Jannis kounellis biography of alberta

Have you ever heard of Jannis Kounellis, his poetic works and his crucial role in Arte Povera?
Originally from Piraeus, Greece, in 1936, Kounellis moved to Italy in the 1950s, establishing himself as a key figure in the international art scene until his passing in 2017, in Rome.

A pioneer of a movement that sought to redefine visual language through the use of unconventional materials, Kounellis’ life is marked by the fact that he left an indelible imprint on contemporary art.

Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg (catalogue)
Regarding Beauty. New Works, Sprovieri, London
Terre di confine. arte povera - the historic years', kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
'Forms of contingency: New York and Turin, 1960s-1970s', Philadelphia museum of art, Philadelphia, US
'All art has been contemporary', Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
'Gipfeltreffen der moderne - das kunstmuseum winterthur', museum der moderne Salzburg, Austria
'Pressart, die sammlung annette und peter nobel', kunstmuseum St.

gallen, Switzerland

2009
1968. In the second half of the 1960s, in fact, artists were beginning to rethink the avant-garde as no longer considered satisfactory, but rather outdated, as well as an expression of an individualism of the artist that no longer had any reason to exist. Atto Unico, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (catalogue)

2001

Jannis Kounellis.

The works of this period turn out to be basically happenings, in which music was present more and more predominantly than in previous years.

Kounellis’ urgency, well in advance of other Italian artists, was to succeed in establishing as direct a relationship as possible between art and objective reality. Con-fine dell’Arte, Palazzo Lantieri, Gorizia
Transart Festival, Officine Ferroviarie, Bolzano
Kounellis in Sarajevo, Vijecnica/National Library, Sarajevo (catalogue)
Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall, Athens (catalogue)
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (catalogue)

2003

Installation, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen (catalogue)
Jannis Kounellis and Sct.

Johannes Kirke, Sct. Johannes Kirke, Herning (catalogue)
Galleria Christian Stein, Milan
Torrione Passari, Molfetta (catalogue)
Monastero Mechitarista, Isola di San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice (catalogue)
Aula del Palazzo dell’Unesco, Paris
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (catalogue)
Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo

2002

Galerie Lelong, Paris (travelled to: Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki,
Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, 2003) (catalogue)
Inaugurazione della stazione della metropolitana di piazza Dante, Naples
Hallen für neue Kunst, Sciaffusa
Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst, Gand (catalogue)
Jannis Kounellis.

Works from the collection of Annick and Anton Herbert, répertoire, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (catalogue)
Kounellis, Paolini, Buren, Weiner, Kirkeby, daadgalerie, Berlin
Ouverture, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Turin) (catalogue)
Het voorbeeld van de Klassieken, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (catalogue)
Anselmo, Kounellis, Marisa Merz, Paolini, Zorio, Galleria Christian Stein, Turin
Confronti, Galleria Christian Stein, Turin

1983

Concetto-Imago.

La collezione Amelio alla Reggia di Caserta, Reggia di Caserta, Caserta
Del Futurisme al làser. Mythologie in der italienischen
Gegenwartskunst 1967 bis 1984, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Monaco (catalogue)
Légendes, capcMusée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux (catalogue)
Skulptur im 20. Rome 1961)

Selection of  Group Exhibitions

2024

By Way Of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection, Musée Solomon-R.-Guggenheim, New York, United States

“Italian Contemporary Art and Artists on the Silk Road,” Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
“RI-EVOLUTION – I grandi rivoluzionari dell’Arte italiana, dal Futurismo alla Street Art,” Palazzo della Cultura di Catania, Sicily, Italy

2017

Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul Congress Centre and Istanbul
Convention and Exhibition Centre, Istanbul, Turkey (9/14–9/17/2017)
Arte Povera, curated by Ingvild Goetz, Hauser & Wirth, New York (9/12–10/28/2017)
A Journey: El Anatsui, Anish Kapoor, Jannis Kounellis, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany (9/8–11/11/2017)
After the Future: The Postwar Italian Avant-Garde, Lévy Gorvy, New York (7/6–8/18/2017)
Margherita Stein: Rebel With a Cause, Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, New York (6/28/17–)
Ytalia: Energy Thought Beauty.

Quaderni del Centro d’Informazione Alternativa:
informazione sulla presenza italiana, (Rome),1, 1972)
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin
Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin

1969

Modern Art Agency, Naples (catalogue: cfr. dal presente al pasato, centro per l’arte contemporanea luigi pecci,
Prato, Italy

2005
Intuitive reflection, art forum ute barth, Zurich, Switzerland
Austrian contemporary art and postwar painting, Museo de art contemporaneo de
Monterrey marco, Monterrey, Mexico

2004
Samuelis baumgarte galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
Galerie delaive, amsterdam, The Netherlands
Baukunst galerie, Cologne, Germany

2003
Special proofs: 1963-1989, timothy yarger fine art, Beverly Hills, CA, US
Museum of modern art, Tokyo, Japan
Iwaki city art, Fukushima, Japan
Oita art museum, Oita, Japan
Galerie iris wazzau, Davos, Switzerland

2002
Galerie Andreas Baumgarti, Munich, Germany
Lovers fine arts, Gstaad, Switzerland
Museum of modern art, Toyama, Japan
Kawamura memorial museum, Chiba, Japan
Museum of art, Ehime, Japan
University of Michigan museum of art, Ann Arbor, MI, US

2000
Lawrence Rubin, greenberg, van doren fine art, New York, NY, US
Galerie Delaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Richard Gray gallery, New York, NY and Chicago, IL, US
Idemitsu museum of arts, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan

1999
Leslie Sacks fine art, Los Angeles, CA ; Robert Green fine arts, Mill Valley, CA, US
Gallery Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark; ikon ltd., Los angeles, CA, US
Manny silverman gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Galerie Pascal Retelet, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Galerie jean Fournier, Paris, France
Baukunst galerie, Cologne, Germany
Pace editions, New York, NY, US
Galerie loeper, Hamburg, Germany

1998
Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bal Harbour, FL, US
Thomas segal gallery,baltimore, MD, US
Aca galerie, Munich, Germany
Gallery Guy Pieters, Knokke, Belgium
Bobbie Greenfield gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galleria d’arte il gabbiano, Rome, Italy

1997
André Emmerich gallery, New York, NY, US
Manny Silverman gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Museo d’arte, Mendrisio, Switzerland
Richard Gray gallery, Chicago, IL, US
Gallery delaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Pascal Retelet, Saint-Paul-de-Vence,France

1996
Smith-Andersen gallery, Palo Alto, CA, US
Sogetsu art museum,Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Delaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Gallery guy pieters, Knokke, Belgique
Galerie michael haas, berlin, germany; galerie proarta, Zurich, Switzerland

1995
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, US
Manny Silverman gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Grunwald/ucla/armand hammer museum, Los Angeles, CA, US
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Les années parisiennes 1950-1961 at the galerie national du jeu de paume, Paris, France

1994
Long fine arts, New York, NY, US
Galerie Delaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bobbie Greenfield gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
Galerie proarta, Zurich, Switzerland
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, US
Nantenshi gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL, US

1993
Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Switzerland
Bobbie Greenfield fine art, Los Angeles, CA
Michele Cohen gallery, New York, NY
Ochi gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
Manny silverman gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie iris wazzau, Davos, Switzerland

1992
Galerie Daniel Papierski, Paris, France
Museum Van der Togt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

1991
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Angles gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Associated american artists, New York, NY, US
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, US
Centre régional d’art contemporain Midi-Pyrenées, France

1990
Associated american artists, New York, NY, US
Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Heland Wetterling gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Ogawa art foundation, Tokyo, Japan; Ochi Gallery, Ketchum Talbot Rice gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Andre Emmerich gallery, New York, NY, US
Smith-Andersen gallery, Palo Alto, CA, US

1989
André Emmerich gallery, New York, NY, US
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
Bernard Jacobson gallery, London, UK
Sun Valley center gallery, ID, US
Linda Farris gallery, Seattle, WA, US
Cantor/Lemberg gallery, BIrmingham, MI, US
Knoedler gallery, London, UK

1988
Andre Emmerich gallery, New York, NY, US
Galerie Jean Fournier, paris, France
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Smith-andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, US
Greenberg Gallery, St.

Louis, MO, US

1987
Knoedler Gallery, London, UK
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, US
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, US
Heland Thorden wetterling galleries, Stockholm, Sweden
G. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD, US
Galeria Eude, Barcelona, Spain
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany
Lever/Meyerson galleries, New York, NY, US

1986
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, US
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
Nantenshi Gallery, Toyko, Japan
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US
La mairie de paris, Paris, France

1985
National Gallery of art, Washington, DC, US
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
Nantenshi Gallery, Toyko, Japan
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, US
Hokin Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL, US

1984
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, US
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, US
Brooke Alexander, inc., New York, NY, US
Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI, US
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, NY, US
Thomas Babeor Gallery, la jolla, CA, US
Knoedler Gallery, London, UK
Gemini g.e.l., Los Angeles, CA, US
Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US

1983
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, US
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, US
Foundation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, France
Studio marconi, Milan, Italy
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, US
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
Art Attack Gallery, Boise, ID, US
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, US
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1982
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, US
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL, US

1981
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, US
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, US
Faith and Charity in hope Gallery, Hope, ID, US

1980
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, US
Abbaye de Senanque, Gordes, France; Los Angeles county museum of art, Los Angeles, CA, US

1979
Retrospective of works on paper at the institute of contemporary art, Boston, US
traveled to taiwan, hong-kong, manila, korea and japan under the us international communications agency
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY, US
Brooke Alexander, inc., New York, NY, US
Art in progress at israel museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Gallery of the cultural center of the Phillippines, Taipei, Taiwan