GIULIO PAOLINI
Artist Bio

Born: Genoa, Italy, 1940

Education: Institute for Graphic and Photographic Arts, Turin, Italy, 1959

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004
"Giulio Paolini: A New Work," Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy

2003
Prada Foundation, Milan, Italy


1999
"Da un momento all’altro," Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Italy
"Padiglione dell’Aurora," Teatro del Castello, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
"Da oggi a ieri," Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
"Salles d’attente," MAMCO Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

1998
"Von heute bis gestern/Da oggi a ieri," Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

1997
"Impressions graphiques. Das graphische Werk 1967-1995," Städtische Galerie, Gröppingen, Germany

1996
"Correspondances," Accademia di Francia, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
"Impressions graphiques," Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde e Weimarer Schloss, Weimar, Germany

1995
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Impressions graphiques. Múltiplos e Obra Gráfica 1969-1995," Fundação C. Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Salone del Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy

1994
"L’opera in palio," Palazzo Patrizi, Siena, Italy

1993
"Impressions graphiques. Das druckgraphische Werk 1967-1992," Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

1992
"Impressions graphiques. L’opera grafica 1967-1992," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
"Oeuvres de 1963 à 1978," Galerie Di Meo, Paris, France

1991
"Anteprima," Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

1990
"Rialto," Studio D'Arte Barnabo, Venice, Italy
"Hotel de l’Univers," Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Villa delle Rose, Bologna, Italy

1989
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Ontario
"Impressions graphiques. Progetti e collaborazioni editoriali," Salone del Libro, Turin, Italy

1988
"Giorno e notte," Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
"Signore e signori…," Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

1987
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan

1986
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
From "‘Trionfo della rappresentazione’ (cerimoniale: in prspettiva),"
"Intervallo," University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
"Abat-jour (giochi proibiti), De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands

1985
From "‘Trionfo della rappresentazione’ (cerimoniale: l’artista è assente)," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
"Les fausses confidences," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
"Tutto qui," Pinacoteca Comunale, Loggetta Lombardesca, Ravenna, Italy
420 WB arti visivie, Ravenna, Italy

1984
"Trionfo della rappresentazione," Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
"Dessins et collages," Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon, France
"Casa di Lucrezio," 27th Festival dei Due Mondi, Palazzo Rosari Spada, Spoleto, Italy
Studio G7, Bologna, Italy

1982
"La caduta di Icaro," Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
"Del bello intelligible," Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany; Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Daad, Berlin, Germany
"Une introduction à l’oeuvre de Giulio Paolini 1960/70," Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Raum für Kunst, Hamburg, Germany

1981
"Hortus clausus," Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

1980
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England

1979
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece

1978
Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes, Naples, Italy
"Del bello intelligibile," ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

1977
Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany

1976
"Orfeo," Incontri Internazionali d'Arte, Rome, Italy
Istituto di Storia dell’Arte, Università di Parma, Parma, Italy
 
1974
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

1973
Royal College of Art, London, England

1971
"Apollo e Dafne," Libreria Stampatori, Turin, Italy; Studio C, Brescia, Italy
"Aposteosi di Omero," Festival Internazionale di Teatro Sperimentale, Belgrade, Serbia; 7th Paris Biennial, Paris, France; Incontri Internazionali d'Arte, Rome, Italy
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004
"Intra-Muros," Musee d'Art Moderne et D'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
"Reflecting the Mirror," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

2004-03
"The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California

2003
"Partners," Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
"A Sculpture Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

2002-01
"Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1971" Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London, England; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Minnesota; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
"Arte Povera," Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London, England; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

2001-00
"Many Colored Objects Placed Side by Side to Form a Row of Many Colored Objects: Works from the Collection of Annick and Anton Herbert," Casino Luxembourg-Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg

2001-99
"Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s," Queens Museum, Queens, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Miami Art Center, Miami, Florida; List Visual Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia

2000
"Le Temps Vite," Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
" Rubare l’immagine. Gli artisti e la fotografia negli anni 70," Spazio Labs, Milan, Italy; Museo della Città, Rimini, Italy
"Cartoline per Napoli," Plazzo Reale, Appartamento del Ciambellano, Naples, Italy
"Von Albers bis Paik. Konstruktive Werke aus der Sammlung DaimlerChrysler," Haus für Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
"Consonanze 2. Echi e riflessi nella collezione," Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
"Trasalimenti. Progetto per l’arte contemporanea. Artisti per Tullio Catalano," Borgo Medievale Castelbasso, Teramo, Italy
"Mitici Sessanta/Dal post informale attraverso l’oggettualità, alle soglie dell’arte povera," Complesso Monumentale del San Giovanni, Catanzaro, Italy
"D’Après l’Antique," Musée de Louvre, Paris, France

2000-99
"Regarding Beauty: A View of The Late Twentieth Century," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2000-97
"Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1967 bis heute," Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany; Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria; Konsthallen, Göteborg, Sweden; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany

1999
"Geometry as Design-Structures of Modern Art from Albers to Paik," Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Sculpture Biennial 1999, Münster, Germany
"Perspective," Mücsarnok/Kunsthalle; C3 Center for Culture and Communication, Budapest, Hungary
"Arte all’Arte 1999," Pinacoteca Civica, Volterra, Italy
"2000. Elogio della Dellezza/1. De Metaphisica," Appiani Arte Trentadue, Milan, Italy
"Il libro d’artista in Italia," Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
"Il Sentimento del 2000. Arte e fotografia, 1960-2000. Dalla vita all’arte: dall’arte all vite," Milan Triennial, Sale della Galleria, Milan, Italy
"Le corps évanoui: les images subites," Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Luci d’Artista a Torino," Turin, Italy
"Teatro Botanico. La natura dell’arte nel XX secolo," Museo Civico Castello Ursino, Catania, Italy
"Auffrischender Wind aus wechselnden Richtungen. Internationale Avantgarde seit 1960: Die Sammlung Paul Maenz," Neues Museum, Weimar, Germany
"Il dono Liverani. Collane e perle della Galleria La Salita. Edizioni di grafica contemporanea 1957-1985," Calcografia, Rome, Italy

1999-97
"Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art," Palazzo Querini Dubois, Venice, Italy; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York

1998
"L’ombra degli Dei-Mito Greco e Arte Contemporanea," Villa Cattolica, Bagheria, Palermo, Italy
"Collezione permanente," Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
"Adieu," Ex Chiesa di San Giovanni degli Almadiani, Viterbo, Italy
"Office Opus Facere Faire Oeuvre-1. Les Instruments de la passion," Cloître des Jésuits, Nîmes, France
"Viaggio in Italia 1998-2000: Milano. Da boccioni a…," Casa del Mantegna, Mantua, Italy
"10 Jahre Neuerwerbungen der Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung," Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, Principality of Liechtenstein
"1968-1998: Fotografia e arte in Italia," Palazzo Santa Margherita, Modena, Italy
"Arte Italiana. Ultimi quarant’anni. Pittura aniconica," Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
"Intorno a Don Giovanni. Artisti all’opera. Due creazioni di Giulio Paolini e Luigi Ontanti," Teatro Regio, Foyer del Toro, Turin, Italy
"Luci d’Artisti a Torino," Turin, Italy
"Venti mostre a La Salita dal 1960 al 1978. Omaggio a Gian Tomaso Liverani," Spazio per l’arte contemporanea To Bella Monaca, Rome, Italy
"Breaking Ground," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Itinere. 1," Pallazo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
"Artecittà. 11 Artisti per il Passante Ferroviario di Torino," Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
"Extenuating Circumstances. Wall-hangings for the Law Courts at ‘s-Hertogenbosch," Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"La Collection Yvon Lambert: Dialogue avec des artistes contemporains-Oeuvres sur papier et photographies," Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
"Aby Warburg Mnemosyne. L’atlante della memoria," Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy

1998-97
"Arte italiana 1945-1998. Il visible e l’invisibile," Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

1997
47th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Ezra Pound & le Arti. La bellezza è difficile," Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan, Italy
"Foto Text Text Foto. Synthese von Photographie und Text in der Gegenwartskunst," Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
"Sipario. Balla, De Chirico, Savinio, Picasso, Paolini, Cucchi," Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
"Echi Metafisici," Scuderie di Villa Manzoni e Torre Viscontea, Lecco, Italy
"Observances," Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Ontario
"Le Temps de la Marquise. Une évocation contemporaine du XVII siècle," La Criée Centre d’Art Contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts et Hôtel de Blossac, Rennes, France
"Artmonie. Architettura e scultura negli spazi pubblici," Castelo Ivano, Ivano Fracena, Trento, Italy
"Arte Povera e dintorni," Palazzo Crepadona, Belluno e Galleria Civica, Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy
Centro per la Scultura Contemporanea, Torre Martiniana, Cagli, Italy
"Prix Triennal Ianchelevici 1997. Prix d’Intégration de Sculpture monumentale à l’Urbanisme," Salle d’exposition du Musée en Plein Air du Sart-Tilman, Liège, Belgium
"Raum-Zeichen-Licth. Werke aus dem Museum für Moderne Kunst Bozen," Kärtner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt, Austria
"La Collection de la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain," Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
"Opera. Percorsi nel mondo del melodramma," Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

1996-97
"Collezionismo a Torino," Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
"Collezionismo di Francia," Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
"Cast, Cut, Assemble: Contemporary Sculpture from the Permanent Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
"Arte Povera. Les multiples," Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
"Oro," Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium
"Tempo e forma nell’arte contemporanea," Università degli studi, Cassino, Italy
"Il luogo e la memoria. La fotografia di un’esperienza," Ex-Copertificio Sonnino, Besozzo, Italy; Castello di Spezzano, Fiorano Modenese, Italy
"Collections du Castello di Rivoli," Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
"Chimériques Polymères. Le plastique dans l’art contemporain," Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
"Scritto su foto. La sintesi tra fotografia e parola nell’arte contemporanea," Museion, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bolzano, Italy
"Ad usum fabricae," Museo Sperimentale d’Arte Contemporanea, L’Aquila, Italy
"Buren, Dan Graham, Paolini," Fondazione Ado Furlan, Pordenone, Italy
"Prospettiva del passato. Da Van Gogh ai contemporanei nelle raccolte dello Stedelijk Museum di Amsterdam," Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
"Jocaste en Arcadie" (à Madame de Sévigné une evocation contemporaine du XVIIe siècle), Château des Adhémar à Montélimar and Château de Grignan, France

1996-95
"1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

1995
"Imagine," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
"Itinerario," Villa Widmann, Riviera del Brenta, Mira, Italy
46th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Corps de la mémoire," Espace d’Art Moderne, Toulouse, France
"Lux," Aldebaran, Baillargues-Montpellier, France
"Titanica. Simbologie del Contemporaneo," Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Republic of San Marino
"Roma in mostra 1970-1979," Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
"Collections en mouvement, 70+911+," Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours, France
"100 Jahre Kino. Illusion, Emotion, Realität," Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
"20th Century Italian Art: From Postwar to Present," The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
"Aquattromani. Gianfranco Gorgoni e 14 artisti," Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

1995-94
"The Italian Metamorphosis 1943-1968," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany

1994
"Italian Art. From Arte Povera to Transavanguardia," Nicaf 3, Yokohama, Japan
"Da Boccioni a Paolini," Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
"Kommentar zu Europa 1994," Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
"Le saut dans le vide," Maison Centrale des Artistes, Moscow, Russia
"Arte contemporanea dalla Collezione della Federazione cooperative Migros," Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
"A Sculpture Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Pour les chapelles de Vence," Château de Villeneuve, Vence, France; Espaces des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône, France; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
"Cinque stanze tra arte e depressione," Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
"Dello spazio della luce," Lingotto, Turin, Italy
"Identità e differenze," Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy
"Di carta e d’altro. Libri d’artista," Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
"Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar. Werke aus der Sammlung Paul Maenz," Schlossmuseum Weimar, Weimar, Germany
"Le modèle, le double, l’identique," Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France
"Toujours moderne," Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
"L’orizzonte/La Collezione," Castello di Rivoli, Museo d ’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
"De Verzameling," Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
 
1993
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Ontario
"Un’avventura internazionale: Torino e le arti 1950-1970," Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
"Inside Out - Museo Città Eventi," Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
"Azur," Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France
45th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Copier-créer," Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
"Utopia. Arte italiana 1950-1993," Salzburger Festspiele, Salzburg, Austria
Edition Schellmann, Cologne, Germany
"Three Artistic Generations in Contemporary Italy," Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavillon for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"De la main à la tête, l’objet théorique," Centre d’Art Contemporain, Domain de Kerguéhennec, Locminé, France

1993-92
"La collection Christian Stein. Un regard sur l’art italien," Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France; Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrénées, Labège-Innopole, Toulouse, France

1992
Documenta 9, Kassel, Germany
"Il pensiero tangibile. Otto percorsi esemplari in Francia e in Italia," Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy; Sala dei Templari, Molfetta-Bari, Italy; Château de l’Hermitage, Condé sur l’Escaut, France
"Yvon Lambert collectionne," Musée d’Art Moderne, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
"Manifeste," Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Words don’t come easy," Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
4th International Triennial, Maribor, Slovenia
"Il gioco del pensiero," Castello di Rivara, Rivara, Italy
"A Century in Sculpture," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Hommage a Angelika Kauffmann," Vaduz; Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
"Das offene Bild," Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
"Terrae Motus alla Reggia di Caserta," Fondazione Lucio Amelio, Caserta, Italy
"The LeWitt Collection," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia 

1991
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Beauty is difficult," Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bolzano, Italy
"30 œuvres à la Défense," Paris, France
"Denk-Bilder," Kunsthalle, Munich, Germany
"Arte Povera 1971 und 20 Jahre danach," Kunstverein, Munich, Germany
"Da Magritte a Magritte," Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Verona, Italy
"Imprevisto," Castello di Volpaia, Volpaia, Italy
"Bildlicht," Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria
"Antiquitat-modernitat en l’art del segle XX," Fondació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
19 Graficni Bienale, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1990
"Terskel II," Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
"Mémoires d’artistes," Musée du Château de Montbéliard, Montbéliard, France
"Portrait d’une collection," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
"Entretien. Quatre générations d’artistes italiens," Centre A. Borchette, Brussels, Belgium
"Moderno e contemporaneo," Fondazione Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, Italy
"Totalnovo," Biblioteca Centrale, Palermo, Italy
"Contemporary Illustrated Books," Franklin Furnace Archive, New York, New York
"Temperamenti: Contemporary Art form Northern Italy," Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
"Arte Povera. La collection du Museé national d’art moderne Centre Georges Pompidou," Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France
"Memoria del futuro," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
"Roma anni ‘60. Al di là della pittura," Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

1989
"A Sculpture Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Italian Art in the Twentieth Century: Painting and Sculpture 1900-1988," Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
"Verso l’Arte Povera. Momenti e aspetti degli anni Sessanta in Italia," Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy; Espace Lyonnaise d’Art Contemporain, Lyons, France
"Intorno al Sessanta," Chiostri di San Domenico, Imola, Italy "Bilderstreit. Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960," Rheinhallen der Kölner Messe, Cologne
"Open Mind," Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
"Sculptura," Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
"Pas à côté pas n’importe où 4," Villa Arson, Nice, France
"Arca," Castello di Volpaia, Volpaia, Italy
"2000 Jahre. Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

1989-88
"Disegno italiano/Italienische Zeichnungen 1908-1988," Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, Germany; Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
"Sculture da camera/Chamber Sculptures," Museum Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Palais des Nations Unies, Geneva, Switzerland; Festival dei Due Mondi, Palazzo Spada, Spoleto, Italy; Fondazione Deste, Casa di Cipro, Athens, Greece; University of Southern California Museum, Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

1988
"Mythos Italien: Wintermärchen Deutschland," Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
"Presci per incantamento," Padiglione de Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
"Il cielo e dintorni," Castello di Volpaia, Volpaia, Italy
"Le Gac, Lohse, Paolini. Célébration du Bicentenaire de la Révolution en Dauphiné," Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
"Verzameling aan Zee," Haags Gementemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
"Europa oggi. Arte contemporanea nell’Europa Occidentale," Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
"Dannunziana," Università, Pescara, Italy
"Mnemosyne oder das Theater der Erinnerung," Schloss Hernsheim, Worms, Germany
"Balkon mit Fächer," Daad Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

1988-87
"Collection Sonnabend," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
"Meltem," Château d’Oiron, Oiron, France; Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France

1987
"Drapeaux d’artistes," Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
"Vis-à-vis," Musée St. Denis, Reims, France
"Implosions: A Postmodern Perspective," Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
19th Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
"Berlinart 1961-1987," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"Avant-Garde in the Eighties," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
"Neoclassicismo: Goethe in Italia," Centro Ausoni, Rome, Italy
"Turin 1965-1987. De l’Arte Povera dans les collections publiques françaises," Musée Savoisien, Chambéry, France; Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse, Lille, France; Musée Municipal, La Roche sur Yon, France
"Incrocio: un racconto," Palazzo della città, Erice, Italy
"Arte Povera," Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours, France
"Italienische Zeichnungen 1945-1987/Disegno italiano del dopoguerra," Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Modena, Italy
"Italie hors d’Italie," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, France
"Les années 70, les années mémoire: archéologie du savoir et de l’être," Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France

1987-86
"Terrae Motus 2," Villa Campolieto, Herculaneum, Italy; Fondazione Amelio, Naples, Italy; Grand Palais, Paris, France
"Un regard de Bruno Corà sur les œuvres du Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Rhône-Alpes," Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France; Accademia di Belle Arti, Naples, Italy
 
1986
"Second Sight," 4th Biennial, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
"Il Giardiono d’Europa," Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, Italy
"Il Cangiante," Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
"Figure, Colonne, Finestre" (with Markus Lüpertz), Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
"Mater Dulcissima," Chiesa dei Cavalieri di Malta, Siracusa, Italy
"Il fantasma della qualità," Pinacoteca Comunale, Ravenna, Italy
"1960-1985. Aspekte der Italienischen Kunst," Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
"Acquisitions 1984-1985," Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Bourgogne, Dijon, France
"Literatur im Raum," Fina Bitterlin, Basel, Switzerland
"Fra usikkerhet til samlet Kraft...," Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
"Collection Souvenir," Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, Franc
"Wien Fluss 1986," Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
"Arte santa," Pinacoteca Comunale, Loggetta Lombardesca, Ravenna, Italy
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
"Sculture da camera," Castello Svevo, Bari, Italy
"Ooghoogte/Eye Level. Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum 1936-1986," Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
"Ultime," Castello di Volpaia, Volpaia, Italy
XI Quadriennale Nazionale d’Arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Sonsbeek ’86. International Sculpture Exhibition, Arnhem, The Netherlands
"Lo specchio di Nausicaa," Palazzo Farnese, Ortona, Italy
"Chambres d’Amis," Ghent, Belgium
42nd Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Sogno italiano. La Collezione Franchetti a Roma," Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Italy
"Beuys zu Ehren," Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
"Androgyn," Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

1985
"Del Arte Povera a 1985," Palacios de Cristal y Velazquez, Madrid, Spain
"The European Iceberg: Creativity in Germany and Italy Today," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
"De l’autoportrait à l’age de la photographie," Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
"L’oeil musicien," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
"Athènes: site de la création-création d’un site," Dracos Art Center, Athens, Greece
"Intorno al Flauto Magico," Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
"Livres d’artistes," Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Don Giovanni," Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
"La ricostruzione della città," 17th Triennial, Milan, Italy
New Paris Biennial, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
"Sur/Exposition. Regards sur l’exposition d’Art Contemporain," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France
"Italia Aperta," Fundació Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain
"Promenades," Parc Lullin, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
"Intelligenza dell’effetto," Palazzo Dugnani, Milan, Italy
"L’Italie aujourd’hui/L’Italia oggi," Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Villa Arson, Nice, France
"On Language and Ecstasy," Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä, Finland; Taidemuseum, Pori, Finland; Helsinki Museum, Helsinki, Finland
"Place Saint-Lambert. Investigations," Liège, Belgium
"The Knot. Arte Povera at P.S. 1," P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York
"Sculptures. Première approche pour un parc," Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France
"Premio del Golfo," Lerici, Italy
"Transformations in Sculpture. Four Decades of American and European Art," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
"Vom Zeichnen," Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
"Il Museo Sperimentale di Torino. Arte Italiana degli anni Sessanta nelle collezioni della Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna," Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

1985-84
"L’art et le temps: regards sur la quatrième dimension," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
"Histoires de sculpture," Château des Ducs d’Epernon, Cadillac-Gironde, France; Musée d’Art Moderne, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France

1984
"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"Internationale Neue Kunst aus der Sammlung MGB," Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
"Der Traum des Orpheus," Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
41st Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Les Peintres et L’Architecture Antique," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
"Ein anderes Klima. Aspekte der Schönheit in der zeitgenössischen Kunst," Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Répertoire," Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
"Coerenza in coerenza. Dall’Arte Povera al 1984," Mole Antonelliana, Turin, Italy
"Attraversamenti. Linee della nuova arte contemporanea italiana," Rocca Paolina, Palazzo dei Priori, Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo, Perugia, Italy
"In exitum cuiusdam," Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
"Deux régions en France: l’art international d’aujourd’hui. Sélection d’œuvres des F.R.A.C. Nord-Pas de Calais et Rhône-Alpes," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
"Ouverture," Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

1984-83
"Imago/Immagini degli anni Settanta," Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Suzzara, Italy; Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy

1983
"Présence discrète," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
"Concetto-Imago. Generationswechsel in Italien," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
"Aspects of Postwar Painting in Europe and Recent European Painting," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
"New Art at the Tate Gallery 1983," Tate Gallery, London, England
"Eine Kunst-Geschichte in Turin 1965-1983," Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
"Interni colori (A.E.I.U.O.)," Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
"Monuments-Détournements," Bibliothèque Municipale, Boulogne-sur-mer, France
"Il Grande Disegno," Palazzina Mangani, Florence, Italy
"best of," Le Consortium, Dijon, France
"La Nave di Pietra," Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy
"Carteles. Arte contemporaneo (Coleccion Samuel Montealegre)," Casa de la Cultura Julio E. Llenas, Bogotà, Colombia

1982
"’60-’80: Attitudes/concepts/images," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Mise en scène," Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
"Vergangenheit-Gegenwart-Zukunft," Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
"Choix pour aujourd’hui," Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Cento anni di arte italiana moderna 1880-1980," Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Generazioni a confronto," Istituto di Storia dell’Arte, Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
"A Selection of the Acquisitions," The Tate Gallery, London, England
"Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves. Explorations in Italian Art," Power Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
"Grafik aus den siebziger Jahren. Neuerwerbungen der Grafischen Sammlung," Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany
"Thoughts and Action," The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

1981
"One dollar drawing project," Galerie De Roode Boom, The Hague, The Netherlands
"Un anno da Strinberg," Spazio Uno, Rome, Italy
"Linee della ricerca artistica in Italia 1960-1980," Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
"Identité italienne. L’art en Italie depuis 1959," Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Arte e Critica 1981," Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
"Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939," Rheinhallen der Kölner Messe, Cologne, Germany
"Murs," Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"La ruota del Lotto," Palazzo dei Convegni, Jesi, Italy

1980
"Paolini, Patella, Pistoletto," Istiuto Nazionale per la Grafica, Rome, Italy
"Europe 80," Espace Lyonnaise d’Art Contemporain, Lyons, France
39th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Kunst in Europa na ’68," Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
"Multigrafie," Pinacoteca Comunale, Ravenna, Italy
"Fabro, Kounellis, Merz, Paolini. Materialien zu einer Ausstellung," Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
"Incontri 1980," 22nd Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy

1979
"Genesi e processo dell’immagine," Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
"Modern Italian Art and Japan: Intercourse of their artists," The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
3rd Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
"Salon presents," Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
"Words-Gebrauch der Sprache in der Kunst während des letzten Jahrzehntes/L’uso del linguaggio nell’arte dell’ultimo decennio," Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
"Riflessione (lo specchio, la specularità)," Studio G7, Bologna, Italy
Banco [Massimo Minini] c/o Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, New York
"Eine Ausstellung mit Werken von zwölf Künstlern," Völkerkundemuseum, Munich, Germany
InK. Halle für Internationale Neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
"L’artista come storico," Pinacoteca Comunale, Loggetta Lombardesca, Ravenna, Italy
"Le stanze," Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Italy

1978
"Tre libri," Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy; Galleria Mario Diacono, Bologna, Italy; La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy
"Focus 78. Foire-Exposition d’Art Actuel," Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris, France
6th Biennale Internazionale della Grafica d’Arte. Artist’s Books, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
38th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy