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Wolfgang Laib Biography 1950 Born in Metzingen, Germany Lives and works in a small village in southern Germany
Education 1975 University of Tubingen, doctor of medicine Solo Exhibitions 2003 Caratsch de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich, Switzerland The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Wolfgang Laib: Photographs and Drawings, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan 2002 Sperone Westwater, New York, NY Wolfgang Laib: Photographis - Oeuvres récentes, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France Haus der Kunst, Munchen, Germany Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 2001 Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany 2000 Wolfgang Laib, A Retrospective, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Sara Hilden Kunstmuseum, Tampere, Finland Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA Wolfgang Laib: Une chambre de cire pour la montagne, Roe del Maure (Pyrenees Orientales), Prieure de Marcevol, France 1999 Buchmann Galerie, Koln, Germany Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria Milleventi, Milan, Italy Carre d'Art, Musee d'art contemporain, Nimes, France 1998
Lichtjahr 1988, Ruine der Kunste, Berlin, Germany 1997 Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Orangerie, Greece Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan 1996
capc Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France 1995 Sperone Westwater, New York, NY Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany 1994 Henry Moore Studio, Dean Clough, Halifax, England (travelled to the Camden Arts Center, London, England) Kabinett fur aktuelle kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria 1993 J.H. de Pont Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands Galerie Buchman, Basel, Switzerland Sperone Westwater, New York, NY 1992 Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany capc Musee d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Ascona, Italy Galleria Artiaco, Naples, Italy Wolfgang Laib, Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1991 Wolfgang Laib, Pollen Installation, Center For Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM Galerie Crousel-Robelin Bama, Paris, France Kanransha, Tokyo, Japan Galerie Buchman, Basel, Switzerland Gallery Seda, Hiroshima, Japan Sperone Westwater, New York, NY 1990 Lightseed, Watari-um, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland Galerie des Beaux -Arts, Brussels, Belgium Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland Kabinett fur aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, Germany 1989 Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany Galerie Crousel-Robelin Bama, Paris, France Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain Musee Departmental de Rochechouart, Chateau de Rochechouart, France 1988 Lichtjahr 1988, Ruine der Kunste, Berlin, Germany Wolfgang Laib: Selected Works, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Gallery Lelong, New York, NY 1987 Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland 1986 capc Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France Galeria Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York, NY ARC, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, France 1985 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England Kunstverein St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland Wolfgang Laib, Robert Ryman, Ian Wilson, Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York, NY 1984 the rice meals for the nine planets, Kabinett fur aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany 1983 the sixty-three rice meals for a stone, Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany 1982 German Pavilion of the Biennale, Venice, Italy Galerie Konrad Fischer, Zurich, Switzerland Gewad, Gent, Belgium 1981 Kabinett fur aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France Galerie Max Hetzler, Stuttgart, Germany Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, NY 1980 Ink, Zurich, Switzerland 1979 Galerie Jean et Karen Bernier, Athens, Greece Kabinett fur aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, NY
1978 Galerie Rolf Preisig, Basel, Switzerland Kunstraum Munchen, Munich, Germany Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy 1976 Galerie Muller-Roth, Stuttgart, Germany
Group Exhibitions 2001 Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX El Instante Eterno, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Valencia, Spain 2000 A Century of Innocence - The Story of the White Monochrome, The Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden Cosmologies, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY Around 1984, A look at Art in the Eighties, P.S.1, New York, NY Fiona Rae, Wolfgang Laib, Buchmann Galerie, Koln, Germany Shadow of Reason, Exploring the Spiritual in European Identity in the 20th Century, Galleria dÍArte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Enclosed and Enchanted, MOMA Oxford, England 1999
The collection of the 'Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain,
