Selected Solo Exhibitions

1997 XLVII Venice Biennale, Russian Pavilion, Venice  —  solo presentation "Criminal Chronicle"
2025 "Gesichter — Visages — Faces", Luxembourg School of Religion & Society, Luxembourg (June–July)
2024 "Der Zeuge — The Witness", University of Bamberg, Kulturraum St. Johannis (April–June)
2024 "Globe and Time", Kasteyev State Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan (Feb–March)
2024 Paintings and Graphic, Art Gallery Has Sanat, Astana, Kazakhstan (Nov–Dec)
2022 "The Rape of Europe", National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg (28 April – 16 October)
2022 "Rats and Pigs on the Ship of Fools", Galerie Simoncini, Luxembourg
2019 "Maxim Kantor and the Last Judgement", Saint-Michael's Church, Luxembourg (28–30 June)
2018 "Bosch & Kantor — Das Jüngste Gericht", Gemäldegalerie, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna (Oct 2018 – Jan 2019)
2018 "Garten des Wissens", Library of Bamberg University (Oct 2018 – April 2019)
2018 "Faust", Galerie Simoncini, Luxembourg
2017 Inauguration of site-specific paintings "Library" and "Storm", Genscher Saal, Bundestag, Berlin
2017 "De l'autre côté — Merry Symbolism", Église Saint-Merry, Paris
2017 "Das Neue Bestiarium", Kunsthalle Emden, Niedersachsen
2016 "Rodina kontra Imperium", National Museum, Gdańsk (Oct 2016 – Jan 2017)
2016 "Das Neue Bestiarium", Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg
2013 "Atlantis", Collegio Armeno Moorat Raphael, Venice
2012 "Vulcano", Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2012 Paintings and Graphic, State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg
2012 "Vulcanus. Satires dans tous les sens", Musée du Montparnasse, Paris
2010 Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, United States
2004–07 "New Empire" — Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Osnabrück; Querini Stampalia, Venice; Ulster Museum, Belfast; Abbaye de Neumünster; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg
2003 World Economic Forum, Arts and Culture, Davos
2001–02 "Ödland — Ein Atlas", Städel, Frankfurt; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; museums in Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk
2001–02 Ulster Museum, Belfast; South Australian Gallery, Adelaide
1998–00 Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; touring Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida; Ulster Museum; Musée Villa Vauban, Luxembourg
1997–98 State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
1996 Kunsthalle Rostock; Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark; Musée de Pully; Royal College of Art, London
1992 "Retrospektive", Museum Bochum
1988 Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin; Museum Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht

Selected Group Exhibitions

To be updated.

Museum & Institutional Collections

State Tretyakov Gallery

Moscow, Russia

The British Museum

London, United Kingdom

Museum Bochum

Bochum, Germany

Sprengel Museum

Hannover, Germany

Städel Museum

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Felix-Nussbaum-Haus

Osnabrück, Germany

South Australian Gallery

Adelaide, Australia

Luxembourg National Museum of History and Art

Luxembourg City

State Russian Museum

Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Academy of Fine Arts

Vienna, Austria

National Museum

Gdańsk, Poland

Pembroke College, Oxford

Quadriptych "Pembroke Altar", Common Room

Pontifical Academy of Sciences

Rome, Italy

Federal Foreign Office

Berlin, Germany — Genscher Saal

Église Saint-Merry

Paris, France

Brussels Cathedral

Brussels, Belgium

Chapel of Resurrection, LSRS

Luxembourg City

National Libraries

France, Austria, Luxembourg — Etching portfolios

Books & Publications

2021 Thistle and Thorn — philosophy of art and social history of Europe
2018 Hazard (novel, German edition)
2017 Hazard (novel)
2016 The Thistle — Philosophy of Painting
2016 Red Light — French translation, Louison Éditions (Feu Rouge, preface by Éric Naulleau)
2013 Red Light (novel) — shortlist National Bestseller & Big Book awards
2008–15 Political essays: Slow Jaws of Democracy, The Strategy of Leviathan, An Empire Turned Inside Out, One is Enough
2006 Textbook of Drawing (novel) — shortlist Big Book 2007

Artist Books & Portfolios

2018 Faust — artist book
2014 The Ballades of Robin Hood — artist book
2013 Heinrich von Kleist — Die Hermannsschlacht — artist book
2010 Vulcanus. Atlas — etching portfolio. National Libraries of France, Austria, Luxembourg
2004 Metropolis. Atlas — etching portfolio
2000–01 Wasteland. Atlas — etching portfolio

Selected Press

2025 Coverage of "Gesichter — Visages — Faces", Luxembourg School of Religion & Society
2024 Coverage of "Der Zeuge — The Witness", University of Bamberg
2022 Coverage of "The Rape of Europe", National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg

Publications

2021 Thistle and Thorn — philosophy of art and social history of Europe; based on lecture courses at Notre Dame, Cambridge and Oxford
2018 Hazard — novel, with German edition (2018)
2016 The Thistle — Philosophy of Painting — essay on art history
2013 Red Light — novel; shortlisted National Bestseller & Big Book awards; translated into French (Feu Rouge, Louison Éditions, 2016) and German (Rotes Licht, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 2018)
2006 Textbook of Drawing — novel; shortlisted Big Book award 2007
1993 House in Wasteland — stories, with author's illustrations

Livres d'Artiste

2018 Faust — text and illustrations by Kantor
2014 The Ballades of Robin Hood
2013 Heinrich von Kleist — Die Hermannsschlacht
2010 Vulcanus. Atlas — etching portfolio; acquired by National Libraries of France, Austria, Luxembourg
2004 Metropolis. Atlas — etching portfolio
2000 Wasteland. Atlas — etching portfolio

Symposiums & Lectures

2022 International Conference Painting as a Spiritual Path in Difficult Times — Chapel of Resurrection, Luxembourg School of Religion and Society
2019 Exhibition and International Conference The Last Judgement — Saint-Michael's Church, Luxembourg; with professors from Bamberg, Cambridge, Luxembourg, Oxford, Torino
2018 Interdisciplinary Symposium Das Jüngste Gericht — Von Bosch bis Kantor; Symposium in Bamberg University Beauty, Goodness, Strength
2016 Democracy as a Challenge of Our Times — European Solidarity Center, Gdańsk
2014 The Rape of Europe — Graduate Institute of International Relations, Geneva
2013 Atlantis and Utopia — Palazzo Zenobio, Venice
2012 Vulcano: Art and Politics in the Period of Crisis of European Ideals — University of Oxford / Ashmolean Museum

Academic & Institutional

2019 Artist in Residence, Luxembourg School of Religion and Society
2015 Visiting Professor, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
2013 Honorary Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford