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Erwin Wurm
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Austrian
, born 1954)
Erwin Wurm
Fat House Moller / Adolf Loos,
2005
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1954
Born in Bruck/Mur, Austria
Lives and works in Vienna and New York
Exhibitions
2019
Würstelbar, Zum Schwarzen Kameel, Vienna, Austria (solo)
MdbK (Museum der Bildenden Künste), Leipzig, Germany (solo)
Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark (solo)
Chapelle du Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France (solo)
Musée Cantini, Marseille, France (solo)
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France (solo)
[mac] Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France (solo)
Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong (solo)
König Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
New Work, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Ely House, London, UK (solo)
Peace & Plenty, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (solo)
Peace & Plenty, Albertina, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Narrow House, Salle del Castillo, Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland (solo)
Hot Dog Bus, Public Art Fund, New York, USA (solo)
Ayala Museum, Makati City, Philippines (solo)
One-minute Works. Sculpture as a Programme, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary (solo)
2018
Erwin Wurm – Hans Weigand, Galerie Gaudens Pedit, Kitzbühel, Austria (solo)
One Minute Forever, Storage by HyundaiCard, in collaboration with the Tate, Seoul, Korea (solo)
CCBB (Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo), travelling to CCBB Brasilia, CCBB Belo Horizonte and CCBB Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (solo)
Fussballgrosser Tonklumpen auf hellblauem Autodach, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria (solo)
Ethics demonstrated in a geometrical order, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Austrian Pavilion, 57th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (solo)
Performative Skulpturen, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany (solo)
Carl Spitzweg – Erwin Wurm. Köstlich! Köstlich?, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Land der Berge, Artelier Contemporary, Graz, Austria (solo)
2017
Nordwand, Allmeinde Commongrounds, Lech, Austria (solo)
MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany (solo)
Lost, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France (solo)
One Minute Sculptures, MAK, Center for Art and Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
Bei Mutti, Berlinische Galerie – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Ende, Landesmuseum Niederösterreich, St. Pölten, Austria (solo)
Grüner Veltliner, Büro Weltausstellung, Vienna, Austria (solo)
The Philosophy of Instructions, BACC (Bangkok Art and Culture Center), Bangkok, Thailand (solo)
2016
Bad Thoughts, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
Nudelskulpturen, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (solo)
2015
Angst / Lache Hochgebirge, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
Artelier Contemporary, Graz, Austria (solo)
Interpretation, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius, Lithunia (solo)
Narrow House, CAC (Contemporary Art Centre), Vilnius, Lithunia (solo)
Am I still a House?, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden – Cragg Foundation, Wuppertal, Germany (solo)
Fichte, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)
Disruption, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland (solo)
Euclidean Exercises, IMA (Indianapolis Museum of Art), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (solo)
One Minute Sculptures, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
Sculpture 21st, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany (solo)
Synthesa, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Crap Head, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Melbourne (solo)
Some of this and some of that, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
Greith-Haus, St. Ulrich im Greith, Austria (solo)
Halle Verrière, Meisenthal, Lorraine, France (solo)
Büro Weltausstellung, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2014
Elfie Semotan & Erwin Wurm, Galerie422, Gmunden, Austria (solo)
Všetko je inak / Alles ist anders / Everything is Different, Dom Umenia – Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia (solo)
Abstract Abstruse, Wincavod – Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (solo)
Good Boy, MOCAK (Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow), Krakow, Poland (solo)
Wittgenstein’s Grammatik der Leibesübungen / Grammaire Wittgensteinienne de la culture physique, GalerieThaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France (solo)
Synthesa, Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
The Discipline of Subjectivity, 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (solo)
Video: Wortskulptur, Salzburg «ANNEX», Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
One Minute Forever, Artconnexion, Lille, France (solo)
2013
Instructions for Idleness, Österreichisches Kulturforum Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia (solo)
Video Works, B3, Recife, Brasil (solo)
BOB, Place François Mitterand, Lille, France (solo)
Das Kleine im Grossen, das Grosse im Grossen, das Grosse im Kleinen und das Kleine im Kleinen. Eine Wortskulptur, Dramaturgie by Matthias Hartmann, performed by Nicholas Ofczarek, Oliver Masucci, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
Beauty Business, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA (solo)
Albertina, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA (solo)
CAC Málaga – Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga, Spain (solo)
Gold, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
De Profundis, Albertina, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Am I a house?, CAC Málaga (Centro de Arte Contemporáneo), Málaga, Spain (solo)
Home, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany (solo)
hit me,... hit me..., Gironcoli-Museum, Schloss Herberstein, Austria (solo)
Samurai & Zorro, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
Blow Up, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey (curated by Jérome Sans) (solo)
One Minute Sculptures, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, Great Britain (solo)
2012
Kastenmann, Standard Hotel, New York, USA (solo)
2011 - 2012
Beauty Business, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, USA (solo)
new sculptures, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture 1839 to Today, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Superstress, 54th Biennale di Venezia, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy
Micro-Retrospective, Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia (ICA-Sofia), Sofia, Bulgaria (solo)
Car Culture – Medien der Mobilität, ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Yes Biological, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
Wear me out, Middleheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
Schöner Wohnen, MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, USA (solo)
2011
The Beauty Business, gem – Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands (solo)
Misconceivable, Kunsthallen Brandts / Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark (solo)
Gulp, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Elogiate i ceti inferiori soprattutto per rimanere inferiori, BASE, Progetti per L’Arte, Firenze, Italy (solo)
Selbstportrait als Essiggurkerl, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (solo)
Private Wurm, Kunst der Gegenwart – Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Project – Selfportrait as Pickles, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Liquid Reality, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (curator: Stephan Berg) (solo)
Atopia, CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain
2010
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Narrow Mist, UCCA – Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (curator: Jerome Sans) (solo)
2009
Desperate Philosophers, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
The Desperate Philosophers – Neue Skulpturen, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg, Austria (solo)
3rd Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia (curator: Jean-Hubert Martin)
Tell, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Ich – Es – Überich, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2008
Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Hypnose II, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (solo)
All about laughter: role of humors in contemporary art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hamlet, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
Salon de la Kakanie, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
I am future melancholic, Tate Modern, London, UK
Affinities- Deutsche Guggenheim, 1997-2007, Guggenheim in Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Il était une fois, l’École d’Arts Plastiques de Vitrolles, Vitrolles, France
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden (solo)
Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France (solo)
Erwin Wurm, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (solo)
2007
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France (solo)
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
SECCA, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, USA (solo)
I love my time, I don’t like my time: Recent works by Erwin Wurm, Rose Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA / Frye Art Museum, Seattle, USA (solo)
The Idiot, Sala de Exposiciones Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain (solo)
The artist who swallowed the world, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (solo)
Keep a cool head, MUMOK Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Erwin Wurm. New Sculpture, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (solo)
Home, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (solo)
Adorno was wrong with his ideas about art, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (solo)
Art and Play, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Display of UBS Collection, Tate Modern, London, UK
Simultan, zwei Sammlungen österreichischer Fotographie, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Le mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2006
All the Best. The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Disziplin der Subjektivität, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
The Idiot, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (curators: Jérome Sans, Nicolas Bourriaud)
Snow white and the seven dwarfs, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander (curator: Udo Kittelmann)
Spielräume, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum - Zentrum Internationaler Skulptur, Duisburg, Germany
Situation Comedy: Humor in recent art, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii/ Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago/ Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Munch revisited, Museum am Ostwall, Ausstellungshalle der Stadt Dortmund, Germany
Marking Time, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA
Scultura leggera Light Sculpture, 503 Mulino, Vicenza
Polaroid als Geste, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany
Am I a House?, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Sweet Temptations, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, Switzerland
Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Erwin Wurm, Museo do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (solo)
I love my time, I don’t like my time: Recent works by Erwin Wurm, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA (solo)
2005
Galerie Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (solo)
Drive. Automobili nell’Arte Contemporanea, GAM, Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea Bologna, Italy
Erwin Wurm, MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Italy (solo)
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Erwin Wurm, Peggy Guggenheim Collection,Venice, Italy (solo)
Rundlederwelten, Gropiusbau, Berlin, Germany
In the Line of Flight, China Millenium Art Museum, Bejing, China
Glue your brain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Close Reading #3, objectif_exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium
Dessins et des autres, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Exposition collective de sculpture, Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
Dessins et des autres – part II, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
A 20 h Prêts à prêter 1, Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France
Art Unlimited, Art 35 Basel, Switzerland
Grotesque, burlesque et parody, Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
Virtual Frame, Kunsthalle Wien project space Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
Haus und Körper, Galerie Francoise Heitsch, Munich, Germany
4ème Biennale de la Photographie et des Arts visuels, Centre Culturel "Les Chiroux", Liège, Belqium
Brooklyn Euphoria Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, USA
Galerie Espai Lucas, Valencia, Spain (solo)
