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Wolfgang Laib
Artist's Name: Wolfgang Laib
Preferred medium: installation
birth year: 1950
Nationality: DE
City: Hochdorf

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Nature is the starting point for Wolfgang Laib's artistic creations. it originates not only all substances, which he uses, he lives and works also in their annual run.Mold materials are selected pollen, milk, beeswax, marble, rice and sealing wax. Each choice has its source material a work family, and it is still steadily unfolded: 1975 is the first milk stones, 1977 Wolfgang Laib collects the first pollen, 1983, he worked first with 1987, with rice and beeswax. He combines them lasting as the marble and ephemeral as rice and pollen. Most mold installations exist only for a limited time, because they are fragile or, as in the case of ausgestreuten pollen, almost fleeting and almost intangible. Even milk lined the stone as such has no duration. Wolfgang Laib recalls how important it is for his work, "... that their form is only temporary, that the pollen after a re-issue comes in a glass, the milk in the milk poured out daily stone is the stone in its symbiosis than milk stone, only a few hours there. The form exists only for a few hours, several days or weeks, as long as the exhibition takes. And yet it is all still there, what is important. The question is what form, gets a very different value. "(Wolfgang Laib: Wolfgang Laib, a passage - Transition, catalog for exhibition at the Institute for International Relations Association, 2000) (Source Konrad Fischer Gallery)

important exhibitions from Wolfgang Laib

Exhibition Location City Country Date
48. Biennale Venedig 1999 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 13.06.1999
WOLFGANG LAIB: Durchgang - Übergang / Transition Koroska Gallery of Fine Arts Slovenj Gradec SI 05.08.2011
Wolfgang Laib Sin Principio / Sin Fin Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS Madrid ES 17.04.2007
47. Biennale Venedig 1997 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 15.06.1997
Wolfgang Laib Foundation Beyeler Riehen CH 27.11.2005
Wolfgang Laib - work on paper and photographs De Pont Foundation For Contemporary Art Tilburg NL 04.06.2005
Wolfgang Laib DIE ESSENZ DES WIRKLICHEN Kunstmuseum Bonn Bonn DE 30.01.2005
documenta 7 Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky Wien AT 19.06.1982
ColorForms Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington US 11.03.2010
Wolfgang Laib Rom IT 13.10.2005

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Galleries representing
Wolfgang Laib:

Alfonso Artiaco Gallery
Anthony Meier Fine Arts
Buchmann Galerie
Galerie Chantal Crousel
Galerie Lelong - Paris
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Galleria Cardi
Konrad Fischer Galerie
Leslie Tonkonow, New York
Schönewald Fine Arts
Sean Kelly Gallery
Sperone Westwater

Collections representing
Wolfgang Laib

ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus
CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Malága
capc Musée d'art contemporain
Collection Rik Reinking
De Pont Foundation For Contemporary Art
Deutsche Bank Collection
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais
FRAC - Picardie
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art
Kolumba Kunstmuseum
kunsthalle weishaupt
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst
Museum Abteiberg
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST
Sammlung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Weserburg - Museum für moderne Kunst