 Artist's arttributes:
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Male |
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Painting, Installation |
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Hyperreality |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 52 |
| Germany | 33 |
| Switzerland | 21 |
| United Kingdom | 13 |
| Belgium | 6 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
№ |
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Alexander and Bonin, USA |
11 |
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Kolumba, Germany |
7 |
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Mai 36 Galerie, Switzerland |
6 |
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Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland |
5 |
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Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland |
5 |
Biography: 
1933 Born in Brooklyn, NY (US)
1988 Died in New York City, NY (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 153
until 17.11.
until 15.8.
until 7.7.
Solo shows 28
2012
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| Paul Thek - Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne |
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| Paul Thek - If you don't like this book you don't like me. - The Modern Institute, Glasgow (Scotland) |
2011
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| Paul Thek Reproduced, 1969 - 1977 - Another varcant space, Berlin |
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| Paul Thek: Diver, a Retrospective - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective / Heinz Galleries - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
2010
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| PAUL THEK - Diver, A Retrospective - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Paul Thek: cityscapes and other ideas - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Paul Thek - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid |
2007
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| Paul Thek - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Paul Thek 1973 - 2005 - Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne |
2004
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| Labor Sammlung: Paul Thek - Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne |
2003
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| Paul Thek - Paintings of the 1980's - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Paul Thek - The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
1999
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| Paul Thek - Paintings & Notebooks - Camden Arts Centre, London (England) |
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| Paul Thek - Selected Drawings 1966-1988 - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Paul Thek: Paintings, Works on Paper, and Notebooks 1970–1988 - Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1997
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| Paul Thek - Kolumba, Cologne |
1996
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| Paul Thek - the wonderful world that almost was - MAC Musées d´Art Contemporain Marseille, Marseille |
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| Paul Thek - The wonderful world that almost was - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
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| Paul Thek. El mundo maravilloso que no llegó a ser - Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona |
1995
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| Paul Thek - The wonderful world that almost was - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Paul Thek - the wonderful world that almost was - Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam |
1973
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| Paul Thek: Ark, Pyramid, Easter - Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne |
1971
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| Paul Thek. Pyramid - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Group shows 122
2012
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| Stimuli: prints and multiples - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Out Of The Blue - Bortolami, New York City, NY |
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| Affinity Atlas - Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY |
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| Panegyric - Forde - Espace d'art contemporain, Geneva |
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| Why?! - Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin |
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| De La Generosidad. Obras De La ColecciÓn Helga De Alvear - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Chambres d'Amis - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| First Among Equals - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Circus Wols - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
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| Friends & Family - Kenny Schachter / ROVE Projects LLP, London (England) |
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| Curator's Choice: People, Places, and Things - University of Virginia Art Museums - The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA |
2011
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| A document: Eugenio Dittborn, Emily Jacir, Paul Thek and Edwin Klein - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Valéry Proust Museum/ White Cube Fever - Mu.ZEE, Oostende |
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| Happy Holidays! Drawings! - Alex Zachary Peter Currie, New York City, NY |
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| Accomplices - The photographer and the artist around 1970 - Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie / Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw |
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| Three Lives - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Distant Star - kurimanzutto, Mexico City |
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| Distant Star - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Held Up By Columns - Leslie Fritz Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Colors for a new home, Signs of Love and other paintings - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Time Again - SculptureCenter, New York City, NY |
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| Compass - Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
2010
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| Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts) - Camden Arts Centre, London (England) |
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| Lust und Laster. Die 7 Todsünden von Dürer bis Naumann - Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern |
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| Luc Tuymans: A vision of Central Europe - Brugge Centraal, Bruges |
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| "Noli me tangere! Touch me not / Cease holding on to me" - Kolumba, Cologne |
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| 8th Gwangju Biennale - 10,000 Lives - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
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| Press Art - Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel - Museum der Moderne - MdM Mönchsberg, Salzburg |
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| Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in Four Acts: Act 1: The Corporeal - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| Inside Installations - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| Wall to Wall - Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Márgenes de Silencio / Margins of Silence - Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres |
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| Dead Flowers - Participant Inc, New York City, NY |
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| Dead Flowers - Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Collection / Porto : Museu Serralves - Domaine de Kerguéhennec - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bignan |
2009
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| Hinterlassenschaft - Kolumba, Cologne |
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| Whaddaya Wanna Be, a Flower?! - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Serralves 2009 - The Collection, 1st Part - Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto |
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| Autofellatio: Boy in Da Corner - Take Courage Gallery, London (England) |
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| Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Data Panic - Cuchifritos, New York City, NY |
2008
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| The Line Of Fashion - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
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| Der Mensch verlässt die Erde - Kolumba, Cologne |
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| Painting Now and Forever Part II - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Sammlung / Collection - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
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| Paul Thek: Werkschau im Kontext zeitgenössischer Kunst - Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg |
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| Peripheral vision and collective body - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano |
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| Traces du Sacré - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Life on Mars, the 55th Carnegie International - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
2007
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| Paul Thek. Werkschau im Kontext - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| strange weight - Martos Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| 25 Jahre GALERIE CRONE - Galerie Crone, Berlin |
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| The third mind - Carte blanche a Ugo Rondinone - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| hold the line - Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe |
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| Der unendliche Raum dehnt sich aus - Kolumba, Cologne |
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| 13 - International Project Space, Birmingham (England) |
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| a point in space is a place for an argument - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| 10. Triennale Kleinplastik - Bodycheck - Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach |
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| Conceptual paper - Kenny Schachter / ROVE Projects LLP, London (England) |
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| Conceptual Paper - - Arndt & Partner - Berlin + Zurich, Zurich (closed, 2009) |
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| Into Me, Out of Me - MACRO Testaccio (MACRO Future), Rome |
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| Neolithic Porns - Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin |
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| Poetics Country - Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe |
2006
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| INTO ME / OUT OF ME - Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin |
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| Six Feet Under; Autopsie unseres Umgang mit Toten - Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern |
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| Im Garten der Wirklichkeit - Teil II - Kolumba, Cologne |
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| Twice Drawn - The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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| Small Sculptures - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Das Achte Feld - Geschlechter, Leben u. Begehren in der bildenden Kunst s. 1960 - Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Da Escrita à Figura - Centro de Arte S. João da Madeira, São João da Madeira |
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| Die Gesichter hinter den Bilden - The Columns, Seoul |
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| Into me / Out of me - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Between a rock and a hard place: the stone in art - Kenny Schachter / ROVE Projects LLP, London (England) |
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| John Frumism - Hotel Gallery, London (England) |
2005
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| Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Da Escrita à Figura - Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães |
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| 50 Jahre - Years documenta 1955 – 2005 - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
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| Paul Thek & Edwin Klein - Janos Gat Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Mythologies - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Editions - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
2004
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| East Village USA - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| ‘De wereld deugt, wijzelf helaas wat minder’ - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
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| Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam at Usce - Muzej savremene umetnosti Beograd, Belgrade |
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| the Gallery selects... - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| L´Air du Temps - collection pringtemps/été 2004 - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
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| Candyland Zoo - Herbert Read Gallery - University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent (England) |
2003
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| my people were fair and had cum in their hair... - team (gallery, inc.), New York City, NY |
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| Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - LAZNIA - Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk |
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| Living with Duchamp - The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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| bewitched bothered and bewildered - Spatial Emotion in Contemporary Art and Arch - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
2002
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| Paul Thek and Edwin Klein - Janos Gat Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Wächserne Identitäten - Figürliche Wachsplastik am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts - Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin |
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| My Head is on Fire but my Heart is full of Love - Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen |
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| From The Observatory - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Second Skin: historical life casting and contemporary culture - Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (England) |
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| das Weiss dahinter - Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal |
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| Manifeste, oder: Ergriffenheit - Was ist das? - Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich |
2001
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| The Devil is in the Details - Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA |
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| Prodigal Prodigy - White Box, New York City, NY |
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| Eine barocke Party - Gesamteröffnung der neuen Kunsthalle Wien - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| (Self)Portraits - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Painting at the Edge of the World - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
2000
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| Times are changing - Auf dem Wege! Aus dem 20. Jahrhundert! - Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen |
1998
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| Der unendliche Raum dehnt sich aus - Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden |
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| Voor het verdwijnt en erna - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
1997
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| HIP: Special Guest Susann Walder - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
1996
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| Bringing It All Back Home - Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York City, NY |
1992
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| Sammlung Junge Kunst der König-Brauerei - Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden |
1991
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| Word As Image: American Art 1960–1990 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1986
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| Chambres d'amis - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
1985
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| 18° Bienal de Sao Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
1983
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| The Sixth Day - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1972
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| documenta 5 - Documenta, Kassel |
1968
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| documenta 4 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| The Obsessive Image 1960-1968 - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
| Dealer Directory 4 |
France
| | Galerie Samy Kinge, Paris
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Germany
Switzerland
USA
| | Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY
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Collections 11
Belgium
| | SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
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France
| | MAC Musées d´Art Contemporain Marseille, Marseille
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Germany
| | Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
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Switzerland
| | Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne
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| | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
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USA
| | Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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| | The Watermill Center, Watermill, NY
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