CLAIRE FONTAINE FRANCE, b. 2004
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Beauty is a Ready-made, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, KR
2024 Left & Right, Hypermaremma, Pescia Firorentina, IT
2024 Reproductions, Mennour, Paris, FR
2023 Cancel Patriarchy, Base, Milan, IT
2023 Readymade Emotions, T293, Rome, IT
2023 Protection, Novo, Secci Gallery, Milan, IT
2023 Become a Sea, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE
2023 Frequently Asked Questions, Unterhaller, Berlin, DE
2023 Il Personale, Site Specific Installation(the 21st Premio Ermanno Casoli prize), Elica, Fabriano, IT
2022 Mostly Sunny, Air de Paris, Romainville, FR
2022 Patriarchy = CO2, Planeta Buonivini, Noto, IT
2021 Star Reply Forward Copy Info Delete, Kaunstraum Memphis, Linz, AT
2020 I - We – Yes, studioconcreto, Lecce, IT
2019 Les printemps seront silencieux, Confort Moderne, Poiters, FR
2019 a borsa e la vita, Palazzo Ducale di Genova, Genova, IT
2019 Claire Fontaine, Rolli Days, Strade e palazzo da vivere, Banca Carige, SedeCentrale, Genova, IT
2019 OK NO, Synnika, Frankfurt, DE
2019 Ettore Majorana, Viaggio in Siclia, Planeta Sciaranuova, Castiglione di Sicilia, IT
2019 Too late to read., Longtang, Zurich, CH
2018 Invisible receivers, Century Pictures, New York, US
2018 #displaced, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordheim, DE
2018 Same war time zone, Holding Contemporary, Portland, US
2018 Happy for no reason, Gaga & Reena Spaulings LA, Los Angeles, US
2017 The Crack-Up, N.B.K., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE
2017 I am your Voice, (We The People Are The Work), Karst, Plymouth, UK
2017 Tears, Billboard project, Blackwood Gallery Toronto, CA
2016 May our enemies not prosper, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE
2016 Claire Fontaine, Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Rome, IT
2016 Camp, Villa Medici, Rome, IT
2016 Please don’t send me home, Marie Quatre Paris, Mairie du 4ème, Paris, FR
2015 Stop seeking approval, Metro Pictures, New York, US
2015 Pretend to be dead, T293 Gallery, Rome, IT
2015 Love is never enough, Air de Paris, Paris, FR
2015 The winter of our discontent, Carl Kostyál Gallery, London, UK
2014 The Assistants, SIC Gallery / Urb Festival, Helsinki, FI
2013 Redemptions, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
2013 Some Redemptions, upstairs gallery, Metro Pictures, New York, US
2013 Etrangers partout, La Bouilladisse, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, FR
2013 Tears, The Jewish Museum, New York, US
2012 M-A-C-C-H-I-N-A-Z-I-O-N-I, Museion, Bolzano, IT
2012 Équivalences, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, FR
2012 La Chiave, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, IT
2012 Breakfast starts at midnight, Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation. Stockholm, SE
2011 No Family Life, Air de Paris, Paris, FR
2011 Fighting Gravity, Regina Gallery, London, UK
2011 P.I.G.S., MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, ES
2011 The Assistants, Petra, Mexico D.F., MX
2010 Future Tense, El Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico D.F., MX
2010 Economies, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, US
2010 Unbuilding, Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea, Venezia, IT
2010 Kultur ist ein Palast der aus Hundescheiße gebaut ist., MD72, Berlin, DE
2010 Consumption, Helena Papadopoulos Gallery, Athens, GR
2009 After Marx April, After Mao June, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, US
2009 Defend Yourself, Art Perform, Art Basel, Miami, Florida, US
2009 Claire Fontaine, The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, SanFrancisco, US
2009 Call + 972 2 5 839 749, Galería Perdida at Project Row House, Houston, Texas,US
2008 Feux de Détresse, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, FR
2008 Lucky In The Misfortune, Masion Descartes, Institut Français des Pays-Bas,Amsterdam, NL
2008 They Hate Us For Our Freedom, Contemporary Art Museum St.Louis, Missouri, US
2008 Arbeit Macht Kapital, Kubus, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, DE
2008 Change, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE
2008 Claire Fontaine, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL
2007 Équivalences, Le Centre d’Art Villa Arson, Nice, FR
2007 Claire Fontaine, The 00’s, The history of a decade that has not yet been named, 2007 Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
2007 2007, Institut d’Art Contemporaine, Villeurbanne, Lyon, FR
2007 Get Lost, Module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2007 How to?, Kunsthalle Zurich, CH
2006 Siamo tutti singolarità qualunque, Il piccolo Museion, progetto Garutti, Museion Bolzano, Bolzano, IT
2005 Foreigners Everywhere, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, US
2005 Claire Fontaine, Galerie Meerrettich im Glaspavillon an der Volksbühne, Berlin, DE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Estuary II: Between Calm Tides, ChapterII, Seoul, KR
2025 For All: Chocolate, Lemonade, and the Party, Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, KR
2024 Foreigners Everywhere, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
2023 Someone is getting rich, Troppenmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Wer wir sind / Who We, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE
2023 The World’s Library - Conversation Piece, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, IT Paesaggio, La Quadriennale di Roma, Rome, IT
2023 Wörthersee, Wörtersee, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, AT
2023 Scenes from the collection, The Jewish Museum, New York, US
2022 The Future Behind Us, Villa Arson, Nice, FR
2022 Libero Spazio Libero, Fondazione del Monte, Bologna, IT
2022 Why do we say a house burns down when the fire is burning up?, All Stars, Lausanne, CH
2022 Pier Paolo Pasolini Tutto è santo. The political body, MAXXI Rome, IT
2022 readymades belong to everyone® PhilippeThomas declines his identity, MACRO, Rome, IT
2021 Church for Sale: Works from the Haubrok Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection, Hamburger Banhof Berlin, DE
2021 Mothering. Between Stockholm Syndrome and Acts of Production, MUAC, Mexico DF,MX
2021 Les Flammes, MAM, Paris, FR
2021 Claire Fontaine/ Pasquarosa/ Marinella Senatore, Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes Riviera di Chiaia, Naples, IT
2021 Burning Speech, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
2021 LXII Premio Termoli, Fondazione Macte, Termoli, IT
2020 Retail Apocalypse, gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich, CH
2020 Power! Light!, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE
2020 Alien vs. Citizen, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
2019 Persona grata?, Musée d ́art contemporain du Val-de-Marne MAC/Val Vitry-sur-Seine, FR
2019 Political Affairs, Hamburg Kunstverien, Hamburg, DE
2019 Groups, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE
2019 Stage of Manouvers, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, AT
2019 Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, Department of Carving and Modeling Section II: Form and Volume, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa, PT
2018 Scenes from the Collection, Jewish Museum, New York, US
2018 Optik Schröder, Mumok, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein, AT
2018 Breaking News, Sammlung von Kelterborn, Mönchehaus Museum Gosler, Gosler, DE
2018 Talismans: Le désert entre nous n’est que du sable, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, FR
2018 Readymade, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, US
2018 Peindre la nuit, Centre Pompidou-Metz, FR
2018 Konstruktion der Welt. Kunst/Ökonomie, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, DE
2018 Bambi goes Art - Das Banale in der Kunst, Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Kunst, Osnabrück e.V. hase 29, Kunstraum Osnabrück, DE
2017 Sensibile Comune, GNAM La Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, IT
2017 Please Come Back. Il Mondo Come Prigione?, MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, IT
2017 Doublethink: Double vision, Suna and ínan Kiraç Foundation, Pera Museum Istanbul, TR
2017 The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, The Jewish Museum, New York, US
2017 Tous de sang melés, Musée d ́ art contemporain du Val-de- Marne MAC/Val, Vitry-sur- Seine, FR
2017 The Fruit of Sleep, Sharjah Biennial 13, Beirut, LB
2017 The Housing Question, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
2017 Charley don’t surf, Museu de la Ciudad, Querétaro, MX
2017 Please Come Back: El món com a presó?, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern(IVAM), Valencia, ES
2017 The Upset Bucket, ISelf Collection, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2016 Precarious Balance, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, NZ
2016 Segni, Alfabeti, Scritture, Percorsi Nell’arte Contemporanea Attraverso La Collezione Macro - MACRO Museo d ́ Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, IT
2016 Mir ist das Leben lieber, Sammlung Reydan Weiss, Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, DE
2016 I have left you the mountain, Albanian Pavilion, 15th International Architecture Exhibition Architecture Biennale 2016, Venice, IT
2016 Punk - Its Traces In Contemporary Art, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona, ES
2016 This Is Your Replacement, Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf, DE
2016 Cher(e)s Ami(e)s : Hommage aux donateurs des collections contemporaines, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, FR
2016 The Revolution Will Not Be Gray, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
2016 Program 2016, Park de Sculptures Contemporaines, Domain du Muy, FR
2016 Take Me (I’m Yours), The Jewish Museum, New York, US
2016 I would prefer not to / Preferirei di no, Esercizi di sottrazione nell’ultima arte italiana, 16a Quadriennale de Roma, Palazzo
2016 dei Congressi, Rome, IT
2016 L’Effet Vertigo, Nouvelle exposition des œuvres de la collection, MAC VAL (Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne), Val-de- Marne, FR
2016 This is a political (painting), Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, NO
2016 Four Agencies for the Production of the Possible, Fondazione Baruchello, Rome, IT
2016 The House of Commons, Portikus, Frankfurt Am Main, DE
2015 Pipe Dream, WUK, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT
2015 Collecting for Tomorrow: New Works at Museion, MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano, IT
2015 Words to be looked at again, Kunstverein Leipzig, Leipzig, DE
2015 Thief Among Thieves, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, US
2015 A Republic of Art: French Regional Collections of contemporary Art. From the 80’s to Today, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL
2015 Whatever man built could be taken apart, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, DE
2015 Punk - Sus rastros en el arte contemporáneo / Sala Norte, Basque Museum Center of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES
2015 Chaotic Passion, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Villa Croce, Genova, IT
2015 Artists’ Voices, Collective, vocal and sound exhibition, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, CH
2015 Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
2014 The crime was almost perfect, Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL
2014 Avec et sans peinture, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de- Marne (MAC/VAL), Vitry- sur-Sine, FR
2014 Foreign Presence, Duddells, Hong Kong, CN
2014 Performance Now, Middlebury College Museum of Art in Vermont, Vermont, US
2014 do it Moscow, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (GCCC), Moscow, RU
2014 Attention Economy, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
2014 Infinite Jest, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE
2014 Neue Wege nichts zu tun, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
2014 20 years Galerie Neu, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE
2014 Performance Now, Delaware Art Museum, Delaware, US
2014 The crime was almost perfect, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT
2014 Do it, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, SA
2014 Future abandonats, Fabra I Coats, Centre d’art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, ES
2014 In _____ We Trust: Art and Money, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, US
2014 Fighting gravity, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE
2014 The Go-Between, Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli, IT
2013 Zizhiqu 自治區(Autonomous Regions), Times Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, CN
2013 When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, MOCAD, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, US
2013 Every Day Matters, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, DK
2013 Fragile, Le Stanze del Vetro, Fondazione Giorgio Cini Onlus, Venice, IT
2013 Ten Years of the One Minute Film Festival, Mass MoCA, Massachusettes, US
2013 If you were to live here, Auckland Art Triennale, Auckland, NZ
2013 Collection Centre national des arts plastiques, Centrale for contemporary art, Brussels, BE
2013 Dark Ages to Enlightenment, The Tower of London, London, UK
2013 Prix Marcel Duchamp, Beaux Arts de Libourne, Libourne, FR
2013 Le Pont, Le Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, FR
2013 Performance Now, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, RU
2013 Bloody Mary, within the framework « Nouvelles vagues » in partnership with the Palais de Tokyo, Galerie Torri, Paris, FR
2013 Performance Now, Kansas City Art Institute’s H&R Block Artspace, Kansas, US
2013 Foreigners Everywhere, Jewish Museum, Moscow, RU
2013 Der leur temps (4), ADIAF, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, FR
2013 Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century, Monash University of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, AT
2013 Performa 13, New York, US
2012 The Road We’ve Traveled, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
2012 Utopie Gesamtkunstwerk, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, AT
2012 Where Do We Migrate To?, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, US
2012 It is what it is. Or is it?, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, Texas, US
2012 K, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
2012 Tools for Conviviality, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, CA
2012 NEON. La materia luminosa dell’arte, MACRO, Rome, IT
2012 When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, C.C.A. Wattis, San Francisco, US
2012 Respect Realnezz, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, AT
2012 Prestige, Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre, Vilnius, LT
2012 9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, CN
2011 Volume Collection, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, HR
2011 Where Do We Migrate To?, Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, Baltimore, US
2011 PhotoMonth, Bunker Stuzki Contemporary Art Museum, Krakow, PL
2011 Relationship Building, Kunstlerhaus Wien, Wien, AT
2011 Terrible Beauty - Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non- Compliance, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Dublin, IE
2011 Linde Family Wing, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, US
2010 Fax, Torrance Art Museum, California, US
2010 Geography of Trans-territories, San Francisco Art Institute, California, US
2010 Seconde Main, Musee d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR
2010 Bataille Perpetuelle, Garage, Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow, RU
2010 It is written, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, FR
2010 Hyper Real, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, AT
2010 Uncertain Spectator, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, New York, US
2009 Audio, Video, Disco, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, CH
2009 Fax, The Drawing Center, New York, US
2009 Return to Function, Madison Museum of Contemporary, Winsonsin, US
2009 Getting Even, Oppositions & Dialogues, Kunstverein Hannover, DE
2009 Untitled (Take the Money and Run), De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
2009 Pivot Points 3, MOCA, Museum Of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, US
2009 Contemplating the Void : Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
2009 Variety evening at the New Museum, New Museum, New York, US
2008 All’s Fair in Art and War : Envisioning Conflict, 21c Museum, Louisville, US
2008 Passengers : Round 2, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
2007 Unmonumental – the object in the 21st century, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US
2007 Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, US
2007 The Irresistible Force, Tate Modern, London, UK
2007 Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, US
2006 Drapeaux Gris, Musée d’Art Contemporain CAPC, Bordeaux, FR
2006 Group Therapy, Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea Bolzano, IT
2005 Etrangers Partout, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, FR
FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, FR
Les amis du musée d'Israel, Paris, FR
La Maison Rouge, Paris, FR
FNAC - Fonds National d´Art Contemporain, Puteaux, FR
MAC/VAL, Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, FR
The Heller Group, LLC, New York, US
Museum of Israel, Jerusalem, IL
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, IT
Fundaciíon/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, MX
Espacio 1414, Santurce, PR
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, US
NMNM, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, MC
Seoul Museum of Art, KR
Suwon Museum of Art, KR
