Daniel Buren b. 1938, France. Lives and works in situ.
1960-61
First public commission of wall paintings for a hotel at Saint Cross Island (Caribbean, USA). More than 180 exhibitions in USA have followed this first one.
1965
Grand Prix of the Paris Biennial. Prix Lefranc of Young Painting.
1966-67
Happenings by the association Buren, Mosset, Parmentier and Toroni.
1967
First Affichages Sauvages in the streets of Paris.
1968
First solo exhibition, Apollinaire Gallery, Milan.
1968 / 1969 / 1970 / 1973 Participation to ‘Prospect’, Düsseldorf. 1969
Interruption, exhibition – presentation of 8 movies, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris.
1970
Participation to the 10th International Exhibition of Tokyo Biennial, Japan. Affichages Sauvages in the Paris, Tokyo and New York undergrounds.
1971
Eine Manifestation, first museum solo exhibition, Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach. Painting-sculpture, censored work at the VIth Guggenheim International, Guggenheim Museum, New York.
1972 / 1977 / 1982 Participation to Documenta, Kassel. 1972 / 1974 / 1976 / 1978 / 1980 / 1984 / 1986 / 1993 / 1997 / 2003 / 2007 Participation to the Venice Biennial. 1973 / 2006
Solo exhibitions at MOMA, Oxford.
1975
Creation of the first Cabane Eclatée for the Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach.
1975 / 1979 / 1980 / 1983 / 1998 / 1999 / 2004 / 2005 Toile/Voile – Voile/Toile, regattas followed by a museum presentation of Voiles – Toiles in Berlin, Geneva, Lucerne, Thun, Villeneuve d’Ascq, LyonVilleurbanne, Tel-Aviv, Seville, Grasmere. 1976
First solo show at the Lisson Gallery: On two Levels with two Colours, work in situ. Three simultaneous exhibitions in Netherlands, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam / Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
1980
Included Excluded, works in situ, Lisson Gallery, London.
1982 / 1983 / 1984 / 1985 / 2000 / 2005 Performances of Couleurs Superposées at Genazzano, Tokyo, Berne, Eidhoven, Venice, Villeneuve d’Ascq, New York, Paris. 1986
Depending on the Situation, works in situ, Lisson Gallery, London. Les deux plateaux, work in situ, public commission for the Cour d’Honneur of the Palais-Royal, Paris. Golden Lion of the best Pavilion, XLII Venice Biennial, Italy.
1989
Solo exhibitions, Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo and ICA, Nagoya.
1990
‘Living Treasure’ (Trésor Vivant), price awarded 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, work in situ, public commission for the Place des Terreaux, Lyon. Sens dessus-dessous, sculpture in situ and in movement, commissioned by the Lyon Car Parc for the Parc des Célestins (first Grand Prix of Europe’s best car park awarded to Budapest).
1996
Transparency of the light, solo exhibition, Art Tower Mito, Mito. 25 Porticoes: the colour and its reflections, public commission for the Odaïba bay, Tokyo.
2001
Daniel Buren Les Couleurs Traversees, Kunsthaus, Bregenz
2002
Le Musée qui n’existait pas, works in situ, solo exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2003
Transitions : works in situ, solo exhibition, Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan.
2004-2006
Six exhibitions in China (Beijing, Jinan, Hangzhou and Tianjin).
2005
The eye of the storm, solo exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York. Participation to the International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan.
2006
Daniel Buren, Intervention II, Modern Art Oxford
2007
New Situated Works, Lisson Gallery, London. Curator for the collective exhibition L’emprise du lieu, Domaine Pommery, Reims. Curator for Sophie Calle’s exhibition, French Pavilion, Venice Biennial.
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 Transmutation, travail in situ, in ‘Arte in memoria 5’, Sinagoga di Ostia Antica, Ostia, Rome, Italy Voir Double, travail in situ - Xavier Hufkens, Brussels Vide ou Plein? Work in situ for two spaces, Art Dubai, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE Le Vent soufflé ou il veut, Beaufort 03 – The Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Ostende, Belgium Arte Povera bis Mininal, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden Les Anneaux, Estuarie 2009, Ile de Nante Daniel Buren - Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nuremberg 25 Obras, 17 Artistas, 4 Relatos - Centre d'Art la Panera, Lérida Just What It is, ZKM, Karlsruhe Play Van Abbe, Part 1: The game and the players”, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
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 Daniel Buren, MUDAM, Luxembourg Malerei: Prozess und Wxpansion, MUMOK, Vienna Multiplications Work in Situ for a Synagogue, Synagogue Stommeln, Pulheim Daniel Buren & Alberto Giacometti, oeuvres contemporaines 1964-1966, Kamel Mennour, Paris
2011
Echos, travail in situ, Solo Exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
2011-2012
Daniel Buren, One thing to another, situated works, Lisson Gallery, London
2012
Daniel Buren – Excentrique, travail in situ, Monumenta at the Grand Palais, France
2013
Electricity…Fabric…Paint..Paper…Vinyl Works in Situ & Situated Works from 1968 to 2013(Dedicated to Michael Asher), Bortolami Gallery, New York Electricity Paper Vinyl…Works in Situ & Situated Works from 1968 to 2013 (Dedicated to Michael Asher), Petzel Gallery, New York Daniel Buren. Broken Squares, Works In Situ and Situated 2011- 2013, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany Daniel Buren. Écho d’échos: From Above, Work in situ, Centre PompidouMetz, Paris The Mediterranean Biennale, Sakhnin, Israel Deviation, travail in situ, Jardin du Grand Launay, Bretagne, France Emscherkunst 2013, Duisburg, Germany When Attitudes Become Form, Fondazione Prada, Venice Les Aventures de la Vérité: Peinture et Philosophie, Fondation Maeght, SaintPaul de Venice, France Lightness of Being, City Hall Park, New York Daniel Buren. Un bouquet: Cinq Couleurs Moins Une, Travail in situ, La Pyramide, Istres Daniel Buren et Côme Mosta-Heirt, Granville Galerie, Paris La Grande Diagonale, travail in situ pour deux couleurs plus le blanc et le noir, avec 57 piliers de 114 à 505 cm de hauteur, Istres, France
2014
Buren. De un patio a otro: laberinto-trabajos in situ, 2014, Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico Comme un jeu d’enfants, travaux in situ 2014, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France Sept Couleurs pour une cheminée, (travail in situ permanent), Chemnitz, Germany Daniel Buren. Lavori luminosi / Già quarantanni! novembre 1974-maggio 2014, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy Daniel Buren. Défini, Fini, Infini, travaux in situ, MaMo — Marseille Modulor, Centre d'art de la Cité, Marseille, France Daniel Buren. Catch as catch can: works in situ, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2015
Daniel Buren: AU FUR ET À MESURE, travaux in situ et situés, 6 rue du Pont de Lodi, 75006 Paris, Kamel Mennour, Paris, France DANIEL BUREN - 'Una cosa tira l’altra, lavori in situ e situati, 1965-2015', Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy Cores, luz, projeção, sombras, transparência: obras in situ e situadas, Galeria Nara Roesler, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Daniel Buren. Axer / Désaxer, lavoro in situ, 2015 Madre, Napoli #2, MADRE – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
2016
A Fresco, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussells, Belgium A Tiger Cannot Change its Stripes, Cultuurcentrum, Strombeek-Bever, Gent, Belgium Daniel Buren – Peintures 1966-1969, travaux situés 2016, Buchmann Box, Berlin, Germany Daniel Buren / Triptychon: eine Arbeit in situ, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany L’Observatoire de la lumiere, travail in situ, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Como un juego de niño, trabajo in situ, Museo - Espacio, Aguascalientes, Mexico Une Rétrospective d’expositions fermées, Fri Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland 2017
Wirtschaftswerte / Museumswerte, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany Daniel Buren. Prisms Colors and Mirrors: High-reliefs, Situated Works, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brasil Daniel Buren. To Align: works in situ 2017, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA Daniel Buren. Polychrome Hochreliefs, situative Arbeiten’, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany Spazio | 22, Milan, Italy Sculpture in the City, London, UK Diamonds and Circles, Tottenham Court Road station, London, UK Against Landscape, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK Seurat to Riley: The Art of Perception, Compton Verney, UK Against Landscape, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK Daniel Buren, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia Lisson Gallery, London, UK