클레어 퐁텐 FRANCE, 2004

Overview

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025     Show Less, Mimosa House, London, UK

2024     Beauty is a Ready-made, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, Korea

2024     Left & Right, Hypermaremma, Pescia Firorentina, Italy

2024     Reproductions, Mennour, Paris, France

2023     Cancel Patriarchy, Base, Milan, Italy

2023     Readymade Emotions, T293, Rome, Italy

2023     Protection, Novo, Secci Gallery, Milan, Italy

2023     Become a Sea, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

2023     Frequently Asked Questions, Unterhaller, Berlin, Germany

2023     II Personale, Site Specific Installation (the 21st Premio Ermanno Casoli prize), Elica,  Fabriano, Italy

2022     Mostly Sunny, Air de Paris, Romainville, France

2022     Patriarchy = CO2, Planeta Buonivini, Noto, Italy

2021     Star Reply Forward Copy Info Delete, Kaunstraum Memphis, Linz, Austria

2020     I - We – Yes, studioconcreto, Lecce, Italy

2019     Les printemps seront silencieux, Confort Moderne, Poiters, France

2019     a borsa e la vita, Palazzo Ducale di Genova, Genova, Italy

2019     Claire Fontaine, Rolli Days, Strade e palazzo da vivere, Banca Carige, SedeCentrale,     Genova, Italy

2019     OK NO, Synnika, Frankfurt, Germany

2019     Ettore Majorana, Viaggio in Siclia, Planeta Sciaranuova, Castiglione di Sicilia, Italy

2019     Too late to read., Longtang, Zurich, Switzerland

2018     Invisible receivers, Century Pictures, New York, US

2018     #displaced, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordheim, Germany

2018     Same war time zone, Holding Contemporary, Portland, USA

2018     Happy for no reason, Gaga & Reena Spaulings LA, Los Angeles, USA

2017     The Crack-Up, N.B.K., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

2017     I am your Voice, (We The People Are The Work), Karst, Plymouth, UK

2017     Tears, Billboard project, Blackwood Gallery Toronto, Canada

2016     May our enemies not prosper, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

2016     Claire Fontaine, Museo Pietro Canonica a Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy

2016     Camp, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

2016     Please don’t send me home, Marie Quatre Paris, Mairie du 4ème, Paris, France

2015     Stop seeking approval, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

2015     Pretend to be dead, T293 Gallery, Rome, Italy

2015     Love is never enough, Air de Paris, Paris, France

2015     The winter of our discontent, Carl Kostyál Gallery, London, UK

2014     The Assistants, SIC Gallery / Urb Festival, Helsinki, Finland

2013     Redemptions, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

2013     Some Redemptions, upstairs gallery, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

2013     Etrangers partout, La Bouilladisse, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

2013     Tears, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

2012     M-A-C-C-H-I-N-A-Z-I-O-N-I, Museion, Bolzano, Italy

2012     Équivalences, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

2012     La Chiave, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, Italy

2012     Breakfast starts at midnight, Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation.    Stockholm, Sweden

2011     No Family Life, Air de Paris, Paris, France

2011     Fighting Gravity, Regina Gallery, London, UK

2011     P.I.G.S., MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain

2011     The Assistants, Petra, Mexico D.F., Mexico

2010     Future Tense, El Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico D.F., Mexico

2010     Economies, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA

2010     Unbuilding, Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea, Venezia, Italy

2010     Kultur ist ein Palast der aus Hundescheiße gebaut ist., MD72, Berlin, Germany

2010     Consumption, Helena Papadopoulos Gallery, Athens, Germany

2009     After Marx April, After Mao June, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA

2009     Defend Yourself, Art Perform, Art Basel, Miami, Florida, USA

2009     Claire Fontaine, The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

2009     Call + 972 2 5 839 749, Galería Perdida at Project Row House, Houston, Texas, USA

2008     Feux de Détresse, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

2008     Lucky In The Misfortune, Masion Descartes, Institut Français des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam,   Netherlands

2008     They Hate Us For Our Freedom, Contemporary Art Museum St.Louis, Missouri, USA

2008     Arbeit Macht Kapital, Kubus, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, Germany

2008     Change, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

2008     Claire Fontaine, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2007     Équivalences, Le Centre d’Art Villa Arson, Nice, France

2007     Claire Fontaine, The 00’s, The history of a decade that has not yet been named, Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon 2007, Institut d’Art Contemporaine, Villeurbanne, Lyon, France

2007     Get Lost, Module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2007     How to?, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland

2006     Siamo tutti singolarità qualunque, Il piccolo Museion, progetto Garutti, Museion Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

2005     Foreigners Everywhere, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, USA

2005     Claire Fontaine, Galerie Meerrettich im Glaspavillon an der Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025     B-Class Jokes, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Wanju, Korea

2025     Estuary II: Between Calm Tides, ChapterII, Seoul, Korea

2025     For All: Chocolate, Lemonade, and the Party, Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea

2024     Foreigners Everywhere, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2023     Someone is getting rich, Troppenmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2023     Wer wir sind / Who We, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

2023     The World’s Library - Conversation Piece, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, IT Paesaggio, La  Quadriennale di Roma, Rome, Italy

2023     Wörthersee, Wörtersee, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria

2023     Scenes from the collection, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

2022     The Future Behind Us, Villa Arson, Nice, France

2022     Libero Spazio Libero, Fondazione del Monte, Bologna, Italy

2022     Why do we say a house burns down when the fire is burning up?, All Stars, Lausanne,    Switzerland

2022     Pier Paolo Pasolini Tutto è santo. The political body, MAXXI Rome, Italy

2022     readymades belong to everyone® PhilippeThomas declines his identity, MACRO, Rome, Italy

2021     Church for Sale: Works from the Haubrok Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection, Hamburger Banhof Berlin, Germany

2021     Mothering. Between Stockholm Syndrome and Acts of Production, MUAC, Mexico DF, Mexico

2021     Les Flammes, MAM, Paris, France

2021     Claire Fontaine/ Pasquarosa/ Marinella Senatore, Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli     Cortes Riviera di Chiaia, Naples, Italy

2021     Burning Speech, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

2021     LXII Premio Termoli, Fondazione Macte, Termoli, Italy

2020     Retail Apocalypse, gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2020     Power! Light!, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

2020     Alien vs. Citizen, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA

2019     Persona grata?, Musée d ́art contemporain du Val-de-Marne MAC/Val Vitry-sur-Seine,   France

2019     Political Affairs, Hamburg Kunstverien, Hamburg, Germany

2019     Groups, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

2019     Stage of Manouvers, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, Austria

2019     Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, Department of Carving and Modeling     Section II: Form and Volume, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa, Portugal

2018     Scenes from the Collection, Jewish Museum, New York, USA

2018     Optik Schröder, Mumok, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein, Austria

2018     Breaking News, Sammlung von Kelterborn, Mönchehaus Museum Gosler, Gosler, Germany

2018     Talismans: Le désert entre nous n’est que du sable, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian,     Paris, France

2018     Readymade, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, USA

2018     Peindre la nuit, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France

2018     Konstruktion der Welt. Kunst/Ökonomie, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

2018     Bambi goes Art - Das Banale in der Kunst, Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Kunst,   Osnabrück e.V. hase 29, Kunstraum Osnabrück, Germany

2017     Sensibile Comune, GNAM La Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

2017     Please Come Back. Il Mondo Come Prigione?, MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy

2017     Doublethink: Double vision, Suna and ínan Kiraç Foundation, Pera Museum Istanbul, Turkey

2017     The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

2017     Tous de sang melés, Musée d ́ art contemporain du Val-de- Marne MAC/Val, Vitry-sur- Seine, France

2017     The Fruit of Sleep, Sharjah Biennial 13, Beirut, Lebanon

2017     The Housing Question, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK

2017     Charley don’t surf, Museu de la Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico

2017     Please Come Back: El món com a presó?, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain

2017     The Upset Bucket, ISelf Collection, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

2016     Precarious Balance, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand

2016     Segni, Alfabeti, Scritture, Percorsi Nell’arte Contemporanea Attraverso La Collezione Macro - MACRO Museo d ́ Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy

2016     Mir ist das Leben lieber, Sammlung Reydan Weiss, Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany

2016     I have left you the mountain, Albanian Pavilion, 15th International Architecture Exhibition Architecture Biennale 2016, Venice, Italy

2016     Punk - Its Traces In Contemporary Art, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

2016     This Is Your Replacement, Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany

2016     Cher(e)s Ami(e)s : Hommage aux donateurs des collections contemporaines, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

2016     The Revolution Will Not Be Gray, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA

2016     Program 2016, Park de Sculptures Contemporaines, Domain du Muy, France

2016     Take Me (I’m Yours), The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

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, Italy

2016     L’Effet Vertigo, Nouvelle exposition des œuvres de la collection, MAC VAL (Musée dArt Contemporain du Val-de-Marne), Val-de- Marne, France

2016     This is a political (painting), Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway

2016     Four Agencies for the Production of the Possible, Fondazione Baruchello, Rome, Italy

2016     The House of Commons, Portikus, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany

2015     Pipe Dream, WUK, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria

2015     Collecting for Tomorrow: New Works at Museion, MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bolzano, Italy

2015     Words to be looked at again, Kunstverein Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

2015     Thief Among Thieves, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, USA

2015     A Republic of Art: French Regional Collections of contemporary Art. From the 80’s to Today, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2015     Whatever man built could be taken apart, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

