JANNIS KOUNELLIS

BIOGRAPHY

1936

Born in Piraeus, Greece

1956

Moves to Rome and becomes an active member of the Arte Povera movement by 1960
Studied art at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, Italy

1993 - 2001

Professorship at Staatliche Akademie der Künste, Düsseldorf, Germany

2017

Died in Rome 16 February

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

Jannis Kounellis en seis actos, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

2022

Jannis Kounellis in six acts, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States

2019

Jannis Kounellis, Fondazione Prada Venezia, Venice, Italy

2016

Paintings 1983-2012", The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL, United States
Jannis Kounellis. Dodecafonia, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy
Jannis Kounellis. Roma Pop City 60-67, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), Rome, Italy
Kounellis. Relámpagos sobre Méxiko, inaugural exhibition of MECA MuseoEspacio, Mexico
Jannis Kounellis, Musée de la Monnaie, Paris, France

2015

12 Horses, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY, United States
Untitled from Collezione Ramo, Collectorspace, Istanbul, Turkey
Jannis Kounellis, Galleria Christian Stein, Milan and Pero, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2014

Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Jannis Kounellis. La luna e il vestito: un libro d’artista, Studio Eos-Libri d’Artista, Roma, Italy
Casamadre Arte Contemporanea, Napoli, Italy
All’Arte! Progetto Kounellis, Atrio Clinica Mangiagalli, Milano, Italy
Todi Festival 2014, Sezione Arti Visive, Palazzo del Vignola, Todi, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain Saint-Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne, France

2013

Galería Kewenig – Oratorio de Sant Feliu, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Jannis Kounellis, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, United States
Jannis Kounellis, Galleri Artist, Istanbul, Turkey
Jannis Kounellis", curated by Bruno Corá, Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy "Kounellis: Trieste", Galerie Lelong, Paris, France Fondazione Volume!, Rome, Italy Mestna galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia "Jannis Kounellis in Korea", Wooson Gallery, Daegu, South Korea

2012

Kounellis", Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
S.T. – Jannis Kounellis, Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Jannis Kounellis. Disegni e manufatti, Hilsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
Jannis Kounellis, Tramway 2, Glasgow, England
Jannis Kounellis, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
Jannis Kounellis, Blain|Southern, Berlin, Germany
Jannis Kounellis: ARTIST ROOMS, Tramway 2, Glasgow, England
Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, England
Untitled, Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Museum am Dom, Würzburg, Germany
Jannis Kounellis. Artist Rooms, MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, England

2011

Jannis Kounellis, Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Basilika St. Kastor, Koblenz organized by Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Germany
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Memoriale dal Convento. Kounellis, Convento dei Servi di Maria, Monteciccardo, Italy
Kounellis feu / contre-feu Klein, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Jannis Kounellis, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Jannis Kounellis. Early paintings, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Jannis Kounellis per Cortonantiquaria, Palazzo Vagnotti, Cortona, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Galeriartist, Istanbul, Turkey
Jannis Kounellis. Translating China, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Jannis Kounellis, Parasol Unit, London, England
Kounellis. Danza della Morte, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
Jannis Kounellis. S. T., 4°, Biennale di Arte Contemporanea, Red October - Chocolate Hall, Moscow, Russia

2010

Ambika P3, University of Westminster organized by Sprovieri Gallery, London, England
Jannis Kounellis, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Teatro Margherita e Piazza del Ferrarese, Bari, Italy
Bernier/ Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece

2009

Kounellis, Galerie Christian Stein, Milan, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Galleria Progetti, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jannis Kounellis, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria
Jannis Kounellis, Matadero, Madrid, Spain
Freedom or Death, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Installazione presso la chiesa SS. Apostoli, Rome, Italy
Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy
Ex oratorio di San Lupo, Museo Adriano Bernareggi, Bergamo, Italy
La Libertà o Morte - Freedom or Death, Heart Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, Spain
Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain

2008

Jannis Kounellis: The Gospel According to Thomas, Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Kounellis, Galerie Christian Stein, Milan, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Galleria Progetti, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jannis Kounellis, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland Fundación Caixa Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain
Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France

2007

Jannis Kounellis, Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York, United States
Jannis Kounellis, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, United States
Jannis Kounellis. Das Thomas Evangelium, Bank im Bistum Essen EG and Hypothekenbank Essen, Essen, Germany
Jannis Kounellis. La storia e il presente, Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Arnone, Cosenza, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Galeria de arte contemporaneo Gacma, Málaga, Spain
Jannis Kounellis Mattia Preti. La rosa tatuata, Galleria Roma, Rome, Italy
Jannis Kounellis. Catrame, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Pescali & Sprovieri, London, England
Carro realizzato in occasione del Festino in onore di S. Rosalia, Palermo, Italy
Galleria di Franca Mancini, Pesaro, Italy
Kounellis. Jaffa Port, Main Gate Hangar, Jaffa, Israel
Viva Santa Rosalia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy

2006

Kounellis, Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, Spain
Kounellis al Portico d'Ottavia, Valentina Bonomo artecontemporanea, Rome, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Halle Verrière, Meisenthal, France
Jannis Kounellis, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
Jannis Kounellis. Atto Unico, La Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
Hommage an Jannis Kounellis, Art Cologne, Koelnmesse, Cologne, Germany
Cheim & Read, New York, NY, United States
Kounellis. Edizioni 1972 – 2006, Galleria dell’Oca, Rome, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

2005

Jannis Kounellis, Edicola Notte, Rome, Italy
Jannis Kounellis – Santa Fe, Isola Madre, Isole Borromee, Lago Maggiore, Stresa, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Edinburgh College of Art und Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, England
Jannis Kounellis, Hôtel des Arts, Centre méditerranéen d’art du Conseil général du Var, Toulon, France
Jannis Kounellis, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Jannis Kounellis. Opus I, Albertina, Vienna und Musée d'Art Moderne de SaintEtienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne, France
Jannis Kounellis, Teatro Attis, Athens, Greece "Jannis Kounellis", Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York, NY, United States

2004

The Gospel According to Thomas, Pfarrkirche St. Kilian, Erftstadt-Lechenich, Germany
Immendorf Kounellis, Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy
Jannis Kounellis. New Works", Sprovieri, London, England
Jannis Kounellis, Thomas Levy Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Terre di confine. Con-fine dell'Arte, Palazzo Lantieri, Gorizia, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Transart Festival, Officine Ferroviarie, Bolzano, Italy
Kounellis in Sarajevo, Vijecnica/National Library, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jannis Kounellis, Megaron – The Athenss Concert Hall, Athens, Greece
Kounellis, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Jannis Kounellis, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England

2003

Jannis Kounellis – Installation of selected work, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
Jannis Kounellis – Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Jannis Kounellis – Arbeiten auf Papier / Works of Paper, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany / New York, United States
Jannis Kounellis, Installation, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Kopenhagen, Denmark
Jannis Kounellis i Sct. Johannes Kirke, Sct. Johannes Kirke, Herning, Denmark
Kounellis, Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Torrione Passari, Molfetta, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Monastero Mechitarista, Isola di San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice, Italy
Aula del Palazzo dell'Unesco, Paris, France
Jannis Kounellis, Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy
The Gospel According to Thomas, St. Agnes Kirche, Cologne, Germany
Jannis Kounellis, S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium

2002

Kounellis, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France; Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain
Inaugurazione della stazione della metropolitana di Piazza Dante, Naples, Italy
Jannis Kounellis: Senza Titolo..., Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Kounellis, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuelle Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Jannis Kounellis, Atta Unico, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Jannis Kounellis. Atto Unico, Galleria Nazionale 'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Notturno tenebrosco, Diözesanmuseum, Freising, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

2001

Jannis Kounellis, Bilder 1958-1968, Objekte 1968-2000, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Jannis Kounellis, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Kounellis, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Kounellis, Bottini dell'Olio, Livorno, Italy
Jannis Kounellis - Albatros and The Gospel according to Thomas, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen/Cologne, Germany
Jannis Kounellis, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany
Jannis Kounellis, Peintures et Objects, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2000

Jannis Kounellis, Ein Saal für die Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Castello Colonna, Genazzano, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Museo Nacional de Belas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jannis Kounellis, Reti, via S. Nicola de Cesarini, Rome, Italy
Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy

1999

Jannis Kounellis - Ausgewählte Arbeiten, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Jannis Kounellis - Il sarcofago degli sposi, MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Jannis Kounellis, San Augustin, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico

1998

Jannis Kounellis, Gronningen, Charlottenborg/Kopenhagen, Denmark
Jannis Kounellis, Atelier del Bosco, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Kounellis, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Sultura permanente in via Ponte di Tappia, Naples, Italy
Galleria No Code, Bologna, Italy

1997

Jannis Kounellis. Die Front, das Denken, der Sturm, Museum Ludwig in der Halle Kalk, Cologne, Germany
Rechts-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Karl-FranzensUniversität, Graz, Austria
Galleria Gruppo Valtellinse, Refettorio delle Stelline, Milan, Italy
Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1996

Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy
Jannis Kounellis. La Balera, Galleria Loza Koper, Capodistria, Slovenia
Jannis Kounellis, Castelluccio di Pienza, La Foce, Italy
Kounellis a Naples. Nuovo lavoro per Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Italy
Kounellis, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

1995

Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Salara, Bologna, Italy
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Château de Plieux, Plieux, France Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen/Cologne, Germany
Die eiserne Runde, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

1994

Kounellis, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Cargo Ionion, Piräus, Athens, Greece
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
Kounellis", Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, UK Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany

1993

Belvedere, Gärten des Pragueer Schlosses, Prague, Czech Republic
Real Albergo dei Poveri, Palermo, Italy
Kounellis, fumo di pietra, Galerie Lelong, Chatellerault, France
Lineare Notturno, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany
Galeria Estiarte, Madrid, Spain
Kounellis. Esposizione di paesaggi invernali, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy
No and no, but, after all yes, why not, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, United States

1992

Galleria Lucio Amelio s.r.l., Naples, Italy
Gallerie Christian Stein, Milan, Italy
Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Mercatello sul Metauro, Urbino, Italy

1991

The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Studio at Dean Clough, Halifax, Engald
Frammenti di memoria, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover; Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
Casa Centrale degli Artisti, Neue Tretjakov, Moscow, Russia
Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland Synagoge Stommeln, Pulheim, Germany

1990

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England
Galleria Opera, Perugia, Italy
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
Via del Mare, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
La stanza vede, Hags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; ICA, London, Fundaciò Tapiès, Barcelona, Spain

1989

Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, United States
Studio d'Arte Barnabò, Venice, Italy
Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Espai Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
Ameliobrachot Pièce Unique, Paris, France
Museo Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

1988

Galerie Sparta-Petit, Chagny, France
Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy
Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, United States

1987

Artsite Bath Festival, Bath, Engalnd
Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, United States
Galleria Sprovieri, Rome, Italy

1986

Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England
Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, England

1985

Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece
capcMusée d"Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Galerie Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France

1984

Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
Galerie Schellmann und Klüser, Munich, Germany
Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy Sonnabend Gallery, New York, United States
Galleria Ugo Ferranti, Rome, Italy

1983

Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, United States
Galerie Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
Musei Comunali, Rimini, Italy
Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy

1982

Galleria Anna d'Ascanio, Rome, Italy

1981

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Obra Social, Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, 1982; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, 1982; Staatliche Kunsthalle, BadenBaden, Germany,
Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy
Galerie Schellmann und Klüser, Munich, Germany
Galerie Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France

1980

Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, United States
ARC/Musée d"Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Galleria Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy
Galleria Mario Pieroni, Rome, Italy
Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Spoleto, Italy
Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland

1979

Jean & Karen Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece
V Premio 'Pino Pascali: Jannis Kounellis, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Bari, Italy
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, USA

1978

Galleria Mario Diacono, Bologna, Italy
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy

1977

Jean & Karen Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece
Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland
Villa Pignatelli, Naples, Italy
Galleria Pio Monti, Rome, Italy
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Studio Tucci Russo, Turin, Italy

1976

Galleria L'Attico, Hotel della Lunetta, Rome, Italy
Art in Progress, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy
Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy

1975

Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
Studio d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Galleria Mario Pieroni, Pescara, Italy
Galleria La Salita, Roma, Italy

1974

Galleria Forma, Geneva, Switzerland
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, United States
Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy
Galleria del Cortile, Rome, Italy
Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, Italy
Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin, Italy

1973

Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France
Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

1972

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, United States

1971

Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy
Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy
Informazione sulla presenza italiana, Incontri Internazionali d'Arte, Rome, Italy
Gallerie Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin, Italy
Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin, Germany

1969

Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy
Galerie Iolas, Paris, France
Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy

1968

Galleria Iolas, Milan, Italy
Galleria Carello, Naples, Italy
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin, Italy

1967

Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy
Kounellis: Il Giardino; I Giuochi, Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy

1966

"L'Alfabeto", Galleria Arco d'Alibert, Rome, Italy
Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy

1964

Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy

1960

L'alfabeto di Kounellis, Galleria La Tartaruge, Rome, Italy

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017

Antidoron. The EMST Collection, documenta 14, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Ciao Italia, Musée National de l'Histoire de l'Immigration, Paris, France

2016

Trio. Kounellis - Rainer - Tipis, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Arte Contiunua, Galleria Arte Continua, Centro Wifredo Lam, San Ignacio y Empedrado, La Habana, Cuba
Group Show, featuring every artist who has exhibited at the gallery since its inauguration, Blain|Southern Berlin, Germany

2015

Codice Italia, curated by Vincenzo Trione at the Italian pavillion oft he 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Arts & Foods – Rituali dal 1851, Padiglione di Expo 2015 in città, Triennale di Milano, Italy
The Elements, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland

2014

On the road / En el camino / No camiño, Palacio de Gelmírez, Sanstiago de Compostella, Spain
Mafai – Kounellis. La libertà del pittore, Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Arte Povera. Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
A Thousand Doors, Gennadius Library, The American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece
Shades of Black on White, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
Within/Beyond Borders, The Collection of the European Investment Bank, Museu do Dinheiro do Banco de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
Stanze#1. Giovanni Anselmo Jannis Kounellis, Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy
Art or Sound, Fondazione Prada, Ca’ Corner della Regina, Venice, Italy
Intime Convinction, Œuvre de la Collection de Giuliana et Tommaso Setari, Château de Villeneuve – Fondation Emile Hugues, Vence, France
Couleurs Contemporaines, Collection du Conseil Gènéral du Var, Centre d’Art, Châteauvert, France
Incisioni dalla stamperia d’arte Albicocco. La matrice incontra l’anima, Museo Fabbrile e delle Coltellerie, Maniago, Italy

2013

Un dialogo tra due opere, with Bizhan Bassiri, Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, Italy
Within a Common Horizon: Pino Pascali & Jannis Kounellis, Luxembourg & Dayan, London, England
Arte Povera, Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
Ici, ailleurs, Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Die Bildhauer. Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 1945 bis heute, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Che fare? Luciano Fabro Jannis Kounellis Mario Merz, Galerie Lelong, New York, United States "A Roma. Obras de la Colección Farnesina", Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico "Evento Mozart: Kounellis Bassiri", Biblioteca Angelica, Salone Vanvitelliano, Rome, Italy "Fragile? ", Fondazione Cini, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy "Bookhouse. La forma del libro", Museo MARCA, Catanzaro, Italy "Post-classici. La ripresa dell’antico nell’arte contemporanea italiana", Foro romano e Palatino, Rome, Italy "Sette Opere Per la Misericordia", Pio Monte della Misericordia, Napoli, Italy "When attitudes become form. Bern 1969/Venice 2013", Fondazione Prada, Ca’ Corner della Regina, Venice, Italy "Rêver le quotidien. Manuel de survie à l’ordinaire", Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, La Brasserie, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Foncquevillers, France
Opening, Casamadre Arte Contemporanea, Napoli, Italy
Gegenwelten, Kunsthistorischen Museum Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, Austria
Collezione Permanente/1, CaMusAC, Cassino Museo Arte Contemporanea, Cassino, Italy
Wall Works, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Jannis Kounellis Santiago Sierra, Prometeo Gallery, Milan, Italy
Compagni di strada, Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a MareAnni 70 Arte a Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, Germany

2012

Asche und Gold.Eine Weltreise / Ashes and Gold. A World’s Journey, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
ART and PRESS, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Lux Perpetua, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
Beaufort04, Triennal of Contemporaray Art by the sea, De Panne, KoksijdeOostduinkerke, Nieuwpoort; Middelkerke-Westende, Ostenda, Bredene, De HaanWenduine, Blankenberge, Zeebrugge, Belgium
Arte Povera in città, GAMeC Galleria d'Arte Moderna et Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Det mentale landskab. Paesaggi della mente, Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Gudhjem, Denmark
Contemporary Art in Italy, Galleria Cardi, Milano, Italy
Art Returns to Art, Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence, Italy
Rendevouz der Maler III, Akademie-Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
ART and PRESS, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Arte Povera aus der Sammlung des Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany
Arte Povera. Der grosse Aufbruch, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
L’homme de Vitruve, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – Le Crédac, Ivry-surSeine, France
QUI arte contemporanea 1966-1977", Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea, Rome, Italy
PPP Una polemica inversa. Omaggio a Pier Paolo Pasolini, Palazzo Incontro, Rome, Italy
Ritratto di una città. Arte a Roma 1960 – 2001, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Italy
About Caravaggio. Visioni e illusioni contemporanee, Scuderie Aldobrandini, Museo Tuscolano, Frascati, Italy
Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, Giuseppe Penone, Emilio Prini. Recent works, Sprovieri, London, England
The riches of Arte Povera. Italian avant-garde from the 1970s, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Food. Une réflexion sur la Terre nourricière, l’agriculture et l’alimentation, Musée Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland

2011

Schönheit und Vergänglichkeit. Kounellis. Tàpies. Music, Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Monanism, Museum of Old and New Art, Berriedale, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Zettels Traum. Die Zeichnungssammlung Bernd und Verena Klüser, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Der heilige Augenblick - Il Santo Momento, Museum am Dom, Würzburg, Germany
New Paradises, Bundesgartenschau 2011, Basilika Sankt Kastor e altri siti, a cura del Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
The Last Grand Tour – Modern Travelers to Greece, Museum of Cycladic Art, Nicholas & Dolly Goulandris Foundation, Athens, Greece
Alla luce della Croce. Arte antica e contemporanea a confronto, Fondazione Cardinale, San Giuliano Terme, Italy
Giacomo Lercaro, Galleria d’Arte Moderna “Raccolta Lercaro”, Bologna, Italy
Arte Povera a Mosca. Opere dalla collezione del Castello di Rivoli, MAMM Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
Tra – Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Biennale Arte 2011 - 54. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Venice, Italy
Lo splendore della Verità la bellezza della Carità, Omaggio degli artisti a Benedetto XVI per il 60° di sacerdozio, Aula Paolo VI, Città del Vaticano, Italy
Construyendo una Colección, Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain
Afinidad & Diferencia, Pelaires Centre Cultural Contemporani, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
1961-2011 Cinquant’anni di arte in Italia dalle collezioni GNAM e Terrae Motus, Reggia di Caserta, Caserta, Italy
Mostra collettiva, Galleria Progetti, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Arte contemporanea in Italia, Galleria Cardi, Pietrasanta, Italy
Dublin Contemporary 2011: Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Earlsfort Terrace Complex e altri siti, Dublin, Ireland
Within/Beyond Borders. The Collection of the European Bank of Investment, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, Greece
The 4th Guangzhou Triennal: Meta-question: Back to the Museum Per Se, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Arte povera 1968, MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Welttheater. Die Sammlung migros museum für gegenwartskunst Zürich, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Collezione Christian Stein. Una storia dell’arte italiana, Museo Cantonale d’Arte , Lugano, Switzerland
Viaggiando, Christian Stein, Milano, Italy
I hate Paul Klee. Papierarbeiten und Künstlerbücher aus der Sammlung Speck, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermueum Düren, Düren, Germany
Arte Povera International, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy
Arte Povera 1967-2011, Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italy
Colecção Berardo Arte Moderna e Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
Arte Povera più Azioni Povere 1968, Museo MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Napoli, Italy
Secondo Novecento, Polo Museale – Museo del Presente, Rende, Spain
2004 – 2011 7 anni – 7 scultori", Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, Italy
Arte Povera in Teatro, Teatro Margherita, Bari, Italy
5X25. 25 anni con la Nuova Pesa, La Nuova Pesa Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Italy
Arte povera alla GNAM, GNAM Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

2010

Socle du Monde. Biennale between Cultures, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
Il Grande Gioco. Forme d’arte in Italia 1947-1989, Rotonda di via Besana, Milano, Museo d’arte contemporanea, Lissone, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Isole mai trovate – Islands never found, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Switzerland
Il Premio Pino Pascali dal 1969 al 1979, Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare, Italy
Che fare? Arte povera. Die historischen Jahre, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
En mai, fais ce qu’il te plaît!, Musée Bourdelle, Paris, France
Con la probabilidad de ser visto, Museu d’Art Contemporani MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Outside the box. Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Anteprima dei nuovi spazi e nuovo ciclo espositivo del MACRO, MACRO Museo d’Arte Comtemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
De Matisse à Barceló. La Collection Lambert en Avignon, Château de Villeneuve, Fondation Emile Hugues, Vence, France
Ergo, materia. Arte povera, MuAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Walk of Art. St. Moritz Art Masters, Paracelsus Gebäude e altri siti, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Negotiations – The Second Today’s Documents 2010, Today Art Museum, Halls no. 1 & no. 2, Shuimu Art Space, Pifo New Art Gallery e Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
Collezione Christian Stein. Una storia dell’arte italiana/ A History of Italian Art", IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Italy
Che cento fiori sboccino…, La Nuova Pesa – Centro per l’Arte Contermporanea, Rome, Italy
Je crois aux miracles, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Musée d’art contemporain, Avignon, France

2009

Jannis Kounellis & Sean Scully. Markierungen, 401 Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Imperium. Chapter 1: !Que Viva México!, Galeria Hilario Galguera, Leipzig, Germany
Complesso Monumentale di San Michele a Ripa Ex Casa di Correzione di Carlo Fontana, Via San Michele 25, Rome, Italy
Förg-Kounellis-Nash-Plensa-Rainer, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Barock, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
En mais, fais ce qu’il te plâit, Musée Bourdelle, Paris, France
Drei. Das Triptychon in der Moderne, Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany
Sicilia 1968/2008. Lo spirito del tempo, Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy
Costanti del classico nell’arte del XX e XXI secolo, Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino, Palazzo Valle, Catania, Italy
Mythologies, Haunch of Venison, Burlington Gardens, London, England
A Bartolo, Chiostro del Bramante, Sala delle Capriate, Rome, Italy
1999/ 2009: regard sur la collection du Conseil Général du Var, Hôtel des Arts, Centre d’Art du Conseil Général du Var, Toulon, France
I classici del contemporaneo", Museo Nazionale di Villa Pisani, Stra, Italy
In-finitum", Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Passaggi in Sicilia. La collezione di Riso e oltre, Palazzo Riso e Cavallerizza di Palazzo Sambuca, Palermo, Italy
Aigües Tortes. Rebecca Horn & Jannis Kounellis, Pelaires Centre Cultural Contemporani, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Spuren der Sonne - Eine Apokalyptische Oper – Werner Herzog Jannis Kounellis Markus Selg, b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur, Germany
6th International Art Biennale, SIART-BOLIVIA 2009, La Paz, Bolivia
Barock, MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Napoli, Italy

2008

Paperweight, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
Traces du sacré, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Lauffs Collection, Hauser&Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Traces du sacré, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Gipfeltreffen der Moderne, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, Germany
Exhibition of artists' books, Bundestag Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Sum of its Parts, Cheim & Read, New York, United States
Colori di Roma, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
Omaggio a Toti Scialoja, Galleria Il Segno, Rome, Italy
Collection Lambert. Voyage à Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
En perspective, Giacometti, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen, France
L’enigma del vero. Percorsi del realismo in Italia 1870-1980, Galleria Civica di Palazzo Loffredo, Potenza, Italy
Sound Time Material, Château des Adhémar, Montélimar, France

2007

Luce di pietra, Palazzo Farnese, Rome, Italy
Jannis Kounellis, Mattia Preti: La Rosa Tatuata, Gallerja, Rome, Italy
arte povera, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Nel Formare 1, Galleria Maria Grazia del Prete, Rome, Italy
Arte Povera Now and Then, Esso Gallery, New York, United States
Arte Povera, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Galerie Christian Stein, Milan, Italy
Il disegno. Tra visione e progetto, Oredaria Arti Contemporanee, Rome, Italy
Cose (quasi) mai viste, Centro Luigi di Sarro, Rome, Italy
Frammenti dell’Arte Povera. Jannis Kounellis und Mario Merz in der Sammlung Speck, MMKK Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
Jannis Kounellis Michele Zaza", Chiesa del Luogo Pio, Livorno, Italy
I am as you will be, Cheim & Read, New York, United States
Lo spazio e la misura: Universitas Artis, Università LUISS Guido Carli, Roma, Italy

2006

Jannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Mario Merz, James Turrell, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Where Are We Going? Opere scelte dalla Collezione Francois Pinault, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Odyssey. Greek Art fRome the Last Fifty Years, Galerie Gmurzyynska, Zurich, Switzerland
XII biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara. una Biennale per il museo. La contemporaneità dell'arte, Museo della Scultura, Carrara, Italy
Corrispondenze. Dal presente al pasato, Centro per l'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Heads, Pescali & Sprovieri, London, England
Deposizione, Jimmy Durham und Jannis Kounellis, RAM Radioartemobile, Rome, Italy
Dedica, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy
Nero, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Between a rock and a hard place, Kenny Schachter Rove, London, England
Di-segni, Studio Trisorio, Naples/ Rome, Italy
La litografia e la serigrafia, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, Rome, Italy

2005

Italian Art 1950-1970. Masterpieces fRome the Farnesina Collection, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
Arte per la vita, Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
Arte Povera, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
Da Rembrandt a Kounellis, Calcografia, Rome, Italy
Visioni. 20 artisti a Sant'Agostino, Bergamo, Italy
Sul filo della lana", Museo del Territorio Biellese, ex Fabbrica Pra, Biella, Italy
Atto Primo, MADRE Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
Segnali italiani dalla Collezione d'Arte Contemporanea alla Farnesina, Galleria dell'Accademia serba delle Scienze e delle Arti, Belgrad, Serbia
Donna Donne, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence,, Italy
Acqua Aria Terra Fuoco, Palazzo della Borsa, Italy
Burri, gli artisti e la materia, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy
Collection Automne/Hiver, capcMusée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Camere. Sol Lewitt, Jannis Kounellis, Franz West,RAM-radioartemobile, Rome, Italy
Atto Secondo. La Collezione, MADRE Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
An Empty Space, Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York, United States
Positions and Perspectives of Contemporary Art, PAN Palazzo delle Arti Naples, Naples, Italy
Strade di Roma, Casa delle Letterature, Villa Poniatowski, Rome, Italy

