Awards: Laureate of the Praemium Imperiale, 2006 (Sculpture)
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI
Artist Bio
Born: Paris, France, 1944Kaiser ring, Monchhausmuseum Goslar, 2001
Kunstpreis, 2001, Given by Nord/LB, Braunschweig, Germany
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Christian Boltanski, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
Christian Boltanski, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France2007
Christian Boltanski - 6 septembres, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Christian Boltanski, Herzschlag, Pfefferberg, Berlin2006
"Christian Boltanski - Zeit" Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
"Christian Boltanski" MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
2005
"Prendre la parole", Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
"Ultime Notizie. Christian Boltanski", PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
"Christian Boltanski", A.V. Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
"6 septembres", Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris/ ARC et L'institut national de l'audiovisuel, Paris, France
2004
"Les Regards. Sculpture for Bremen" Project of Christian Boltanski in the city of Bremen, Rolandpreis für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum,
"Théâtre d'ombres 1984-1997", organized by the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris/ARC; Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France
2003
"The Disembodied Spirit," Bowdoin College, Bowdoin, Maine; Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri; Austin
Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
2002
“Faire-Part,” Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna, Italy
“Sombras,” Museo de Santa Rosa, Puebla, Mexico
2001
“Coming & Going,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
“Facets of Memory,” The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, California
“Christian Boltanski,” Ujaztowski Castel Warsaw, Poland
“La vie impossible,” Kunstmuseum Dessao, Dessao, Germany
St. Peter Church, Cologne, Germany
“La Réserve de Christian Boltanski,” Skulpturemuseum, Marl, Germany
2000
“Christian Boltanski: Reflexion,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
“Monte Pieta,” Palermo, Italy
1999
“Christian Boltanski,” Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Venezuela
1998“Disappearance,” Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Night in August,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
“Dernières Années,” ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“Christian Boltanski: So Far,” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, Missouri
“Compra/Venta,” Alumudin, Valencia, Spain
1997
"Christian Boltanski Pentimenti," Villa delle Rose, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
“Los Justos,” Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
“Les Registres,” Espace du Grand Hornu, Mons, France
“Le Voyage d’Hiver,” National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Chateau de Plieux, Plieux, France
“Lost,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
1996
"Advento," Centro Gallego De Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
“Christian Boltanski,” Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
“Sterblich,” Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany
“Alltag,” avec Jean Kalman, theater der Welt, Dresden, Germany
1995
DuPont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Villa Medeci, Rome, Italy
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
"Lost: New York Projects," Public Art Fund, New York, New York
1994
OBALA Art Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina
Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
The Henry Moore Studio, Halifax, England
Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Konsthalle, Malmö, Sweden
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
"Leçons des Ténèbres," Belvedere du Château de Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Fundació Espai Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
Wilhelm Lehmbruch Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
1993
Karl Valentine Museum and Städtmuseum, Munich, Germany
Jule Kewenig, Cologne, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
"Les Suisses Morts," Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Städtische Galerie in Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Graphische Sammlung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1992
La Fundación Cultura Televisa and Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco, Mexico
1991
"The Dead Swiss," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Inventar," Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
"Reconstitution," Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France; Stedelijk van
van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas
1990
"Reconstitution," The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
"Réserve," Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel, Switzerland
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito Japan
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne, France
1989
"Archives," Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
"Lessons of Darkness," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver;
The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario
"La Fête du Pourim," Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland
University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1988
"Lessons of Darkness," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Galerie Pablo and Pandora van Dijk, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Ontario
"El Caso," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
1987
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Classe terminale du lycée Chases en 1931," Castelgasse-Vienne, Vienna, Austria
"Le Lycée Chases," Maison de la Culture et de la Communication, Saint-Etienne, France
1986
"Leçon des Ténèbres," Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
"Peindre photographier," Musée de Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice, France
"Festival d'automne," Chapelle de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
1985
"Monuments," Organised by Le Coin du miroir, Dijon, France
"Ombres," Ex Stalloni, Reggio nell'Emilia, Italy
1984
"Filme von Christian Boltanski," Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Galerie Croussel-Hussenot, Paris, France; Musée National d'Art Moderne- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
1983
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1982
Nouveau Musée, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
1981
Carpenter Center, Harvard Univerity, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Compositions," ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1980
"Christian Boltanski-Compositions," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais, France
1979
"Les Modèles," Maison de la Culture Chalon-sur-Saône, France
"Veir japanische Bilder," Galerie Erwin Tegentritt, Dudweier, Germany
The Kitchen (performance), New York, New York
1978
"Show de Nöel," Le Coin du miroir, Dijon, France
"Arbeiten 1968-1978," Karlsruhe, Germany
P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York
1977
Galerie Seriaal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Stories and Posters," La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Galerie art actuel, Nancy, France
"Les Vacances," Centrum für Kunst, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
1976
"Modellbilder," Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
"Photographies couleurs-Images modèles," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1975
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1974
Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Le Musée de Christian Boltanski 1966-1974," Dijon, France
"Les Inventaires," Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
“Affiches – Accessoires – Décors, documents photographiques” (“Posters – props – sets, photographic documents”), Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart.
CNAC/Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
1973
Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy
Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
“Les Inventaires,” Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1972
Studio Santandrea, Milan, Italy
1970 ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
A Theatre Without Theatre, Berardo Museum, Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Archive Fever, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Traces du Sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Tales of Time and Space, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, England2007
A Theatre Without Theatre, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
The Shadow, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Artempo - Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
La Chaine, BankArt, Yokohama, Japan
Luce di Pietra, Ambassade de France, Rome, Italy
Phantasmogaria: Specters of Absence, Luis Angel Arango Library, Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Columbia
Ombras, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy ; Museu d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy.
Eyes, Lies, and Illusions, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia2006
"The Expanded Eye. Sehen-entgrenzt und verflüssigt," Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
"Da Monet a Boltanski," Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, Parma, Italie
Surpise, Surpise, " ICA, London
"Dis-Assembly, " Serpentine Gallery, London
"Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal," Niigata, Japon
"Grand Promenade " , Athènes
"La Force de l'Art, " Grand Palais , Paris, France
2005
"Storie di sguardi,"Forma - Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan, Italy
"Film ist und als ob in der Kunst,"Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
"Centre of Gravity," Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
"50 Jahre: Years documenta 1955-2005 1955-2005," Kunsthalle
Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
"The Collection XII," MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
"I Teatri, "Reggio Emilia, Italy
"Einstein-Spaces", Neue Synagoge Centrum Judaicum, Berlin, Germany
"Permanent Instability ," Istanbul Modern, Istanbul,Turkey
Aka demie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
"Correspondances," Musée d'Orsay , Paris, France
"Faces in the Crowd, " Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2004
"Attraversare Genova. Percorsi e linguaggi internazionali del contemporaneo." Villa Croce Museu d'Arte Contemporaneo, Genoa, Italy
"Collective Perspectives : New Acquisitions Celebrzte the Centennial," The Jewish Museum of New York, USA
"Stadtlicht-Lichtkunst/Illuminated Cities-Illuminated Art," Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Center of International Sculpture, Duisburg, Germany
"Utopia Station: auf dem Weg nach Porto Alegre, "HDK-Haus der Kusnt, Munich, Germany
"The Last Picture Show," Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
"Contrepoint," Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
"Continental Breakfast", Biennale de Zagreb
"The Disembodied Spirit" , Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
"Les enfants terribles Il -linguaggio dell'infanzia nell'arte, 1909-2004" Museo Cantonale d'arte, Lugano, Switzerland
"Eyes, Lies & Illusions," Hayward Gallery, Londres
"Faces in the Crowd, " Whitechapel Gallery London
"The Disembodied Spirit , " Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri
2004 - 03
"Gegenwartig: Field Research," Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
"It Happened Tomorrow," Lyon Bienniale, Lyon, France
"The Disembodied Spirit," Bowdoin College, Bowdoin, Maine; Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
"The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
2003
"Geschenkte Kunst," Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany
"New presentation of the collection (VI)," MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
"7 th Biennale de Lyon: C'est arrive demain, " La biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
"Feldforschung," Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
"Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal 2003, " Niigata, Japon
"A Sculpture Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"O Mensch!" collaboration with Jean Kalman and Franck Krawczyk, Festival d'Automne, Paris, France
2002
"Utopie Quotidiane: Luomo e I suoi sogni nellarte dal 1960 ad oggi," Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
"Exposition inaugurale: l'Herbier & le Nuage, " MACs Grand Hornu, Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu, Belgium
"Out of Print/ Edição Esgotada,"Museu Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal
"Ars photographica:Fotografie und Küsntlerbücher, " Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany
"Tableaux Vivants: Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film, and Video, " Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
"Iconoclash: jenseits der Bilderkriege in Wissenschaft, Religion, und Kunst, " ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
"Facets of Memory" The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California
"In the Shadow of the Holocaust" Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
"Moving Pictures" Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York2001
"Ghost," Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
"Dialogue Ininterrompu," Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
"Face[t]s of Memory: Found Photographs and Family Albums, " The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
"La Comédie humaine, " Musé d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (Mamco), Geneva, Switzerland
"do it," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, USA
"printemps de septembre, " Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
"Christian Boltanski: Revenir-Objects, installation, photography," The Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
"The foksal Gallerys Deposit," The Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2001-00
“World Without End: Aspects of 20th Century Photography,” Art Gallery of South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2000
"A Celebration of Contemporary Art. Vanitas: Meditations on life and death in contemporary art," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Virginia
"The Self is Something Else. Art at the End of the 20 th Century," Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
"Zeitwenden," Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
"Diary," Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
"Circa 1968," The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Oporto, Portugal
1999
"The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire," Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
"Sans Reserve 1," Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
1998
"Breaking Ground," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Premises: Invested Spaces in Visual Arts and Architecture from
France, 1958-1998," Guggenheim SoHo, New York, New York
"Tableaux aux murs," Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon, France
"Dijon/le consortium.coll tout contre l’art contemporain," Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1997
"In Visible Light," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
"Veronica’s Revenge” (Oeuvres photographiques de la Lambert Collection), Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
"Dialogues de l’Ombre," Espace Electra, Paris, France
1996
"Beyond Recognition, Contemporary International Photography,” A National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition
"Collections, Collection," Caisse des dépôts et consignations, Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France
"Photocollages," Le Consortium, Dijon, France
1995
The New Museum, New York, New York
Public Art Project on Rochdale Canal, Manchester, England
Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
"Photography and Beyond: New Expressions in France,"
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Zacheta Gallery, National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
1995-94
"Burnt Whole: Contemporary Artists Reflect on the Holocaust," Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1994
Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy
"Hors Limites, L'Art et la Vie," Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Cabinet d'Art Graphique, Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
"Do It," Kunsthalle Ritter, Klagenfurt, Austria
Palau del Scala, Valencia, Spain
Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, California
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Museum der Stadtentwässerung, Zurich, Switzerland
CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Maison Centrale des artistes, Moscow, Russia
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Institut of the Netherlands, Paris, France
Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Cabinet d'Estampe du Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Institut Français de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Goethe Institut, Montreal, Quebec
The Gallery at Takashimaya, New York, New York
Wilhelm Lembruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
1993 "A Group Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Jewish Museum, New York, New York
Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay
Hotel Carlton Palace, Paris, France
Espace Lyonnaise d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
1992
"Tesoros de la edad del oscurantismo en Europa," Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
"Pour la suite du monde," Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
"La mémoire des formes," Centre d'Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguehennec, France
International Center of Photography, New York, New York
Jewish Museum, New York, New York
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1991
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"A Group Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Individualités: 14 Contemporary Artists from France," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
"Places with a Past: New Site-Specific Art in Charleston," Spoleto Festival U.S.A., Charleston, South Carolina
1990
"A Group Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Assembled," The University Art Gallery, Wright State University Creative Art Center, Dayton, Ohio
"Reorienting: Looking East," Third Eye Center, Glasgow, Scotland
1989
"Les Magiciens de la Terre," Grande Halle de la Villette and Centre National d'Art et de la Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Histoire de Musée," ARC/Musée National d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
"On the Art of Fixing a Shadow," National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
