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Erwin Wurm    (Austrian, 1954)

 Erwin Wurm - Misconceivable (model) (Sculptures) h: 69 x w: 57 x d: 115 cm / h: 27.2 x w: 22.4 x d: 45.3 in
Erwin Wurm
Misconceivable (model) 2007
 
 Erwin Wurm - Strick Hypnose (Sculptures) h: 153 x w: 56 x d: 37 cm / h: 60.2 x w: 22 x d: 14.6 in
Erwin Wurm
Strick Hypnose 2008
 
 Erwin Wurm - Untitled (Sculptures) h: 83 x w: 80 x d: 50 cm / h: 32.7 x w: 31.5 x d: 19.7 in
Erwin Wurm
Untitled 2008
 

Biography
1954 Born in Bruck/Mur, Austria
Lives and works in Vienna and New York

Exhibitions
2007 Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
2007 Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (solo)
2007 Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France (solo)
2007 Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden (solo)
2007 Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2007 Erwin Wurm, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2007 Affinities- Deutsche Guggenheim, 1997-2007, Guggenheim in Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2007 All about laughter: role of humors in contemporary art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2007 I am future melancholic, Tate Modern, London, UK
2007 Il était une fois, l’École d’Arts Plastiques de Vitrolles, Vitrolles, France
2007 Salon de la Kakanie, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2007 Hamlet, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
2006 All the Best. The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2006 Le mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2006 Simultan, zwei Sammlungen österreichischer Fotographie, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2006 Display of UBS Collection, Tate Modern, London, UK
2006 Art and Play, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2006 Adorno was wrong with his ideas about art, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (solo)
2006 Home, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (solo)
2006 Disziplin der Subjektivität, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
2006 Keep a cool head, MUMOK Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2006 The artist who swallowed the world, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (solo)
2006 Erwin Wurm. New Sculpture, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (solo)
2006 The Idiot, Sala de Exposiciones Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2006 I love my time, I don’t like my time: Recent works by Erwin Wurm, Rose Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA / Frye Art Museum, Seattle, USA (solo)
2006 SECCA, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, USA (solo)
2006 Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
2006 CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France (solo)
2005 Galerie Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2005 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (solo)
2005 Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2005 Drive. Automobili nell’Arte Contemporanea, GAM, Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea Bologna, Italy
2005 Erwin Wurm, MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Italy (solo)
2005 Glue your brain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (solo)
2005 Erwin Wurm, Peggy Guggenheim Collection,Venice, Italy (solo)
2005 Rundlederwelten, Gropiusbau, Berlin, Germany
2005 In the Line of Flight, China Millenium Art Museum, Bejing, China
2005 Erwin Wurm, Museo do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2005 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (solo)
2005 I love my time, I don’t like my time: Recent works by Erwin Wurm, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA (solo)
2005 Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2005 Am I a House?, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2005 The Idiot, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2005 Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (curators: Jérome Sans, Nicolas Bourriaud)
2005 Snow white and the seven dwarfs, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander (curator: Udo Kittelmann)
2005 Spielräume, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum - Zentrum Internationaler Skulptur, Duisburg, Germany
2005 Situation Comedy: Humor in recent art, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii/ Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago/ Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2005 Sweet Temptations, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, Switzerland
2005 Marking Time, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, USA
2005 Scultura leggera Light Sculpture, 503 Mulino, Vicenza
2005 Munch revisited, Museum am Ostwall, Ausstellungshalle der Stadt Dortmund, Germany
2005 Polaroid als Geste, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany
2004 Seville International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville (curator: Harald Szeemann)
2004 Photo and Video Sculpture by Erwin Wurm, KvadraT Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia (solo)
2004 I love my time, I don’t like my time, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2004 European Dream, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico (curator: Pamela Echeverria) (solo)
2004 TRAC Tecnologie e Ricerca Artistica Contemporanea, Palazzo Fichera, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Catania, Italy (solo)
2004 International Biennial Foundation of Contemporary Art of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
2004 Arti & Architettura, 1900-2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
2004 Skulptur. Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Komik, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
2004 Ich will, dass Du mir glaubst!, 9. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany
2004 Orozco - Wentworth - Wurm, FotoGrafia - International Rome Festival, The Andersen Museum, Rome, Italy
2004 Soziale Kreaturen – wie Körper Kunst wird, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
2004 Global World - Private Universe, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
2004 Von Angesicht zu Angesicht – Das Antlitz des Menschen in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
2004 Porträts. Picasso, Bacon, Warhol …, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
2004 Vision einer Sammlung, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
2004 Farbige Plastik, Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
2004 Le proche et le lointain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d'art contemporain, Bignan, France
2004 LASTWINTERSPRINGNEVERCAME, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
2004 Paisaje después de la tormenta [Landscape after the storm], T20 Gallery, Murcia, Spain
2004 Dessins et des autres, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
2004 Exposition collective de sculpture, Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
2004 Dessins et des autres – part II, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
2004 A 20 h Prêts à prêter 1, Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France
2004 Close Reading #3, objectif_exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium
2004 Art Unlimited, Art 35 Basel, Switzerland
2004 Krinzinger Österreich, Künstler der Galerie (A), Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2004 Virtual Frame, Kunsthalle Wien project space Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
2004 Haus und Körper, Galerie Francoise Heitsch, Munich, Germany
2004 4ème Biennale de la Photographie et des Arts visuels, Centre Culturel "Les Chiroux", Liège, Belqium
2004 Brooklyn Euphoria Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, USA
2004 Grotesque, burlesque et parody, Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
2004 Galerie Espai Lucas, Valencia, Spain (solo)
2004 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2004 Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2003 European Dream, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Col San Angel, Mexico City / Casa ITESO-Clavigero, Guadalajara, Mexico (curator: Pamela Echeverria) (solo)
2003 Erwin Wurm – One Minute Sculptures/Orifice, Melbourne International Festival, ACCA Australian centre for Contemporary Art / Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
2003 Erwin Wurm videos, RISD - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA (solo)
2003 One Minute Sculptures, Erwin Wurm, Mairies des 13e et 14e arrondissements, FRAC-PACA (Fonds régional d'art contemporain Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), Marseille, France (solo)
2003 Galerie Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2003 Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (solo)
2003 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (solo)
2003 Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2003 Galeria La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2003 Hilfe, Graz, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria (solo)
2003 ZKM , Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (solo)
2002 Fat Survival – Handlungsformen der Skulptur, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (solo)
2002 Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France (solo)
2002 Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (solo)
2002 Erwin Wurm, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (solo)
2002 Sculptures with embarrassment, Studio K, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (solo)
2002 Erwin Wurm Videoarbeiten 1989-2002, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Budapest, Hungary (solo)
2002 Galerie Art:Concept, Paris, France (solo)
2002 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2002 Vendanta Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
2002 Galerie Häusler, Munich, Germany (solo)
2001 Performance Drawings, Drawing Centre, New York, USA (solo)
2001 Sleeping for two months, Centre pour l´Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2001 Videos 1991 – 2001, Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2001 Fat car, MAMCO Museé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2001 Galerie Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2001 Galeria Espai Luca, Valencia, Spain (solo)
2001 Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2001 Galerie The Box, Turin, Italy (solo)
2000 Photographers Gallery, London, England (solo)
2000 F.R.A.C. Limousin, Limoges, France (solo)
2000 Feelings, L´Ecole des Beaux-arts, Rouen, France (solo)
2000 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2000 Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (solo)
2000 Galerie Art : Concept, Paris, France (solo)
1999 Project wall, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
1998 Institute of Visual Arts, UW, Milwaukee, USA (solo)
1997 Me, me fat watching TV, Galleria The Box, Turin, Italy (solo)
1982 Neue Skulptur, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
1982 Triumph Skulptur, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
1981 Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria (solo)

Literature
2005 ARTFORUM International, January 2005, New York, USA, p. 187
2005 Flash Art, January-February 2005, Vol. XXXVIII, No.240, Mailand, Italy, p. 117
2004 Verhagen, Eric. "L’échec sculptural de Erwin Wurm." Art Press (Paris, France), Number 307, December, pp. 18-23, cover.
2004 Marsola, Helga. “Erwin Wurm.” Flash Art (Milan, August/September), p. 128.
2004 Marsola, Helga. “Erwin Wurm,” EXIBART on paper (Florence, June/July).
2004 Contemporary (London), no. 60, p. 74.
2004 Olivares, Rosa. “Este no es un texto de un minuto/This is not a one minute text.” EXIT (Madrid), no. 13, pp. 72–93.
2004 Olivares, Rosa. “Teoría, teóricos, teorética, teorizante . . . teomanía.” EXITBOOK (Madrid), no. 3, pp. 4–5.
2004 Jarque, Vicente. “Sencillo y hondo.” El País (Madrid), February 14, p. 17.
2004 Carrasco, Alex. “Erwin Wurm, No lo llames burla.” NEO2 (Madrid), no. 33 (February/March), pp.57–58.
2003 Cash, Stefanie: Stand-Up Artist in: Art in America, December, New York, USA, pp.84-87, cover.
2003 Gavulová, Lucia: Kto je Erwin Wurm? in: VLNA, no. 16, Bratislava, Slovakia, pp.4-11.
2003 Fanchette, Frédérique: Simplement incorrect in: Libération, November 14, France, pp.38-39.
2003 Vozmediano, Elena: Wurm y la escultura efimera in: El Cultural, 18.9.2003, p. 29.
2003 Kissler, Alexander: Das Orakel der Steiermark in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, Nr. 152, 5./6. July, p. 17.
2003 Schlüter, Ralf: Kopf in den Eimer in: ART, Hamburg, Deutschland, Nr. 6, June, p. 135.
2003 Kröner, Magdalena, Körper auf den Punkt gebracht in: die tageszeitung, Berlin, Germany, March 27, p. 16.
2003 Reininghaus, Alexandra: Eine Skulptur für alle Fälle in: ART, Hamburg, Germany, Nr. 4, April, p.18 - 25.
2003 Adbusters, Blaine, WA, USA, Jan/Feb Vol 11 No.1, pp. 29 & 34.
2003 Erwin Wurm in: Time Out, May 1-7, No. 11, p. 100.
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