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Franz West
Artist's Name: Franz West
Preferred medium: sculpture / plastik
birth year: 1947
Nationality: AT
City: Vienna

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West has incessantly examined, expanded and irrevocably changed the notion of sculpture. The "Passstücke" (Adaptives), which West first showed in 1980, laid the foundation for the sculpture as an object of participation. In fact, West's sculptures are in no way independent, finished works. It is only through interacting with the viewer that a sculpture finds its completion and fulfills its potential. This interaction may take place both on a physical and intellectual level. The idea of actually 'using' the works of art, first expressed in the "Passstücke", was further developed in the furniture that West began to produce in the 1980s. What is to be worked out, in the case of the former, by means of absurd gestures and improvised flows of movement, can be achieved with the latter by taking a break and reflecting (up)on the pieces of furniture. The objects, which Franz West describes as "legitimate sculptures", reach their completion through the exploration of ideas and chains of associations that are triggered in the visitor's mind the instant he is looking at them. Using, meditating upon, and resting on West's pieces together constitute objectives of an art that juxtaposes its concreteness and abstraction with the viewer and his surroundings. In West's environments, where different groups of works are assembled to be experienced as a whole, all these aspects may coincide in the context of an exhibition. (Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich)

important exhibitions from Franz West

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Franz West. Autotheater Museum Ludwig Köln DE 12.12.2009
54. Biennale Venedig 2011: Ausstellungen Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 04.06.2011
52. Biennale Venedig 2007 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 10.06.2007
44. Biennale Venedig 1990 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 27.09.1990
Franz West Foundation Beyeler Riehen CH 07.05.2009
Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work, 1972-2008 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA Los Angeles US 15.03.2009
Liverpool Biennial 2010 Touched Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art Liverpool GB 18.09.2010
KÜNSTLER IM FOKUS # 4 Franz West MAK - Museum für angewandte Gegenwartskunst Wien AT 29.04.2008
Franz West: Recent Sculptures Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo US 21.10.2004
Mapping the Studio Punta della Dogana Venedig IT 06.06.2009

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Galleries representing
Franz West:

Bärbel Grässlin Galerie
Bernier / Eliades Gallery
ColletPark
Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Galerie
Gagosian Gallery - Rom
Gagosian Gallery Athen
Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills
Gagosian Gallery Britannia Street
Gagosian Gallery Davies Street
Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue
Gagosian Gallery West 21st Street
Gagosian Gallery West 24th Street
Galería Juana de Aizpuru
Galerie Almine Rech, Brüssel
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot
Galerie Karlheinz Meyer
Galerie Meyer Kainer
Galerie Philipp Konzett
Galerie Wilma Lock
Galleri K
Gisela Capitain Galerie
Oliver Schweden Gallery
Sabine Knust Galerie
Tim Van Laere Gallery

Collections representing
Franz West

Augarten Contemporary
Bonnefanten Museum
Brandhorst Museum
Burger Collection
CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Malága
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne
Collection Rik Reinking
Deutsche Bank Collection
Dia Art Foundation: Chelsea
EVN Sammlung
Foundation 20 21
FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais
Frac Ile-de-France
Frac Languedoc-Roussillon
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig GfZK
Generali Foundation
Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin
Hauser & Wirth Collection
Hessel Museum of Art
K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum
MAC - Musée d'arts Contemporains
MAK - Museum für angewandte Gegenwartskunst
Middelheim Museum
Middelheim Open-Air Sculpture Museum
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art
Musée d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Mudam)
Museum Abteiberg
Museum Liaunig
Museum Stift Admont
Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum
Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum St. Pölten
Punta della Dogana
Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus
Sammlung Grässlin - Kunstraum Grässlin
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK)
Tate St. Ives
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse
The Museum of Modern Art - Grand Avenue - MOCA
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum
Vanhaerents Art Collection
Volpinum Kunstsammlung
Walker Art Center
West Collection
Zerynthia
ZKM - Museum für Neue Kunst