Isa Genzken

(German, born 1948)

"schauspieler ii, 5" by isa genzken

Isa Genzken

"Schauspieler II, 5", 2014

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Isa Genzken

Untitled, 2017

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untitled by isa genzken

Isa Genzken

Untitled, 2017

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untitled by isa genzken

Isa Genzken

Untitled, 2017

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untitled by isa genzken

Isa Genzken

Untitled, 2017

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untitled by isa genzken

Isa Genzken

Untitled, 2018

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Biography

Timeline

1948
Born in 1948 in Bad Oldesloe, Germany
1969 - 1971
Studied at the Hamburg College of Fine Arts, Germany
1971 - 1973
Studied at the Berlin University of Fine Arts, Germany
1973 - 1975
Studied Art History and Philosophy at the University of Cologne, Germany
1993 - 1997
Studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Exhibitions

2019
Isa Genzken Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Isa Genzken, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
The Void, Museum Frieder Burda | Salon Berlin, Berlin
World Receivers, Zabludowicz Collection, London [catalogue]
2018
Isa Genzken Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Isa Genzken: Außenprojekte, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (solo exhibition)
Isa Genzken: Sky Energy, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue]
Faithless Pictures, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo
HONEY, I REARRANGED THE COLLECTION: #3 Bouncing in the Corner. Surveying Space, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg [collection display]
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now), The Met Breuer, New York [catalogue]
Michael Jackson: On the Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London [itinerary: Grand Palais, Paris; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland] [catalogue]
THE MOON: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark [itinerary: Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Sandvika, Norway]
People, Jeffrey Deitch, New York [itinerary: Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles]
Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844-2018, Luma Foundation, Arles, France
Sanguine/Bloedrood. Luc Tuymans on Baroque, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp [itinerary: Fondazione Prada, Milan] [catalogue] [curated by Luc Tuymans]
She sees the shadows, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales
A TIME CAPSULE REVISITED: A New Installation of Works Made by Women for Parkett (1984- 2017), New Temporary Parkett Space, Zurich
Walking Point, Greene Naftali, New York
2017 - 2019
Isa Genzken Selected Exhibitions in 2017-2019:
The Long Run, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2017
Isa Genzken Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Isa Genzken: Issie Energie, König Galerie, Berlin [organized in collabortion with Galerie Buchholz, Berlin] (solo exhibition)
Isa Genzken: Kaiserringträgerin der Stadt Goslar 2017, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany (solo exhibition)
The Absent Museum, Wiels Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels [catalogue]
Cosmic Communities: Coming Out Into Outer Space – Homofuturism, Applied Psychedelia & Magic Connectivity, Galerie Buchholz, New York
Moving is in every direction. Environments - Installations - Narrative Spaces, Hamburgher Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
One and Other, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Primary Structures. Masterworks of Minimal Art, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany
SUR/FACE: Mirrors, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
Theft is Vision, LUMA Westbau, Zurich
Variable Dimensions - Artists and Architecture, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon
2016
Isa Genzken Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Isa Genzken: I Love Michael Asher, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles (solo exhibition)
Isa Genzken: Portraits, Galerie Buchholz, New York (solo exhibition)
Isa Genzken: Two Orchids, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York [organized by Public Art Fund, New York] (solo exhibition)
9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin [catalogue]
9th Biennale de Montréal: Le Grand Balcon/The Grand Balcony, Musée de art contemporain de Montréal [catalogue]
Béton, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco
Folding, Refraction, Touch: Modern and Contemporary Art in Dialogue with Wolfgang Tillmans, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
HERE AND NOW: Heimo Zobernig, Museum Ludwig, Cologne [catalogue]
Invisible Adversaries: Marieluise Hessel Collection, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
I still believe in miracles: 30 years of Inverleith House, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery
presently, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Progressive Praxis, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles [catalogue]
Sculpture on the Move 1946-2016, Kunstmuseum Basel [catalogue]
...und eine welt noch/… and yet one more world, Kunsthaus Hamburg
Viaje alrededor del mundo, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
2015
Isa Genzken Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Isa Genzken, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Isa Genzken: Basic Research Paintings, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (solo exhibition)
Isa Genzken: El Salvador, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (solo exhibition)
Isa Genzken: Geldbilder, Hauser & Wirth, London (solo exhibition)
Isa Genzken: Mach dich hübsch!, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam [itinerary: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin] [artist book] (solo exhibition)
6th Moscow Biennale: How to Gather? Acting in a Center in a City in the Heart of the Island of Eurasia, Pavilion No. 1, Vystavka Dostizheniy Narodnogo Khozyaystva (VDNKh), Moscow
20 Years of Collecting: Between Discovery and Invention, Zabludowicz Collection, London [catalogue]
56th Venice Biennale: All the World’s Futures, Venice [catalogue]
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London [catalogue]
Collecting for Tomorrow: new works at Museion, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Collecting Lines Chapter 1. Drawings from the Ringier Collection, Villa Flora, Winterthur, Switzerland
Duh? Art & Stupidity, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, England
Enlight my Space. Kunst nach 1990, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
(im)possible! Artists as Architects, MARTa Herford, Germany
Maisons Fragiles, Hauser & Wirth, London
Moment!, Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
Night (1947-2015), The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami [catalogue]
Opening the Box: Unpacking Minimalism, The George Economou Collection, Athens
Painting 2.0: Malerei im Informationszeitalter/Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich [catalogue] [organized in collaboration with Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna]
Setting Things in Motion: Collections in Dialogue, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg
Travelling the World. Art from Germany, Busan Museum of Art, South Korea
Where Are We Now? Works by Baertling, Balka, Becher, Coplans, Genzken, and West, Jarla Partilager, Berlin [catalogue]
Which Life? A Panoramic View of the Collections, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
You've Got to Know the Rules...to Break Them, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
2012
Hauser & Wirth, Zürich (solo)
Hallelujah, Schinkel Pavillon”, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Wind, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Wind, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin, Germany (solo)

Public Collections

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Sammlung Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Sammlung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin
Sammlung Goetz, Munich