Pawel Althamer

*1967 / Poland

Contacts for the work of Pawel Althamer

Pawel Althamer

Warsaw
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Solo exhibitions

Golden Island

Zacheta National Gallery, Warszawa (PL)
19 May 2023 – 30 Jul 2023
Lovis-Corinth-Preis 2022

Kunstforum Ostdt. Galerie, Regensburg (DE)
3 Jun 2022 – 11 Sep 2022
Seven Prisoners

HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki (FI)
18 Jan 2022 – 20 Feb 2022
Cosmic Order

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (AT)
7 Feb 2020 – 17 May 2020
Paweł Althamer

HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki (FI)
29 Mar 2019 – 8 Sep 2019
THE SECRET OF THE PHAISTOS

Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary, Hydra (GR)
23 Jun 2014 – 29 Sep 2014
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Ullens Center Contemporary Art, Beijing (CN)
24 May 2014 – 29 Aug 2014
The Neighbors

New Museum, New York (US)
12 Feb 2014 – 13 Apr 2014
Common Task

Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (GB)
12 Dec 2009 – 7 Mar 2010
Common Task

Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (GB)
12 Dec 2009 – 7 Mar 2010
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MNCARS - Museo REINA SOFIA, Madrid (ES)
1 Dec 2009 – 22 Feb 2010
Frühling

Fridericianum, Kassel (DE)
4 Jun 2009 – 21 Jun 2009
One of many

Palazzina Appiani c/o Fondazione Nicola , Milano (IT)
7 May 2007 – 6 Jun 2007
Einstein Class

Einstein Spaces – neun Kunstprojekte in Berlin, Potsdam und Caputh

Archenhold-Sternwarte, Berlin (DE)
6 Sep 2005 – 30 Oct 2005
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Zacheta National Gallery, Warszawa (PL)
26 Feb 2005 – 28 Mar 2005

Group

Analog

30th Anniversary Exhibition

Anton Kern Gallery, New York (US)
4 Mar 2026 – 1 May 2026

with Nobuyoshi Araki, John Bock, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Anne Collier, William N. Copley, Roe Ethridge, Angus Fairhurst, Rachel Harrison, Lothar Hempel, Sarah Jones, Jim Lambie, Sean Landers …
PEOPLE

Edward Dwurnik

Raster Gallery, Warsaw (PL)
19 Sep 2025 – 15 Nov 2025

with Zofia Rydet
1000 … miles to the edge

Schenkung Kasper König

Museum Ludwig, Köln (DE)
11 Nov 2023 – 17 Mar 2024

with Claudio Abate, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Guenter Brus, Jeremy Deller, Ayse Erkmen, Jef Geys, Dan Graham, Mark Leckey, Richard Long, John Miller, Henrik Olesen, Sturtevant (Elaine)
(K)ein Puppenheim. Alte Rollenspiele und neue Menschenbilder

Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Goetz in der Sammlung Puppentheater / Schaustellerei

Münchner Stadtmuseum, München (DE)
22 Apr 2023 – 7 Jan 2024

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Roger Ballen, Andre Gelpke, Herbert List, Loretta Lux, Stefan Moses, August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons
Parlament der Pflanzen

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
6 Sep 2020 – 17 Jan 2021

with Andrea Buettner, John Baldessari, Karl Blossfeldt, Edith Dekyndt, Jef Geys, Anna Jermolaewa, Jochen Lempert, Uriel Orlow, Artur Zmijewski
Fly Me to the Moon

50 Jahre Mondlandung

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
20 Jul 2019 – 3 Nov 2019

with Darren Almond, Rene Burri, Hannah Hoech, Catherine Leutenegger, NASA , Andy Warhol
The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement

The Phillips Collection, Washington (US)
22 Jun 2019 – 22 Sep 2019

with Erkan Oezgen, Adel Abdessemed, Chantal Akerman, John Akomfrah, Francis Alys, Guillermo Arias, Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Andrea Bowers, Tania Bruguera, Beverly Buchanan, Phil Collins …
Fly me to the Moon

50 Jahre Mondlandung / The Moon landing: 50 years on

Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (CH)
5 Apr 2019 – 30 Jun 2019

with Darren Almond, Rene Burri, Hannah Hoech, Lena Lapschina, Zilla Leutenegger, NASA , Andy Warhol
Songs of Alienation

Fondation van Gogh , Arles (FR)
7 Oct 2017 – 2 Apr 2018

with Andrea Buettner, Yto Barrada, David Claerbout, Jonathas de Andrade, Dan Perjovschi, Juergen Teller, Oscar Tuazon
ISelf Collection: Self-portrait as the Billy Goat

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (GB)
27 Apr 2017 – 30 Sep 2017

with Tracey Emin, Yayoi Kusama, Linder, Cindy Sherman
LA TERRA INQUIETA

Palazzo della Triennale, Milano (IT)
28 Apr 2017 – 20 Aug 2017

with Adel Abdessemed, John Akomfrah, Francis Alys, Ziad Antar, Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Andrea Bowers, Tania Bruguera, Banu Cennetoglu, Phil Collins, Rokni Haerizadeh, Mona Hatoum …
THE RESTLESS EARTH

Palazzo della Triennale, Milano (IT)
28 Apr 2017 – 20 Aug 2017

with Adel Abdessemed, John Akomfrah, Francis Alys, Ziad Antar, Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Andrea Bowers, Tania Bruguera, Banu Cennetoglu, Phil Collins, Rokni Haerizadeh, Mona Hatoum …
Im Rausch: Zwischen Höhenflug und Absturz

Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Warth (CH)
5 Jun 2016 – 16 Dec 2016

with Annelies Strba, Ueli Alder, Hendrikje Kühne & Beat Klein, Susanne Hofer, Susanne Hofer, Aurelia Mihai, Meret Oppenheim, Ursula Palla, Oliver Pietsch, Pipilotti Rist, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, Andreas Walser …
A History: Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou

Zeitgenössische Kunst aus dem Centre Pompidou

Haus der Kunst, München (DE)
25 Mar 2016 – 4 Sep 2016

with Maja Bajevic, Yto Barrada, Taysir Batniji, Christian Boltanski, Mohamed Bourouissa, Sophie Calle, Ayse Erkmen, Harun Farocki, Samuel Fosso, Michel Francois, Coco Fusco, Regina Jose Galindo …
La memoria finalmente. Arte in Polonia: 1989-2015

FMAV - Palazzo, Modena (IT)
19 Mar 2016 – 5 Jun 2016

with Miroslaw Balka, Nicolas Grospierre, Anna Molska, Paulina Olowska, Agnieszka Polska, Wilhelm Sasnal
Creativity Exercises

GfZK, Leipzig (DE)
18 Oct 2014 – 1 Feb 2015

with Rainer Ganahl, Bouchra Khalili, Dora Maurer, Peter Watkins
Broken. Slpastick, Comedy und schwarzer Humor

Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst

Haus der Kunst, München (DE)
27 Jun 2014 – 18 Jan 2015

with Francis Alys, John Bock, Olaf Breuning, Fischli & Weiss, Rodney Graham, Mike Kelley, Jochen Kuhn, Mirko Martin, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Paul Pfeiffer, Robin Rhode, Julian Rosefeldt
Vanitas – Ewig ist eh nichts

Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin (DE)
15 Jun 2014 – 31 Aug 2014

with Mona Hatoum, Alicja Kwade, Tomas Saraceno, Roman Signer, Sam Taylor-Johnson (Wood)
In the Heart of the Country

The Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

MoMA Warsaw, Warszawa (PL)
14 May 2013 – 6 Jan 2014

with Francis Alys, Wojciech Bakowski, Miroslaw Balka, Yael Bartana, Cezary Bodzianowski, Geta Bratescu, Ivan Brazhkin, Rafal Bujnowski, Duncan Campbell, Olga Chernysheva, Anne Collier, Oskar Dawicki …
Performa 13: New Visual Art Performance Biennial

Performa, New York (US)
1 Nov 2013 – 24 Nov 2013

with Ahmet Oeguet, Einat Amir, Eleanor Antin, Ed Atkins, Rosa Barba, Hans Breder, Tamar Ettun, Zachary Fabri, Dani Gal, Rainer Ganahl, Subodh Gupta, Florian Hecker …
Frieze Art Fair - Video and photo based art

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
13 Oct 2011 – 16 Oct 2011

with Annelies Strba, Marina Abramovic, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Haluk Akakçe, Francis Alys, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Kutluğ Ataman, Fikret Atay, Michel Auder, Maja Bajevic, John Baldessari, Rosa Barba …
Weltraum

Kunst und ein Traum

Kunsthalle Wien, Wien (AT)
1 Apr 2011 – 15 Aug 2011

with Daniel & Geo Fuchs, Loris Greaud, Judith Hopf, Dona Jalufka, Astrid Johannessen, William Kentridge, Lena Lapschina, Simon Leigh, Jen Liu, Basim Magdy, Gianni Motti, Simon Patterson …
Trembling Bodies / Körper in Aufruhr

daadgalerie, Berlin (DE)
11 Feb 2011 – 12 Mar 2011

with Katarzyna Kozyra, Zbigniew Libera, Monika Mamzeta, Lily Markiewicz, Joanna Rajkowska, Artur Zmijewski, Artur Zmijewski
Gwangju Biennale 2010 - 10,000 Lives

The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
3 Sep 2010 – 7 Nov 2010

with Anna Artaker, Tauba Auerbach, Morton Bartlett, Hans Bellmer, Ernest James Bellocq, Nayland Blake, Irina Botea, Duncan Campbell, Jacques Charlier, Anne Collier, Roberto Cuoghi, Keren Cytter …
FischGrätenMelkStand

Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin (DE)
2 Jul 2010 – 31 Aug 2010

with Anna & Bernhard Blume, Björn Dahlem, Saul Fletcher, Klara Liden, Paul McCarthy, Julian Rosefeldt
Les Promesses du Passé / The Promises of the Past

the works of over fifty artists mostly hailing from Central and Eastern Europe

Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
14 Apr 2010 – 19 Jul 2010

with Marina Abramovic, Yael Bartana, Cezary Bodzianowski, Mircea Cantor, Attila Csoergoe, Tacita Dean, Braco Dimitrijevic, Thea Djordjadze, Miklos Erdely, Cyprien Gaillard, Tomislav Gotovac, Ion Grigorescu …
Lost and Found

neugerriemschneider, Berlin (DE)
30 Apr 2010 – 5 Jun 2010

with Tacita Dean, Pierre Huyghe, Sharon Lockhart, Simon Starling
As Long As It Lasts

Marian Goodman NY, New York (US)
1 Jul 2009 – 28 Aug 2009

with Tacita Dean, Pierre Huyghe, William Kentridge, Gabriel Orozco, Thomas Struth, Guido van der Werve, Artur Zmijewski
The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space

Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (GB)
16 Dec 2008 – 1 Feb 2009

with Olivier Bardin, Rineke Dijkstra, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Dan Perjovschi, Paul Rooney
Video zone 4

The 4th International Video ArtBiennial in Israel

The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (IL)
25 Nov 2008 – 1 Dec 2008

with Bani Abidi, AES+F, Victor Alimpiev, Boaz Arad, Yossiri (Huakom) Bausri, Neil Beloufa, Guy Ben-Ner, Atul Bhalla, Berry Bickle, Blue Noses, Andreas Bock, Agnieszka Brzezanska …
Why here is always somewhere else

Werke aus: Kontakt. Die Kunstsammlung der Erste Bank

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
3 Oct 2008 – 30 Nov 2008

with Cezary Bodzianowski, Carola Dertnig, Tomislav Gotovac, Grzinic/Smid, Tibor Hajas, IRWIN - Dusan Mandic, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, Borut Vogelnik, Sanja Ivekovic, Sejla Kameric, Julius Koller, Jiri Kovanda, Edward Krasinski, Natalia LL …
Double Agent

BALTIC Centre Contemp Art, Gateshead (GB)
21 May 2008 – 17 Aug 2008

with Phil Collins, Dora Garcia, Christoph Schlingensief, Barbara Visser, Artur Zmijewski
Double Agent

Warwick Arts Centre, Mead Gallery, Warwick (GB)
26 Apr 2008 – 28 Jun 2008

with Phil Collins, Christoph Schlingensief, Christoph Schlingensief, Barbara Visser, Artur Zmijewski
Double Agent

ICA Inst Contemporary Arts, London (GB)
14 Feb 2008 – 6 Apr 2008

with Phil Collins, Dora Garcia, Christoph Schlingensief, Barbara Visser, Artur Zmijewski
Mimétisme

Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp (BE)
25 Jan 2008 – 30 Mar 2008

with Claude Cahun, Harun Farocki, Sofia Hulten, Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg, Neil Cummings & Marysia Lewandowska, Javier Tellez, Barbara Visser, Artur Zmijewski
1, 2, 3, AVANT-GARDES

Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (ES)
20 Dec 2007 – 2 Mar 2008

with Bernadette Corporation, Matthew Buckingham, Bogdan Dziworski, Judith Hopf, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Zofia Kulik, Natalia LL, Jonathan Monk, Wilhelm Sasnal, Artur Zmijewski
The World as a Stage

Tate Modern, London (GB)
24 Oct 2007 – 1 Jan 2008

with Cezary Bodzianowski, Jeremy Deller, Trisha Donnelly, Geoffrey Farmer, Andrea Fraser, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Rita McBride, Roman Ondak, Markus Schinwald, Catherine Sullivan, Ulla von Brandenburg
Quantity as quality

Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien (AT)
1 Feb 2007 – 3 Mar 2007

with Deborah Ligorio, Wolf von Kries, Tilman Wendland
1, 2, 3 AVANT-GARDE

archives, film, art, experimentation

Centre for Contemporary Art, Warszawa (PL)
8 Dec 2006 – 28 Jan 2007

with Matthew Buckingham, Judith Hopf, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Natalia LL, Jonathan Monk, Artur Zmijewski
The role and place of the artist in today's society

Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
13 Sep 2006 – 27 Nov 2006

with Céline Ahond, Ziad Antar, Kapwani Kiwanga
YOU WON'T FEEL A THING

On Panic, Obsession, Anesthesia, and Rituality

Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden (DE)
9 Sep 2006 – 5 Nov 2006

with Bogna Burska, Agnieszka Kalinowska, Annee Olofsson, Artur Zmijewski
The Grand Promenade

The Grand Promenade, Athína (GR)
17 Jul 2006 – 29 Sep 2006

with Ghada Amer, Janine Antoni, Kutluğ Ataman, Per Barclay, Michael Blum, Christian Boltanski, Fouad Elkoury, Gary Hill, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Guelsuen Karamustafa, Wolfgang Laib …
Jeux interdits

Institut polonais, Paris (FR)
24 May 2006 – 15 Sep 2006

with Marta Deskur, Grupa Azorro, Izabella Gustowska, Katarzyna Kozyra, Zbigniew Libera, Natalia LL, Dorota Nieznalska, Jozef Robakowski, Jerzy Truszkowski, Artur Zmijewski
The Impossible Theatre

Zacheta National Gallery, Warszawa (PL)
9 May 2006 – 2 Jul 2006

with Katarzyna Kozyra, Artur Zmijewski
Von Mäusen und Menschen / Of Mice and Men

4th berlin biennial for contemporary art

KW Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin (DE)
25 Mar 2006 – 5 Jun 2006

with Victor Alimpiev, Ulf Aminde, Roger Ballen, Anthony Burdin, Mircea Cantor, Bruce Conner, Martin Creed, Roberto Cuoghi, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Trisha Donnelly, Saul Fletcher …
Kontakt

… aus der Sammlung der Erste Bank-Gruppe

MUMOK Museum, Wien (AT)
17 Mar 2006 – 21 May 2006

with Marina Abramovic, Josef Dabernig, Valie Export, Ion Grigorescu, Sanja Ivekovic, Jiri Kovanda, Mladen Stilinovic, Milica Tomic
The Impossible Theatre

Barbican Art Gallery , London (GB)
3 Feb 2006 – 17 Apr 2006

with Katarzyna Kozyra, Artur Zmijewski
Positioning - In the New Reality of Europe

Art from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary

Museum of Cont. Art Tokyo, Tôkyô (JP)
21 Jan 2006 – 26 Mar 2006

with Pavlina Fichta Cierna, Grupa Azorro, Kristof Kintera, Csaba Nemes, Mila Preslova, Artur Zmijewski
Positioning - In the New Reality of Europe

Art from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Ar, Hiroshima (JP)
29 Oct 2005 – 8 Jan 2006

with Pavlina Fichta Cierna, Grupa Azorro, Kristof Kintera, Csaba Nemes, Mila Preslova, Artur Zmijewski
W SAMYM CENTRUM UWAGI / AT THE VERY CENTRE OF ATTENTION

Centre for Contemporary Art, Warszawa (PL)
3 Nov 2005 – 18 Dec 2005

with Marek Czarnecki, Katarzyna Kozyra
Das unmögliche Theater

Kunsthalle Wien, Wien (AT)
8 Jul 2005 – 3 Nov 2005

with Katarzyna Kozyra, Artur Zmijewski
Egocentric. Immoral. Outmoded

Zacheta National Gallery, Warszawa (PL)
20 Sep 2005 – 30 Oct 2005

with Kuba Bàkowski, Anna Baumgart, Hubert Czerepok, Oskar Dawicki, Marta Deskur, Grupa Azorro, Barbara Konopka, Katarzyna Kozyra, Pawel Kruk, Zofia Kulik, Lodz Kaliska, Roman Opalka …
9th International Istanbul Biennial

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
16 Sep 2005 – 30 Oct 2005

with Sener Oezmen, Reli Avrahami, Yael Bartana, Johanna Billing, Phil Collins, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Hala Elkoussy, Jon Mikel Euba, Mireia Guzmán, Jens Haaning, Mario Rizzi, Ahlam Shibli …
Positioning - In the New Reality of Europe

Art from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary

The National Museum of Art, Ôsaka (JP)
2 Aug 2005 – 10 Oct 2005

with Pavlina Fichta Cierna, Grupa Azorro, Kristof Kintera, Csaba Nemes, Mila Preslova, Artur Zmijewski
Akademie - Kunst lehren und lernen

Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg (DE)
22 Jan 2005 – 3 Apr 2005

with Jeanne Faust, Jef Geys, Christian Jankowski, Apolonija Sustersic
2004–5 Carnegie International

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (US)
9 Oct 2004 – 30 Mar 2005

with Francis Alys, Kutluğ Ataman, John Bock, Maurizio Cattelan, Robert Crumb, Jeremy Deller, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Trisha Donnelly, Chris Donovan, Harun Farocki, Saul Fletcher, YANG Fudong …
First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

Moscow Biennale, Moscow (RU)
28 Jan 2005 – 28 Feb 2005

with Boris Achour, AES+F, Pilar Albarracin, Vasco Araujo, Ana Bilankov, Johanna Billing, Blue Noses, Andreas Bock, Christian Boltanski, Sergey Bratkov, Gor Chahal, collectif_fact …
Now Huta

Kunst aus polnischer Sicht

Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (DE)
14 Aug 2004 – 3 Oct 2004

with Jozef Robakowski, Wilhelm Sasnal
Atomkrieg

Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden (DE)
20 May 2004 – 15 Aug 2004

with Olafur Eliasson, Sarah Lucas, Aleksandra Mir, Salla Tykkae
so genannte Wellen und andere Phänomene des Geistes

Kunstverein Rheinlande, Düsseldorf (DE)
14 Sep 2003 – 23 Nov 2003

with Artur Zmijewski

Events

Art Basel 2026

Art Basel, Basel (CH)
18 Jun 2026 – 21 Jun 2026

with Marina Abramovic, Yalda Afsah, Francis Alys, Helena Almeida, Ryūichi Amano, David Armstrong, Kader Attia, John Baldessari, Yto Barrada, Lothar Baumgarten, Vanessa Beecroft, Valerie Belin …
9th International Istanbul Biennial

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
16 Sep 2005 – 30 Oct 2005

with Sener Oezmen, Yael Bartana, Johanna Billing, Phil Collins, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Hala Elkoussy, Jon Mikel Euba, IRWIN - Dusan Mandic, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, Borut Vogelnik, Nedko Solakov