Artist's arttributes:
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Female |
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Performance, BioArt |
Most exhibitions in:
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| France | 34 |
| USA | 22 |
| Italy | 20 |
| Germany | 13 |
| Spain | 11 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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FRAC - Pays de la Loire, France |
3 |
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Stux Gallery, USA |
3 |
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Villa Arson, France |
3 |
Biography: 
30.5.1947 Born in Saint-Etienne, Loire (FR)
Lives and works in Paris (FR) and New York City, NY (US)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 152  from 15.6.
Solo shows 16
2011
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| Un boeuf sur la langue - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes |
2010
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| Orlan aaka Orlan - Prometeogallery, Milan |
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| The Harlequin Coat: ORLAN - Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE |
2009
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| ORLAN - Abbaye de Maubuisson, Saint Ouen |
2008
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| ORLAN: Post-Identity Strategies - Tallinna Kunstihoone / Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn |
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| ORLAN - Galerie Michel Rein, Paris |
2007
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| Orlan - Le récit - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
2005
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| Orlan - Stux Gallery, New York City, NY |
2004
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| ORLAN - 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok |
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| Méthodes de l'artiste, 1964-2004 - Centre national de la photographie, Paris |
2002
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| Orlan - FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou |
2000
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| Orlan - Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz |
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| Self-hybridations - Galerie Georges Verney-Carron, Lyon |
1999
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| Orlan - Chelouche Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv |
1996
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| Orlan a Roma 1964-1996 - Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome |
Group shows 135
2012
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| re.act.feminism #2. A Performing Archive - Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona |
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| De Paso En La Tierra - Cicus - Centro de Iniciativas Culturales de la Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla |
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| À la vie délibérée! Une histoire de la performance sur la Côte d'Azur de 1951 à 2011 - Villa Arson, Nice |
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| Le Temps de l´action / Acte II - Villa Arson, Nice |
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| Factory Direct: Pittsburgh - The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA |
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| L'amour du Risque - MSU - Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Zagreb |
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| Liquids in Contemporary Art - Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv |
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| re.act.feminism #2 - a performing archive - Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona |
2011
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| Accorachage - - Galerie Traversée, Munich (closed, 2012) |
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| Claude Viallat - Recent Works / ORLAND - New Sculpture - Galerie Helene Lamarque - Miami, Miami, FL |
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| Da Cartografia do Poder aos Itinerários do Saber - Museu da Ciência, Coimbra |
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| LE TEMPS DE L'ACTION / Acte 1 - Villa Arson, Nice |
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| Haut. Mythos und Medium - Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Of women´s modesty and anger - Villa Empain - Boghossian Foundation, Brussels |
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| Femme objet, Femme sujet - Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac |
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| Double Face - FRAC - Basse-Normandie, Caen |
2010
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| Iles jamais trouvées - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
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| In View - Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
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| BUON DOMANI \ A BETTER TOMORROW - Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome |
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| Autour de l'extreme - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris |
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| Decadence Now! Visions of Excess - Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague |
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| Collection 2 - Focus on Recent Acquisitions - NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka |
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| Isole mai Trovate – Islands never found - Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
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| SUMMERTIME LOVE - Galerie Michel Rein, Paris |
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| Photos and Phantasy, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation - Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
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| WAS IST SCHÖN? - Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden |
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| Isola mai trovate / Islands never found - Palazzo Ducale, Genoa |
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| HYPOTHESES VERIFICATION - Laboratoria Art & Science Space, Moscow |
2009
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| BAROCK – Art, Science, Faith and Technology in the Contemporary Age - Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, Naples |
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| Essential Experiences - Palazzo Riso - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo |
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| Beauty Farm. La bellezza del corpo tra idealizzazione e ossessione - Palazzo Durini - Fondazione Durini, Milan |
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| SK–INTERFACES - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg |
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| GENIPULATION Génie génétique et manipulation dans l - Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne |
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| Involvement - Galerie Heike Curtze - Berlin, Berlin |
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| Beyond Appearances - Lehman College Art Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Face to Faces - Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki |
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| Ingres et les modernes - Musée Ingres, Montauban |
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| Glasstress 2009 - Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice |
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| The Frog Princess - Jozsa Gallery, Brussels |
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| elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Second Skin - Associazione TRA - Treviso Ricerca Arte, Treviso |
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| Second Skin - Spazio Paraggi, Treviso |
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| Un été Contemporain - Metamorphoses - Musée Paul Dini, Villefranche-sur-Saône |
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| All that is solid melts into air - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
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| bildschön. Schönheitskult in der aktuellen Kunst - Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Tragedie Minuscule - Collection du FRAC Basse-Normandie - Galerie le Radar, Bayeux |
2008
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| re.act.feminism - performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute - AdK - Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
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| WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Mediation Biennale 08 - Mediations Biennale, Poznan |
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| Reflections Teil 2 - Gruppenausstellung - - Galerie Traversée, Munich (closed, 2012) |
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| Busan Biennale 2008 - The Busan Biennale, Busan |
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| L'Argent - FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris |
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| Orlan+davidelfin - Espacio AV, Murcia |
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| From Head to Toe - Stux Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Biennale di Alessandria - Shapes of Time - Biennale di Alessandria, Alessandria |
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| Continuum - Collection Frac Basse-Normandie - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Lô, Saint-Lô |
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| WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| SK-Interfaces - FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool (England) |
2007
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| J´Embrasse Pas - Collection Lambert, Avignon |
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| Skin of/in Contemporary Art - NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka |
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| WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution - National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC |
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| Bienniale of Electronic Arts - BEAP 2007 - Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth - BEAP, Bentley, WA |
