Dennis Oppenheim

♂ *1938 / United States

Works

Contacts for the work of Dennis Oppenheim

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Solo exhibitions

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MOT INTERNATIONAL, London (GB)
1 Apr 2014 – 17 May 2014
Video Screening 2

Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyu, Kitakyûshû (JP)
28 Aug 2006 – 15 Sep 2006
Tactics: Early Video Works by Dennis Oppenheim, 1970-1974

Slought Foundation, Philadelphia (US)
1 Apr 2006 – 1 Jun 2006
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Galerie Piece Unique, Paris (FR)
25 Mar 2006 – 28 May 2006
Taller de investigación sobre fondos del MNCARS

MNCARS - Museo REINA SOFIA, Madrid (ES)
19 Apr 2005 – 22 Nov 2005
Obra escogida. 1968-2004

Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (ES)
6 Jan 2005 – 20 Feb 2005
Alternate Current

The Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe (US)
22 Oct 2004 – 5 Feb 2005
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area 24 Art Gallery, Napoli (IT)
22 Oct 2004 – 23 Dec 2004

Group

Like a Dance of Starlings

MACBA Collection: Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Being

Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (ES)
25 Nov 2025 – 28 Sep 2026

with Claudia Andujar, Vera Chaves Barcellos, Max de Esteban, Esther Ferrer, Peter Friedl, Richard Hamilton, Joan Jonas, William Kentridge, Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler, Àngels Ribe …
Dennis Oppenheim e Gordon Matta Clark

montrasio arte, Monza (IT)
5 May 2026 – 29 Jul 2026

with Gordon Matta-Clark
Seriously

curated by Nana Bahlmann, featuring over a hundred conceptual photographs,

SPRÜTH MAGERS, London (GB)
21 Nov 2025 – 31 Jan 2026

with Bas Jan Ader, Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Massimo Bartolini, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Lynda Benglis, Helen Chadwick, Robert Cumming, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Braco Dimitrijevic …
Masterpieces from Private Collections

Fabian & Claude Walter, Zürich (CH)
8 Jan 2025 – 20 Feb 2025

with Sonja Braas, Balthasar Burkhard, Nan Goldin, Uwe Wittwer
Who Is an Animal?

HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki (FI)
17 May 2024 – 18 Aug 2024

with Herb Carleton, Terike Haapoja, Mikko Haiko, Ismo Kajander, Sanna Kannisto, Anne Koskinen, Esko Maennikkoe, Pentti Sammallahti
Conceptual Matters

Photo documents of performance art and conceptual explorations 1960s - 1980s

Deborah Bell Photographs, New York (US)
21 Mar 2024 – 22 Jun 2024

with Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, James Casebere, John Divola, Joan Jonas, Allan McCollum, Marcia Resnick, Lew Thomas, Bill Viola, William Wegman
HYPERIMAGE

Sammlung Rolf H. Krauss

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE)
7 Oct 2022 – 5 Feb 2023

with Helena Almeida, Monika Baumgartl, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gilbert & George, Rebecca Horn, Nikolaus Koliusis, Rolf H. Krauss, Helmut Schweizer, Katharina Sieverding, Dolores Wyss
Visions from America

Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
26 Jun 2022 – 22 Sep 2022

with Vito Acconci, Robert Adams, Merry Alpern, William Anastasi, Janine Antoni, Diane Arbus, David Armstrong, Richard Avedon, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Tina Barney, Matthew Barney …
Alter Egos

Projected Selves

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
22 Nov 2021 – 1 May 2022

with Doug Aitken, HAI Bo, Ellen Carey, Justine Cooper, Valie Export, WENG Fen, Samuel Fosso, Tom Friedman, Gilbert & George, Debbie Grossman, Richard Hamilton, HONG Hao …
FACE TO FACE

Fabian & Claude Walter, Zürich (CH)
22 May 2021 – 3 Jul 2021

with Juan Carlos Alom, Juan Carlos Alom, Adrian Fernandez Milanes, Nan Goldin, Christian Vogt
The Indispensable Experience of Art

Part I: Urban Image-Jitters

The Merchant House, Amsterdam (NL)
12 Jul 2020 – 4 Oct 2020

with Sylvie Bonnot, Craigie Horsfield
Works from the 1980s / Conceptual Photography

Marlborough, New York (US)
28 Jan 2020 – 29 Feb 2020

with Laurie Anderson, Robert Barry, Dan Graham, Joseph Kosuth, Gordon Matta-Clark, Martha Rosler, Allen Ruppersberg, William Wegman
A Brilliant Spectrum

Recent Gifts of Color Photography

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (US)
27 Jan 2019 – 5 May 2019

with Tom Bianchi, Kwame Brathwaite, Olaf Breuning, John Chiara, William Eggleston, Todd Gray, George Legrady, David Levinthal, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Asako Narahashi, Susan Rankaitis, Seton Smith
Matter of Masters: 5 Years of TMH

The Merchant House, Amsterdam (NL)
22 Nov 2018 – 18 Jan 2019

with Craigie Horsfield, Judith Reigl, Carolee Schneemann
AKTION: Conceptual Art And Photography (1960 - 1980)

Richard Saltoun, London (GB)
13 Jul 2018 – 25 Aug 2018

with Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Renate Bertlmann, Marcel Broodthaers, Guenter Brus, James Coleman, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Hans Haacke, Nigel Henderson, Ed Herring, John Hilliard …
VERSUS

La sfida dell'artista al suo modello in un secolo di fotografia e disegno

FMAV - Palazzo, Modena (IT)
16 Sep 2016 – 5 Feb 2017

with Claudio Abate, Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Alighiero e Boetti, Adriano Altamira, Stefano Arienti, Eugene Atget, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Joseph Beuys, Irma Blank, John Bock …
FORTY

MoMA PS1, New York (US)
19 Jun 2016 – 28 Aug 2016

with Laurie Anderson, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Dan Graham, David Hammons, Gordon Matta-Clark, Richard Nonas, Nam June Paik, Howardena Pindell, Keith Sonnier, Jackie Winsor
SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence

National Academy Museum, New York (US)
29 Jan 2015 – 3 May 2015

with Marina Abramovic, Boushra Almutawakel, William Anastasi, John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Chuck Close, Gohar Dashti, Thomas Eakins, Louis Faurer, Saul Fletcher, Shadi Ghadirian, Amir Ali Ghasemi …
TATTOO - THE FACE OF FREEDOM

Teutloff Museum, Berlin (DE)
2 Aug 2013 – 4 Aug 2013

with Daniele Buetti, Robert Doisneau, Valie Export, Alex Flemming, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Margi Geerlinks, Lynn Hershman, Thomas Hoepker, Herbert Hoffmann, John Isaacs, Geoffrey Johnson, Kim Joon …
Video Vintage

Une trajectoire de l'art video de 1963 a 1983

Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
2 Apr 2012 – 7 May 2012

with Marina Abramovic, Joseph Beuys, Jean-Luc Godard, Dan Graham, Mona Hatoum, Thierry Kuntzel, Les Levine, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Bill Viola …
American photographs and serigraphs

PHOTO EDITION BAD, Baden-Baden (DE)
16 Feb 2012 – 28 Mar 2012

with Julius Shulman, Mariana Yampolsky
10a Bienal de Video y Artes Mediales

(BVAM)

Bienal de Video y Artes , Santiago (CL)
10 Jan 2012 – 22 Jan 2012

with Juan Carlos Alom, Juan Carlos Bracho, Jörg Burger, Jean-François Côté, Alexandra Crouwers, Juan Downey, Tracey Emin, Edgar Endress, Harun Farocki, William Forsythe, Gianfranco Foschino, Masaki Fujihata …
Performa 11 - biennial of new visual art performance

Performa, New York (US)
1 Nov 2011 – 21 Nov 2011

with Abbas Akhavan, Julieta Aranda, Robert Ashley, Gerard Byrne, Tamar Ettun, Tamar Ettun, James Franco, Simon Fujiwara, Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ragnar Kjartansson, Liz Magic Laser …
Physical Video

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU)
14 May 2011 – 4 Sep 2011

with Pierre Bismuth, QIN Ga, Bruce Nauman, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, James Oram, Mike Parr, Campbell Patterson, Sriwhana Spong, Judith Wright, Erwin Wurm
Twenty Five

25 Jahre Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie

Fabian & Claude Walter, Zürich (CH)
25 Mar 2011 – 21 Apr 2011

with Sonja Braas, Balthasar Burkhard, Georg Gerster, Peter Hebeisen, Michel Huelin, Luzia Simons
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Galerie Albrecht, Berlin (DE)
11 Sep 2010 – 2 Oct 2010
La photographie n’est pas l’art,

collection Sylvio Perlstein

MAMCS Strasbourg, Strasbourg (FR)
5 Feb 2010 – 24 Apr 2010

with James Abbe, Berenice Abbott, Adel Abdessemed, Vito Acconci, Eugene Atget, Robert Barry, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Bill Beckley, Hannes Beckmann, Vanessa Beecroft, Hans Bellmer, Ilse Bing …
Nude Visions - 150 Jahre Körperbilder in der Fotografie

Münchner Stadtmuseum, München (DE)
27 May 2009 – 4 Oct 2009

with Atelier Manassé (Olga Spolarics + Adorján von Wlassics), Auguste Bellocq, Josef Breitenbach, Francis Bruguire, Gertrude Fehr, Vincenzo Galdi , Andre Gelpke, Fritz Henle, Marta Hoepffner, Louis Igout, Andre Kertesz, Germaine Krull …
Tattoo

Kuratiert von Peter Weibel, ZKM

Teutloff Collection, Bielefeld (DE)
15 Feb 2009 – 30 Apr 2009

with Daniele Buetti, Mario Cravo Neto, Robert Doisneau, Valie Export, Alex Flemming, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Margi Geerlinks, Lynn Hershman, Thomas Hoepker, Herbert Hoffmann, John Isaacs, Geoffrey Johnson …
Works from Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
21 Nov 2007 – 28 Jul 2008

with John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Jeremy Blake, Cheryl Donegan, Gilbert & George, Andreas Gursky, ZHANG Huan, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, Clemens von Wedemeyer, William Wegman …
Esperimental Films and Videos

Fabian & Claude Walter, Zürich (CH)
9 Feb 2008 – 19 Mar 2008

with Annelies Strba
What does the jellyfish want?

Fotografien von Man Ray bis James Coleman

Museum Ludwig, Köln (DE)
31 Mar 2007 – 24 Jun 2007

with Robert Adams, Eugene Atget, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Mel Bochner, Joachim Brohm, James Coleman, Jan Dibbets, William Eggleston, Valie Export, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Lee Friedlander …
PHOTO-KUNST der letzten 40 Jahre

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE)
11 Nov 2006 – 4 Mar 2007

with Giorgio Ciam, John Coplans, Juergen Klauke, Astrid Klein, Urs Luethi, Jean Le Gac, Helmut Schweizer, Katharina Sieverding, Dolores Wyss
Anxious Bodies

collection of performance/videos

Linden Centre, Melbourne (AU)
3 Jun 2006 – 2 Jul 2006

with Vito Acconci, Gilbert & George, Bruce Nauman
Amate l'architettura

Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milano (IT)
16 Mar 2006 – 6 May 2006

with Bernd & Hilla Becher, James Casebere, Gordon Matta-Clark, Georges Rousse
Portraits of Artists

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (US)
7 Jan 2006 – 4 Feb 2006

with Berenice Abbott, Vito Acconci, Richard Avedon, Constantin Brancusi, Sophie Calle, Larry Clark, Chuck Close, Hollis Frampton, Adam Fuss, Candida Hoefer, Jacob Hilsdorf, Allan Kaprow …
Videographies – The Early Decades

from the EMST collection

National Museum of Contemporary Art - EM, Athína (GR)
13 Jul 2005 – 31 Dec 2005

with Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Dara Birnbaum, Mona Hatoum, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Martha Rosler, Carolee Schneemann, Bill Viola
Overhead / Underfoot: The Topographical Perspective in Photography

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
1 Jul 2005 – 25 Sep 2005

with Margaret Bourke-White, Harold E. Edgerton, Emmet Gowin, Ed Ruscha, James Turrell
Slide Show

CAC Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati (US)
2 Jul 2005 – 11 Sep 2005

with Robert Barry, Lothar Baumgarten, Marcel Broodthaers, James Coleman, Jan Dibbets, Willie Doherty, Fischli & Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Nan Goldin, Dan Graham, Louise Lawler, Helen Levitt …
Foto di famiglia

16 contemporanei che usano la fotografia

Ierimonti Gallery, Milano (IT)
21 Apr 2005 – 30 Jun 2005

with Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Olivo Barbieri, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Mario Giacomelli, Nan Goldin, Urs Luethi, Ryuji Miyamoto, Shirin Neshat, Gerhard Richter, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman …
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982

Miami Art Central (MAC), Miami (US)
11 Mar 2005 – 12 Jun 2005

with Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Giovanni Anselmo, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Victor Burgin, Sarah Charlesworth …
Land

Ota Fine Arts, Tôkyô (JP)
22 Feb 2005 – 26 Mar 2005

with Amy Granat, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Robert Smithson
Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum / videogalerie schum - Ready to shoot

Norwich Gallery, Norwich (GB)
13 Jan 2005 – 26 Feb 2005

with Giovanni Anselmo, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Jan Dibbets, Gilbert & George, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Ger van Elk …
D'une image qui ne serait pas du semblant - La photographie écrite. 1950-2005

Passage de Retz, Paris (FR)
16 Nov 2004 – 16 Jan 2005

with Vito Acconci, Christian Boltanski, Victor Burgin, Sophie Calle, Robert Doisneau, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon, Robert Heinecken, John Hilliard, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson …
Into the Light - A Imagem Projectada na Arte Americana de 1964 a 1977

Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa (PT)
8 Oct 2004 – 2 Jan 2005

with Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, Bruce Nauman, Michael Snow, Andy Warhol
Camera Action: Performance and Photography

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
15 Oct 2004 – 23 Dec 2004

with Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Patty Chang, Valie Export, Young Hay, Tehching Hsieh, ZHANG Huan, Tseng Kwong Chi, MA Liuming, Hayley Newman, Barbara Probst …
Video Dia Loghi

Centre Culturel Français, Torino (IT)
13 Dec 2004 – 19 Dec 2004

with Adel Abdessemed, Boris Achour, Piero Addis, Estelle Aubin, Sabrina Bastai, Laetitia Benat, Max Bonini, Rebecca Bournigault, Francesca Capra, Annalisa Cattani, Eleonora Chiesa, Anna Conba …
Minimal Artists try to make Something look like Nothing and Conceptual Artists try to make Nothing look like Something, or is It the Other Way Round?

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (FR)
5 Nov 2004 – 18 Dec 2004

with Robert Barry, Joan Jonas, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner
Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963–1978

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
29 May 2004 – 20 Oct 2004

with Wallace Berman, Paul McCarthy, Adrian Piper
Becoming Father, Becoming Infant

Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (US)
23 Jul 2004 – 3 Oct 2004

with Nam June Paik, Rudy Shepherd
Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968 – 1975

Serralves Museum, Porto (PT)
23 Jul 2004 – 3 Oct 2004

with Vito Acconci, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Lothar Baumgarten, Bill Beckley, Marcel Broodthaers, Guenter Brus, Jan Dibbets, Valie Export, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Roger Hutchings …
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography (1960-1982)

MARCO Vigo, Vigo (ES)
28 May 2004 – 19 Sep 2004

with Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Giovanni Anselmo, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Victor Burgin, Sarah Charlesworth …
Prima e dopo l'immagine

A cura di Francesco Bernardelli

Castello di Rivoli , Torino (IT)
5 Jun 2004 – 29 Aug 2004

with Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Sadie Benning, Dara Birnbaum, Robert Cahen, David Cronenberg, Dan Graham, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler …
Portraits

ESSO Gallery and Books, New York (US)
4 Jun 2004 – 31 Jul 2004

with Vito Acconci, Alighiero e Boetti, Giovanni Anselmo, Slater Bradley, Julia Margaret Cameron, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Dan Graham, Jitka Hanzlova, Alfredo Jaar, Nzingah Muhammed, Ugo Mulas, Meret Oppenheim …
temporalscape

Haines Gallery, San Francisco (US)
10 Jun 2004 – 24 Jul 2004

with Linda Connor, John Divola, Kota Ezawa, Andy Goldsworthy, Tokihiro Sato, Susan Silton, Joel Sternfeld
Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968 – 1975

Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (ES)
19 Feb 2004 – 2 May 2004

with Vito Acconci, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Lothar Baumgarten, Bill Beckley, Marcel Broodthaers, Guenter Brus, Jan Dibbets, Valie Export, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Peter Hutchinson …
Land Art

Fabian & Claude Walter, Zürich (CH)
24 Jan 2004 – 6 Mar 2004

with Jan Dibbets, Peter Hutchinson
X-SCREEN. Filmische Installationen und Aktionen der 60er und 70er Jahre

MUMOK Museum, Wien (AT)
13 Dec 2003 – 29 Feb 2004

with Vito Acconci, Dara Birnbaum, Marcel Broodthaers, Valie Export, Dan Graham, Joan Jonas, Kurt Kren, David Lamelas, Ronald Nameth, Bruce Nauman, Annabel Nicolson, Hélio Oiticica …
Photographier to photograph

Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR)
1 Jun 2002 – 5 Jan 2003

with Mac Adams, David Armstrong, Matthew Barney, Robert Barry, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Vanessa Beecroft, Helen Bendon, Pierre Bismuth, Mel Bochner, Christian Boltanski, Slater Bradley, Marcel Broodthaers …

Events

OFFSCREEN 2024

Installations, Still and Moving images

OFFSCREEN, Paris (FR)
16 Oct 2024 – 20 Oct 2024

with Laurence Aegerter, Kelani Abass, Chantal Akerman, Lita Albuquerque, Ever Astudillo, Andres Denegri, Jonas Englert, TR Ericsson, Yannig Hedel, Benjamin Heisenberg, Lukas Hoffmann, Alfredo Jaar …
FIAC 2021

FIAC Paris, Paris (FR)
21 Oct 2021 – 24 Oct 2021

with Adel Abdessemed, Darren Almond, Rosa Barba, Valerie Belin, Marcel Dzama, Latifa Echakhch, Michel Francois, Simon Fujiwara, Douglas Gordon, Leiko Ikemura, Ann Veronica Janssens, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla …
UNSEEN AT THE GALLERY

Unseen Photo, Amsterdam (NL)
2 Oct 2020 – 4 Oct 2020

with Gueler Ates, Tasio Bidegain, Paul Bogaers, Melanie Bonajo, Sylvie Bonnot, Sebastiaan Bremer, Paul Cupido, Misha de Ridder, Elspeth Diederix, Charlotte Dumas, Uta Eisenreich, Jenia Fridlyand …
The Phair 2019 - Photography and Fair

The Phair, Torino (IT)
3 May 2019 – 5 May 2019

with Lida Abdul, Nobuyoshi Araki, Olivo Barbieri, Per Barclay, Fabio Barile, Matteo Basile, Guia Besana, Monica Biancardi, Francesco Bosso, Slater Bradley, Davide Bramante, Fabio Bucciarelli …
Miart 2018

Fiera Milano International , Milano (IT)
13 Apr 2018 – 15 Apr 2018

with Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Vanessa Beecroft, Gabriele Beveridge, Helene Binet, Mimmo Jodice, Gina Pane, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Jo Spence, Tobias Zielony
Miart 2017

Fiera Milano International , Milano (IT)
31 Mar 2017 – 2 Apr 2017

with Marina Abramovic, Helena Almeida, Richard Billingham, Dara Birnbaum, Rae di Martino, Valie Export, Regina Jose Galindo, Luigi Ghirri, Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen), Franco Vaccari, Tobias Zielony
Zeit-Raum-Beziehung(en)

Im Rahmen der Ausstellung Turbulent Screen

Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg (DE)

with Sharon Lockhart, Michael Snow
Video Dia Loghi

Centre Culturel Français, Torino (IT)