts, firstly a solo exhibition of the artist (Free), secondly a group exhibition curated by him as part of his project boeckercontemporary (Breathe).
2020: Arvid Boecker: Malerei,{{cite web |url=http://www.forumkunstrottweil.de/?page_id=20 |title=Jahresprogramm. Ausstellungen im Jahr 2020 |trans-title=Annual program. Exhibitions in the year 2020 |website=Forum Kunst Rottweil |accessdate=2020-09-11}} Forum Kunst Rottweil, Rottweil, Germany

Group exhibitions (selection)

1990: Promotion award for young artists, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
1995: Work Art,{{cite web |url=http://kunstaspekte.art/event/work-art-1995-05 |title=Work Art 23. May 1995 – 17. June 1995 |website=kunstaspekte.art |accessdate=2019-02-06}} Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
1996 Artifizielle Natur,{{cite book |editor-first=Eva-Marina |editor-last=Froitzheim |title=Artifizielle Natur: Naturansichten von Arvid Boecker, Ulrike Flaig, Rémy Markowitsch, Susanna Messerschmidt, Alice Stepanek und Steven Maslin |publisher=Stadt Böblingen |place=Böblingen |date=1996-07-01 |ISBN=978-3928754156}} Städtische Galerie, Böblingen, Germany
1998: Zeichnung, Dominican museum Rottweil, Rottweil, Germany
2000: Expo 2000: Weltausstellung, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
2003: Form und Struktur. Wege zur Abstraktion II,{{cite web |url=http://kunstaspekte.art/event/form-und-struktur-wege-zur-abstraktion-ii-2003-06 |title=Form und Struktur, Wege zur Abstraktion II |trans-title=Form and Structure, Paths to Abstraction II |website=kunstaspekte.art |accessdate=2019-02-06}} Kunstverein Schloss Plön, Plön, Germany
2005: Tangenten,{{cite web |url=http://www.saarlaendischer-kuenstlerbund.de/fileadmin/user_upload/kataloge/Katalog-Tangenten.pdf |title=Tangenten. Saarländischer Künstlerbund. Katalog zur Ausstellung |website=Saarländischer Künstlerbund |date=2005-10-17 |accessdate=2019-02-06 |format=PDF, 3,73 MB |archive-date=2010-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100414190513/http://www.saarlaendischer-kuenstlerbund.de/fileadmin/user_upload/kataloge/Katalog-Tangenten.pdf |url-status=dead }} Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
2005: Amber Room Society,{{cite web |url=http://www.kunstverein-augsburg.de/ausstellungen/rueckblick.html |title=Rückblick. Amber Room Society: Wir werden nicht gleich übereinander herfallen |trans-title=Looking back. Amber Room Society: We won't be on each other's heels right away |website=www.kunstverein-augsburg.de |date=2013-11-09 |accessdate=2019-02-06}} (The Amber Room Society consisted of Arvid Boecker, Jürgen Jansen and Uwe Esser), Augsburg, Germany
2007: Tysk Samtids Kunst, Galleri Tonne, Oslo
2008: Landeskunstausstellung Saar: Dein Land macht Kunst,{{cite web |url=https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/schau-hin-dein-land-macht-kunst_aid-113050 |author=Sabine Graf |title=Schau hin, dein Land macht Kunst! |trans-title=Look, your country makes art.|website=Saarbrücker Zeitung |date=2008-05-01 |accessdate=2019-02-06}} Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany
2010: Geheimnisvolle Zwischenwelten,{{cite web |url=https://www.bv-pfalz.de/winterbilder-und-geheimnisvolle-zwischenwelten/ |title=Winterbilder und geheimnisvolle Zwischenwelten. Zwei Ausstellungsprojekte im Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern |trans-title=MWinter pictures and mysterious intermediate worlds. Two exhibition projects in the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern |website=Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern |accessdate=2020-06-21}} Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
2015: Abstract Strategies, Galerie Mirta Demare, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016: An einem Tisch – Zeitgenössische Positionen geometrischer Abstraktion,{{cite web|url=https://galerie-robert-drees.de/historie |title=Galerie Robert Drees. Historie über die Einzel– und Gruppenausstellungen |trans-title=Robert Drees Gallery. History of the solo and group exhibitions |website= Galerie Robert Drees |accessdate=2019-02-06}} Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany
2016: Sandwiches. Presented by the Talent Agency,{{cite web |url=http://art4d.com/2016/09/sandwiches |title=Sandwiches |website=art4d.com |accessdate=2019-02-07}} Cartel Artspace, Bangkok, Thailand
2017: Trans,{{cite web |url=https://raygunlab.com/2017/07/17/trans-group-show |title=Trans Group Show |date=2017-07-17 |accessdate=2019-02-07 |archive-date=2018-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112061023/https://raygunlab.com/2017/07/17/trans-group-show/ |url-status=dead }} Raygun Projects, Toowoomba, Australia
2018: Arvid Boecker – Malerei; Boris Doempke – Installation; Christiane Gruber – Malerei,{{cite web |url=http://vfakr.de/drupal/archiv?field_datum_anfang_value%5Bvalue%5D%5Byear%5D=2018 |title=Archiv. Ausstellungen 2018 |website=Verein für aktuelle Kunst/Ruhrgebiet e.V. |accessdate=2019-01-07}} Verein für aktuelle Kunst/Ruhrgebiet e.V., Oberhausen, Germany
2018: 4ABSTRACT2NOT,{{cite web |url=http://www.quadrart-dornbirn.com/ANSICHTEN%2031.htm |title=Ansichten XXXI. "4ABSTRACTs2NOT |website=www.quadrart-dornbirn.com |accessdate=2019-02-07}} Quadrart Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria
2018: Sydney Paris Sunrise,{{cite web |url=https://www.abstract-project.com/expos/exposavant.htm |title=Abstract Project. Avant |website=www.abstract-project.com |accessdate=2019-02-07}} Galerie Abstract Project, Paris, France