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
Paisaje después de la tormenta [Landscape after the storm], T20 Gallery, Murcia, Spain
Krinzinger Österreich, Künstler der Galerie (A), Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
LASTWINTERSPRINGNEVERCAME, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Vision einer Sammlung, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Farbige Plastik, Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
2004
Seville International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville (curator: Harald Szeemann)
I love my time, I don’t like my time, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA (solo)
European Dream, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico (curator: Pamela Echeverria) (solo)
TRAC Tecnologie e Ricerca Artistica Contemporanea, Palazzo Fichera, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Catania, Italy (solo)
International Biennial Foundation of Contemporary Art of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
Arti & Architettura, 1900-2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
Photo and Video Sculpture by Erwin Wurm, KvadraT Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia (solo)
Ich will, dass Du mir glaubst!, 9. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany
Skulptur. Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Komik, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Porträts. Picasso, Bacon, Warhol …, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Von Angesicht zu Angesicht – Das Antlitz des Menschen in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
Le proche et le lointain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d'art contemporain, Bignan, France
Soziale Kreaturen – wie Körper Kunst wird, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Orozco - Wentworth - Wurm, FotoGrafia - International Rome Festival, The Andersen Museum, Rome, Italy
Global World - Private Universe, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
ZKM , Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (solo)
2003
European Dream, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Col San Angel, Mexico City / Casa ITESO-Clavigero, Guadalajara, Mexico (curator: Pamela Echeverria) (solo)
Erwin Wurm videos, RISD - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA (solo)
One Minute Sculptures, Erwin Wurm, Mairies des 13e et 14e arrondissements, FRAC-PACA (Fonds régional d'art contemporain Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), Marseille, France (solo)
Galerie Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (solo)
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (solo)
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Galeria La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Hilfe, Graz, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria (solo)
Erwin Wurm – One Minute Sculptures/Orifice, Melbourne International Festival, ACCA Australian centre for Contemporary Art / Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
Galerie Häusler, Munich, Germany (solo)
Galerie Art:Concept, Paris, France (solo)
Vendanta Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
Erwin Wurm Videoarbeiten 1989-2002, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Budapest, Hungary (solo)
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France (solo)
Erwin Wurm, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (solo)
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (solo)
2002
Fat Survival – Handlungsformen der Skulptur, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (solo)
Sculptures with embarrassment, Studio K, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (solo)
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Galeria Espai Luca, Valencia, Spain (solo)
Galerie Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Galerie The Box, Turin, Italy (solo)
Videos 1991 – 2001, Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Sleeping for two months, Centre pour l´Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2001
Performance Drawings, Drawing Centre, New York, USA (solo)
Fat car, MAMCO Museé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2000
Photographers Gallery, London, England (solo)
F.R.A.C. Limousin, Limoges, France (solo)
Feelings, L´Ecole des Beaux-arts, Rouen, France (solo)
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (solo)
Galerie Art : Concept, Paris, France (solo)
1999
Project wall, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
1998
Institute of Visual Arts, UW, Milwaukee, USA (solo)
1997
Me, me fat watching TV, Galleria The Box, Turin, Italy (solo)
Triumph Skulptur, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
1982
Neue Skulptur, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
1981
Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria (solo)
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Literature
2005
ARTFORUM International, January 2005, New York, USA, p. 187
Flash Art, January-February 2005, Vol. XXXVIII, No.240, Mailand, Italy, p. 117
Jarque, Vicente. “Sencillo y hondo.” El País (Madrid), February 14, p. 17.
Olivares, Rosa. “Teoría, teóricos, teorética, teorizante . . . teomanía.” EXITBOOK (Madrid), no. 3, pp. 4–5.
Olivares, Rosa. “Este no es un texto de un minuto/This is not a one minute text.” EXIT (Madrid), no. 13, pp. 72–93.
Carrasco, Alex. “Erwin Wurm, No lo llames burla.” NEO2 (Madrid), no. 33 (February/March), pp.57–58.
Marsola, Helga. “Erwin Wurm,” EXIBART on paper (Florence, June/July).
Marsola, Helga. “Erwin Wurm.” Flash Art (Milan, August/September), p. 128.
2004
Verhagen, Eric. "L’échec sculptural de Erwin Wurm." Art Press (Paris, France), Number 307, December, pp. 18-23, cover.
Contemporary (London), no. 60, p. 74.
Adbusters, Blaine, WA, USA, Jan/Feb Vol 11 No.1, pp. 29 & 34.
2003
Cash, Stefanie: Stand-Up Artist in: Art in America, December, New York, USA, pp.84-87, cover.
Gavulová, Lucia: Kto je Erwin Wurm? in: VLNA, no. 16, Bratislava, Slovakia, pp.4-11.
Fanchette, Frédérique: Simplement incorrect in: Libération, November 14, France, pp.38-39.
Vozmediano, Elena: Wurm y la escultura efimera in: El Cultural, 18.9.2003, p. 29.
Kissler, Alexander: Das Orakel der Steiermark in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, Nr. 152, 5./6. July, p. 17.
Schlüter, Ralf: Kopf in den Eimer in: ART, Hamburg, Deutschland, Nr. 6, June, p. 135.
Kröner, Magdalena, Körper auf den Punkt gebracht in: die tageszeitung, Berlin, Germany, March 27, p. 16.
Reininghaus, Alexandra: Eine Skulptur für alle Fälle in: ART, Hamburg, Germany, Nr. 4, April, p.18 - 25.
Erwin Wurm in: Time Out, May 1-7, No. 11, p. 100.
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