Jannis Kounellis

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2023-2024

Jannis Kounellis: Notte, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy
 

2022-2023

Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts, Walker Art Center, Minnesota, USA

Jannis Kounellis, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
 

2022

Jannis Kounellis, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Turin, Italy
 

2020

Room #7, Kewenig, Berlin
 

2019

Jannis Kounellis, Fondazione Prada, Venezia, Italy

Almine Rech, London, UK

Les manteaux, Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France
 

2018

Kunst & Kohle. Hommage an Jannis Kounellis, MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany

Kounellis. Impronte., Instituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy
 

2016

Jannis Kounellis, Monnai de Paris, Paris, France
 

2014

Musée d'art moderne et contemporain Saint-Étienne Métropole, France

Jannis Kounellis in Korea, Wooson Gallery, Daegu, South Korea
 

2013

Analog, Blain/Southern, Berlin
 

2012

Jannis Kounellis, Blain/Southern, Berlin

Jannis Kounellis, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Germany

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK

Ugolini Arte Conemporanea, Genua, Italy

Parasol Unit - foundation for Contemporary Art, London, UK

Tramway, Glasgow, UK

Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece

Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy

Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, UK
 

2011

Translating China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany

Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

Galerie Lelong, Paris, France

Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Germany
 

2010

Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece

(El Pireo, 1936), Altxerri, San Sebastian, Spain

Teatro Margherita, Bari, Italy

Untitled (Catrame II), Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
 

2009

Domingo último día!, Matadero, Madrid, Spain

Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, Spain

Frihed eller Dden, Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark

Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria

Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy
 

2008

Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland

The Gospel According to Thomas, 2000 Terragraphie, Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Germany
 

2007

Das Thomas Evangelium, Galerie Dittmar, Berlin

Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Sprovieri, London, UK

Galerie Lelong, Paris, France

Galería GACMA, Malaga, Spain

Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, Spain

Halle Verrière, Meisenthal, France

Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Neapel, Italy
 

2006

Cheim & Read, New York, USA

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Switzerland

Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy

Musée d'Art moderne, Saint-Etienne, France

Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy

Galerie Weihergut Biberngasse, Salzburg, Austria

Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, Spain
 

2005

Opus One, Albertina, Vienna, Austria

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK

Galerie Karsten Greve, Milan, Italy

Edicola Notte, Rome, Italy

Edinburgh College of Art e Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK

Hotel des Arts - Centre mediterranen d'art du Conseil général du Var, Toulon, France
 

2004

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

Sprovieri, London, UK

Transart Festival, Officine Ferroviarie, Bolzano, Italy

Modern Art, Oxford, UK

Vijecnica/National Library, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
 

2003

Opere recenti, Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy

Galerie Lelong, Paris, France

Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Austria

Works on Paper, Michael Werner Kunsthandel, Cologne, Germany

Works on Paper, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark

Installation, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark

Torrione Passari, Molfetta, Italy

Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy

Aula del Palazzo dell'Unesco, Paris, France
 

2002

Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Blick auf Piranesi, Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Hallen für neue Kunst, Shaffhouse, Switzerland

Inaugurazione della stazione della metropolitana di piazza Dante, Neapel, Italy

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
 

2001

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
 

2000

Ein Saal für die Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Italy

Museo Nacional de Belas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentine

Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy
 

1999

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
 

1998

Rizziero Arte, Pescara, Italy

Fondazione Volume, Rome, Italy

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

Atelier del Bosco di Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

Galleria No Code, Bologna, Italy

Ace Gallery, New York, USA

Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
 

1997

Die Front, das Denken, der Sturm, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Galleria Gruppo Valtellinese, Milan, Italy

Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Pozzuoli, Neapel, Italy

Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
 

1996

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy

Galerie Bernd Klüser, Monaco
 

1995

Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna

Chateau de Plieux, Plieux, France

Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen-Bachem, Germany

Die eiserne Runde, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
 

1994

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK

Galerie Lelong, Paris, France

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf

Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
 

1993

Real Albergo dei Poveri, Palermo, Italy

Belvedere, Giardini del Castello, Prague, Czech Republic

Linear Nocturne, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany

Galería Estiarte, Madrid, Spain

Exhibition of winter landscapes, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy

No and no, but, after all yes, why not, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
 

1992

Galleria Lucio Amelio s.r.l., Neapel, Italy

Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy

Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
 

1991

Synagoge Stommeln, Pulheim-Stommeln, Germany

La Stanza Vede, Fundación Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain

Fragments of memory, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Studio at Dean Clough, Halifax, Canada

Fragments of memory, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
 

1990

Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Netherlands

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK

Galleria Opera, Perugia, Italy

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
 

1989

Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA

Studio d'Arte Barnabé, Venice, Italy

Galerie Lelong, Paris, France

Espai Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain

Museo Capodimonte, Neapel, Italy
 

1988

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

Mary Boone Gallery, 745 Fifth Avenue, New York, USA

Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy

Galerie Sparta-Petit, Chagny, France

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
 

1987

Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, Canada

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

Galleria Sprovieri, Rome, Italy

Artsite Bath Festival, Bath, UK

Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
 

1986

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK

Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf

A retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
 

1985

Karen & Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece

capcMusée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Monaco

Galerie Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
 

1984

Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

Galerie Schellmann & Klüser, Monaco

Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy

Galleria Franca Mancini, Pesaro, Italy
 

1983

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

Galerie Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France

Musei Comunali, Rimini, Italy

Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy
 

1982

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

Galleria Anna D'Ascanio, Rome, Italy
 

1981

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy

Galerie Schellmann & Klüser, Monaco

Galerie Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
 

1980

New Work, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf

Jean & Karen Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece

Galleria Lucio Amelio, Neapel, Italy

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Spoleto, Italy

Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
 

1979

Pinacoteca Provinciale, Bari, Italy

Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, USA

Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy
 

1978

Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy
 

1977

Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland

Jean & Karen Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece

Villa Pignatelli, Neapel, Italy

Galleria Pio Monti, Rome, Italy

Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Studio Tucci Russo, Turin, Italy
 

