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On Kawara

1933
born in Kariya, Japan

died in 2014


 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selection)

Contemporary Art Museum, Bordeaux, France
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Carré d'Art, Nimes, France
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Consortium Dijon, Dijon, France
Dia:Beacon, Beacon
Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Alcoitao, Portugal
FRAC Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk, France
Frac Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama, Japan
Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober, Alcudia, Mallorca, Spain
Herbert Foundation, Ghent, Netherlands
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Institut d'art contemporain / Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France
Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany
Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, Basel, Switzerland
Les Abattoirs – Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
MACBA Barcelona, Spain
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
MUDAM Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden
Moderna Museet Stockholm, Sweden
Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Museu Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
REINKINGPROJEKTE Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Panza Collection, Mendrisio, Switzerland
Sammlung FER Collection, Ulm, Germany
Schaulager Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
Zabludowicz Collection, London

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 

2023

On Kawara "Today", The Anzai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan


2020

On Kawara and the Grande Complication, Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany


2019

On Kawara, David Lamelas, Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels, Belgium


2018

On Kawara, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, USA

On Kawara: One Million Years (Reading), Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia


2017

On Kawara: One Million Years, Oratorio di San Ludovico Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy  [organized by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England as part of 57th Venice Biennale]


2015

One Million Years, Asia House, London, UK

On Kawara: 1966, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle, Belgium

On Kawara—Silence, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA


2013

Long-term View, Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA

One Million Years, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium


2012

Lived Time, Museum Boljmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

One Mission Years, - Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

Date Painting(s), Dawid Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA


2010

Pure Consciousness at 19 Kindergartens, Walter and Bean Galleries, San Francisco, USA


2009

One Million Years, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA


2008

doART, Seoul, South Korea

10 Tableaux and 16,952 Pages, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA

One Million Years, David Zwirner, New York, USA


2006

Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher On The Hills, The Power Plant - Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Eternal Return, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Date Paintings, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

Conciencia. Meditación. El observador en las colinas, Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru


2005

One Million Years (Past & Future), Reading, Akira Ikeda Gallery/Taura, Japan

Consciousness.Meditation.Watcher on the Hills, The govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand

On Kawara, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Elemental, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada


2004

On Kawara - Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher On The Hills, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Haus Salve Hospes, Braunschweig, Germany

On Kawara - Paintings of 40 Years, David Zwirner, New York, USA

On Kawara: Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher On The Hills, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore

Reading one million years, Trafalguar Square, London, UK

On Kawara - The 90's, Art&Public, Geneva, Switzerland


2003

Sol LeWitt - Fotografia, Centre Cultural Metropolità, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain

Consciusness, Meditation, Watcher on the Hills, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany


2002

Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf


2001

Horizontality/Verticality, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Date Paintings 2000, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, USA

One Million Years (past and future), Dawid Zwirner, New York, USA


2000

Thanatophanies, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland


1999

Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium


1998

Whole and parts 1964-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan


1997

Whole and Parts, Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut (LaM), Lille, France

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Whole and Parts, 1964-1995, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

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

Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf


1996

Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhone Alpes, Villeurbanne, France


1995

Erscheinen - Verschwinden, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf


1992

Date paintins in 89 cities, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA


1991

Date paintings in 89 cities, Museum Boljmans van Beunlingen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf


1989

Date Paintings: 1966-1988, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, USA

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf


1987

Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium


1986

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf


1985

Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany


1984

Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium


1981

Continuity / Discontinuity 1963-1979, National Museum of Art Osaka, Japan / Stedelljk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands / Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf


1980

Continuity / Discontinuity 1963-1979, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf


1978

Lisson Gallery, London, UK


1977

On Kawara 1967, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA

Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France


1975

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf


1974

On Kawara - 1973 - Produktion eines Jahres, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland


1972

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf


1971

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 

2024

Flavin, Judd, Kawara, LeWitt, Palermo, Ryman, Sandback, Serra, David Zwirner, Los Angeles, California, USA