2004

Sonde. Pistoia. Dieci anni con gli artistia Palazzo Fabroni. Riflessioni, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy
Il buco nella rete. Omaggio ad Heiner Müller, Opera Paese, Rome, Italy
L'Europa nella Graafica del '900, Istituo Nazionale per la Grafica, Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, Rome, Italy
Aspetti dell'arte concettuale, Artemisia Arte Contemporanea, Falconara Marittima, Italy
Immendorff Kounellis, Accademia Tedesca a Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy
Da Balla alla Transavanguardia. Cento anni di arte italiana alla Farnesina, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Trait-d'union, Centro di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia, Italy, Italy
Capricci, Ex Pinacoteca Comunale, Assisi, Italy
Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis, La Marrana Arteambientale, Montemarcello, Italy
Intra-Muros, MAMAC Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nizza, Italy
Lélementaire, le vital, l'énergie. Arte Povera in Castello, Château de Villeneuve, Vence, France
Ma l'amore no, Ricordando Lucio, Mimmo Scognamiglio, Naples, Italy
Omaggio a Plinio, Instituto Nazionale per La Grafica, Calcografia, Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, Rome, Italy
Transcultures, Megaron-The Athenss Concert Hall, Athens, Greece
Riflessi nell'arte, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
Forme per il David, Baseelitz, Fabro, Kounellis, Morris, Struth, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy
I misteri di Romea, Casa delle Letterature e Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Per Kirkeby Bronzesculptures / Jannis Kounellis Drawings, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
Shanghai Art Museum: Encounters with Modernism, Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Works and Days, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Photo Image in American Prints: 1960s-1990s, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
Accumulazioni – Domenico Bianchi, Günther Förg, Mario Merz, Jannis Kounellis, Palazzo Lantieri, Gorizia, Italy

2003

I Giochi Olimpici. Cinque anelli di competizione sportiva, solidarietà, cultura, speranza, pace, Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy; Fondazione Nicholas P. Goulandris, Museo di Arte Cicladica, Athens, Greece; Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice, Italy
Le collezioni: aarte contemporanea per l'Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Istituto Nazionale per La Grafica, Calcografia, Palazzo Fontana die Trevi, Rome, Italy
Una piazza per Leonardo, cinque progetti per il nuovo ingresso del museo leonardiano, Museo Leonardiano, Palazzina Uzielli, Vinci, Italy
Pegadas de Luz, Centro Galegode Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
In den Schluchten des Balkan, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Gelijk het leven is, S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Grazie, Historie Landschaft, Schloß Dyck, Jüchen, Germany
La Poetica dell'Arte Povera, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
Incontri...Dalla collezione di Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
Luoghi d'afezione. Paesaaggio-passagio, Hotel de Ville, Brussels, Belgium
Outlook, Technopolis, Athens, Greece
ON, Galleria Xippas, Athens, Greece
Futuro Italiano, Parlamento Europeo, Brussels, Belgium
Bassiri Kounellis West, Galleria Gentili, Montecatini, Italy
Music Mirrors Hisstory Conscience, Sarantopoulos Miles, Athens, Greece
Vacanze Romeane, Casa delle Letterature, Rome, Italy
Grande segno de cantato, Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy

2002

Arte Povera, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York , United States
Jannis Kounellis, Bertrand Lavier, Sol Lewitt, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Niele Toroni, Lawrence Weiner, Gilberto Zorio, Galerie Pietro Spartà, Chagny
Kounellis in the Americas", Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
ARTE ALL'ARTE. Arte Architettura Paesaggio-Montalcino, Piazza Santa Caterina – Jannis Kounellis opening of the permanent installation, San Gimignano
Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC/Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Arte Povera-FRome the Castello di Rivoli Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney
Los grabados también son obra original, Camilla Hamm, Barcelona
Private/Corporate, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
Arte Povera na Colecção de Fundação de Serralves, Museu Serralves. Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Porto