1976

Galleria L'Attico, Hotel della Lunetta, Rome, Italy

Art in Progress, Düsseldorf

Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy
 

1975

Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany

Galleria Lucio Amelio, Neapel, Italy

Studio d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

Galleria Mario Pieroni, Pescara, Italy

Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

1974

Galleria Forma, Genova, Italy

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy

Galleria del Cortile, Rome, Italy

Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy

Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin

Galleria Area, Firenze, Italy
 

1973

Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France

Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy
 

1972

Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA
 

1971

Modern Art Agency, Neapel, Italy

Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy

Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin, Italy

Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin
 

1969

Dodici Cavalli, Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy
 

1968

Galleria Iolas, Milan, Italy

Galleria Carello, Naples, Italy

Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, TurinTurin, Italy
 

1967

Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy
 

1966

The Alphabet, Galleria Arco di Alibert, Rome, Italy

Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy
 

1964

Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy
 

1960

Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 

2024-2025

By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
 

2024

Reflections On Surface, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
 

2023

1,5 Degrees, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

The Ability To Dream, Galleria Continua, Italy
 

2022-2024

Something New, Something Old, Something Desired, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
 

2022-2023

Nove Opere, Kroller-Muller Museum, Netherlands

Snowfall: Surface & Seeing, Sotheby's Aspen, Colorado, USA
 

2021

Post-War Italian Art Tales, Mazzoleni, London, UK
 

2020

Rome - Milan: Space and Colour, Rhythm and Matter, Mazzoleni, London, UK
 

2019

Fondazione Prada, Venice

Step by Sep, Nouveau Musee National Monaco, Villa Sauber, Monaco

Now is the Time, 25 Years Collection Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

Jannis Kounellis, Arnulf Rainer, ANtoni Tapies, Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France

Homage to Korea, Wooson Gallery, Daegu, South Korea
 

2017

A Journey, Kewenig, Berlin
 

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

56. Exposizione Internazionale D'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Country Pavilions - Italy, Venice, 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

Accelerazione, 9 works by 8 artists of the Herbert Foundation, Herbert Foundation, Ghent, Belgium

Poor Art – Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and parallel practices 1968–2015, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway

Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
 

2014

Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict: Abstract Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, CIFO Art Space, Miami, USA

Da Rauschenberg a Jeff Koons - Lo sguardo di Ileana Sonnabend, Ca’ Pesaro, Venice, Italy
 

2012

Arte Povera, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium

Arte povera. Der grosse Aufbruch, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

Arte Povera in cittá, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy

The Cross Shown, Nuova Galleria Monroe, Milan, Italy

Artandpress, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Konvolute-mappenwerke, Galerie Weihergut Biberngasse, Salzburg, Austria

Asche und Gold. Eine Weltenreise, MARTa, Herford, Germany
 

2011

7 anni - 7 scultori, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, Italy

Bernier / Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece

Arndt the Ephemeral, ARNDT, Berlin

Arte Povera 1967-2011, La Triennale di Milano, Design Museum, Milan, Italy

Omaggio all Arte Povera, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy

Schönheit und Vergänglichkeit, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria

I hate Paul Klee, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany

Contemporary Art In Italy, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy

Cambio de paradigma - Coleccion Serralves aos 60-70, Museo de Arte Contemporeneo, Leon, Spain

Arte povera 1968, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

Afinidad & Diferencia, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

TRA. The edge of becoming, Museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

Ileana Sonnabend: An Italian Portrait, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

Welttheater. Die Sammlung Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich / Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein

New Contemporary Galleries, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Alla luce della Croce - Arte antica e contemporanea a confronto, Galleria d'Arte Moderna Raccolta Lercaro, Bologna, Italy

The Last Grand Tour, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece

Chefs-d'Oeuvre modernes et contemporains, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

CLAP, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA

Il Santo Momento / Der heilige Augenblicke, Museum am Dom, Würzburg, Germany

Zettels Traum, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany

Che Fare Arte Povera. Die historischen Jahre, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria

Le Paris Bar Paris, Suzanne Tarasieve Galerie, Paris, France
 

2010

Iles jamais trouvees, Musee d'Art moderne, Saint-Etienne, France

I Believe in Miracles, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

Cosa fa la mia anima mentre sto lavorando, Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Gallarte Energie, Materiali Poveri, Concetti, Galleria Biasutti & Biasutti, Turin, Italy

Socle du Monde 2010 - Between Cultures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark

Das Ohr von Giacometti (Post-)Surreale Kunst von Meret Oppenheim bis Mariella Mosler, LEVY Galerie, Hamburg, Germany

Arte Povera 2, Galerie Di Meo, Paris, France

fuorizona artecontemporanea, Macerata, Italy

Colleccion Christian Stein, Institut d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

Il museo privato. La passione per l'arte contemporanea nelle collezioni bergamasche, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy

Sculpture, Waddington Custot Galleries, London, UK

Noli me tangere! Touch me not / Cease holding on to me, Kolumba, Cologne, Germany

Libro/Oggetto: Italian Artists` Books, 1960s-Now, Museum of Art, Santa Monica, USA

Shit or Gold, Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Livingstone Gallery, Den Haag, Netherlands

There is No Limit to the Line, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON, USA

Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

Islands never found, Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

Ergo, materia. Arte povera, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico

Festspielausstellung 2010 retro.perspektive, Galerie Weihergut Biberngasse, Salzburg, Austria

Other Than Beauty, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, USA

20th Century. Second part, Galleria Biasutti & Biasutti, Turin, Italy

Galleria Maria Grazia Del Prete, Rome, Italy

CHE FARE Arte povera - Die historischen Jahre, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein

Aber Schwarz ist doch gar keine Farbe!, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

Islands never found, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy

Small paintings, Galleria Biasutti & Biasutti, Turin, Italy

Gipfeltreffen der Moderne, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

Situations, Altair, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Modern Times: responding to chaos, Kettle's Yard, Cambridgeshire, UK

ESPECTRAL. Parte 1, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporenea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
 

2009

Body and Language, Albertina, Vienna, Austria

From Dürer to Kiefer - Five Centuries of Art on Paper, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Gegen den Strich!, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

Markierungen - Jannis Kounellis & Sean Scully, Fine Art Gallery, Berlin

Gipfeltreffen der Moderne, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, Germany

Unbuilt Roads, e-flux, New York, USA

1968. Die Große Unschuld, Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany

Günther Uecker - Das Buch Hiob Kunst, Raum des Deutschen Bundestags, Berlin

DREI. Das Triptychon in der Moderne, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany
 

2008

WHAT DOES NEW AND INTERESTING MEAN, Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens, Greece

Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Biennale of Sydney, Australia

Lauffs Collection, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

Transexpriences Greece, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

traces du sacre, Centre Pompidou, Paris / Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Skulptur Im Blickpunkt, Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany

Paperweight, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
 

2007

Il Disegno Tra Visione e Progetto, Galleria Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy

Coleccion Josep Civit : La vida privada, CDAN, Huesca, Spain

Meanwhile in Baghdad, Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA
 

2006

Where Are We Going, Opere scelte dalla Collezione Francois Pinault, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

Odyssey. Greek Art from the last fifty years, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, Switzerland

Heads, Pescali & Sprovieri, London, UK

20 Anni della Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Pan Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy
 

2005

Italian Art 1950-1970. Masterpieces from the Farnesina Collection, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India

Arte per la vita, Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy

Arte Povera, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan

Da Rembrandt a Kounellis, Calcografia, Rome, Italy

Visioni, 20 artisti a Sant Agostino, Bergamo, Italy

Sul filo della lana, Museo del Territorio Biellese, ex Fabbrica Pra, Biella, Italy

Atto Primo, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy

Donna Donne, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy

Acqua, Aria, Terra, Fuoco, Palazzo della Borsa, Genova, Italy

Burri, gli artisti e la materia, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy

Collection Automne/Hiver, capcMusee d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Camere. Sol Lewitt, Jannis Kounellis, Franz West, radioartemobile, Rome, Italy

Atto Secondo, Museo MADRE, Naples, Italy
 

2004

Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy

Il buco nella rete. Omaggio ad Heiner Müller, Opera Paese, Rome, Italy

L'Europa nella Grafica del ?900, Instituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, Rome, Italy

Aspetti dell'arte concettuale, Artemisia Arte Contemporanea, Falconara Marittima, Italy

Immendorff Kounellis, Accademia Tedesca a Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy

Da Balla Alla Transavanguardia, Cento anni di Arte Italiana alla Farnesina, La Triennale di Milan, Italy

Trait-d'union, Centro di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, La Spezia Capricci, Ex Pinacoteca Comunale, Assisi, Italy

Intra-muros, Musee d'Art Moderne et d?Art Contemporain, Nice, France

L'elementaire, le vital, l'energie. Arte Povera in Castello, Chateau de Villeneuve, Venice, Italy

Ma l'amore no, Mimmo Scognamiglio, Naples, Italy

Transcultures, Megaron, Athens, Greece

Riflessi nell'arte, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy

Forme per il David, Baselitz, Fabro, Kounellis, Morris, Struth, Galleria dell'Accademia, Firenze, Italy

I misteri di Rome, Casa delle Letterature e Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
 

2003

I Giochi Olimpici, Palazzo Reale, Naples / Museo di Arte Cicladica, Athens / Scuola Grande S. Giovanni Evangelista, Venice, Italy

Istituto Nazionale per La Grafica, Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, Rome, Italy

Una piazza per Leonardo, Museo Leonardiano di Vinci, Vinci, Italy

Pegadas de Luz, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

In den Schluchten des Balkan, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Grazie, Historie, Landschaft, Schloss Dyck, Jüchen, Germany

La poetica del'Arte Povera, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany

Incontri, Dalla collezione di Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

Luoghi d'affezione. Paesaggio-passaggio, Hotel de Ville, Brussels, Belgium

Outlook, Technopolis, Athens, Greece

ON, Galleria Xippas, Athens, Greece

Futuro Italiano, Parlamento Europeo, Brussels, Belgium

Galleria Gentili, Montecatini, Italy

Music Mirrors History Conscience, Sarantopoulos Miles, Athens, Greece

Vacanze Romene, Casa delle Letterature, Rome, Italy

Grande segno de cantato, Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy
 

2002

De Gustibus. Collezione privata Italia, Palazzo delle Papesse, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy

A Short History of Performance: Part One, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

Contrappunto, Galleria La Nuova Pesa, Rome, Italy

Exempla 2, Pinacoteca Civica, Teramo, Italy

Grande Opera Italiana, Castel sant'Elmo, Naples, Italy

Kunst und Schock. Der 11. September und das Geheimnis des Anderen, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin

From Pop to Now. Selection from the Sonnabend Collection, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, New York, USA / Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA / Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA

Decima Biennale d'Arte Sacra Contemporanea, San Gabriele, Isola del Gran Sasso, Italy

Artepovera. Art from Italy 1967-2002, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

8. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura NEXT, Venice, Italy

Premio Biella per l'incisione 2002, Museo del Territorio Biellese, Biella, Italy

Les annees 70: l'art en cause, capcMusee d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Ipotesi di Collezione, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

Arteinmemoria, Centrale Montemartini, Ostia Antica (Rome), Italy

Arte contemporanea al Mandrione. Ne Carne ne pesce, Casa Pirri-Valentini, Rome, Italy

Attraversamento, Museo MIDA1, Pertosa, Italy

Incontri, Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy

Le stanze dell'Arte, Figure e immagini del XX secolo, Museo di Arte Moderna, Rovereto, Italy

