BIOGRAPHY   born in Borgofranco d'Ivrea, Italy, 1934   SOLO EXHIBITIONS   1968 Galleria Sperone, Turin 1969 Galleria Sperone, Turin Sonnabend Gallery, Paris 1970 Galleria Sperone, Turin Galleria Toselli, Milan 1971 Galleria Sperone, Turin Galleria Multipli, Turin 1972 Galleria Sperone, Turin John Weber Gallery, New York 1973 Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland Galerie MTL, Brussels 1974 Galleria Sperone Fischer, Rome Sperone Gallery, New York Galerie Foksal, Warsaw 1975 Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany 1977 Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany Galleria Sperone, Rome 1978 Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris Sperone Westwater Fischer Gallery, New York 1979 Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich 1980 Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands Forum Kunst, Rottweil, Germany Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France Vereinigung veer het Museum Van Hedendaagse-Kunst, Ghent, Belgium 1982 Galleria Christian Stein, Turin Gallerie Durand-Dessert, Paris Gallerie Helen Van der Meij, Amsterdam 1984 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp 1985 ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 1986 Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Galleria Christian Stein, Milan 1987 Gallerie Durand-Dessert, Paris 1988 Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Galleria Christian Stein, Turin 1989 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna, Modena Musée d´Art Contemporain, Lyon 1990 Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens 1993 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 1995 Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 1996 Forum d´Art Contemporain, Casino du Luxembourg, Luxemburg Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf 1997 The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois 1998 House of Prints, Multiples and Drawings, Antwerp, Belgium Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens 2001 Centre Saint-Charles, Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris Marian Goodman Gallery, New York 2002 Galleria Tucci Russo, Turin, Italy 2004 Museum Kurhaus Kleve - Ewald Mataré-Sammlung, Kleve, Germany 2005 "Where the stars are comming one span closer", First & Second Galleries, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Great Britain "Giovanni Anselmo", Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli, Italy "Giovanni Anselmo - collectie-uitdieping II", S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium 2006 Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris   GROUP EXHIBITIONS   1967 "Arte povera", Universita de Genova, Genoa, Italy 1968 "Arte Povera", Centro Arte Viva, Trieste, Italy „Prospect 68“, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany „Nine at Castelli“, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 1969 "Op Losse Schroeven," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands "When Attitude Becomes Form," Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Museusm Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany "Verborgene Strukturen", Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany "Pläne und Projekte als Kunst," Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland 1970 "Processi di pensioero visualizzati: junge italienische Avantgarde", Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland "Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art“, Museo d'Art Moderno, Turin, Italy "Vitalitá del negativo nell'Arte italiana", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy 1971 "Arte Povera: 13 italienische Künstler", Kunstverein, Munich, Germany Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy 1972 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax XXXV Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany 1973 "An Exhibition of New Italian Art", The Art Council of Northern Ireland Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland "Contemporanea", Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy "Huit italiens / acht italienes", Art & Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Galerie MTL, Brussels, Belgium 1974 "Projekt 74", Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany "Italiensiche Kunst der letzen 20 Jahre", ArtBasel, Switzerland Galleria Studio G7, Bologna, Italy "Idea and Image in Recent Art", The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 1975 ArtCologne, Cologne, Germany Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy 1976 Bienniale of Sidney, Sydney, Australia „Prospect ´76“, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany 1977 "Brunelleschi e noi", Chiostro di S. Maria Novella, Florence, Italy "Trigon 77", Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria "Arte in Italia 1960-1970", Museo d'Art Moderno, Turin, Italy "10 Jahre Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst", Kunsthalle, Bremerhaven, Germany "Arte Povera", Galleria Il Tritone, Biella, Italy "Europe in the Seventies: Aspects of Recent Art", The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (1978); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (1978); Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (1978); The Contemporary Arts Center, Cinncinati, Ohio (1978/79) 1978 Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy "Focus 78", Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris, France 1979 "Artistes Italiens", Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France "Words", Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany; Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy "Photographie als Kunst - Kunst als Photograpie", Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria 1980 „Pier and Ocean“, Hayward Gallery, London Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy 1981 "Linee della ricerca artistica in Italia 1969-80", Pallazo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy "Identité Italienne, l´art en Italie depuis 1959", Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris „Westkunst“, Rheinhallen Messegelände, Cologne, Germany 1982 "Arte povera, Antiform", CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany 1983 "Presence Discrete", Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France "Concetto-Imago", Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany "Adamah, la terre", Espace Lyonnaise d'Art Contemporain, Lyons, France "Eine Kunstgeschichte in Turin 1965-1983", Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany ARS `83, The Art Museum of Ateneum Helsinki, Finland 1984 "An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York "Skulpturen im 20. Jahrhundert", Merian-Park Brügligen, Basel, Switzerland "Histoires de Sculpture", Château des Ducs d'Epernon, Cadillac, France; Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France "Deux regions en France: l'Art International d'aujourd'hui", Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium "Ouverture", Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy 1985 "Del Arte Povera a 1985", Palacio de Velazquez, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain "The European Iceberg, Creativity in Germany and Italy Today", Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario "Les Immateriaux", Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France "The Knot: Arte Povera at P.S. 1", P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York 1986 Biennale di Venezia, Venice „Qu´est-ce que la sculpture moderne?“, Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1987 "Century '87", Amsterdam, Netherlands „Skulptur Projekte Münster“, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster 1988 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1989 "Bilderstreit", Messehallen, Cologne, Germany "Italian Art in the Twentieth Century", The Royal Academy of Arts, London, England "Verso l'Arte Povera, momenti e aspetti degli anni '60 in Italia", Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy "MaterialMente", Galleria Communale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy "Wittgenstein", Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria "Einleuchten", Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany "L'art conceptuel: une perspective", ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France 1990 Biennale di Venezia, Venice "Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, Arte Povera, Land Art - Sammlung Marzona", Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany "Le Territoire de l'Art", Musée Russe, St. Petersburg, Russia "Aktuelle Kunst Europas", Sammlung Centre Pompidou, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany "Die Endlichkeit der Freiheit", an Exhibition Project for East and West, Berlin, Germany "Vom Verschwinden der Ferne: Telekomunikation und Kunst", Deutsches Postmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany "L'Arte Povera dans la Collections du MNAM", Musée Cantini, Marseilles, France "Temperamenti," Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland 1991 "Un détail immense", Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium "TOWARD A NEW MUSEUM", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California "Histoires d'Oeil", Musée d'Art Contemporain, Espace Lyonnaise d'Art Contemporain, Embarcadére, Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France "Arte Povera 1971 und 20 Jahre danach", Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany 1993 Out of sight, out of mind“, Lisson Gallery, London Sammlung Goetz, Munich 1994 "Does the Work Take Place?", Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands XX Biennale di São Paulo, São Paulo 1995 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bignan, France "1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California "Arte italiana 1945-1998. Il visible e l'invisibile", Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan 1997 "Città Natura", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy "Pittura Italiana da Collezioni Italiane", Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy "Livres d'artistes. L'invention d'un genre 1960-1980", Bibliothèque National de France, Paris, France "The Berardo Collection", Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Sintra, Spain "Minimalia: An Italian Vision in 20th Century Art", Palazzo Querini Dubois, Venice, Italy; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York "Arte Povera. Arbeiten und Dokumente aus der Sammlung Goetz 1967 bis heute", Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany; Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria; Konsthallen, Göteborg, Sweden; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany 1998 "Artecittà: 11 artisti per il Passante Ferroviario di Torino", Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy 1st Kimpo International Sculpture Symposium, Leisure Sports Park Site of Kimpo, Kimpo, Korea 1999 "Strengthening Wind from Changing Directions: International Avant-Garde since 1960 (The Paul Maenz Collection)", Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany "Something old, Something new, Something borrowed, Something blue", San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy 2000 "Le Temps Vite", Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain "La ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire", Villa Medici, Rome, Italy "Luci in galleria: da Warhol al 2000", Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy "Artistas franceses e italianos nas coleccións Fundación ARCO e CGAC", Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2001 "Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1971", Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London, England; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Minnesota; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. 2003 "Memoria Ribelle", Padiglione Latino Americano, Naples, Italy "La Poetica dell'Arte Povera", Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany 2004 "Intra-Muros", Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art contemporain, Nice, France 2005 "In Progress II für Harald Szeemann", Kawenig Galerie, Köln, Germany "Künstlerische Konzepte als Drucksache Katalog Künstlerbuch Objektbuch Postkarte Plakat", Galerie M + R Fricke, Berlin, Germany "Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht", ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany 2007 "Arte Povera. Aus der Sammlung des Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein", Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz Klio. Eine kurze Geschichte der Kunst in Euramerika nach 1945 ZKM, Karlsruhe 52. Biennale Venedig 2007 Biennale Venedig Le cinque anime della scultura CeSAC Caraglio Auszeit. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz Conceptual Photograpy 1964-1989 Zwirner & Wirth - New York Revue – Zehn Jahre Museum Kurhaus Kleve Museum Kurhaus Kleve 2008 Heavy Metal. Die unerklärbare Leichtigkeit eines Materials Kunsthalle Kiel Peripherer Blick und kollektiver Körper Museion, Bozen 2009 time Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf 1968. Die Große Unschuld Kunsthalle Bielefeld Spazio Libro d’Artista Palazzo Manganelli, Catania 2008   PUBLICATIONS   books by Giovanni Anselmo: „Leggere“, Sperone Editions, Turin 1972. „116 Particolari visibili e misurabili di Infinito“, Sperone Editore, Turin 1975. „Lire“, Imschoet Uitgevers For Affinités Sélectives Ed., Ghent 1990. books on Giovanni Anselmo: „Giovanni Anselmo“, Galleria Sperone, Turin 1968. (Texts by G. Celant and M. Fagiolo) „Giovanni Anselmo“, Sonnabend Gallery, New York 1969. (Text by G. Anselmo) „Giovanni Anselmo“, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne 1973. (Text by J.-C. Ammann) „Giovanni Anselmo“, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw 1974 „Giovanni Anselmo“, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel 1979. (Text by J.-C. Ammann and Rudi Fuchs) „Giovanni Anselmo“, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble 1980. (Text by J.-C. Ammann, R. Fuchs and T. Raspail) „Giovanni Anselmo“, Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 1985. (Texts by S. Pagé and D. Soutif) „Senza titolo a nord e due particolari mentre verso oltremare i grigi si alleggeriscono“, Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens 1986. (Text by Bruno Corà) „Giovanni Anselmo“, Galleria Civica Modena / Musée d´Art Contemporain Lyon, 1989. (Text by Betrice Merz) „Giovanni Anselmo“, XXII International Biennal of São Paulo, São Paulo 1994 (Text by L. Sacca and P. Herkenhoff) „Giovanni Anselmo“, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, 1995. (Text by Giovanni Anselmo, Bruno Corá and Gloria Moure)