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 Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 43 |
| Germany | 16 |
| Italy | 15 |
| Spain | 13 |
| France | 9 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein |
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Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Germany |
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Biography: 
1957 Born in Taegu (KR)
1980/84
Graduate Painting Dept. of Hong-IK Univ.& /Graduate School, Seoul
1980/84
Graduate Painting Dept. of Hong-IK Univ.& /Graduate School, Seoul
1984 - 1985 Lithography studio at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
(French Government Scholarship)
1984 - 1985 Lithography studio at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
(French Government Scholarship)
1988 - 1999 World Views-Artists in Residence at World Trade Center, New York
1992 - 1993 Artists in Residence, P.S.1 Museum, New York
1992 - 1993 Artists in Residence, P.S.1 Museum, New York
1997 Cities on the Move-2727 kilometers Bottari Truck project,
The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation (Experimental Art Grant)
Paradise Culture Foundation, Seoul
1998 - 1999 World Views-Artists in Residence at World Trade Center, New York
2003 - 2005 Neauveaux Commenditaire- Landscape Lighting Project & St. Bernard
Hospice Permanent Lighting Installation, St. Bernard, France, Commissioned by Consortium, Dijion, Sponsered by Fondation de France, Paris, and Olivietti Foundation, Rome
2003 CEC ArtsLink, New York (for a lecture at Pro-Arte Institution, Moscow in the occasion of a video art exhibition at Russian Museum and Hermitage Museum, Moscow)
2004 Grant from CEC ArtsLink, New York (for a lecture at ICC, Moscow and Outdoor Video project in Yekaterinburg, Russia)
2005 Commissioned Web Video project by Ingenio 400, Madrid. For the 400 anniversary of Don Quixote's death
Her many solo shows include: dAPERTutto: The 48th Venice Biennale, Venice 1999. A Needle Woman: P.S.I Contemporary Art Center, New York in 2001. A Laundry Woman: Kunstalle Wien in 2002. Kim Sooja is included in the upcoming Whitney Biennale, 2002
In her work which combines performance, video and installations the influence of eastern philosophy and culture is evident. She became widely known to the public when she presented a series of installations with traditional Korean fabrics. She has exhibited her works in significant solo and group exhibitions internationally (Venice Biennale 2001, 1999, Biennale of Sao Paolo 1998).
Scholarship 1984 Lithography studio at Ecole National des Beaux-Art, French Government’s Scholarship
1991 Song-Un Culture Foundation, Seoul
1992 - 1993 Artists in residence, P.S.1 Museum, New York, Supported by The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
1996 The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
1998 World Views- Residency at World Trade Center, New York (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York)
The Korean Culture & Art Foundation, Seoul
1999 A Needle Woman-Tokyo, A Needle Woman-Kitakyushu, Commissioned by CCA Kitakyushu on the Occasion of the Solo Exhibition at CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
2000 Paradise Culture Foundation Awards 2000, Seoul
A Needle Woman-Delhi, and A Laundry Woman-Yamuna River, India, supported by ICC, Tokyo on the occasion of solo show at ICC.
2005 Korea Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul (Grant for the 51st Venice Biennale Project at Arsenale)
Awards 1992 - 1993 The 11th Suk-Nam fine Art Prize, Seoul
2001 Korea Culture & Arts Foundation Awards, Seoul, Awards for the best show of the year 2000, from the Solo Exhibition of Rodin Gallery, Seoul
2002 Anonymous Was a Woman Award 2002, Anomymous Was A Woman Foundation, New York Artist of the American Art Award, Whitney Museum of America, Sponsored by Cartier Co., New York
2007 Foundation for contemporary art award, new york
Selective Collections
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
MIT, Cambridge, MA
Folkwang Museum, Essen
Magazin 3, Stockholm
Sam Sung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwacheon, Korea
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C
Musee d’Art Contemporain Lyon, FNAC, France
Foundation Musee d’Art Modern Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
Kunst Museum, Bern
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Samlung Hoffmann, Berlin
Samlung Ackermans, Dusseldorf
Samlung Monstudio, Cologne
Monsoon Collection, London
Collection Pierre Huber, Geneva
Helga de Alvear Foundation, Madrid
Seattle University, Seattle
Micro Soft Co. Collection, Seattle
Western Bridge, Seattle
Achenbach Collection, Dusseldorf
AG Degussa Co. Dusseldorf
Lives and works since 2005 in New York City, NY (US)
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Public exhibitions 157
until 14.2.2010
until 17.1.2010
until 17.1.2010
until 10.1.2010
Solo shows 26
2008
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| Kimsooja - Lotus: Zone of Zero 2008 - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
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| KIMSOOJA - Mumbai: A Laundry Field - Galleria Continua - Beijing, Beijing |
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| Black Box: Kimsooja - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC |
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| Kimsooja: Video Album - Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan |
2007
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| MUMBAI: A LAUNDRY FIELD - Kewenig Galerie, Cologne |
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| Kimsooja - La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid |
2006
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| Kimsooja - A Wind Woman - Peter Blum Gallery - Chelsea, New York City, NY |
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| Kimsooja - A Wind Woman - The Project, New York City, NY |
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| Kimsooja - Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm |
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| Respirar - Una mujer espejo - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid |
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| Kimsooja - To Breathe - Respirare - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice |
2005
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| La percezione dell'orizzontale - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| Kimsooja - Seven Wishes and Secrets - MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
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| Kimsooja 'Bottari – Cologne 2005 - Kewenig Galerie, Cologne |
2004
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| Kimsooja - Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan |
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| Kimsooja - PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan |
2003
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| KIMSOOJA. NeedleWoman - The State Russian Museum - Marble Palace, St. Petersburg |
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| Kimsooja - The Project, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Kim Sooja - A Mirror Woman - Peter Blum Gallery - Soho, New York City, NY |
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| Kim Sooja - Museumsquartier, Vienna |
2001
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| Kim Sooja. A Needle Woman - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island |
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| Kim Sooja - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern |
2000
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| Kim Sooja - A Needle Woman - Rodin Gallery, Seoul |
1999
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| Kim Soo Ja - A Needle Woman - Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu |
Group shows 127
2009
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| 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow |
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| 4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale 2009 - LIVE and LET LIVE: Creators of Tomorrow - Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka |
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| The view from elsewhere. Small Acts - Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Universal Code - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON |
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| 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki - Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
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| FRAGILE - Terres d'empathie - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
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| Living with... - Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan |
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| Mi Vida – From Heaven to Hell - Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest |
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| Un Certain Etat du Monde ? A Certain State of the World ? - Garage Center for Contemporary Culture - GCCC, Moscow |
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| Re-Imagining Asia - The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England) |
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Fundacion Canal, Madrid |
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| en découdre - Fondation Espace Ecureil pour l'Art Contemporain Caisse d'Espargne, Toulouse |
2008
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| 11th International Cairo Biennale - International Cairo Biennale, Cairo |
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| Asian Dub Photography - Fondazione Casssa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena |
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| Helga De Alvear im Dialog mit Harald Falckenberg - Sammlung Falckenberg - Kulturstiftung Phoenix Art, Hamburg |
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| Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz |
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| Street Art, Street Life - Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York City, NY |
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| Sehnsucht (Aspiration) - Light & Sie, Dallas, TX |
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| Nuevos Místicos - Museo Cabrera Pinto, San Cristóbal de La Laguna |
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| LIAF 08 - Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvær |
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| Micro-narratives : tentation des petites réalités - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
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| Reasia - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin |
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| Time is of the Essence : Contemporary Landscape Art - Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC |
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| Erranti nella videoarte contemporanea - Magazzini Del Sale - Palazzo Comunale, Siena |
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| Re-Imagining Asia - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin |
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| Transmediale 08: Conspire - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin |
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| Person Of The Crowd: The Contemporary Art Of Flânerie - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
2007
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Gehen bleiben - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn |
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| Void in Korean Art - Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul |
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| e-flux - PawnShop Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 48th October Salon - Temptation of small realities – micro-communities - Oktobarski Salon / October Salon, Belgrade |
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
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| Equatorial Rhythms - Stenersenmuseet, Oslo |
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| Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relations - Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden |
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| Existencias - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon |
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| Gestures of infinity - Minoriten Kultur, Graz |
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| TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival 07 - TINA B. – The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague |
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| Manifesting Emptiness - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| An Interpersonal Journey - Santralistanbul, Istanbul |
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| A L'HORIZON DE SHANGI_LA - FRAC - Lorraine, Metz |
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| Atlas Americas - Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro |
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| ARTEMPO - Where Times Becomes Art - Museo Fortuny, Venice |
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| Listening Awry - McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON |
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| auszeit - Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit - Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen |
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| Auszeit / Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit - Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz |
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| Scenes and Sequences - Peter Blum Edition, New York - Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau |
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| Dalla terra alla luna - metafore di viaggio (parte I) - Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin |
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| Critical Mass – Kritische Masse I - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern |
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA), New York City, NY |
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| Speed 3: Contrarreloj (Against the clock) - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| Cosmologies, - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Fremd bin ich eingezogen - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
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| The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago, IL |
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| 47th October Salon - Oktobarski Salon / October Salon, Belgrade |
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| Displacement - Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT |
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| Sculptures - Peter Blum Gallery - Soho, New York City, NY |
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| Mit Leib und Seele - über Transzendenz in der Kunst seit den 1960er Jahren - Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz |
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| The Missing Peace - Artists Consider the Dalai Lama - Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 5 Tage bis zum Ende der Kunst - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
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| NowHere Europe - Trans:it. Moving Culture Through Europe - National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest |
2005
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| Fusion - Aspects of Asian Culture in the Musac Collection - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon |
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| WOW - Western Bridge, Seattle, WA |
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| Irreducible - Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York City, NY |
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| Yokohama 2005 - International Triennale of Contemporary Art - Yokohama 2005, Yokohama |
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| Miradas y conceptos en la Colección Helga de Alvear - Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid |
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| Irreducible - Contemporar Short Form Video - Miami Art Central, Miami, FL |
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| 51st International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - Always a little further - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Domicile/Privee-Public - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
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| Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz |
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| The giving person - PAN - Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples |
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| Marking Time - LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Irreducible - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
2004
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| WOW (The Work of the Work) - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| 2004 California Biennial - California Biennial, Newport Beach |
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| De leur temps. Collections privées Francaises - Musee des Beaux Arts Tourcoing, Tourcoing |
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| Lodz Biennale 2004 - Lodz Biennale, Lodz |
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| Still mapping the moon - Perspektiven zeitgenössischer Malerei - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn |
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| No lo llames Performance = Don´t call it Performance - El Museo del Barrio, New York City, NY |
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| PREMAculTURE - Hydra School Project, Hydra |
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| Raison et sentiments - Sense & Sensibility - Crac Alsace, Altkirch |
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| No lo llames performance - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla |
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| Kunst Stoff - Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna |
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| Home Extension - University Art Museum , Albany, NY |
2003
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| 10e Niennale de l'Image en Mouvement - Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Geneva |
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| No lo llames performance - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid |
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| No lo llames Performance = Don´t call it Performance - Centro Parraga, Murcia |
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| Traces of Friday - Art, Tourism, Displacement - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Migration - Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz |
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| II Bienal de Valencia - La Ciudad Ideal - Bienal de Valencia, Valencia |
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| Social Strategies - Redefining social realism - University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, Il |
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| Moltitudini - Solitudini - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| HIMMELSCHWER - Transformationen der Schwerkraft - Minoriten Kultur, Graz |
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| Himmelsschwer - Transformationen der Schwerkraft - Landesmuseum Joanneum / Volkskunde, Graz |
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| Walking in the City - Apexart, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Busan Biennale 2002 - The Busan Biennale, Busan |
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| Tempo - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Refuge - Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden |
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| Whitney Biennial 2002 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
2001
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| ARS 01 Unfolding Perspectives - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
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| Galleri Faurschou 1986-2001 - Galleri Faurschou - Copenhagen, Copenhagen |
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| Looking at You - Kunst Provokation Unterhaltung Video - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
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| 49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Lost and Found - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| Imago Mundi - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| Subject Plural - Crowds in Contemporary Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Hypermental - Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950 - 2000 - Von Salvador Dali bis Jeff K - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
2000
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| Hypermental - Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1955 - 2000 von Salvador Dalí bis Jeff Koon - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
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| Taipei Biennial 2000 - The sky is the limit - Taipei Biennial, Taipei |
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| 1. Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000 - Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata-ken |
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| 5e Biennale de Lyon - Partage d'exotismes - La biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon |
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| From here to there - Passageways at Solitude - Akademie Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart |
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| Slowness of Speed - Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju Bomun |
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| Slowness of Speed - Artsonje Center, Seoul |
1999
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| Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT3) - Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| 48th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1998
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| 24° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo |
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| Biennale of Sydney 1998 - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
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| Echolot oder neun Fragen an die Peripherie - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
1997
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| Cities on the move - Wiener Secession, Vienna |
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| 5. International İstanbul Biennial - International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul |
1996
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| Ceremonial - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| Contemporary Art in Asia: Traditions/Tensions - Queens Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Manifesta 1- Rotterdam - , Rotterdam |
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China
| | Galleria Continua - Beijing, Beijing
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Germany
Italy
| | Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan
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Spain
| | La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid
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| | Galería Jule Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca
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Switzerland
| | Galerie Tschudi - Glarus, Glarus
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Public collections 21
Australia
| | Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
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Canada
| | Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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France
| | Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon
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Germany
| | Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin
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| | K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - im Ständehaus, Dusseldorf
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| | Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen
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Greece
Italy
| | Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin
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Japan
| | Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
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| | MOMAT The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
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Korea (Republic)
| | National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon
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| | Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
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Liechtenstein
| | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
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Luxembourg
| | MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
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Spain
| | Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres
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| | Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon
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Sweden
| | Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
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Switzerland
USA
| | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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| | National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
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