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Louise Bourgeois
1911 Born in Paris (FR) 1919 family opened tapestry restoration store 1921 - 1932 spent many winters in the south of france 1928 attended the lycée internationale in cannes 1932 mother died obtained baccalauréat (secondary school certificate) traveled to soviet univion 1938 married robert goldwater, an american art historian moved to the united states 1939 first exhibition 1945 organized show `documents france´ 19401944 1947 produced first vertical wood sculptures 1951 father died becomes american citizen 1960 started teaching on regular basis 1966 became involved in feminist movement 1967 began using marble and bronze in sculptures 1972 had made regular trips to italy upto this year 1973 husband died artist´s grant from the national endowment for the arts 1977 received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from yale university 1978 executed her first public commission presented public performance piece 1980 buys large studio in brooklyn 1982 first retrospectiv of work at museum of modern art, new york 1984 inducted into the ordre des arts et des lettres by the french minister of culture, Jack Lang 1985 first solo show in france 1989 Kunstverein frankfurt, frankfurt 1992 presented a sculpture environment 1993 venice biennale, represented the united states 1994 traveling retrospective of work, `the locus of memory´ 1995 retrospective by the galerie d´art graphique, paris 1996 choisy le roi, town she grew up in, installed les bienvenus in the grounds of town hall shows `polesand the large cell´ at universalis 1997 sculptures shown at the centro cultural in rio de janeiro Foreign journeys 1934 traveled to soviet union Awards 1999 wins price at venice biennial 2003 Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts Louise Bourgeois is considered to be one of the most important artists of the 20th Century and is still producing works of major significance. Bourgeois revealed to a greater public at the time of her Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1982 that her childhood is the source of inspiration for her art. In her sculpture, the memories of the past and their emotional resonance collide with the present moment that summons them up. To Bourgeois, art making is her form of psychoanalysis. By giving a tangible form to her emotions and anxieties, she is able to process them and better understand who she is. 2006 LECKERBISSEN II Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm 2005 Louise Bourgeois Kunsthalle Wien (Halle 1, Halle 2), Vienna La sculpture dans l’espace Musée Auguste Rodin - Hôtel Biron, Paris 25 Jahre Galerie Fahnemann: Reopening Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin Louise Bourgeois Galerie Karsten Greve - Paris, Paris Louise Bourgeois Galerie Karsten Greve - Mailand, Milano The Figurative Impulse - Works from the UBS Art Collection Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce Centre of Gravity Istanbul Modern, Istanbul Highlights - New Acquisitions John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 51st International Exhibition: Always a Little Further La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Summer Exhibition 2005 Royal Academy of Arts, London (England) Colour After Klein Barbican, London (England) Getting Emotional ICA Boston, Boston, MA Springtide ICA-Institue of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA Louise Bourgeois KUKJE GALLERY, Seoul Louise Bourgeois Marlborough Fine Art (London) Ltd, London (England) Louise Bourgeois Marlborough Galerie GmbH, Zurich The Enigma of Modernity Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest Mixed-Up Childhood Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland Louise Bourgeois - Stitches in Time Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL „Munch Revisited“ - Edvard Munch und die heutige Kunst Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists ICA Boston, Boston, MA Out of Site - Selections from the Marsha S. Glazer Collection. Art Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 2004 Woman - Metamorphosis of modernity Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona Wer bietet mehr? - Fünfzehn Jahre Deichtorhallen Hamburg Deichtorhallen, Hamburg Sammlung Frieder Burda - Eröffnungsausstellung Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden Louise Bourgeois - The Reticent Child Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY Louise Bourgeois Peter Blum - Blumarts Inc., New York, NY Diaries and Dreams Ursula Bickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim Louise Bourgeois - Stitches in Time CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Malága, Málaga Printed light - photographic vision and the modern print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT SITE Santa Fes Fifth International Biennial International Biennial Exhibition Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Bodily Space: Works from the Permanent Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Retro Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Bäume Galerie Biedermann, Munich - BOCCA DE LA VERITÀ - Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth e.V., Bodenburg Arbeiten auf Papier/Grafiken (Part 1) Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin Works and Days Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk Support - Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung - 1950 - Heute Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz Haus und Körper Galerie Françoise Heitsch, Munich Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Open House: Working in Brooklyn Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Silent Screams - Difficult Dreams Borusan Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul Drawings by Louise Bourgeois Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO Louise Bourgeois Daros Exhibitions, Zurich KUNST STOFF Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna double bind - kunst - kinder - karriere Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin Exhibiting Signs of Age Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME Louise Bourgeois, Imi Knoebel, Frank Stella, Günther Förg Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin Louise Bourgeois - Estampes et livres illustrés Centre de la Gravure et de lImage imprimée, La Louvière Louise Bourgeois - Zeichnungen, Bücher, Druckgrafik Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern 2003 Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin Silent Screams – Difficult Dreams Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin Heiliger Sebastian - A Splendid Readiness For Death Kunsthalle Wien (Halle 1, Halle 2), Vienna Drawing Modern - Works from the Agnes Gund Collection The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Portfolios Fabian & Claude Walter, Zurich Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Grafik Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich Grensgangers Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Recent Acquisitions Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY Game over Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich Celebrating Sculpture : Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Small Bronzes The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Louise Bourgeois - The Insomnia Drawings Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY LOUISE BOURGEOIS – Intime Abstraktionen AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE, Berlin Louise Bourgeois - Spider SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo doublebind.kunst_kinder_karriere Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Louise Bourgeois - Recent works Galerie Karsten Greve - Köln, Cologne Sanctuary GoMA- Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (Scotland) 20th Century Sculpture Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, NY Visions and Revisions - Art on Paper since 1960 MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA Louise Bourgeois-New Sculptures & The Woman Drawings Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (In Search Of) The Perfect Lover Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden Peter Blum Edition La Caja Negra, Madrid Louise Bourgeois White Cube, London (England) Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars - Il disparut dans le silence total Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris upon reflection.... Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Violence the true way Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich Le corps et ses absences Musée dart contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec After the Beginning and Before the End - Instruction Drawings MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA de Kooning to Today - Highlights from the Permanent Collection Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Louise Bourgeois - le jour la nuit le jour Palais de Tokyo, Paris Pas de deux Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Extension - Works from the Collection Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm Louise Bourgeois - Zeichnungen und Skulpturen Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz Another World Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern Documenta 11 Documenta, Kassel Impressions Galerie Beyeler, Basel Penetration Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Penetration Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Louise Bourgeois Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich Louise Bourgeois - Jeff Wall KUKJE GALLERY, Seoul True Grit - Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID Material World - From Lichtenstein to Viola 25 Years of The Fabric Workshop and Museum of Contemporary Art Sidney, Sydney, NSW Louise Bourgeois Helsingin kaupungin taidemuseo - Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki Grafik • Arbeiten auf Papier »bedeutender Bildhauer« Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm Louise Bourgeois Galerie Karsten Greve - Mailand, Milano Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich Louise Bourgeois - Obras reciente Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid 2001 The Human Figure in Modern Sculpture Rodin Gallery - Seoul, Seoul Vital forms - American Art in the anatomic age, 1940-1960 Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Naked since 1950 L & M Arts, New York, NY Louise Bourgeois Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao Original Graphik bedeutender Bildhauer KUNSTKABINETT, Regensburg LOUISE BOURGEOIS - THE PURITAN Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin Surrealism: Desire Unbound Tate Modern, London (England) About Objects The RISD Museum, Providence, RI Louise Bourgeois Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck Louise Bourgeois - Yayoi Kusama Peter Blum - Blumarts Inc., New York, NY Corps à corps Centre de la Gravure et de lImage imprimée, La Louvière Artschwager / Bourgeois / Horn / McCollun Xavier Hufkens, Brussels Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Louise Bourgeois - The Personages L & M Arts, New York, NY Hypermental - Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950 - 2000 - Von Salvador Dali bis Jeff K Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Die Kunst der Linie, H. Butz, L. Bourgeois, E. Chillida Galerie Lelong, Zurich 2000 Louise Bourgeois - Opere Su Carte Galerie Karsten Greve - Mailand, Milano MAN – Body in Art from 1950-2000 ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen Lux et Tenebrae Peter Blum - Blumarts Inc., New York, NY Biennale of Sydney 2000 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW Sinn und Sinnlichkeit - Körper und Geist des Bildes Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen Louis Bourgeois Tate Modern, London (England) stock from the last century (2) Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam Der anagrammatische Körper ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe Lost Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (England) Das fünfte Element - Geld oder Kunst Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Duesseldorf 1999 Zeitwenden - Rückblick und Ausblick Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn Cells Galerie Seitz & Partner, Berlin Louise Bourgeois - Cells Galerie Seitz & Partner, Berlin group show Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin The American Century - Art & Culture 1900-2000 Part II Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Impact: Revealing Sources for Contemporary Art Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD Louise Bourgeois - zeichnungen und skulpturen Galerie Paula Böttcher, Berlin Third International Biennial Exhibition - Looking for a place International Biennial Exhibition Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM The Hand The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario 48th Venice Biennale La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Louise Bourgeois - Arbeiten auf Papier Galerie Karsten Greve - Köln, Cologne Printmaking 1960-1990 Davison Art Center, Middletown Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1998 Louise Bourgeois / Jenny Holzer / Helmut Lang Kunsthalle Wien (Karlsplatz, project space), Vienna Louise Bourgeois Malmö Konsthall, Malmö corpus virtu Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY Wounds - between democracy and redemption in contemporary art Moderna Museet, Stockholm Representing galleries 26 Belgium Xavier Hufkens, Brussels France Editions Paul Bourquin, Besançon Galerie Karsten Greve - Paris, Paris Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris Germany Galerie Seitz & Partner, Berlin Galerie Karsten Greve - Köln, Cologne Italy Galerie Karsten Greve - Mailand, Milano Korea (Republic) KUKJE GALLERY, Seoul Netherlands Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam Galerie Willy Schoots, Eindhoven Spain Boza Editor, Barcelona Tristan Barbarà, Girona Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid Sweden Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm Switzerland Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich United Kingdom Scolar Fine Art, London (England) USA Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL Art of this Century, New York, NY Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA Public collections 18 Canada National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Germany Sammlung Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden Italy Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona Sweden Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm USA Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY Dia Art Foundation: Chelsea, New York, NY Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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