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1928 Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil
1976 Died in Stockholm


Solo Exhibitions

2019 Öyvind Fahlström, Venus over Manhattan, New York
2017 Sitting...Blocks 1965 - 1966, Aurel Scheibler
2015 Yellow Chair Gallery in collaboration with Richard L. Feigen & Co, New York
2011 Aurel Scheibler / ScheiblerMitte, Berlin
2009 Galerie Chave, Vence, France
2006 Eye on Europe, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2005 Art and Politics, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2004 Galerie Air de Paris, Paris
Galerie Johann König, Berlin
2003 Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
2002 Institut d'art contemporain, Lyon-Villeurbanne, France
Baltic, Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2001/02 BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
2001 The Complete Graphics and Multiples, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
2000 Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
1999 Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden
1996 Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Centro Studi sull´arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts
1995 Centre Culturel Suédois, Paris
Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst e.V., Bremen, Germany
1994 Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York
1993 Feigen Incorporated, Chicago
1992 IVAM/ Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valéncia, Spain
1991 Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1990 Arnold Herstand & Co., New York
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
1989 Galerie Ahlner, Stockholm
1988 Olle Olsson-huset, Hagalund, Solna, Sweden
1987 Arnold Herstand & Co. , New York
1985 Boibrino Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1984 Arnold Herstand & Co. , New York
1983 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1982 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1981 Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles
1980 Musée national d´art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1979 Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1978 Sharon Avery/Redbird, Brooklyn, New York
1977 Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
1976 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Galerie Ahlner, Stockholm
1975 Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris
1974 Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin
Galerie Buchholz, Munich
Galleria Multhipla, Milan
1973 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia
1971 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1969 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
University of Minnesota, University Gallery, Minneapolis
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
Edinboro State College, Edinboro, Pennsylvania
University of Georgia, Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
University of Texas, Art Museum Austin, Texas
Sacramento State College, Sacramento, California
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
1967 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1966 XXXIII Biennale di Venezia, Venice
1964 Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York
1962 Galerie Danila Cordier, Paris
1959 Galerie Danila Cordier, Paris
Galerie Blanche, Stockholm
1955 Galeria Aesthetica, Stockholm
1954 Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Eskilstuna, Sweden
1953 Galleria Numero, Florence


Group Exhibitions

2020 Mappa Mundi, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
2019/20 Der montierte Mensch, Folkwang Museum, Essen
2019/20 TIMES OF UPHEAVAL. Stories and microstories in the IVAM collection, IVAM, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
2019 Political Affairs - Language Is Not Innocent, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
Au rendez-vous des amis, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
2018 Nordic Impressions, Phillips Collection, Washington
Everything Is Connected. Art and Conspiracy, Met Breuer, New York
Flashes of the Future. The Art of the ’68ers or The Power of the Powerless, Ludwig Forum Aachen
2017/2018 Art into Life! Collector Wolfgang Hahn and the 60s, Mumok Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
2017 Manipulate the World. Connecting Öyvind Fahlström, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles: An Exhibition About Dominoes, Pérez Art Museum, Miami
Imaginery Frontiers, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
2016 Données à voir, La Terrasse - Espace d'art de Nanterre
From the Collection: 1960-1969, Museum of Modern Art, New York
32nd Bienal de São Paulo
Desires and Necessities, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
Ropen skalla – konsten åt alla!, Malmö Konstmuseum
Gutes böses Geld. Eine Bildgeschichte der Okonomie / Money, Good and Evil. A Visual History of Economics, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
2015 The World goes Pop, Tate Modern, London
Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Fire & Forget. On Violence, KunstWerke, Berlin
International Pop, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Nach dem frühen Tod, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
2013/2014 ART, TWO POINTS - Barcelona lives contemporary art, MACBA, Barcelona
2013 Reflections from Damaged Life. An exhibition on psychedelia, Raven Row, London
KABOOM! Comic in der Kunst, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
The Temptation of the Diagram, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2012/2013 Simon Evans & Öyvind Fahlström: “First we make the rules then we break the rules”, Kunstalle Düsseldorf
2012 Pop Art in Europe, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen
Specters of Artaud and the Arts in the 1950s, Museo Nacionale de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Leben mit Pop! (Living with Pop!), Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Explosion! The legacy of Jackson Pollock, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
Critical Episodes (1957–2011). MACBA Collection,
Museu d´art Contemporani de Barcelona
Coleccion 3 De la revuelta a la postmodernidad (1962 – 1982), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia
Museum of Affects, Museum of Modern Art + Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
2011 "Der geteilte Himmel. 1945- 1968. Die Sammlung", Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
Poetry goes Art & Vice Versa, Weserburg, Bremen
The Otolith Group. Thoughtform, MACBA, Barcelona
"Kompass Zeichnungen aus dem Museum of Modern Art New York", Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
"Volume!" MACBA, Barcelona
2010 Bild für Bild - Film und zeitgenössische Kunst. Aus der Sammlung des Centre Pompidou, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Welt und System, Städtische Galerie, Dresden
Uneven Geographies, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
56th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen
2009-2010 Moderna Museet's Collection: Highlights of the 60's, Moderna Museet Malmö
Wo ist der Wind, wenn er nicht weht?, Der Kunstverein, Hamburg
2009 Making Worlds : Fare Mondi, 53rd Biennale die Venezia
Time as Matter, MACBA Collection, Museo d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
The Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
MOCA's First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Shadow/Existence, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin
2008 Europop, Kunsthaus Zürich
Figuration narrative, Grand Palais, Paris
Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?, OCA Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo
2007 Eye on Europe, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Evil, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
6 Bienal do Mercosul: A Terceira Margern do Rio, Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
MACBA im Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Homenaje a Picasso, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
2006 Tours et détours dans la collection, Galerie de France, Paris
2005 - 06 Art & Politics, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
2005 Schrift, Zeichen, Geste, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany
Faites vos jeux! Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2003 - 04 Village global: les années soixante, Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal, Canada
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
World Watchers - Demokratie. Information. Subjekte, NGBK, Berlin
2002 Art & Economy, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Geld und Wert/Das letzte Tabu, Pavillon auf der Schweizer Nationalausstellung EXPO 02, auf dem Gestade des Bieler Sees, Swiss
I promise it’s political, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2001 Jheronimus Bosch, Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2000 The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Norden - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Nordeuropa, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
Öyvind Fahlström/Robert Crumb, Espace Gustave Fayet, Sérignan, France
1999 Europop - A Dialogue with the U.S., Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj, Denmark
1998 Come Closer, Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center
Ludwig Museum Budapest – Museum of Contemporary Art
1997 Moderna Museet Stockholm – Picasso to Warhol,Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Koriyama, Japan
City Museum of Art, Hiroshima
City Museum of Contemporary Art, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo
Moderna Museet Stockholm, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
ALL of a SUDDEN II, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Documenta X, Kassel, Germany
Dadaismo Dadaismi. Da Duchamp a Warhol., Gallerie d´arte moderna e contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy
1997 The Maximal Sixties: Pop, Op, and Figuration from the Drawing Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1996 Mapping Lessons, William King Regional Arts Center, Abdingdon, Virginia
1995 Better Living Through Chemistry, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
1994 Summer Academy, PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York
Mapping, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Hors Limites, Musée national d´art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1991 Pop Art och Nouveau Réalism, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Territorium Artis, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
1990 The Readymade Boomerang – Certain Relations in 20th Century Art, 8th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of South Wales
High and Low: Modern art and Popular Culture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988 Different Drummers, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
1987 Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1983 Acquisition Priorities: Aspects of Postwar Painting in Europe., The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1977 Paris – New York, Musée National d´ Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1976 Drawing Now: 1955 – 1975, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(LMAFT) Centre Culturelle, Rennes – Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
1975 Let´s Mix All Feelings Together – Baruchello, Erró, Fahlström, Liebig, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Städtisches Museum, Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ARC-2, Paris
1974 Swedish and International Art from 1945 to 1973, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1972 Swedish Art 1972 – A Contemporary Theme, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1971 The Artist as Adversary, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1970 Licht – Objekt – Bewegung – Raum. Schwedische Kunst heute, Kunsthalle, Nürnberg
Surrealism?, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1969 Kunst der sechziger Jahre, Sammlung Ludwig im Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
1968 Three Generations of Twentieth-Century Art – Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967 10 and d´art vivant 1955-1965, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Science Fiction, Kunsthalle Bern
Pictures to be Read / Poetry to be Seen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1966 European Drawings, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1965 Pop & Op, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Il presente contestato, Museo Civico, Bologna, Italy
1964 Guggenheim International Award 1964, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Arte d´oggi nel musei, XXXII Biennale Internationale d´Arte Venezia, Venice
Mythologies Quotidiennes, Musée d´art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris
1963 The 22nd International Watercolor Biennal: Yugoslavia, Sweden, United States, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
1962 Twelve Swedish Painters, The American Federation of Arts Gallery, New York
New Realists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1959 Äterblick 59, Moderna Muuseet, Stockholm
V Bienal de Sao Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1961 Fahlström, Hultén, Johansson, Österlin, Galerie Blanche, Stockholm
2éme Biennale de Paris, Musée d´art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris
1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh