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Biography - Christian Boltanski

Born

1944 Paris, France

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006 Christian Boltanski - Zeit Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens
Christian Boltanski MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata-ken
2005 Prendre la parole, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Ultime Notizie. Christian Boltanski, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Christian Boltanski, A.V. Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
6 septembres, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris/ ARC et L’institut national de l’audiovisuel, Paris, France
2004 Les Regards. Sculpture for Bremen Project of Christian Boltanski in the city of Bremen, Rolandpreis für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum,
Théâtre d’ombres 1984-1997, organized by the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris/ARC; Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France
2003 The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College, Bowdoin, Maine; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
2002 Faire-Part, Palazzo della Papesse, Sienna, Italy
Sombras, Museo de Santa Rosa, Puebla, Mexico
2001 Coming and Going Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Facets of Memory, The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco,CA
La vie impossible, Kunstmuseum Dessao, Dessao, Germany
La Reserve de Christian Boltanski, Skulpturemuseum, Marl, Germany
Christian Boltanski, Ujaztowski Castel Warsaw, Poland
St. Peter Church, Cologne, Germany
2000 Christian Boltanski: Reflexio, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Monte Pieta, Palermo, Italy
1999 Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Venezuela
1998 Night in August, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Compr/Venta, Alumudin, Valencia, Spain
Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Christian Boltanski: So Far, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, MO
1997 Le Voyage d’Hiver, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Chateau de Plieux, Plieux, France
Los Justos, Museo d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Les Registres, Espace du Grand Hornu, Mons, France
Lost, Haus der Kunst, Munich Germany
Christian Boltanski Pentimenti, Villa delle Rose, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
1996 Neues Museum Weserberg, Bremen, Germany
Sterblich, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany
Alltag, with Jean Kalman, theater der Welt, Dresden, Germany
Advento, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostelo, Spain
1995 Lost Property, Temporary mixed medium installation at GrandCentral Station
The Work People of Halifax 1877-1982, The Henry Moore Studio, Halifax, England
DuPont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Villa Medeci, Rome, Italy
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Lost: New York Projects, Public Art Fund, New York, New York
1994 Retrospective, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Norway
OBALA Art Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina
Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
The Henry Moore Studio, Halifax, England
Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Konsthalle, Malmö, Sweden
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Leçons des Ténèbres, Belvedere du Château de Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Fundació Espai Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
Wilhelm Lehmbruch Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
1993 Gymnasuim Chases, Lawrence Miller, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Karl Valentine Museum and Städtmuseum, Munich, Germany
Jule Kewenig, Cologne, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
Les Suisses Morts, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Städtische Galerie in Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Graphische Sammlung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1992 Christian Boltanski, Lisson Gallery, London, England
1991 Conversation Piece, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Ghislaine Hussenot Galerie, Paris, France
Inventar, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Reconstitution, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France; Stedelijk van
van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas
1990 The Dead Swiss, Marian Goodman Gallery, NY
Reconstitution, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
Réserve, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel, Switzerland
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito Japan
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne, France
1989 Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Lessons of Darkness, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
“La Fête du Pourim,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland
University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
1988 Lessons of Darkness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Galerie Pablo and Pandora van Dijk, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Ontario
El Caso, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
1987 Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Classe terminale du lycée Chases en 1931, Castelgasse-Vienne, Vienna, Austria
Le Lycée Chases, Maison de la Culture et de la Communication, Saint-Etienne, France
1986 Leçon des Ténèbres, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
Peindre photographier, Musée de Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice, France
Festival d’automne, Chapelle de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
1985 Monuments, Organised by Le Coin du miroir, Dijon, France
Ombres, Ex Stalloni, Reggio nell’Emilia, Italy
Archives, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
1984 Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
1983 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,CT
1982 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Nouveau Musée De Vleeshal, Middleburg, Netherlands
1981 Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
A.R.C., Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Galerie Marika Malacorda, Geneva, Switzerland
1980 Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
Musée d’Art, Calais, France
1979 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Galleries A.Q., Douville, France
The Kitchen, New York, NY
