Exhibitions

2024

Légèreté des ombres, Transfo Emmaüs Solidarité, Paris, France

Animitas (Chili), Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles, United States

2023

Souffle et Tintement, Espace F, Matane, Quebec, Canada

2022

Départ Arrivée, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

Les Regards. Les Esprits, Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, France

Tode Zum Lachen, Valentin Karlstadt Museum, Munich, Germany

2021

Hommage à Christian Boltanski, Un parcours entre le Château de Versailles, le musée du Louvre et le Centre Pompidou, avec l’Opéra Comique, Paris, France

4.4, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea

Despuès, Galeria Albarran Bourdais, Minorque, Spain

Animitas, The Noguchi Museum, New York, United States

Danach, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany

Après
, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

Après, Galerie Marian Goodman, 2021

2020

Chance, Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland

2019

Faire son temps, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Animitas, Hellbrunn Sculpture Park, Salzbourg, Austria

Animitas, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, Japan

Lifetime, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan ; National Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan ; The Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan

Faire son temps, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2019

2018

The Memorial The Forced Labourers, Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site, European Centre for Art and Industrial Culture, Völklingen, Germany

Lifetime, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Storage Memory, The Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

Sombras Blancas, Galleria Solo, Madrid, Spain

Ephémères, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Saynètes Comiques, Librairie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

2017

NA, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Animitas, Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich, Germany

Misterios, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Anime. Di luogo in luogo, MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Les Registres du Grand Hornu, Christian Boltanski, El Instante Fundacion, Madrid, Spain

Works, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Na, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, 2017

2016

Animitas, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico

One collection, one artework, Fundação Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva, Lisbon, Portugal

Départ- Arrivée, Instituto Valenciano Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain

Christian Boltanski, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Animitas – Les âmes qui murmurent, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Japan

2015

Sombras, La Lonja – Palma de Mallorca, Spain

La salle des pendus, MAC’S (Grand Hornu), Belgium

Les Archives du Cœur, MAMbo – Museo  d’Arte  Moderna di  Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Christian Boltanski, Cricoteka, The Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow, Poland

Faire-part, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

Christian Boltanski, Hirose Collection, Japan

DOPO, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy

2014

19.924.458 +/-, SESC Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil

Chance, Sydney Festival 2014, Sydney, Australia

Heart Beat Archive, Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenals Exhibition Hall, Riga, Lithuania

Almas, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Inventory of the Objects Belonging to a Young Man of Oxford, Modern Art Oxford, United Kingdom

2013

Grosse Hamburger Strasse, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany

Moved, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

Eyes, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens, Greece

2012

Heartbeats, Nahum Gutman Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

Chance, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Migrantes, Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (MUNTREF); Hotel of Immigrants; Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dança Macabra, Fabrica Asa, Guimaraes, Portugal

Chance, Casa França Brasil, Rio do Janeiro, Brazil

The Heart Archive, Helsinki, Rovaniemi, Vaasa and Joensuu, Finland

Migrantes, Hotel de Inmigrantes, Buenos Aires, 2012

2011

Chance, French Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Sans Fin, Fondazione VOLUME!, Roma, Italy

Christian Boltanski, Signatures, Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Chance, French Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2011

2010

No Man’s Land, Park Avenue Armory, New York, United States

Personnes, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Les Archives du Coeur (Heartbeat), Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion, London, United Kingdom

Personnes, Monumenta, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Après, MAC VAL, Musée d’art contemporain du Val de Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

Personnes, Monumenta, Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2010

2009

La vie possible, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Switzerland

2008

Christian Boltanski, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden

Les archives du cœur, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

Questions-réponses, Le consortium, Dijon, France

Monuments Noirs, Kewenig, Cologne, Germany

Serce (Heart), Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland

2007

6 septembres, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

Christian Boltanski, Herzschlag, Pfefferberg, Berlin, Germany

2006

Christian Boltanski, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany

Christian Boltanski, CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

2005

6 Septembres, Société d’Encouragement pour l’Industrie Nationale, Paris, France

Ultime Notizie, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

A.V. Shusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia

Prendre la Parole, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France

2004

Les Regards: Sculpture for Bremen, Rolandpreis für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Bremen, Germany

Théâtre d’ombres 1984-1997, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland

Zeit (Time), Kewenig, Cologne, Germany

2003

Entre Temps, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

2002

Faire-Part, Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienne, Italy

La Vie Impossible de Christian Boltanski, Jule Kewenig Galerie, Frechen, Germany

Les Abonnés du Téléphone, South London Gallery, London, United States

Sombras, Museo de Santa Rosa, Puebla, Mexico

2001

Coming & Going, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

Facets of Memory, The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, United States

Christian Boltanski, Ujaztowski Castel, Varsaw, Poland

La vie impossible, Kunstmuseum Dessao, Dessao, Germany

St. Peter Church, Cologne, Germany

La Réserve de Christian Boltanski, Skulpturemuseum, Marl, Germany

Christian Boltanski, Foksal Galerie, Warsaw, Poland

2000

Reflexion, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United Kingdom

Monte Pieta, Palermo, Italy

Le Regard Égoïste 1, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

1999

Christian Boltanski, Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Venezuela

Les Enfants de Dijon, Galerie des Franciscains, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France

L’Album Photographique de Christian Boltanski 1948-1956, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany

Gymnasium Chases, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany

Christian Boltanski, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

1998

Disappearance, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhague, Denmark

Night in August, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Dernières Années, ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

So Far, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, United States

Compra/Venta, Alumudin, Valencia, Spain

Nightfall, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, Londres, United States

1997

Pentimenti, Villa delle Rose, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologne, Italy

Los Justos, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain

Les Registres, Espace du Grand Hornu, Mons, Belgium

Le Voyage d’Hiver, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

Derniers Jours, Chateau de Plieux, Plieux, France

Lost, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

1996

Christian Boltanski, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany

Sterblich, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany

Alltag, avec Jean Kalman, theater der Welt, Dresde, Germany

Les Concessions, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

Glück auf!, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany

Christian Boltanski, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen, Germany

Passie / Passion, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, 1996

1995

Passie, DePont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Villa Medecis, Roma, Italy

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Lost: New York Projects, Public Art Fund, New York, United States

Gymnasium Chases, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany

The Work People of Halifax 1877–1982, Henry Moore Studio, Halifax, United Kingdom

Advento and other times, CGAC – Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

 

Christian Boltanski, Marian Goodman Gallery, 1995
Advento, Santiago de Compostela, 1995

1993

Karl Valentin Museum and Städtmuseum, Munich, Germany

Jule Kewenig, Cologne, Germany

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy

Les Suisses Morts, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

New York Public Library, New York, United States

Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

Städtische Galerie in Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Graphische Sammlung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1992

La Fundación Cultura Televisa and Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico

Photographer, Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France

Les livres, Stiftsbibliothek, Saint-Gall, Switzerland

Galerie Jule and Michael Kewenig, Frechen-Bachem, Cologne, Germany

1991

La Réserve des Suisses morts, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France

Inventar, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hambourg, Germany

Réconstitution, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France; Stedelijk van Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, United States

Archives, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

Memento Mori und Schattenspiel, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfort, Germany

Conversation Pieces, Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Les Bougies, Queens Museum of Art, New York, United States

Inventar, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hambourg, 1991

1990

Reconstitution, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Réserve, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel, Switzerland

Boltanski, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan

ATM Contemporary Art Gallery, Mito, Japan

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne, France

Archives, Galerie du Cloitre, Rennes, France

Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

The Dead Swiss, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Meurtres, Galerie des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Invitation à … Christian Boltanski, Chapelle de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France

Boltanski, Contemporary Art Institute, Nagoya, 1990

1989

Archives, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France

Lessons of Darkness, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

La Fête du Pourim, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland

University Art Museum, Berkeley, The Netherlands

Lessons of Darkness, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Odessa, Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece

Galerie Marika Malacorda, Genève, Switzerland

Galerie Foksal, Warsow, Poland

Shoshanna Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, United States

1988

Lessons of Darkness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, United States; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, United States

Galerie Pablo and Pandora van Dijk, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada

El Caso, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

Galerie Wanda Reiff, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Galerie Bébert, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

El Caso, Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France

1987

Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

Classe terminale du lycée Chases en 1931, Castelgasse-Vienne, Vienna, Austria

Le Lycée Chases, Maison de la Culture et de la Communication, Saint-Etienne, France

Œuvres inédites, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, France

Monuments, Galerie Chantal Boulanger, Montréal, Canada

1986

Leçon des Ténèbres, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany

Peindre photographier, Musée de Nice, Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice, France

Monuments – Leçons de ténèbres, Festival d’automne, Chapelle de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Carré d’art, Galerie des Arènes, Nîmes, France

Monuments, Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France

Monuments, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich, Switzerland

1985

Monuments, organisé par Le Coin du miroir, Dijon, France

Ombres, Ex Stalloni, Reggio nell’Emilia, Italy

1984

Filme von Christian Boltanski, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Suisse

Galerie Croussel-Hussenot, Paris, France

Boltanski, Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany

Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

Shadows, Galerie t’Venster, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Boltanski, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1984

1983

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, United States

1982

Nouveau Musée, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, United States

1981

Carpenter Center, Harvard Univerity, Cambridge, United States

Compositions, ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

Compositions initiatiques, Galerie Marika Malacorda, Genève, Switzerland

Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

The Archives, Art Information Centre Peter van Beveren, Hasselt, Belgium

1980

Compositions, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais, France

Compositions, Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France

1979

Les Modèles, Maison de la Culture Chalon-sur-Saône, France

Veir japanische Bilder, Galerie Erwin Tegentritt, Dudweier, Germany

The Kitchen (performance), New York, United States

Œuvres de 1974–1975, Centre Culturel Communal, Saint Pierre-des-Corps, France

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, United States

1978

Show de Nöel, Le Coin du miroir, Dijon, France

Arbeiten 1968-1978, Karlsruhe, Germany

P.S.1 – Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, United States

Compositions photographiques, Galerie Jöllenbeck, Cologne, Germany

Galerie Marika Malacorda, Genève, Switzerland

Les images-stimuli, Galerie Foksal – PSP, Warsaw, Poland

Kronika Wypadkow, Salon Krytykow, Lublin, Poland

1977

Modellbilder, Galerie Seriaal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Stories and Posters, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, United States

Galerie art actuel, Nancy, France

Les Vacances, Centrum für Kunst, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Galleria Bruno Soletti, Milan, Italy

1976

Modellbilder, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany

Photographies couleurs-Images modèles, Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Photographies, Galerie Sonnabend, Paris

Galerie Seriaal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Paris zeigt Filme, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe, Germany

1975

Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland

Komische Eenakters, Galerie Seriaal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Zum Totlachen, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany

Tolkar Minnen Fran Barndomen, Kunsthalle, Malmö, Sweden

Galerie St. Petri, Lund, Sweden

Saynettes Comiques, Galleria Enzo Cannaviello, Roma, Italy

Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia

1974

Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Le Musée de Christian Boltanski 1966-1974, Dijon, France

Les Inventaires, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark

Posters – props – sets, photographic documents), Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; CNAC/Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Galleria Forma, Genoa, Italy

Fascicules et divers documents, Galerie Sankt-Pétri, Lund, Sweden

Sammlung Lustiger Einakter, dargestellt von Christian Boltanski, Kunsthalle, Kiel, Germany

1973

Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy

Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom

Les Inventaires, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Les Inventaires, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany

Galerie Toni Gerber, Berlin, Germany

1972

Studio Santandrea, Milan, Italy

Dispersions à l’Amiable, Musée Social, Paris, France

Studio Sant’Andrea, Milan, Italy

Règles et techniques, Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin, Germany

Musée Municipal du Costume Militaire, Fontainebleau; Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint-Étienne; Musée Municipal des Ursulines, Macon; Musée de Cognac, Cognac; Biennale des Nuits de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

1971

Galerie M. E. Thelen, Cologne, Germany

1970

ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

Galerie Ben Dout de Tout, Nice, France

1969

Galerie Claude Givaudan, Paris, France

1968

La vie impossible de Christian Boltanski, Cinéma Le Ranelagh, Paris, France

Group Exhibitions

2025

Le grenier du château, Musée d’art contemporain de Haute-Vienne – Château de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France

Des choses pour Jacques Roubaud, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France

No Boundaries, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2024

La voix des fleuves, 17e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France

40ans du Méjan, exposition rétrospective, Chapelle du Méjan, Arles, France

Rien de trop beau pour les dieux, Fondation Opale, Lens, Switzerland

The Possibilities of Linear Expression, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Your Patience is Appreciated: Inaugural Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

Engaging with History: Works from the Collection, The Jewish Museum, New York, United States

Passions partagées, De Basquiat à Edith Piaf, La Collection Lambert au Mucem, Marseille, France

The Grid. Trame. Grille. Maille, Musée Universitaire de Louvain, Belgium

PARADE, une scène française, Moco Montpellier, France

Hommage à Alain Crombecque, Festival d’Avignon/Festival d’Automne Paris, Maison Jean Vilar, Avignon, France

2023

A Partir d’elle. Les artistes et leur mère, Le Bal, Paris, France

Corps à Corps, Histoire(s) de la photographie, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

PERFORMING PAC. Dance Me To The End Of Love, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea Milan, Italy

2022

What’s Going On, Rubell Museum DC, Washington, DC, United States

Les Choses. Une histoire de la nature morte, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

The Echigo – Tsumari Art Triennale 2022, Japan

The 13th Kaunas Biennial: Once Upon Another Time, Kaunas, Lithuania

Rencontrons-nous à la gare, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland

Le Théâtre des Emotions, Musée Marmottan – Monet, Paris, France

2021

Corpus Domini, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

Drôles de convergences, The Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia

Monument, Co-curated by K11 Kollection x Q Contemporary, K11 MUSEA L6, Art & Cultural Centre, Hong Kong

Wilde Kindheit, Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria

2020

(Not) a Good Time for Love. Love Stories of the Holocaust Survivors, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia

Le Mauvais Oeil, FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

2019

The Dark Side – Who is afraid of the Dark?, Musja, Roma, Italy

Ombres de la Renaissance à nos jours, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland

Souvenirs de Voyage, Collection Antoine de Galbert, Musée de Grenoble, France

Rothko at Lampedusa, UNHCR, Palazzo Querini, Venice, Italy

Vergessen – Warum wir nicht alles erinnern, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Licht. Schatten. Spuren, 100 Jahre Bauhaus, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

2018

Le Violon d’Ingres, Académie de France à Rome -Villa Medicis, Roma, Italy

Soundlines of Contemporary Art, International exhibition of contemporary art, Yerevan, Armenia

Take Me (I’m Yours), Académie de France à Rome -Villa Medicis, Roma, Italy

Au diapason du monde, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

Melancholia, Fondation Boghossian -Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium

Das letzte Bild. Fotografie und Tod, C/O Berlin Foundation, Berlin, Germany

1914–1918 Damals nicht, jetzt nicht, niemals!, Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin, Germany

2017

Ouvert la nuit, festival des lumières, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medicis, Roma, Italy

Etranger résident, La collection Marin Karmitz, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

Manif d’art 8, la Biennale de Québec, Canada

2016

De toi à la surface, Le Plateau, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France

Carambolages, Grand Palais, Galeries nationales, Paris, France

Loss. In memory of Babi Yar, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine

Refugees, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Behold The Man, Museum de Fondatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands

From Generation to Generation, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, United States

Take Me (I’m Yours), The Jewish Museum, New York, United States

Tant de Temps ! 50 artistes contemporains au musée Soulages, Musée Soulages, Rodez, France

2015

Go –Betweens: Children who Cross the Borders, Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Japan

Pliure, Centre Cultural Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France

All the World’s Futures, Arsenale, 56th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Construire une collection, Villa Sauber, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco

Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, United States

Do it (Adelaide), Samstag Museum, Adelaide, Australia

Tres Narrativas. Memoria, Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain

Fondazione Volume! – Passaggi, Musée d’Art Moderne Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Étienne, France

2014

I’m Still Here, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden

Crime in Art, MOCAK, Krakow, Poland

Go –Betweens: Children who Cross the Borders, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

On the Road/En el camino, curated by Gloria Moure, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

The Collection of the IVAM XXV Anniversary, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

The Disappearance of the Fireflies, Yvon Lambert Collection, Prison Sainte Anne, Avignon, France

The Hidden Picture – Collecting Art at ING, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands

Symétrique Exotique, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

A History. Art, Architecture and Design, From the Eighties to the Present Day, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

One Million Years- System and Symptom, Museum für  Gengenwartskunst- Emanuel Hoffman-Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland

Inside, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2013

The Last Laugh, Apexart, New York, United States

Manchester International Festival MIF 2013, Manchester, United States

Setouchi Triennale 2013, Takamatsu, Japan

Critique and Crisis: Art in Europe since 1945, Kumu Art Museum, Estonia Mart, Tallinn, Estonia

L’altro ritratto, Museo di arte moderna e contemporánea di Trento e Roverto (MART), Italy

Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New, Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States

Butterfly Effect, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, United States

2012

Manifesta 9 European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Genk, Belgium

Tour de France/Florida: Contemporary Artists from France in Florida’s Private Collections, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, United States

Selecciones de la Colección del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao II, Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain

Art and Press, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany

Beyond Memory, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel

Die subtile Gewalt der Dinge – Bilder gesellschaftlichen Wandels 11, Hessisches, Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany

Utopie Gesamtkunstwerk, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

Questions d’images (visages de sable), Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France

Verführung Freiheit : Kunst in Europa seit 1945. XXX. Europaratsausstellung, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

2011

Selecciones de la Colección del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao II, Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain

Tour de France/Florida: Contemporary Artists from France in Florida’s Private Collections – Frost Art Museum, Miami, United States

Remix – Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, United States

Atlas. How To Carry The World On One’s Back?, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg ; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg ; ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Cambio de paradigma – Colección Serralves años 60-70,  Musac – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain

Staging the Archive, MACE Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Elvas, Portugal

MMK 1991-2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Le Château, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Objects of Devotion and Desire, Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art, Leubsdorf Art Gallery – Hunter College, New York, United States

Absolute Installation, The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Masterpieces Of The 20th Century From The Collection Of The Valencia Institute Of Modern Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art – MMOMA, Moscow, Russia

Out of Storage: Provisoire & Définitif, Marres – Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Eroe, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Torino, Turin, Italy

 

2010

Hinterlassenschaft, Kolumba, Cologne, Germany

Collection / Porto: Museu Serralves, Domaine de Kerguéhennec – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan, France

Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States

En mai, fais ce qu’il te plait!, Musée Bourdelle, Paris, France

Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts), Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom

Thrice upon a time, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

Modèles modèles 2, Mamco – musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Genève, Switzerland

Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection, MFAH – Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, United States

The first Haifa Mediterranean Biennale, The Haifa Mediterranean Biennale, Haïfa, Israel

Biennale für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna, Germany

Sprengel Museum, Hanovre, Germany

Photography and Everyday Life, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Lebenslust und Totentanz, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria

C’est la Vie ! Vanités – de Pompéi à Damien Hirst, Musée Maillol, Paris, France

Intensif-Station, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

2009

Spazio Libro d’Artista, Palazzo Manganelli, Catania, Italy

A mancha humana / the human stain, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Silences : un choix d’oeuvres de Marin Karmitz, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Museu Colecçao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal

Family Ties, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Serralves 2009, The Collection, 1st Part – Museu Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal

15_Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Gegen den Strich –Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Die verborgene Spur. Jüdische Wege durch die Moderne, Felix-Nußbaum-Haus, Osnabrück, Germany

Dispositivos Opticos. la Arquitectura Como Trayectorias de la Mirada, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain

Shadows, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

Kunst und Öffentlichkeit, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

Tierperspektiven Teil 1 und 2/ Tier-Werden Mensch-Werden, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany

Gestern oder im 2. Stock – Karl Valentin, Komik und Kunst seit 1948, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany

Sehnsucht nach dem Abbild – das Porträt im Wandel der Zeit, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria

Dark Side 2 – Fotografische macht und fotografierte Gewalt, Krankheit und Tod, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2008

A Theatre Without Theatre, Berardo Museum, Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal

Archive Fever, International Center of Photography, New York, United States

Traces du Sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Tales of Time and Space, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, United Kingdom

Von Kunst und Politik, Kunst-Raum im Deutschen Bundestag, Berlin, Germany

Bildpolitiken, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria

Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Manifesto Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2007

A Theatre Without Theatre, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

The Shadow, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Artempo – Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

La Chaine, BankArt, Yokohama, Japan

Luce di Pietra, Ambassade de France, Roma, Italy

Phantasmogaria: Specters of Absence, Luis Angel Arango Library, Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Columbia

Ombras, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea,  Siena, Italie ; Museu d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italie

Eyes, Lies, and Illusions, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia

Mapas, Cosmogonias e Puntos de Referencia, CGAC – Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Ateliers – L’artiste et ses lieux de création, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Kopf an Kopf – Serielle Portraitfotografie, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Beyond the Wall. Berlin – Freihafen der Künste, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin, Germany

2006

Collection Automne – Hiver, 2ème Partie, CAPC, Museé d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Japan

The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Greece

Spurensuche. Vergessen und Erinnern in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Marc Quinn e Christian Boltanski, MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Italy

The Expanded Eye. Sehen – entgrenzt und verflüssigt, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Dis-assembly, Serpentine Gallery in cooperation with North Westminter Community School, London, United Kingdom

Surprise, Surprise, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londres, United Kingdom

2005

Big Bang: Creation and Destruction in 20th Century Art¸ Centre Georges, Pompidou, Paris, France

Centre of Gravity, curated by Rosa Martinez, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey

Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Künstler. Archiv, Archiv der Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

War is over. 1945–2005. La Libertà dell’arte, GAMEC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy

2004

Continental Breakfast, Biennale de Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Les enfants terribles: Il linguaggio dell’infanzia nell’arte, 1909-2004, Museo Cantonale d’arte, Lugano, Switzerland

Contrepoint, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Collective Perspectives: New Acquisitions Celebrate the Centennial, The Jewish Museum, New York, United States

La grande parade – Portrait de l’artiste en clown, Grand Palais, Paris, France

After Images; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany

Schrift Bilder Denken: Walter Benjamin und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

2003

Gegenwartig: Field Research, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

It Happened Tomorrow, Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France

The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College, Bowdoin, Maine; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis ; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, United States

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, United States

A Sculpture Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Japan

Writing Identity, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Independence, South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Aveugles et Invisibles, FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

In Faccia al Mondo, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy

2002

Facets of Memory, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California, United States

In the Shadow of the Holocaust, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, United States

Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States

Conceptes de l’Espai, Fundacío Joan Míro, Barcelona, Spain

Iconoclash, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

Ars Photographica – Photographie und Künstlerbücher, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany

Tableaux Vivants-Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photographie, Film and Video, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienne, Austria

From Pop to Now, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, New York, United States

L’Herbier et le nuage, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Hornu, Belgium

Life Death Love Hate Pleasure Pain, MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States

Les Années 70 l’art en cause, CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Zwischenzeit, MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

L’Art mol et raide…, MAC – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

Histoire d’en vivre, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France

Œil pour œil, Le Rectangle – Centre d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Lyon, Lyon, France

2001

Ghost, Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

Dialogue Ininterrompu, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France

Kinderblicke. Kindheit und Moderne von Klee bis Boltanski, Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany

Schatten Risse – Silhouetten und Cutouts, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

Vision, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan

Black Box, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland

Voici cent ans d’art contemporain, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

The Return of the Real, Museum of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Facets of Memory, Jewish Museum, San Francisco, United States

Do It, Museo Carrillo Gil de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico

2000

World Without End: Aspects of 20th Century Photography, Art Gallery of South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Diary, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, Corner House, Manchester, United Kingdom

Quotidiana. Immagini della vita di ogni giorno nell’arte del XX secolo, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy

Ich ist etwas Anderes, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany

L’Empire du Temps, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Présumés innocents, CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Auf Leben und Tod: Ein Ausstellungs- und Dialogprojekt der Diözese Rottenburg, Pragfriedhof und Forum St. Georg, Stuttgart, Germany

Le Temps, vite, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

L’Ombra della ragione, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

Amnesia, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany

Beautiful Productions, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

The Dark, Update #4, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany

Voilà-le monde dans la tête, ARC – Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

How you look at it, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

Kinder des XX. Jahrhunderts, Galerie der Stadt, Aschaffenburg, Germany

1999

Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, United States

Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Japan

The Self is Something Else.  Art at the End of the 20th Century, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom

Circa 1968, The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal

Mémoire – Présent, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile, Chile

The Museum as Muse, MOMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States

Das XX. Jahrhundert. Ein Jahrhundert Kunst in Deutschland, Altes Museum and Neue Nationalgalerie – Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

Face to Face to Cyberspace, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

La Mémoire-99, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy

Private Eye – Crimes & Cases, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

1998

The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States

La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire, Villa Medici, Roma, Italy

Sans Reserve 1, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France

Breaking Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

Premises: Invested Spaces in Visual Arts and Architecture from France, 1958-1998, Guggenheim SoHo, New York, United States

Tableaux aux murs, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Dijon/le consortium. coll tout contre l’art contemporain, Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Christian Boltanski, Rebecca Horn, Wharf – Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France

Adieu, ex chiesa di S. Giovanni degli Almadiani, Viterbo, Italy

Presumed Innocence, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States

L’Œuvre au sens large, La Criée – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France

Face au Silence, FRAC – Fonds Régional d’art Contemporain Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Paradoxes of the Reality, the Reality of Utopia, The Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zacheta, Poland

Artist’s Proof, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany; travelled to Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany

1997

In Visible Light, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom

Veronica’s Revenge, (Oeuvres photographiques de la Lambert Collection), Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

Dialogues de l’Ombre, Espace Electra, Paris, France

Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba

Made in France, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Rencontres d’Arles. Devoir de mémoire, Chapelle Saint-Anne, Arles, France

For Heiner Müller, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugual; travelled to Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Engel, Engel, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

In Visible Light. Photography and Classification in Art, Science and The Everyday, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom

Die Epoche der Moderne – Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Zeitgeist-Gesellschaft, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

Dadaismo Dadaismi. Da Duchamp a Warhol. Da Picasso a Warhol. Da Dada a Dada. Le grandi provocazioni dell’Arte Moderna, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy

Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany

1996

Beyond Recognition, Contemporary International Photography, A National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition

Collections, Collection, Caisse des dépôts et consignations, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, France

Photocollages, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

Portraits, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada

D’une Œuvre l’autre, Musée Royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium

By night, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France

Islands, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

Some Grids, LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States

Thinking Print. Books to Billboards, 1980-95, MOMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States

Rudiments 5, MAMCO – Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland

1995

The New Museum, New York, United States

Public Art Project on Rochdale Canal, Manchester, United Kingdom

XLVI Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, United States

Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Photography and Beyond: New Expressions in France, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, United States

CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Zacheta Gallery, National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland

Hisa v Casu, Moderna Galeria, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Take me (I‘m yours), Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany

Unser Jahrhundert – Menschenbilder, Bilderwelten, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Ensayo general, Museo de Arte Carillo, Mexico City, Mexico; Biblioteca Luis Arango, Bogota, Colombia ; Museo de Arte, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Europe: Création et Récréation, Mücsarnok, Budapest, Hungary

Corpus Delicti. Twe privé-verzamelingen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gand, Belgium

La Sculpture de soi, Carré Musée Bonnat, Bayonne, France

Living with Contemporary Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, United Kingdom

Els limits del museu, Fudacío Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain

Photocollages, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

Take me (I’m yours), Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Of the Human Condition, Spiral Wacaol Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

Identités et Affinités, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

Passions Privées, ARC, Paris, France

Art as Witness, Kwangu Biennial, Seoul, South Korea

The Body and the Lens, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, United States

1994

Burnt Whole: Contemporary Artists Reflect on the Holocaust, Washington, United States

Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy

Hors Limites, L’Art et la Vie, Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Face à Face, Cabinet d’Art Graphique, Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Do It, Kunsthalle Ritter, Klagenfurt, Austria

Palau del Scala, Valencia, Spain

Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, California, United States

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

Tuning up, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Cloaca Maxima, Museum der Stadtentwässerung, Zurich, Switzerland

Maison Centrale des artistes, Moscow, Russia

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States

Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône, France

Institut of the Netherlands, Paris, France

Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

Cabinet d’Estampe du Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Genève, Switzerland

Institut Français de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Goethe Institut, Montréal, Québec, Canada

The Gallery at Takashimaya, New York, United States

Wilhelm Lembruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône; CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Même si c’est la nuit, CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Le Saut dans le vide, Künstlerhaus, Moscow Russia

..ou les oiseaux selon Schopenhauer, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Agen, France

Arte in Francia. 1970–1993, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

Artist as Shaman – Shaman as artist, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, United States

Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa

Trace / Fragments / Ellipses, Galerie d’Art Moderne, New Delhi, India

Image Makers, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, United States

Beyond Recognition, National Gallery, Canberra, Australia

1993

A Group Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

From the Insight out, Jewish Museum, New York, United States

Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

L’Autre à Montevideo. Hommage à Isidore Ducasse, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay

Hotel Carlton Palace, Paris, France

Autoportraits contemporain – Here’s looking at me, Espace Lyonnais d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

III Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Gli anni 70 lo sguardo, la foto, Palazzina die Giardini Moderna, Bologne, Italy

Frischluft, Wilhelm- Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Germany

Konstruktion Zitat – kollektive Bilder in der Fotografie, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

Da Brancusi a Boltanski, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy

Aanwinsten 1989–1993, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Widerstand, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

Danse Macabre, Abbaye aux Dames, FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Basse Normandie, Caen, France

1992

Tesoros de la edad del oscurantismo en Europa, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico

Pour la suite du monde, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

La mémoire des formes, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguehennec, France

International Center of Photography, New York, United States

The Jewish Museum, New York, United States

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

À visage découvert, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Visions – Révisions, Denver Art Museum, Denver, United States

Atelier de France – Kunst in Frankreich seit 1950, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany

Francia Közelmut, Magyar Nemzeti Galeria, Budapest, Hungary

Manifeste, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

1991

Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

A Group Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

Individualités: 14 Contemporary Artists from France, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Places with a Past: New Site-Specific Art in Charleston, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, United States

Une scène parisienne 1968–1972, Galerie d’Art et d’Essai-Criée Halle d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France

Musée Rêvé, Musée Picasso, Antibes, France

Constructive images: Synapse between photography and sculpture, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa;  Center for Creative photography, San José, United States

Toward a new museum, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, United States

Figur, Ansichten von Figur in der Moderne, Städtische Museen, Heilbronn, Germany

Zomeropstelling, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

The Interrupted Life, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, United States

Fotografia. Individualne pozicije, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, United States

1990

A Group Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

Assembled, The University Art Gallery, Wright State University Creative Art Center, Dayton, United States

Reorienting: Looking East, Third Eye Center, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Francja Dzisiaj, Museum Narodowe, Varsovie ; Museum Narodowe, Krakow, Poland

Die Endlichkeit der Freiheit, Gewerbemuseum, Berlin, Germany

Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Gilbert & George, Jannis Kounellis, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Mario Merz, CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Sydney Biennial, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Nature Artificielle, Fondation Electricité de France, Paris, France

Paradox of Process, MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, United States

L’Art en France. 1945–1990, Fondation Daniel Templon, Fréjus, France

1989

Les Magiciens de la Terre, Grande Halle de la Villette et Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Histoire de Musée, ARC/Musée National d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

On the Art of Fixing a Shadow, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States

The Art of Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States; Australian National Gallery, Camberra, Australia; The Royal Academy of Art, London, United Kingdom

Christian Boltanski and Annette Messager, Eglise Saint Martin du Méjan, Arles, France

2000 Years – The Presence of Time Past, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

L’invention d’un art, Centre National d’Art et de la Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Einleuchten: Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Szeem, Germany

Simplon Express, Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelle Paris-Ile de France, Paris, France

L’art sacré, Beaux-Arts Galerij, Bruxelles, Belgium

Dimension Jouet, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille; Maison du Jouet de Moirans, Moirans-en-Montagne, France

Une autre affaire, Dijon, France

L’art en France: un siècle d’invention, Union des Peintres, Moscow, Russia; Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia

Sub Limine Burgundiae, Halle Sud, Genève, Switzerland

Passé/Présent-Récits et Méandres, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Provence-Alpes, Côte d’Azur; Ecole d’Art de Toulon, Toulon; Ecole d’Art d’Avignon, Avignon, France

Vive le Nouveau Musée!, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Belgium

Departures: Photography 1924-1989, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, United States

80’s International, Langer & Co., New York, United States

Ut Poesis Museum, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland

Pasado Presente, Palacio de Sastago, Zaragosse, Spain

Peinture Cinéma Peinture, Centre de la Vielle Charité, Marseille, France

Prospect Photographie, Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

Kunst der letzten 10 Jahre, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria

1988

Nightfire, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

Clareté, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark

Zeitlos, Berlin, Germany

Golem! Danger, Deliverance and Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, United States

Maison de Caractère, Château Coquelle, Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts Georges Pompidou, Dunkerque, France

Saturne en Europe, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ancienne Douane and Musée de l’Oeuvre Notre Dame, Strasbourg, France

Rot Gelb Blau, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Kunstverein St. Gallen, Switzerland

Ansichten, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany

Farbe Bekennen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

Collection Sonnabend, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

From the Southern Cross. A View of World Art, Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia

Balkon mit Fächer, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany ; Du Mont Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany

Art or Nature – 20th Century French Photography, Barbican Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Photographie Art – Art Photographie, Centre Culturel d’Amiens, Amiens, France

Die Rache der Erinnerung, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria

1987

Vit hed oude Europa; From the Europe of Old, (organized by Europalia, Brussels), The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Century ’87: Kunst van nu ontmoet Amsterdam, The Netherlands verleden, (Today’s Art Face to Face with Amsterdam’s Past), Torensluiskerker, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Die Gleischzeitigkeit des Anderen, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland

Le Carré-Choix d’oeuvres du Fonds Régional d’art Contemporain de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Les Années 70: Les Années mémoires. Archéologie du savoir et d’être, Abbaye Saint-André Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meynac, France

Terrae Motus-Naples-Tremblement de Terre, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France

De la Photo comme peinture, Galerie Municipale d’Art Contemporain, Saint-Priest, France

Documenta 8, Fridericianum, Cassel, Germany

Venice Biennial, Venise, Italy

Blow up, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

Kunst heute in Frankreich, Haus Metternich, Koblenz, Germany; Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany

Wien Fluss, Wiener Secession, Vienne, Austria

Leçons de Ténèbres, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany

La Nouvelle Biennale de Paris, Nouvelles Halles de la Villette, Paris, France

Dialog, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Alles und noch viel mehr. Das poetische ABC, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland

La Bande dessinée, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium

Biennale des Friedens, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany

Atelier Polaroid, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Self-portrait in the age of photography, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland;  Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

1986

XLII Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Un choix, Exhibition Catalogue, KunstRAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Collections du Fonds Régional d’art Contemporain des Pays de la Loire: Images Fabriquées, Angers, France

Turning Over the Pages, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom

The Mirror and the Lamp, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Collection. L’Art contemporain au Musée Départemental des Vosges, Epinal, France

Chambre d’Amis, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Terrae Motus 2, Villa Campolieto, Herculaneum, Italy

Lumières: Perception-Projection, CIAC/Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Anciens et nouveaux, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Märchen Mythen Monster, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland

Christian Boltanski and Annette Messager, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

1985

18th Biennale de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

1983

Alles und noch viel mehr–das poetische ABC, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland

La Bande dessinée, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium

Biennale des Friedens, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Ceci n’est pas une photographe, Mont-de-Marsan, France

Atelier Polaroid, Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Dialogue, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Märchen Mythen Monster, Rheinisches Landes Museum, Bonn, Germany

L’Art et le temps, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium

Histoire de sculpture, Château des Ducs d’Epernon, Cadillac Gironde, France

Lumières et sons 84, Château de Biron, Dordogne, France

Deux régions en France: L’Art international d’aujourd’hui, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium

Collection, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Palais Saint Pierre, Lyon, France

Ecritures dans la peinture, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Villa Arson, Nice, France

Qu’est ce qu’un FRAC? 100 oeuvres de 75 artistes acquises en Rhône-Alpes, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris, France

Echanges, Goethe Institute, Paris, France

Mur blanc pour chambre noire, Maison de la Culture et de la Communication, Saint-Etienne, France; L’Arleri, Centre Niçois de Photographie Documentaire, Nice, France; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valence, France

Individualités: Artisti francesi d’oggi, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma, Italy

Kunst mit Photographie, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

Présence discrète, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France

Fotosymposium V, Forum Stadpark, Graz, Austria

Images fabriquées, Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Douceur de l’avant garde, Rennes, France

New Media II, Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

1982

60’80: Attitudes/Concepts/Images, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Kunst i Frankrike, Bergens Kunsforening, Bergen, Norway

Préfiguration pour le centre contemporain de Buisson-Rond, Chambéry, France

Medium Photographie-Künstler mit Fotos, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Choix pour aujourd’hui, Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Vergangenheit Gegenwart Zukunft, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

Paris 1960-1980, Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria; Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

4 Années d’acquisition, Musée de Toulon, Toulon, France

Au Travers d’une collection, petite promenade dans la contemporanité, Centre Culturel de Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, France

Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France

Statements New York ’82. Leading Contemporary Artists From France, (various locations), New York, United States

Twelve Contemporary French Artists, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, United States

1981

Façons de peindre, Maison de la Culture, Chalon-sur-Saône, France ; Musée Rath, Genève, Suisse ; Musée Savoisie, Chambéry, France

Westkunst, Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne, Germany

Les Genevois collectionnent. Aspects de l’Art l’aujourd’hui 1970-1980, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland

Trigon 81, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz, Austria

The Archives, Art Information Centre Peter van Beveren, Hasselt, Belgium

Avantgarden-Retrospektiv, Westfälicher Kunstverein, Münster, Germany

37 Aktuelle Kunstnarer fran Frankrike, Lijevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

Situations et Mutations de place en place, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

1980

Artist and Camera, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; City Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; D.L.I. Museum and Arts Centre, Durham; Cartwright Hall, Bradford, United Kingdom

Photographische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Allemagne

Kunst in Europa na ’68, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Camera obscura, Palazzo Real, Milan, Italy

Ils se disent peintres. Ils se disent photographes, ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de Ville de Paris, Paris, France

L’Espace 13, Paris, France

41st Biennale de Venise, Venice, Italy

Il neo di Venere: sotto i veli del linguaggio, Centro Cantoni, Legnano, Italy

1979

Text-Foto-Geschichten. Story Art/Narrative Art, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg; Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld, Germany

Eremit? Forscher? Sozialarbeiter? Das veränderte Selbstverständnis von Künstlern, Kunstverein und Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany

Photographies, Tiroler Landesmuseum, Kunstverein, Innsbruck, Austria

Over wanderlingen en reizen, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Partis pris autres, ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

European Dialogue, 3rd Sydney Biennial, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Tendances de l’art en France, ARC – Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Festival d’Automne, ARC, Paris, France

French Art 1979. An English Selection, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Ferdinandeum, Linz; Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria

Words, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy

1978

Aspekte der 60er Jahre. Aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

Das Bild des Künstlers-Selbstdarstellungen, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Couples, P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York, United States

1977

Beethoven, Music for the Millions, Stichting Festival, Arnhem, The Netherlands

Jardin, Jardin Botanique, Bruxelles, Belgium

Illusion and Reality, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia; ROSC77, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

Documenta 6, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Bookworks, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States

Malerei und Photographie im Dialog von 1840 bis heute, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland

Sequenzen. Fotofolgen zeitgenössischer Künstler, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany

L’Avant-Garde 1960-1976, Musée Cantini, Marseille; Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble; Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint-Étienne; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Le Sentiment du paysage à la fin du XXe siècle, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint Étienne, France

1976

Identité/Identification, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

The Artist and the Photograph Il Triennale of Photography, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Selbsporträt& Selbstdarstellung, Kunsthaus Pischinger, Stuttgart, Germany

Foto & Idea, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Parme, Italie

New York: Downtown Manhattan, SoHo, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

Boites, ARC 2 – Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; travelled to Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France

Oferty Labiryntu, Galeria Sztuki Miejskiego Domu Kultury, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1975

Tendenser i Moderne Kunst, Nordjyllands Kunst Museum, Aalborg, Denmark

Art contemporain et photographie, Musée Réattu, Arles, France

Artists’ Video Tapes, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Europalia, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Fotografie als Kunst-Kunst als Fotografie, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Chalon-sur-Saône, France

Mémoire d’un pays noir, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium

Arnold Bode zum 75. Geburtstag, Kassel, Germany

Lives, Fine Arts Building, New York, United States

9e Biennale de Paris, Paris, France

Narrative Art 2, Cannaviello Studio d’Arte, Rome, Italy

A proposito del Mulino Stucky, Venise Biennale, Venice, Italy

New Media 1, Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

Je / Nous, Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

12 x 1, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Empirica: l’arte tradizione e sottrazione, Museo di Castelveccio, Verona, Italy

1974

Demonstrative Fotografie, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany

Spurensicherung. Archäologie und Erinnerung, Kunstverein, Hamburg;  Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

Kunst bleibt Kunst, Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany

Identität. Versuche bildhafter Selbstdefinition, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

Stilkunde an Beispielen. Ein Lehrspiel, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

Die verlorene Identität, Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany

Pour mémoires, CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux; ARC – Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, La Rochelle; Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France

Idea and Image in Recent Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States

Photokina, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

Ars 74, Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland

1973

Eine fast zufällige : MonumentE, Städtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany

Kunst aus Fotografie, Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany

Medium Fotografie, Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany

Christian Boltanski, Jean Le Gac, Annette Messager, Musée Rude, Dijon, France

Réalité, Réalités, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Saint-Étienne, France

14 mal 14, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany

Cinq musées personnels, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

L’Estampe contemporaine, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France

1972

Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany

Biennale de Venise, Venise, Italy

Amsterdam, Paris, Düsseldorf, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena; Texas Art Museum, Dallas, United States

Kunst um 1970, Neue Galerie der Stadt, Aachen, Germany

1971

Prospect 71. Projection, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany

Arte de sistemas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina

12 Ans d’art contemporain en France, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Paris Biennial, Paris, France

1970

100 Artistes dans la ville, Gare, Palavas-les-Flots, France

Jeune artistes à Paris, Musée Galliera, Paris, France

1965

Biennale de Paris, France

Après, Galerie Marian Goodman, 2021
Faire son temps, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2019
Na, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, 2017
Migrantes, Hotel de Inmigrantes, Buenos Aires, 2012
Chance, French Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2011
Personnes, Monumenta, Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2010
Passie / Passion, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, 1996
Christian Boltanski, Marian Goodman Gallery, 1995
Advento, Santiago de Compostela, 1995
Inventar, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hambourg, 1991
Boltanski, Contemporary Art Institute, Nagoya, 1990
Boltanski, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1984