On Kawara
1933
born in Kariya, Japan
died in 2014
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
2019
On Kawara, David Lamelas, Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels
2018
On Kawara, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston
On Kawara: One Million Years (Reading), Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia
2017
On Kawara: One Million Years, Oratorio di San Ludovico Dorsoduro, Venice [organized by Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England as part of 57th Venice Biennale]
2015
One Million Years, Asia House, London
On Kawara: 1966, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle
On Kawara—Silence, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2013
Long-term View, Dia Art Foundation, New York
One Million Years, Bozar, Brussels
2012
Lived Time, Museum Boljmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
One Mission Years, - Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Date Painting(s), Dawid Zwirner Gallery, New York
2010
Pure Consciousness at 19 Kindergartens, Walter and Bean Galleries, San Francisco
2009
One Million Years, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
2008
doART, Seoul
10 Tableaux and 16,952 Pages, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
One Million Years, David Zwirner, New York
2006
Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher On The Hills, The Power Plant - Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
Eternal Return, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Date Paintings, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Conciencia. Meditación. El observador en las colinas, Museo de Arte de Lima
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
Elemental, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Power Plant, Toronto
2004
On Kawara - Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher On The Hills, Kunstverein
Braunschweig, Haus Salve Hospes, Braunschweig
On Kawara - Paintings of 40 Years, David Zwirner, New York
On Kawara: Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher On The Hills, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
Reading one million years, Trafalguar Square, London
On Kawara - The 90's, Art&Public, Geneva
2003
Sol LeWitt - Fotografia, Centre Cultural Metropolità, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain
Consciusness, Meditation, Watcher on the Hills, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
2002
Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2001
Horizontality/Verticality, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Date Paintings 2000, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
One Million Years (past and future), Dawid Zwirner, New York
2000
Thanatophanies, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
1999
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
1998
Whole and parts 1964-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
1997
Whole and Parts, Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut (LaM), Lille
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Whole and Parts, 1964-1995, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona
Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1996
Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhone Alpes, Villeurbanne
1995
Erscheinen - Verschwinden, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1992
Date paintins in 89 cities, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1991
Date paintings in 89 cities, Museum Boljmans van Beunlingen, Rotterdam
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1989
Date Paintings: 1966-1988, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1987
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
1986
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1985
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
1984
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
1981
Continuity / Discontinuity 1963-1979, National Museum of Art Osaka / Stedelljk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven / Museum Folkwang, Essen
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1980
Continuity / Discontinuity 1963-1979, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1978
Lisson Gallery, London
1977
On Kawara 1967, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
1975
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1974
On Kawara - 1973 - Produktion eines Jahres, Kunsthalle Bern
1972
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1971
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Flavin, Judd, Kawara, LeWitt, Palermo, Ryman, Sandback, Serra, David Zwirner, Los Angeles, California
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
2020
Collection1: Transgressing Lines, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
The Invisible Show, Culturgest, London
I reflect what you are - From Nan Goldin to Roni Horn: intimacy in the Collection Lambert, Collection Lambert, Avignon
MISFITTING TOGETHER: Serial Formations of Pop Art, Minimal Art, and Conceptual Art, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
2019
2019-1 Collection Highlights & Special Feature: An Inner Landscape??Landscapes and Memories, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Coordinates: Maps and Art Exploring Shared Terrain, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, Stanford
Elmgreen & Dragset: Sculptures, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
Heimat – Selected Works from the Alex Hank Collection, Tarmak 22, Gstaad Airport, Gstaad
Museum, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
News, Etc., Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Madrid
The Public Matters, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster
Schau, Ich bin Blind, Schau: From Rémy Zaugg to John Baldessari — The Collection of Hans And Monika Furer, Kunstmuseum Basel
SELBSTBILDNIS, Société, Berlin
snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Time Is Thirsty, Kunsthalle Wien
Words, Alexander Berggruen, New York
The World Exists To Be Put On A Postcard: artists’ postcards from 1960 to now, The Bristish Museum, London
2018
2018-1 Collection Highlights & Special Feature: Women’s March, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
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
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York
Immer anders, immer gleich: Ein Versuch über Kunst und Systeme, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland
Melancholia, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brussels
Modern Art Revisited: from the collection of Fukuoka Art Museum, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Sanguine/Bloedrood. Luc Tuymans on Baroque, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
TID, Alvesta Exhibition Hall, Alvesta, Sweden
ZEITSPUREN – The Power of Now, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
2017
Accrochage, Punta della Dogana, Venice
Aspects of Minimalism, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York
Entanglements, Luhring Augustine, New York
Life Itself. On the question of what it essentially is; its materialities, its characteristics, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Natural Order of Things, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Natureza Franciscana, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Time Extended/1964-1978: Works and Documents from the Herbert Foundation, Herbert Foundation, Ghent
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
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, Tate Liverpool
America Is Hard To See, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Time of others, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Le Souffleur - Schürmann meets Ludwig, Ludwig Forum, Aachen
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
White Fire, The Kunstmuseum Basel Modern Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Partial Presence, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2014
Stay in Love, Lisa Cooley, New York
Conceptual Art, Galerie Ronny van de Velde, Knokke-le-Zoute
One Million Years – System und Symptom, Kunstmuseum Basel – Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
SPOT ON: Masterpieces from the Hamburger Kunsthalle Collection Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
2012
Stand still like the hummingbird curated by Bellatrix Hubert, Dawid Zwirner, New York
Carpe Diem. Seize the Day, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi
Plka Don, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris
Dancing towards the essence, Kunstahus Grenchen, Grenchen
Les feux de l'amour, FRAC, Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux
The Artists' Postcard Show, Spike Island, Bristol
Artandpress, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
Autobiographies, Espace Louis Vuitton Paris
Positions on Conceptual Art, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Par Par S E T, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
2011
Big Picture II (Zeitzonen), K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
Gesture, form, technique, Taro Nasu Gallery Tokyo
Sistemas, Acciones y Procesos. 1965 - 1975, Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires
Staging the Archive, MACE Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Elvas
MMK 1991-2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main Exposition D'ouverture, Le Consortium, Dijon
Dystopia, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
I am still alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Collection 2011-1, Words as window, Images as doors, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Compass - Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
Be Alive!, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
I love art 11, Watari- Um, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Sculpture in So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960-1975, ZieherSmith, New York
Testing Ground, Zabludowizc Collection, London
2010
Time - Space - Existemce, Kunsthaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
Amnesia, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Collection 3. Japanese Art 1950-2010, National Museum of Art, Osaka
Von Carl Andre bis Gregor Schneider. Dorothee und Konrad Fischer: Archiv einer Haltung, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
Public Private Paintings. 2000 - 2010: 10 jaar schilderkunst ult publieke en
privacollecties in Vlaanderen en Brussel, Kunstmuseum Aan Zee, Ostende
Exihibition, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'arte contemporanea, Torino
Where do we go from here? Selections from La Colección Jumex, Cincinnati
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Taking place, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
CAPC ou la vie salse per l'art, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
Press Art, Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, Museum der Moderne, Mönchsberg, Salzburg
Between here and there: dislocation and displacement in Contemporary Photography, Metropoloitan Museum of Art, New York
Arte y politica, Conflictos y Disyuntivas, Museo de Arte de Culiacan
Personal Structures: Time - Space - Existence, Georg Kargl Fine Arts & Georg Kargl Box, Vienna
Less is More: Pictures, Objects, Concepts from the collection and Archive of Herman and Nicole Daled 1966-1978, Argos, Brussels
In Book/Out Book/If Book, Museo delal cittá, Perugia
The traveling show, Galeria de Fundación/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City
Squatting, erinnern, vergessen, besetyen, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Funktionen der Zeichnung, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
S.M.S.: An archive of the 60s, University Art Museum, Long Beach
The morning news - Be Part, Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem
Sculpture as time, Major wortks, new acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Radical Conceptural, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
It is it, Espacio 1414, Santurce
Personal Structures / Time-Space-Existence, Künstlerhauls Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz
2009
time, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Silences, MAMCS, Strasbourg
MINIMAL SHIFT, Galeria Jana Koniarka, Trnava
Espáces d'Espaces, Yvon Lambert, New York
1968. Die Gro?e Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld
MOCA?s First Thirty Years, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
White Light / White Heat, Hauser & Wirth, Colnaghi London
11 : 1 (+3) = Elf Sammlungen für ein Museum, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
Made in Munich., Haus der Kunst, Munich
Ego Documents. Das Autobiografische in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Bern
Revolutions 1968, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw
regarde de toutes tes yeux regarde, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
Lauffs Collection, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Ambition d'art, Institut d'art contemporain - Frac Rhone Alpes, Villeurbanne
traces du sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris travells to: Haus der Kunst, Munich
RHYTHMUS 21 - Positionen des Abstrakten, Lenbachhaus, Munich
Genau und Anders. Mathematik in der Kunst von Dürer bis Sol LeWitt, MUMOK, Vienna
Slow Paintings, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Sans-titre #1 oeuvres de la Collection Lambert - peintures des annés 1979-1980, Collection Lambert, Avignon
6 works, 6 rooms, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
2008
Selections from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs, David Zwirner, New York
Nature, space and time, recent acquisitions, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
The Panza Collection and ways of seeing: Giusepep and Giovanna Panya, Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
200597214100022008, Laurel Gitien, Small A Projects, New York
Here is every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York
An unruly history of the readymade, Galeria de Fundación/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City
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
Inéditos 2008/Asi se escribe, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Selections from the collection of Helga & Walther Lauffs, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Sol LeWitt x2, Austin Museum of Art, Austin
Pintura (aun), Painting, still, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid
Traces du Sacrè, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art moderne, Paris
Rhythmus 21, Positionen des Abstrakten, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich
Book/Shelf, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to today, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2007
52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
What does the jellyfish want?, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
SITEings, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem
LeWitt x 2, MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami
Mapping the City, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Ausgerechnet - Mathematik und Konkrete Kunst, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
O Debuxo nas Colección Publicas de Santiago, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
PURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Calzolari - Degottex - Lewitt, LOr du Temps, Paris
American Master Prints, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2006
Espai Public / Dues Audiencies. Obres i documents de la Collecció Herbert, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
Contemporary Art, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
Full House - Gesichter einer Sammlung, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim
Fast nichts - Minimalistische Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection,
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Message personnel, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
The Invisible Show, MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo
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
Early Work, David Zwirner, New York
The Theatre of Art - Masterpieces from the Collection of the Ludwig Museum, Cologne
Villa Manin, Centro d'arte contemporanea, Passariano (UD), Italy
Covering the Real - Kunst und Pressebild, von Warhol bis Tillmans, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Leporello, Een reis door de collectie, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
EXIT- Ausstieg aus dem Bild, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
2004
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Minimal&Concept Art, Museum Mderner Kunst, Passau
Group exhibition, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Close by - Time Space Architecture, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
MCA Unpacked II, Selections from the MCA Collection by Michelle Nikou (SA) and The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
Im toten Winkel, Kunsthaus Hamburg
Io mi ricordo, Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome
2003
Mina je Teine, Tallinna Kunstlhoone / Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
Partners, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Traces of friday - Art, Tourism, Displacement, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia
Conceptualism, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Histoires Contemporaines, Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, Rhone Alpes
Transition, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo
Ill Communication, Visual Reseach Centre, Dundee
2002
Documenta (11), Kassel
From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2001
I love NY Benefir, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Monets Vermächtnis, Serie, Ordnung und Obsession, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Die Sammlung Lauffs II, Museum Haus Lange/ Haus Esters, Krefeld
L'enigma ritrovato (A.V.), Galleria In Arco, Torino
2000
Taking over, an art project by Andreas Gedin, Bildmuseet, Umea
2000 Shanghai Biennale, Spirit of Shanghai