Awards

1990: 2nd prize, Young Artists Award, Saar Ferngas,{{cite book |author=Giesela Fiedler-Bender |title=Förderpreis Junge Künstler 1990 |trans-title=Young Artists Award 1990 |publisher=Saar-Ferngas-Aktiengesellschaft |place=Saarbrücken |date=1990}} Saarbrücken, Germany
1994: Art Award of the City of Landau, Germany
1994: Promotion award of the city of Groß-Gerau GG-Perspective

Projectroom in Heidelberg

Since 2015 Arvid Boecker has a project room in Heidelberg - boeckercontemporary. Boecker's intention is to establish a "place of encounter with contemporary art" in Heidelberg. Each year, four to six exhibitions of "internationally established positions in non-objective painting" are to be organized. To this end, he collaborates with independent curators worldwide, but also curates several exhibitions himself. The goal of the project space also is to provide more networking in the region and thus to contribute to an active exhibition life. Since 2017, he also realizes exhibitions curated by him at various venues, such as the Galerie Oqbo in Berlin (2017, Better late than ugly) and the Museum St. Wendel (2019, Breathe).

= Exhibitions =

2016: Gruppenausstellung Systems of Compliance,{{cite web |url=https://fundamentalephemeris.wordpress.com/tag/boeckercontemporary |title=Systems of Compliance bei boeckercontemporary |website=Blog of the curator Aline von der Assen |date=2016-01-30 |accessdate=2019-02-07}} (with Christoph Borowiak, Jin-Kyoung Huh, Yoon Jung Kim und Line Krom), 19. to 21. September, curated by Aline von der Asse
2016: Douglas Witmer (Philadelphia): Naranja, 22. July to 19. August, curated by Arvid Boecker
2017: Better late than ugly,{{cite web |url=http://www.oqbo.de/bild/arvid_boecker.php |title=Arvid Boecker Better Late Than Ugly |website=www.oqbo.de |accessdate=2019-02-07}} OQBO Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017: Black Box(es),{{cite web |url=http://metz.curieux.net/OWhiZ/agenda/sortie?row=9983&genre=3&nom=Faux%20Mouvement&evenement=faux-mouvement-black-boxes |title=Black Box(es). Gallery Faux Mouvement, Metz; Centre d'art contemporain, Metz |website=metz.curieux.net |accessdate=2019-02-07 |archive-date=2018-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111215409/http://metz.curieux.net/OWhiZ/agenda/sortie?row=9983&genre=3&nom=Faux%20Mouvement&evenement=faux-mouvement-black-boxes |url-status=dead }} Metz, France (This exhibition was also shown in April 2018 at the Künstlerhaus Saar{{cite web |url=https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/saarbruecken/saarbruecken/sanktjohann/black-boxes-im-kuenstlerhaus_aid-9995003 |title= Ausstellung Black boxes im Künstlerhaus |trans-title=Exhibition Black boxes at the Künstlerhaus |website=Saarbrücker Zeitung |date=2018-04-04 |accessdate=2019-02-07}} as well as from 12 April to 4 June 2018 at the Casino Luxemburg Forum d'art contemporain.{{cite web |url=http://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/de/Ausstellungen/Black-Box-es- |title=Black Box(es) |website=Casino Luxembourg Forum d'art contemporain |accessdate=2019-02-07 |archive-date=2018-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112021416/http://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/de/Ausstellungen/Black-Box-es- |url-status=dead }} In 2019 the travelling exhibition was to be seen at La 'S' Grand Atelier, in Vielsalm in Belgium from 5 May to 21 June 2019.
2017: Groupexhibition In Good Shape,{{cite web |url=http://www.oqbo.de/bild/in_good_shape.php |title=Ausstellung In Good Shape |trans-title=Exhibition: In Good Shape |website=OQBO Gallery |accessdate=2019-02-07}} (with Michael Bause, Christian Bilger, Frank Eltner, Dirk Lebahn, Seraphina Lenz, Julia Ziegler), 4. March to 7. April, curated by Arvid Boecker
2017: Groupexhibition Timelines Non Objective Art from Australia, (with Emma Langridge, David Weir, Louise Blyton, Terri Brooks, Giles Ryder, Billy Gruner, Sarah Keighery, Richard van der Aa, Kyle Jenkins, Matthew Allen), 21. April bis 19. May, curated by Arvid Boecker
2018: Groupexhibition Absolute,{{cite web |url=https://www.pentimenti.com/news/2018/3/9/x3kdjzj6qtfk1o7iyqtx0pzr4bc43c |title=Steven Baris: Boeckercontemporary |website=Pentimenti gallery |accessdate=2019-02-07}} (with Matthew Allan, Emma Langridge, Steven Baris, Stan Van Steendam, Nicholas Szymanski, Mary Bucci McCoy, Kenichi Fujiwara, Robert Dunne, John Tallman)
2019: Free,{{cite web |author=Evelyn Schneider |url=https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/st-wendel/sanktwendel/austellungen-free-und-breathe-im-museum-st-wendel_aid-44145231 |title=Zwei Austellungen im Museum St. Wendel: Boecker zeigt Werke von sich und von Kollegen |trans-title=Two exhibitions in the Museum St. Wendel: Boecker shows works by himself and colleagues |website=Saarbrücker Zeitung |date=2019-07-19 |accessdate=2020-09-08}} (This exhibition was divided into two parts, firstly a solo exhibition of the artist (Free), secondly a group exhibition curated by him as part of his project boeckercontemporary (Breathe).