Wolfgang Laib
1950
born in Metzingen, Germany
lives and works in a small town in South Germany
AWARDS
2015
Praemium Imperiale Prize for Sculpture
Link to the movie
Wolfgang Laib – Here, Now and Far Beyond
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (selection)
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Museum De Pont, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart
Saastamoinen Foundation, Finland
Musée d'Art contemporain de Nimes, France
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Sammlung Diözesenmuseum, Köln
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Kunsthaus Zurich
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
A Mountain not to climb on. For Monet, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France
2023-2024
Wolfang Laib, Buchmann Galerie, Lugano, Switzerland
2023
The Beginning of Something Else, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
2022
Wolfgang Laib: Crossing the River, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland
2021- 2022
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
2019-2020
Without Time, Without Place, Without Body, Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy
2019-2020
Without Time, Without Place, Without Body, Organized by the Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy
2018
Where the Land and Water End, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
2017-2018
Wolfgang Laib, MASI, Lugano, Switzerland
2017
Where the Land and Water End, Old Secretary Building, Yangon, Myanmar
Somewhere Else, Church of Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa, Spain
The Beginning Of Something Else, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropak, Paris, France
2016
Wolfgang Laib, ADAA: The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
2015
Buchmann Box, Berlin
Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014
Wolfgang Laib, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
From the Known to the Unkown - To Where is Your Oracle Leading You?, Studio Anselm Kiefer, Barjac, France
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Wolfgang Laib at Basilica of St. Apollinare, Ravenna, Italy
Ailleurs- La Chambre des Certitudes, Buchmann Gallery, Berlin
2013
Pollen from Hazelnut, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib: From Me All Has Risen, In Me All Exists, In Me All Dissolves (kaivalya upanisad), Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA
Without Beginning and Without End, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Laib Wax Room, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C , USA (permanent)
2012
Passageway, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
Passageway Inside - Downside, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2011
Unlimited Ocean, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, USA
Passageway, Galeria Mirchandani+Steinbruecke / Gallery Chemould, Mumbai
Fotografien, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
2010
Sin principio - sin fin, Museum Nacional de Arte de la Paz, La Paz, Bolivia
Wolfgang Laib - Blütenstaub und Haselnuß, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2009
Frieze of Life, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Gian Enzo Sperone, Sent, Switzerland
Without Place - Without Time - Without Body, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
Pasotraspaso, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico
Fondazione Merz, TurinTu, Italy
2008
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Gallery Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Museé de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
2007
Wolfgang Laib: Sin Principio - Sin Fin, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Wohin gehst Du?, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Without Time-Without Body-Without Place, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
2006
Transit - Transition, Lasalle-Sia College of the Arts and Goethe Singapore, Singapore
Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Reishäuser, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Foundation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
work on paper and photographs, De Pont Foundation For Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
ACCA - Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Die Essenz des Wirklichen - Wolfgang Laib - Zeichnungen und Fotografien, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2005-2006
Wolfgang Laib, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Wolfgang Laib, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Wolfgang Laib, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Wolfgang Laib, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2005
Zeichnungen und Fotografien, Kunstmuseum Bonn, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
Passageway-Overgoing, The Laerence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway Crawley, Australia
The Third Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2004
Where the Land and the Water ends, Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Passageway—Overgoing, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Passage - Transition, Hanoi University of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam
Wolfgang Laib, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
2003
Passageway-Overgoing, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Caratsch de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
2002
Die neun Planeten, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, USA
Photographs - Sculptures - Drawings, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Goethe-Institut, New York, USA
2001
Für einen anderen Körper, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA
2000-2003
Wolfgang Laib, A Retrospective, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, USA; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2000
Galerie Buchmann, Cologne, Germany
Sara Hildän Museum, Tampere, Finland
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
1999
Carré d'Art, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nimes, France
Galleria 1000 Eventi, Milan, Italy
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
1998
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Wolfgang Laib - Nowhere - Everywhere, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Kenji Taki, Nagoya and Tokio, Japan
Galleria Artiaco, Naples, Italy
1997
Ich bin nicht hier, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany
Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Buchmann Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
1996
Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
Galerie Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Galerie Kenji Taki, Nagoya, Japan
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, USA
1995
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
1994
The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Halifax, USA
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Galerie Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Camden Arts Center, London, UK
1993
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
De Pont Stichting, Tilburg, Netherlands
Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland
Gallery Burnett Miller, Los Angeles, USA
Camden Arts Center, London, UK
1992
Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Galleria Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna di Ascona, Ascona, Switzerland
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Capc, Musée d'Art Contemporain Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
1991
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Senda, Hiroshima, Japan
Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Kanransha, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Crousel-Robelin Bama, Paris, France
Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, USA
1990
The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Rhona Hoffmann Gallery, Chicago, USA
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
1989
Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Crousel-Robelin Bama, Paris, France
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
1988
Ruine der Künste, Berlin
Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York, USA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1987
Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland
1986
ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York, USA
1985
Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York, USA
Kunstverein St. Gallen, Switzerland
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1984
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
1983
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
1982
Gewad, Vereniging voor Aktuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
40. Biennale Venedig, Venice, Italy
1981
Sperone Westwater Fischer Gallery, New York, USA
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Galerie Max Hetzler, Stuttgart, Germany
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
1980
InK, Halle für Internationale Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
1979
Sperone Westwater Fischer Gallery, New York, USA
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
1978
Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy
Galerie Rolf Preisig, Basel, Switzerland
Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany
Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
1976
Galerie Müller-Roth, Stuttgart, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023-2024
This Is Us, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium
2022-2023
De La Nature, Musée de Grenoble, France
2022
Listen to the Sound of the Earth Turning: Our Wellbeing since the Pandemic, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2021
Feeling the Stones, 1st Ad-Diriyah Biennale, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
La Couleur crue, Muse?e des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France
2020
30 Years in Paris, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
La Couleur Crue, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France
2018
14 ARTISTS VIA CRUCIS - MADONNA D'ONGERO - CARONA, Buchmann Galerie, Lugano, Switzerland
Black Light: Secret traditions in art since the 1950s, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Königsklasse IV. Gegenwartskunst in Schloss Herrenchiemsee. Laib | Warhol | Flavin | Rainer | Basquiat, Pinakothek der Moderne, Schloss Herrenchiemsee, Germany
2017
New Installation, Buchmann Galerie, Lugano, 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
AAA: Art Altstetten Albisrieden, Public space of Zurich Altstetten and Zurich, Switzerland
Albisrieden, Zurich, Switzerland
Königsklasse III, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Pinakothek der Moderne im Schloss Herrenchiemsee, Germany
Anselmo | Laib | Spalletti, Lia Rumma Gallery, Milan, Italy
Adam, Eve & the Devil, Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands
2014
Sesostris III: Pharaon de Legende, Palais des Baux- Arts, Lille, France
2012
More than meets the eye, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Pollen and paint: Laib, Homer, and the natural world, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
Stadt und Land, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2011
1800 - Die Sammlung im Kubus, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Private Session, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Plot: plan: process, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA
Et si l'espace n'etait qu'une dimension intérieure, Abbaye St. André, Centre D'Art contemporain Meymac, Meymac, France
Nature morte vivante, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Ukifune - Floating Boat, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi, Japan
2010
Colorforms, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
Dorm, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
Grain of Emptiness: Buddhism-Inspired Contemporary Art, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
Resonance, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
Hunters & Gatherers, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
Mit der Möglichkeit gesehen zu werden (With a Probability of Being Seen). Dorothee und Konrad Fischer: Archiv einer Haltung, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany / MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Personal Structures TIME SPACE EXISTENCE, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz, Austria
Grass grow itself, Marlbourch Chelsea, New York, USA
Aber Schwarz ist doch gar keine Farbe!, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2009
Just what is it ..., ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Taswir - Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
time, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
MINIMAL SHIFT, Galeria Jana Koniarka, Trnava, Slowakei
Flower, power, Craa Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Verbania, Italy
2008
Natur. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der ALTANA Kunstsammlung, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
ORIGINS, HVCCA Peekskill, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
L'ivresse de l'absolu, Fondation pour L'art Contemporain, Alex, France
Full House, Klasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Hoehe, Breite, Tiefe, Galerie Mueller Roth, Stuttgart, Germany
Die wahren Orte III, Alexander Ochs Galeries, Berlin / Bejing, China
2007
Der unendliche Raum dehnt sich aus, Kolumba, Cologne, Germany
Exposures, the contemporary self-portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Die Kunst zum Sammeln, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Pure, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
2006
Monuments With A Horizon Line, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Wolfgang Laib - Sin Principio - Sin Fin, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Mario Merz - Wolfgang Laib, Accademia Tedesca Roma - Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy
Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Internazionale XII Biennale di Scultura di Carrara, Biennale di Sculture di Carrara, Carrara, Italy
The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athen, Greece
SITE Santa Fes Sixth International Biennial, International Biennial Exhibition Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA
Summer Exhibition, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
Monuments with a horizon line, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
At Home - Recent Acquisitions, MMoCA-The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, USA
Da un lato allaltro del Disegno. Cucchi - Laib, Rizziero Arte, Pescara, Italy
PURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Speed #1, IVAM, Valencia, Italy
Die Kunst zu Sammeln, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Inferno in Paradise, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin
Collezione La Gaia, CeSAC Caraglio, Caraglio, Italy
On fait le mur ..., Espace del'Art Concrete, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Der unendliche Raum dehnt sich aus., Kolumba Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln, Cologne, Germany
Japan und der Westen, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2005
Wow: The Work of the Work, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
2004
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
home, sweet home, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Off the Wall: Works for the JP Morgan Chase Collection, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, USA
Passageway- Overgoing, Guangdong Museum of Art, German Consulate General, Guangzhou, China
Seeing other people, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Exploring Ando's Space: Art and the Spiritual, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, USA
2003
Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, curated by Klaus Ottman and Pamela Auchincloss, University Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara / Illinois State University / Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana / Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York / Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Painting Lesson, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Corso Terracciano 56, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Photo - Kunst: 1852 - 2002, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2002
Doppelung der Bilder im Raum / Aus der Sammlung Eckardt, Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
The space motion, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2001
The Inward Eye, Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, USA
El Instante Eterno, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain
Before Reflection Begins, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, USA
2000
Cosmologies, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Around 1984, A look at Art in the Eighties, P.S.1, New York, USA
Fiona Rae, Wolfgang Laib, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Shadow of Reason, Exploring the Spiritual in European Identity in the 20th Century, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Enclosed and Enchanted, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Anselmo, Merz, Penone, Kounellis, Laib, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
A Century of Innocence - The Story of the White Monochrome, The Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
1999
The collection of the 'Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain', Palazzo delle papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea Powder, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
In Passing, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Minimalia, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Loaf, Baumgartner Galleries Inc 78th Exhibition of Artist Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA
1998
The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, USA
Early Forms, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Etre nature, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Ensemble Moderne: The Still Life in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris, France
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall Arken:Selections from the Collection, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
1997
Cittá Natura, Palazzo delle Espozioni, Rome, Italy
Epicenter Ljubljana, Moderna Galeria, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
La Biennale di Venezia. XLVII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, Italy
4e Biennale de Lyon d'art contemporain, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
97 Kwangju Biennale: Unmapping the Earth, Kwangju, South Korea
Anselmo, Boetti, Laib, Merz, Nauman, Paolini, Pistoletto, Vital, Zorio, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
1996
The House Transformed, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, USA
Time Wise, The Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Luis Barragán: Sitio + Superficie. Su obra y la vanguardia en el arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Spirit and Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Wolfgang Laib, Tatsuo Miyajima, Michel Verjux: Entgrenzung, Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1995
Fondation Cartier, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
From Nature, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Auf Papier: Kust des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Deutschen Bank, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Kunst in Deutschland, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
1994
Figur, Natur, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Entre le ciel et l'eau, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
German Art: Aspekte Deutscher Kunst 1964-1994, Der Salzburg Festspiele, Galerie Ropac, Salzburg, Austria / Paris, France
Drawing On Sculpture, Cohen Gallery, New York, USA
1993
Les Environs, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, USA
A Century of Silence, University Art Museum, State University of New York at Binghamtom, New York, USA
The 21st Century, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Chateau d'Oiron, Oiron, France
Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Jouy-En-Josas, France
GAS, Grandiose Ambitieux Silencieux, capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
1992
De Opening, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
The Language of Flowers, Paul Kasmin, New York, USA
Vorhut aus dem Hinterland, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Exposition Sentimentale, Musee d'Art Moderne, Collioure, France
Territorium Artis, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Anselmo, Laib, Nauman, Umberg, Miller Nordenhake, Cologne, Germany
Habeas Corpus, Stux Gallery, New York, USA
15th Anniversary Exhibition, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
1991
5th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Burnett Miller, Los Angeles, USA
Un Detail immense, Palais de Beaux-Artsa, Charleroi, Belgium
Das Goldene Zeitalter, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
With Nature, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
The Lick of the Eye, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
1990
Threshold, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Signs of Life, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadephia, USA
Lead and Wax, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1989
Hortus Artis, Orto Botanico, Turin, Italy
Color and/or Monochrome, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
Glanzlichter, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Einleuchten, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
1988
Zeitlos, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Rosc, Dublin, Ireland
Defacto, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Carnegie International 88, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
1987
Wechselströme. Kontemplation, Expression, Konstruktion, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
documenta 8, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Bremer Kunstpreis 1987, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Century 87, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands
New Locations, Wolff Gallery, New York, USA
1986
Falls the Shadow, Recent British and European Art, The Hayward Annual, Hayward Art Gallery, London, UK
The Sixth Biennale of Sydney 1986: Origins, Originality + Beyond, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
3. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Fellbach,Germany
De Sculptura, Wiener Festwochen im Messepalast, Vienna, Austria
SkulpturSein, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
1985
1945 bis 1985, Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Nationalgalerie, Berlin
East West Visual Arts Encounter, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, India
Spuren, Skulpturen und Monumente ihrer präzisen Reise, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Ouverture II, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
1983
Materie + Form, ETH, Naturwissenschaftliches Gebäude, Zurich, Switzerland
Ars '83 Helsinke, Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland
Kosmische Bilder in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany / The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
1982
University Art Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
documenta 7,Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Kunst wird Material, Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1981
Art Allemagne Aujourd'hui, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Annemarie-und-Will Grohmann-Stipendium, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
1980
Ausstellung der Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung, Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2006
Le Mouvement des Images, exhibition catalogue, Centre National d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, 2006, p. 94.
Elderfield, John and Anne Temkin, "Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006, pp. 78-79.
2005
"Wow: The Work of the Work," Exhibition catalogue, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 5 November 2004 - 6 February 2005.
2004
Barilan, Michael Y., "Medicine Through the Artist's Eyes…before, during, and after the Holocaust," Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Winter 2004, volume 47, number 1, pp. 110-134.
Hug, Catherine, "Wolfgang Laib: Caratsch de Pury & Luxembourg," Tema Celeste, March/April 2004, p. 108.
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, Exhibition catalogue, 2004, Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Off the Wall: Works from the JP Morgan Chase Collection, with essay by Nancy Hall-Duncan, (Greenwich, CT: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 2004), p. 17.
"Exploring Ando's Space: Art and the Spiritual," The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, MO, 7 August 2004 - 15 January 2005.
2003
Ottman, Klaus and Pamela Auchincloss, "Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism," 2003.
Wolfgang Laib: Durchgang-Ubergang, with essay by Tohru Matsumoto, (Tokyo: The National Museum of Modern Art, 2003).
Wolfgang Laib: Passageway-Overgoing, with essay by Seung-wan Kang, (Korea: National Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003).
Wolfgang Laib, (Japan: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2003).
2001
"El Instante Eterno, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló," Exhibition catalogue, 2001, p. 103.
"The Whitechapel Art Gallery Centenary Review," Exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 2001, p. 34.
2000
Zuckerman Jacobson, Heidi, "Wolfgang Laib, Pollen from Pine, Matrix 188," look, The Quarterly Magazine of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Fall 2000.
"Wolfgang Laib, A Retrospective," Exhibition catalogue, by Klaus Ottmann, with essays by Margit Rowell, and a conversation between the artist and Harold Szeemann, (American Federation of Arts and Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000).
"da Warhol al 2000," Palazzo Cavour, Regione Piemonte, Exhibition catalogue, 2000, p. 63.
1999
"Wolfgang Laib: Somewhere Else," exhibition catalogue, with essay by Guy Tosatto (Nîmes: Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain, and Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz, 1999).
"Wolfgang Laib," exhibition catalogue, with essay by Elisabeth von Samsonow, (Kunsthaus Bregenz, 1999).
"Naturally Art, Kunst in der Stadt -3-," (Kunsthaus Bregenz, 1999), pp.135-135, 192-193.
"Wolfgang Laib," exhibition catalogue, with essay by Simone Menegoi, (Milleventi, Milan, 1999).
"Wolfgang Laib," Exhibition catalogue, with essays by Rudolf Sagmeister and Elisabeth von Samsonow. Foreword by Edelbet Kob, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 1999.
1998
"Wolfgang Laib: You Will Go Somewhere Else," exhibition brochure by Kathy S. Cottong (Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1998).
1997
"Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life," exhibition catalogue by Margit Rowell (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1997).
"4e Biennale de Lyon d'art contemporain. L'autre," exhibition catalogue, with text by Harald Szeemann (Lyon: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1997).
"La Biennale di Venezia. XLVII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte. Future, Present, Past," exhibition catalogue by Germano Celant, with text by the artist, p. 300 (Venice: La Biennale di Venezia, and Milan: Electa, 1997).
"97 Kwangju Biennale: Unmapping the Earth," exhibition catalogue with essays by Néstor Gracía Canclini, Lawrence Grossberg, Friedrich Kittler, Richard Koshalek and Erica Clark, et al. (Kwangju: Kwangju Biennale Press, 1997).
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall på Arken: Udvalgte værker fra samlingen/Selections from the Collection, exhibition catalogue (Arken, Sweden: Museum for Moderne Kunst, 1997).
"Wolfgang Laib: ich bin nicht hier," exhibition catalogue, with essay by Klaus Schrenk and interview with the artist by Kirsten Voigt (Karlsruhe: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1997).
"Report from Korea: Kwangju Biennale," BT, vol. 49 no. 748 (November 1997), pp. 189-204.
Hutchinson, John, "The Bread and the Butter Stone: On Memory," (Dublin: The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, 1997).
1996
"Luis Barragán: Sitio + Superficie. Su obra y la vanguardia en el arte," exhibition catalogue, with introduction by Carlos Ashida, and an essay by Roberto Tejada (Mexico City: Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, 1996).
Peak, Stephanie, "Wolfgang Laib at Sperone Westwater, NY, Oct 1995," Rant and Rage, no. 1 (1996), pp. 40-41.
"Wolfgang Laib: A Journey," text by Clare Farrow (Stuttgart, Edition Cantz, 1996).
1994
"Wolfgang Laib," exhibition brochure, with essay by Clare Farrow (Halifax: Henry Moore Studio, Dean Clough, and London: Camden Arts Centre, 1994).
Semin, Didier, "A Piece by Wolfgang Laib at the Centre Pompidou," Parkett, No. 39, 1994. pp. 70 -73 German text; pp. 74 -76 English text.
1993
"A Century of Silence," (Binghamton, NY: University Art Museum, State University of New York, 1993) text by Lynn Gamwell.
"Azur," (Jouy-En-Josas, France: Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 1993).
"GAS, Grandiose Ambitieux Silencieux," (Bordeaux: capc Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1993).
"Wolfgang Laib," (De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, 1993) text by Wilma van Asseldonk, interview with the artist by Martin Schwander.
1992-1993
Brougher, Kerry, "The Highlights: Wolfgang Laib," The Contemporary, (Los Angeles:The Museum of Contemporary Art, December 1992 - January 1993) p. 3.
1992
"Wolfgang Laib," (Ascona, Italy: Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna, 1992) (Text: Harald Szeemann with futher bibliographical references).
"Wolfgang Laib," (Dublin: The Douglas Hyde Gallery, 1992).
"Wolfgang Laib," (Bonn: Kunstmuseum Bonn and Edition Cantz, 1992) in association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. (Texts: Kerry Brougher, Donald Kuspit, Klaus Schrenk).
"Wolfgang Laib," (Bordeaux; capcMusee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1992) text by Jean-Marc Avrilla.
1991
Armitage, Diane, "Radical Practice/Time Out of Mind (Beauty in the extreme), Wolfgang Laib - Pollen Installation," (Sante Fe, MN: The Center For Contemporary Arts, 1991).
1990
Kimoto, Sakae, "Wolfgang Laib," BT, Bijutsu Techo, January, 1990. pp. 58 - 69.
"Signs of Life," (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1990) pp. 17 and 50.
"Threshold," (Oslo, Norway: The National Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990) p. 48.
"Wolfgang Laib," (Luzern, Switzerland: Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1990). (Text and interview with artist by Martin Schwander).
"Lightseed," (Tokyo, Japan: Watari-um, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990) pp. 41 - 67. (Text: Harald Szeemann).
1988
"Wolfgang Laib," (Basel, Switzerland: Edition Galerie Buchmann, 1988).
Szeemann, Harald, Bruderlin, Markus, and Roman Kurzmeyer, "Zeitlos," (Berlin, Germany: Werkstatt 88, and Munich, Germany: Prestel-Verlag, 1988) pp. 205 - 210.
Hubl, Michael, "Defacto," (Copenhagen, Denmark: Charlottenborg, 1988) pp. 52 - 55.
"Rosc," (Dublin, Ireland, 1988) pp. 108 - 110.
Gambrell, Jamey, "Carnegie International 88," (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: The Carnegie Museum of Art, and Munich, Germany: Prestel-Verlag, 1988) pp. 95 - 96.
Butler, Cornelia, "Wolfgang Laib. Simple Structures," (Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 1988) Brochure.
Shutan, Suzan, "A Glimpse upon all that is necessary. The Work of Wolfgang Laib," (Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 1988).
1987
Pohlen, Annelie, Wechselströme. Kontemplation-Expression-Konstruktion, (Bonn, Germany: Bonner Kunstverein, 1987) pp. 28 - 31.
Saltz, Jerry, "New Locations," (New York: Wolff Gallery, 1987) pp. 5 and 14 - 15.
Szeemann, Harald, "Vol. 3, Bremer Kunstpreis," (Bremen, Germany: Kunsthalle Bremen, 1987) pp. 36 - 43. (German translation of the catalogue of ARC, 1986).
"Century 87," (Amsterdam: Oude Kirk, 1987) pp. 126 - 127.
Schneckenberger, Manfred, "documenta 8," (Kassel, Germany: documenta 8, 1987) Vol. 2, pp. 142 - 143; Vol. 3, Wolfgang Laib.
1986
Soutif, Daniel, "Laib plus fort que Kirkeby," Liberation, January 8, 1986. p. 30.
"Falls the Shadow." The Hayward Annual 1986, (London, England: Hayward Art Gallery, 1986) pp. 96 - 97.
Cladders, Johannes and Pohlen, Annelie, "Sixth Biennale of Sydney," (Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1986) pp. 166 - 167.
"De Sculptura," (Vienna, Austria: Messepalast, Wiener Festwochen, 1986) (Text: Harald Szeemann) pp. 147 - 154.
"3. Triennale der Kleinplastik," (Fellbach: Triennale der Kleinplastik, 1986, pp. 196-197).
"Wolfgang Laib," (Paris, France: ARC, Musee d'Art Moderne, 1986) interview with the artist by Suzanne Page; text: Harald Szeemann.
Harten, Jürgen, Szeemann, Harald, and Gottfried Herder, "SkulpturSein," (Düsseldorf, Germany: Städtische Kunsthalle, 1986) pp. 119 - 124.
"Ouverture II," (Torino, Italy: Castello di Rivoli, 1986) pp. 60 - 61.
1985
"1945 bis 1985, Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland," (Berlin, Germany: Nationalgalerie, 1985) pp. 283, 289, 400.
Pohlen, Annelie, "Wolfgang Laib," (London, England: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1985) (brochure)
Szeemann, Harald, "Spuren, Skulpturen und Monumente ihrer präzisen Reise," (Zurich, Switzerland: Kunsthaus Zürich, 1985) pp. 127 - 132.
1983
"Ars '83 Helsinki," (Helsinki, Finland: Ateneumin Taidemuseo, 1983). Vol. 1, p. 142; Vol. 2, pp. 95 - 96.
Holsten, Siegmar, "Kosmische Bilder in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts," (Baden-Baden, Germany: Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Tel Aviv, Israel: The Tel Aviv Museum, 1983) pp. 177, 179, 181.
Schmidt, Katherina, "Materie + Form. Zeitgenössische Steinskulpturen, Malerei, Grafik," (Zurich, Switzerland: Zurich ETH, 1983).
1982-1983
"Wolfgang Laib," (Mönchengladbach, Germany: Katalog Biennale Venedig and Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, 1982-83) (Text: Johannes Cladders).
Frenkel, Vera, "An Ordering Madness. The 40th Venice Biennale," Vanguard, December/January, 1982-83. pp. 8 - 11.
1982
"documenta 7," (Kassel, Germany: documenta 7, 1982) pp. 186 - 187 and 372 - 373.
Schwarze, Dirk, "Kunst als Lebensvollzug," Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine, 3 April.
Onorato, Ronald J., "Wolfgang Laib," (Providence, Rhode Island: University Art Museum, 1982) pp. 12 - 13.
Deutsch, Eckhart, "Anschauung und ästhetische Autonomie. Zum Problem religiöser Kunst, Bilder sind nicht verboten," (Düsseldorf, Germany: Städtische Kunsthalle, 1982) pp. 118-122.
"Kunst wird Material," (Berlin, Germany: Nationalgalerie, 1982) pp. 58 - 61.
"Australian National Gallery, An Introduction," Canberra, Australia: Australian National Gallery, 1982, (Text: Michael Wardell) p. 117.
"La Biennale. Arti visive '82," (Venezia: Biennale Venezia, 1982).text by Johannes Cladders, pp. 146 - 149.
1981
"Art Allemagne Aujourd'hui," (Paris, France: ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne, 1981) text by Hermann Kern, pp. 278 - 281.
"Wolfgang Laib. Milchsteine und Blütenstaub" (Baden-Baden, Germany: Annemarie-und-Will Grohmann-Stipendium, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1981) text by Katharina Schmidt.
1980
"Wolfgang Laib," (Zurich, Switzerland: Ink-Dokumentation 5, 1980) text by Dieter Hall, pp. 70 - 74.
"1. Ausstellung der Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung," (Frankfurt, Germany: Karmeliterkloster, 1980) text by Hermann Kern.
Weskott, Hanne, "Wolfgang Laib und Thomas Schütte, Preisträger der Jürgen-Ponto-Stiftung 1980," Kunstforum, Vol. 31, January, 1980. pp. 243 - 245.
1979
Kern, Hermann, "Kunst als Gestaltung des Gestaltlosen," Expansion, (Vienna, Austria: Biennale Vienna, 1979) pp. 69 - 97.
1978
"Wolfgang Laib. Blütenstaub von Löwenzahn," (München, Germany: Kunstraum München e.V, 1978).
Kern, Hermann, "Wolfgang Laib," (München, Germany: Kunstraum München e.V, 1978).
ARTICLES
2006
Smith, Roberta. "One Collection, Many Stories from the Land of Mavericks," The New York Times, 12 May 2006, pp. E27, E36.
2002
Knight, Christopher, "Sculpture on the Cycle of Life," Los Angeles Times, 3 February 2002, F1.
Pincus, Robert L., "Waxing Mystical," The San Diego Union Tribune, 10 February 2002, F4.
Hrbacek, Mary, "Wolfgang Laib," The New York Art World, February 2002, pp. 12-13
2001
Wallach, Amei, "The Impenetrable That Leads to the Sublime," The New York Times, 7 January 2001, pp. 37 & 41.
Grundberg, Andy, "Wolfgang Laib, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, Artforum, January 2001, p. 134.
Hackett, Regina, "Atmospheric Laib exhibit speaks to the senses," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2 March 2001, p. 22.
Hall, Emily, "The Monk and His Milk," The Stranger, 8 March 2001, p. 33.
Armey, Aja, "Offering Nature," intermission, 1 March 2001, pp.1-2.
Sepanski, Diane, "All natural," SeattleWeekly.com, 8-14 March 2001.
Miller, Matthew, "Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective," digitalcity.com, March 2001.
Rahner, Mark, "art nature," The Seattle Times, 27 February 2001, Section E1.
Diehl, Carol, "Wolfgang Laib: Transcendent Offerings," Art in America, March 2001, pp. 88-95.
Tanguy, Sarah, "Making the Ideal Real," Sculpture, May 2001, pp. 28-33.
Kutner, Janet, "Art in a realm where time, space blur," The Dallas Morning News, 10 June 2001, pp. 1C & 4C.
2000
Mack, Gerhard, "Jedes Staubkorn ist ein Universum," art, Das Kunstmagazin, August 2000, p.67-75.
Siegel, Katy, "Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., Artforum, September 2000, p. 51.
"When Pollen is an Art Form," Garden Design, October 2000, p. 28.
Bonetti, David, "Bay City Best," San Francisco Examiner Magazine, 22 October 2000, p.4.
Baker, Kenneth, "Art That's Nothing to Sneeze At," San Francisco Chronicle, October 21, 2000, p.B1 and B8.
Ottmann, Klaus, "'Certitude Is the Imaginary': The Drawings of Wolfgang Laib," Art On Paper, December 2000, p. 61-65.
Galloway, David, "Pollen Alert," ARTnews, October 2000, p. 166-169.
"Gian Enzo Sperone; Torino Roma, New York; 35 Anni di Mostra tra Europa e America, 2000." Hopeful Monster. p. 296, 318, 406-407, 450.
Dixon, Glenn, "Soul Mining," Washington City Paper, 3 November 2000.
1999
Withers, Rachel, "Preview: Wolfgang Laib, Carré d'Art, " Artforum, vol. 37 no. 5 (January 1999), p. 53.
"Et Aussi . . .," Art Actuel, vol. 1 no. 1(March-April 1999), p. 27.
Lacagnina, Salvatore, "Wolfgang Laib," tema celeste, XVI no 74 (May-June 1999), pp. 86-87.
Politi, Giancarlo, "The Venice Biennale," Flash Art, Vol. XXXII, no. 208 (October 1999) pp.76-80.
1998
Drobnick, Jim, "Reveries, Assaults and Evaporating Presences: Olfactory Dimensions in Contemporary Art," Parachute, no. 89 (January-February-March 1998), pp. 10-19.
Artner, Alan G., "Natural Selection," Chicago Tribune, 29 January 1998, pp. 1, 12, Section 5
"The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works," exhibition catalogue, with essay by Sue Scott (Orlando: Orlando Museum of Art, 1998).
Johnson, Ken, "Art Guide: Wolfgang Laib," The New York Times, 15 May 1998, p. E36.
Bowyer, Bell, J., "Wolfgang Laib," Review, 15 May 1998, p. 44.
"Goings On About Town, Galleries-Downtown: Wolfgang Laib," The New Yorker, 25 May 1998, p. 17.
"Wolfgang Laib: Sperone Westwater," New York Contemporary Art Report, vol. 1 no. 1 (May 1998), pp. 72-63.
Schwendener, Martha, "Art, Reviews: Wolfgang Laib, Nowhere-Everywhere," Time Out New York, no. 140 (28 May-4 June1998), p. 56.
Stevens, Mark, "Art: Bee-ing and Nothingness," New York Magazine, 8 June 1998, pp. 104-105.
Bona, Clara, and Elisabetta Pincherle, "Ho trovato l'America," D (La Repubblica), 25-31 August 1998, pp. 35-37.
Richard, Frances, "Wolfgang Laib: Sperone Westwater," Artforum, vol. 37 no. 2 (October 1998), p. 125.
Diehl, Carol, "Wolfgang Laib at Sperone Westwater," Art in America, vol. 86 no. 11 (November 1998), p. 126.
1997
Tomkins, Calvin, "A Question of Human Presence," The New Yorker, June 1997, pp. 104-206.
Nochlin, Linda, "Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life: MoMA," Artforum, vol. 36 no. 2 (October 1997), pp. 91-92.
Glueck, Grace, "When Is A Still Life Not A Still Life?," Quarterly (Fall 1997), p. 46.
Lotz, Corinna, "Art & Artists: Still, But Very Real," Socialist (October 1997), p. 10.
Lambirth, Andrew, "Things Fall Apart," Independent Saturday Magazine (October 1997), pp. 32-35.
Freeman, Judi, "Still Life at MoMA," Apollo (October 1997), pp. 44-46.
"Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life, Hayward Gallery," Art Monthly (October 1997), pp. 38-39.
Bonetti, David, "Gallery Watch: Obsession Meets Devotion," San Francisco Examiner, 24 October 1997, p. B-9.
De Domizio Durini, Lucrezia, "Biennale di Kwangju," Tema Celeste, no. 65 (October-December 1997), pp. 58-59.
Millet, Catherine, "Unmapping the Earth," Art Press, no. 230 (December 1997), pp. 64-65.
1996
Bartelik, Marek, Wolfgang Laib, Sperone Westwater, Artforum, Vol. XXXIV, No. 5 (January 1996) p. 82.
Weintraub, Linda, "Interview with Wolfgang Laib," Art on the Edge and Over, 1996, pp. 40-44.
1995
Wei, Lilly, "Wolfgang Laib at Sperone Westwater," Art in America, Vol. 83, No. 11 (November 1995), pp. 109-110.
Schwendener, Martha, "Wolfgang Laib at Sperone Westwater," FlashArt, Vol. XXVIII, no. 185 (November-December 1995), pp. 127 – 128.
1994
Farrow, Claire, "Wolfgang Laib: More than Myself," Parkett, No. 39, 1994. pp 77 - 81 English text; pp. 82 - 87 German text.
Avrilla, Jean-Marc, "A wax Room in the Mountains," Parkett, No. 39, 1994. pp. 88- 91 German text; pp. 92 - 101 English text.
McEvilley, Thomas, "Medicine Man: Proposing a Context for Wolfgang Laib's Work," Parkett, No. 39, 1994. pp. 104 - 109 English text; pp. 110 - 117 German text.
1993
McKenna, Kristine, "flower power," L.A. Style Magazine, January 1993. pp. 28 - 29.
Hulten, Pontus, "Territorium Artis, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn," FlashArt, International Edition, Flash Art news, January/February 1993. p. 132.
"Goings on About Town," The New Yorker, Feb. 15, 1993. pp. 16 - 17.
Kuspit, Donald, "Wolfgang Laib," Sperone Westwater, Artforum, May 1993. p. 102.
1992
Melkonian, Neery, "Wolfgang Laib, Art and Remedy," Artspace, January - April, 1992. p.41.
Beil, Ralf, "Wolfgang Laib, Paris, Galerie Crousel-Robelin," Arte Factum, February - March 1992. p. 45.
Pietroiusti, Cesare, "Wolfgang Laib, Alfonso Artiaco," FlashArt, International Edition, Summer 1992. pp. 126 – 127.
1991
Gerstler, Amy, "Wolfgang Laib: Burnett Miller Gallery," Artforum, January.
Mahoney, Robert, "Wolfgang Laib," Arts Magazine, May, 1991. p. 99.
Tallman, Susan, "Wolfgang Laib at Sperone Westwater," Art in America, June. pp. 137 - 138.
"Wolfgang Laib," (Tokyo, Japan: Kanransha, 1991).
Reust, Hans Rudolf, "Wolfgang Laib: Kunstmuseum," Artscribe, March - April. pp. 80 - 81.
Rose, Matthew, "New York Wrap-up - Galerie Lelong "The Bulge, It's Called a Meniscus," ArtNews, September 1991. pp. 84 – 85.
1990
Braet, Jan, "Het vision van een arts," Knack, No. 26, June 27 - July 3, 1990. pp. 118- 119.
Arici, Laura, "Gelebte Achtsamkeit," Neue Züricher Zeitung, October 26, 1990. p. 27.
Artner, Alan G., "Laib strives to balance inner, outer worlds," Chicago Tribune, November 23, 1990. Section 7, p. 76.
McKenna, Kristine, "Wolfgang Laib: Nature and Nurture," Los Angeles Times, November 9, 1990.
Mahoney, Robert, "Group Show," Tema Celeste, International Edition, November/December, 1990. p. 59.
Van Winkel, C. H., "Wolfgang Laib, Lothar Baumgarten en de geest van Joseph Beuys," Metropolis M, May/June, 1990. pp. 26 – 33.
1988
Levin, Kim, "Ethnoeccentricity, Lothar Baumgarten and Wolfgang Laib," Village Voice, November 22, 1988. p. 95.
Smith, Roberta, "Wolfgang Laib," New York Times, November 25.
Curtis, Cathy, "Wolfgang Laib," Los Angeles Times, November 25. Part V, p. 20.
1987
Davvetas, Demosthenes "Wolfgang Laib, Interview with the Artist," New Art, No. 2, January, 1987. pp. 30 - 32.
Pasanen, Kimmo, "Wolfgang Laib," (Finnish translation of the Interview with the Artist by Suzanne Page, catalogue ARC, 1986), Taide, January, 1987. pp. 26 - 30.
Saunders, Wade and Rochette, Anne, "Wolfgang Laib at Maeght Lelong," Art in America, January 1987. p. 130.
Ottmann, Klaus, "Wolfgang Laib," Flash Art, February/March, 1987.
Le Goff, Jean-Pierre, "Wolfgang Laib," Kanal Magazine, January/March, 1987. pp. 70 - 71.
Schenker, Christoph, "Wolfgang Laib, Capc, Bordeaux," Kunstforum, Vol. 88, March/April, 1987. pp. 298 - 299.
Hubl, Michael, "Das Jahr danach," Kunstforum, Vol. 88, March/April, 1987. pp. 267 - 273.
Couderc, Sylvie, "Wolfgang Laib, die vitale Kraft des künstlerischen Aktes," Artefactum, Vol. 4, No. 18, April/May, 1987. pp. 6 - 11.
Ponti, Lisa, "Wolfgang Laib," Juliet, No. 31, April/May, 1987. p. 20.
Waspe, Roland, "Wolfgang Laib," Museumsbrief 60, (St. Gallen, Switzerland: Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, August, 1987)
Cooper, Dennis, "Art on the Amstel," Art in America, October, 1987. p. 34.
"Five Artists From Germany Exhibit Works at de Saisset Museum," Silicon Valley Visitors Guide, November, 1987.
Hinton, Susan, "A Counterbalance to Neoexpressionism," Artweek, Nov. 14, 1987.
Russell, John, "Thirteen Sculptors," New York Times, November 20.
Müller, Hans-Joachim, "Milch und Blütenstaub: Wolfgang Laib in der Galerie Buchmann," Basler Zeitung, December 30, 1987.
1986
Gintz, Claude, "Nature, Culture, Ecriture à propos de Wolfgang Laib, Lothar Baumgarten et quelques autres," art press, October, 1986. pp. 15 - 19.
Huser, France, "Lait et sang, Wolfgang Laib - Bruce Nauman," Le Nouvel Observateur, October 31, 1986.
Lascault, Gilbert, "Pollen jaune, calme, calme...," La Quinzaine Litteraire, October 31, 1986.
Smith, Roberta, "Wolfgang Laib," New York Times, November 7, 1986. p. C26.
Larson, Kay, "Wolfgang Laib," New York Magazine, November 24, 1986.
Soutif, Daniel, "L'être et le néon, Wolfgang Laib et Bruce Nauman," Libération, November 25, 1986. p. 32.
Levin, Kim, "Wolfgang Laib," Village Voice, November 26, 1986.
Lavonen, Kuuti, "Wolfgang Laib," Helsiingin Sanomat, December 27, 1986. p. 20.
1985
Seth, Nikki Ty-Tomkins," Art East and West," Sunday Observer, Bombay, February 10, 1985. p. 19.
Pohlen, Annelie, "Cosmic Visions from North and South," Artforum, March, 1985. pp. 76 – 81.
Russell, John, "Wolfgang Laib - Robert Ryman - Ian Wilson," The New York Times, May 24, 1985. p. C19.
Ottmann, Klaus, "The Solid and the Fluid. Bartlett, Laib, Kiefer," FlashArt, No. 123, Summer, 1985. pp. 48 - 49.
Hubl, Michael, "Askese des Abundanten: Wolfgang Laib," Kunstforum, Vol. 80, March, 1985. pp. 108 - 115.
Bizot, Jean-Francois, "c'est quoi la force? c'est quoi la beaute?," Actuel, No. 72, October, 1985. pp. 98 – 107.
1984
Newman, Cathy, "Pollen," National Geographic, Vol. 166, No. 4, October. pp. 518 - 519.
1983
Pohlen, Annelie, "Steinzeit - Endzeit - Meditationszeit, von Laib zu Beuys zu Knoebel mit einem Seitensprung zu Lechner," Kunstforum, Vol. 63/64, 8 July, 1983. pp. 346 – 348.
Pohlen, Annelie, "Wolfgang Laib, Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach," Artforum, September, 1983. p. 82.
Lavonen, Kuutti, "Ars 83 on siitepolya," Helsingen Sanomat, October 12, 1983. p. 22.
1982
Müller, Hans-Joachim, "Sensibilissimus und die Natur," Die Zeit, February 19, 1982. p. 40
Hohmeyer, Jürgen, "Ernte im Hochmoor," Der Spiegel, Vol. 36, No. 20, May 17, pp. 246-247.
Meier-Grolman, B., "Da siebt einer den Blütenstaub und schüttet Milch auf Marmorsteine," Südwestpresse, June 8, 1982.
Hecht, Axel, "Ein Fest der Stille und der Farben," Art, No. 6, June, 9, 1982. pp. 132 – 135.
Russell, John, "Wolfgang Laib," New York Times, March 27, 1981. p. C17.
Zimmer, William, "Wolfgang Laib," Soho News, Vol. 8, No. 27, April 1 - 7, 1981. p. 47.
Cafopoulos, Catherine, "Wolfgang Laib," The Athenian, Vol. 6, No. 75, January, 1980.
1979
Senie, Harriet, "Wolfgang Laib," New York Post, January 20. p. 33.
Morschel, Jürgen, "Wolfgang Laib," Das Kunstwerk, February. p. 92.
Wells, John, "Wolfgang Laib," Arts Magazine, vol. 53, No. 7, March, 1979. p. 2.
Tatransky, Valentin, "Wolfgang Laib," Arts Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 7, March, 1979. p. 33.
Olejarz, Harold, "Wolfgang Laib," Arts Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 9, May 1979. p. 37.
Davis, Douglas, "Post Post Art,"Village Voice, June 25. p. 41.
1978
Ferrari, Corinna, "Wolfgang Laib, una mostra a Milano," Domus, No. 581, April, 1978. p. 48.
Dienst, Rolf-Günter, "Deutsche Kunst: eine neue Generation 6," Das Kunstwerk, December, 1978. pp. 18 - 19, 37.
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
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