Christian Boltanski

(b. 1944, Paris. Lives and works in Malakoff, France.)

Christian Boltanski has participated in Documenta V (1972), VI (1977), and VIII (1987). He has had major exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou Paris (1984); the museum of contemporary art in Chicago
and Los Angeles (1988), and at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1990). He has been the recipient of numerous distinguished awards, including the "Créateurs sans frontières" award for visual arts by Cultures France (ex AFAA) (2007); the Praemium Imperiale Award by the Japan Art Association (2007), the Kaiser Ring, Goslar (2001); and the Kunstpreis, given by Nord/LB, Braunschweig, Germany (2001).

RECENT SOLO SHOWS

2010
Christian Boltanski: No Man’s Land, Park Avenue Armory, New York
2009
Christian Boltanski: La vie possible," Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Switzerland
2008
Christian Boltanski, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
Christian Boltanski, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2006
Christian Boltanski, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany

RECENT GROUP SHOWS

2010
Collection / Porto: Museu Serralves, Domaine de Kerguéhennec – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan, France
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2009
Silences : un choix d'oeuvres de Marin Karmitz, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Museu Colecçao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
2008
Archive Fever, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Traces du Sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2007
The Shadow, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

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Christian Boltanski Exhibitions

30/40 Part I
A Selection of Forty Artists from Thirty Years at Marian Goodman Gallery
September 10 - October 13, 2007
New York

Christian Boltanski
Prendre la Parole
September 3 - October 15, 2005
Paris

Christian Boltanski
Coming and Going, Part II
March 21 - April 14, 2001
New York

Christian Boltanski
Coming and Going, Part I
February 21 - March 10, 2001
New York

Christian Boltanski Publications

Archive of the Carnegie International 1896-1991
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Montedipieta
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Time
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Marian Goodman Gallery
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