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
SELECTED ARTICLES
1990
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