2015     Punk - Sus rastros en el arte contemporáneo / Sala Norte, Basque Museum Center of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

2015     Chaotic Passion, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Villa Croce, Genova, Italy

2015     Artists’ Voices, Collective, vocal and sound exhibition, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland

2015     Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

2014     The crime was almost perfect, Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam,    Netherlands

2014     Avec et sans peinture, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de- Marne (MAC/VAL), Vitry-sur-Sine, France

2014     Foreign Presence, Duddells, Hong Kong, China

2014     Performance Now, Middlebury College Museum of Art in Vermont, Vermont, USA

2014     do it Moscow, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (GCCC), Moscow, Russia

2014     Attention Economy, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

2014     Infinite Jest, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

2014     Neue Wege nichts zu tun, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

2014     20 years Galerie Neu, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

2014     Performance Now, Delaware Art Museum, Delaware, USA

2014     The crime was almost perfect, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2014     Do it, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa

2014     Future abandonats, Fabra I Coats, Centre d’art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

2014     In _____ We Trust: Art and Money, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA

2014     Fighting gravity, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

2014     The Go-Between, Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy

2013     Zizhiqu 自治區(Autonomous Regions), Times Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China

2013     When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, MOCAD, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA

2013     Every Day Matters, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Germany

2013     Fragile, Le Stanze del Vetro, Fondazione Giorgio Cini Onlus, Venice, Italy

2013     Ten Years of the One Minute Film Festival, Mass MoCA, Massachusettes, USA

2013     If you were to live here, Auckland Art Triennale, Auckland, New Zealand

2013     Collection Centre national des arts plastiques, Centrale for contemporary art, Brussels, Belgium

2013     Dark Ages to Enlightenment, The Tower of London, London, UK

2013     Prix Marcel Duchamp, Beaux Arts de Libourne, Libourne, France

2013     Le Pont, Le Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France

2013     Performance Now, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia

2013     Bloody Mary, within the framework « Nouvelles vagues » in partnership with the Palais de Tokyo, Galerie Torri, Paris, France

2013     Performance Now, Kansas City Art Institute’s H&R Block Artspace, Kansas, USA

2013     Foreigners Everywhere, Jewish Museum, Moscow, Russia

2013     Der leur temps (4), ADIAF, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France

2013     Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century, Monash University of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, Austria

2013     Performa 13, New York, USA

2012     The Road We’ve Traveled, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, Canada

2012     Utopie Gesamtkunstwerk, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

2012     Where Do We Migrate To?, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons the New School. for Design, New York, USA

2012     It is what it is. Or is it?, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

2012     K, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

2012     Tools for Conviviality, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2012     NEON. La materia luminosa dell’arte, MACRO, Rome, Italy

2012     When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, C.C.A. Wattis, San Francisco, USA

2012     Respect Realnezz, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria

2012     Prestige, Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania

2012     9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China

2011     Volume Collection, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia

2011     Where Do We Migrate To?, Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, Baltimore, USA

2011     PhotoMonth, Bunker Stuzki Contemporary Art Museum, Krakow, Poland

2011     Relationship Building, Kunstlerhaus Wien, Wien, Austria

2011     Terrible Beauty - Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non- Compliance, Dublin    Contemporary 2011, Dublin, Ireland

2011     Linde Family Wing, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, USA

2010     Fax, Torrance Art Museum, California, USA

2010     Geography of Trans-territories, San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA

2010     Seconde Main, Musee d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

2010     Bataille Perpetuelle, Garage, Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia

2010     It is written, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France

2010     Hyper Real, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria

2010     Uncertain Spectator, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, New York, USA

2009     Audio, Video, Disco, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2009     Fax, The Drawing Center, New York, USA

2009     Return to Function, Madison Museum of Contemporary, Winsonsin, USA

2009     Getting Even, Oppositions & Dialogues, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany

2009     Untitled (Take the Money and Run), De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2009     Pivot Points 3, MOCA, Museum Of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, USA

2009     Contemplating the Void : Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

2009     Variety evening at the New Museum, New Museum, New York, USA

2008     All’s Fair in Art and War : Envisioning Conflict, 21c Museum, Louisville, USA

2008     Passengers : Round 2, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

2007     Unmonumental – the object in the 21st century, New Museum of Contemporary Art,  New York, USA

2007     Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, USA

2007     The Irresistible Force, Tate Modern, London, UK

2007     Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, USA

2006     Drapeaux Gris, Musée d’Art Contemporain CAPC, Bordeaux, France

2006     Group Therapy, Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea Bolzano, Italy

2005     Etrangers Partout, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

 

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  • Claire Fontaine, Untitled (Lament), 2018
    Untitled (Lament), 2018
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