Robert Elfgen, born in 1972 in Wesseling am Rhein, lives in Tregrom, France, studied with John Armleder in Braunschweig and Rosemarie Trockel in Düsseldorf and has been awarded numerous art prizes such as the Peill Prize of the Günther Peill Foundation (2014), the Graphic Arts Prize NRW (2009), the Young Art Prize NRW (2007), the Stiftung Kunstfonds (2006), the Peter Mertes Scholarship (2004) and the Study Prize of the Cusanuswerk (2001-2004). His works are in international collections such as the Goetz Collection, Munich, the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, the Zabludovicz Collection, London and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Robert Elfgen is represented by the galleries Sprüth Magers (Berlin, London, Los Angeles), Marianne Boesky (New York) and Tanja Pol (Munich).
