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Olafur Eliasson Biography
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1967 |
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Born in Copenhagen, Denmark
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1989 - 1995 |
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Studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen
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Lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen (solo)
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2009
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i8 Gallery, Reykjavik (solo)
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2009
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Projekt Summlung (6), Kunsthaus Zug (solo)
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2009
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Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (solo)
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2009
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Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (solo)
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2008 - 2009
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50 Moons of Saturn, T2 Torino Triennale, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy (solo)
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2008
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Winter solstice, Equinox, Summer solstice, Jarla Partilager, Stockholm (solo)
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2008
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Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munchen (solo)
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2008
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la Naturalesa de Les Coses, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona (solo)
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2008
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Take your time, The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1, New York (solo)
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2008
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Spatial vibration: string-based instrument, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (solo)
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2008
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The inside of outside, neugerriemschneider, Berlin (solo)
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2008
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The nature of things, La Fontana d'Or, Fundació Caixa Girona, Girona (solo)
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2008
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Yellow Fog, permanent installation at Verbund Zentrale, Am Hof, Vienna (public project)
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2008
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The New York City Waterfalls, presented by Public Art Fund, in association with the City of New York (public project)
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2008
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The Nature of Things, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona (solo)
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2008
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Yellow fog, Verbund Collection, Vienna (permanent exhibition) (solo)
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2008
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New York City Waterfalls, East River, New York (solo)
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2007 - 2008
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Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco(solo)
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2007
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Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 (with Kjetil Thorsen), commissioned by Serpentine Gallery, London (public project)
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2007
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To lufthuller med lys, permanent installation, commissioned by Kolding Kommune for Kolding Bibliotek, Denmark (public project)
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2007
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Take your time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (solo)
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2007
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The cubic structural evolution project, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (solo)
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2007
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The body as brain-Lava floor: Projekt Sammlung (5), Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland (solo)
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2007
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Winter solstice, Jarla Partilager, Stockholm (solo)
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2007
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Migratory Esthetics, Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen
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2007
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The shadow studies. Projekt Sammlung (5), Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland (solo)
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2007
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Works on paper and other flat objects, PKM Gallery, Seoul (solo)
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2007
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Your tempo, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (solo)
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2006
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Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
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2006
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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
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2006
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Your waste of time, neugerriemschneider, Berlin (solo)
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2006
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Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples / 1960 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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2006
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The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
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2006
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Olafur Eliasson: Your Uncertainty of Colour Matching Experiment, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
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2006
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The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
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2006
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PHotoEspaña 06, PHotoEspaña, Madrid
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2006
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Olafur Eliasson, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
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2006
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New perspective on the 70s, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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2006
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Not all is Visible: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
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2006
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Where are we going: Selections from the Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
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2006
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Surprise, Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Arts London
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2005
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Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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2005
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Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
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2005
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Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
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2005
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Lunds Konsthall, Lund
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2005
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Ellipse Foundatoin, The Netherlands
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2005
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Your light shadow, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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2004
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Minding the World, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (solo)
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2004
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Your colour memory, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania (solo)
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2004
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I only see things when they move, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
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2004
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Your Lighthouse: Works with light, 1991-2004, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
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2004
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The Body as Brain, Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
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2004
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Olafur Eliasson: Photographs, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
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2004
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Colour memory and other informal shadows, Astrup Fearnley
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2004
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Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (solo)
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2004
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Frost Activity, Hafnarhús, Reykjavík
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2004
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Forgetting, Brändström Stene Galerie, Stockholm
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2003
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Delight and other luminous Movements, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
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2003
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The Weather Project, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (solo)
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2003
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Danish Pavillion, 50th Venice Biennale
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2003
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Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
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2003
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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
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2003
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Funcionamento silencio, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
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2003
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Sonne statt Regen, Stadtsche Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau Munchen, Munich
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2003
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Chaque matin je me sens différent, Chaque soir je me sense le même, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
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2003
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Overrgaden, Copenhagen
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2003
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The Cartographic Series I + II, Niels Borch Jensen Verlag + Druck, Berlin
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2003
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Udigten der aldrig taenker, Galleri Kirke Sonnerup, KR.Saby, Denmark
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2001
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i-8 Gallery, Reykjavik
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2001
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The structural evolution project, Mala galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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2001
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Die dinge die du nicht siehst die du nicht siehst, Neuger Riemschneider, Berlin
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2001
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Seeing yourself sensing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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2001
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Surroundings surrounded, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
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2001
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The mediated motion, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Germany
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2001
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Your only real thing is time, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
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2000
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Your now is my surroundings, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, NY
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2000
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Kunstverein, Wolfsburg
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2000
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Your intuitive surroundings vs. your surrounded intuition, The Art Institute of Chicago; Neue Galerie Graz, Graz
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2000
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The only thing we have in common is that we are different, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan
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2000
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Your orange afterimage exposed, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
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2000
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Your blue afterimage exposed, Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo
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2000
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Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
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2000
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The Curious Garden, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
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1999
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De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (with Job Koelewijn)
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1999
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Your Double Day Diary, Kunstverein Frankfurt
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1999
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Kunstverein Wolfsburg
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1999
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Beauty, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
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1999
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Riflessi di una certa importanza, Emi Fontane, Milan
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1999
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Your Circumspection Disclosed, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
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1999
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Galleri Ingólfsstraeti, Reykjavik
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1999
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Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned, Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, Scotland
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