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| Black Panther Rank and File - Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC |
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| Bad Big Love - Stux Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Nature (Interrupted) - 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Bellezza Pericolosa - PAN - Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples |
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| ARTEMPO - Where Times Becomes Art - Museo Fortuny, Venice |
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| Rouge baiser - FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou |
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| Ateliers - L'artistes et ses lieux de création - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Face to Faces - Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri |
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| WACK! - Art And The Feminist Revolution - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture in Recent Photography - Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark, NJ |
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| Flickering Self: Video Shorts by Andrew Demirjian, Orlan, and Martin C. de Waal - Paul Robeson Galleries, Newark, NJ |
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| Dangerous Beauty - CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Renegades 25 Years of Performance at Exit Art - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
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| Diagnose [Kunst] - Die Medizin im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Kunst - Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen |
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| Face à Faces - Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art - ACCEA, Yerevan |
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| Revelation (Uppenbar(a)t) - Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockholm |
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| Mascarada - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| Corpus Christi. Christusdarstellungen in der Fotografie - Kunsthalle Krems, Krems |
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| Autopoesis - Slovak National Gallery / Slovenská Národná Galéria, Bratislava |
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| Photo España 2006 - Galería Dolores de Sierra, Madrid |
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| Orlan - DS.1 / R. Liaño - P.G.O.U. - DS.2 - Galería Dolores de Sierra, Madrid |
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| La force de l´art - Superdéfense - Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris |
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| The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible - TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki |
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| Face a Faces - City Art Centre, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
2005
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| Superstars - Das Prinzip Prominenz. Von Warhol bis Madonna - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| SHORTCUTS BETWEEN REALITY AND FICTION - Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL |
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| perdere la testa - Lattuada Studio, Milan |
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| Proyecto Cono Sur - FRAC - Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales - MNAV, Montevideo |
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| Fondos Regionales de Arte Contemporáneo Île-de-France y Poitou-Charentes - MAMBA - Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires |
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| Alias & Alibi - Fries Museum, Leeuwarden |
2004
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| Dear ICC - Aspects of contemporary art in Belgium 1970-1985 - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
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| Woman - Metamorphosis of modernity - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| Femina - Galerie Les filles du calvaire - Bruxelles, Brussels |
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| De leur temps. Collections privées Francaises - MUba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing |
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| Pour les oiseaux - FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou |
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| Bocca della Verità - Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth e.V., Bodenburg |
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| Die zehn Gebote - Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden |
2003
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| Corpus Christi _ Christus-Darstellungen in der photographie, 1850-2001 - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Cara a Cara - Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos - Culturgest, Lisbon |
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| In faccia al mondo. Il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico - Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa |
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| II Bienal de Valencia - La Ciudad Ideal - Bienal de Valencia, Valencia |
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| Time capsule - Art in General, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Magazin im Magazin, Vol.2 - Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz |
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| Shock and Show - Realtà e alternative - LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea - Trieste, Trieste |
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| Shock and Show - Galleria Planetario, Trieste |
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| Babel 2002 - National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon |
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| Tableaux Vivants - Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film, and Video - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
2001
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| Le Muse Inquietanti - Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Polignano a Mare (PBA) |
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| Réjouissez-vous! - Le Parvis - scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, Ibos |
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| antwerpen open - Antwerpen Open, Antwerp |
2000
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| Tongue in 'cheek - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens |
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| Le Siecle Du Corps Photographies 1900-2000 - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| MAN – Body in Art from 1950-2000 - ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishoj |
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| 5e Biennale de Lyon - Partage d'exotismes - La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Narcisse Blesse - Passage de Retz, Paris |
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| Der anagrammatische Körper - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Les Voluptes - - Borusan Sanat Galerisi / Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul (closed, 2006) |
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| Le corps mutant - Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris |
1999
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| Intermedia / Tribute to Dick Higgins - Ernst Museum Budapest, Budapest |
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| Der anagrammatische Körper: Der Körper und seine mediale Konstruktion - Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag |
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| Rosso Vivo, mutazione, trasfigurazione e sangue nell'arte contemporanea - PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan |
1997
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| 5. International İstanbul Biennial - International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul |
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| Máscara y espejo - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
1996
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| Hybrids - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
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| Endurance: The Information - Arcadia University Art Gallery , Glenside, PA |
1995
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| 3e Biennale de Lyon - La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Endurance - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
1994
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| Borderlines - NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin |
1980
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| XI Biennale de Paris - - Biennale de Paris, Paris (closed) |
Dealer Directory 10 |
France
| | Galerie Deneulin, Barraux
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| | Galerie Georges Verney-Carron, Lyon
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| | Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
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Italy
| | B&D Studio Contemporanea, Milan
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South Korea
Spain
| | Galería Dolores de Sierra, Madrid
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United Kingdom
| | the centre of attention, London (England)
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USA
| | Stux Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Brown Bag Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
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Collections 7

France
| | FRAC - Basse-Normandie, Caen
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| | FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
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| | FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris
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| | Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
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| | IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
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Italy
| | Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome
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Japan
| | NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka
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Catalogs
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