Global Conceptualism, Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, MIT List Visual Arts Center
Voilá, Le monde dans la tete, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Visage: Painting and the Human Face in 20th Century Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1999
Les Coups, Frac, Bourgogne, Dljon
Quelques unes des derniéres acquisitions de la Collection Frac Rhone- Alpes, Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhone Alpes
Chronos and Kairos, Die Zeit in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Examing Pictures - Exhibition of 56 artists links generations of painters, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York
Deep Storage: Arsenale der Erinnerung, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
1998
Group Exihibition, Galerie Micheline, Sywajcer, Antwerp
Deep Storage: The Arsenal of Memory, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
11th Biennale of Sydney
Then and now, Lisson Gallery, New York
Deep Storage: Arsenale der Erinnerung, Moma PS1, New York
Travel and leisur, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1997
Deep storage: Sammeln, Speichern, Archivieren in der Kunst, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
And then there were none, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
On the edge: contemporary art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collecion, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Deep Storage: Arsenale der Erinnerung, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Documenta X, Kassel
1996
Berechenbarbeit der Welt, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Selection from the collection, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Stiftung Fröhlich, Sammlungsblöcke Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
1995
1965-75: Reconsidering the Object of Art, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Une letter en passant pour un abécédaire - Passages, Centre d'art contemporain, Troyes
Masterpieces from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's Panya Collection, Hessel
Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
1994
A Series of Rotating Installations, Felix Gozalez-Torres and On Kawara, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Pictures of the Real World (in real time), le consortium, Dijon
Helmut Federle, On Kawara, Walter Obholzer Adrian Schless, Albrecht Schnider, Galerie Susanna Kulli, Zurich
From minimal to conceptual art, the National Gallery of Art, Washington
1993
Corners Filled with what is swept into corners, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Azur, Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Der zerbrochene Spiegel. Positionen zur Malerei heute, Kunsthalle Wien, project space Karlsplatz, Vienna
Out of sight, out of mind, Lisson Gallery, London
1992
Group show, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
I love Art II - Watari UM, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1991
The picture after the last picture, Stedelijk Museum Hertogenbosch
Carnegie International, Pittsburg
1990
On Kawara, Meuser, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
L'art conteptuel, une perspective, Museum d'art contemporain de Montréal
8th Biennale of Sydney
1989
UNE AUTRE AFFAIRE, Le Consortium, Djon
Arbeit mit Papier, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz
Carl Andre - Alan Charlton - On Kawara, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
What is Contemproary art?, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
On Kawara: wieder und wieder, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
1988
Concept Art, Stalke Gallerie, Kirke Saaby, Denmark
1987
On Kawara, Markus Oehlen, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
1984
Im toten Winkel, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
1983
Museum by Artists, Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal
1982
Documenta 7, Kassel
Yvon Lambert Présente 24 Artistes de sa Galerie chez Jeanne Laffitte, Paris
1981
Sammlung Crex, Kunstverein Hamburg
1980
Printed Art Since 1965, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
Documenta 6, Kassel
1976
Braco Dimitrijevic / Dan Graham / On Kawara / Roman Opalka, Galerie René Block, Berlin
1972
Actualité d'un Bilan, Yvon Lambert, Paris
Konzept-Kunst, Kunstmuseum Basel
1970
between 5, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects, New York Cultural Center, New York
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
Mitchell, E./ Simeons, T.: On Kawara: Date painting(s) in New York and 136 other cities, Ludion, Antwerpen, 2012
Höfer, C.: Date paintings in private collections, König, Köln, 2009
Didier, M.: On Kawara: I met, I went, I got up, one million years, pure consciusness, DoArt Seoul, Seoul, 2008 (catalogue)
Wylie, C./ Laszlo, E./ Matsui, T.: On Kawara: 10 tableaux and 16.952, Yale Univesity Press, New Haven, 2008
Schier, R./ Shigeru, M.: On Kawara: Pure consciusness, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and Bywater Bros. Ed., Toronto, 2006
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, Bern, 2003
Kawara, On: On Kawara. Phaidon, Berlin, New York, 2002
Denizot, R./ Watkins, J.: On Kawara, Phaidon Press, London, 2002
Douroux, X/ Gautherot, F.: On Kawara: whole and parts 1964-2995, Presses du réel, Dijon, 1996
Toshiaki, Minemura: On Kawara: Whole and Parts 1964-1995, Les Presses du réel, Dijon, 1996
Cooke, Lynne: On Kawara. One Thousand Days One Million Years, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, 1993
Meseure, A.: In other words: Wort und Schrift in Bildern der konzeptuellen Kunst, Art Pub Inc, New York 1989
Baba, Shunkich: On Kawara, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, 1983
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, Paris, 1979
Granath, Olle: On Kawara: continuity/discontinuity 1963-1979, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1980
SELECTED ARTICLES
Denizot, Rene: On Kawara, Art Press, Paris, October 1990
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
On Kawara
28. Oct 2006 - 17. Nov 2006
DÜSSELDORF
