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Imi Knoebel
Biography
Imi Knoebel (Dessau, 1940). He has been awarded with prizes such as Kythera-Prize, Düsseldorf (2011), Glass Windows, Cathedral Reims, France (2008) and Ehrendoktorat der Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena (2006).
He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions: ‘Now is the time’ Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2019); ‘Guten Morgen’, weisses Kätzchen, Museum Haus Konstructiv, Zurich (2018); ‘BILDER’, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal (2017); ‘A meeting of minds’ (with Fernand Léger), Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France (2016); ‘Imi Knoebel – Multiples’, Galerie Stepahnaie Jaax, Brussels, Belgium (2016); ‘Liaison astéroïde’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais (2016); ‘Red Yellow Blue’, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany (2016); ‘Imi Knoebel Linienbilder 1966-68’, Villa Griseback, Berlin (2015); ‘Imi Knoebel – Malewitsch zu Ehren’, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein – Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2015); ‘Imi Knoebel – Kernstücke’, Museum Has Esters, Museen Haus Lange und Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (2015); ‘Imi Knoebel. Works 1966 – 2014’, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (2014); Der dritte Raum. Trze ci Pokój. The Third Room – Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2012); Imi Knoebel – Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig (2012); ‘Just love me’, MUDAM – Musée d’art moderne grand-duc Jean, Luxembourg (2010); ‘Project, Transform, Erase: Anthony McCall and Imi Knoebel’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2007); ‘abstrakt/abstract’, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt (2006); ‘Imi Knoebel, Works 1968-1996’, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; ‘Imi Knoebel – Retrospektive 1968 – 1996’, IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia (1996); ‘Broken Music’, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal (1988); ‘Imi Knoebel’, Kunstmuseum Bonn (1983); ‘Art in Europe after ‘68’, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent (1980); ‘The Indiscipline of Painting’, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry & Tate St Ives (2012); Museum der Wünsche, MUMOK, Wien (2011); ‘Space Oddity’, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca (2011); ‘Wenn Handlungen Form werden’, Neues Museum, Nürnberg (2007); ‘Paint on Metal’, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona (2005); ‘Paintng on the Move’, Kunstmuseum, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle Basel (2002); ‘As Painting Division as Displacement’, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2001); ‘Regarding Beauty’, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington (1999); Museum Naturale, Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen (1997); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (1994); ‘Shapes and Positions’, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel. (1993).
His works are in collections such as Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, Carré d’art – Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY.