Jannis Kounellis

Piraeus, Greece, 1936 - 2017, Rome, Italy

BiographyEducation: Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, Italy

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
"Jannis Kounellis" Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
2001
"Albatros & The Gospel According to Thomas," Galerie Jule Kewenig,
Frechen-Bachem, Germany

1999
"Jannis Kounellis: Il Sarcofago Degli Sposi," Osterreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria

1996
"Nuovo Lavoro di Jannis Kounnelis," Il Sindaco Antonio Bassolino, Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Italy
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

1995
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Jule Kewenig, Cologne, Germany
Bei Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany

1994
The J.F. Costopoulos Foundation, Cargo Vessel Ionion, Piraeus, Greece
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England

1993
"Jannis Kounellis, No and No, But, After All Yes, Why Not," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Kounellis. Esposizione di paesaggi invernali," Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy
Belvedere, Giardini del Castello, Prague, Czech Republic
Real Albergo dei Poveri, Palermo, Italy
"Lineare Notturno," Ruhrfestpiele Recklinghausen, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany

1992
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Mercatello sul Metauro, Urbino, Italy

1991
The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Studio at Dean Clough, Halifax, England
"Frammenti di Memoría," Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Casa Centrale degli Artisti Nuova Tretjakov, Moscow, Russia
Synagogue Stommeln, Pulheim, Germany

1990
"Via del Mare," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"La Stanza vede," Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England; Fundació Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain

1989
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
Ameliobrachot Pièce Unique, Paris, France

1988
Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy

1987
"Jannis Kounellis, A Retrospective," Museum of Contemporary Art, Artsite Bath Festival, Bath, England
Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec

1986
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

1985
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

1984
Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

1983
Musei Comunali, Rimini, Italy

1982-81
"Obra Social," Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany

1980
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

1979
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

1978
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany

1977
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Villa Pignatelli, Naples, Italy
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1976
Art in Progress, Düsseldorf, Germany

1975
Studio d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

1971
Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy
"Informazione sulla presenza italiana," Incontri Internazionali d'Arte, Rome, Italy

1969
Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2000-99
"Regarding Beauty: A View of The Late Twentieth Century," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

1999
"Arte Povera Arbeiten und Dokumente," Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany, "Il dono Liverani," Calcographia, Rome, Italy "Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California "Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art," P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York
"The Kiasma Collection," Kiasma, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

1998
"Breaking Ground," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1997
"Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1967 bis heute," Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
"Veronica's Revenge" (Oeuvres photographiques de Lambert Art Collection), Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
"Arte Italiana Ultimi Quarant'Anni. Materiali Anomali," Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

1996
"Everything That's Interesting is New, The Dakis Joannou Collection," an exhibition organized by The Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece, in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995
"Wild at Heart: Works made for the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust," Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland

1994
"Public Art Project on Rochdale Canal," Manchester, England
"Prospect/Retrospect," Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
"Hors Limites, L'Art et la Vie," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Artcurial, Paris, France

1993
"Feuer Erde Wasser Luft, die vier Elemente," Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
"David Hammons and Jannis Kounellis," American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
45th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"The Sublime Void," Koninkliijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium

1993-92
"Reouverture," Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France; Musée d'Art Moderne, Toulouse, France

1992
"Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"Reperti," Museu Nacional de Belas Artes Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Platzverführung 1992/1993," Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
"Art d'eco, 4th International Triennal Ecology of Art," Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia
"Der gefrorene Leopard," Galerie Bernd Klüsser, Munich, Germany
"Configuraciones Urbanas," Barcelona, Spain
"Territorium Artis," Kunst - und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

1991
"Arte Povera 1971 und 20 Jahre danach," Kunstverein, Munich, Germany

1990
"Collection: Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Gilbert & George, Jannis Kounellis, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long," CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
"Affinities and Intuitions," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
"Ost und West," Berlin, Germany
"Memoria del futuro," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
"Roma Anni '60-Al di là della pittura," Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

1989
"Italian Art in the Twentieth Century," The Royal Academy, London, England
"Bilderstreit," Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
"Dall Pop-Art in poi. Collezione Sonnabend," Galleria Nazionale d'Art Moderna, Rome, Italy
"Balkon mit Fächer," Akademie de Künste, Cologne, Germany

1988
"Europa oggi," Museo d'arte contemporanea, Prato, Italy
"Charta," Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
"Positionen Heutiger Kunst," Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
43rd Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

1987
"L'époque, la mode, la morale, la passion," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Meltem," Chateaux d'Oiron, Oiron, France
"Italie hors d'Italie," Musée des Beaux-Arts, N”mes, France
"From the Europe of Old," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1986
"Joseph Beuys, Enzo Cucchi, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis," Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
"Terrae Motus 2" (organized by the Fundación Amelio Instituto per l'Arte Contemporanea, Naples), Villa Campolieto, Ercolano, Italy
"A Sculpture Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Wien Fluss," Wiener Secession and Am Steinhof, Vienna, Austria
"Chambre d'Amis," Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
"Qu'est-ce que la Sculpture Moderne?," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Joseph Beuys zu Erhen," Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

1985
"L'Oeil musicien Palais des Beaux-Arts," Charleroi, Belgium
"Raum zeit Stille," Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
"Don Giovanni," Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
"The Iron Window," Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
"Del Arte Povera a 1985," Palacio Vel‡zquez and Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain
"Intorno al Flauto Magico," Palacio dell Permanente, Milan, Italy
"La zattera di Babele: La montagna gialla," Monte San Giuliano, Sicily, Italy
"Les vingt ans du Musée à travers sa collection," Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
"The Knot: Arte Povera at P.S. 1," P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"La zattera di Babele: La Favola dell'usignolo," Teatro Olimpico, Rome, Italy
"The European Iceberg," The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
"La Collection de Van Abbemuseum au Nouveau Musée," Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France

1984
"Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert," Merian Park, Basel, Switzerland
"Légendes," CAPC/Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
"ROSC '84," Guinness Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland
"L'Architecte est absent: Works from the collection of Annick and Anton Herbert répertoire," Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
"Il modo italiano," Frederik S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, California
"Ouverture Castello di Rivoli," Turin, Italy
"Het voorveeld van de Klassieken," Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Donald Judd, Jannis Kounellis, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, and Lawrence Weiner," Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
"Coerenza in Coerenza: Dall'Arte Povera al 1984," Mole Antonelliana, Turin, Italy
41st Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Rosenfest, Fragment XXX," Hebbel Theater, Berlin, Germany
"Experiment Sammlung I: Une Collection Imaginaire," Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
"Internationale neue Kunst aus der Sammlung MGB, Erwerbungen, 1977-1984," Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland

1983
"Concetto-Imago: Generationswechsel in Italien," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
"Eine Kunstgeschichte in Turin 1965-1983," Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
"La Zattera di Babele," Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
"La Zattera di Babele: progetto Genazzano Teatroteca," Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Italy
"ARS 83," The Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
"Sammlung Helga and Walter Lauffs in Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld," Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
"Bucher Bilder Objeckteaus der Sammlung Reiner Speck: The Happy Few," Museum Haus Lange and Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
"New Art at the Tate Gallery 1983," Tate Gallery, London, England

1982
"'60-'80: Attitudes/Concepts/Images," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Werke aus der Sammlung Crex," Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, Switzerland
"Arte Povera, Antiform," Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
"Arte Italiana," Institute of Contemporary Art and Hayward Gallery, London, England
"Choix pour Aujourd'hui," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Kunst wird Material," Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
"Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves: Explorations in Italian Art," Power Art Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

1981
"Westkunst," Museen der Stadt, Cologne, Germany
"Che Fare? Kounellis, Merz, Nauman, Serra," Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
"A New Spirit in Painting," Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
"Italians and American Italians," Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Identité Italienne. L'Art en Italie depuis 1959," Musée National d'Arte Moderne- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Linee della Ricerca: Artistica in Italia 1960-1980," Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
"Il Limite Svelato, Artista Cornice Pubblico," Mole Antonelliana, Turin, Italy 1980
"Fabro, Kounellis, Merz, Paolini: Materialien zu einer Austellung," Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
"Kunst in Europa na '68," Museeum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Citadelpark, and Centrum voor Kunst en Culture St. Petersplein, 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
"T6080 Vent'anni di ricerche teatrali in Italia," Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

1980
20 installations by Contemporary Artists at Spoleto," Spoleto, Italy
"Cento Anni d'Arte Italiana Moderna 1880-1980," Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Tokyo, Japan
"Scene di romanzo-Il mito di Robinson Crusoe," Teatro Nuovo, Turin, Italy
39th Venice Biennial, "Arte Visive '80," Venice, Italy

1979
" Die Erweiterung des Wirklichkeitsbegriffs in der Kunst der 60er und 70er Jahre - Wahrnehmungen, Aufzeichnungen, Mitteilungen," Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
"V Premio: Pino Pascali, Jannis Kounnelis," Pinacoteca Provinciale, Bari, Italy

1978
Perimetri Incontri Internazionali d'Arte, Rome, Italy
38th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"A.R. Penck, Robert Ryman, Sol Le Witt, Jannis Kounellis," InK. Halle für internationale neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
"Poetische Aufklarung in der europäischen Kunst der Gegenwart bei Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Gerhard Richter-Geschichte von heute und morgen," InK. Halle für internationale neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
"Werke aus der Sammlung Crex," InK. Halle für internationale neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland

1977
"Omaggio a Brunelleschi," Chiostro di Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
"Arte in Italia 1960-1977, Dall'opera al coinvolgimento Galleria, Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
Festival of Celtic People, Whrexham, England
Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany

1976
"Prospect Retrospect: Europa 1946-1976," Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
37th Venice Biennial, "Ambiente/Arte-Dal Futurismo ala Body Art," Venice, Italy

1975
"Müvérszeti Törekvések Olaszorszàgbon," Szépnüvérszeti Mœseum, Budapest, Hungary

1974
"Festival d'Automne: aspects de l'art actuel," Musée Galleria, Paris, France
"Arman, Cane, Christo, Kienholz, Kounellis," Tacchi Musée d'Art Moderne, Strasbourg, France
36th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Ada II. Aktionen der Avantgarde," Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

1973
"An Exhibition of New Italian Art," The Arts Council of Northern Ireland Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
"Italy Two: Art Around '70," Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
10th Quadriennale, "La ricerca estetica dal 1960 al 1970," Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
"Contemporanea," Parcheggio di Villa Borghese (organized by Incontri Internazionali d'Arte, Rome), Rome, Italy
Tendencije 5, Galerija Suvreme Umetnosi, Zagreb, Croatia

1972
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
Collectiva Galleria l'Attico, Rome, Italy
"Roma, Mappa '72," Incontri Internazionali d'Arte, Rome, Italy
"Filmperformances al 15th Festival dei 2 Mondi," Museo Civico, Spoleto, Italy
35th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

1971
"International Theatre Festival: Persona," Belgrade,Yugoslavia
"Arte Povera, 13 italienische Künstler," Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
7th Paris Biennial, ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Bois de Vincennes, Paris, France

1970
"Gennaio 70, Comportamenti, progetti mediazioni," 3rd Biennale internazionale della giovane pittura, Museo Civico, Bologna, Italy
"Processi di pensiero visualizzati: Junge italienische Avantgarde," Kunstmuseum Luzern, 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
"Vitalità del negativo nell'arte italiana 1960-1970," Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
"Between Man and Matter," Tokyo Biennale '70, Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1969
"Op Losse Schroven situaties en cryptostructuren," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"When Attitudes Become Form-Live in Your Head," Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
"Festival internationale de la peinture," Chateau-Musée, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
Prospect 69, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Verborgene Strukturen," Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
22nd Premio nazionale di pittura, Francavilla al Mare, Italy
"Zwölf italienische Bildhauer," Kunstverein Hamburg,Hamburg, Germany
6th Paris Biennial, ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
"Ceroli, Kounellis, Marotta, Pascali: 4 Artistes italiens, plus que nature," Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
"I Materiali," Galleia Qui Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
"Al di là della pittura," 8th Biennale d'Arte Contemporanea, Palazzo Scolastico Gabrielli, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy

1968
"Arte Povera + azioni povere," Arsenali dell'Antica Repubblica, Amalfi, Italy
"Young Italians," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
"Fabro, Kounellis, Paolini," Galleria Qui Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
"Arte Povera," Centro Arte Viva Feltrinelli, Trieste, Italy
"Anselmo, Boetti, Kounellis," Galleria del Deposito (Gian Enzo Sperone), Turin, Italy
"I testiomoni," Teatro Stabile, Turin, Italy
"Wspólczesna Sztuka Wloska," Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
"Extra fünf römische Künstler," Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, Germany

1967
5th Paris Biennial, ARC/Musée d'Arte Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
"Il artisti italiani degli anni '60," Palazzo Ancaiani, Spoleto, Italy

1966
"Moderne Kunst aus Italien," Museum am Oswall, Dortmund, Germany

1965
"L'Art actuel en Italie," Casin Municipale, Cannes, France
"Realtà dell'immagine," Libreria Feltrinielli, Rome, Italy
5th Rassegna di arte figurative di Roma e del Lazio, Palazzo delle Esposizione, Rome, Italy

1963
"Schrift en Beeld," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Mostra mercato nazionale d'arte contemporanea," Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
4th San Marino Biennial, Palazzo del Kursal, San Marino, Italy

1961
"XII Premio Lissone," Lissone, Italy

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