Imi Knoebel

Imi Knoebel

“If you want to do something, to stay alive, you have to think of something radical.”

Minimalist Abstract Art

Imi Knoebel, purist explorations of form, color, space, material and support have made him an important and formative voice in 20th-century Minimalist abstract art.

Knoebel was born in Dessau, Germany, in 1940. Minimalist hybrids of painting and sculpture explore relationships between color and structure. Knoebel’s nonrepresentational works innovate on the modernist ideas and styles of Joseph Beuys, Kazimir Malevich, and the Bauhaus; the artist is interested in seriality, spare geometries, reductive color, and the use of industrial materials such as Masonite. Knoebel studied under Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and under László Moholy-Nagy at the Werkkunstschule Darmstadt; he has exhibited in Berlin, New York, Paris, Zürich, Tokyo, London, Vienna, and Rome. His work belongs in the collections of the Essl Museum, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, the Museo Reina Sofía, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art. While Knoebel is best known for his sculptural paintings, his practice also involves drawing, photography, projections, and installation. His work has sold for six figures at auction.

I thought: everything has been done already. Yves Klein has painted his canvas blue, Lucia Fontana has cut slashes into his. What’s left? If you want to do something, to stay alive, you have to think of something at least as radical.

Knoebel employs a pared-down, formal vocabulary, his artistic practice is remarkably varied, encompassing painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, projections and installations.
Knoebel’s oeuvre is dominated by large-scale, modular shapes and commanding color relationships, devoid of metaphor and allusion. Although Knoebel employs a pared-down, formal vocabulary, his artistic practice is remarkably varied, encompassing painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, projections and installations.

Imi Knoebel drew formative influence from early Modernism in his consistent return to the notion of pure perception through the exploration of form and color. While his early pieces were black and white, as in the series “Linienbildern” (Line Paintings) (1966-69), he began to explore vibrant, saturated color in 1974 with his friend and classmate Blinky Palermo, to whom he would dedicate “24 Farben für Blinky” (“24 Colors for Blinky”) (1977), a series of brightly colored irregular shapes.

Imi Knoebel lives and works in Düsseldorf. He was the subject of solo museum exhibitions at Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland (2018); Museum Haus Lange und Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (2015); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (2015); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2014); Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany (2011); Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (2010); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2009); Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2009); Dia:Beacon, New York (2008); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany (2004); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (2002); Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (1997); Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (1997); Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (1996); and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1996). His work has been collected by prestigious public and private collections worldwide.

From 1962 to 1964, Knoebel attended the Werkkunstschule in Darmstadt, where he took courses in structural design and constructive composition, according to the ideas of the Bauhaus artists Johannes Itten (Swiss, 1888–1967) and Lászlo Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1885–1946). There, he met Imi Giese in 1964. Together, the two transferred to the Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie, where they both took a class with Joseph Beuys (German, 1921–1986). Knoebel began to create analytical works, with an interplay of colors and forms. Together with a few fellow students, he formed a Minimalist Art movement.

Knoebel initially dealt mainly with line images, light projections, and white images, and took a strong reductionist position. Beginning in 1974, he began to use color. In the same decade, he experimented with superimposed colored wood and aluminum panels and slats, which he used in certain spatial relations to each other, creating scale sculptures.

Knoebel was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 2006. In 2011, he created several stained glass windows for the Reims Cathedral. He is the recipient of numerous art awards, and his works can be seen in exhibitions around the world.

Countering romanticism, the central tradition of German art, Knoebel revives the purity of utopian modernism, using pared down forms of constructivism to take his painting to a zero point. He attempts expression without representation or the restrictions of ideological painting programs. The goal is to purify and cleanse the present from the past and to start again, relying on new materials and aesthetic forms to move forward. Painters who came of age in the postwar era dealt with a fresh cultural memory of the ascendency and fall of German nationalism, West Germany’s rapid economic recovery and expansion after the demise of fascism, and the division and subsequent union of East and West Germany during the communist era. Knoebel’s approach was to look for the basic roots of art, which he felt were not in rhetoric but in things, in the simple interaction between humans and the essential conditions of their world

The Latinists series, 1987, clearly shows many of Knoebel’s concerns and interests. The forms, like those of American minimalism, are rudimentary (squares, rectangles, parallelograms) as are the materials of fiberboard, unused stretcher bars, and flat industrial white paint. Unlike American minimalism, however, Knoebel’s intention has nothing to do with finding a rational, positivist center by which to make art. Instead, his spare starting points become the criteria from which Knoebel’s intuitions take over, leading him to arrange his humble materials in ways that appeal to his aesthetic experiences and his perceptions of beautiful composition. The results are paintings that play into the realm of sculpture, retaining the basic figure/ground and picture plane conditions of a painting but extending off the wall and into the space, activating the room.  

Biography

Knoebel has exhibited widely throughout his career, including solo shows at Haus Der Kunst in Munich (1996), Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1996) and Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (2009). In 2011, the historic Reims Cathedral inaugurated a series of six monumental stained glass panes created by Knoebel on the occasion of its 800th anniversary. His work can also be found in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Dia:Beacon in Beacon, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, and the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris. Knoebel currently lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Education

• 1964 – 1971 Academy of Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany

Awards

• 2016 Officier des Arts et des Lettres, Haus der Stiftungen, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2011 Kythera-Prize, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2008 Glass Windows, Cathedral Reims, France
• 2006 Honorary doctor of the Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany

Solo Exhibitions

2022

• Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig, Germany

2021

Dia:Beacon, New York, NY, USA

Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2020

Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main, GermanyWhite Cube, London, UK

2019

Galerie Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain

Jahn und Jahn, Munich, Germany

Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

Galerie Fahneman, Berlin, Germany

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

Kewenig, Berlin, Germany

2018

Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland

Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany

2017

New Works, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

Bilder, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany

Drachenlinien, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria

Tisch des Monats, Hetjens Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany

Zeichnungen, Jahn und Jahn, Munich, Germany

Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland

VEB Kontor, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Galerie Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal

2016

Multiples, Galerie Stepahnaie Jaax, Brussels, Belgium

Liaison Astéroïde, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

Red Yellow Blue, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany

Imi Knoebel – Fernand Léger: une rencontre, Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France

2015

Linienbilder 1966-68, Villa Griesebach, Berlin, Germany

Triller, Galerie Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain Anima Mundi, Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany Malewitsch zu Ehren, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, GermanyKernstücke, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany Linienbilder 1966-68, Villa Grisebach, Düsseldorf, Germany Inside the White Cube, White Cube (Bermondsey), London, UK Recent Works, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main, GermanyWeiß – Schwarz, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany

Inauguration of Imi Knoebel’s glass windows for the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Reims (May 11, 2015), Reims, France

2014

Rosa Ort, Galerie Kewenig, Berlin, Germany

Position, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Zürich, Switzerland Arbeiten aus den Jahren 1970-2014, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany

Imi Knoebel, Works 1966 – 2014, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Raum 19 IV, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany

Position, Catherine Putman Galerie, Paris, France

Mahlzeit, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2013 Das und Das, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

Galerie von Bartha, S-chanf, Switzerland

LUEB, Barbel Grasslin, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Position, Jordan/Seydoux, Berlin, Germany

Eine Ausstellung, Parkhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf

2012

Hirschfaktor, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

The Third Room, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

Galerie Clemens Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany

Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, Germany

24 Colors – For Blinky, Dia:Beacon, Dia Art Foundation, NY, USA

2011

Werke aus der Sammlung Schaufler, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany

Rosenkranz Kubus X, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany

Kartoffelbilder, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria

Design of the gothic windows for the Cathedral of Reims, Reims, France

Weiss Schwarz, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt

2010

Weiss – Schwarz, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Der Deutsche, Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

Just love me, MUDAM – Musée d’art moderne grand-duc Jean, Luxembourg

2009

Ich Nicht und Enduros, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany

Zu Hilfe, Zu Hilfe…, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

Werke aus der Sammlung Siegfried und Jutta Weishaupt, Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, Germany

Joseph Beuys and His Students – SSM – Sakip Sabanci Müzesi, Istanbul, Turkey

Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin

7 x 14 – Jubiläumsausstellung, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

2008 Concept Space, Gunma, Japan

24 Colors – for Blinky, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York

Knife Cuts, Dia Art Foundation, The Dan Flavin Art Institute, Bridgehampton, New York

2007

Imi Knoebel – Werke 1966-2006, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Anthony McCall and Imi Knoebel, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA

Galerie St. Johann, Saarbrücken, Germany

Amor intellectualis, Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, Germany

Mennigebilder, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

Editions, Galeria La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain

2006

abstrakt/abstract, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria

Concept Space, Gunma, Japan

Werke von 1966 bis 2006, Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany

IMI für Deutschland, Fahnemann Projects, Berlin

An Meine Grüne Seite, Galeria Jule Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Primary Structures 1966/2006, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK Galeria Filomena Soares, Lissabon, Portugal

2005

Blinky Palermo – Imi Knoebel, KunstHaus Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

New Works, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, France

Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany

9 von 24 Farben – für Blinky, Kunsthalle Harry Graf Kessler, Weimar, Germany

2004

Imi Knoebel, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen

Fotografie 1968-1974, Kunstraum 21, Cologne Galerie Lelong, Zürich, Switzerland

2003

Pure Freude, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

Fahnemann Projekte, Berlin, Germany

Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2002

Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala, Milan, Italy

Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany

Kunstraum 21, Cologne, Germany

Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Wien, Austria

Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

2001

KUCKUCKE, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

Viele Grüße, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1999

Ajun Musa, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Mennige-Serie, ifa-Galerie, Bonn, Germany

Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxembourg

Coming Out, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany

New Works, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

1998

Galerie am Lindenplatz, Schaan, Lichtenstein

Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, GermanyInstitut, Düsseldorf, Germany

Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Switzerland

1997

Retrospectiva 1968-1996, IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain

Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany

Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany

Eine Ausstellung, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

Tag und Nacht & Bunt, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Germany

Oeuvres 1968-1996, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

Projektionen 1968-1974, Galerie Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland

Galerie Erhard Klein, Bad Münstereifel, Germany

1996

Works 1968-1996, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Retrospektive 1968 – 1996, IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Zeichnungen, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany,

Rot Gelb Weiss Blau, Ludwigforum, Aachen, Germany

Jena Bilder, Kunsthistorisches Seminar, Kustodie und Institut für Philosophie, Jena, Germany

Linienbilder 1966-68, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Zeichnungen 1972-74, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Rot-Weiss, Deutsche Bank, Luxembourg

Grace Kelly, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea

Imi Knoebel, Deutsche Bank, Travelling Exhibition

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Imi Knoebel Retrospektive 1968-1996, Haus der Kunst, München, Germany

1995

Rot Gelb Weiss Blau, Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Works on paper, Goethe Institut Gallery, London, UK

Rot Gelb Weiss Blau, Stadtgalerie Kulturring Sundern, Germany

Rot Gelb Weiss Blau, Galerie Six Friedrich, München, Germany

Rot Gelb Weiss Blau, Moderna Galeria, Ljublijana, Slovenia

1994

Galerie Six Friedrich, München, Germany

Achenbach Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf, Germany

Odyshape, Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, Germany

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Japan Phosphorsandwiches, Museum Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany

Rot Gelb Weiss Blau, Galerie Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany

Rot Gelb Weiss Blau, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria

Rot Gelb Weiss Blau, Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany

8 Bilder, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany

1993

Portraits, Kanransha, Tokyo, Japan

Sittin’ in the morning sun, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany

Galerie Six Friedrich, München, Germany

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan

Zeichnungen, Städtische Galerie, Quakenbrück, Germany

1992

Rot-Weiss, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Brussels, Belgium

Mennigebilder, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

Raum 19-II, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany

Projekt: Mennigebilder, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany

Eigentum Himmelreich, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Portraits et les Autres, Gilbert Brownstone & Cie., Paris, France

Portraits, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

Patrick De Brock Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

1991

Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, Germany

Galerie Grässlin-Ehrhard, Frankfurt, Germany

Grace Kelly, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan

Betoni & Cementi, Kanransha, Tokyo, Japan

Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria

Grace Kelly, Achim Kubinski, Cologne, Germany

Portraits, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany

Rot-Weiss, Maximilian-Verlag Sabine Knust, München, Germany

Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany

Mennigebilder & Oktoberstück, le consortium & l’usine, Dijon, France

Battle Paintings, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1990

Canapé Monochrome, Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, Germany

Betoni, Galerie Jahn und Fusban, München, Germany

Betoni, Primo Piano, Rome, Italy

Betoni, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany

1989

Imi Knoebel, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Torsi, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

daß die Geschichte zusammenbleibt, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA

daß die Geschichte zusammenbleibt, Achim Kubinski, Cologne, Germany

Frauenstücke, Kanransha, Tokyo, Japan

Frauenstücke, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany

1988

Bilder, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany

Galerie Annette Gmeiner, Stuttgart, Germany

Galerie Erhard Klein, Bonn, Germany

Sammlung Ingrid und Hugo Jung, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium

1987

Die Lateiner, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich, Switzerland

Galerie Hock, Krefeld, Germany

Die Holzfällerin, Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart, Germany

Imi Knoebel, Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, US A

Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Asutria

1986

Figuren, Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, Germany

Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

115 Siebenecke, Galerie Erhard Klein, Bonn, Germany

Nuovi Gelati, Galerie Grässlin-Ehrhard, Frankfurt, Germany

1985

Eigentum Himmelreich, Museé Municipal, La Roche Sur Yon, France

Das Geriede, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands

Galerie Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf, Germany

Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart, Germany

Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

van Krimpen tekeningen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Habe und Ehre, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria

1984

Galerie Annette Gmeiner, Kirchzarten, Germany

Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

Heerstraße 16, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

Schmitz & Becker, Duisburg, Germant

Galerie Liesbeth Lips, Delft, The Netherlands

Meditation, Kanransha, Tokyo, Japan

Galerie Heinrich Ehrhardt, Frankfurt, Germany

Galerie Erhard Klein, Bonn, Germany

Im Sommer 84, Galerie Six Friedrich, München, Germany

Maximilian-Verlag Sabine Knust, München, Germany

Eigentum Himmelreich, le consortium, Dijon, France

1983

Radio Beirut, Dia Art Foundation, Cologne, Germany

Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany

Maximilian-Verlag Sabine Knust, München, Germany Bismarckstraße 50, Dia Art Foundation, Cologne, Germany

Eigentum Himmelreich, Galerie Schoof, Frankfurt, Germany

1982

Stedelijk Van-Abbe-Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Radio Beirut, Galerie Six Friedrich, München, Germany

Galerie Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf, Germany

Galerie Wilma Lock, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1981

Mennigebilder, Dia Art Foundation, Cologne, Germany Galerie Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain Galerie Erhard Klein, Bonn, Germany

1980

Drachenzeichnungen, Galerie Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf, Germany

1979

R ot Gelb Blau – 54 Messerschnitte, Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, Germany

1978

Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Cologne, Germany

1977

24 Farben (für Blinky Palermo), Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Cologne, Germany Messerschnitte, Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, Germany

1976

Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Cologne, GermanyGalerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, Germany

1975

Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Cologne, Germany

1974

Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Cologne, Germany

1973

Galerie Erhard Klein, Bonn, Germany Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, Germany

1972

Projektion 4/1-11, 5/1-11, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Cologne, Germany

Bilder und Zeichnungen, Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, Germany

Projektion X, Video-Galerie Gerry Schum, Düsseldorf, Germany

Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany

Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany

1971

Drachen, Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, Germany Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany

1970

De Utrechtse Kring, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Projektionen, art intermedia – Helmut Rywelski, Cologne, Germany

Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany art & projekt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1969

art & projekt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Galerie René Block, Berlin, Germany

Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany

1968

IMI + IMI, Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, DenmarkImi Art etc., Galerie René Block, Berlin, Germany

Public and Private Collections

Austria

Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg Museum der Moderne, Salzburg Albertina, Vienna

France

Carré d’Art, Nîmes Espace de l’art concret, Mouans-Sartoux FRAC – Bretagne, Rennes FRAC – Bourgogne, Dijon FRAC – Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg

Germany

Daimler Contemporary, Berlin

Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt

Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg

Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf
Kunstammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz

Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm

Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen

K21, Dusseldorf

Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main

Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch

Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg

Sammlung Goetz, Munich

Sammlung Reinking, Hamburg

Sammlung Schroth, Soest

Sammlung Wemhöner, Berlin

SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen

Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe

Japan

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi

Liechtenstein

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

Luxembourg

Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

Musée national d’histoire et d’art Luxembourg, Luxembourg

The Netherlands Bonnefanten museum, Maastricht Gemeente museum Den Haag, The Hague Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede

Portugal

Berardo Museum, Lisbon Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto

South Korea

National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Gwacheon

Spain

Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela

Fundación Barrié, Coruña

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern, Palma de Mallorca

Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Sweden

Malmö Konsthall, Malmö

Switzerland

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur

Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St Gallen

US

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA

Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL