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Maria Nordman

1943
born in Görlitz

Lives and works in Santa Monica, CA
 

1961-67
University of California, LA


 

AWARDS

1993
The Roland Prize for Public Art, Bremen

1979
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award, NY


 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selection)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
Institut d'art contemporain de Villeurbanne, France
MuHKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Situation Kunst (Für Max IMDAHL), Bochum
Synagoge Stommeln, Pullheim
Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 

2022

Maria Nordman, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
 

2016

Insel Werden 1984 - heute, Brehminsel Werden, Essen, Germany

Mario Nordman, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
 

2015

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
 

2014

Intergenerational Presencing, Lichthof Albertinum Dresden, Germany

Standing Pictures — Bewegtbilder, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
 

2013

Geo-Aesthetics, S.M.A.K., Museum for Contemporary Art, Citadelpark, Ghent, Belgium

Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin

Hilfiker Kunstprojekte, Lucerne, Switzerland
 

2011

Maria Nordman Filmroom: Smoke, 1967–Present, LACMA, LA, USA
 

2010

Inter-presence. Une Livre-Une Communaute, Castillo/Corrales, Paris, France
 

2009

Maria Nordman, LePrincipe d'incertitude, MAMCO Genf, Switzerland

Untitled, 1989-..., Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland

Zollverein Zeche Essen, UNESCO site, Essen, Germany
 

2007

Maria Nordman, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
 

2005

Treballs a la Ciutat, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain 
 

1997

Some early works, Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany
 

1995

Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
 

1992

De Lucerna, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland
 

1991

Crossroads, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, USA

Condate- cité conjointe, La Criée, Rennes, France

Galerie Crousel-Robelin/Bama, Paris, France
 

1990

Maria Nordman, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, USA
 

1987

Studio per l’arte contemporanea, Turin, Italy
 

1986

Hoogpoort/Belfortstraat, Chambres d’Amis, Gent, Belgium

Scheldetuin, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
 

1983

165 N. Central, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
 

1982

A vessel, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ein Schiff Tjoba, Erzberger Ufer, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
 

1977

Neubrückstrasse, Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
 

1972

Newport Harbour Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA

Colorado and Orange Grove, Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena, CA, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 

2023

Looking Back: The 13th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, USA

Inside Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists 1956 – 1976, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
 

2021

Momentum 11- HOUSE OF COMMONS, Momentum Biennale, Norway
 

2019

That Which is Not Drawn, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK
 

2017

50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
 

2016

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

2015

Can the Museum be a Garden? Works from the Collection of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Museau de Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal

Cycle Des histoires sans fin séquence automne-hiver 2015-2016, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 
 

2012

Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Les Prairies, Biennale d’art Contemporain, Rennes, France
 

2011

Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 – 1981, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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

Cambio de paradigma - Colección Serralves años 60-70, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, France
 

2010

How Many Billboards, MAK Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Water Walk, Maison des arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, France
 

2008

A Town (Not a City), Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland
 

2007

Maria Nordman, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
 

2006

Kunst aus Los Angeles 60er - 90er Jahre, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany

und es bewegt sich doch ..., Museum Bochum, Germany

Bilder vom Vierwaldstüttersee, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland

LOS ANGELES 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
 

2005

Modeles modeles, Mamco, Genf, Switzerland
 

2004

Kunst im Bahnhof, Arp Museum - Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany
 

2003

Museum voor Hedendagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium 
 

2000

California Art from the Panza Collection, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

Over The Edges, SMAK, Gent, Belgium
 

1999

PRIMARILY STRUCTURAL, P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island, NY, USA
 

1998

Espace a construir - Collection FRAC Bourgogne, Centre d'art contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
 

1997

Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, GErmany
 

1996

Synagoge Stommeln, Stommeln, Germany
 

1987

Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1987, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
 

1987

documenta 8, documenta, Kassel, Germany
 

1982

documenta 7, documenta, Kassel, Germany
 

1977

documenta 6, documenta, Kassel, Germany

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 
 

2013

Nordman, Maria (ed.). De Tempo real.: Geo-Aesthetics/Presencing Works with People & Questions on NATURA / (s)CULTURA, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf; La Casa Encendia, Madrid, Spain
 

2006

Nordman, Maria (ed.). La Primavera / Le printemps — Time-specific Works in City Neighborhoods, Cologne / Essen, (cat.)
 

1998

Nordman, Maria (ed.). De Skulptura II, Museum Falkwang, Essen, (cat.)
 

1996

Inboden, Gudrun (ed.). De Theatro, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, (cat.)

Nordman, Maria (ed.). Mark Stommel, Synagoge Stommel, Pullheim, (cat.)
 

1993

Nordman, Maria (ed.). De Musica. New Conjunct City Proposal, Westfälisches Landesmuseum Münster; Kunstmuseum Luzern; Dia Center for the Arts; Public Art Fund Inc., (cat.)
 

1989

Nordman, Maria (ed.). Cite / Sculpture, Villa Arson, France (cat.)
 

1986

Nordman, Maria (ed.). De Scultura. Works in the City. Some Ongoing Questions, Kunsthalle Basel; Museum Ludwig; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Kunstverein Bonn
 

1987

Nordman, Maria (ed.). De Civitate, Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, France



GROUP CATALOGUES

2007

Grässlin, Karola (ed.). Kunst aus Los Angeles 60er - 90er Jahre, Kunstverein Braunschweig, (cat.)
 

2006

Golinski, Hans Günt (ed.). Und es bewegt sich doch…, Kunstmuseum Bochum, (cat.)
 

2000

Dornseifer, Gerhard (ed.). Art projects - Synagoge Stommeln - Kunstprojekte, Synagoge Stommel, Pullheim, (cat.)
 

1993

Berrg, Jörg van den (ed.). Situation Kunst für Max Imdahl, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität; Verein Situation Kunst, Bochum

LINES

04. Sep 2020 - 06. Nov 2020
DÜSSELDORF

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50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie 1967-2017

08. Sep 2017 - 17. Nov 2017
DÜSSELDORF

INFO


WITH A TOUCH OF PINK - WITH A BIT OF VIOLET - WITH A HINT OF GREEN - DOROTHEE FISCHER - IN MEMORIAM

03. Jun 2016 - 23. Jul 2016
DÜSSELDORF

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Maria Nordman

06. Jun 2013 - 27. Jul 2013
BERLIN