Rome in blu, Casa delle Letterature, Rome, Italy
 

2001

1 Gennaio 2001. Emilio, Luigi Ontani, Jannis Kounellis, Franz West, Zerynthia, Rome, Italy

Galleria No Code, Bologna, Italy

Echoes of the Scream, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishoj / Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway

Odissee dell'Arte, Civico Museo Revoltella, Trieste, Italy

Il segno della Croce, Museo dei Materiali Minimi di Arte Contemporanea, Paestum, Italy

Le Tribe dell'Arte, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

Artisti Italiani del XX secolo alla Farnesina, Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Rome, Italy

A.B.O. Le arti della critica, Palazzina Azzurra, San Benedetto del Tronto, Canada

Tesori nascosti, Museo del Corso, Rome, Italy

Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972, Tate Modern, London / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis / The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA

Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK

Marzona Villa Manin. Una collezione, Villa Manin di Passariano, Codroipo, Italy

Presenze Italiane, Palazzo Ducale, Sassuolo, Italy

Una storia dell'arte in Italia nel XX secolo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Arte Povera. Selection from the Sonnabend Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia, USA

Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome, Italy

E Cose Via (And so on). 99 artisti della Collezione Marzona, Kunstverein, Ludwigsburg, Germany

Von Edgar Degas bis Gerhard Richter, Arbeiten auf Papier aus der Graphischen Sammlung des Kunstmuseums Winterthur / Palais Kinsky, Nationalgalerie Prag / Museum für Moderne und Zeitgenössische Kunst, Salzburg / Westfalisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster / Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nürnberg, Germany
 

2000

Lavori al Castello Doria-Pamphili, Valmontone, Italy

A Tribute to Robert Hopper, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK

Castelli in aria. Arte a Naples di fine millennio, Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, Italy

Tirannicidi, Calcografia, Rome, Italy

Akropolis. Catarsi dell'arte contemporanea, Teatro Comunale Fraschini, Pavia, Italy

Anima, Monastero delle Lucrezie, Todi, Italy

Tuttovolume!, Pineta Sud di Santa Filomena, Montesilvano, Italy

Mitici Sessanta. Aspetti della ricerca, Complesso Monumentale del San Giovanni, Catanzaro, Italy

Hommage á la Sculpture, Gerhard Marcks-Haus, Bremen, Germany

Brema Domenico Bianchi, Jannis Kounellis, Scognamiglio & Teano, Naples, Italy

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

Giganti, Arte Contemporanea nei Fori Imperiali, Scavi dei Fori Imperiali, Rome, Italy

Luci in Galleria. Da Warhol al 2000, Gian Enzo Sperone. 35 anni di mostre fra Europa e America, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy

Il Parco di scultura di Villa Glori, Parco di Villa Glori, Rome, Italy

Anselmo, Merz, Penone, Kounellis, Laib, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

Dintorni di Alik, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy

Terrae Motus. La collezione Amelio alla Reggia di Caserta, Reggia di Caserta, Italy

Del Futurisme al leser. L'aventura italiana de la materia, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona / Kunstforum in der GrundkreditBank, Berlin

Arte povera in collezione, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Torino), Italy

Novecento. Arte e Storia in Italia, Mercati di Traiano, Rome, Italy

Regarding Beauty. A View of the Late Twentieth Century, Haus der Kunst, Monaco
 

1999

Wall Works, Edition Shellman and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York / Museum Villa Stuck, Monaco

Il dono Liverani, Calcografia, Rome, Italy

La Casa del Poeta, Fabio Sargentini, Associazione Culturale L'Attico, Rome, Italy

Examining Pictures: Exhibiting paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London / Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

The Collection, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Collections paralléles, CAP CMusée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Moderno Estremo, Palazzo Vitari, Rende, Italy

Circa 1968, Museu Serralves, Oporto, Portugal

Wort und Weise. Exemplarisches aus der Sammlung Reiner Speck, Gem?ldegalerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany

The Kiasma Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Exhibition of the Collection, International Cultural Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kounellis Paladino Bianchi, Galleria Stein, Milan, Italy

Gesammelte Werke 1. Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

Regarding Beauty. A View of the Late Twentieth Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA

Bereshit-La piccola porta, En Plein Air Arte Contemporanea, Pinerolo, Italy

Minimalia. An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA

Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Vienna, Austria

Teatro Botanico. La natura dell'arte nel XX secolo, Museo civico di Castello Ursino, Catania, Italy

L'ultimo disegno del 1999, Zerynthia, Rome, Italy
 

1998

Art in the 20th Century, Collection from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Ho-Am Museum, Seoul, South Korea

Der Körper der Skulptur 1948-1998, Christine König & Franziska Lettner Galerie, Vienna, Austria

Gronningen 1998, Palazzo Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA / Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria

Wounds: Between democracy and redemption in contemporary art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Tuning up 5, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

artecitte. 11 Artisti per il Passante Ferroviario di Turin, Istituzione Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

Frecce, Associazione Culturale L'Attico, Rome, Italy

Au Rendez-vous des Amis. Identite e Opera, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

Bandiere di Maggio, Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Italy

Kunsthaus, Vienna, Austria

Adieu, Chiesa di San Giovanni degli Almadiani, Viterbo, Italy

Per il clima felice degli anni '60, Castelluccio di Pienza, La Foce / Archivio della Scuola Romena, Rome, Italy

Everything of value..., Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem e Slot Loevenstein, Poederoijen, Netherlands

Breaking Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Rendezvous. Masterpieces from the centre Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museums, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Staat van Ervaring / State of Experience, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Itinere.1, Palazzo delle Papesse, Contemporary Art Center, Siena, Italy

Voci 1958 Rome 1968, Studio Sotis, Rome, Italy

20 mostre a La Salita dal 1960 al 1978, Spazio per l'arte contemporanea Tor Bella Monaca, Rome, Italy

Domenico Bianchi Jannis Kounellis, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy

Bianchi Kounellis, Foyer del Teatro Regio, Turin, Italy

Minimalia. Da Giacomo Balla a..., Palazzo Querini Dubois, Venice / Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Arte Italiana 1945-1995. Il visibile e l'invisibile, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya / Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo / Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori / Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
 

1997

For Heiner Müller, Galeria das Caravelas, Lisbon, Portugal

Magie der Zahl in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

Galerie der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

Balthus bis Warhol, Albertina Temporar im Akademiehof, Vienna, Austria

Arte Italiana. Ultimi quarant'anni. Materiali anomali, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

Notfalls leben wir auch ohne Herz, Exemplarisches aus der Sammlung Speck, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria

VIA CRUCIS - Das Kreuz in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Dominkanermuseum Rottweil, Stuttgart, Germany

Cittá Natura, Mercati di Traiano, Palazzo delle Esposizioni e altre sedi, Rome, Italy

Die Epoche der Moderne Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin

De Re Metallica, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK

Light, Kunsthalle Tirol, Bolzano, Italy

Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1958 bis heute, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen / Kunsthalle, Nürnberg / Kölnischer Kunstverein / Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien /  Göteborgs Konsthall / Sammlung Goetz, Monaco

Varcare la soglia, Villa Glori, Rome, Italy

Disegni a mano libera, Opera Paese, Rome, Italy

Dadaismo dadaismi. Da Duchamp a Warhol, Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy

L'Arte del XX Secolo. Dalla collezione dello Stedelijk Museum di Amsterdam, Castello Ursino, Catania, Italy

Arte Povera e dintorni, Palazzo Crepadona, Belluno e Galleria Civica, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

Love Hotel. A National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart / Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne / Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane / Auckland Art Gallery / The John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia

Trash. Quando i rifiuti diventano Arte, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy

Opera Formosa, The Soros Center for Contemporary Art Gallery, Kiev, Ukrain

Che cosa sono le nuvole, Palazzo Re Rabaudengo per l'Arte Contemporanea, Guarene, Italy

Centro per la Scultura Contemporanea, Torre Martiniana, Cagli, Italy

Architettura Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

Collection Works, Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan

Contemporary Art in Transition, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

Maxwell's Demon, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Donald Judd, Jannis Kounellis, Arnulf Rainer, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 

1996

Everything that's interesting is new, School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece

Munch en na Munch, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam / Munch Museet, Oslo, Norway

Scognamiglio & Teano, Agenzia d'Arte Moderna, Naples, Italy

Portrait of the artist, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK

Recaptured Nature, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Vetrophanie, Palazzo Ducale, Colorno, Italy

Art Summit, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Italy

Ars Aevi 2000, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

Rebecca Horn / Jannis Kounellis, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin

XXIII Biennale Gubbio, Italy

Qui Arte Contemporanea, Galleria Edieuropa, Rome, Italy

Prospettiva del passato. Da Van Gogh ai contemporanei nelle raccolte dello Stedelijk Museum di Amsterdam / Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
 

1995

Wild at Heart, Tramway, Glasgow, UK

Konversionen, Städtische Galerie, Ravensburg, Germany

Where is Abel thy brother, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland

Ad Usum Fabricae, Chiesa di S. Domenico e Museo Sperimentale d'Arte Contemporanea, L'Aquila, Italy

Tuning up no. 3, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

Duck Not On A Pond, Ganders Never Laid A Golden Egg, Rochdale Canal, Central Manchester, UK

Contemplation, Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea

Revolution: Art of the Sixties from Warhol to Beuys, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Georg Baselitz / Francesco Clemente / Jannis Kounellis, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin

Palast der Künste, Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany

Main Stations, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg

4th International Istanbul Biennial, St. Irene, Istanbul, Turkey

Metaforas del real, Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain

Figure - Image, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland

Artists' choice, American Academy, Rome, Italy
 

1994

Scelte, Galleria dell'Oca, Rome, Italy

Italiana. From Arte Povera to Transavanguardia, NICAF, Yokohama, Japan

Künstler gegen die Folter, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland

Arte contemporanea dalla Collezione della Federazione cooperative Migros, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland

Allor si mosse e io li tenni dietro, Lucio Amelio s.r.l., Naples, Italy

Preferirei di no. Cinque stanze tra arte e depressione, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy

Art Union Europe, Zappeion Hall, Athens / Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

The Tradition of the New: Postwar Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Zimmer in denen die Zeit nicht zählt, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

Affinite. Cinque Artisti a San Gimignano, San Gimignano, Italy

Züge Züge. Die Eisenbahn in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Städtische Galerie, Göppingen, Germany

L'incanto e la trascendenza, Castel Ivano, Fracena Dono, Galleria Schema, Firenze, Italy

Sao ko kelle terre, Collezione Longo, Cassino, Italy

I am you, Ottignies e Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943-1968, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece

Galerie Pietro Spart, Chagny, France

L'Orizzonte. La Collezione, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy

Coleccion Fundacion Arco, Antiguo deposito de aguas, Vitoria, Spain

Arca de No / Noah's Ark, Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Sculptures & Reliefs, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
 

1993

Feuer Erde Wasser Luft, die vier Elemente, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

Black and White, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA

Gravity and Grace, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Richard Serra, Jannis Kounellis, Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York, USA

Trismegisto, Lucio Amelio s.r.l., Naples, Italy

David Hammons / Jannis Kounellis, American Academy, Rome, Italy

XLV Biennale, Venice, Italy

The Sublime Void, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium

Le Jardin de la Vierge, Art Contemporain, Bruxelles, Belgium

Utopia. Arte Italiana 1950-1993, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

Peinture. Emblemes et References, capc Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Wiederstand. Denkbilder für die Zukunft, Haus der Kunst, Monaco
 

1992

Allegories of Modernism: contemporary drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Reperti, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Art d'eco, 4th International Triennal Ecology of Art, Art Gallery, Maribor, Slowenia

Platzverführung, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany

Der gefrorene Leopard, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Monaco

