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Basic Data

US artist Joseph Kosuth is considered one of the pioneers of conceptual and installation art and has initiated language-based works and appropriation strategies since the 1960s. In his work, he consistently addresses the production as well as the role of language and meaning in art.

  • Born: 31 January 1945
  • Place of birth: Toledo, Ohio, USA
  • Nationality: American
  • Studied at: Toledo Museum School of Art, Cleveland Art Institute, School of Visual Arts New York, New School for Social Research
  • Similar artists: Hanne Darboven, Joseph Beuys
  • Era: Contemporary art
  • Stylistic direction: Conceptual art

 

Exhibitions

  • 15.09.21 - 19.02.23 Avantgarde und Gegenwart – Belvedere 21, Vienna.
  • 19.05.21 - 31.02.22 Presentation of the contemporary collection – Centre Pompidou, Paris.
  • 26.02.21 - 31.12.21 Helga de Alvear Collection – Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres.
  • 18.06.2020 - 20.09.2020 Inspiration -- Contemporary Art & Classics – Ateneum Art Museum – Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki.
  • 19.02.2020 - 17.05.2020 Inspiration Iconic Works – Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
  • 20.02.2019 - 26.08.2019 A Vision for Painting - Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.
  • 26.01.2018 - 05.05.2018 Exhibition from the seven hundred ... - Catherine Bastide, Marseille.
  • 02.01.2017 - 13.08.2017 Primary Structures. - MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main.
  • 21.10.2016 - 27.03.2017 An Imagined Museum. Works from the Centre Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections - Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris.
  • 19.11.2015 - 20.12.2015 A Zoology of Thinking. Joseph Kosuth - Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo.

 

Awards

  • 1999: Decoration of Honour in Gold, Vienna.
  • 1993: Menzione d'Onore, Biennale Venice.
  • 1993: Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris.
  • 1991: Frederick Weisman Award.
  • 1990: Brandeis Award.
  • 1968: Cassandra Foundation Grant.

 

Literature

  • Joseph Kosuth. Gäste und Fremde: Goethes Italienische Reise, exhibition catalog, Schirn-Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Publ.), Frankfurt/Main, Basel 1999.
  • Leucht-Schrift-Kunst: Holzer, Kosuth, Merz, Nannucci, Nauman, Andrea Domesle, Berlin 1998.
  • Konzeptuelle Kunst in Amerika und England zwischen 1963 und 1976, Thomas Dreher, Frankfurt/Main 1992.

 

Own Writings

  • Art After Philosophy and After, Collected Writings, 1966-1990, Joseph Kosuth, G. Guercio (Publ.), Cambridge 1991.

 

Collections

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Spain

 

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