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Joseph Kosuth

Bio
1945 was born in Toledo, USA
1965-1967 studied fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York, USA
1988-1990 Professor Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
1991-1997 Professor Staatliche Akademie der Bildende Künste, Stuttgart, Germany
  Currently Professor Istituto Universitario di Architettura, Venice, Italy
  Lives in New York, USA, and Rome
Collections
  21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
  Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo
  Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
  Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
  Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
  Kiasma, Helsinki
  Malmö Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
  Moderna Museet, Stockholm
  Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
  Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig im MQ, Vienna
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
  Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
  Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
  Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany
  Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
  Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
  Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
  Tate Britain, London
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
  ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
  State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Selected solo exhibitions
1968 Nothing. Gallery 669, Los Angeles, USA
1969 15 Locations 1969/1970 (Art as Idea as Idea). Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, United States
1971 Joseph Kosuth. Centro de Arte y Communication, Buenos Aires
1973 Art Investigations and Problematics. Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland
1974 Investigations sur l’art et la problématique 1965-1973. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1976 Beitrage zur Konzeptuellen Kunst 1965-1976. Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
1978 Tekst / Kontekst. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Center d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom
1980 Ten Partial Descriptions. P. S. 1, New York, USA
1981 Bedeutung von Bedeutung. Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
1985 OEuvres récentes 1981-1985. Center d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1988 Modus Operandi: Cancellato. Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
1989 Exchange of Meaning. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
1992 A Play: The Herald Tribune, Kafka and a Quote. Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
1993 Zeno At The Edge Of The Known World. La 45 Biennale Venice, Hungarian Pavillion, Venice, Italy
1994 The Corridor of Two Banalities (with Ilya Kabakov). Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
  Berliner Chronik. Kunstwerke, Berlin
1995 Joseph Kosuth and American Conceptualism. Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1997 Re-defining the Context of Art: 1968-1997. MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, USA
1998 Die Anfänge der Konzeptkunst: Frühe Arbeiten von Joseph Kosuth. Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
2000 Joseph Kosuth - Essays. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
  Joseph Kosuth. Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
2003 A Centennial Project by Joseph Kosuth. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, United States
2004 Joseph Kosuth - Redefining the Context of Art: 1968-2004. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2005 Joseph Kosuth. Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
  Joseph Kosuth. Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen
2006 a labyrinth into which I can venture. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
  Early Works. Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
  Joseph Kosuth. Simon Lee Gallery, London
2007 Joseph Kosuth. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Selected group exhibitions
1969 When Attitudes Become Form. Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
  Prospect 69. Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
  Konzeption. Stadtischen Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
1970 Information. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1971 Arte de sistemas. Museo de arte moderno, Buenos Aires
1972 Documenta V. Kassel, Germany
  "Konzept" - Kunst. Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1973 Kunst aus Fotografie. Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany
1974 Idea and Image in Recent Art. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
  Kunst bleibt Kunst: Projekt ’74. Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
1976 Seventy-second American Exhibition. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
  La 37 Biennale di Venezia. Venice, Italy
1977 Illusion and Reality. Australian National Gallery, Canberra
  Words at Liberty. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States
1978 Documenta VI. Kassel, Germany
  Words at Liberty, and A View of The Decade. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States
1979 Printed Art: A View of Two Decades. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1982 Documenta VII. Kassel, Germany
1983 Photography In Contemporary Art. National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
  Ars 83. Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki
1984 Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984. Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
1985 Process und Konstruktion: 1985 in Munchen. Künstlerwerkstatten, Munich, Germany
  Mehr Licht. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
1986 Rooted Rhetoric. Palazzina Centrale Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy
  Chambres d’Amis. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
1987 Whitney Biennial. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1988 Art Conceptuel I. Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
  Implosion: Ett Postmodern perspektiv. Moderna Museet, Stockholm
  Blow-Up. Württemburgischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
1989 L’Art Conceptuel, une perspective. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
  Image World: Art and Media Culture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1990 Contemporary Art In An Urban Context. Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
  New Art for New Spaces: Into the Nineties. Wexner Center for Visual Arts, Columbus, USA
1991 Détente. Dum Umeni Messa Brna, Brno, Czechoslovakia
1992 Documenta IX. Kassel, Germany
  No Rocks Allowed. Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1993 All Roads lead to Rome? Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
  L’Objet dans l’Art du XX Siècle. Carré d’Art-Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nimes, France
  The Foreigner, The Gues. Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
1995 Reinventing the Emblem: Contemporary Artists Recreate a Renaissance Idea. Yale University, New Haven, USA
  1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, United States
  Revolutionists of Contemporary Art - Art in the 1960’s. Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
  Intervenciones en el espacio. Museo Bellas Artes, Caracas
1996 Travaux Publics. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1997 Künstler Innen. Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
  A House Is Not A Home. Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden
  Le Bel Aujourd’hui. OEuvres d’une Collection Privée. Le Nouveau Musée / Institut FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France
1998 Poèmes à petite vitesse. Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France
  Das Jahrhundert der Künstlerischen Freiheit. Secession, Vienna
1999 Impact: Revealing Sources for Contemporary Art. Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, United States
  Chronos and Kairos, die Zeit in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2000 Percepciones en transformación: La Colección Panza del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain
  Baldessari - Kabakov - Kosuth - Pistoletto - Quartet. Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  Tempo! Viaggio nell’idea e nella rappresentazione del tempo. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
  Postmedia - Conceptual Photography in the Guggenheim Museum Collection. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2001 Shortcuts. Deste Foundation, Athens
  il Dono. Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
  Aus der Sammlung Lauffs II. Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
2002 Migrazioni - Kunstraum Deutschland. Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caralio, Italy
  Guida III (2002). Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy
  Peinture et photographie. Gabrielle Salomon - Art Conseil, Paris
  Keine Kleinigkeit. Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  Iconoclash - Jenseits der Bilderkriege in Wissenschaft, Religion und Kunst. ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
2003 Zona People 1974-1985. Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
  From Broodthaers to Horn. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2004 Walter Benjamin und die Kunst der Gegenwart / Schrift - Bilder - Denken. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
  1 Bienal Internacionál de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla. Seville, Spain
  Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) - Art from 1951 to the Present. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2005 Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht. ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Translation. Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2006 Models and Prototypes. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, United States
  Faster! Bigger! Better! ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Inventur. Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
2007 Im Wort. Kunsthalle Göppingen, Goeppingen, Germany
  Da Bauhaus (Agora!) Museo de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil
  Numerica. Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
  Konceptualna umetnost. Muzej savremene umetnosti Vojvodine, Novi Sad, Serbia
  Refract, Reflect, Project - Light Works from the Collection. Hirshhorn Museum, Washington