Maison de la Culture, Chalon-sur-Saone, France
1978 Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
P.S. 1, New York, NY
Galerie Foksal, Varsovie, France
Le Coin du Miroir, Dijon, France
Galerie Marika Malacorda, Geneva, Switzerland
1977 Galerie Bruna Soletti, Milan, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Galerie Art Actuel, Nancy, France
Galerie Seriaal, Amsterdam, Holland
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
1976 Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Switzerland
1975 Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1975 Galerie Cannaviello, Rome, Italy
Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Galerie Grada, Zagreb
Galerie Seriaal, Amsterdam, Holland
1974 Lousiana Museum, Humlebaek, LA
Galerie St. Petri, Lund, France
Galerie Forma, Genes, France
Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany
Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
Kunstverein, Kiel, Germany
1973 Galerie Toni Gerber, Bern, Switzerland
Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy
Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1972 Studio Santandrea, Milan, Italy
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris
Galerie Skulima, Berlin, Germany
1971 Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
Galerie Thelen, Cologne
1970 Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 A Selection: 40 Artists from 30 years of exhibitions, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2006 The Expanded Eye. Sehen-entgrenzt und verflüssigt, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Da Monet a Boltanski, Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, Parma, Italie
Surpise, Surpise, ICA, London
Dis-Assembly, Serpentine Gallery, London
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal Niigata, Japon
Grand Promenade, Athènes
La Force de l’Art, Grand Palais , Paris, France
2005 Storie di sguardi Forma - Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan, Italy
Film ist und als ob in der Kunst, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Centre of Gravity, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
50 Jahre: Years documenta 1955-2005 1955-2005, Kunsthalle
Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
The Collection XII, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
I Teatri, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Einstein-Spaces, Neue Synagoge Centrum Judaicum, Berlin, Germany
Permanent Instability, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul,Turkey
Aka demie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Correspondances, Musée d’Orsay , Paris, France
Faces in the Crowd, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2004 Gegenwartig: Field Research Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Germany
It Happened Tomorrow Lyon Bienniale, Lyon France
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Minnesota; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles California
Attraversare Genova. Percorsi e linguaggi internazionali del contemporaneo. Villa Croce Museu d’Arte Contemporaneo, Genoa, Italy
Collective Perspectives : New Acquisitions Celebrzte the Centennial, The Jewish Museum of New York, USA
Stadtlicht-Lichtkunst/Illuminated Cities-Illuminated Art, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Center of International Sculpture, Duisburg, Germany
Utopia Station: auf dem Weg nach Porto Alegre, HDK-Haus der Kusnt, Munich, Germany
The Last Picture Show, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Contrepoint, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Continental Breakfast, Biennale de Zagreb
The Disembodied Spirit , Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Les enfants terribles Il -linguaggio dell’infanzia nell’arte, 1909-2004 Museo Cantonale d’arte, Lugano, Switzerland
Eyes, Lies & Illusions, Hayward Gallery, Londres
Faces in the Crowd, Whitechapel Gallery London
The Disembodied Spirit, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri
Gegenwartig: Field Research, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
It Happened Tomorrow, Lyon Bienniale, Lyon, France
2003 A Sculpture Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
O Mensch!, collaboration with Jean Kalman and Franck Krawczyk, Festival d’Automne, Paris France
The Disembodied Spirit Bowdoin College, Bowdoin Maine; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis Missouri, Austin Museum of Art, Austin Texas
Geschenkte Kunst, Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany
New presentation of the collection (VI), MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
7 th Biennale de Lyon: C’est arrive demain, La biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Feldforschung, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal 2003, Niigata, Japon
2002 Utopie Quotidiane: Luomo e I suoi sogni nellarte dal 1960 ad oggi, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Exposition inaugurale: l’Herbier & le Nuage, MACs Grand Hornu, Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu, Belgium
Out of Print/ Edição Esgotada, Museu Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal
Ars photographica:Fotografie und Küsntlerbücher, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany
Tableaux Vivants: Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film, and Video, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Iconoclash: jenseits der Bilderkriege in Wissenschaft, Religion, und Kunst, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Facets of Memory, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California
In the Shadow of the Holocaust Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2001 Ghost, Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Dialogue Ininterrompu, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
Face[t]s of Memory: Found Photographs and Family Albums, The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
La Comédie humaine, Musé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (Mamco), Geneva, Switzerland
do it, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, USA
printemps de septembre, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
Christian Boltanski: Revenir-Objects, installation, photography, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
The foksal Gallerys Deposit, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
World Without End: Aspects of 20th Century Photography, Art Gallery of South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2000 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Westfalen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Oporto, Portugal
1999 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
1998 Premises: Invested Soaces in Visual Arts and Architecture from France, 1958-1998, Guggenheim SoHo, New York, NY
Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon, France
1997 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Espace Electra, Paris, France
1996 Beyond Recognition, Contemporary International Photography, A National Gallery of Australia traveling exhibition
Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France
1995 Burnt Whole: Contemporary Artists Reflect on the Holocaust, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
The New Museum, New York, New York
Public Art Project on Rochdale Canal, Manchester, England
Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Photography and Beyond: New Expressions in France,
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Zacheta Gallery, National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
1994 Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy
Hors Limites, L’Art et la Vie, Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Cabinet d’Art Graphique, Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Do It, Kunsthalle Ritter, Klagenfurt, Austria
Palau del Scala, Valencia, Spain
Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, California
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Museum der Stadtentwässerung, Zurich, Switzerland
CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Maison Centrale des artistes, Moscow, Russia
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Institut of the Netherlands, Paris, France
Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Cabinet d’Estampe du Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Institut Français de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Goethe Institut, Montreal, Quebec
The Gallery at Takashimaya, New York, New York
Wilhelm Lembruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Comme dans une image, Galerie Gilbert Brownstone, Paris
1993 Sculptures (1832-1992), Marc Blondeau, Paris
Lawrence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Da Brancusi A Boltanski Fotographie D’Artista, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy
Summer Group Show, Marian Goodman, New York, NY
Paternity Missing, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 The Frozen Leopard, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Livres d’artistes, Galerie Mansart, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
IN FORMATion, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
Transform, Elizabeth Kaufman, Basel Switzerland
Jocelyne Alloucherie and Christian Boltanski, Galerie Chantal Boulanger, Montreal, Canada
1991 Prints in Series: Christian Boltanski, Sol LeWitt and José María Sicilia, Crown Point Press, New York, NY
Connected Past, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Marian Goodman Gallery, NY
Reorienting: Looking East, Third Eye Center, Glasgow, Scotland
Je Est Un Autre, Galeria Comicos, Portugal
1989 Galerie Jule Kewenig, Cologne, Germany
Witness, Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Painting/Object/Photograph, Boston, MA
Dennis Adams, Christian Boltanski, Alfredo Jaar, Fuller Elwood Gallery, Seattle, WA.
1987 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Images Fabriquees, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Presence Discrete, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
Au Fond de la Cour a Droite, Chagny, France
Douceur de l’Avante-Garde, Rennes, France
Kunst mit Photographie, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
1982 4 Ans d’Acquisitions, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Toulon, France
60-80, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Paris 1960-1980, Museum des 20, Jahrhunderts, Vienna
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Kunst I Frankike, Bergens Kunstforening, Norway
Prefiguracion pour le Centre de Sculpture Contemporain de Buisson-Rond, Chambery, France
Façons de Peindre, Maison de la Culture de Chalon-sur-Saone, Musée Rath, Geneva and Musée Savoisien, Chambery
1981 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Westkunst, Cologne, Germany
Trigon Neue Galerie, Graz, Germany
37 Aktuelle Konstnarer fran Frankike, Liljevachs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Boltanski, Boyd Webb,Gilbert & George, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
1980 Camera Obscura, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Venice Biennale, Italy
Kunst in Europe, Museum Van Hedendaagse, Gent
Ils se Disent Peintres, Ils se Disent Photographes, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
1979 French Art, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
30th Sydney Biennale, Australia
StoryArt, Kunsverein Bonn and Kunstverein Heidelberg, Switzerland
Kunstverein Innsbruck, Austria
Partis Pris Autres, A.R.C.,Paris, France
1978 Photo Langage, Galerie St. Stefan, Vienna
Couple, P.S. 1, New York, NY
Photo Constat, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1977 A.R.C., Exposition Boites, Paris, France
Zeitgenossischer Kunstler, Hamburg, Germany
Kunsthaus Zurich Festival Arnheim, Switzerland
Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
1976 Identité-Identification, Bordeaux Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Second Triennale of Photography, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Narrative Art, Galerie Cannaviello, Rome, Italy
Selbsportrait, Kunsthaus Pischinger, Stuttgart, Germany
1975 Je/Nous, Museum von Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, France
Fine Arts Building, New York, NY
1974 Pour Memoire, Bordeaux C.A.P.C. and Paris A.R.C.
Ars 1974, Helsinki
Idea and Image in Recent Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Demonstrative Fotografie, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Germany
Identitat, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
1973 Musée d’Art Moderne, Grenoble, France
Musée Rude, Dijon, France
Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Monument, Germany
1972 Venice Biennale
Grand Palais, Paris, France
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
1972 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1969 Fifth Paris Biennale, Paris, France

Awards

2006 Laureate of the Praemium Imperiale
2001 Goslau Kaiserring Prize, Moncheausmuseum Goslau
Kunstprize, Given by Nord/LB, Braunschweig Germany