He lives and works in Paris
Kleve
• 1964 Born in Kleve.
Düsseldorf
• 1980/82 ‘Die geföhnten Rübenschweine’, elektronic punk music.
• 1982 Radio, John Peel’s music, BFBS.
• 1983 Baccalauréat specialising in graphic arts.
• 1983/86 Traditional graphic artist, assistant photographer on set and light technician.
Works with Wolfgang Flur from the group Kraftwerk on photo shoot locations.
Begins to paint.
Admitted at highschool for graphic design.
Paris
• 1986 Leaves Düsseldorf to live in Paris.
Turnes to photography.
Arles
• 1988/1991 École nationale supérieure de la photographie, Master niveau I.
Student of Arnaud Claas, Christian Milovanoff and Christian Gattinoni
Photographic assistant for Larry Fink.
• 1991/1992 Exhibitions : Galerie Arena in Arles, Centre d’action culturelle (CAC) in Dieppe, studio Goumen, Mois de la photo in Paris.
Düsseldorf
• 1991/1992 Works for the german magazines Select and The Manipulator.
Paris
• 1992/1993 Correspondent for these magazines in Paris.
1992/1998 First paintings based on images found in small format and poorly printed general press.
• 1992 Director of photography, 'Contre toute attente', shortfilm, director Lydia Kocheleva.
• 1992/1994 Works for 'Inventaire', Revue by the artists union 'la Compagnie', Marseille.
• 1993/2008 Photothèque du musée de l’Homme.
Cabinet de photographies anciennes and Webmaster, musée Rodin.
• 1996 Privat exhibition and sale.
First child.
• 1999/2005 Creates and manages with two friends in Paris an independent music label, ‘Home Laboratoire Moderne’ (HLM).
• 2000 Second child.
• 2002/2003 Two radio transmissions at 'Radio Nova'. The recordcover with a painting from the zombie serie was the reason for the invitation.
• 2000/2004 Residence, Calvi, Corsica.
• since 2004 Compositions for ‘Sporto Kantes’
• since 2005 Starts a new serie of paintings.
Exhibitions
  • Exhibition Galerie VivoEquidem, Paris, 13 february - 29 march 2008
  • ENGBROX, Hyperceptions, 6 march 2009 - 30 april 2009, Galerie VivoEquidem
  • Glasgow Art Fair, 23 - 26 april 2009
  • Berliner Liste, 23 - 27 september 2009
  • Lille Art Fair, 22 - 25 april 2010
  • ‘Follow Me’, Paris, Galerie VivoEquidem, 07 September 2010 - 01 Januar 2011
  • Lille Art Fair, 24 - 27 march 2011
  • ArtParis, 31 march - 03 april 2011
  • NordArt, Büdelsdorf, 04 june - 02 october 2011
Bibliography
  • Approches techniques, Max Torregrossa, 2008
  • Sylvester Engbrox : Un déplacement du désir de peindre, Jean-Luc Chalumeau, 2007
  • Naissance de la Modernité, Mélanges offerts à Jacques Vilain, Editions du Relief, Paris, 2009, ISBN 978-2-35904-000-5
  • Sylvester Engbrox, Follow Me, Patrick Williams, éditions VivoEquidem, 80 pages, Paris, 2010, ISBN 978-2-9531926-1-2
Press
  • Arts Magazine, march 2008, article by Léo Pajon, p. 43
  • Art Press february 2008, publi-info, p. 95
  • AZART march 2008, p. 27
  • La Gazette de l’Hotel drouot no. 10, 14 march 2008, article by Lydia Harambourg, p. 278
  • VERSO no. 49, april 2008, Sylvester Engbrox : Un déplacement du désir de peindre, article by Jean-Luc Chalumeau, p. 24 - 25
  • AZART no. 34 september/october 2008, Sylvester Engbrox - Les images du siècle, article by Gérard Gamand, p. 50 - 58
  • PARISBERLIN no. 44 september 2009 : Hyperceptions, article by Ulrich Schönleber ,
    p. 40 - 45.
  • PARIS CAPITALE no. 153 october 2010, p. 130
  • Florence Besson, ELLE, n° 3386, November 2010, p. 58
  • Arts Magazine, n° 51, Dezember 2010, Dans les galeries en décembre, p. 36
  • Let's Motiv Nord Belgique March 2011, p. 26 - 27
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