Galerie Mezzanin

Sturtevant

*1930 Lakewood, deceased in 2014

 

Prizes (selection)

Award of the Golden Lion of the 54th Venice Biennial, 2011

 

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

 

2012

Image over Image

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Kunsthalle Zürich

Duchamp Bicycle Wheel

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

L’ABÉCÉDAIRE DE DELEUZE

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais

 

2011

Dallas Contemporary, Dallas


2010

The Razzle Dazzle of Thinking

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Vertical Monad

Galerie Neu, Berlin

Dillinger Running Series

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg

Elastic Tango - a Video Three Act Play

Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London


2009

Blow Job

Air de Paris, Paris

 

2008
Vertical Monad

Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Sturtevant

Le Consortium, Dijon

2007

Raw Power

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

The Exterior of the Interior

Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna

 

2006

Cold Fear

Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

Sturtevant. Dillinger Running Series

Site Galerie, Düsseldorf

 

2005

The Brutal Truth

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge

PUSH AND SHOVE

Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York

 

2004

The Brutal Truth

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York

 

2003

The Dark Threat of Absence

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Sturtevant

Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna

The Sixties. Lichtenstein, Warhol, Wesselmann, Rosenquist

Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich

 

2002

Shifting Mental Structures

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Sturtevant. Works on Paper 1965/66/69

Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich

I Love Arlette
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

 

2001

Dillinger Running Series

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

Ca va aller

Galerie Hans Mayer, Berlin

 

2000

Copy without Origins: Self as Disappearence

Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

 

1999

Duchamp 1200 Coal Bags et autres pieces

MAMCO, Geneva

Sturtevant, 1225 Objects

Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg

 

1998

Int./Ext. Visibilities

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Ca va aller

Air de Paris, Paris

 

1997
Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich

 

1996
Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Le Mans

 

1995

Powerfull Reversal

Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf

 

1994
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

 

1993
Villa Arson, Nice, Musée d'Art Contemporain
Stux Gallery New York
Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf

Sturtvant. Works from 1964- 1992

Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich

 

1992
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

 

1991
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

 

1990
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

 

1989
Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne
Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich

Art Basel 89

 

1988

Sturtevant. Drawings 1988- 1965

Bess Cutler Gallery, New York

 

1987
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Stux Gallery, New York

 

1986
White Columns, New York

 

1974
Onnasch Gallery, New York

 

1973

Sturtevant. Studies for Warhols’ Marilyns, Beuys’ Action Objects, Duchamps’ atc. Including Film

Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York

 

1971
Sturtevant. Studies done Beuys’ Action Objects

Palley Gallery, New York

 

1970

Sturtevant. Huit Tableaux et un Prototype

Galerie Claude Givaudan, Paris

 

1969

Sturtevant. Huit Tableaux et un Prototype

Galerie Claude Givaudan, Paris

 

1967
The Store of Claes Oldenburg

New York
Relâche

School of Visual Art, New York

 

1966

America America

Galerie J, Paris

 

1965
Bianchini Gallery, New York

Crown Gallery, Brussels

 

Group Exhibitions (selection)

 

2011

54th Venice Biennale, ILLUMInations

Giardini and Arsenale, Venice

In Praise of Doubt

Punta Della Dogana, Venice

The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists. Reconfigure The Signs of Power

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

 

2010

Face History

Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

The Way it Wasn't (Celebrating ten years of castillo/corrales, Paris)

Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis

8th Gwangju Biennale - 10.000 Lives

Gwangju Bennale, Gwangju

Saw it, Loved it

Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Agents & Provocateurs

HMKV - Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund

Seconde main

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris

L'ecole de Stephanie

KW Berling

Funktionen der Zeichnung

MMK Frankfurt

Pop Life

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Radical Conceptual

MMK Frankfurt

 

2009

Die Kunst ist Super!

Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin

Just what is it...

ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe

Pop Life: Art in a Material World

Tate Modern, London

Rip-Off: Between Appropriation and the Appropriated

Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York City

Ras nécessaire et pourtant indispensable. 1979-2009: 30 ans d'art contemporain à Meymac

Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac

53nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale

Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

Palais des Mirages

Mönchenhaus-Museum Goslar, Goslar

The Quick and the Dead

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Audio, video, disco

Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich

Mark Wallinger Curates: The Russian Linesman

The Hayward, London

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture

Smithsonian Institution, National

 

2008

Manifesto Marathon

Serpentine Gallery, London

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

Kult des Künstlers - Ich kann mir nicht jeden Tag ein Ohr abschneiden

Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

An unruly history of the readymade

Galeria de Fundaciíon/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City

Standard Sizes

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York City

Blasted Allegories - Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution

MoMA PS1, New York City

MAXImin

Fundaciíon Juan March, Madrid

Paperweight

Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin

The Archer and the Goat

Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

Exposing Flesh

III CCS BARD, New York

 

2007

Group Show

Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

Before (Plus ou moins)

Palais de Tokyo, Paris

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC

Good Morning, Midnight

Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York City

Klio - Eine Kurze Geschichte der Kunst in Euramerika nach 1945

ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe

Antes y depués del minimalismo

Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani (Fundaciíon Juan March), Palma de Mallorca

Schönwahnsinnig

Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig

 

2006

Twice Drawn, Tang Museum
Air de Paris, Paris
PS1 New York
Whitney Biennial, Day for Night

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Wrong

Klosterfelde, Berlin
MMK, Frankfurt

Grand Palais, Paris

Armleder, Baldessari, Bayrle, Mullican, Oehlen, Sturtevant, Weiner

Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna

 

2005
De Singel, Antwerp

Homage to the Square
Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
Mamco, Geneve
Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Kunstforum, Vienna
Superstars, Von Warhol Bis Madonna

Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

 

2004

20 Jahre 20 Years, 1984- 2004

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg

Besides, popularity is a rather lumpy concept, no? (Sturtevant), SITE Magazin + Hausammeer productions

Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
About painting

Tang Museum, New York
Frac Paca, Marseille

Before the End

Le Consortium, Dijon
Paris Photo, Paris

 

2003

Das lebendige Museum

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
University of Sunderland

The DaimlerChrysler Collection

Museum fur Neue Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe

Gallery Midway, St. Paul
List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
Site, Düsseldorf

Living with Duchamp

Tang Museum, New York

Re-Produktion 2

Georg Kargi Fine Arts, Vienna
Trésor Public

Frac Limousin, Limoges

Un Tableau dans le décor, Peintures 1970-2000

Musee du Chateaux des Duncs de Bretagne, Nantes

 

2002
Paris Photo, Paris
Niederlande Foto Institut, Rotterdam

Manifeste oder Egriffifenheir- Was ist das

Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
Minimalism and After

Sammlung Daimler Chrysler, Berlin
Iconoclash, ZKM Karlsruhe
Min Marilyn

Liljevalchs Konsthall Stockholm
Art After Art

Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen
Private/Corporate : A Dialogue

Daimler Chrysler Collection, Haus Huth, Berlin

Repertoire Ce qu;il te plait 2

MAMCO, Geneva

 

2001

Ornament and Abstraction

Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Trade- Waren, Wege und Werte im Welthandel

Winterthur Foto Museum, Winterthur

Candice Breitz, Claude Closky, Elaine Sturtevant, Martin Walde, Erwin Wurm

Gallery Mezzanin, Vienna

Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Frac Bretagne, La Bretagne Collectionne

 

2000
Protest & Survive

Whitechapel Gallery, London
Copy Right/Copy Wrong

Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
Les 100 sourires de Mona Lisa

Tokyo

 

1999

Auffrischender Wind aus wechselnden Richtungen. Internationale Aventgarde seit 1960 . Die Sammlung, Paul Maenz

Neues Museum, Bremen
Air de Paris, Paris
ZMK, Karlsruhe

Apropos of Marcel Duchamp

Curt Marcus Gallery, New York

 

1998
Das Jahrhundert der Künstlerischen Freiheit

Wiener Secession, Vienna
Sequence

Edition Schellmann Munich, New York
Upfreshing Wind from Changing Directions

Neues Museum, Weimar
Painting Now and Forever

Pat Hearn gallery, New York
One Hundred years of Artistic Freedom

City Art Museum, Helsinki

 

1997
Galerie von Lintel, Munich
From One Point to Another

L’Atelier Soardi, Nice

Sous le manteau

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

 

1996
Magritte

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal

Die Kunst der Konversation

Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
La Criée

Centre d'Art, Rennes
L'Art du Plastique

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Family, Nation, Tride, Community SHIFT

Museum der Kultur der Welt, Berlin
Now/Here

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaeck
Shift

Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin

Color fields: Selections of the Permanent Collection

MOCA, Los Angeles

Seamus Farell, Daniel Faust, Raymond Hains, Richard Hoeck, Yoko Ono, Sturtevant, Rosemarie Trockel

FRAC Bretagne, La Criee, Rennes

 

1994
MAMCO, Genève
Qui est Libre?

Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Rouen

Saut dans le vide

Maison Centrale des artistes ThDKh, Moscow

Zentrum Paris

Art Frankfurt 94, Frankfurt

 

1993
Zentrum Paris

Kunsthalle Ritter, Klagenfurt
Drawings 30th Anniversary Exhibitions

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

Zentrum Paris

Kunsthalle Ritter, Klagenfurt Stux Gallery, New York

 

1992
Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris
Galerie Six Friederich, Munich
Objects for an ideal home

Serpentine Gallery, London

 

1991
Charade of Mastery

Whitney Museum of American Art, downtown New York
Denk-Bilder

Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich

Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal

Objects for an ideal home

Serpentine Gallery, London
Aspect de l'art du XXéme siécle

Abbaye Saint André, Meymac
(Art)

California State University, Fullerton

Hybrid Abstraction

Bennington College, Vermont
Das Goldene Zeitalter

Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

 

1990
Permanent Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Charade of Mastery

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Spellbound

Mark Richards Gallery, New York

 

1989
Prospect 89

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Franckfurt Main
D&S Ausstellung

Kunstverein, Hamburg

A Decade of Drawing

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

Hommage-Demontage

Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt

Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna

The Silent Baroque

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg

 

1988
Complexity &Contradiction

Scott Hanson Gallery, New York

Hommage-Demontage

Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen

Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen

Stadtisches Museum Gelsenkirchen

Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht

Vraiment Faux

Fondation Cartier, Jouye-en-Josas

 

1987

1st Biennial Internacional De Pintura (US Pavillion)

Museo De Arte Moderno, Cuenca Ecuador

Glittering Prize

Stux Gallery, New York
Post-Abstract Abstraction

Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield

 

1986

Investgations

Mclntosh/ Drysdale Gallery, Washinghton
Production Re: Production

Gallery 345, New York

 

1985

The Art of Appropriation

Alternative Museum, New York

 

1967

Art in the Mirror

Museum of Modern Art, New York

 

1966

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

 

Education
Chicago Art Institute, Art Students League, NYC, University of Zurich, University of Iowa, BA, Columbia University, MA

 

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