SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1967
‘Fifteen People Present Their Favorite Book’ (Robert Morris, Ad Reinhardt, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Dan Graham, Robert Smithson, Carl André, Robert Ryman, and others)
1969 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, USA, ‘Joseph Kosuth
1970 Jysk Kunstgalerie, Copenhagen, Denmark, ‘Joseph Kosuth: The First Investigation
1970 Christ College, Oxford, U.K., ‘Joseph Kosuth
1971 Centro de Arte y Communication, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1973 Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Art Investigations and Problematics
1974 Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Investigations sur l’art et problématique 1965-1973’
1975 Liliane & Michel Durand-Desert, Paris, France, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Face/Surface
1976 Mtodziezowy Klub/Tworcow Kultury Forum, Krakow, Poland, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Face/Surface’
The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA, ‘Joseph Kosuth’
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Beiträge zur Konzeptuellen Kunst
1978 Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Tekst/Kontekst’
Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Text/Context’
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK.; ‘Joseph Kosuth: Text/Context’
1979 Musée de Chartres, Chartres, France, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Dix Descriptions Partielles’
1980 P.S. 1, Queens, N.Y., USA, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Ten Partial Descriptions’
1981 Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Bedeutung von Bedeutung /
The Making of Meaning’. Travelled to Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany
1982 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, N.Y., USA, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Cathexis’
1985 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, N.Y, USA, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Fort! Da!’
Musée St. Pierre, Lyon, France, ‘Joseph Kosuth: 2 Installations’
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Œuvres récentes 1981-1985’
1986 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Zero & Not’
1987 Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, USA, ‘Modus Operandi’
1988 Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy, ‘Modus Operandi: Cancellato’
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Modus Operandi’
1989 Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium, ‘Exchange of Meaning: Translation in the Work of Joseph Kosuth’
1990 Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium, ‘The Play of the Unsayable: Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Art of the 20th Century’
1991 Rubin Spangle, New York, USA, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Three Installations: 1970, 1979, and 1988’
1992 Belvedere, Prague, Czechoslovakia, ‘Podobenství (Ex Libris, Kafka)’ / ‘Parable (Ex Libris, Kafka)’
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA, ‘A Play: The Herald Tribune,
1993 Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, ‘Joseph Kosuth: Eine Grammatische Bemerkung’ / ‘A Grammatical Remark’
1994 Centrum Sztuki Wspotczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland,
Kunstwerke Berlin, Berlin, ‘Berliner Chronik’
1995 Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Palma, Mallorca, Spain, ‘L’art des idées. Una visio de trenta anys’
Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy, ‘Rules and Meanings’
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, ‘Joseph Kosuth and American Conceptualism’
1997 MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, USA, ‘Re-defining the Context of Art: 1968-1997. ‘The Second Investigation’ and Public Media’
1998 Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland, ‘Die Anfänge der Konzeptkunst: Frühe Arbeiten von Joseph Kosuth. Aus der Sammlung Bruno Bischofberger’
1999 Villa Medici – Académie de France, Rome, Italy, ‘Condizioni D’Assenza (Il nome e chi lo porta, a G.)’ / ‘Conditions of Absence (The name and its bearer, for G.)’
2004 Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, ‘Re-defining the Context of Art: 1968-2004, ‘The Second Investigation’ and Public Media’
2005 Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark,
2006 Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland, ‘Joseph Kosuth and Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: Hans Christian Andersen-A Life World’
Rotterdam City Theatre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, ‘37th Poetry International Festival
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1966 Stamford Art Center, Stamford, USA, ‘New Talent’
1968 The American Federation of Arts, New York, USA, ‘The Square in Art’
1969 Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ‘Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form: Works-Concepts-Processes-Situations-Information’. Travelled to Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany; Institute of Contemporary Art,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, ‘Art by Telephone’
Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany, ‘Prospect 69’
Stadtischen Museum, Leverkusen, Germany, ‘Konzeption – Conception’
1970 Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, ‘Information’
1971 Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA,Guggenheim ‘International Exhibition’
Museo de arte moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina, ‘Arte de sistemas’
1972 Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, ‘Documenta V’
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ‘"Konzept" – Kunst’
1973 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, ‘Some Recent American Art’ Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany, Kunst aus Fotografie’
Parcheggio de Villa Borghese ‘[Incontri Internazionale d'Arte]’, Rome, Italy
1974 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA, ‘Idea and Image in Recent Art’
Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany, ‘Kunst bleibt Kunst: Projekt '74’
Centre national d'art contemporain, Paris, France, ‘Festival d'Automne de Paris’
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA, ‘The New Image’
1976 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA, ‘Seventy-second American Exhibition’
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
P.S. 1, Queens, USA, ‘Rooms P.S. 1’ ’
1977 Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia, ‘Illusion and Reality’
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, ‘Words at Liberty’
1978 Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, ‘Documenta VI’
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, ‘Words at Liberty and A View of The Decade’
1979 Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, ‘Printed Art: A View of Two Decades’
1980 Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, U.K., (touring) ‘Artist and Camera’
1981 Neuberger Museum, Purchase, USA, ‘Soundings’
1982 Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, ‘Documenta VII’
1983 The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan, ‘Photography in Contemporary Art’
Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland, ‘Ars 83’
1984 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA, ‘Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984’
1985 Künstlerwerkstatten, Munich, Germany, ‘Process und Konstruktion: 1985 in Munchen’
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, ‘Mehr Licht/More Light’
1986 Queens Museum, Queens, N.Y., USA, ‘The Real Big Picture’
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium, ‘Chambres d'amis’
1987 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA, ‘The Whitney Biennial’
1988 Musée d’Art Contemporain, (CAPC) Bordeaux, France, ‘Art Conceptuel I’
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, ‘Implosion: Ett Postmodern perspektiv’
Württemburgischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, ‘Blow-Up’
1989 Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, ‘L’Art Conceptuel, Une Perspective’
Fondazione Scientifica Querini Stampaglia, Venice, Italy, ‘Ad Usum Dimorae’
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA, ‘Art in Place’
1990 Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, ‘Contemporary Art In An Urban Context’
1991 Dum Umeni Messa Brna, Brno, Czechoslovakia (touring), ‘Détente’
1992 American Academy, Rome, Italy, ‘Joseph Kosuth and Michelangelo Pistoletto’
Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany, ‘Documenta IX’
Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, ‘No Rocks Allowed’
1993 Biennale di Venezia, Hungarian Pavilion, Venice, Italy, ‘Zeno At The Edge Of The Known World’
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, ‘All Roads lead to Rome?’
Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria, ‘The Foreigner, The Guest’
1994 Camden Art Centre, London, U.K., ‘Symptoms of Interference, Conditions of Possiblity’ [with Ad Reinhardt and Felix Gonzalez-Torres]
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, ‘The Tradition of the New: Postwar
Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection’
CAPC, Bordeaux, France, ‘Pour les chapelles de Vence’
1995 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA, ‘1965–1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art’
Museo Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, ‘Intervenciones en el espacio’
1996 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada, ‘Magritte Collection’. Travelled to Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, ‘Travaux Publics
1997 Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria, ‘Künstler Innen’
Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden, ‘A House Is Not A Home’
Le Nouveau Musée / Institut Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France, ‘Le Bel
Aujourd’hui. Œuvres d’une Collection Privée’
1998 Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria, ‘100 Jahre Secession, Das Jahrhundert der künstlerischen Freiheit’
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, ‘Fönster åt gården / Rear Window’
1999 Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel, ‘Joseph Kosuth / Haim Steinbach’
Vestsjaellannds Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark, ‘Til Mertz’
P.S.1, Long Island City, USA, ‘Primarily Structural: Minimalism and Post-Minimalism: Works on Paper’
Cultuur Centrum Brugge, Brugge, Belgium, ‘Art Words-Art Works!’
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, ‘(word)’
2000 De voormalige stadsbibliotheek, Ghent, Belgium, ‘Over the Edges’
City Hall, Singen, Germany, ‘Singen 2000 Landesgartenschau’
2001 Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ‘Quartett August 1968 September 2000’
Museum of Light Art, Unna, Germany
2002 Museion, Museum D’Arte Moderna, Bolzano, Italy, ‘Guida’
2004 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, ‘Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present’
2005 Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy, ‘Generations of Art’
2006 Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland, ‘The Sublime is now!’
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, ‘Nothing’