Reouverture, Le Nouveau Musee / Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France

Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain, Labege-Innopole Configuracions urbanes, Barcelona, Spain

Territorium Artis, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

Terrae Motus alla Reggia di Caserta, Reggia, Caserta, Italy

Schwerpunkt Skulptur, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

Brise-Soleil, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Germany

Das Numinose in der aktuellen Kunst, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
 

1991

Metropolis, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Intersezioni: arte italiana negli anni '70 - '80, Galleria Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary

Arte Povera 1971 und 20 Jahre danach, Kunstverein, Monaco

Metafore, Galleria dell'Oca, Rome, Italy

La sculpture contemporaine aprés 1970, Fondation Daniel Templon, Musee Temporaine, Frejus, France

30 oeuvres du Fond National d'Art Contemporain à la Défense, Galerie Art 4 et Galerie de l'Esplanade, Paris, France

Galerie Christine König, Vienna, Austria

Berlin Paris Bar, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France
 

1990

Territory of desire, Louver Gallery, New York, USA

Portrait d'une collection d'art contemporain, Collection Stephane et Georges Uhoda, Palais des Beaux-arts, Charleroi, Belgium

Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA

Sul tema ritratto, Galleria dell'Oca, Rome, Italy

Le Territoire de l'Art, Istitut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastique, Paris e Musée Russe, Leningrad capcMusée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Affinities and Intuitions, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA

Die Endlichkeit der Freiheit, Berlin 1990 - Ein Ausstellungsprojekt in Ost und West, Berlin

Memoria del futuro, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

Vom Haben und vom Wollen, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Monaco

Rome Anni '60 - Al di l della pittura, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
 

1989

Italian Art in the Twentieth Century, The Royal Academy, London, UK

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Bilderstreit, Museum Ludwig in den Rheinhallen der Kölner Messe, Cologne, Germany

Dalla Pop-Art in travelled to Collezione Sonnabend, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

Balkon mit Fücher, DuMont-Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany

Hallen für Neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Verso l'Arte Povera, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

Uit het leven - in de kunst, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
 

1988

Charta, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

Kounellis, Serra, Tapies, Jean & Karen Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece

Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA

Collection Sonnabend, capcMusée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Galleria Stein, Milan, Italy

Positionen heutiger Kunst, Nationalgalerie, Berlin

XLIII Biennale, Venice, Italy

Europa oggi, Museo d'arte contemporanea, Prato, Italy

Saturne en Europe, Musee des Beaux-arts, Straßburg, France

Accademia, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands

Baselitz, Kounellis, Twombly, Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy

The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA

Köln sammelt. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Kölner Privatbesitz, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
 

1987

Arte Povera, Galerie Lilian et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris / Centre de Creation Contemporaine, Tours, France

Terrae Motus, Grand Palais, Paris, France

L'Epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France

Meltem, Chateau d'Oiron, France

Italie hors d'Italie, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nimes, France

From the Europe of old, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 

1986

Joseph Beuys, Enzo Cucchi, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

Falls the Shadow: Recent British and European Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Installations and Sculpture, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA

A Sculpture Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Wien Fluss, Wiener Secession & Am Steinhof, Vienna, Austria

Chambre d'amis, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Que'est-ce que c'est la sculpture moderne, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France

Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy

Joseph Beuys zu Ehren, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Monaco

Saulen, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Cologne, Germany
 

1985

Del arte Povera a 1985, Palacio Velezquez, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain

Les vingt ans du Musee travers sa collection, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada

The European Iceberg, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

7000 Eichen, Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany

Nouvelle Biennale de Paris, Grande Halle du Parc de la Villette, Paris, France

Raum Zeit Stille, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

L'Oeil musicien, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium

Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

Intorno al Flauto Magico, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy

La Collection du Van Abbemuseum au Nouveau Musee, Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne, France

Don Giovanni, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Dreißig Jahre durch die Kunst, Museum Haus Lange / Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

The Knot: Arte Povera at P.S.1, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, USA

1985 Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA

Nuovi lavori, Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy

The Iron Window, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
 

1984

Il modo italiano, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Experiment Sammlung I: Une Collection Imaginaire, Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland

Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Sculptures italiennes, Galerie Lilian et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France

Internationale neue Kunst aus der Sammlung MGB, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland

Der Traum des Orpheus. Mythologie in der italienischen Gegenwartskunst 1967 bis 1984, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Monaco

Legendes, capc Musee d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert, Merian-Park, Basel, Switzerland

Coerenza in Coerenza: dall'Arte Povera al 1984, Mole Antonelliana, Turin, Italy

XLI Biennale, Venice, Italy

ROSC 84, The Guinness Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland

Arbeiten zu Skulpturen, Galerie Schellmann & Klüser, Monaco

L'architecte est absent. Works from the collection of Annick and Anton Herbert, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Kounellis, Paolini, Buren, Weiner, Kirkeby, daadgalerie, Berlin

Ouverture, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy

Het voorbeeld van de Klassieken, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy
 

1983

Concetto-Imago. Generationswechsel in Italien, Kunstverein Bonn

Bücher, Bilder, Objekte aus der Sammlung Reiner Speck: To the Happy Few, Museum Haus Lange / Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

Anselmo, Kounellis, Merz, Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy

New Art at the Tate Gallery 1983, The Tate Gallery, London, UK

Eine Kunstgeschichte in Turin 1965-1983, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

ARS 83, The Art Museum of the Athensum, Helsinki, Finland

Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

The Sculpture Show, Hayward Gallery and Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
 

1982

Arte Povera, Antiform, Centre d'Arts Plastiques Contemporains, Bordeaux, France

'60-'80: Attitudes/concepts/images, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Italians. From arte povera to transavanguardia, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, USA

Mise en scene, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

Forma senza forma, Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy

Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy

Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf

Werke aus der Sammlung Crex, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland

Kunst wird Material, Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Choix pour Aujourd'hui, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France

Zeitgeist, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany

Arte Italiana, Institute of Contemporary Arts and Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves. Explorations in Italian Art, Power Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

30 anni d'arte italiana 1950-1980, Villa Manzoni, Lecco, Italy

XIV Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, Tokyo, Japan
 

1981

A New Spirit in Painting, Royal Accademy of Arts, London, UK

Linee della ricerca artistica in Italia 1960-1980, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Che fare Kounellis, Merz, Nauman, Serra, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany

Westkunst, Museen der Stadt, Cologne, Germany

Italians and American Italians, Crown Travelled tont Gallery, Oakland, USA

Baselitz, Kounellis, Paolini, Penk, Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy

Identité italienne. L'art en Italie depuis 1959, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France

Il limite svelato, Artista Cornice Pubblico, Mole Antonelliana, Turin, Italy
 

1980

Fabro, Kounellis, Merz, Paolini: Materialien zu einer Ausstellung, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

Kunst in Europa na '68, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Zeichnungen der 50er bis 70er Jahre: Graphische Sammlung und Sammlung Helga und Walter Lauffs, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

Wendepunkt: Kunst in Europa um 1960, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany

Arte e critica 1980, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

T60-80: Vent'anni di ricerche teatrali in Italia, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Incontri 1980: 20 installazioni di artisti contemporanei a Spoleto, XXIII Festival dei due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy

Cento anni d'arte italiana moderna 1880-1980, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Tokyo, Japan

Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy

Scene di Romenzo, Il mito di Robinson Crusoe, Teatro Nuovo, Turin, Italy

XXXIX Biennale, Venice, Italy
 

1979

Die Erweiterung des Wirklichkeitsbegriffs in der Kunst der 60er und 70er Jahre -Wahrnehmungen, Aufzeichnungen, Mitteilungen, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany

Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy

Artemisia, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

Galleria Mario Pieroni, Rome, Italy
 

1978

Per una politica della forma: Calzolari, Mario Merz, Kounellis, Galleria Mario Diacono, Bologna, Italy

Perimetri, Incontri Internazionali d'Arte, Rome, Italy

XXXVIII Biennale, Venice, Italy

Halle für internationale neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland

Werke aus der Sammlung Crex, Halle für internationale neue Kunst, Zurich / Louisiana, Switzerland

Museum, Humlebaek / Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Monaco / Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands / Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
 

1977

Omaggio a Brunelleschi, Chiostro di Santa Maria Novella, Firenze, Italy

Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, USA

Arte in Italia 1969-1977. Dall'opera al coinvolgimento, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy

Festival of Celtic People, Wrexham, UK

Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
 

1976

Prospect Retrospect: Europa 1946-1976, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf

Omaggio a Pascali, Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy

Qui Arte Contemporanea. Dieci anni, Galleria Qui Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

XXXVII Biennale, Venice, Italy
 

1975

Muvrszeti Torekvsek Olaszorzgbon, Szpmuvrszeti Müseum, Budapest, Hungary

Thirteen Italian Artists, P.M.J. Self Gallery, London, UK

Eight Artists, Eight Attitudes, Eight Greeks, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
 

1974

Ghenos, Eros, Thanatos, Galleria de' Foscherari, Bologna, Italy

La ripetizione differente, Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy

Festival d'Automne: Aspects de l'art actuel, Musée Galliera, Paris, France

Musee d'Art Moderne, Straßburg, France

XXXVI Biennale, Venice, Italy

Ada II. Aktionen der Avantgarde, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Germany
 

1973

An Exhibition of New Italian Art, The Arts Council of Northern Ireland Gallery, Belfast, UK

Italy two: Art around '70, Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, USA

X Quadriennale: La ricerca estetica dal 1960 al 1970, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Contemporanea, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy

Galleria Cristian Stein, Turin, Italy

Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy

Tendencije 5, Galerija Suvremene Umetnosti, Zagabria, Croatia


1972

Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany

Collectiva, Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy

Roma, Mappa 72, Incontri Internazionali d'Arte, Rome, Italy

Filmperformances, XV Festival dei due Mondi, Museo Civico, Spoleto, Italy

Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy

XXXV Biennale, Venice, Italy
 

1971

International Theatre Festival: Persona, Belgrade, Serbia

Arte Povera, 13 italienische Künstler, Kunstverein, Monaco

VII Biennale de Paris, Bois de Vincennes, Paris, France
 

1970

III Biennale internazionale della giovane pittura, Museo Civico, Bologna, Italy

Processi di pensiero visualizzati, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland

Arte e critica 70, Galleria della Sala di Cultura, Modena, Italy

Amore Mio, Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano, Italy

Due decenni di eventi artistici in Italia 1950-1970, Palazzo Pretorio, Prato Italy

Fine dell'alchimia - De Dominicis, Kounellis, Pisani, Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy

Vitaltà del negativo nell'arte italiana 1960-1970, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Between Man and Matter: Tokio Biennale '70, Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
 

1969

Op Losse Schroeven, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland

Festival International de la peinture, Chateau-Musee, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France

Prospect 69, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf

Verborgene Strukturen, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

XXII Premio nazionale di pittura, Francavilla al Mare, Italy

Zwölf italienische Bildhauer, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany

VI Biennale de Paris, Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, France

Ceroli, Kounellis, Marotta Pascali: 4 artistes italiens plus que nature, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France

I materiali, Galleria Qui Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

VIII Biennale di arte contemporanea: Al di l della pittura, Palazzo Scolastico Gabrielli, San Benedetto del Tronto, Canada
 

1968

Arte povera+azioni povere, Arsenali dell'Antica Repubblica, Amalfi, Italy

Arte Povera, Galleria de' Foscherari, Bologna, Italy

Young Italians, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA

Galleria Qui Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

Arte Povera, Centro Arte Viva Feltrinelli, Trieste, Italy

Galleria del Deposito, Turin, Italy

Wspólczesna Sztuka Wloska, Zacheta, Varsavia / Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

Fünf römische Künstler, Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, Germany
 

1967

8 pittori Romeni, Galleria de' Foscherari, Bologna, Italy

Arte povera e IM spazio, Galleria La Bertesca, Genova, Italy

V Biennale de Paris, Musee d'art moderne, Paris, France

Lo spazio degli elementi: Fuoco immagine acqua terra, Galleria l'Attico, Rome, Italy

La terza dimensione, Galleria Qui Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

11 artisti italiani degli anni '60, Palazzo Ancaiani, Spoleto, Italy

Deposito di Arte Presente, Spazio, Turin, Italy

Situazione 67, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
 

1966

Moderne Kunst aus Italien, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany

Rome 1966, realte dell'immagine, Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy
 

1965

L'art actuel en Italie, Casino Municipal, Cannes, France

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

9 quadri e una scultura, Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy

Realte dell'immagine, Libreria Feltrinelli, Rome, Italy

V Rassegna d'Arti Figurative di Rome e del Lazio, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
 

1964

Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy

Mostra Mercato Nazionale d'Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy
 

1963

Schrift en Beeld, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands / Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany

13 pittori a Rome, Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy

IV Biennale San Marino, Palazzo del Kursaal, San Marino

Galleria Notizie, Turin, Italy
 

1961

XII Premio Lissone, Italy

Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy

2016

Beaux, C./ Kounellis, J./ Parisi, C.: Jannis Kounellis. Paris
 

2011

Cooke, L.: Descripcion: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Hoffer, A. / Uhrman, E. / Chobot, M.: Schönheit und Vergänglichkeit: ein Kunst-Lesebuch. Klosterneuburg
 

2010

Scheps, M.: Kounellis. Stations on an Odyssey. Munchen

Goldbach, I.: Wege aus der Arte Povera : Jannis Kounellis im Kontext internationaler Kunstentwicklung. Berlin
 

2009

Zybok, O.: Spuren der Sonne eine apokalyptische Oper. Düsseldorf

Strasser, C.: Le rapport des forces - Kounellis:  Chaumont-sur-Loire. Paris
 

2006

Gilman, C. S.: Arte povera's theater: artifice and anti-modernism in Italian art of the 1960s. Columbia Universit
 

1990

Moure, G.: Kounellis. Barcelona
 

1986

Jane, J. / McEvilley, T.: Kounellis. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Chicago

CATALOGUES
 

2011

Core, B./ Maggi, A./ Martines R./ Labarile V.: Kounellis, Silvana Editoriale, Milano
 

2008

Schneider, A.: Jannis Kounellis in der Neuen Nationalgalerie. Ostfildern

Zaza, G.: Jannis Kounellis. Molfetta
 

2007

Madesta, A.: Frammenti dell' Arte Povera: Jannis Kounellis und Mario Merz in der Sammlung Speck. Köln

Galeria Nieves Fernandez. Madrid
 

2006

Cicelyn, E.: Jannis Kounellis. Vaduz

Scheps, M.: Jannis Kounellis: Opus I. Mus?e d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne. Jaffa
 

2005

Altieri, G.: / Dobbels, D.: Jannis Kounellis. Toulon

Santa Fe, Isola Madre, Isole Borromeo. Lago Maggiore, Stresa
Teatro Attis. Athens
 

2004

Marrone, M.: Il buco nella rete: Magdalena Jetelove, Jannis Kounellis sul Filottete di Heiner Müller. Rome

Kounellis, J.: Jannis Kounellis: Kounellis in Sarajevo : artistic project in Vijecnica / National Library: International Cultural Project. Sarajevo

Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall. Athen

Modern Art Oxford: Jannis Kounellis. Oxford
 

2003

Thoman-Oberhofer, E.: Jannis Kounellis: Kunstraum Innsbruck. Innsbruck

Galerie Lelong, Paris / travelled to: Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki 2002. Galeria Carles Tach. Barcelona
 

2002

Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna. Rome
 

2001

Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci. Prato

Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne / travelled to: Diözesanmuseum Freising. Freising
 

1999

Noever, P.: Jannis Kounellis, il sarcofago degli sposi. Ostfildern

Atelier del Bosco di Villa Medici (catalogue cfr. Accardi Kounellis Pistoletto Appel)
Volume!, Rome

Galerie Lelong, Paris / travelled to: Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki

Galeria Carles Tache. Barcelona
 

1998

Permanent sculpture in via Ponte di Tappia. Naples
 

1996

Galerie Bernd Klüser: Neue Arbeiten. Monaco
 

1995

Galleria d'Arte Moderna. Bologna
 

1993

Belvedere / Giardini del Castello. Prague

Kounellis. Exhibition of winter landscapes. Palazzo Fabroni. Pistoia

No and no, but, after all yes, why not. Marian Goodman Gallery. New York
 

1992

Galleria Lucio Amelio s.r.l., Naples

Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
 

1991

Casa Centrale degli Artisti, Nuova Tretjakov. Moscow

Galerie Lelong. Zürich

Sinagoga Stommeln. Pulheim
 

1990

Stedelijk Museum: Via del Mare. Amsterdam
 

1988

Castello di Rivoli / Museo d'Arte Contemporanea. Rivoli / Turin
 

1986

McEvilley, M.J. / R.: A Retrospective. Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago
 

1985

Friedel, H.: Jannis Kounellis. Städt. Galerie im Lenbachhaus. München
 

1984

Museum Haus Esters: Jannis Kounellis. Krefeld
 

1979

Zdenek, F.: Jannis Kounellis. Essen
 

1977

Kunstmuseum Luzern: Jannis Kounellis. Luzern

Museum Boymans-van Beuningen: Jannis Kounellis. Rotterdam
 

1976

Galleria L'Attico: Kounellis: The Gardener; I Giuochi. Rome
 

1966

Galleria Arco di Alibert: The Alphabet. Rome

Galleria La Tartaruga. Rome

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