
Axel in front of Jimi McDonald, 2025, now destroyed
ABOUT
Axel Bottenberg is a multidisciplinary artist based in Levenshulme, Manchester.
Axel graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1989
Recent Exhibitions
2025 Train Wreck, Bankley Studios, Collaboration with Jack Doyle
2024 Ventroliquism, Whitaker Museum, curated by Mike Chavez Dawson
2023 Sight Ingested, Tokio, curated by Mike Chavez Dawson
2023 Tees, Rogue, Manchester
2022 Axel Bottenberg in McDonaldland, (solo), Bankley Studios Manchester,
2020 Art History in 12 easy Lessons (solo) Bankley Studios, Manchester,
2020 I really like the weeing boy (solo), Stock Gallery, Manchester,
2019 Lancashire Open Exhibition, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk,
2019 Super Brain (curated by Jack Doyle), Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk,
2019 Operation Impact Regulation, PS Mirabel, Manchester,
2017 The Male Perspective, Menier Gallery, London,
2017 Mural, PS Mirabel, Manchester,
2017 Small World, PS Mirabel, Manchester,
2017 Strange little Things (curator), Bankley Studios, Manchester,
2017 Mono, PS Mirabel, Manchester,
2016 Play, Bankley Studios, Manchester,
2016 Realism on the Edge (guest curator), PS Mirabel, Manchester,
2015 Fingers Crossed, Part 1-3, Wonder Inn, Hope Mill, Rogue Studios Manchester,
2014 Art at the Windrush, Windrush Millenium Centre, MCR
2014 Bankley Open 2014, Bankley Studios. Manchester,
2014 Axel Bottenberg's Chamber of Curiosities (solo), Gasoline Rooms, London,
2014 Mirabel Open 2014, PS Mirabel, Manchester,
2014 Open Up North, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal,
2013 Golden, (Solo Show), Gasoline Rooms, London,