Born 1947 in Vienna.
Died 2012 in Vienna.

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2019

Franz West, David Zwirner, London

Franz West, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Albertusstrasse, Cologne, Germany

Franz West: Indoor Sculptures, Omer Tiroche Gallery, London

Franz West: Works 1989-2011, Gagosian Gallery, Rome

 

2018

Franz West, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Franz West – Parcours hors les murs, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris

Franz West: Sisyphos Sculptures, Gagosian Gallery, London

 

2017

Franz West, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp

Franz West: 1970-2010, Gagosian Gallery, Geneva

Franz West: The Mathis Esterhazy Collection, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva

 

2016

Franz West – ARTISTCLUB, the 21er Haus, Vienna

 

2015

Franz West, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

 

2014-2019

Franz West: Les Pommes d’Adam, Hall Art Foundation at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts

 

2014

Franz West, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue]

Franz West, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts

 

2013

Franz West: Where is My Eight?, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna

[travelling to: Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, England] [catalogue]

 

2012

Franz West, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Man with a Ball, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London [catalogue]

West Reyle / Reyle West: Stolen Fantasy, Kollaboration von Franz West und Anselm Reyle

 

2010-2012

Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

Zwei Epiphanien. mit Gelatin, Schloss Damtschach, Austria

 

2011 Furniture, Gagosian Gallery, Athens

 

2010

Autotheater, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina—Naples, Italy

Im Garten der Lüste. Kammergarten/Unteres Belvedere, Vienna

Italy and Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

Roman Room, Gagosian Gallery, Rome

Room in Rome, Italy. Piazza di Pietra, Rome

 

2009

The Ego and the Id, The Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park, New York

Eiserner Vorhang 2009/2010, Staatsoper, Vienna

Franz West, Fondation Beyeler, Basel

Im Garten der Lüste, Kammergarten/Unteres Belvedere, Vienna

White Elephant, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

 

2008

Franz West: Passtücke, Gagosian Gallery, New York [catalogue]

Sit on My Chair, Lay on My Bed, MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna

To Build A House You Start With The Roof, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore [travelling to: Los

Angeles County Museum of Art] [catalogue]

 

2007

Franz West: Displacement and Condensation, Gagosian Gallery, London [catalogue]

Les Pommes d’Adam, Place Vendome, Paris

 

2005

100 Artists See God, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach

Franz West, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

Franz West: Early Work, Ruzicska Gallery, Salzburg, Austria

Franz West: Sale, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Calfornia

 

2004

7th & Penn Street, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh

Franz West: Early Work, Zwirner & Wirth, New York

Franz West, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens

Franz West: Hurdy Gurdy, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Franz West: Recent Sculptures, Lincoln Center and Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York [organized by the Public Art Fund, New York]

Reflection Part 1: Michelangelo Pistoletto/Franz West, Sutton Lane, London

 

2003

Bassiri/Kounellis/West, Galleria Paolo Gentili, Montecatini Terme, Italy

Franz West, Valentina Bonomo Arte Contemporanea, Rome

Franz West, Sisyphos: Litter and Waste, Gagosian Gallery, New York [catalogue]

Franz West vis a vis Otto Zitko, Van Laere Contemporary Art, Antwerp [catalogue]

Franzwestite: Franz West – Works 1973-2003, Whitechapel Gallery, London [catalogue]

Franz West/Otto Zitko. Van Laere Contemporary Art, Antwerp

Narcissus, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

We’ll not carry coals. Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria

 

2002

Aussenskulptur, Galerie Hauser and Wirth and Presenhuber, Zurich

Burning, Galeries Contemporaines des Musees de Marseille, France

Festival d’Automne, ENSBA, Paris

Galeri Elisabeth und Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria

Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

Merciless. Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts [catalogue]

Rupertinum, Museum Moderner Kunst Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

SMAK, Ghent

 

2001

2topia, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

Alpengluhn, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt

Appartement, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany

Franz West, Gagosian Gallery, London

Franz West. Ich sammle mich, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany

Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

Gnadenlos, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna [catalogue]

Keiko Shimada Gallery, Tokyo

Franz West: Meeting Points, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland

 

2000

Domenico Bianchi, Franz West, Intorno a Borromini, Academia di Ungheria, Rome

Pre-semblance and The Everyday, The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago

Riff, West: Drehmomente, Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Christian Jankowski, Franz West: Telekommunikation, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

Die Aluskulptur, Schlosspark Ambras, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria [catalogue]

Ettore Spalletti, Franz West, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan

Plakatenwurfe, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

In & Out, Museum für Neue Kunst, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany [itinerary: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid] [catalogue]

Atelier del Bosco, Villa Medici, Rome

 

1999

Arbeitsplatte, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt

Franz West: New Sculptures and Installations, David Zwirner, New York

Franz West, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden [catalogue]

Cien Sillas, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid

Franz West, Heimo Zobernig, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

Vom Feinstein, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich

Mike Kelley, Franz West: To Be Read Aloud (A lire à haute voix), Hôtel Empain, Brussels [travelling to: FRAC Angoulême, Poitou-Charentes, France] [catalogue]

Dov’ è il Franz West?, Contemporary Art Centre, Spazio Umabno, Milan

Creativity: Furniture Reversal, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York

 

1998

Functional Objects & Related Works, A/D Gallery, New York

Die im Atelier fertiggestelle Ausstellung, Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens

Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldhouwkunst Middleheim, Antwerp [catalogue]

Franz West & Heimo Zobernig: Soccer Bar, David Zwirner, New York

Café, Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich

Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

 

1997

Franz West: Recyclages, Le Collège/FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France [catalogue]

Collabs and Combos, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich

Projects 61: Franz West, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Franz West, Fundação de Serralves, Oporto, Portugal [catalogue]

Com eign Mab, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Stühle für die documenta X, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck

 

1996

Franz West: Gelegentliches. Zu einer anderen Rezeption, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, German [catalogue]

Franz West Personale, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

Portfolio Kunst AG, Albertina, Vienna

Proforma, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna [itinerary: Kunsthalle Basel;

Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands] [catalogue]

Eine Retrospektive, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt

West/Arp, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany [catalogue]

Franz West: Leviten, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Franz West: Collagen Passstücke Werke, 1972-1990, Galerie Kalb, Vienna

Franz West: New Sculptures and Installations, David Zwirner, New York

Franz West, Heimo Zobernig, magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria

1995 Sammlung West, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck [catalogue]

Franz West (mit einer Geste von Raymond Hains), Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich

La Carreta Verde, Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid

Franz West, Villa Arson, Nice, France

 

1994

Home Elements (A Retrospective), David Zwirner, New York

Focus Series: Franz West, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Franz West: Neue Werke, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt

Franz West: Rest, Dia Center For The Arts, New York

Sammlung West, Galerie Oliver Schweden, Munich

Raum Strohal, Vienna

Gramercy International Art Fair, Gramercy Park Hotel, New York

Labor, with Michelangelo Pistoletto, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria [exhibition poster]

Franz West: Schürmanns Lichtung, Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert-Neviges, Germany

Konversation, Lisson Gallery, London

 

1993

Franz West, Denzil Hurley, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles

Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Franz West/Ettore Spalletti, Galleria Vera Vita Gioia, Naples

Franz West, Meyer Vaisman, Edition Julie Sylvester, New York

Franz West (with Heimo Zobernig), Moderna Gakerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Atelier, Museum auf Zeit, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel

Der Fall von Graz, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

Liegen und Tisch von Franz West, Generali Foundation, Vienna

Passage des Problèmes solubles, Musée de l’art moderene et contemporain, Geneva

Kunst Werk Austellung 4–Raimund von Luckwald, Franz West, Friedrichshof, Zurndorf, Germany

Das Bestellte Oval, with Jörg Schlick, Johannes Schlebrügge, Bernhard Riff Theseustempel, Vienna

Sur un Plateau, (with Jean-Marc Bustamante), Galerie Bruges La Morte, Bruges

Balthasar Burkhard/Franz West, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

 

1992

Galerie Grässlin – Erhardt, Frankfurt

Pelops speist, Galerie der Stadt, Wels, Austria

Galerie, Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna

Investigations of American Art, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw [itinerary: David Zwirner, New York] [catalogue]

 

1991

Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne

Pis Aller (Doubled) (with Mathis Esterhazy), Ealan Wingate Gallery, New York

Franz West, Vaclav Pozarek, Galerie Erika and Otto Friedrich, Bern

Franz West: Etude de Couleur, Villa Arson, Nice

Franz West: Cubi Carini, Edition Julie Sylvester, New York

Brückenköpfe (Bridgeheads), Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria

Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin

 

1990

Franz West, Galerie Bruges La Morte, Bruges, Belgium

Franz West-Heimo Zobernig, Kunstverein Horn, Austria [itinerary: Galerie Hlavního Mesta

Prahy, Prague] [catalogue]

Otium: Franz West/Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sala Boccioni, Milan

Franz West: Drawings, Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica

Franz West: Konventionelle Dichotomie, Jänner Galerie, Vienna

Franz West: Latteria, Galleria Mario Pieroni, Rome

Franz West, Otto Zitko, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam [catalogue]

Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid

Galerie Karl-Heinz Meyer, Karlsruhe, Germany

Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna

Austrian Pavilion, 44th Biennale di Venezia, Venice [catalogue]

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chciago

Standard Graphik, Cologne

 

1989

Franz West: Seats and Sculptures, Wingate Gallery, New York

Franz West, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany [catalogue and exhibition poster]

Franz West: Possibilities, P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York [catalogue]

Brandl-West: Nemo plus juris transferre ptest quam ipse habet (with Herbert Brandl), Galerie

Grässlin-Erhardt, Frankfurt [catalogue]

Franz West: Collagen, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Franz West: Homemades, Editions Julie Sylvester, New York

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Galerie Giorgio Persano, Milan

 

1988

Franz West, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland [catalogue]

Die Ernte des Tantalos: Herbert Brandl – Franz West, Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna

Fontana Romana, Galeria Mario Pieroni, Rome [catalogue]

Franz West, Heimo Zobernig, Galerija Studentskog Kulturnog Centra, Belgrad [catalogue]

Franz West, Herbert Brandl, Galerie Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy [catalogue]

Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Schöne Aussicht, Portikus, Frankfurt [catalogue]

Wegener Räume 2-5, Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna

1987 Ansicht, Vienna Secession, Vienna [catalogue]

Die Lege Ruimte: Franz West, Heimo Zobernig, Bruges

Franz West, Herbert Brandl, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Austria

 

1986

Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne

Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna

Franz West, Heimo Zobernig, Galerie Christoph Dürr, Munich [catalogue]

Legitime Skulpturen, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria [catalogue]

1985 Kunsthandlung Hummel, Vienna [catalogue]

Kunstzentrum der Engelhorn Stiftung, Munich [catalogue]

Spuren, Skulpturen, und Monumente Ihrer präzisen Reise, Kunsthaus Zürich [catalogue]

 

1984

Im Klapperhof, Cologne

 

1983

Kunsthandlung Hummel, Vienna

 

1980

Galerie Nächst St Stephan, Vienna

Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck, Germnay

Galerie Forme, Frankfurt

 

1979

Semantik und Verblödung, Galerie Forme, Frankfurt

 

1978

Galerie Nächst St Stephan, Vienna

 

1977

Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna

 

1970

Galerie Hamburger, Vienna

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2021

Europe: Ancient Future, Halle Für Kunst Steiermark, Graz, Austria Wonderland, Albertina Modern, Vienna

 

2020

00s. Cranford Collection: The 2000s, MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, France  [catalogue]

Blanc Sur Blanc, Gagosian Gallery, Paris

Comfort, Friedman Benda, New York

My Cartography: The Erling Kagge Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid [travelling to: Foundation Vincent van Gogh Arles, France]  [catalogue]

 

2019

Abstraction: Aspects of Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

Body Extended, Shepherd W&K Galleries, New York

Dieter Roth and Franz West, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

Connected. Peter Kogler with…, Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

Distance Extended / 1979 -1997. Part I, Herbert Foundation, Ghent, Belgium

Don’t Postpone Joy, Collecting Can Be Fun!, Galerie Konzett, Vienna

In The Hot Seat, KMAC Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Installations From 25 Years Of The Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg [catalogue]

The Last Waltz (For Leon), Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp [catalogue]

Obsessions In_Focus: Confrontations, Confessions and Glowing Friendships, SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Angeles

