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 Most exhibitions in: |
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| United Kingdom | 28 |
| France | 20 |
| Germany | 19 |
| USA | 12 |
| Belgium | 12 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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Lisson Gallery, United Kingdom |
19 |
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Mulier Mulier Gallery, Belgium |
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Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Canada |
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Documenta, Germany |
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Biography: 
Coventry, West Midlands, England (UK)
Art and Language played a key role in the birth of Conceptual Art both theoretically and in terms of the work produced. The name Art & Language was first used by Michael Baldwin, David Bainbridge, Harold Hurrell and Terry Atkinson in 1968 to describe their collaborative work which had been taking place since 1966-67 and as the title of the journal dedicated to the theoretical and critical issues of conceptual art. The collaboration widened between 1969 and 1970 to include Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, Joseph Kosuth and Charles Harrison. The collaborative nature of the venture was conceived by the artists as offering a critical inquiry into the social, philosophical and psychological position of the artist which they regarded as mystification. By the mid-1970s a large body of critical and theoretical as well as artistic works had developed in the form of publications, indexes, records, texts, performances and paintings. Since 1977, Art and Language has been identified with the collaborative work of Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden and with the theoretical and critical collaboration of these two with Charles Harrison.
The process of indexing lies at the heart of the endeavours of Art and Language. One such project that will be included in the exhibition is Wrongs Healed in Official Hope, a remaking of an earlier index, Index 01, produced by Art & Language for the Documenta of 1972. Whereas Index 01 was intended as a functioning tool in the recovery and public understanding of Art and Language, Wrongs Healed in Official Hope is a 'logical implosion' of these early indexes as conversations questioning the process of indexing became the material of the indexing project itself. Where Index 01 used actual filing cabinets with legible material, the pornographic text in "Wrongs?" has been visited by Mrs Malaprop and is now rendered hilariously senseless but is still recognisable as pornography. The main index is made up of brightly coloured panels and has become aggressively decorative existing only as pattern. As Charles Harrison has said of this piece "The implication is that the two extremes aesthetically evacuated abstract painting and the vivid but absolutely unaesthetic text represent the two poles of a single world of now degenerate taste."
Art & Language have been included in many international exhibitions including the Documenta exhibitions of 1972, 1982 and 1997. They have also had several retrospectives in recent years: at the Jeu de Paume, Paris in 1993, PS1, New York in 1999 and at the Musee D'Art Moderne in Lille earlier this year. Charles Harrison recently published "Essays on Art and Language" in two volumes available from MIT Press.
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Public exhibitions 140
from 25.11.
until 10.1.2010
until 12.12.
until 15.11.
Solo shows 22
2009
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| Art & Language - Works on Paper - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
2008
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| brouillages/blurrings . Works on paper - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris |
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| art & language - works 1965-78 , 2007-2008 - Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist |
2007
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| Now They Are Surrounded, Reconfigured - Unit 2 Gallery, London (England) |
2006
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| Art & Language - Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist |
2005
2004
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| Art & Language - CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Malága, Málaga |
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| art&language - Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist |
2003
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| Art & Language - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
2002
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| Art & Language - Too dark to read - Musée d'art moderne Lille métropole, Villeneuve d'Ascq |
2001
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| 15 Essays - Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist |
1999
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| The Artist Out of Work: Art & Language 1972-1981 - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island |
1996
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| Art & Language - Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen |
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Group shows 114
2009
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| VOIDS- eine Retrospektive über leere Ausstellungen - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern |
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| Schere - Stein - Papier - Kunsthaus Graz, Graz |
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| Sculpture Show - Eastside Projects, Birmingham (England) |
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| Sound of Music - Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent |
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| 1968. Die Große Unschuld - Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld |
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| A mancha humana / the human stein - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Vides, Une rétrospective - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Vivre l'art - collection Venet - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux |
2008
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| feelgood things - curated by guillaume bijl - Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist |
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| Brussels Biennial 1 - Brussels Biennial, Brussels |
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| Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Der Garten der Pfade, die sich verzweigen - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris |
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| Présence Panchounette - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| Sammlung / Collection - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
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| Peripheral vision and collective body - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| Group Show 2008 - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art - Barbican, London (England) |
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| Based on Paper - The Marzona Collection - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art - MIMA, Middlesbrough (England) |
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| guess who's coming - Mirta Demare, Rotterdam |
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| Sound of Music - Marres - Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht |
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| Art Metropole: The Top 100 - MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, NS |
2007
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| 20 ans du Musée d'Art Moderne - L'art après 1960 dans les collections - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
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| Des Fantômes et des Anges - MAC's Grand Hornu - Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu |
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| Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Matthys-Colle Collection - MDD - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle |
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| Klio - Eine kurze Geschichte der Kunst in Euramerika nach 1945 - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Art & Language, Stephanie Brooks, Helen Mirra, Ian Wilson - Peter Blum Gallery - Chelsea, New York City, NY |
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| Das Schwarze Quadrat. Hommage an Malewitsch-Gründungsbau - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
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| Konceptualna umetnost - Museum Of Contemporary Art Vojvodina / Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, Novi Sad |
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| The Monochromatic Field - Works From The Collection - The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
2006
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| Neuerwerbungen für die Sammlung 2006 - Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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| Tuttolibri - Galleria Milano, Milan |
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| printemps de septembre - Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse |
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| Nichts - Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Dark Matter - White Cube, London (England) |
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| Untouchable - Villa Arson, Nice |
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| Inventur - Kunsthaus Graz, Graz |
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| Kunst als Möbel im Widerstand - MARTa Herford, Herford |
2005
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| A Brief History of Invisible Art - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Made for this World - Contemporary Art and the Places We Build - Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| Faire signe - La Criée - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes |
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| Wall Works - Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist |
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| Sammlung MARTa Herford - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| 50 Jahre - Years documenta 1955 – 2005 - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
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| Opus, nouvelle présentation des collections permanentes - Musée d'art moderne Lille métropole, Villeneuve d'Ascq |
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| Spatiale malerei - Galleria Marabini, Bologna |
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| Re:Modern - Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna |
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| Re:MODERN - Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Bad Ems |
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| Kollektive Kreativität - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
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| La insurrección invisible de un millón de mentes - Sala Rekalde, Bilbao |
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| the invisible insurrection of a million minds - Sala Rekalde, Bilbao |
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| Voisins Officiels - Musée d'art moderne Lille métropole, Villeneuve d'Ascq |
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| Nothingness - Galerija Gregor Podnar - Ljubljana, Ljubljana |
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| EXIT- Ausstieg aus dem Bild - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
2004
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| Democracy was Fun - White Box, New York City, NY |
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| Nothingness - Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz |
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| Before The End (The Last Painting Show) - SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY |
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| Artists' Favourites - act II - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| A Angles vifs - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| ID Troubles - Shake - Halle für Kunst e.V., Lüneburg |
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| Support - Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung - 1950 - Heute - Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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| Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Before the end - Part II - Le Consortium, Dijon |
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| KUNST FÜR DIE KUNST - Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen |
2003
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| Berlin-Moskau Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000 - , Berlin |
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| 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
2002
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| Zeichen/Sprache - Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna |
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| Sans commune mesure - Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing |
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| Kunst nach Kunst - Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen |
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| Kontext: Krieg - Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna |
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| de singuliers débordements - Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, Amiens |
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| Iconoclash - Jenseits der Bilderkriege in Wissenschaft, Religion und Kunst - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
2001
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| Ingenting / Nothing - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006) |
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| Conception - The Conceptual Document 1968-1972 - The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Die Sammlung als Bild–Kugelkopf - Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Waldkraiburg |
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| Biennale for Contemporary Art in Leuven - 2001 - Biennale for Contemporary Art in Leuven, Leuven |
2000
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| British Art Show 5 - Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (England) |
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| Many Colored Objects Placed Side By Side To Form A Row Of Many Colored Objects - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg |
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| Global Conceptualism - Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s - MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
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| British Art Show 5 - John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (England) |
1999
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| Revues - Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna |
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| Get Together - Kunst als Teamwork - KUNSTHALLE wien project space karlsplatz, Vienna |
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| Arrested Ambition - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| L'envers du décor - FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne |
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| Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s–1980s - Queens Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Positionen - Museiondocumenta - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
1998
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| Odradek - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| A Choice from the Collection - Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven |
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| Ce qu’il te plaît - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
1997
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| documenta X - Documenta, Kassel |
1993
1992
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| 1968 - Le Consortium, Dijon |
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| Knowledge: Aspects Of Conceptual Art - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
1990
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| Broken Music - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| L'art conceptuel, une perspective - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1987
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| Britannia - Paintings and Sculptures from the 1980's - Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere |
1984
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| When attitudes became form - FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne |
1983
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| L'Arte povera, l'art conceptuel et les mythologies individuelles en Europe - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1982
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| documenta 7 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Livres d'artistes = Books by artists - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1981
1980
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| Art in Europe after '68 - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
1979
1977
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| documenta 6 - Documenta, Kassel |
1972
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| documenta 5 - Documenta, Kassel |
| Dealer Directory 10 |
Austria
| | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg
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| | Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
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Belgium
| | Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist
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France
| | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris
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Netherlands
Portugal
Spain
| | Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
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| | Espacio Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid
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| | Distrito Cu4tro GALERIA DE ARTE, Madrid
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United Kingdom
Public collections 34
Australia
| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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| | National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
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| | Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
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Austria
| | Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
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Belgium
| | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
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| | SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
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| | MAC's Grand Hornu - Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu
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France
| | le Musée de l’Objet, Blois
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| | FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
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| | FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris
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| | Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris
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| | Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
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| | Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
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| | FRAC - Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen
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| | Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
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| | les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse
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| | Musée d'art moderne Lille métropole, Villeneuve d'Ascq
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Germany
| | Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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Ireland (Republic)
| | Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin
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Italy
| | MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano
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Japan
| | Kita Modern Art Museum, Sakurai, Nara
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Netherlands
| | Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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Spain
| | Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
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| | CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Malága, Málaga
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Switzerland
| | Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
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| | Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
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| | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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| | Victoria and Albert Museum - V&A, London (England)
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USA
| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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