2023-2024

Channeling, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Germany

Time: An Exploration Of Some Notions Of Time, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland


2023

Support Strcutures, Gathering, London, UK


2022-2023

MEASURE BY MEASURE, König Seoul, Korea


2022

On Kawara, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

Collaborations, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

Works on Paper, Taro Nasu, Tokyo, Japan


2021

Send Me an Image: From Postcards to Social Media, C/O Berlin

Still Alive: Works from the Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany


2020

Collection1: Transgressing Lines, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

The Invisible Show, Culturgest, London, UK

I reflect what you are - From Nan Goldin to Roni Horn: intimacy in the Collection Lambert, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

MISFITTING TOGETHER: Serial Formations of Pop Art, Minimal Art, and Conceptual Art, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria


2019

2019-1 Collection Highlights & Special Feature: An Inner Landscape? Landscapes and Memories, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA

Coordinates: Maps and Art Exploring Shared Terrain, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

Elmgreen & Dragset: Sculptures, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA

Heimat – Selected Works from the Alex Hank Collection, Tarmak 22, Gstaad Airport, Gstaad, Switzerland

Museum, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany

News, Etc., Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Madrid, Spain

The Public Matters, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany

Schau, Ich bin Blind, Schau: From Rémy Zaugg to John Baldessari — The Collection of Hans And Monika Furer, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

SELBSTBILDNIS, Société, Berlin

snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA

Time Is Thirsty, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Words, Alexander Berggruen, New York, USA

The World Exists To Be Put On A Postcard: artists’ postcards from 1960 to now, The Bristish Museum, London, UK


2018

2018-1 Collection Highlights & Special Feature: Women’s March, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

2050 A: Brief History of the Future, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

A Luta Continua. The Sylvio Perlstein Collection, Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA

David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York, USA

Immer anders, immer gleich: Ein Versuch über Kunst und Systeme, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland

Melancholia, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium

Modern Art Revisited: from the collection of Fukuoka Art Museum, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Sanguine/Bloedrood. Luc Tuymans on Baroque, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium

TID, Alvesta Exhibition Hall, Alvesta, Sweden

ZEITSPUREN – The Power of Now, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland


2017

Accrochage, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy

Aspects of Minimalism, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, USA

Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York, USA

Entanglements, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA

Life Itself. On the question of what it essentially is; its materialities, its characteristics, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

The Natural Order of Things, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

Natureza Franciscana, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brasil

Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Time Extended/1964-1978: Works and Documents from the Herbert Foundation, Herbert Foundation, Ghent, Belgium

Zeit verstreichen. Moment und Dauer in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland


2016 

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

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


2015

Time of others, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, Tate Liverpool, UK

America Is Hard To See, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Time of others, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

Le Souffleur - Schürmann meets Ludwig, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany

Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

White Fire, The Kunstmuseum Basel Modern Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

Partial Presence, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK


2014

Stay in Love, Lisa Cooley, New York, USA

Conceptual Art, Galerie Ronny van de Velde, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium

One Million Years – System und Symptom, Kunstmuseum Basel – Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

SPOT ON: Masterpieces from the Hamburger Kunsthalle Collection Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany


2012

Stand still like the hummingbird curated by Bellatrix Hubert, Dawid Zwirner, New York, USA

Carpe Diem. Seize the Day, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi, Japan

Plka Don, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, France

Dancing towards the essence, Kunstahus Grenchen, Grenchen, Switzerland

Les feux de l'amour, FRAC, Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France

The Artists' Postcard Show, Spike Island, Bristol, UK

Artandpress, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

Autobiographies, Espace Louis Vuitton Paris, France

Positions on Conceptual Art, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

Par Par S E T, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA


2011

Big Picture II (Zeitzonen), K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf

Gesture, form, technique, Taro Nasu Gallery Tokyo, Japan

Sistemas, Acciones y Procesos. 1965 - 1975, Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentine

Staging the Archive, MACE Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Elvas, Portugal

MMK 1991-2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main Exposition D'ouverture, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

Dystopia, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France

I am still alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Collection 2011-1, Words as window, Images as doors, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

Compass - Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

Be Alive!, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

I love art 11, Watari- Um, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960-1975, ZieherSmith, New York, USA

Testing Ground, Zabludowizc Collection, London, UK


2010

Time - Space - Existemce, Kunsthaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria

Amnesia, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA

Collection 3. Japanese Art 1950-2010, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Von Carl Andre bis Gregor Schneider. Dorothee und Konrad Fischer: Archiv einer Haltung, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany

Public Private Paintings. 2000 - 2010: 10 jaar schilderkunst ult publieke en privacollecties in Vlaanderen en Brussel, Kunstmuseum Aan Zee, Ostende, Belgium

Exihibition, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'arte contemporanea, Turin, Italy

Where do we go from here? Selections from La Colección Jumex, Cincinnati, USA

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA

Taking place, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

CAPC ou la vie salse per l'art, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Press Art, Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, Museum der Moderne, Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria

Between here and there: dislocation and displacement in Contemporary Photography, Metropoloitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Arte y politica, Conflictos y Disyuntivas, Museo de Arte de Culiacan, Mexico

Personal Structures: Time - Space - Existence, Georg Kargl Fine Arts & Georg Kargl Box, Vienna, Austria

Less is More: Pictures, Objects, Concepts from the collection and Archive of Herman and Nicole Daled 1966-1978, Argos, Brussels, Belgium

In Book/Out Book/If Book, Museo della cittá, Perugia

The traveling show, Galeria de Fundación/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

Squatting, erinnern, vergessen, besetyen, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin

Funktionen der Zeichnung, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

S.M.S.: An archive of the 60s, University Art Museum, Long Beach, USA

The morning news - Be Part, Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem, Belgium

Sculpture as time, Major wortks, new acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Radical Conceptural, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

It is it, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Purto Rico

Personal Structures / Time-Space-Existence, Künstlerhauls Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz, Austria


2009

time, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

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

Silences, MAMCS, Strasbourg, France

MINIMAL SHIFT, Galeria Jana Koniarka, Trnava, Slowakai

Espáces d'Espaces, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA

1968. Die Gro?e Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany

MOCA?s First Thirty Years, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, USA

White Light / White Heat, Hauser & Wirth, Colnaghi London, UK

11 : 1 (+3) = Elf Sammlungen für ein Museum, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

Made in Munich., Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Ego Documents. Das Autobiografische in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland

Revolutions 1968, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

regarde de toutes tes yeux regarde, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France

Lauffs Collection, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

Ambition d'art, Institut d'art contemporain - Frac Rhone Alpes, Villeurbanne, France

traces du sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris travells to: Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

RHYTHMUS 21 - Positionen des Abstrakten, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

Genau und Anders. Mathematik in der Kunst von Dürer bis Sol LeWitt, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria

Slow Paintings, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Sans-titre #1 oeuvres de la Collection Lambert - peintures des annés 1979-1980, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

6 works, 6 rooms, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA


2008

Selections from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs, David Zwirner, New York, USA

Nature, space and time, recent acquisitions, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

The Panza Collection and ways of seeing: Giusepep and Giovanna Panya, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA

200597214100022008, Laurel Gitien, Small A Projects, New York, USA

Here is every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

An unruly history of the readymade, Galeria de Fundación/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

When a clock is seen from the side it no longer tells the time, Johann König, Berlin

Regarde de toutes tes yeux regarde, Musée des Beaux Arts de Nants, France

Inéditos 2008/Asi se escribe, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain

Selections from the collection of Helga & Walther Lauffs, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

Sol LeWitt x2, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, USA

Pintura (aun), Painting, still, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain

Traces du Sacrè, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris, France

Rhythmus 21, Positionen des Abstrakten, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich, Germany

