Wolfgang Laib
Born 1950 in Metzingen. Lives and works in Southern Germany.
| 1968-1974 | Studied Medicine University of Tuebingen |
2015 Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture, The Japan Art Foundation
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Kolumba Diözesanmuseum, Cologne
Centre Pompidou, Paris
CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
Collections de l’Etat Français, France
Musée d’art contempoarin, Nîmes, France
Musée départemental de Rochechouart, Rochechouart
Museé de Grenoble
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Kunsthaus, Zürich
LAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Lugano
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
San Francisco Museum of Art
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Toyota Municipal Art Museum, Toyota
| 2022 | Wolfgang Laib: Crossing the River, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, texts by Damian Jurt, Stephan Kunz (exhib. cat.) |
| 2021 | Wolfgang Laib in Florence, Museo Novecento, Florence (exhib. cat.) |
| 2017 |
Wolfgang Laib: Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano (exhib. cat.) |
| 2016 | Wolfgang Laib at Sant'Apollinare in Classe (exhib. cat.) |
| 2009 | “Wolfgang Laib” - Fondazione Merz, Turin (exhib. cat.) |
| 2008 | “Wolfgang Laib – without place – without time – without body“, Musée de Grenoble, text by Guy Tosatto (exhib.cat.) |
| 2007 | “Wolfgang Laib - Sin Principio – Sin Fin“, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (exhib.cat.) “Wolfgang Laib - Reishäuser”, Interview by André Buchmann, Buchmann Galerie Berlin |
| 2005 | “Wolfgang Laib”, Essays by Philippe Büttner, Ulf Käster and Katharina Schmidt, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/ Basel “Wolfgang Laib, drawings and photographs”, Essay by Christoph Schreier, Klaus Ottmann, Kunstmuseum Bonn, De Pont Museum, Tilburg “Wolfgang Laib”, Essays by Danielo Eccher and Mario Codognato, MACRO, Rome, published by Electa Müller, Hans-Joachim, "Kunst, die sich ereignet - Ein Porträt des deutschen Künstlers Wolfgang Laib", in: kultur.kunst., Basler Zeitung, 25.Nov. 2005 |
| 2003 | “Wolfgang Laib, Passageway-Overgoing”, Conversation Wolfgang Laib and Necmi Sönmez, Essays by Seung-wan Kang, Harald Szeemann, Barbara Catoir, Christoph Schreier National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Stuttgart “Wolfgang Laib, Durchgang – Übergang”, with Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art “Laib”, Editor Tadashi Kanai and Mikako Kato, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Stuttgart |
| 2002 | “Wolfgang Laib - Die Neun Planeten“ (photography), Essay by Necmi Sönmez and conversation between Necmi Sönmez and Wolfgang Laib, Museum Folkwang Essen,(exhib.cat.) “Wolfgang Laib - A Retrospective“, Essays by Klaus Ottmann and Margit Rowell and interview by Harald Szeemann, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington , Henry Art Gallery Seattle, Dallas Museum of Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Haus der Kunst München, (exhib.cat.) |
| 2000 | “Wolfgang Laib. Durchgang-Übergang“ Essays by Ursula Zeller, Barbara Catoir, Harald Szeemann, Christoph Schreier and interview by Necmi Sönmez, with Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Stuttgart “Wolfgang Laib - La chambre des certitudes“, Essay by Guy Tosatto and interview by Necmi Sönmez, wax-room in Roc del Maure/France “Wolfgang Laib, Zwei Orte“, Exhibition catalogue Schloss Belvedere Weimar, for the exhibition project , “Licht auf Weimar – Die ephemeren Medien“, Essays by Harald Szeemann and Ulrich Krempel |
| 1999 | “Wolfgang Laib“, Essay by Guy Tosat, Carré d’Art, Musée d’art Contemporain de Nîmes |
| 1992 | “Wolfgang Laib”, Essay by John Hutchinson, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin |
| 1989 | “Wolfgang Laib“, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Various essays, e.g. by Tilman Osterwold and Harald Szeemann, Editor Tilman Osterwold |
| 1988 | „Wolfgang Laib“, Galerie Buchmann Basel, Editor /Publisher Galerie Buchmann Basel |