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ERWIN WURM
Born in 1954, Bruck an der Mur
Lives in Vienna and Limberg, Austria
Solo exhibitions (selection) since 2000
2011
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
2010
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Kunst der Gegenwart – Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, Paris, France
Gallery Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Gallery Jack Hanley, New York, USA
2009
Kunstbau / Lenbachhaus, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Erwin Wurm, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
The Desperate Philosopher, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg, Austria
Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Würstelstand, Vartai gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Erwin Wurm - Sammlung Rudolf Budja, Kunsthalle Nexus, Saalfelden, Austria
Erwin Wurm, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
Erwin Wurm, Exhibition Institution of the Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
2008
Keep a Cool Head, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
The Artist Who Swallowed The World, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
Spit in Someone’s Soup, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
Desperate, Galerie L`QUAM, Montreal, Canada
Hypnosis, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Ich – Es - Überich, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hypnose II, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Erwin Wurm, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich, Switzerland
Direktionsskulptur, Galerie Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria
2007
Das lächerliche Leben eines ernsten Mannes, das ernste Leben eines lächerlichen Mannes,
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Erwin Wurm, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Erwin Wurm, Le lieu unique, Nantes, France
Erwin Wurm - Hamlet, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Erwin Wurm - New Sculptures, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Erwin Wurm, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
Keep a cool head, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
The artist who swallowed the world, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen,
Germany
Erwin Wurm - New Sculpture, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
The Idiot, Sala de Exposiciones Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain
I love my time, I don’t like my time: Recent works by Erwin Wurm, Rose Museum at Brandeis
University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Adorno was wrong with his ideas about art, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Disziplin der Subjektivität, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Home, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
2005
Erwin Wurm, MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Roma, Italy
I love my time, I don`t like my time, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA
Glue your brain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Erwin Wurm, Lisboa Photo 2005, Museo do Chiado, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
The Idiot, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Am I a House ?, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Erwin Wurm, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich, Switzerland
2004
I love my time, I don’t like my time: Recent works by Erwin Wurm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
European Dream, Universidad de Gujanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
TRAC Tecnologie e Ricerca Artistica Contemporanea, Palazzo Fichera, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Catania, Italy
Photo and Video Sculpture by Erwin Wurm, KvadraT Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia
2003
Erwin Wurm, ZKM - Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
European Dream, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Erwin Wurm – One Minute Sculptures / Orifice, ACCA Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Erwin Wurm videos, RISD - Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, Providence, USA
2002
Fat Survival – Handlungsformen der Skulptur, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
Erwin Wurm, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Museum of Contemporary Art, Paris, France
Sculptures with embarrassment, Studio K, Kiasma. Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2001
Performance Drawings, Drawing Center, New York
Videos 1991 – 2001, Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Fat car, MAMCO Museé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Genf, Switzerland
2000
Photographers Gallery, London, England
Group shows (selection) since 2000
2011
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
2010
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, Museum am Ostwall Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan
Glück, Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany (curator: Claudia Emmert)
2009
3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia (curator: Jean-Hubert Martin)
Art Boom Festival, Cracow, Poland
Live Art – Living Stage, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norwegian
Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers (Confines), Institut Valencià d`Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
YOU_ser. The Century of the Consumer, Museum Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
TOO MUCH OF ME, 7 PATHS THROUGH THE absurd, with Detour, Monash University
Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Auto. Dream and Matter, LABoral, Gijòn, Asturias; Dos de MayoArt Center, Madrid, Spain
(curator: Albert Martìn)
Malzeit – Essen in der Kunst, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
Fuorigiochio, Galerie Mario Pieroni, Rom, Italy (with Gulio Paolini and Olafur Elisasson)
The rest. Superfluous and utopian, Fundación de Artes Plásticas Rafael Boti, Sala Puertanueva de Córdoba, Spain (curator: Angel Luis Pérez Villén)
2008
Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, USA
Schenkungen an das Belvedere von Thaddaeus Ropac, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Short Stories, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
KOMPLEX – Österreichische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria;
Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Games. Kunst und Politik der Spiele, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Not to play with dead things, National Contemporary Art Center of Villa Arson, Nice,
France
Car Culture, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Lustwarande 08 – Wanderland, De Oude Warande, Tilburg, Netherlands
Leibesübungen. Vom Tun und Lassen in der Kunst, Institute of Contemporary Art,
Dunaújváros, Hungary; Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany
First Person Video, The Box, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2007
All about laughter: role of humors in contemporary art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Out of space: la photographie et l’imaginaire sculptural, Dazibao Centre de Photographies Actuelles, Montréal, Canada
Affinities - Deutsche Guggenheim, 1997 - 2007, Guggenheim in Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Timer 01 Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa, Triennale Museum in Milan, Milan, Italy
2006
In den Alpen, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Draw A Straight Line and Follow It, Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) at Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY, USA
Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Art and Play, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Le mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2005
Erwin Wurm, Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (curators: Jérome Sans, Nicolas Bourriaud)
In the Line of Flight, China Millenium Art Museum, Bejing, China
Snow white and the seven dwarfs, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain (curator: Udo Kittelmann)
Situation Comedy: Humor in recent art, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawai
Marking Time, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA
2004
Erwin Wurm, International Biennial Foundation of Contemporary Art of Seville, Sevilla, Spain (curator: Harald Szeemann)
Arti & Architettura, 1900-2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genua, Italy (curator: Germano Celant)
2003
Das lebendige Museum, Museum Moderner Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Performance y casi Performance, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2002
Tempo, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2001
Azerty: Un abécédaire aléatoire autour des collections du Frac Limousin, Musée national d´art modern Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2000
Erwin Wurm, 5th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
The sky is the limit, Biennale Taipei, Taiwan (curator: Jerome Sans, Manray Hsu)
1999
Transformation, Scuola di San Pasquale – San Francesco della Vigne, XLVIII Biennale,
Venice, Italy
ERWIN WURM
Born in 1954, Bruck an der Mur
Lives in Vienna and Limberg, Austria
Solo exhibitions (selection) since 2000
2011
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
2010
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Ullens Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Kunst der Gegenwart – Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, Paris, France
Gallery Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Gallery Jack Hanley, New York, USA
2009
Kunstbau / Lenbachhaus, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Erwin Wurm, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
The Desperate Philosopher, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg, Austria
Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Würstelstand, Vartai gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Erwin Wurm - Sammlung Rudolf Budja, Kunsthalle Nexus, Saalfelden, Austria
Erwin Wurm, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
Erwin Wurm, Exhibition Institution of the Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
2008
Keep a Cool Head, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
The Artist Who Swallowed The World, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
Spit in Someone’s Soup, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
Desperate, Galerie L`QUAM, Montreal, Canada
Hypnosis, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Ich – Es - Überich, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hypnose II, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Erwin Wurm, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich, Switzerland
Direktionsskulptur, Galerie Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria
2007
Das lächerliche Leben eines ernsten Mannes, das ernste Leben eines lächerlichen Mannes,
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Erwin Wurm, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Erwin Wurm, Le lieu unique, Nantes, France
Erwin Wurm - Hamlet, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Erwin Wurm - New Sculptures, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Erwin Wurm, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
Keep a cool head, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
The artist who swallowed the world, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen,
Germany
Erwin Wurm - New Sculpture, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
The Idiot, Sala de Exposiciones Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain
I love my time, I don’t like my time: Recent works by Erwin Wurm, Rose Museum at Brandeis
University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Adorno was wrong with his ideas about art, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Disziplin der Subjektivität, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Home, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
2005
Erwin Wurm, MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Roma, Italy
I love my time, I don`t like my time, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA
Glue your brain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Erwin Wurm, Lisboa Photo 2005, Museo do Chiado, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
The Idiot, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Am I a House ?, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Erwin Wurm, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich, Switzerland
2004
I love my time, I don’t like my time: Recent works by Erwin Wurm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
European Dream, Universidad de Gujanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
TRAC Tecnologie e Ricerca Artistica Contemporanea, Palazzo Fichera, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Catania, Italy
Photo and Video Sculpture by Erwin Wurm, KvadraT Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia
2003
Erwin Wurm, ZKM - Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
European Dream, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Erwin Wurm – One Minute Sculptures / Orifice, ACCA Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Erwin Wurm videos, RISD - Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, Providence, USA
2002
Fat Survival – Handlungsformen der Skulptur, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
Erwin Wurm, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Museum of Contemporary Art, Paris, France
Sculptures with embarrassment, Studio K, Kiasma. Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2001
Performance Drawings, Drawing Center, New York
Videos 1991 – 2001, Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Fat car, MAMCO Museé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Genf, Switzerland
2000
Photographers Gallery, London, England
Group shows (selection) since 2000
2011
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
2010
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, Museum am Ostwall Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan
Glück, Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany (curator: Claudia Emmert)
2009
3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia (curator: Jean-Hubert Martin)
Art Boom Festival, Cracow, Poland
Live Art – Living Stage, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norwegian
Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers (Confines), Institut Valencià d`Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
YOU_ser. The Century of the Consumer, Museum Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
TOO MUCH OF ME, 7 PATHS THROUGH THE absurd, with Detour, Monash University
Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Auto. Dream and Matter, LABoral, Gijòn, Asturias; Dos de MayoArt Center, Madrid, Spain
(curator: Albert Martìn)
Malzeit – Essen in der Kunst, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
Fuorigiochio, Galerie Mario Pieroni, Rom, Italy (with Gulio Paolini and Olafur Elisasson)
The rest. Superfluous and utopian, Fundación de Artes Plásticas Rafael Boti, Sala Puertanueva de Córdoba, Spain (curator: Angel Luis Pérez Villén)
2008
Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, USA
Schenkungen an das Belvedere von Thaddaeus Ropac, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Short Stories, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
KOMPLEX – Österreichische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria;
Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Games. Kunst und Politik der Spiele, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Not to play with dead things, National Contemporary Art Center of Villa Arson, Nice,
France
Car Culture, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Lustwarande 08 – Wanderland, De Oude Warande, Tilburg, Netherlands
Leibesübungen. Vom Tun und Lassen in der Kunst, Institute of Contemporary Art,
Dunaújváros, Hungary; Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany
First Person Video, The Box, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2007
All about laughter: role of humors in contemporary art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Out of space: la photographie et l’imaginaire sculptural, Dazibao Centre de Photographies Actuelles, Montréal, Canada
Affinities - Deutsche Guggenheim, 1997 - 2007, Guggenheim in Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Timer 01 Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa, Triennale Museum in Milan, Milan, Italy
2006
In den Alpen, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Draw A Straight Line and Follow It, Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) at Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY, USA
Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Art and Play, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Le mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2005
Erwin Wurm, Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (curators: Jérome Sans, Nicolas Bourriaud)
In the Line of Flight, China Millenium Art Museum, Bejing, China
Snow white and the seven dwarfs, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain (curator: Udo Kittelmann)
Situation Comedy: Humor in recent art, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawai
Marking Time, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA
2004
Erwin Wurm, International Biennial Foundation of Contemporary Art of Seville, Sevilla, Spain (curator: Harald Szeemann)
Arti & Architettura, 1900-2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genua, Italy (curator: Germano Celant)
2003
Das lebendige Museum, Museum Moderner Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Performance y casi Performance, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2002
Tempo, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2001
Azerty: Un abécédaire aléatoire autour des collections du Frac Limousin, Musée national d´art modern Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2000
Erwin Wurm, 5th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
The sky is the limit, Biennale Taipei, Taiwan (curator: Jerome Sans, Manray Hsu)
1999
Transformation, Scuola di San Pasquale – San Francesco della Vigne, XLVIII Biennale,
Venice, Italy