Giovanni Anselmo
1934
born in Borgofranco d'Ivrea, Italy
died in 2023
AWARDS
1999
Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale
2019
Presidente della Repubblica at the Accademia Nazionale di Sa Luca, Italy
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selection)
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Castelllo di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italien
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Giovanni Anselmo - Más allá del horizonte, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2022
Grigi che si alleggeriscono mentre la terra si orienta - Greys Becoming Lighter while Earth Finds Its Bearing, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Giovanni Anselmo: momenti, momenti..., Tucci Russo Studio per l'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
2019
Giovanni Anselmo, Entrare nell'opera, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome, Italy
2018
Giovanni Anselmo, Bernier Eliades, Athen, Greece
2017
Giovanni Anselmo, Senza titolo, invisibile, le stelle si avvicinano di una spanna in più, oltremare appare verso Sud-Est, e la luce focalizza..., Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
2016
Giovanni Anselmo, Mentre la mano indica, la luce focalizza, nella gravitazione universale di interferisce, la terra si orienta, le stelle si avvicinano di una spanna in più..., Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, Dove le stelle si avvicina di una spanna in più mentre la terra si orienta e oltremare appare verso oriente, Bernier/Eliandes Gallery, Brussels, Belgium in collaborazione con Tucci Russo Studio per l'Arte Contemporanea
2015
Giovanni Anselmo, While earth finds its bearing and the light focuses, ultramarine blue appears towards overseas, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Giovanni Anselmo, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Etienne Metropole, France
2014
Giovanni Anselmo e Gilberto Zorio, Videoteca GAM, Galleria d'Arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, Mentre la terra si orienta e la luce focalizza..., Palazzo Riso, Palermo, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Giovanni Anselmo, Arte Povera A-Z part II, Museumcultuur Strombeek, Ghent, Belgium
2013
Giovanni Anselmo, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Giovanni Anselmo, Memoriale dal Convento, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Il Conventino, Monteciccardo, Italy
2012
Giovanni Anselmo, Mentre l'ago magnetico si orienta e oltremare verso mezzanotte e mezzogiorno appare, Tucci Russo Contemporary Art Studio, Turin, Italy
2011
Giovanni Anselmo, Arte Povera, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2010
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2006
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy
2005
Giovanni Anselmo, Where the stars are coming one span closer, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Giovanni Anselmo, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, collectie-uitdieping II, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
2004
Giovanni Anselmo, Museum Kurhaus Kleve - Ewald Mataré-Sammlung, Kleve, Germany
2003
Giovanni Anselmo, Musée de la Corse, Corte, France
2002
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Tucci Russo, Turin, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Giovanni Anselmo, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
2001
Giovanni Anselmo, Centre Saint-Charles, Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
Giovanni Anselmo, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Giovanni Anselmo, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
1998
Giovanni Anselmo, House of Prints, Multiples and Drawings, Antwerp, Belgium
Giovanni Anselmo, Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece
1997
Giovanni Anselmo, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA
1996
Giovanni Anselmo, Forum d'Art Contemporain, Casino du Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Giovanni Anselmo, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Giovanni Anselmo, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Giovanni Anselmo, L'aura della pittura, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1995
Giovanni Anselmo, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporenea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
1993
Giovanni Anselmo, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1990
Giovanni Anselmo, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
1989
Giovanni Anselmo, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Modena, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
1988
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy
1987
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
1986
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
Giovanni Anselmo, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Christian Stein, Milano, Italy
1985
Giovanni Anselmo, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1984
Giovanni Anselmo, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
1982
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Helen Van der Meij, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1980
Giovanni Anselmo, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Giovanni Anselmo, Forum Kunst, Rottweil, Germany
Giovanni Anselmo, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Giovanni Anselmo, Vereniging Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
1979
Giovanni Anselmo, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
1978
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
Giovanni Anselmo, Sperone Westwater Fischer Gallery, New York, USA
1977
Giovanni Anselmo, Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Sperone, Rome, Italy
1975
Giovanni Anselmo, Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
1974
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Sperone Fischer, Rome, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, Sperone Gallery, New York, USA
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
1973
