Giuseppe Penone

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 

2024

Impronte di luce, Fondazione Ferrero, Alba, Italy

2023

Giuseppe Penone: Drawings, Centre Pompidou Paris, France

Giuseppe Penone: Universal Gestures, Galleria Borghese, Italy
 

2022

VOORLINDEN MUSEUM, Wassenaar, Netherlands

River of Forms: Giuseppe Penone's Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PN, USA
 

2021

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
 

2020

Indistinti Confini – Noce, Centre Pompidou Metz, France
 

2019

Incidences of the Void, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

Giuseppe Penone, Saarlandmuseum, Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken, Germany

Matrice di Lifa, Palais d’Iéna, Paris, France
 

2017

Matrice, Pallazo della Civiltà Italiana, Rome, Italy

2014

Giuseppe Penone Prospettiva Vegetale, Giardino di Boboli, Forte di Belvedere, Florence, Italy

Remembering is not Enough, Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo MAXXI, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe Penone, Musée de Grenoble, France
 

2013

Giuseppe Penone, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

Penone Versailles, Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France

2012

The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
 

2011

The Hidden Life Within. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
 

2010

Giuseppe Penone - Drawings and Sculptures. Fondation De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands

Giuseppe Penone. Museee des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu, Hornu, Belgium
 

2009

Giuseppe Penone, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
 

2008

MAMbo, Bologna, Italy

Giardino delle Sculture Fluide, Le Veneria Reale, Turin, Italy

Giuseppe Penone, Académie de France - Rome - Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
 

2007

Sculture di linfa, 52. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy

Pavillion, Venice, Italy

Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

2006

Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
 

2004

Giuseppe Penone. Retrospectiva, CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
 

1999

Giuseppe Penone, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
 

1997

De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Tilburg, Netherlands

Giuseppe Penone: The Veins of Stone, The Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan

Carré d'Art, Musée d'art Contemporain, Nimes, France

Die Adern des Steins, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

Giuseppe Penone, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 

1991

Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
 

1988

Musée Rodin, Paris, France
 

1984

ARC / Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
 

1983

Fort-Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
 

1982

Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
 

1980

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 

1979-1980

InK. Halle für internationale neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
 

1978

Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany

Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
 

1977

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
 

1968

Deposito d'arte presente, Turin, Italy

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 

2024

arte povera. Giovanni Anselmo, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Arte Povera, Bourse de Commerce, Paris, France
 

2023

Stories of Stones, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

2022

Breathing, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Reversing the eye, Arte Povera and Beyond 1960-75: Photography, Film, Video, Jeu de Paume Paris, France
 

2019

Préhistoire, une énigme moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 
 

2018

Arte povera: a creative revolution, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
 

2016

Wolke und Kristall - Die Sammlung Dorothee und Konrad Fischer, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Die Kräfte hinter den Formen, Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Germany; Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland

WITH A TOUCH OF PINK - WITH A BIT OF VIOLET - WITH A HINT OF GREEN - Dorothee Fischer in memoriam, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
 

2013

Neunzehnhundertsiebzig. Material, Orte, Denkprozesse, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland

Arte Povera, Der grosse Aufbruch, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
 

2012

Documenta (13), Kassel, Germany

Arte Povera, Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany

2011

The World Belongs to You - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy

Arte povera 1968, MAMbo - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Arte Povera International, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
 

2010

Die Natur der Kunst, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Gipfeltreffen der Moderne - Das Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

2009

The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

Gipfeltreffen der Moderne, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, Germany

1968. Die Große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany

2008

Biennale of Sydney 2008, Biennale Sydney, Australia
 

2007

Time & Place: Milan/Turin, 1958-1968, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

Arte Povera, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

Contrepoint de la sculpture, Louvre, Paris, France

Live/Work: Performance into Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

2006

Where Are We Going, Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

2003-2004

The Las Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960 - 1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; ULCA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

2003

La Poetica dell'Arte Povera, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
 

2001

Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 11962 - 1971, Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London, UK; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA

2000

Le Temps Vite, Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Palais des Expositions, Rome, Italy; Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain

Gwangju Biennial 2000, Kwangju, Korea
 

1997-2000

Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1967 bis heute, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany; Kunsthalle, Nürnberg, Germany; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria; Göteborg Konsthall, Gothenborg, Sweden; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany

1998

Arte Italiana 1945 ­­­– 1995, Il visible e l'invisible, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1996

46th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
 

1994

The Italian Metamorphosis, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
 

1993

Gravity & Grace, The changing contigion of sculpture 1965 - 1975, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Manifeste. Arte Povera, Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1990

Concept Art, Minimal Art, Arte Povera, Land Art, Sammlung Marzona, Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany

1989

Italian Art in the Twentieth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

1988

From the Southern Cross, Australian Biennial, Art Gallery of new South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

1987

Documenta 8, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Münster Skulptur Projekte, Westfälische Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany

1985

The Knot - Arte Povera, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, USA

Del Arte Povera a 1985, Palacio de Cristal, Palacio de Velasquez, Madrid, Spain

1982

Italian Art Now: An American Perspective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, MoMA, New York, USA

1981

Westkunst. Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939", Rheinhallen Messegelände, Cologne, Germany

Identité Italienne: L'art en Italie depuis 1959, Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
 

1980

L'arte negli anni 70, 39th Venice Biennial, Gardini Castello, Venice, Italy

Ils se disent peintres, ils se disent photographes, ARC / Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
 

1977

Arte in Italia 1960 - 1977, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
 

1976-77

Identité - Identifications, Societé des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
 

1976

Sydney Biennial, "Recent International Forms in Art", The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
 

1975

12th Sao Paulo Biennial, Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil
 

1973

La ricerca estetica dal 1960 al 1970, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

1972

Documenta 5, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

1971

Arte Povera, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany

1970

between Man and Matter, 10th Biennial, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto Municipal Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Fukuoka Prefectural Culture, Fukuoka, Japan

Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy

Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1969

Internationale Vorschau auf die Kunst in den Galerien der Avantgarde, Prospekt 69, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf

Konzeption - Conception: Dokumentation einer heutigen Kunstrichtung, Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 

2015

Rick Bretell, Masters old and young featured in two new museum shows , in: The Dallas Morning News, November.

