Contemporary exhibitions

Cities on the Move

(1997-1998), curated by Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist, different locations

Gwangju Biennial

1995 - present , Gwangju, South Korea

1st Singapore Biennial

2006, director: Fumio Nanjo

Negotiating Home, History and Nation: Two Decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia

1991-2011 (2011), Singapore Museum,
Iola Lenzi (commissioning editor) and Khairudin Hori of the Singapore Art Museum

Asia Pacific Triennial

1993-present, Brisbane, Australia

Teheran Museum of Contemporary Art

1977, Teheran, Iran, Curators: David Galloway, Kamran Diba

Sharjah Biennial

1993-present in Sharjah, UAE. In 2025 curated by Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala, and Zeynep Öz

Louvre Abu Dhabi, Zayed Museum

opened in 2017, UAE, director: Manuel Rabaté

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

UAE, to be opened (date unknown)

Hauser & Wirth

gallery founded in 1992, founders Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth, Ursula Hauser, in Switzerland

Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, 2008

Auction Sotheby’s London. Damien Hirst’s play with auctions and market

ARCO Madrid

every year since 1982

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, 2007

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (traveling exhibition, this was first venue), edited by Cornelia Butler and Lisa Gabrielle Mark

Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 (2017)

curated by: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill and Andrea Giunta (curators), with Marcela Guerrero, Hammer Museum, LA

Foreigners Everywhere, 2024

60th Venice Biennale by Adriano Pedrosa

Weather Report Art and Climate Change

2007, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), Lucy Lippard

Manifesta 12

Plaermo, theme: The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence, curated by Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Mirjam Varadinis, Andrés Jaque, Bregtje van der Haak, 2018

Critical Zones: Horizons of a New Earth Politics

(2020-2022), Bruno Latours and in collaboration with Martin Guinard-Terrin (curator), Bettina Korintenberg (curator, ZKM Karlsruhe) and Daniel Irrgang (media scientist, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe), ZKM in Stuttgart

Cocido Y Crudo

1992, Dan Cameron, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

Ljubljana Museum of Modern Art (Moderna galerija)

under the direction of Zdenka Badovinac (1993-2021)

Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement

2008, LACMA

Australian National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2024

Curator: Ellie Buttrose; artists: Archie Moore

Chambres d’amis

1986, Jan Hoet, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, but hosted in 58 private houses in Ghent .

Culture in Action

(1993), curated by Mary Jane Jacob, Chicago
inspired by David Hammons' House of the Future from the 1991

What Keeps Mankind Alive?

11th International Istanbul Biennial, (2009), curated by the WHW collective

OFF-Budaspest Biennial

2014 - present, Budapest, Hungary

Contemporanea

1973. Curated by Achille Bonito Oliva + 11 curators. Rome, underground car park at Villa Borghese

This is Tomorrow

1956. London, Whitechapel art gallery. No curator. Lawrence Alloway – chief publicist for the show

New Spirit in Painting

1981. 1981. London. Royal Academy of Arts. Curated by Norman Rosenthal, Berlin art critic Christos M. Joachimides, Nicholas Serota

Sensation.

1997. 1997. Royal Academy of Arts in London. Repeated in 1999 in Berlin and Brooklyn. Curated by Norman Rosental. Charles Saatchi – advertising company, collector of YBA.

Dylaby: Dynamic Labyrinth

1962, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Curated by Willem Sandberg and Ad Peterson

Les Immateriaux

1985. 1985. Centre Pompidou, Paris. Curated by Jean Francois Lyotard + Thierry Chaput (historian of design).

This is the show and the show is many things

1994. 1994. Stedelijk Museum, Ghent. Curated by Bart de Baere

Traffic

1997. 1997. CAPC - Musee d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux. Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud

Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form 

1969. 1969. Kunsthalle Bern. Curator: Harold Szeemann.

Documenta 5

1972. 1972. Kassel. Curator Harold Szeemann (+Bazon Brock, J-C Ammann).

Venice Biennale 37^th. Ambiente/Arte

1976, Venice. Curated by Germano Celant.

Aperto sections

from 1980 to 1993. Venice, at first Magazzini del sale, after Corderie dell’Arsenale during the Venice Biennale. Aperto 80: Achille Bonito Oliva and Harold Szeeman. Aperto 93: 13 curators with their own sections.  

Magiciens de la Terre 

1989. 1989. Centre Georges Pompidou and Grande Halle de la Vilette. Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin

Documenta 11

2002. 2002. Curator: Okwui Enwezor. Five spots around the world:

      P1: Democracy unrealized. Vienna Berlin. Explores democracy.

      P2. Experiments with Truth. New Delhi. Explored histories of violence.

      P3. Creolite and Creolization. St.Lucia (Carribean country)

      P4: Under Siege: Four African Cities. Held in Lagos, Nigeria.

      P.5: Kassel. Not superior platform. 7 spaces (Museum Fridericianum, Orangerie)

Former West

1989-now. The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures), Berlin. Curated by Maria Hlavajova and Simon Sheikh

Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s – 1980s

1999. 1999. Queens Museum of art, New York.

      Project leaders Jane Farver, Luis Camnitzer, Rachel Weiss. + a team of 11 international curators.

China/Avant-Garde Exhibition

1989. 1989. National Art Gallery, Beijing. Curated by Fei Dawei, Gao Minglu

      Li Xianting, Gao Minglu, Peng De???

Inside out: new Chinese art

1998-1999. MoMA PS1(new building, independent space, located in Queens). Curated by Gao Minglu.

Dak’art. Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain

1990, since 1996 - the sole focus on contemporary art. Senegal.

Freestyle

2001. 2001. The Studio Museum in Harlem. Curated by Thelma Golden

The short century: independence and liberation movement in Africa, 1945-1994

2002. 2002. MoMA PS1. Curated by Okwui Enwezor.

The other story

1989-1990. Hayward Gallery, London. Curated by Rasheed Araeen.

Africa explores: 20th century african art

1995. 1995. New York. The Museum for African Art and The New Museum. Curated by Susan Vogel.

Africa95

1995. 1995. Britain, 60 arts institutions. Artistic director Clémentine Deliss. The “main” exhibition in the Royal Academy (Africa: the Art of a Continent) was curated by Tom Phillips

Seven stories about modern art in Africa

1995. 1995. Whitechapel gallery, London. Curated by Clémentine Deliss and African co-curators

24 Biennial San Paolo

1998. 1998. Brazil. General curator Paulo Herkenhoff, assistant curator Adriano Pedrosa.

InSite

1992. 1992. Between San Diego in the United States and Mexican’s Tijuana. Many curators for each year. Osvaldo Sánchez – artistic director of first and last edition.