CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI
Artist Bio

Born:  Paris, France, 1944 

Awards:  Laureate of the Praemium Imperiale, 2006 (Sculpture)

Kaiser ring, Monchhausmuseum Goslar, 2001

Kunstpreis, 2001, Given by Nord/LB, Braunschweig, Germany

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS  

2006 

"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  

2006  

"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 York   

  2001 

 "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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