 Artist's arttributes:
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Sculpture |
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Postminimalism |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 54 |
| Germany | 51 |
| France | 22 |
| Italy | 16 |
| Austria | 13 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
№ |
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BUCHMANN GALERIE, Germany |
8 |
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Sperone Westwater Gallery, USA |
7 |
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Austria |
7 |
Biography: 
25.3.1950 Born in Metzingen, Württemberg, BW (DE)
Lives and works in Hochdorf (DE)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 212
Solo shows 79
2013
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| from me all has risen, in me all exists, in me all dissolves - Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, NY |
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| Without Beginning and Without End - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Wolfgang Laib - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
2012
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| Passageway - Vadehra Art Gallery - Okhla Industrial Area, New Delhi |
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| Passageway Inside – Downside - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
2011
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| Wolfgang Laib - Passageway - Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai |
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| passageway - Gallery Chemould - Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai |
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| passageway - Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai |
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| Wolfgang Laib: Unlimited Ocean - SAIC - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
2010
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| Wolfgang Laib - Blütenstaub und Haselnuß - Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main |
2009
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| Wolfgang Laib, Frieze of Life - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Without Place—Without Time—Without Body - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| Pasotraspaso - Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo - MUAC, Mexico City |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Fondazione Merz, Turin |
2008
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| Wolfgang Laib - Musee de Grenoble, Grenoble |
2007
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| Without Time-Without Body-Without Place - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Where are you going? - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
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| WOLFGANG LAIB - Sin Principio / Sin Fin - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Konrad Fischer Galerie - Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf |
2006
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| Wolfgang Laib - Galerie Beyeler, Basel |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Galerie Lelong - Paris, Paris |
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| Wolfgang Laib: Transit - Transition - Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore |
2005
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| Wolfgang Laib - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Fondation Beyeler, Riehen |
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| Wolfgang Laib - MACRO Museo d´Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW |
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| Wolfgang Laib - work on paper and photographs - DE PONT - museum of contemporary art, Tilburg |
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| Work on paper and photographs - DE PONT - museum of contemporary art, Tilburg |
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| Wolfgang Laib - ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Wolfgang Laib: Passageway-Overgoing - The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Crawley WA |
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| Die Essenz des wirklichen - Wolfgang Laib - Zeichnungen und Fotografien - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn |
2004
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| Wolfgang Laib - Rizziero Arte, Pescara |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot |
2003
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| Wolfgang Laib - MIMOCA - Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame |
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| Wolfgang Laib - National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo |
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| Wolfgang LAIB - drawings and photographs - Kenji Taki Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo |
2002
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| Wolfgang Laib - Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, NY |
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| Wolfgang Laib - a retrospective - Haus der Kunst München, Munich |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Paradise [8] Wolfgang Laib - The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen |
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| WOLFGANG LAIB - Photographs - Sculptures - Drawings - Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris |
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| Wolfgang Laib - A Retrospective - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
2001
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| Wolfgang Laib - a retrospective - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Wolfgang Laib - a retrospective - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Konrad Fischer Galerie - Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf |
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| Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
2000
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| Wolfgang Laib - A Retrospective - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Matrix 188 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere |
1999
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| Wolfgang Laib - Solo Exhibition - Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Carré d´art - Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes |
1998
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| Wolfgang Laib - Alfonso Artiaco, Naples |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Kenji Taki Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Kenji Taki Gallery - Nagoya, Nagoya |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Nowhere-Everywhere - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Wolfgang Laib: You Will Go Somewhere Else - Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1997
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| Wolfgang Laib - Ich bin nicht hier - Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
1996
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| Wolfgang Laib - Kenji Taki Gallery - Nagoya, Nagoya |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Kolumba, Cologne |
1995
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| Wolfgang Laib - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
1994
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| Wolfgang Laib - Camden Arts Centre, London (England) |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Neue Werke - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
1993
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| Wolfgang Laib - DE PONT - museum of contemporary art, Tilburg |
1992
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| Wolfgang Laib - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
1990
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| Wolfgang Laib - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1989
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| Wolfgang Laib - Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart |
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| Wolfgang Laib - Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris |
1985
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| Wolfgang Laib - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
1983
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| Wolfgang Laib - Der Beitrag zur Biennale Venedig 1982 - Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach |
1978
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| Wolfgang Laib - kunstraum muenchen, Munich |
Group shows 133
2013
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| Indien – Fotografien Und Skulpturen - Konrad Fischer Galerie - Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf |
2012
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| Velkaite - Teil I - Goodbye - Galerie Heimeshoff, Essen |
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| Qui a peur du cylindre, de la sphère et du cône ? De la géométrie à l’échelle du paysage - Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart |
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| Auf Augenhöhe: Meisterwerke aus Mittelalter und Moderne - Ulmer Museum, Ulm |
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| Pollen and Paint: Laib, Homer, and the Natural World - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Stadt und Land - Konrad Fischer Galerie - Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf |
2011
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| Private Passions Sammeln in Mannheim - Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim |
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| Schlaglichter 3 - Schlaglichter 3 - Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen |
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| Plot : Plan : Process - Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, NY |
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| Et si l’espace n’était qu’une dimension intérieure - Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac |
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| Nature morte vivante - Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris |
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| Ukifune - Floating Boat - Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi |
2010
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| Hunters & Gatherers - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Bild für Bild - Film und zeitgenössische Kunst - Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U, Dortmund |
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| Drawing Space - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
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| Grain of Emptiness - The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA), New York City, NY |
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| Transparency - Art for Renewable Energy - Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, Naples |
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| CAPC ou la vie saisie par l'art - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| Grass Grows by Itself - Marlborough Chelsea, New York City, NY |
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| Resonance - - Suntory Museum, Osaka (closed, 2010) |
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| Aber Schwarz ist doch gar keine Farbe! - Konrad Fischer Galerie - Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf |
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| ColorForms - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC |
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| Personal Structures | Time - Space - Existence - Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis BV:BKV, Bregenz |
2009
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| Just what is it... - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Taswir – Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
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| Selection – Einblicke in die Sammlung Biedermann - Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen |
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| Mahlzeit! (Essen in der Kunst) - Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg |
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| Su:Mbisori - Jeju Museum of Art , Jeju |
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| FLOWER POWER - Craa Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Verbania |
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| Minimal Shift - Galéria Jana Koniarka, Trnava |
2008
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| Now you see it - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
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| Ressonância Resonance Resonanz - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Full House - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
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| HELIO - PhotoforumPasquArt, Biel/Bienne |
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| Origins - HVCCA - Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY |
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| Hoehe-Breite-Tiefe - Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart |
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| du Jardin au Cosmos - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux |
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| Intimacy - The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY |
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| L'ivresse de l'Absolu - Fondation pour L'art Contemporain, Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex |
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| L'archaïque contempora - Fondation Espace Ecureil pour l'Art Contemporain Caisse d'Espargne, Toulouse |
2007
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| Der unendliche Raum dehnt sich aus - Kolumba, Cologne |
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| Exposures, the contemporary self-portrait - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
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| On fait le mur... - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux |
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| Collectors 1 - Collezione La Gaia - - Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (closed) |
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| Die Kunst zu Sammeln - Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf |
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| PURE - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Speed #1 - natura naturata - velocidad sin movimiento - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| Art is an Idea - The Moquay Collection - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
2006
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| Extraits - Centre d’Art Bastille - CAB, Grenoble |
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| Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Internazionale XII Biennale di Scultura di Carrara - Biennale di Sculture di Carrara, Carrara |
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| The Grand Promenade - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
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| Sixth International Biennial Exhibition: Still Points of the Turning World - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| SITE Santa Fe's Sixth International Biennial - SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Summer Exhibition - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| At Home - Recent Acquisitions - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
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| Freundschaftsspiel - Skulptur06 - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
2005
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| Kyoto Art Walk 05 - Kyoto Art Walk Association, Kyoto |
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| Paper, Groups and Grids - Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, NY |
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| Da un lato all - Rizziero Arte, Pescara |
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| Fyra situationer,Tre målningar, Två fotografier, En doft - Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm |
2004
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| Carl Andre, Wolfgang Laib, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Richard Serra, Hiroshi Sugimoto - André Simoens Gallery, Knokke-Heist |
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| kunstbegegnet - Die Antike trifft auf zeitgenössische Kunst Kunstgegenstände - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn |
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| WOW (The Work of the Work) - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Neuerwerbungen Zeitgenössischer Kunst 1995 - 2004 - Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Minimal & Concept Art - MMK Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Wörlen, Passau |
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| The Fine Line (Between Something and Nothing) - Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, NY |
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| Transcultures - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
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| The World of Objects - Taidehalli - Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki |
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| Monocromos - de Malevich al presente - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid |
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| Home Sweet Home - Galleria Cardi - Milano, Milan |
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| Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism - Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
2003
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| Painting Lesson - Galleria Cardi - Milano, Milan |
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| Social Strategies - Redefining Social Realism - Richard E. Peeler Art Center - DePauw University , Greencastle, IN |
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| Collectiepresentatie V - herfst 2003 - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
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| Social Strategies - Redefining social realism - University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, Il |
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| Updated Collection Presentation (IV) - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
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| Corso Terracciano 56 - Alfonso Artiaco, Naples |
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| Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation - ICA - Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston, Boston, MA |
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| On Paper - Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR |
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| Photo - Kunst - 1852 - 2002 - Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
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| Magic Markers - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA |
2002
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| DOPPELUNG DER BILDER IM RAUM / Aus der Sammlung Eckardt - Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, Bayreuth |
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| DOPPELUNG DER BILDER IM RAUM / Aus der Sammlung Eckardt - Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel |
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| Time Space Motion - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
2001
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| The Inward Eye - Transcendence in Contemporary Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Todays Utopia - Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen |
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| Before Reflection Begins - David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI |
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| Die Cabinette des Dr. Czerny - Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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| il Dono - SMS Contemporanea, ex Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena |
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| The Eternal Instant. Art and Spirituality at the Change of Millennium - EACC - Espai d´Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellon de la Plana |
2000
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| Century of Innocence – The History of the White Monochrome - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006) |
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| Enclosed and enchanted - Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (England) |
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| dans l'espace - Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva |
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| Around 1984 - A Look at Art in the Eighties - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Cosmologies - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| TOMORROW FOR EVER - Galerie Sfeir-Semler - Hamburg, Hamburg |
1999
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| Espace, modes d'emploi - Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest |
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| minimalia - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| 48th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1998
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| Magie der Bäume - Fondation Beyeler, Riehen |
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| Saptiotemporal - Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm |
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| Early forms - Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris |
1997
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| 2nd Gwangju Biennale - Unmapping The Earth - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
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| 4e Biennale de Lyon - La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Die Erste Sammlung Zu Gast Im Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag - Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag |
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| 47th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1994
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| Die Erste Sammlung - Von 1988 Bis 1994 - Positionen Aktueller Kunst - xhibit - Ausstellungsräume der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna |
1993
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| Azur - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
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| Cartographies Imaginaires - LaM - Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Villeneuve d'Ascq |
1991
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| Das Goldene Zeitalter - Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart |
1990
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| Light Seed - Watari-Um - Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
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| Régions de dissemblance - Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart |
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| Color and/or Monochrome - National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (MOMAK), Kyoto |
1989
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| Einleuchten - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Color and/or Monochrome - National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo |
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| European Avant-Garde - Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, PA |
1988
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| Group Exhibition - Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris |
1987
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| documenta 8 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Unpainted Landscapes - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
1986
1985
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| Spuren, Skulpturen und Monumente ihrer präzisen Reise - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
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| 1954-1985 - Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
1982
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| Kunst wird Material - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| documenta 7 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| La Biennale di Venezia : Settore Arti Visive : 1982 - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Invitational - David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI |
| Dealer Directory 12 |
Austria
| | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg
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France
| | Galerie Lelong - Paris, Paris
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| | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris
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Germany
| | Konrad Fischer Galerie - Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
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| | Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Dusseldorf
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Italy
Japan
Switzerland
| | Buchmann Skulpturenprojekte & Kunsthandel, Lugano
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| | Sperone Westwater Gallery, Lugano
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USA
| | Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY
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Belgium
| | MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp
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Finland
| | Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
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France
| | CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
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| | FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
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| | Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
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| | Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart
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Germany
| | Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
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| | Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
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| | Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
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| | Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm
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Greece
| | National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens
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Japan
| | National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo
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| | Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi
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Netherlands
| | DE PONT - museum of contemporary art, Tilburg
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South Korea
| | Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
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Spain
Sweden
| | Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
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USA
| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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