Works

Biography

Selected Biography

Born 1938, Paris

Lives and works in situ.

1960-61

First public commission of murals for a hotel on St. Croix (U.S. Virgin Islands). To date more than 180 exhibitions have followed since in the USA.

1965

Grand Prix at the Paris Biennale.

 Prix Lefranc de la Jeune Peinture (prize for young painters)

1966-67

Events staged by the foursome Buren, Mosset, Parmentier & Toroni

1967

First “affichages sauvages” (fly-posting) in the streets of Paris

1968

 First solo exhibit at Galerie Apollinaire, Milan

1968 / 1969 / 1971 / 1976

 Participated in “Prospect” , Düsseldorf, Germany

1969

Interruption, exhibition-presentation of 8 films on a Scopitone at the Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

1970
Participated in the “10th Tokyo Biennale” International Exhibition (Tokyo, Japan)

“Affichages sauvages” (fly-posting) in the Paris, Tokyo and New York subways

First video work with the Gerry Schum gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

1971

“Eine Manifestation”, first solo exhibition in a museum, Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach (Germany)

 ”Peinture-Sculpture”, work censored at the “VIth Guggenheim International” exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York

1972 / 1977 / 1982

Participated in the Documenta, Kassel, Germany

1972 / 1974 / 1976 / 1978 / 1980 / 1984 / 1986 / 1993 / 1997 / 2003 / 2007

Participated in the Venice Biennale

1973 / 2006

Solo exhibitions at the MOMA, Oxford, UK

1975-1982

 First “Cabane Éclatée” (“splayed cabin”) for the Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany

1975 / 1979 / 1980 / 1983 / 1998 / 1999 / 2004 / 2005

Toile/Voile-Voile/Toile, boat races followed by museum displays of sail-canvasses in Berlin,

Geneva, Lucerne, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Lyon-Villeurbanne, Tel-Aviv, Seville and Grasmere.

1976

Three simultaneous exhibitions in the Netherlands: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam / Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

1982 / 1983 / 1984 / 1985 / 2000 / 2005

Performances of Couleurs Superposées in Genazzano, Tokyo, Berne, Eindhoven, Venice, Villeneuve d’Ascq, New York and Paris.

1983

Beginning of a close collaboration (more than 10 exhibitions, personal and group) with the Kanransha Gallery, Tokyo.

1986

« Les deux plateaux, sculpture in situ », public commission for the Central Court of the Palais Royal in Paris
Golden Lion for best pavilion at the 42nd Biennale in Venice

1989

Solo exhibitions at the Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and the ICA in Nagoya (Japan)

1990

“Living Treasure” prize bestowed by New Zealand

1991

« International Award for Best Artist » The Bad Wurtemberg Land, Stuttgart, Germany

1992

Grand Prix National de Peinture, Paris

1994

« Déplacement-Jaillissement : d’une fontaine les autres », public commission for Place des Terreaux, Lyon, France

« Sens dessus-dessous, travail in situ et en mouvement » (“work in situ and in motion”), commissioned by Lyon Parc Auto for the Celestins parking lot in Lyon, France (prize for finest parking lot in Europe received in Budapest, Hungary

1996

Transparence de la lumière, solo exhibition at the Mito Art Tower (Mito, Japan) 25 Porticoes : la couleur et ses reflets (“color and its reflections”), public commission for Odaiba Bay, Tokyo, Japan

2002
Le Musée qui n’existait pas (“The museum that didn’t exist”), solo exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris, France

2003

« Transitions : works in situ », solo exhibition at the Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota (Japan)

2004-2006

Six exhibitions in China (Beijing, Jinan, Hangzhu and Tianjin)

 2005

The eye of the storm , solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Participated in the International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama.

 2007

Curator of « L’emprise du lieu », joint exhibition at Domaine Pommery, Reims, France

Stage designer for the Sophie Calle exhibition at the French Pavilion of the Venice Biennale

2009

A mancha humana / the human stain, public exhibition, CGAC – Centro Galego

de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Constanti del classico nell’arte del XX e XXI secolo, public exhibition, Fondazione

Puglisi Cosentino – Palazzo Valle, Catania Italy

Daniel Buren- Artists Books, Fundacao Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Voir Double, travail in situ, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

Transmutation, travail in situ, in “Arte in memoria 5”, Sinagoga di Ostia Antica, Ostia, Rome, Italy

Vide ou Plein? Work in situ for two spaces, Art Dubai, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE

Le Vent souffle où il veut, Beaufort 03 – The Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Ostende, Belgium

Arte Povera bis Mininal, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

Les Anneaux, Estuarie 2009, Ile de Nantes, France

Daniel Buren, Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in

Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

25 Obras, 17 Artistas, 4 Relatos, Centre d’Art la Panera, Lérida, Spain

Just What It is, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

Play Van Abbe, Part 1: The game and the players”, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum,

Eindhoven, Netherlands

2010

Daniel Buren, Westwind Arbeiten Situes, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin

Bilder uber Bilder, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung, MUMOK, Vienna

In between Minimalisms – Play van Abbe, Part 2: Time Machines, Stedelijk van

Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Daniel Buren, MUDAM, Luxembourg

Malerei: Prozess und Wxpansion, MUMOK, Vienna

Multiplications Work in Situ for a Synagogue, Synagogue Stommeln, Pulheim, Germany

2011

«Echos, travail in situ », solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, France

2012

Monumenta at the Grand Palais, Paris, France