On Flower Power. The Role of the Vase in Arts, Crafts and Design, National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome

Out Of Order: Works From The Haubrok Collection, Part 1, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

Reason Gives No Answers, Newport Street Gallery, London

Ride the Wild: Oehlen West Wool, Lévy Gorvy, London

Rock Paper Scissors. Schere Stein Papier, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna

Schöne Sentimenten, museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

The Sensation of Space, The Warehouse, Dallas

Surface Tension, Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York

Third Dimension: Works from The Brant Foundation, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, New York

 

2018

The Art of Collaboration, Venus Over Manhattan, New York

Biennale Gherdëina VI: Writing the Mountains, Urtijëi, Italy

Class Reunion: Works from the Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna  [catalogue]

West World: Thu Van Tran, Franz West, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris

Colour Form Texture, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue]

Faith Love Hope: 800 Years of the Graz-Seckau Diocese, Kunsthaus Graz Universalmuseum  Joanneum, Graz, Austria

Pass-Stücke, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Germany

Salm Modern #1: Dimensions of Dialogue, Salm Palace, Národní galerie Praha, Prague

The Shape of Time, Kunst Historisches Museum Wien, Vienna

She sees the shadows, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales

Take Me (I’m yours), The French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, Rome

This Is Not a Prop, David Zwirner, New York

Unexchangeable, WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels

 

2017

Home: An Homage To Colin De Land, Massimo De Carlo, Milan

Performance!: Les collections du Centre Pompidou, 1967-2017, lille3000, Lille, France

Body Doubles: Hans Josephsohn and Franz West, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

Viva Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice [catalogue]

 

2016

Primary structures and speculative forms, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Sculpture on the Move 1946-2016, Kunstmuseum Basel [catalogue]

 

2015

Dans un Intérieur. Meubles, oeuvres murales & textiles d;artistes, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels

Sleepless – The bed in history and contemporary art, 21er Haus, Vienna

WORKS BY, Galeria Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

Works on Paper, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

 

2014

Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Harmony Korine, Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel, Rudolf

Stingel, Franz West, Gagosian Gallery, New York

Group Show, Gagosian Gallery, Rue de Ponthieu, Paris

No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984-1989, David Zwirner, New York

 

2013

Mostly West: Franz West and Artist Collaborations, Inverleith House, Edinburgh

 

2012

Artandpress, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Gold, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong

Stolen Fantasy, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

 

2011

54th Biennale di Venezia, Venice [catalogue]

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

Zeitgenössische Raumkunst, Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg Salzburg, Austria

2010 Aichi Triennale, Aichi, JAPAN

Gagosian Pop-Up!, Gagosian Gallery, London

Robbrecht and Daem: Pacing through Architecture, Whitechapel Gallery, London

Skin Fruit, Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York

Social Sculpture, Whitechapel Gallery, London

2008 Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York

Origins, The Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art. Peekskill, New York

2007 52nd Biennale di Venezia, Venice, [catalogue]

Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York

Pop Art Is….,Gagosian Gallery, London

Summer Show, Gagosian Gallery, New York

 

2006

PLEASE CLOSE THE GATE, New Art Centre, Salisbury, England

The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

 

2005

Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

Body Slam, Vancouver Art Gallery

Chocolate Art, Ludwig Museum, Cologne

Der Ficker, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria [catalogue]

Drunk vs. Stoned 2, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

Evergreen, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh

Facts & Visions. erbse – Kunst, Kultur und Kommunikation Ost, Bruckneudorf, Austria

Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York

Kunst in Schokolade, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Navy Pier Walk, Navy Pier, Chicago

Portrait, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

Sculpture, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria

Studiolo, with Heimo Zobernig and Zlatan Vukosavljevic, Palazzo Barbarigo, Venice

The Red Thread: Glimpses of International Art in Vienna, Austria, Howard House, Seattle

Vertigo (organized by Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst), Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England

Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California

 

2004

21er, 20er Haus. Vienna

5ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain d’ Enghien-les-Bains, France

About the Portrait, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid

Design Is Not Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread, Smithsonian

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York [traveled to Museum of Design, Atlanta]

Funky Lessons, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna

Funky Lessons, BüroFriedrich, Berlin

Franz West, Lost Eight, with Songül Boyraz, Heiri Häfliger, Franz Kapfer, Museum Moderner