Giovanni Anselmo, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie MTL, Brussels, Belgium
1972
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Sperone, Turin, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, John Weber Gallery, New York, USA
1971
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Sperone, Turin, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Multipli, Turin, Italy
1970
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Sperone, Turin, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Toselli, Milan, Italy
1969
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Sperone, Turin, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France
1968
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Sperone, Turin, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Vita Nuova: New challenges for art in Italy 1960-1975, MAMAC Nice, France
Naturecultures ,OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin, Italy
Naturecultures, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
2021
Group Exhibition, Tucci Russo Studio, Torre Pellice, Italy
Il Giardino Dei Sogni, Tucci Russo Studio, Torre Pellice, Italy
Torre Pellice: L'armonia Dell'Invenzione, Tucci Russo Studio, Torre Pellice, Italy
L’acqua, Galleria Franco Noero, Via Mottalciata, Turin, Italy
2020
Faster Than Ever, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Underlining, Tucci Russo Studio, Torre Pellice, Italy
2019
Gardo Zero, Lia Rumma, Italy
Luogo e Segni, Palazzo Grassi - Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Equilibrium. An idea for Italian sculpture, Mazzoleni, London, UK
Metal, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
2018
Arte povera: a creative revolution, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
2017
Giovanni Anselmo - Lothar Baumgarten - Haim Steinbach, Vistamare, Pescara, Italy
2016
WITH A TOUCH OF PINK - WITH A BIT OF VIOLET - WITH A HINT OF GREEN, Dorothee Fischer in memoriam, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Von Giorgio de Chiricoi bis Alghiero Boetti - Italienische Zeichnungen und Druckgrafik aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Eiche Triennale 2016, Eiche Arts Center, Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
2015
La ou commence le jour, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Lille, France
Basico III, Tucci Russo Contemporary Art Studio, Turin, Italy
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, Tate Liverpool, UK
ICASTICA 2015 - Cultivating Culture, Arezzo, Italy
Per_forming a collection #4, Madre, Naples, Italy
tutttovero – La nostra città la nostra arte Torino 2015, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte, Italy
Contemporanea/GAM/Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo/Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
Anselmo | Laib | Spalletti, Lia Rumma Gallery, Milan, Italy
Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Poor Art – Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and parallel practices 1968–2015, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Schön, euch zu sehen. 160 Werke aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein
2014
Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The St. Petersburg Paradox, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Intenzione manifesto. Il disegno in tutte le sue lingue e forme, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Da Rauschenberg a Jeff Koons - Lo sguardo di Ileana Sonnabend, Ca’ Pesaro, Venice, Italy
Arte Povera and 'Multipli' - Torino 1970-1975, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Arte Povera - Anselmo, Kounellis, Merz, Penone, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
The paradox of sculpture, The National Academy School, New York, USA
Future Prospects – Les Immatériaux for instance, Kunstverein, Düsseldorf
De Pictura, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
On the Road/En el camino, exhibition installed throughout historic buildings of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Equilibri, Erica Fiorentini Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Double sens, Centre d'Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain
Histories: Works from the Serralves Collection, Casa e Parque de Serralves, Portugal
Arte Povera A-Z part II, Museumcultuur Strombeek, Strombeek Bever, Belgium
2013
Arte Povera, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
Re-making When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969 / Venice 2013, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy
Ends of the Earth. Land Art bis 1974, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Guangzhou Triennale, China
Arte Povera. Der grosse Aufbruch, Kunstmuseum Basel Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Morandi and Casorati in the De Formaris Collection, From Workshop to Work, Italian Cultural Institute, New York, USA
Kabinettstücke/Cabinet Pieces, Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Fragile, Le Stanze del Vetro, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
L'ignoto che appare. Torino, presenze, 1964-1990, Galleria Repetto, Acqui Terme, Italy
Soltanto un quadro al Massimo: Anselmo - Baumgarten, Accademia Tedesca a Roma, Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, Giuseppe Penone, Emilio Prini - recent works, Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK
From De Fornaris to GAM – Italian Art: Contemporary Protagonists, Industria Superstudio, New York, USA
2012
Der grosse Aufbruch. Arte Povera, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Wunderbar, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Positions on Conceptual Art, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Det mentale landskab, Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Gudhjem, Denmark
Oltre il muro, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Sammlungsdialog: Zeit, Kunstmuseum Liechtentein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein
Cartografias contemporáneas. Divujando el pensdamient, Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain
Arte Povera in città, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy
2011
Arte Povera, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
Paradigm Shift Serralves Collection 60’s 70’s, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
TRA. Edge of becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Ileana Sonnabend: An Italian Portrait, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Che fare? Arte povera. Die historischen Jahre, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph 1964-1977, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Arte Povera 1967-2011, La Triennale di Milano, Design Museum, Milan, Italy
Cambio de paradigma – Colección Serralves anos 60-70, Museo de Arte Contemporáno de Castilla y León, Spain
2010
Die Natur der Kunst, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
The Private Museum, Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Bergamo, Italy
everything is connected, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Forms of Contingency: New York and Turin 1960s-1970s, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Colección Christian Stein: Una historia del arte italiano, Institut Valenciá d'Art Modern IVAM, Valencia, Italy
2009
Pourquoi attendre! Fonds André Iten, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Twentysix Gasoline Stations Ed Altri Libri D'Artista - Una Collezione, Museo Regionale di Messina, Italy
time, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1968. Die Große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Spazio Libro d’Artista, Palazzo Manganelli, Catania, Italy
Constanti del classico nell'arte del XX e XXI secolo, Fondazione Puglisi, Catania, Italy
Consentino, Palazzo Valle, Catania, Italy
2008
Heavy Metal. Die unerklärbare Leichtigkeit eines Materials, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany
Peripherer Blick und kollektiver Körper, Museion, Bozen, Italy
2007
Arte Povera. Aus der Sammlung des Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein
Klio. Eine kurze Geschichte der Kunst in Euramerika nach 1945, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
Auszeit. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein
Conceptual Photograpy 1964-1989, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, USA
Revue. Zehn Jahre Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
52. Exposizione Internazionale D'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2005
In Progress II für Harald Szeemann, Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Künstlerische Konzepte als Drucksache Katalog Künstlerbuch Objektbuch Postkarte Plakat, Galerie M + R Fricke, Berlin
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004
Intra-Muros, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
2003
Memoria Ribelle, Padiglione Latino Americano, Naples, Italy
La Poetica dell'Arte Povera, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
2001
Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1971, Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London, UK
- traveled to :Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
2000
Le Temps Vite, Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France - traveled to: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Spain
La ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Luci in galleria: da Warhol al 2000, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy
Artistas franceses e italianos nas coleccions Fundacion ARCO e CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
1999
Strengthening Wind from Changing Directions: International Avant-Garde since 1960 (The Paul Maenz Collection), Neues Museum Weimar, Germany
Something old, Something new, Something borrowed, Something blue, Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
1998
Artecitta: 11 artisti per il Passante Ferroviario di Torino, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
1st Kimpo International Sculpture Symposium, Leisure Sports Park Site of Kimpo, Korea
1997
Citta Natura, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Pittura Italiana da Collezioni Italiane, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Livres d'artistes. L'invention d'un genre 1960-1980, Bibliothèque National de France, Paris, France
The Berardo Collection, Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Sintra, Portugal
Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art, Palazzo Querini Dubois, Venice, Italy
- traveled to: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, USA
Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1967 bis heute, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen - traveled to: Kunsthalle, Nuremberg; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Konsthallen, Göteborg; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
1995
1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Arte italiana 1945-1998. Il visible e l'invisibile, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan
- traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Yonago City, Museum of Art, Tottori; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1994
Does the Work Take Place, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
XX Biennale di São Paulo, Brasil
1993
Out of sight, out of mind, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
1991
Un detail immense, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgien
Towards a new Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Histoires d'Oeil, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Espace Lyonnaise d'Art Contemporain and Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Arte Povera 1971 und 20 Jahre danach, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
1990
44. Exposizione Internazionale D'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, Arte Povera, Land Art - Sammlung Marzona, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Le Territoire de l'Art, Musée Russe, St. Petersburg, Russia
Aktuelle Kunst Europas - Sammlung Centre Pompidou, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Vom Verschwinden der Ferne: Telekomunikation und Kunst, Deutsches Postmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
L'Arte Povera dans la Collections du MNAM, Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France
Temperamenti, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
1989
Italian Art in the Twentieth Century, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Verso l'Arte Povera, momenti e aspetti degli anni '60 in Italia, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Material Mente, Galleria Communale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Wittgenstein, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Einleuchten, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
L'art conceptuel: une perspective, ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1988
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
1987
Century '87, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Skulptur Projekte Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
1986
42. Exposizione Internazionale D'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Qu'est-ce que la sculpture moderne?, Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1985
Del Arte Povera a 1985, Palacio de Velazquez, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain
The European Iceberg, Creativity in Germany and Italy Today, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Les Immatériaux, Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Knot: Arte Povera at P.S. 1, P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York, USA
1984
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Skulpturen im 20. Jahrhundert, Merian-Park, Basel, Switzerland
Histoires de Sculpture, Château des Ducs d'Epernon, Cadillac - traveled to: Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Deux regions en France: l'Art International d'aujourd'hui, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
Ouverture, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
1983
Presence Discrete, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
Concetto-Imago, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Adamah, la terre, Espace Lyonnaise d'Art Contemporain, Lyons, France
Eine Kunstgeschichte in Turin 1965-1983, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
ARS`83, Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
1982
Arte povera, Antiform, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
1981
Linee della ricerca artistica in Italia 1969-80, Pallazo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Identité Italienne, l'art en Italie depuis 1959, Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Westkunst, Rheinhallen Messegelände, Cologne, Germany
1980
Pier and Ocean, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
39. Exposizione Internazionale D'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1979
Artistes Italiens, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France
Words, Museum Bochum; traveled to: Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
Photographie als Kunst - Kunst als Photograpie, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria
1978
38. Exposizione Internazionale D'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Focus 78, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris, France
1977
Brunelleschi e noi, Chiostro di S. Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
Trigon 77, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Arte in Italia 1960-1970, Museo d'Art Moderno, Turin, Italy
10 Jahre Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Kunsthalle, Bremerhaven, Germany
Arte Povera, Galleria Il Tritone, Biella, Italy
Europe in the Seventies: Aspects of Recent Art, The Art Institute of Chicago - traveled to: Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Fort Worth, USA
Art Museum, Fort Worth; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cinncinati, USA
1976
Bienniale of Sydney, Australia
Prospect '76, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
1975
Art Cologne
Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy
1974
Prospect 74, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
Italienische Kunst der letzen 20 Jahre, Art Basel, Switzerland
Galleria Studio G7, Bologna, Italy
Idea and Image in Recent Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
1973
An Exhibition of New Italian Art, The Art Council of Northern Ireland Gallery, Belfast, UK
Contemporanea, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Huit italiens / Acht italianen, Art & Project, Amsterdam - traveled to: Galerie MTL, Brussels, Belgium
1972
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
36. Exposizione Internazionale D'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
1971
Arte Povera: 13 italienische Künstler, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy
1970
Processi di pensioero visualizzati: junge italienische Avantgarde, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland
Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art, Museo d'Art Moderno, Turin, Italy
Vitalita del negativo nell'Arte italiana, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
1969
Op Losse Schroeven, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Live in your head: When Attitudes become Form, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
- traveled to: Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Verborgene Strukturen, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Pläne und Projekte als Kunst, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
1968
Arte Povera, Centro Arte Viva, Trieste, Italy
Prospect 68, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Nine at Castelli, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
1967
Arte povera, Universita de Genova, Genoa, Italy
TEXTS
1999
in Italian and in English in G. Celant, Arte Povera/Art Povera. Storie e protagonisti/Histories and protagonists, Electa, Milano 1985, pp. 124-125; in German in N. Bätzner, Arte Povera. Manifeste, Statements, Kritiken, Verlag der Kunst, Dresde 1995, pp. 120-121; in Italien in M. Disch, Giovanni Anselmo, ADV Publishing House, Lugano 1998, p. 13; in English in C. Christov-Bakargiev, Arte Povera, Phaidon Press, London 1999, p. 233.