Martin Holman, Where form and content meet, in: The Florentine, September.

Robert Enright, The Perfection of the Tree and Other Material Concerns, in: Border Crossings, December.

Pac Pobric, Penone's trees grow in Midtown, in:The Art Newspaper, September.

Tanna Russell, Trees Get Second Life In Bronze, in: The Wall Street Journal, September.
 

2008

Lillian Davies; ArtForum, June 2008.
 

2005

Renate Puvogel: Giuseppe Penone: Retrospective; Kunstforum International.

Carmen Riu de Martin: Giuseppe Penone; Ceramica.
 

2004

Nicholas Cullinan: Giuseppe Penone At Milton Keynes Centre Pompidou Paris; Frieze Magazine.

Lilian Albertazzi: Entrevista A Giuseppe Penone; Exit Art Madrid, July/September.

Catherine Francblin: Review: Giuseppe Penone; Art Press, July.

Carol Armstrong: Giuseppe Penone: Kiki Smith; ArtForum.

Richard Cork: Giuseppe Penone; Burlington Magazine.

Allison Hunter: Giuseppe Penone: the Poetry Of Art And Nature; Sculpture Magazine.

Philippe Piguet: Giuseppe Penone Principe Vital; Oeil.

Damien Sausset: Giuseppe Penone: Sculpter L'Emprei.nte Du Temps; Connaissance des Arts.
 

2003

Philippe Piguet: Giuseppe Penone: Eloge Du Toucher; Oeil.
 

2002

Philippe Piguet: Flux De Memoire, Oeil.
 

2001

Anne-Marie Brun: Giuseppe Penone, Respiration Du Vegetal; Verso.

Giuseppe Penone: Giuseppe Penone; Gagarin.

Luisa Perlo: Giuseppe Penone: Anatomia Dell'ombra; Arte.

Margaret Sheffield: Giuseppe Penone: The Breath and the Tree; Sculpture Magazine.

Francesco Poli: Giuseppe Penone; Tema Celeste, January/February.
 

2000

Amy Jean Porter: Giuseppe Penone: New Works Marian Goodman Gallery; Reviewny.com.

Doris van Drathen: Weltzeitsprünge: Zum Werk von Giuseppe Penone; Kunstforum International.

David Frankel: Giuseppe Penone; Artforum.

Lusia Perlo: Giuseppe Penone: Sotto Il Segno Dell'Arte Pova; Arte.

Giorgio Verzotti: Giuseppe Penone: Au Corps De La Nature; Beaux Arts Magazine.
 

1998

Alan Ridding, Bugs: Transformation and Subterfuge in a Reinvented Eden; The New York Times, September.

Fabien Faure: Arbres etre fleuve: quelques objects de pense de Giuseppe Penone; Cashiers du Musée National d'Art Moderne.

Doris van Drathen: Giuseppe: Die Idee einer automatischen unwillkürlichen Skulptur; Kunstforum International.
 

1997

Philippe Piguet: Giuseppe Penone; Art Press, September.
 

1993

Andrew Cross: penone; Art Monthly, November.

Debra Bricker Balken: Giuseppe Penone At Marian Goodman Gallery; Art in America, July.
 

1992

Michael Brenson: Giuseppe Penone; Sculpture Magazine, November/December.

Isa Tutino Vercelloni: I Gesti Vegetali di Giuseppe Penone; Casa Vogue.

Holland Carter: Giuseppe Penone; New York Times, February.
 

1991

Remo Guidieri: Interview with Giuseppe Penone; Galleries Magazine, October/November.

Philippe Piguet: Giuseppe Penone: L'Espace De La Main; Art Press.
 

1990

Giuseppe Penone At Marian Goodman Gallery; Arts Magazine, March.
 

1989

Michael Brenson: Giuseppe Penone At Marian Goodmann Gallery; The New York Times, December.

Jean-Mare Prevost: Giuseppe Penone: L'oeuvre Entre Causalite et Hasard; Art Studio.

Rupert Martin: Giuseppe Penone at Arnolfini; Flash Art, May/June.
 

1987

Giuseppe Penone at Marian Goodman Gallery; ArtForum, May.
 

1986

Philippe Piguet: Giuseppe Penone; Artefactum.
 

1985

Kay Larson: The Knot: Arte Povera at p.s.1, November.

Giuseppe Penone at the Marian Goodman Gallery; Artforum, May.
 

1984

F. Dagenais: Ephemera Fossilized: Giuseppe Penone; Vanguard.

C. Gintz: Archaism and Contemporaneity in the Sculpture of Giuseppe Penone; Art Press.

W. Wilson: Impressions of Ephemera: Giuseppe Penone (Fort Worth Art Museum Texas: Exhibition Review); Art Weekly.
 

1981

Lisa Liebmann: Giuseppe Penone at Salvatore Ala Gallery; Art in America, December

G.S. Brizio: Giuseppe; Parachute.
 

1980

Germano Celant: Giuseppe Penone; Data.
 

1978

Giuseppe Penone: Giuseppe Penone; Data.
 

1974

Giuseppe Penone: Giuseppe Penone: Displaying One's Own Skin; Data.
 

1973

M. Bandini: Giuseppe Penone: An Interview; Data.

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