Kunst Stiftung Wörlen, Passau, Austria

Le Opere e i Giorni, Certosa di Padula, Salerno, Italy

Los Monocromos, Reina Sofia, Madrid

Reflecting the Mirror, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

SITE Sante Fe’s Fifth International Biennial: Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque

(curated by Robert Storr), SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico [catalogue]

Skulptur. Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Komik. Kunsthalle Vienna [catalogue]

The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection (curated by Eugen Blume). Hamburger Bahnhof,

Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin [catalogue]

Tongue in cheek, Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain, Alsace, France

Ulysses, Atelier im Augarten, Vienna

 

2003

+/- 5, 10, 15, 20. 20 ans d’1 collection. FRAC Ile -de-France, Paris

Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer. La Bienale di Venezia, Venice

Game Over. Galerie Grimm Rosenfeld, Munich

Go Johnny Go! Kunsthalle, Vienna

Grotesk, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

It happened tomorrow, Biennale de Lyon, France [catalogue]

Jazz und Raum, Nexus Kunsthalle, Saalfelden, Austria

Moving Collection: BODY-CON, Wanakio Information Center „Sakurazaka“, Naha/Okinawa

Outlook, International Art Exhibition, Athens

The Ordering of The Beauty Alias The Passion Of Participation Alias Horizontal Vampirism

Alias Six Doors Alias The Quarrel Of The Diagonal Alias Almost Nothing For Sale Alias

Yesterday’s Snow, Austrian Cultural Forum, London

Utopia Station, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

 

2002

Ahead of the 21st Century: The Pisces Collection, Fürstenberg Sammlungen, Donaueschingen, Germany [catalogue]

House of Fiction, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Reflexions, Philomene Magers, Munich

Skulpturengarten Museum Abteiberg, Düsseldorf

Startkapital, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf [catalogue]

Time Machine, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Volume I, Van Laere Contemporary Art, Antwerp

 

2001

Chairs, Castello di Udine, Italy

I♡ NY, David Zwirner, New York

Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany

Oskuldens Arhundrade – Age of Innocence, Liljevalchs Kunsthalle, Stockholm

Obsorge, Kunsthaus Zug, Zug, Switzerland

Sammlung Hauser and Wirth/Part 2/Alternating Current, Sammlung Hauser and Wirth, St Gallen, Switzerland

The Body and Sin, Bienal de Valencia, Spain

Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan

Ziviler Ungehrosam, Die Sammlung Falckenberg, Hannover

 

2000

12th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney [catalogue]

Abstract Art, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany [catalogue]

Aquarium, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, France

Atelier West, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna

Atelier West, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid

Collective Art Works, Les Abattoirs, Art Contemporain, Toulouse, France

In Between. The Art Project of Expo 2000, Expo 2000, Hannover [catalogue]

La forma del mondo, la fine del mondo, PAC, Milan

Le Jardin, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome [catalogue]

Lust Warande/ Pleasure Garden, De Oude Warande, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Mixing Memory and Desire, Neues Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland [catalogue]

Milch vom ultrablauen Strom, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria [traveled to Zacheta Galerie Warschau, Warsaw; Galerie der Haupstadt Prag, Prague; Ludwig Museum, Budapest]

Oskuldens Arhundrade – Age of Innocence, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden [[travelling to: Liljevalchs Kunsthalle, Stockholm]

Protest and Survive, Whitechapel Gallery, London

Sammlung (1), Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise St. Gallen, Switzerland

Soft White, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Wider Bild gegen Wart, Raum Aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Vienna [travelling to: NICC, Antwerp]

Works in Space, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuberg, Austria

Quiet Life, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany [catalogue]

Quotidiana – The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy [catalogue]

 

1999

Austria. Arquitectura el S. XX, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Seville

Comfort Zone, PaineWebber Gallery, New York

Dov’è il Franz West?, Centro Arte Contemporanea Spazio Umano, Milan

Incontro con Franz West (Franz West und Werkstatt), Centro Civico per l’Arte Contemporanea

“La Grancia”, Serre di Rapolano, Italy [itinerary Galerie Kalb, Vienna; Hürlimann Areal, Zurich] [catalogue]

Gallery Artists Summer Show, David Zwirner, New York

La casa, il corpo, il cuore, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Wien, Vienna

Signs of Life, Melbourne International Biennial, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Australia

Real Stories II, Jeff Koons, Fischli & Weiss, Reinhard Mucha, Thomas Struth, Philip Taaffe,

Franz West, Marianne Boesky Gallery/ Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York

Space Place, Kunsthalle Tirol, Hall in Tirol, Austria

Spore: Contemporary Arts at the turning of the century, Cassino, Italy

Transmute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Zeitwenden-Rückblick und Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany [itinerary: Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna]

My Name—Sammlung Falckenberg, January 1999

L’Ultimo disegno del 1999, Zerynthia, Rome

La Forma del mondo. La Fine del mondo, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea di Milano, Milan

 

1998

10. Intensità in Europa, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy [catalogue]

Austria im Rosennetz, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels [catalogue]

Bewegte Formen, Design zwischen Kunst und Technik, Galerie I&AC, Graz, Austria

24th Bienal de São Paulo: Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros, São Paulo [catalogue]

Blunt Object, David and Alfred Smart Museum, University of Chicago

Contemporary Art from Austria, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC

Collection ’98, Leipziger Galerie fur Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Das Jahrhundert der kuenstlerischen Freiheit (Hundert Jahre Secession), Wiener Secession,

Vienna [itinerary: Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki]

Eight Artists From Europe, Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Gunma, Japan [catalogue]

Ethno-Antics, (Arkipelag) Nordiska Museet, Stockholm

Five Years, 1993-1998, David Zwirner, New York

Franz West & Heimo Zobernig. Bar, David Zwirner, New York

Foundation for the Arts, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna

Hommage á Dieter Roth, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne

Köln Skulptur 1, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne [catalogue]

Kunst begreifen, Universitätsmuseum für bildende Kunst, Marburg [venue: Kunsthaus Nürnberg;

Hallen für Kunst, Freiburg; St. Johanneskirche, Dannenberg, Germany]

Life Style, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz

Mai ‘98-Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst seit den sechziger Jahren, Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne [catalogue]

Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, Museum of Contemporary Art,

Los Angeles; curated by Paul Schimmel [venues: MAK, Vienna, AUSTRIA; MAC Barcelona, SPAIN; MOCA, Tokyo, JAPAN (1999); NMA, Osaka, JAPAN (1999)]; catalogue

Pink Fluid, (Arkipelag), Sjohistoriska Museet, Stockholm

Sculptura Austriae, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria

Selbstportraits, Galerie Barbel Grasslin, Frankfurt

Usefool, Postmasters, New York

Wounds: Between democracy and redemption in contemporary art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm ,[catalogue]

 

1997

The Austrian View, Denver Art Museum, Colorado [itiernary: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires]

Broken Home, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

Documenta X, Kassel [catalogue]

Engel Engel, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

Habitus Abito Abitare-Progetto Arte, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna [catalogue]

Home Sweet Home, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany [catalogue]

Kunstmeile Gürtel, Architektur Zentrum, Vienna

Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France [catalogue]

Münster Skulptur Projekte, Münster, Germany [catalogue]

Mythos-Memoria-Historia, Städtische Galerie, Linz, Austria

Post-Produktion, EA-Generali Fondation, Vienna

Touche pour voir, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France

Utopie und Weltschmerz, Schömer-Haus, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Venice Biennale, Venice [catalogue]

1996 25 Jahre Galerie Krinzinger, Austria

1996 Sydney Biennial, Sydney [catalogue]

Art at Home, Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo [venue: Gallery Seomi, Seoul]

Austriaci a Roma, Palazzo Braschi, Rome

Austria im Rosennetz, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna [itinerary: Kunsthaus Zurich]

Chaos Wahnsinn, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria [catalogue]

Die Schrift des Raumes: Kunst Architektur Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

Group Show, Palazzo Mauri, Spoleto, Italy

Group Show, Kunsthandlung H. Kobrath and B. Wimmer, Vienna

Group Show, Museum Pecci, Pecci, Italy

Group Show, Museum Budapest, Budapest

Hall, HAll 6060, am Stiftsplatz (Projektreike, “Temporäre Stadteingriffe”), Hall in Tirol, (with Heimo Zobernig), Austria

Il Miele Si Sgocciola Attraverso Il Pane, Artisti Austriaci Contemporanei, Città di Castelfranco Veneto, Castelfranco, Italy [catalogue]

Model Home, PS 1 Museum/Clocktower Gallery, New York

Performance at the Theatro Fenice, Venice

Propositions Sculpturales, Casino Luxembourg

Wunderkammer, Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg

Sammler exemplarisch II: Sammlung Johann Widauer, Kunstraum Wien, Vienna

Schwere-Los, Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria [itinerary: Museum Ludwig, Budapest]

Styki/ Contact Prints, Foksal Gallery, Warsaw

Wenen, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands

White Cube/Black Box, Skulpturensammlung, EA-Generali Foundation, Vienna

Zeil Aktiv, Frankfurt

 

1995

1995 Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Artist Made Objects, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia

Corpus Delicti, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent Das Ende der Avant Garde. Kunst als Dienstleistung, Sammlung Schürmann, Hypobank Galleries, Munich

Sammlung Franz West, Palais Thurn und Taxis, Innsbruck, Austria

Take Me (I’m Yours), Serpentine Gallery, London

The Media, Magic Media Company, Hürth, Germany

 

1994

Hors Limites: L’Art et la Vie 1952-1994, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Jetztzeit, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

Kommentar zu Europa 1994, Museum moderner Kunst Wien, Schweizergarten, Vienna [catalogue]

Lokalzeit – Wiener Material im Spiegel des Unbehagens, Raum Strohal, Vienna

Naked City, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan

Reveillon ’94, Stux Gallery, New York

Sculpture, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York

Summer Group Show, David Zwirner, New York

Schürmanns Lichtung, Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert, Germany

Skulpturen: Herold, Mucha, West, Galerie Borgmann Capitain, Cologne,

The Ecstasy of Limits, Gallery 400/University of Illinois at Chicago

Temporary Translation(s). Kunst der Gegenwart und Fotografie, Sammlung Schürmann”,

Deichtorhallen Hamburg [catalogue]

trans, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

Where is Home?, Kent Gallery, New York

 

1993

75 Jahre Kunsthalle Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

Edition Julie Sylvester (with Meyer Vaisman), New York

Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris

Galerie Raymond Bollag 1+2, Zurich

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen (with Balthasar Burkhard), Brussels

Galerie Vea Vita Gioja (with Ettore Spalletti), Naples

Grafica 1, Innsbruck / Tyrol, Austria

Hotel Carlton Palace Chambre 763, Hotel Carlton Palace, Paris

Kunst mit Fotografie, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria

La peinture et le corps, Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris

Le Domaine de Kerguehennec, Centre d’art, Locmine, Belgium

Made in Austria, Galerie Academia, Salzburg, Austria

Museum auf Zeit, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel

Rosa e Giallo, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, France [[travelling to: La Criee, Halle d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France]

The Rome Project, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island [catalogue]

Schaulust, Erotische Fotografien, Galerie Hummel, Vienna

Spiegelsprung, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

The sublime void, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp [catalogue]

Spiel ohne Grenzen, Kunsthalle Budapest

Sur un plateau (with Jean-Marc Bustamante), Galerie Bruges La Morte, Bruges

Viaggil verso Citera, Biennale di Venezia, Casino Municipale, Venice

 

1992

Ars Pro Domo, Museum Ludwig, Cologne [catalogue]

Beelden Buiten ‘92, Tielt, Belgium [catalogue]

Dirty Data – Sammlung Schürmann, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany [catalogue]

Documenta IX, Kassel

Identität Differenz, Neue Galerie, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria

Les mysteres de l’auberge espagnole, Villa Arson, Nice, France

Skulpturen im Park, ORF Landesstudio, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria [catalogue]

 

1991

Apt Art International, Moscow

Junge Kunst aus Österreich, Hamburger Kunstverein, Germany [itinerary: Galerie der Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Germany]

Körper und Körper, Grazer Kunstverein im Stadtmuseum Graz, Steirischer Herbst ‘91, Graz, Austria

Metropolis, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin [catalogue]

Sensualität, Sensibilität, Purismus, Paris [catalogue]