1969
Io, il mondo..., in G. Celant, Arte Povera, Gabriele Mazzotta Editore, Milano 1969, English version: Art Povera, New York
Conceptual Actual or Impossible Art? [a programmatic writing about the own work, published in Frensh and English in Giovanni Anselmo, catalogue, Galerie Sonnabend, Paris 1969
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2013
Giovanni Anselmo, catalogo della mostra, Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Museum Edition - Trade Edition, pubblicato da Richter Fey Verlag GmbH, Dusseldorf, 2013 [52 pp., ill. col., con testi di D. Schwarz; elenco delle opere esposte, edizione in tedesco e inglese]
2007
Giovanni Anselmo/Dove le stelle si avvicinano di una spanna in più..., catalogo della mostra, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Hopefulmonster editore, Turin 2007 [264 pp., ill. col. e b/n, con testi di T. Dean, R. Krauss, G. Maraniello; intervista all'artista di A. Viliani; elenco delle opere esposte, apparati bio-bibliografici a cura di M. Disch, , edizione italiana e inglese]
2006
A Paolo, in Paolo Mussat Sartor. Viaggio continuo, catalogo della mostra, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino 2006, p. 220 [parole dedicate al lavoro recente di Paolo Mussat Sartor]
2005
Giovanni Anselmo/Collectie-Uitdieping II, catalogo della mostra, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gand 2005
2004
Giovanni Anselmo, catalogo della mostra, Museum Kurhaus, Kleve; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 2004
2001
Giovanni Anselmo, pieghevole-catalogo della mostra, Centre Saint-Charles, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Parigi 2001
1998
Giovanni Anselmo, a cura di M. Disch, ADV Publishing House, Lugano 1998 [238 pp., ill. b/n, con scritti e note di lavoro dell'artista 1969-1993, interviste 1971-1996, testi di M. Disch, J. Meinhardt, L. Lang, antologia critica 1980-1997 con testi di T. Raspail (1980), J.M. Poinsot (1982), W. Kasprzik (1993), G. Moure (1995), A. Rorimer (1995), H. Walker (1997), apparati bio-bibliografici, in italiano]
1997
Giovanni Anselmo. Lungo il Sentiero Verso Oltremare, giornale-catalogo della mostra, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago 1997
1996
Giovanni Anselmo, catalogo della mostra, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nizza 1996
Inviter/3. Giovanni Anselmo, pieghevole-catalogo della mostra, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain, Lussemburgo 1996
Je ne me pose pas la question du style, in "Ligeia", n. 17-18, Parigi, ottobre 1995-giugno 1996, p. 81 [scritto sul proprio lavoro, sul concetto di stile e sull’Arte povera]
Medardo Rosso, in Medardo Rosso, catalogo della mostra, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela 1996, p. 228 [nota su Medardo Rosso]
1995
Giovanni Anselmo, catalogo della mostra, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela 1995
1994
Giovanni Anselmo. Appunti per un'opera, catalogo della mostra, XXII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, San Paolo, Hopefulmonster editore, Torino 1994 [48 pp., ill. b/n, con prefazione di N. Aguilar, testi di L. Saccà e P. Herkenhoff, bio-bibliografia, in portoghese, italiano e inglese]
1989
Giovanni Anselmo, catalogo della mostra-monografia, Galleria Civica, Modena; Musée d'art contemporain, Lione, Hopefulmonster editore, Firenze 1989 [184 pp., ill. col. e b/n, scritto di Anselmo Io, il mondo..., testo di B. Merz, antologia critica con testi di G. Celant (1968), M. Fagiolo (1968), J.C. Ammann (1979), R.H. Fuchs (1979), M. Grüterich (1983), G. Celant (1983), D. Soutif (1985), G. Celant (1988), A. Lugli (1988), nota bio-bibliografica di W. Guadagnini, elenco delle opere esposte; edizione Modena in italiano, edizione Lione in francese]
Giovanni Anselmo, Galleria Sperone, Torino 1968 [pieghevole con allegate 4 ill. b/n sciolte, con testi di G. Celant e M. Fagiolo, ripubblicati in francese in Identité italienne. L’art en Italie depuis 1959, a cura di G. Celant, Centre Georges Pompidou, Parigi, Centro Di, Firenze 1981, pp. 249, 251, in italiano nel cat. monografico Modena 1989 pp. 21-22.