Book/Shelf, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to today, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA


2007

52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

What does the jellyfish want?, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

SITEings, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, USA

LeWitt x 2, MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA

Mapping the City, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ausgerechnet - Mathematik und Konkrete Kunst, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany

O Debuxo nas Colección Publicas de Santiago, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

PURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

Calzolari - Degottex - Lewitt, LOr du Temps, Paris, France

American Master Prints, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK


2006

Espai Public / Dues Audiencies. Obres i documents de la Collecció Herbert, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Contemporary Art, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, USA

Full House - Gesichter einer Sammlung, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

Fast nichts - Minimalistische Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

Message personnel, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

The Invisible Show, MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain


2005

Ecos y Contrastes - Arte Contemporáneo en la Colección Cisneros, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica

van Gogh bis Beuys, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepubilk Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

Early Work, David Zwirner, New York, USA

The Theatre of Art - Masterpieces from the Collection of the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany

Villa Manin, Centro d'arte contemporanea, Passariano (UD), Italy

Covering the Real - Kunst und Pressebild, von Warhol bis Tillmans, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Leporello, Een reis door de collectie, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

EXIT- Ausstieg aus dem Bild, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany


2004

Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

Minimal&Concept Art, Museum Mderner Kunst, Passau, Germany

Group exhibition, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium

Close by - Time Space Architecture, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

MCA Unpacked II, Selections from the MCA Collection by Michelle Nikou (SA) and The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia

Im toten Winkel, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany

Io mi ricordo, Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome, Italy


2003

Mina je Teine, Tallinna Kunstlhoone / Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia

Partners, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Traces of friday - Art, Tourism, Displacement, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, USA

Conceptualism, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Histoires Contemporaines, Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, Rhone Alpes, France

Transition, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

Ill Communication, Visual Reseach Centre, Dundee, UK


2002

Documenta (11), Kassel, Germany

From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA


2001

I love NY Benefir, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA

Monets Vermächtnis, Serie, Ordnung und Obsession, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Die Sammlung Lauffs II, Museum Haus Lange/ Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

L'enigma ritrovato (A.V.), Galleria In Arco, Turin, Italy


2000

Taking over, an art project by Andreas Gedin, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden

2000 Shanghai Biennale, Spirit of Shanghai, China

Global Conceptualism, Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, MIT List Visual Arts Center, USA

Voilá, Le monde dans la tete, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

Visage: Painting and the Human Face in 20th Century Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan


1999

Les Coups, Frac, Bourgogne, Dljon, France

Quelques unes des derniéres acquisitions de la Collection Frac Rhone- Alpes, Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhone Alpes, France

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

Examing Pictures - Exhibition of 56 artists links generations of painters, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA

Deep Storage: Arsenale der Erinnerung, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf


1998

Group Exihibition, Galerie Micheline, Sywajcer, Antwerp, Belgium

Deep Storage: The Arsenal of Memory, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA

11th Biennale of Sydney, Australia

Then and now, Lisson Gallery, New York, USA

Deep Storage: Arsenale der Erinnerung, Moma PS1, New York, USA

Travel and leisur, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA


1997

Deep storage: Sammeln, Speichern, Archivieren in der Kunst, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

And then there were none, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany

On the edge: contemporary art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collecion, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Deep Storage: Arsenale der Erinnerung, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Documenta X, Kassel, Germany


1996

Berechenbarbeit der Welt, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

Selection from the collection, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Stiftung Fröhlich, Sammlungsblöcke Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany


1995

1965-75: Reconsidering the Object of Art, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA

Une letter en passant pour un abécédaire - Passages, Centre d'art contemporain, Troyes, France

Masterpieces from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's Panya Collection, Hessel, Germany

Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA


1994

A Series of Rotating Installations, Felix Gozalez-Torres and On Kawara, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA

Pictures of the Real World (in real time), le consortium, Dijon, France

Helmut Federle, On Kawara, Walter Obholzer Adrian Schless, Albrecht Schnider, Galerie Susanna Kulli, Zurich, Switzerland

From minimal to conceptual art, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA


1993

Corners Filled with what is swept into corners, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium

Azur, Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France

Der zerbrochene Spiegel. Positionen zur Malerei heute, Kunsthalle Wien, project space Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria

Out of sight, out of mind, Lisson Gallery, London, UK


1992

Group show, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany

I love Art II - Watari UM, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan


1991

The picture after the last picture, Stedelijk Museum Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Carnegie International, Pittsburg, USA


1990

On Kawara, Meuser, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany

L'art conteptuel, une perspective, Museum d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada

8th Biennale of Sydney, Australia


1989

UNE AUTRE AFFAIRE, Le Consortium, Djon, France

Arbeit mit Papier, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria

Carl Andre - Alan Charlton - On Kawara, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria

What is Contemproary art?, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden

On Kawara: wieder und wieder, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany


1988

Concept Art, Stalke Gallerie, Kirke Saaby, Denmark


1987

On Kawara, Markus Oehlen, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany


1984

Im toten Winkel, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany


1983

Museum by Artists, Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal, Canada


1982

Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany

Yvon Lambert Présente 24 Artistes de sa Galerie chez Jeanne Laffitte, Paris, France


1981

Sammlung Crex, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany


1980

Printed Art Since 1965, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA


1977

Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany


1976

Braco Dimitrijevic / Dan Graham / On Kawara / Roman Opalka, Galerie René Block, Berlin


1972

Actualité d'un Bilan, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

Konzept-Kunst, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland


1970

between 5, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects, New York Cultural Center, New York, USA

SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
 

2018

On Kawara, Potomac, Glenstone Museum


2012

Mitchell, E./ Simeons, T.: On Kawara: Date painting(s) in New York and 136 other cities, Ludion


2008

Didier, M.: On Kawara: I met, I went, I got up, one million years, pure consciusness, DoArt Seoul (catalogue)

Wylie, C./ Laszlo, E./ Matsui, T.: On Kawara: 10 tableaux and 16.952, Yale Univesity Press


2006

Schier, R./ Shigeru, M.: On Kawara: Pure consciusness, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and Bywater Bros.


2003

Spieler, R.: Horizonte: Franz Gertsch im Dialog mit Vija Celmins, Thomas Demand, On Kawara, Yves Klein, Wolfgang laib, Roman Opalka, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ruff, Piero Steinle, Robert Zünd (in Bezug zur Ausstellung Horizonte, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf), Atelier Verl


2002

Kawara, On: On Kawara. Phaidon

Denizot, R./ Watkins, J.: On Kawara, Phaidon Press


1996

Douroux, X/ Gautherot, F.: On Kawara: whole and parts 1964-2995, Presses du réel

Toshiaki, Minemura: On Kawara: Whole and Parts 1964-1995, Les Presses du réel


1993

Cooke, Lynne: On Kawara. One Thousand Days One Million Years, Dia Center for the Arts


1989

Meseure, A.: In other words: Wort und Schrift in Bildern der konzeptuellen Kunst, Art Pub Inc


1983

Baba, Shunkich: On Kawara, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya


1980

Granath, Olle: On Kawara: continuity/discontinuity 1963-1979, Moderna Museet


1979

Denizot, R.: Les images quotidiennes du pouvoir: On Kawara au jour le jour = The daily images of power: On Kawara from day to day, Lambert



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1990

Denizot, Rene: On Kawara, Art Press, Paris, October 1990

50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie 1967-2017

15. Sep 2017 - 25. Nov 2017
BERLIN

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50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie 1967-2017

08. Sep 2017 - 17. Nov 2017
DÜSSELDORF

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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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On Kawara

28. Oct 2006 - 17. Nov 2006
DÜSSELDORF


On Kawara

23. May 2002 - 29. Jun 2002
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