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Biography
1925
Born in Milano, MI (IT)
Mario Merz lived in Turin. He interrupted his studies in medicine in order to dedicate himself completely to art. His first ventures into painting were characterized by a strong expressionist-informal component, which wasn’t foreign to his friendships with Pinot Gallizio, Emilio Vedova, Asger Jorn, etc. In those years he also met his future wife Marisa, herself destined to an important artistic career, the only woman in the Arte Povera entourage. Towards the mid ’70s he was one of the founders of the historical Arte Povera group named by Germano Celant. He began working with natural materials (stone, wood, earth, fruit...) combined with industrial materials (neon, glass, cement...) in organic installations that compose archetypical figures: for instance, the igloo and the spiral.
In these same years he used the research on the Fibonacci sequence, a series of numbers derived from the sum of the previous two numbers, named after the mathematician who studied it. The Fibonacci sequence together with the igloo and the spiral — trademarks of the Milanese artist — arranged in huge spirals or straight lines, refer to the continuous cycle and structure of biological life.
Already in 1967 he was included in the pages of Flash Art, in Germano Celant’s famous manifesto on Arte Povera “Appunti per una guerriglia,” which signalled the official birth of Arte Povera. In 1989, international recognition arrived with retrospectives at the Guggenheim in New York and at the MOCA in Los Angeles. Among the major group shows we remember “When attitudes become form” (Bern, 1969) and Documenta 5 (Kassel, 1972). His retrospectives were held in the Museu de Serralves, Porto in 1999 and in the Musée d’Art Modern et Contemporain, Nice in 2000.
9.11.2003
Died in Torino, TO (IT)
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Public exhibitions 136 
until 11.1.2009
Life on Mars, the 55th Carnegie International
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA 
until 7.9.
Time & Place - Milano - Torino 1958-1968
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
until 31.8.
Zerbrechliche Schönheit, Glas im Blick der Kunst
Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf
until 1.6.
Skulpturen im Blickpunkt
Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
until 18.5.
Genau + anders - Mathematik in der Kunst von Dürer bis Sol LeWitt
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
Solo shows 15
2007
Mario Merz: The Magnolia Table
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY
Mario Merz
 Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Mario Merz - Disegni
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
2006
Mario Merz
Gagosian Gallery - Britannia Street, London (England)
2005
Mario Merz
Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - GAM, Turin
Mario Merz
Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin
2004
Mario Merz - Dispositioning the Earth and Moon Along an Axis
The Museum of Contemporary Art / Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo
2003
Mario Merz
Konrad Fischer Galerie GmbH, Dusseldorf
Mario Merz
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin
2002
Mario Merz Obra histórica - Instalaciones
Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires
2001
Mario Merz - Die Katze, die durch den Garten geht, ist mein Arzt
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
2000
Mario Merz
Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - GAM, Turin
Mario Merz
Carré d´art - Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes
1999
Arte Povera
Galerie M + R Fricke - Berlin, Berlin
1998
Mario Merz
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
Group shows 116
2008
Collecció d’Art Contemporani Fundació ”la Caixa”
CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid
...di carta
Galleria Cardi, Milan
Red Sky
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY
2007
20 ans du Musée dArt Moderne - Lart après 1960 dans les collections
Musée dArt moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
Chartae
Galleria Tega, Milan
GROUP-EXHIBITIONSY. 2007
TUCCI RUSSO Studio per lArte Contemporanea, Turin
Marcello Levi: uno sguardo su Torino tra gli anii sessanta e settanta
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo - Ciriè, Ciriè (TO)
Accrochage des artistes de la galerie
Galerie Di Meo, Paris
Numerica
Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena
Klio - Eine kurze Geschichte der Kunst in Euramerika nach 1945
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Frammenti dell´Arte Povera. Jannis Kounellis & Mario Merz in der Sammlung Speck
Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt
Arte Povera
Konrad Fischer Galerie GmbH, Dusseldorf
100 Jahre Kunsthalle Mannheim
Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Concept: Photography – Dialogues & Attitudes
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest
The Shapes of Space
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
Dalla terra alla luna - metafore di viaggio (parte I)
Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Kreis Kugel Kosmos - Die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin zu Gast in der Kunsthalle Würth
Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall
Based on Paper - Die Sammlung Marzona - Revolution der Kunst 1960-1975
Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
Espacios para habitar - Fondos de la colección permanente
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
Il Disegno Tra Visione e Progetto
Galleria Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome
2006
Replacing Mashkov - Recent acquisitions by the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Den Haag
busy going crazy. the Sylvio Perlstein collection
La Maison Rouge, Paris
Group Show
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin
DISEGNI
Studio Trisorio, Naples
Faster! Bigger! Better!
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Was ist Plastik? 100 Jahre - 100 Köpfe- Das Jahrhundert moderner Skulptur
Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum • Center of International Sculpture, Duisburg
CORRISPONDENZE
Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Internazionale XII Biennale di Scultura di Carrara
Biennale di Sculture di Carrara, Carrara
Die Gesichter hinter den Bilden
The Columns, Seoul
Inventur
Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
Transformation; Aus eigener Sammlung
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Der Ball ist rund – Kreis, Kugel, Kosmos
Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Italy made in art - Now
MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai
Galerie mit Bleistift Fischer - Papierarbeiten aus den 60er und 70er Jahren
Konrad Fischer Galerie GmbH, Dusseldorf
Where are we going - Selections from the Francois Pinault Collection
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Sol LeWitt - Mario Merz
Fondazione Merz, Turin
Metropolitanscape
Palazzo Cavour, Turin
Positionen & Accrochage 2
Galerie Noah, Augsburg
Jannis Kounellis / Richard Long / Mario Merz / James Turrell
Galleria Cardi, Milan
LichtWerke - Kunst und Licht seit den 1960er Jahren
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
2005
La materia dell´Arte
Galleria Cardi, Milan
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Collezione permanente
Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
War is over - 1945 - 2005 la libertá dellarte da Picasso a Warhol a Cattelan
GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo
Italiana
Galleria Davide Di Maggio - Berlin, Berlin
La scultura italiana del XX secolo
Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan
Collection Eté-Automne 2005
CAPC - Musée dart contemporain, Bordeaux
(my private) Heroes
MARTa Herford, Herford
The Last Picture Show - Artists using Photography 1960-1982
Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
Edizione Straordinaria - Le case d’arte 1985-2005
Assab One, Milan
Logical Conclusions
PaceWildenstein, New York City, NY
Contemporánea - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Fundación Juan March, Madrid
Contemporánea-Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca
Arte povera
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Hors d’oeuvre : ordre et désordres de la nourriture
CAPC - Musée dart contemporain, Bordeaux
EXIT- Ausstieg aus dem Bild
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
2004
Sonderaktion Graphiken und Bücher
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Attraversare Genova. Percorsi e linguaggi internazionali del contemporaneo.
Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa
Stadtlicht - Lichtkunst / Illuminated Cities - Illuminated Art
Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum • Center of International Sculpture, Duisburg
De leur temps. Collections privées Francaises
Musee des Beaux Arts Tourcoing, Tourcoing
Another space
Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo
Support - Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung - 1950 - Heute
Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Domenico Bianchi e Mario Merz
Castello Svevo di Bari, Bari
Accelerato Torino-Napoli
Artiscope, Brussels
The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Treasure Island: 10 Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
The Italians
Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo
Grande Formato
Galleria Gottardo, Lugano
2003
Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum/videogalerie schum
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography - 1960-1982
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Migration
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Gelijk het leven is
SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Vincent van Gogh and the contemporary art
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Prove d’ascolto - Urban Attack for a Civil Coexistence
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Le collezioni: acquisizioni per MAXXI arte
MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Zona People 1974-1985 Non profit art space - Firenze
Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
Guest Art. Das Kunsthaus mit Leihgaben zu Gast
Haus Konstruktiv, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich
PROJECTION
Konrad Fischer Galerie GmbH, Dusseldorf
Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
From Broodthaers to Horn
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2002
Spedizione su Mart
MART- Museo dArte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
Zero To Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Arte Povera - From the Castello di Rivoli Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Zero To Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Rough Cuts - European Figurative Prints from Gauguin to Paladino
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Arte Povera na Colecção da Fundação de Serralves
Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
2001
Artcité - Quand Montréal devient musée
Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Antagonismes...
Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
Oeuvres
Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris
De Artaud ... à Twombly
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Belvedere Italiano: Tendencies of Italian Art 1945-2001
CSW Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972
Tate Modern, London (England)
2000
Art/light
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Artistas Franceses e Italianos na coleccións Fundacion ARCO e CGAC
CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Idées de paysage, paysages didées
Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Many Colored Objects Placed Side By Side To Form A Row Of Many Colored Objects
Casino Luxembourg - Forum dart contemporain, Luxembourg
Luci in galleria. Da Warhol al 2000. Gian Enzo Sperone. 35 anni di mostre
Palazzo Cavour, Turin
Franz Ackermann - B.I.T. (Back in Town / Di ritorno in città)
Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Et l’art se met au monde
FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne
La collection - Installations
Musée dArt Contemporain Lyon, Lyon
Das Haus in der Kunst
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Different Strokes - Selections from the Permanent Collection
University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA
2000 LUX
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON
1999
Arte Povera in collezione
Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Les Adieux
Galería Jule Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca
Gesammelte Werke 1; Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
WordVolume
Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne
1998
A Choice from the Collection
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Chronique ou le génie du temps
Domaine de Kerguéhennec - Centre dArt Contemporain, Bignan
Voor het verdwijnt en erna
SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Conceptual Photography from the 60s and 70s
David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY
Colección Dobermann
Sala de Arte Contemporáneo - La Granja, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Ausstellungen 1998/99
Kewenig Galerie, Cologne
Scultura e Pittura. Opere dalla collezione permanente del Mart
MART- Museo dArte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
Dealer Directory 22
France
Galerie Pietro Spartà, Chagny
Germany
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Kewenig Galerie, Cologne
Konrad Fischer Galerie GmbH, Dusseldorf
Galerie M + R Fricke - Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
Greece
Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
Italy
MUSPAC - Museo Sperimentale d`Arte Contemporanea, L´Aquila
Galleria Cardi, Milan
Galleria Christian Stein (C.so Monforte), Milan
Galleria Christian Stein (Via Lazzaretto), Milan
Marco Noire Contemporary Art, San Sebastiano Po/Torino
TUCCI RUSSO Studio per l'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Japan
SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo
Netherlands
Kunsthandel Meijer, Utrecht
Spain
Galerie und Edition Hundertmark, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Galería Jule Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca
Switzerland
Galerie Tschudi - Glarus, Glarus
Galerie Tschudi - Zuoz, Zuoz
Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich
USA
ACE Gallery - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Gladstone Gallery, New York City, NY
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY
Public collections 74
Austria
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
Belgium
SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Canada
Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Denmark
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Finland
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
France
FRAC - Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
FRAC - Basse-Normandie, Caen
FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
FRAC - Lorraine, Metz
Carré d´art - Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris
FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse
FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne
Germany
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - im Ständehaus, Dusseldorf
Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen
Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen
Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg - Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg
Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst - Centre for international light art, Unna
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Israel
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Italy
Terrae Motus, Caserta
Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, Naples
Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Zerynthia, Rome
MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Fondazione Merz, Turin
Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - GAM, Turin
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Ca´la Ghironda - Museo d´Arte Classica, Moderna e Contemporanea, Zola Predosa (BO)
Liechtenstein
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Netherlands
Netherlands Media Art Institute - Time Based Arts, Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Den Haag
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo
Portugal
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
Spain
Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Schaulager, Münchenstein / Basel
Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
United Kingdom
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England)
Tate Britain, London (England)
USA
University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Runnymede Sculpture Farm, Woodside, CA
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