MARCEL ODENBACH (b. 1953, Cologne, Germany) lives and works in Cologne.
Since the mid-1970s, Marcel Odenbach has produced an extensive body of tapes, performances, drawings and installations, and has gained recognition as one of Germany's most important artists working in video. His works engage in a provocative discourse on the construction of self in relation to historical and cultural representation.
Odenbach’s work has been widely exhibited with solo shows at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin (2006); the Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Buenos Aires (2006); the Cornerhouse, Manchester, U.K. (2005); the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand (2004); the Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany (2002); IVAM, Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain (1999); The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (1999); and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1998). His work has also been included in 40 Jahre Videokunst.de at the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2006); the Sharjah International Biennial 7, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2005); the Istanbul Biennale (2003); Open-Ends: Counter-Monuments and Memory at MoMA (2000) and Documenta 8 (1987).
Odenbach is represented by Anton Kern Gallery in New York.