Palazzo delle papesse, centro Arte Contemporanea, Spain Powder, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 1998 Ensemble Moderne: The Still Life in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris, France Etre nature, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France Early Forms, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL 1997 Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall pa Arken: Udvalgte vaerker fra samlingen/Selections from the Collection, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Sweden Anselmo, Boetti, Laib, Merz, Nauman, Paolini, Vital, Zorio, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY 97 Zwangju Biennale: Unmapping the Earth, Kwangju, Korea 4e Biennale de Lyon d'art contemporain, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France La Biennale di Venezia. XLVII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, Italy Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (travelled to the Hayward Gallery, London, England) Epicenter Ljabljana, Moderna Galeria, Ljubljana, Slovenia Citta Natura, Palazzo delle Espozioni, Rome, Italy 1996 Wolfgang Laib, Tatsuo Miyajima, Michel Verjux: Entgrenzung, Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany Spirit and Space, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Luis Barragan: Sitio + Superficie. Su obra la vanguardia en el arte, Mexico City, Mexico Time Wise, The Swiss Institute, New York, NY The House Transformed, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY 1995 Kunst in Deutschland, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany Auf Papier: Kust des 20, Jahrhunderts aus der Deutschen Bank, Shirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany From Nature, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Fondation Cartier, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 1994 Drawing on Sculpture, Cohen Gallery, New York, NY German Art: Aspekte Deutscher Kunst 1964-1994, Der Salzburg Festspiele 1994, Salzburg, Austria (travelled to Galerie Ropac, Salzburg, Asutria; Galerie Ropac, Paris, France) Entre le ciel et l'eau, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (travelled to capcMusee d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France) Figur, Natur, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany 1993 GAS, Grandiose Ambitieux Silencieux, capcMusee d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France Azur, Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Jouy-En-Josas, France Chataeu d'Oiron, Oiron, France The 21st Century, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland A Century of Silence, University Art Museum, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY Les Environs, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY 1992 The Language of Flowers, Paul Kasmin, New York, NY De Opening, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL Habeas Corpus, Stux Gallery, New York, NY Anselmo, Laib, Nauman, Umberg, Miller Nordenhake, Cologne, Germany Territorium Artis, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany Exposition Sentimentale, Musee d'Art Moderne, Collioure, France Vorhut aus dem Hinterland, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany 1991 The Lick of an Eye, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA With Nature, Gallery Lelong, New York, NY Das Goldene Zeitalter, Wurtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany Un Detail immense, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, France 5th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Burnett Miller, Los Angeles, CA 1990 Lead and Wax, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Signs of Life, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Threshold, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway 1989 Einleuchten, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany Glanzlichter, Stadtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany Color and/or Monochrome, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan Hortus Artis, Orto Botanico, Turin, Italy 1988 Carnegie International 88, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Defacto, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Rosc, Dublin, Ireland Zeitlos, Hamberger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany 1987 New Locations, Wolff Gallery, New York, NY Century 87, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, Holland
Bremer Kunstpreis 1987, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany 1986 SkulpturSein, Statische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany De Sculptura, Wiener Festwochen im Messepalast, Vienna, Austria 3. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany The Sixth Biennale of Sydney 1986: Origins, Originality + Beyond, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Falls the Shadow, Recent British and European Art, The Hayward Annual, Hayward Art Gallery, London, England 1985 Ouverture II, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy Spuren, Skulpturen und Monumente ihrer prazisen Reise, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland East West Visual Arts Encounter, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, India 1945 bis 1985, Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany 1983 Kosmiche Bilder in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany (travelles to the Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel) Ars '83 Helsinke, Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland Materie + Form, ETH, Naturwissenschaftliches Gebaude, Zurich, Switzerland 1982 Kunst wird Material, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany University Art Museum, Providence, RI 1981 Annemarie-und-Will Grohmann-Stipendium, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany Art Allemagne Aujourd'hui, ARC, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, France 1980 I. Ausstellung der Jurgen Ponto-Stiftung, Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt, Germany Selected Collections
Capc, Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France Collections de l'Etat Francais De Pont Foundation, Tilberg, The Netherlands Diozesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany Museum Musee d'art contemporain, Nimes, France Musee departmental de Rochechouart, France The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Germany | ||||||
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