Commenti a diverse opere integrati nel testo di J.C. Ammann in Giovanni Anselmo, catalogo della mostra, Kunsthalle Basel, Basilea; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 1979, pp. 3-35, in tedesco, inglese e italiano [ripubblicato in francese nel cat. monografico Grenoble 1980; in italiano nel cat. monografico Modena 1989, pp. 22-34]
1988
G. Celant, Giovanni Anselmo, Gruppo G.F.T., Torino 1988
1985
Giovanni Anselmo, catalogo della mostra, Arc Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Parigi 1985
1980
Giovanni Anselmo, catalogo della mostra, Musée de Peinture et Sculpture, Grenoble 1980
1979
Giovanni Anselmo, catalogo della mostra, Kunsthalle Basel, Basilea; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 1979 [180 pp., ill. b/n e col., con testi di J.C. Ammann e R.H. Fuchs ripubblicati in italiano nel cat. monografico Modena 1989 pp. 22-34, bio-bibliografia, in tedesco, inglese e italiano]
1975
[Senza titolo] in "Saman", n. 1, Genova, marzo-aprile 1975, s.p. [nota a proposito dei lavori intitolati "Particolare" (proiezioni e disegni)]
116 Particolari visibili e misurabili di INFINITO, in “Saman”, n. 4, Genova, dicembre 1975-gennaio 1976, s.p. [nota a proposito del libro d’artista 116 Particolari…]
1973
Giovanni Anselmo, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerna 1973
1974
Giovanni Anselmo, catalogo della mostra, Galeria Foksal, Varsavia 1974
1972
Nel 1966..., in "Data", n. 2, Milano, febbraio 1972, pp. 55-61 [scritto sui lavori realizzati fra il 1966 e il 1971; ripubblicato tra l'altro in “Spazio Alternativo”, n. 4, Biella, maggio 1977, pp. 9-14; in francese in Identité Italienne. L’art en Italie depuis 1959, a cura di G. Celant, Centre Georges Pompidou, Parigi, Centro Di, Firenze 1981, pp. 384-385; in inglese in G. Celant, The Knot Arte Povera, Umberto Allemandi & C., Torino 1985, pp. 227-228 (nell’edizione italiana: Arte Povera, Umberto Allemandi & C., Torino 1989, pp. 233-234; nell’edizione francese: Arte Povera, Art Edition, Villeurbanne 1989, pp. 241-242); in tedesco in Arte Povera. Manifeste, Statements, Kritiken, a cura di N. Bätzner, Verlag der Kunst, Dresda-Basilea 1995, pp. 122-126; in inglese in C. Christov-Bakargiev, Arte Povera, Phaidon Press, Londra 1999, pp. 233-234; in inglese in Ø. Nygård, M. Stræde, Bias. 33 artist’s views on scultpure, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenaghen 2000, pp. 38-41)
1969
Giovanni Anselmo, Galerie Sonnabend, Paris 1969
2015
While earth finds its bearing and the light focuses, ultramarine blue appears towards overseas
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
01 May – 01 August 2015
2014
Arte Povera
Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
14 March – 26 April 2014
2009
time
Mac Adams, Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselmo, Bill Beckley, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn,
Peter Buggenhout, Hanne Darboven, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Sofia Hultén, Zon Ito, Stephen Kaltenbach,
On Kawara, Harald Klingelhöller, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long, Dennis Oppenheim, Gregor Schneider, Thomas Schütte und Lawrence Weiner
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
26 June – 25 July 2009
2007
arte povera
Anselmo, Kounellis, Merz, Penone
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
25 May –28 July 2007
2002
Projection
Video, Film, Dia, Skulptur, Malerei, Zeichnung und Dokumente von 1967 - 1974
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
29 March – 21 June 2002
2000
Giovanni Anselmo, Alan Charlton, Dan Flavin, Jannis Kounellis,
Wolfgang Laib, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Thomas Schütte
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
14 October 2000 - 27 January 2001
1996
Giovanni Anselmo - L'aura della pittura
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
05 October - 09 November 1996
Giovanni Anselmo
Grigi che si alleggeriscono mentre la terra si orienta - Greys Becoming Lighter while Earth Finds Its Bearing
16. Sep 2022 - 05. Nov 2022
BERLIN
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
