Amar Kanwar

♂ *1964 / India

Works

Contacts for the work of Amar Kanwar

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Solo exhibitions

AMAR KANWAR

Serpentine Galleries, London (GB)
23 Sep 2026 – 31 Jan 2027
The Peacock's Graveyard

Marian Goodman NY, New York (US)
12 Jan 2024 – 24 Feb 2024
Such a Morning

Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (CA)
7 Feb 2020 – 28 Mar 2020
Exile

Selected works from the Collection

Espace Louis Vuitton, München (DE)
24 Apr 2019 – 15 Sep 2019
The Lightning Testimonies / The Sovereign Forest

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid (ES)
27 Feb 2019 – 19 May 2019
Such a Morning

Marian Goodman Paris, Paris (FR)
12 Jan 2019 – 7 Mar 2019
Such a Morning

Marian Goodman NY, New York (US)
14 Nov 2018 – 21 Dec 2018
New Pictures: Amar Kanwar, Such a Morning

The Minneapolis Institute, Minneapolis (US)
14 Apr 2018 – 12 Aug 2018
The Sovereign Forest

BildMuseet, Umea (SE)
20 Oct 2017 – 11 Mar 2018
Such A Morning

Marian Goodman London , London (GB)
19 Sep 2017 – 14 Oct 2017
The Sovereign Forest

TBA21 Augarten, Wien (AT)
23 Nov 2013 – 23 Mar 2014
The Lightning Testimonies

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
14 Oct 2013 – 12 Jan 2014
Evidence

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
8 Sep 2012 – 18 Nov 2012
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Marian Goodman NY, New York (US)
16 Mar 2010 – 24 Apr 2010
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Marian Goodman Paris, Paris (FR)
8 Mar 2008 – 12 Apr 2008
Selected Works 1997-2006

Apeejay Media Gallery, New Dehli (IN)
9 Mar 2007 – 11 Mar 2007
Trilogy

The National Museum of Art, Oslo (NO)
4 Feb 2006 – 5 Mar 2006
Nye filmer

Fotogalleriet, Oslo (NO)
8 Oct 2005 – 6 Nov 2005
A Season Outside

Peter Blum Gallery, New York (US)
7 Feb 2004 – 20 Mar 2004
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Tensta konsthall, Spånga (SE)
3 May 2003 – 19 Jun 2003

Group

Signals

How Video Transformed the World

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
5 Mar 2023 – 8 Jul 2023

with John Akomfrah, Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Tony Cokes, Emily Jacir, Nam June Paik, Sondra Perry, Martine Syms, Sara VanDerBeek, Ming Wong
Lenin Was a Mushroom – Moving Images in the 1990s

MUHKA Museum, Antwerp (BE)
3 Jun 2022 – 21 Aug 2022

with Erkan Oezgen, Sener Oezmen, David Claerbout, Stan Douglas, Andrea Fraser, Johan Grimonprez, Shilpa Gupta, Aernout Mik, Gianni Motti, Rosalind Nashashibi, Arturas Raila, Rosangela Renno …
A Sheet of Paper Can Become a Knife

Prince Claus Fund, Amsterdam (NL)
9 Nov 2018 – 26 Apr 2019

with Regina Jose Galindo, David Goldblatt, FX Harsono, Naiza Khan, Teresa Margolles, Oscar Munoz, Zanele Muholi, Newsha Tavakolian
documenta 14 Kassel

documenta, Kassel (DE)
10 Jun 2017 – 13 Sep 2017

with Algirdas Seskus, Abounaddara, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Michel Auder, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Sammy Baloji, Rebecca Belmore, WANG Bing, Ross Birrell, Pavel Braila, Geta Bratescu, Nikhil Chopra …
Art from Elsewhere

International Contemporary Art from UK Galleries

Arnolfini, Bristol (GB)
22 Apr 2016 – 17 Jul 2016

with Shirin Aliabadi, Emily Jacir, Beat Streuli, Akram Zaatari
Fractured Narratives: a strategy to engage

Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park (US)
17 Sep 2014 – 4 Jan 2015

with Dawoud Bey, Omer Fast, Eric Gottesman, Alfredo Jaar, William Kentridge, An-My Le, Goshka Macuga, Rivane Neuenschwander, Trevor Paglen, Martha Rosler
2013 Carnegie International

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (US)
5 Oct 2013 – 16 Mar 2014

with HE An, Yael Bartana, Sadie Benning, Rodney Graham, Dinh Q. Le, Mark Leckey, Taryn Simon, Joel Sternfeld, Zoe Strauss
5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

BOLSHE SVETA / MORE LIGHT

Moscow Biennale, Moscow (RU)
20 Sep 2013 – 20 Oct 2013

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Victor Alimpiev, Said Atabekov, Richard Bell, Geta Bratescu, David Claerbout, Edith Dekyndt, SONG Dong, SONG Dong, Rena Effendi, Parastou Forouhar …
13th International Istanbul Biennial

Mom, am I barbarian?

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
14 Sep 2013 – 20 Oct 2013

with Sener Oezmen, Murat Akaguenduez, Jananne Al-Ani, Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann, Halil Altindere, Bertille Bak, Yto Barrada, Guillaume Bijl, Hanna Farah Kufr Birim, Annika Eriksson, Didem Erk, Ayse Erkmen …
Praxis der Liebe

Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT)
25 Apr 2013 – 7 Jul 2013

with Marina Abramovic, Sophie Calle, Brice Dellsperger, Carola Dertnig, Valie Export, Christian Jankowski, Tracey Moffatt, Pipilotti Rist
No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
22 Feb 2013 – 22 May 2013

with Bani Abidi, Poklong Anading, Moataz M. Nasr, The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar)
Sharjah Biennial 11

<em>Re:emerge</em> - Towards a New Cultural Cartography

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
13 Mar 2013 – 13 May 2013

with Ravi Agarwal, Francis Alys, Jananne Al-Ani, Nevin Aladag, Carlos Amorales, Burak Arikan, Ismail Bahri, Matthew Barney, Tony Chakar, Tiffany Chung, David Claerbout, Thomas Demand …
dOCUMENTA (13)

documenta, Kassel (DE)
9 Jun 2012 – 16 Sep 2012

with Lida Abdul, Bani Abidi, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Francis Alys, Maria Thereza Alves, Kader Attia, Judith Barry, Gerard Byrne, Kudzanai Chiurai, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Attila Csoergoe, Manon de Boer …
La morada del hombre

Fundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona (ES)
23 Feb 2012 – 16 Jun 2012

with Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Miriam Baeckstroem, Lewis Baltz, Herbert Bayer, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Jeff Brouws, Alain Bublex, Gregory Crewdson, Luc Delahaye, Thomas Demand, Disfarmer (Mike Meyer) …
Being singular plural

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
2 Mar 2012 – 6 Jun 2012

with Shumona Goel, Kabir Mohanty
Sharjah Biennial 10

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
16 Mar 2011 – 16 May 2011

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Hala Alani, Ziad Antar, Atfal Ahdath (Vartan Avakian, Hatem Imam & Raed Yassin), Yto Barrada, Judith Barry, Bahar Behbahani, Ammar Bouras, Jem Cohen, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Mariam Ghani …
29th Bienal de São Paulo

Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
25 Sep 2010 – 12 Dec 2010

with Albano Afonso, Chantal Akerman, Francis Alys, Maria Thereza Alves, Miguel Angel Rojas, Qiu Anxiong, Kutluğ Ataman, Pedro Barateiro, Yto Barrada, Artur Barrio, Yael Bartana, Zarina Bhimji …
Signs of Life

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern (CH)
14 Aug 2010 – 21 Nov 2010

with Adel Abdessemed, Marina Abramovic, Sanford Biggers, Bharti Kher, Sigalit Landau, Tea Maekipaeae
Being Singular Plural

Moving Images from India

Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (DE)
26 Jun 2010 – 10 Oct 2010

with Kabir Mohanty, Shumona Goel+ Shai Heredia, Sonal Jain & Mriganka Madhukaillya
Indian Highway

Astrup Fearnley MoMa, Oslo (NO)
2 Apr 2009 – 6 Sep 2009

with Ravi Agarwal, Shaina Anand, Nikhil Chopra, Subodh Gupta, Shilpa Gupta, Jitish Kallat, Bharti Kher, Nalini Malani, Raqs Media Collective, Tejal Shah, Dayanita Singh, Kiran Subbaiah …
Trouble at the front

Marian Goodman Paris, Paris (FR)
14 Mar 2009 – 18 Apr 2009

with Yael Bartana
Stop & Go

Nuovi Film e Video della Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (IT)
23 Oct 2007 – 6 Jan 2008

with Ellen Cantor, Babette Mangolte, Catherine Sullivan, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Jordan Wolfson
Documenta Kassel 2007

documenta, Kassel (DE)
16 Jun 2007 – 23 Sep 2007

with Halil Altindere, Eleanor Antin, Maja Bajevic, Yael Bartana, Johanna Billing, James Coleman, Danica Dakic, Harun Farocki, Andrea Geyer, Simryn Gill, David Goldblatt, ZHENG Guogu …
Every Day ...another artist/work/show

Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT)
21 Sep 2006 – 26 Nov 2006

with Marina Abramovic, Uli Aigner, Pavel Braila, Josef Dabernig, Harun Farocki, Andrea Fraser, Ilse Haider, Daniel Herskowitz, Thomas Hirschhorn, Heidrun Holzfeind, Nabila Irshaid, Anna Jermolaewa …
Subcontingente // Sub-contingent

The South Asian Subcontinent in Contemporary art

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (IT)
29 Jun 2006 – 8 Oct 2006

with Shilpa Gupta, Runa Islam, Sonia Khurana, Raqs Media Collective, Sharmila Samant, Dayanita Singh, Kiran Subbaiah, The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar)
Zones of Contact: 2006 Biennale of Sydney

Museum Contemporary Art, Sydney (AU)
8 Jun 2006 – 27 Aug 2006

with Zarina Bhimji, Mona Hatoum, Sejla Kameric, Hassan Khan, Raqs Media Collective, Jayce Salloum, Stephen Vitiello, Akram Zaatari
Populism

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
11 May 2005 – 4 Sep 2005

with Bernadette Corporation, Marc Bijl, Phil Collins, Minerva Cuevas, Jeremy Deller, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Matias Faldbakken, Jens Haaning, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Susanne Jirkuff, Matthieu Laurette, Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg …
Populism

Curators: Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, Nicolaus Schafhausen

The National Museum of Art, Oslo (NO)
15 Apr 2005 – 2 Sep 2005

with Bernadette Corporation, Marc Bijl, Phil Collins, Xinema Cuevas, Jeremy Deller, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Matias Faldbakken, Jens Haaning, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Susanne Jirkuff, Matthieu Laurette, Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg …
Populism

Curators: Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, Nicolaus Schafhausen

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
30 Apr 2005 – 28 Aug 2005

with Bernadette Corporation, Marc Bijl, Phil Collins, Minerva Cuevas, Jeremy Deller, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Matias Faldbakken, Jens Haaning, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Susanne Jirkuff, Matthieu Laurette, Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg …
Populism

Curators: Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, Nicolaus Schafhausen

Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) , Vilnius (LT)
8 Apr 2005 – 4 Jun 2005

with Bernadette Corporation, Marc Bijl, Phil Collins, Xinema Cuevas, Jeremy Deller, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Matias Faldbakken, Jens Haaning, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Susanne Jirkuff, Matthieu Laurette, Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg …
Experiments with Truth

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (US)
3 Dec 2004 – 12 Mar 2005

with Zarina Bhimji, Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon, Ulrike Ottinger, Liisa Roberts, Francesco Vezzoli
EXTRA MUROS

Fri Art - Centre d'art de Fribourg, Fribourg (CH)
16 Mar 2003 – 23 Mar 2003

with Michael Günzburger

Events

15th Shanghai Biennale

Does the flower hear the bee?

Shanghai Biennale - Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai (CN)
8 Nov 2025 – 31 Mar 2026

with Francis Alys, Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, Tania Candiani, Carolina Caycedo, Sara Cwynar, Rohini Devasher, Theaster Gates, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sharon Lockhart, Gordon Matta-Clark, Lisa Oppenheim …
Sharjah Biennial 15

Thinking Historically in the Present

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
7 Feb 2023 – 11 Jun 2023

with Erkan Oezgen, John Akomfrah, Monira Al Qadiri, Farah Al Qasimi, Brook Andrew, Malala Andrialavidrazana, Kader Attia, Sammy Baloji, Pablo Bartholomew, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Carolina Caycedo …
Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022/23

IN OUR VEINS FLOW INK AND FIRE

Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi (IN)
12 Dec 2022 – 10 Apr 2023

with Basma Alsharif, Maithili Bavkar, Ali Cherri, Tenzing Dakpa, Priyageetha Dia, Forensic Architecture, Joan Jonas, Sandip Kuriakose, Jumana Manna, Nasreen Mohamedi, Uriel Orlow, Philip Rizk …
Photo Kathmandu 2018

Photo Kathmandu, Kathmandu (Nepal)
12 Oct 2018 – 16 Nov 2018

with Madiha Aijaz, Miia Autio, Ulla Deventer, Bunu Dhungana, Mary Frey, Jason Fulford, Robin Hammond, Dragana Jurisic, Heba Khamis, Anita Khemka, Katrin Koenning, Amak Mahmoodian …
Busan Biennale 2018

Divided We Stand - 125 artworks of 66 artists (team) from 34 countries

Busan Museum of Art, Busan (KR)
8 Sep 2018 – 11 Nov 2018

with Ferhat Oezguer, Bani Abidi, Chantal Akerman, Khaled Barakeh, Yael Bartana, Sunah Choi, LIU Ding, Smadar Dreyfus, Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh, CHIA-WEI HSU, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige …
Rencontres d'Arles 2018

Rencontres Arles, Arles (FR)
2 Jul 2018 – 23 Sep 2018

with Monica Alcazar-Duarte, Volkan Aslan, Mathieu Asselin, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Taysir Batniji, Kuersat Bayhan, Chris Becher, Jonas Bendiksen, Jean-Luc Bertini, Martin Bogren, Jean-Christian Bourcart, Eric Bouvet …
documenta 14 Kassel

documenta, Kassel (DE)
10 Jun 2017 – 13 Sep 2017

with Algirdas Seskus, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Michel Auder, Sammy Baloji, Ross Birrell, Geta Bratescu, Nikhil Chopra, Moyra Davey, Hans Eijkelboom, Theo Eshetu, Peter Friedl, Regina Jose Galindo …
documenta 14 Athens

Athens 8 Apr - 16 July / Kassel 10 June - 17 Sept

documenta, Athens (GR)
8 Apr 2017 – 16 Jul 2017

with Algirdas Seskus, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Michel Auder, Sammy Baloji, Moyra Davey, Hans Eijkelboom, Theo Eshetu, Daniel Garcia Andujar, Bouchra Khalili, Naeem Mohaiemen, Rosalind Nashashibi, Ahlam Shibli …
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Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
9 Sep 2012