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Kosuth Joseph - Biography

 


Joseph Kosuth

 

1945

Born in Toledo, USA

1965-67

studied fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, USA

 

Selected solo shows :

 

1999

Joseph Kosuth. Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy

Guests and Foreigners - Rossini in Turkey. Borusan Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul, Turkey

Joseph Kosuth. Edition Schellmann, Munich, Germany

2000

Joseph Kosuth - Essays. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA

Joseph Kosuth. Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy

2003

A Centennial Project by Joseph Kosuth. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA

2004

Joseph Kosuth - Redefining the Context of Art: 1968 - 2004. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Joseph Kosuth. Galleria In Arco, Turin, Italy

2005

Joseph Kosuth. Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany

2006

Joseph Kosuth. Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

a labyrinth into which I can venture. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA

Joseph Kosuth - the early works. Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium

Joseph Kosuth. Simon Lee Gallery, London

2007

Joseph Kosuth. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

 

Selected group shows:

1998

A Sense for Scale II. The Art of the Miniature. The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, USA

A Choice from the Collection. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Poèmes à petite vitesse. Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France

Conceptual Photography from the 60s and 70s. David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, USA

Das Jahrhundert der Künstlerischen Freiheit. Wiener Secession, Vienna

1999

Impact: Revealing Sources for Contemporary Art. Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, USA

Alchemies of the Sixties. From the Rose Art Museum Permanent Collection. The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, USA

Chronos and Kairos, die Zeit in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Billboard: Art on the Road. Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA, North Adams, USA

Positionen - Museiondocumenta. MUSEION - Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy

Art at Work - Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection. Contemporary Arts Museum • Houston, Houston, USA

2000

Many Colored Objects Placed Side By Side To Form A Row Of Many Colored Objects. Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg

Luci in galleria. Da Warhol al 2000. Gian Enzo Sperone. 35 anni di mostre. Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy

Percepciones en transformación: La Colección Panza del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain

Baldessari - Kabakov - Kosuth - Pistoletto - Quartet. recommended institution Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Tempo! Viaggio nell'idea e nella rappresentazione del tempo. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

1. Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000. Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata-ken, Japan

La collection - Installations. Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France

Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection. Queens Museum of Art, Queens, USA

On Language. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA

Postmedia - Conceptual Photography in the Guggenheim Museum Collection. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA

Light Pieces. Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg

2001

Non amo il rosso. Galleria Paola Verrengia, Salerno, Italy

Made in Black. Jousse Entreprise, Paris

Shortcuts. Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens

Conception - The Conceptual Document 1968-1972. The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

New Collection. Galerie Achim Kubinski, Berlin

il Dono. Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy

Aus der Sammlung Lauffs II. Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

Glossalgia. Frissiras Museum, Athens

Februar 2001. recommended institution Daimler Contemporary, Berlin

2002

Migrazioni - Kunstraum Deutschland. Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio, Italian

THE GIFT - Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality. Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York, USA

Guida III (2002). MUSEION - Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy

Peinture et photographie. Gabrielle Salomon - Art Conseil, Paris

Keine Kleinigkeit. recommended institution Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Iconoclash - Jenseits der Bilderkriege in Wissenschaft, Religion und Kunst. ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany

Arte Múltipla. Galeria 111 - Lisboa, Lisbon

Couleurs en trois dimensions. recommended institution Artiscope, Brussels

THE GIFT: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, USA

2003

New presentation of the collection (VI). MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the DaimlerChrysler Collection. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA

Zahlen - Zeit - Zeichen / Numbers - Time - Signs. Galerie Dr. Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz, Germany

THE GIFT: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality. Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada

Definitively Provisional. Whitechapel Project Space, London

Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Artists Books. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

Zona People 1974-1985 Non profit art space - Firenze. Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

ReProduktion 2. recommended institution Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna

TALKING PIECES - Text und Bild in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst. Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

From Broodthaers to Horn. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2004

Dear ICC - Aspects of contemporary art in Belgium 1970-1985. MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

The Furniture of Poul Kjærholm and Selected Art. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA

15 Jahre Galerie Peter Herrmann. recommended institution Galerie Peter Herrmann, Berlin

Attraversare Genova. Percorsi e linguaggi internazionali del contemporaneo. Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy

Contemporary Art: Floor to Ceiling, Wall to Wall. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA

Walter Benjamin und die Kunst der Gegenwart / Schrift - Bilder - Denken. recommended institution Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

A P R I O R I. Galerie Dr. Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz, Germany

Visions of America. Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg, Austria

1 Bienal Internacionál de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla. BIACS - Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

The DaimlerChrysler Collection. Iziko South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Before The End (The Last Painting Show). SI Swiss Institute, New York City, USA

Pop/Concept - Highlights from the Permanent Collection. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, USA

INTRA-MUROS. Musée d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice, France

definitively provisional. Appendiks, Copenhagen

collection summer 2004. MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

DaimlerChrysler Collection for South Africa. Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

The Daimler Art Collection. Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria. South Africa

Before the end - Part II. Le Consortium, Dijon, France

Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) - Art from 1951 to the Present. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA

2005

Neuerwerbungen der Sammlung 2005. Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht. ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany

Il Bianco e Altro e Comunque Arte. Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy

Drawn to Cleveland. MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA

Romance. recommended institution Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon

Area '70. Cannaviello, Milan, Italy

"Translation". Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Translation. Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens

Hans Christian Andersen - A LIFE WORLD. Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen

Kunstraum Deutschland. National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest

angekommen - Die Sammlung im eigenen Haus. Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Personal Mythologies - Earlier, Recent and Future Acquisitions. The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, USA

Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Joseph Kosuth. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, USA

EXIT- Ausstieg aus dem Bild. ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany

2006

LIGHTS ON. recommended institution Artiscope, Brussels

Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images. Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, USA

DREAMINSTIGATORS. House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno, Czech Republic

busy going crazy. the Sylvio Perlstein collection. La Maison Rouge, Paris

Inside Installations - Preservation and Presentation of Installation Art. Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Models and Prototypes. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA

Faster! Bigger! Better! ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany

Letters own a book - Part 2. Gallery HAM, Nagoya, Japan

TEMENOS EL DUCHAMP... Galería GAM - Galería de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City

Inventur. Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria

Traumerreger. Hommage à Sigmund Freud. Österreichisches Kulturforum - Rakouské kulturní fórum, Prague

H. C. Andersen. A Life World. Reykjavík Art Museum - Kjarvalsstaðir, Reykjavik

The Sublime is Now! Das Erhabene in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. museum franz gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland

start@hangar - arte a Milano. Hangar Bicocca | spazio d'arte contemporanea, Milan, Italy

LichtWerke - Kunst und Licht seit den 1960er Jahren. MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig im MQ, Vienna

Conversation with Art, on Art. bauhaus to Contemporary Art. Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

2007

Im Wort. Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany

20 ans du Musée d'Art Moderne - L'art après 1960 dans les collections. Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

Shandismus. Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Art Protects. Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris

Da Bauhaus (Agora!) Museo de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, São Paulo, Brazil

Capricci (possibilités d'autres mondes). Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg

Das abc der Bilder. Pergamon Museum, Berlin

neons, tubes & leds. recommended institution MITTERRAND+CRAMER/GENEVE, Geneva, Switzerland

Numerica. Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy

MARTa schweigt - Garde le silence, le silence te gardera. MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany

Collectors 1 - Collezione La Gaia. Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio, Italy

De l'Écriture. Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

PURE. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, USA

Artisti, parole, immagini dal 1960 al 1968. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo - Ciriè, Ciriè, Italy

Konceptualna umetnost. Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, Novi Sad, Serbia

Refract, Reflect, Project - Light Works from the Collection. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

Lessons in Learning: Art and Aducation from the Artists Book Collection.

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, USA

 

Public collections:

Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg, Austria

MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig im MQ, Vienna

MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium

ARS AEVI Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo

National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark

Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France

Espace de l'art concret, Mouans Sartoux, France

Musée d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice, France

Carré d´art - Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris

FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France

recommended institution Daimler Contemporary, Berlin

Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany

Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst - Centre for international light art, Unna, Germany

Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar - Neues Museum, Weimar, Germany

Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin

MUSEION - Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy

Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy

Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, Naples, Italy

Zerynthia, Rome

MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy

Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

Fondazione Querini Stampalia ONLUS, Venice, Italy

Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan

Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan

Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon

National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA) - Moscow Branch, Moscow

Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla, Spain

Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

Tate Britain, London

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, USA

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, USA

The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, USA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA

 



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