WOLFGANG LAIB

1950 Born in Metzingen, Germany
Lives and works between Hochdorf, Germany, New York and India

Awards

2015
Praemium Imperiale, Tokyo, Japan

1987
Arnold-Bode-Price of documenta, Kassel, Germany

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025
Wolfgang Laib: Towers of Silence,” Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib and the Collection of Kunsthaus Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2024
Wolfgang Laib. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France
Wolfgang Laib, Passageway, Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, Italy

2023
Wolfgang Laib, "e vidi cose che ridire né sa né può", Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, italy
Wolfgang Laib. Buchmann Lugano, Switzerland
Wolfgang Laib. Kunstumuseum Stuttgart, Germany

2022
Wolfgang Laib, City of Silence, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
Wolfgang Laib: Crossing the River, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Chur, Switzerland

2021
Wolfgang Liab. Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2020
Wolfgang Liab. Buchmann Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
Wolfgang Liab. Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2019
Without Time, Without Place, Without Body, Cappella Pazzi, Cappella Rucellai, Cappela dei Magi, Museu di San Marco, Florence, Italy

2018
Where the Land and Water End, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA

2017
Wolfgang Laib. Where the Land and Water End, Secretary Building Yangon, Myanmar
The Beginning of Something Else, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Somewhere Else, Church of Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa, Italy
Wolfgang Laib. MASI, Lugano, Switzerland

2016
Wolfgang Laib, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Wolfgang Laib, ADAA: The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA

2015
Wolfgang Laib, Buchmann Box, Berlin, Germany
Wolfgang Laib, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2014
From the Known to the Unkown - To Where is Your Oracle Leading You?, Studio Anselm Kiefer, Barjac, France
Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, Italy
Lebensfries, Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Ailleurs. La chambre des certitudes, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2013
Wolfgang Laib. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Without Beginning and Without End, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Laib Wax Room, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., USA
Wolfgang Laib. From Me All Has Risen, In Me All Exists, In Me All Dissolves (kaivalya upanisad), Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib. La Ribaute, Barjac, France
Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Lebensfries – Frieze of Life,” Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
Wolfgang Laib. Basilica of Sant’Apollinare, Classe, Ravenna, Italy

2012
Passageway inside – downside, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg-Halle, Austria
Passageway inside, Vehedra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi, India

2011
Gallery André Buchmann, Berlin, Germany
Unlimited Ocean, SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, USA
Gallery Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai, India
Gallery Steinruecke & Mirchandani, Mumbai, India

2010
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Manzana Uno Art Gallery, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia

2009
Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
Gallery Sperone, Sent, Switzerland
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico-City, Mexico
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, USA
Gallery Sean Kelly, New York, USA

2008
Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Gallery Buchmann, Berlin, Germany
Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy

2007
Without Beginning - Without End, MNCARS - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

2006
Wolfgang Laib, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Lasalle-Sia, Singapore
Reishäuser, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2005
Wolfgang Laib, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Wolfgang Laib, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Roma, Italy
Wolfgang Laib, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

2004
Wolfgang Laib - Where the Land and Water Ends, Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Wolfgang Laib - Passageway-Overgoing, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Wolfgang Laib, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
Wolfgang Laib: Passageway-Overgoin, Lawrence-Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia, Australia

2003
Wolfgang Laib: Drawings and Photographs, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Wolfgang Laib: Durchgang-Übergang, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Passageway-Overgoing, National Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea
Wolfgang Laib. Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan

2002
Selection of Sculpture and Drawing, Goethe Institut, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib: Photographies - Oeuvres récentes, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Wolfgang Laib, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib: Drawings and Photographs, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks and Projects, New York, USA

2001
Wolfgang Laib, Drawings and 'Ship’, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
Für einen anderen Körper - Wolfgang Laib, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

2000
Wolfgang Laib, A Retrospective, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Une chambre de cire pour la montagne, Roc del Maure (Pyrénées Orientales), Prieuré de Marcevol, France
Wolfgang Laib, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA
Wolfgang Laib, Sara Hildén Kunstmuseum, Tampere, Finland

1999
Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes, France
Milleventi, Milan, Italy
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
Wolfgang Laib. Blütenstaub Von Kiefern, Buchmann Galerie Köln, Cologne, Germany

1998
Wolfgang Laib. The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Wolfgang Laib. Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Wolfgang Laib.Galleria Artiaco, Naples, Italy

1997
Wolfgang Laib. Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Wolfgang Laib. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Orangerie, Germany

1996
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Wolfgang Laib. Gallery Artek, Helsinki, Finland
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Wolfgang Laib. Diozensanmuseum, Cologne, Germany
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Wolfgang Laib. Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

1995
Wolfgang Laib. Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Wolfgang Laib. Sperone Westwater, New York, USA

1994
Wolfgang Laib. Henry Moore Studio, Dean Clough, Halifax, England
Wolfgang Laib. Camden Arts Centre, London, England
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Wolfgang Laib. Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany J.H. de Pont Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands

1993
Wolfgang Laib. Sperone Westwater, 121 Greene St., New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Buchman, Basel, Switzerland

1992
Wolfgang Laib. CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Wolfgang Laib. Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Wolfgang Laib. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Wolfgang Laib. Galleria Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Wolfgang Laib. Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Ascona, Italy
Wolfgang Laib. The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

1991
Wolfgang Laib. Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Gallery Senda, Hiroshima, Japan
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland
Wolfgang Laib. Kanransha, Tokyo, Japan
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Crousel-Robelin Bama, Paris, France
Wolfgang Laib. Pollen Installation, Center For Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wolfgang Laib. Lightseed Watari-um, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

1990
Wolfgang Laib. Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Wolfgang Laib. Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Wolfgang Laib. Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Rhona Hoffmann Gallery, Chicago, USA

1989
Wolfgang Laib. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Crousel-Robelin Bama, Paris, France
Wolfgang Laib. Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

1988
Wolfgang Laib. Gallery Lelong, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Selected Works Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Lichtjahr 1988 Ruine der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Wolfgang Laib. Musee Departemental de Rochechouart, Chateau de Rochechouart, France
Wolfgang Laib. Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain

1987
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland

1986
Wolfgang Laib. ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France
Wolfgang Laib. CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

1985
Wolfgang Laib. Wolfgang Laib, Robert Ryman, Ian Wilson, Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Kunstverein St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Wolfgang Laib. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

1984
Wolfgang Laib. The rice meals for the nine planets, Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany

1983
Wolfgang Laib. Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Wolfgang Laib. The sixty-three rice meals for a stone, Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany

1982
Wolfgang Laib. Gewad, Gent, Belgium
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Konrad Fischer, Zurich, Switzerland
Wolfgang Laib. Biennale, Venice, German Pavilion together with Hanne Darboven and Gotthard Graubner, Venice, Italy

1981
Wolfgang Laib. Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Max Hetzler, Stuttgart, Germany
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Wolfgang Laib. Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany

1980
Wolfgang Laib. Ink, together with Brice Marden, Gerhard Merz, Gilberto Zorio, Zurich, Switzerland

1979
Wolfgang Laib. Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, USA
Wolfgang Laib. Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Jean et Karen Bernier, Athens, Greece

1978
Wolfgang Laib. Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Wolfgang Laib. Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Rolf Preisig, Basel, Switzerland

1976
Wolfgang Laib. Galerie Müller-Roth, Stuttgart, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
Buchmann Galerie — 30 Years, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2024
Bianco,” curated by Rischa Paterlini, Collezione Laura e Luigi Giordano, Spa | Spazio Per Arte, Palazzo Bellini, Oleggio, Italy
Through Other Eyes,” Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany

2023
1, 5 Grad, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany 
1983 | 2023, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Germany
L’uomo senza qualità: Gian Enzo Sperone collezionista, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (Mart), Roverto, Italy

2022
Listen to the Sound of the Earth Turning: Our Wellbeing since the Pandemic, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Sunset/Sunrise, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan 
Wellbeing since the Pandemica, Mori Art Mauseum, Tokyo, Japan

2021
Feeling the Stones, 1st Ad-Diriyah Biennale, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
La Couleur crue, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France

2020
30 Years in Paris, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France

2019
Yorkshire Sculpture International, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, England
The Social Environment, Venice Biennale, Chiesa di Santa Maria delle, Penitenti, Venice, Italy
Grado Zero, Lia Rumma Gallery, Milan, Italy

2018
Fotoruins, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Black Light: Secret traditions in art since the 1950s, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Königsklasse IV. Gegenwartskunst in Schloss Herrenchiemsee. Laib | Warhol | Flavin | Rainer | Basquiat, Pinakothek der Moderne, Schloss Herrenchiemsee, Herrenchiemsee, Germany

2017
The Air Vibrates with the Buzz of Insects, Musée départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
COLORI: L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Out of Sight! Art of the Senses, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

2016
(Sus)tentations, La Brasserie, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Foncquevillers, France
Gärten der Welt, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland
La Ville Au Loin (The City Faraway), FRAC - Centre, Orleans, France
MOMAT Collection, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT)
Giorgio Morandi, Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA), New York
Ether, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Colori. L’emozione dei colori nell’arte, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli; Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italy

2015
Giovanni Anselmo – Wolfgang Laib – Ettore Spalletti, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
Lugano Mostra Bandiera, Lakefront, Lugano, Switzerland
Endless House: Intersections of Art and Architecture, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
AAA Art Altstetten Albisrieden, Eichbühl Cemetery, Zürich, Switzerland
I Love Art 13 - 100 artists from the Watari-Um Collection, Watari-Um - Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Königsklasse III, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Pinakothek der Moderne in Schloss Herrenchiemsee, Herrenchiemsee Palace, Herrenchiemsee
Proportio, Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation, Venice, Italy
De Picasso à Warhol - Une décennie d'acquisitions, Musee de Grenoble, France
Adam, Eve & the Devil, Marres - Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands

2014
Senusret III, a Legendary Pharaoh, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France
Basilica of Sant' Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, Italy
Koenigsklasse II, Herrenchiemsee Palace, Herrenchiemsee, Germany

2011
180°: Die Sammlung im Kubus Willi Baumeister, Dieter Roth, Otto Dix, Wolfgang Laib, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Auf den zweiten Blick - Werke aus der Sammlung, Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, Germany
Private Passions, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

2010
ColorForms, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpturre Garden, Washington DC, USA
Personal Structures Time Space Existence, Künstlerhaus Plais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria
Retour vers le future, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
With a Probability of Being Seen. Dorothee and Konrad Fischer, Museu D’Art Contemporani de Barcelon, Barcelona, Spain
Schauwerk, Sindelfingen, Germany
Transparency – Art for renewable Energy, Macro Testaccio, Roma, Madre, Naples, Italy
Architectural Biennal, Venice, Italy
Dorothee und Konrad Fischer: Archiv einer Haltung, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Bild für Bild – Film und zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung des Centre Pompidou, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany

2009
Fuentes, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy

2008
Fondation pour l'art contemporain, Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France
+Without Place - Without Time - Without Body+, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Fiac Paris, Paris, France

2007
Still Points of the Turning World, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
Le Mouvement des Images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Buchmann Galerie, Buchmann Box, Berlin, Germany
Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin/Beijing, Germany/China
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany

2006
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
At Home Recent Acquisitions, MMoCA - Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Madison / WI, USA
FRIENDLY GAME SCULPTURE 06 Freundschaftsspiel, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Monuments with a Horizon Line, Buchmann Galerie Berlin, Berlin, Germany
SITE Santa Fe Biennal 2006, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Villa Massimo, Roma, Italy

2005
Wow: The Work of the Work, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

2004
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
home, sweet home, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Off the Wall: Works for the JP Morgan Chase Collection, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, USA
Passageway- Overgoing, Guangdong Museum of Art, German Consulate General, Guangzhou, China
Seeing other people, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Exploring Ando's Space: Art and the Spiritual, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, USA

2003
Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, curated by Klaus Ottman and Pamela Auchincloss, University Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Illinois State University, USA
Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

2002
The Inward Eye, Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA

2001
Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, USA
El Instante Eterno, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castello, Spain
Before Reflection Begins, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

2000
Cosmologies, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Around 1984, A look at Art in the Eighties, P.S.1, New York, USA
Fiona Rae, Wolfgang Laib, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Shadow of Reason, Exploring the Spiritual in European Identity in the 20th Century, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Enclosed and Enchanted, MOMA Oxford, UK
Anselmo, Merz, Penone, Kounellis, Laib, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf,
Germany
A Century of Innocence - The Story of the White Monochrome, The Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Mälmo, Sweden

1999
Powder, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
In Passing, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Minimalia, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Loaf, Baumgartner Galleries Inc, New York, USA
78th Exhibition of Artist Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA
The collection of the 'Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain’, Palazzo delle papesse, centro Arte Contemporanea, Italy

1998
The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, USA
Early Forms, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Être nature, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Ensemble Moderne: The Still Life in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris, France
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall på Arken: Udvalgte værker fra samlingen/ Selections from the Collection, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Sweden

1997
Cittá Natura, Palazzo delle Espozioni, Roma, Italy
Epicenter Ljubljana, Moderna Galeria, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
La Biennale di Venezia. XLVII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, Italy
4e Biennale de Lyon d'art contemporain Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
97 Kwangju Biennale: Unmapping the Earth, Kwangju, Korea
Anselmo, Boetti, Laib, Merz, Nauman, Paolini, Pistoletto, Vital, Zorio Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA

1996
The House Transformed, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, USA
Time Wise, The Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Luis Barragán: Sitio + Superficie. Su obra y la vanguardia en el arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Spirit and Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Wolfgang Laib, Tatsuo Miyajima, Michel Verjux: Entgrenzung, Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1995
Fondation Cartier, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
From Nature, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Auf Papier: Kust des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Deutschen Bank, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Kunst in Deutschland, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

1994
Figur, Natur, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Entre le ciel et l'eau, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
German Art: Aspekte Deutscher Kunst 1964-1994 der Salzburg Festspiele, Galerie Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Galerie Ropac, Paris, France
Drawing On Sculpture, Cohen Gallery, New York, USA

1993
Les Environs, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, USA
A Century of Silence, University Art Museum, State University of New York at Binghamtom, New York, USA
The 21st Century, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Chateau d'Oiron, Oiron, France
Azur, Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Jouy-En-Josas, France
GAS, Grandiose Ambitieux Silencieux, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
De Opening, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
The Language of Flowers, Paul Kasmin, New York, USA

1992
Vorhut aus dem Hinterland, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Exposition Sentimentale, Musee d'Art Moderne, Collioure, France
Territorium Artis, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Anselmo, Laib, Nauman, Umberg, Miller Nordenhake, Cologne, Germany
Habeas Corpus, Stux Gallery, New York, USA
15th Anniversary Exhibition, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA

1991
5th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Burnett Miller, Los Angeles, USA
Un Detail immense, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, France
Das Goldene Zeitalter, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
With Nature, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
The Lick of the Eye, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, USA

1990
Threshold, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Signs of Life, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadephia, USA
Lead and Wax, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, USA

1989
Hortus Artis, Orto Botanico, Turin, Italy
Color and/or Monochrome, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
Glanzlichter, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Einleuchten, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

1988
Zeitlos, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Rosc, Dublin, Ireland
Defacto, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Carnegie International 88, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA

1987
Wechselströme. Kontemplation, Expression, Konstruktion, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
documenta 8, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Bremer Kunstpreis 1987, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Century 87, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
New Locations, Wolff Gallery, New York, USA

1986
Falls the Shadow, Recent British and European Art, The Hayward Annual, Hayward Art Gallery, London, UK
The Sixth Biennale of Sydney 1986: Origins, Originality + Beyond, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
3. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany
De Sculptura, Wiener Festwochen im Messepalast, Vienna, Austria
SkulpturSein, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany

1985
1945 bis 1985, Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
East West Visual Arts Encounter, Jehangir Art Gallery, Bombay, India
Spuren, Skulpturen und Monumente ihrer präzisen Reise, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Ouverture II, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

1983
Materie + Form, ETH, Naturwissenschaftliches Gebaude, Zurich, Switzerland
Ars '83 Helsinke, Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland
Kosmische Bilder in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
The Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

1982
University Art Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Kunst wird Material, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

1981
Art Allemagne Aujourd'hui, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Annemarie-und-Will Grohmann-Stipendium, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany

1980
Ausstellung der Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung, Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt, Germany