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Bastian Muhr (*1981) is an artist living in Leipzig and Essen, Germany.

He works with a variety of media. His focus lies on drawing. He regularly realizes large site-specific works in the architecture of exhibition spaces or in the public space. From 2004 to 2010, he studied painting and graphic art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. Since then, his work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Slovakia and the USA.

Notable exhibitions and projects include:

• „Gebrauchsgrafik“, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2024. (in preparation, solo)

• „Ludlow/Leipzig“, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York City, 2020. (two person show)

• „Shed“, Kunsthalle Göppingen, 2019. (solo)

• „Now! – Painting in Germany today“ at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Wiesbaden, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2019 and 2020. (group)

• „Form Cowboy“, unttld contemporary Vienna, 2019. (solo)

• „Kante“, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, 2018. (solo).

• „Schwarzbunt“, Jochen Hempel Gallery Leipzig, 2017. (solo).

• „Zick-Zack“, Museum Wiesbaden, 2016. (solo).

Muhr's works are included in the permanent collections of the Berlin State Museums (Kupferstichkabinett), the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, the Dresden State Art Collections, the German Federal Bank, the Museum Wiesbaden and others.

He received the Kunstfonds Foundation Grant (2021), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2019) and was working as an artist-in-residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York City, USA (2015) and at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, USA (2020).