"The Art of Photography," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Texas; Australian National Gallery, Camberra, Australia; The Royal Academy of Art, London, England
“Christian Boltanski and Annette Messager,” Eglise Saint Martin du Méjan, Arles, France
"2000 Years - The Presence of Time Past," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
"L'invention d'un art," Centre National d'Art et de la Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Einleuchten: Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH," Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Szeem, Germany
"Simplon Express," Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelle Paris-Ile de France, Paris, France
"L'art sacré," Beaux-Arts Galerij, Brussels, Belgium
"Dimension Jouet," Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille; Maison du Jouet de Moirans, Moirans-en-Montagne, France
"Une autre affaire," Dijon, France
"L'art en France: un siècle d'invention," Union des Peintres, Moscow, Russia; Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
"Sub Limine Burgundiae," Halle Sud, Geneva, Switzerland
"Passé/Présent-Récits et Méandres," Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Provence-Alpes, Côte d'Azur, France; Ecole d'Art de Toulon, Toulon, France; Ecole d'Art d'Avignon, Avignon, France
"Vive le Nouveau Musée!," Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Belgium
"Departures: Photography 1924-1989," Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, New York
"80's International," Langer & Co., New York, New York
1988
"Nightfire," Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Clareté," Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark
"Zeitlos," Berlin, Germany
"Golem! Danger, Deliverance and Art," The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
"Maison de Caractère," Château Coquelle, Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts Georges Pompidou, Dunkerque, France
"Saturne en Europe," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ancienne Douane and Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre Dame, Strasbourg, France
"Rot Gelb Blau," Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Kunstverein St. Gallen, Switzerland
"Ansichten," Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
"Farbe Bekennen," Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
“Collection Sonnabend,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
1987
"Vit hed oude Europa; From the Europe of Old," (organized by Europalia, Brussels), The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Century '87: Kunst van nu ontmoet Amsterdam, The Netherlands
verleden," (Today's Art Face to Face with Amsterdam's Past), Torensluiskerker, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Die Gleischzeitigkeit des Anderen," Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
"Le Carré-Choix d'oeuvres du Fonds Régional d'art Contemporain de Bourgogne," Dijon, France
"Les Années 70: Les Années mémoires. Archéologie du savoir et d'être," Abbaye Saint-André Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meynac, France
"Le Saut de l'Ange" (dance, in collaboration with Dominique Baqouet),
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Terrae Motus-Naples-Tremblement de Terre," Le Grand Palais, Paris, France
"De la Photo comme peinture," Galerie Municipale d'Art Contemporain, Saint-Priest, France
1986
"Un choix," Exhibition Catalogue, KunstRAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Collections du Fonds Régional d'art Contemporain des Pays de la Loire: Images Fabriquées," Angers, France
"Turning Over the Pages," Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England
"The Mirror and the Lamp," The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
"Collection. L'Art contemporain au Musée Départemental des Vosges," Epinal, France
"Chambre d'Amis," Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
"Terrae Motus 2," Villa Campolieto, Herculaneum, Italy
"Lumières: Perception-Projection," CIAC/Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
"Anciens et nouveaux," Grand Palais, Paris, France
"Märchen Mythen Monster," Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
“Christian Boltanski and Annette Messager,” Artspace, Sydney, Australia
1984
"Alles und noch viel mehr--das poetische ABC," Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
"La Bande dessinée," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
"Biennale des Friedens," Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
"Ceci n'est pas une photographe," Mont-de-Marsan, France
"Atelier Polaroid," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
18th Biennal International de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
"Dialogue," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
"Märchen Mythen Monster," Rheinisches Landes Museum, Bonn, Germany
"L'Art et le temps," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
"Histoire de sculpture," Château des Ducs d'Epernon, Cadillac Gironde, France
"Lumières et sons 84," Château de Biron, Dordogne, France
"Deux régions en France: L'Art international d'aujourd'hui," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
"Collection," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Palais Saint Pierre, Lyon, France
"Ecritures dans la peinture," Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Villa Arson, Nice, France
"Qu'est ce qu'un FRAC? 100 oeuvres de 75 artistes acquises en Rhône-Alpes," Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris, France
"Echanges," Goethe Institute, Paris, France
"Mur blanc pour chambre noire," Maison de la Culture et de la Communication, Saint-Etienne, France; L'Arleri, Centre Niçois de Photographie Documentaire, Nice, France; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valence, France
"Individualités: Artisti francesi d'oggi," Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
1983
"Kunst mit Photographie," Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
"Présence discrète," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
"Fotosymposium V," Forum Stadpark, Graz, Austria
"Images fabriquées," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Douceur de l'avant garde," Rennes, France
1982
"60'80: Attitudes/Concepts/Images," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Kunst i Frankrike," Bergens Kunsforening, Bergen, Norway
"Préfiguration pour le centre contemporain de Buisson-Rond," Chambéry, France
"Medium Photographie-Künstler mit Fotos," Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
"Choix pour aujourd'hui," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Vergangenheit Gegenwart Zukunft," Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
"Paris 1960-1980," Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria; Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"4 Années d'acquisition," Musée de Toulon, Toulon, France
"Au Travers d'une collection, petite promenade dans la contemporanité," Centre Culturel de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, France
Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
1981
"Façons de peindre," Maison de la Culture, Chalon-sur-Saône, France; Musée Roth, Geneva, Switzerland; Musée Savoisie, Chambéry, France
"Westkunst," Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne, Germany
"Les Genevois collectionnent. Aspects de l'Art l'aujourd'hui 1970-1980," Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
"Trigon 81," Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz, Austria
"The Archives," Art Information Centre Peter van Beveren, Hasselt, Belgium
"Avantgarden-Retrospektiv," Westfälicher Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
"37 Aktuelle Kunstnarer fran Frankrike," Lijevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
1981-80
"Artist and Camera," Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England; City Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England; D.L.I. Museum and Arts Centre, Durham, England; Cartwright Hall, Bradford, England
1980
"Photographische Sammlung," Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
"Kunst in Europa na '68," Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
"Camera obscura," Palazzo Real, Milan, Italy
“Ils se disent peintres. Ils se disent photographes," ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de Ville de Paris, Paris, France
L'Espace 13, Paris, France
41st Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy
1979
"Text-Foto-Geschichten. Story Art/Narrative Art," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany; Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany; Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld, Germany
"Eremit? Forscher? Sozialarbeiter? Das veränderte Selbstverständnis von Künstlern," Kunstverein und Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
"Photographies," Kunstverein, Innsbruck, Austria
"Over wanderlingen en reizen," Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
"Partis pris autres," ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
"European Dialogue,” 3rd Sydney Biennial, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1978
"Aspekte der 60er Jahre. Aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch," Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
"Das Bild des Künstlers-Selbstdarstellungen," Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
"Couples," P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York
1977
"Beethoven, Music for the Millions," Stichting Festival, Arnhem, The Netherlands
"Jardin," Jardin Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
"Illusion and Reality," Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia ROSC 77, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Documenta 6, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
"Bookworks," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1976
"Identité/Identification," CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux Bordeaux, France
"Il Triennale of Photography," Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
"Selbsporträt," Kunsthaus Pischinger, Stuttgart, Germany
1975
"Tendenser i Moderne Kunst," Nordjyllands Kunst Museum, Aalborg, Denmark
"Art contemporain et photographie," Musée Réattu, Arles, France
"Artists' Video Tapes," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
"Europalia," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
"Fotografie als Kunst-Kunst als Fotografie,"
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
"Mémoire d'un pays noir," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
"Arnold Bode zum 75. Geburtstag," Kassel, Germany
"Lives," Fine Arts Building, New York, New York
9th Paris Biennial, Paris, France
"Narrative Art 2," Cannaviello Studio d'Arte, Rome, Italy
“A proposito del Mulino Stucky," Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
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