Rosa e Giallo, Galeria Pieroni, Rome

Skulpturen für Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

Wien – 1900, Wien – 1900, Liljevalchs, Stockholm

1990 3 Tage Umhausen, Umhausen, Germany

Bemalte Plastik I, II und III, Kunsthandlung Hummel, Vienna

Galerie Hubert Klocker, Vienna

Koury-Wingate Gallery, New York

Le Diaphane, Musée des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing, France

Letters, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York

Musée de l’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (with Herbert Brandl and Ernst Caramelle), Paris [catalogue]

Opac, Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona

Possible Worlds, The Institute of Contemporary Art & the Serpentine Gallery, London [catalogue]

The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (with Herbert Brandl and Otto Zitko), Chicago [catalogue]

Sammlung Rudi Molacek, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria [catalogue]

The Shadow of Presence, Galerie Charles Cartwright, Paris [catalogue]

Vienne Aujourd’hui, Musee de Toulon, Toulon, France [catalogue]

Weitersehen, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany [catalogue]

1989 Das Spiel des Unsagbaren, Wiener Secession, Vienna [catalogue]

Einleuchten, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany [catalogue]

Galerie Mario Peroni, Rome [catalogue]

Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne [catalogue]

Galerie Marga Paz, Madrid [catalogue]

Galerie Jost Declerqc, Ghent [catalogue]

Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna [catalogue]

Kunst der letzten 10 Jahre, Museum modener Kunst, Vienna [catalogue] Luhring Augustine, New York [catalogue]

Open Mind, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent [catalogue]

Sigmund Freud Wohnung, Vienna [catalogue]

 

1988

Aperto 88, Biennal, Venice [catalogue]

Arbeiten mit/auf Papier, Galerie Varisella, Nürnberg, Germany

Broken Neon, Galerie Christoph Dürr, Munich [itinerary: Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris] [catalogue]

Franz West, Neue Sculpturen, Kollaborationen Herbert Brandl and Heimo Zobernig, Galerie

Isabella Kacprzak, Stuttgart

Freizone Dorotheergasse, Vienna [catalogue]

Galerie Max Hetzler, (with Georg Herold and Jon Kessler) Cologne [catalogue]

Körper, Kunsthandlung Hummel, Vienna

Skulpturenrepublik, Messepalast, Vienna [itinerary: John Hansart Gallery, Southhampton] [catalogue]

Zeitlos, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin [catalogue]

 

1987

Aktuele Kunst in Oostenrijk, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent

Anderer Leute Kunst, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany [catalogue]

Broken Neon, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria [catalogue]

Österreichisches College, Forum Alpach, Austria

Skulpturenprojekt, Münster, Germany [catalogue]

Various Artists, Vienna Austria 1987, Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo, Norway [catalogue]

 

1986

De Sculptura, Messeplatz, Vienna [catalogue]

Die Wahlverwandschaften – Zitate, Grazer Kunstverein, Stadtmuseum Graz im Steirischen Herbst, Austria [catalogue]

Neue Wege des Plastischen in Österreich, Galerie Maerz, Linz, Austria

Papier und Skulptur, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany [catalogue]

Skulptur Sein, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf [catalogue]

Sonsbeek 86, Arnheim, The Netherlands [catalogue]

Zurück zur Farbe, Kunsthalle Budapest [catalogue]

 

1985

Galerie Grita Insam, “Raum annehmen”, Vienna [catalogue]

Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna

Un regard sur Vienne, Pavillon Josephine, Straßburg, France [catalogue]

Trigon 85 – Synome für Skulptur, Steirischer Herbst, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria [catalogue]

 

1984

Biennale für Kleinplastik, Budapest

 

1982

Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna

 

1981

Kunsthandlung Hummel, Vienna

Westkunst, Cologne [catalogue]

 

1980

Kunsthandlung Hummel, Vienna

 

Works in Public Collections (Selection)

 

Albertina Museum, Vienna

Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands

CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malága, Spain

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris

Collection Insitut d’art contemporain, Rhône-Alpes

Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Champagne-Ardenne, Reims

Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) – Corte, Corse

Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Ile-de-France

Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France

Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC) Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux

Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Germany

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands

Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria

Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

Les Abattoirs, Toulouse

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

Musée d’art contemporain, Marseille

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium

ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany