Lawrence Weiner

Works

Lawrence Weiner, MATTER AS WE KNOW IT + RED PAINT + YELLOW MUD + GREEN SLIME & BURRIED WHERE THE EARTH IS SOFT ENOUGH, 1995

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Lawrence Weiner, MATTER AS WE KNOW IT + RED PAINT + YELLOW MUD + GREEN SLIME & BURRIED WHERE THE EARTH IS SOFT ENOUGH, 1995

Language + the materials referred to, dimensions variable, installation view

Collection Holstebro Kunstmuseum

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Lawrence Weiner, MATTER AS WE KNOW IT + RED PAINT + YELLOW MUD + GREEN SLIME & BURRIED WHERE THE EARTH IS SOFT ENOUGH, 1995

Language + the materials referred to, dimensions variable, installation view

Collection Holstebro Kunstmuseum

Lawrence Weiner, 2 BLOCKS OF SALT (IN THE MORNING MIST) / 2 BLOKKE AF SALT (I MORGENDISEN), 1991

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Lawrence Weiner, 2 BLOCKS OF SALT (IN THE MORNING MIST) / 2 BLOKKE AF SALT (I MORGENDISEN), 1991

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Lawrence Weiner, 2 BLOCKS OF SALT (IN THE MORNING MIST) / 2 BLOKKE AF SALT (I MORGENDISEN), 1991

Lawrence Weiner, 2 BLOCKS OF SALT (IN THE MORNING MIST) / 2 BLOKKE AF SALT (I MORGENDISEN), 1991

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Lawrence Weiner, LAWRENCE WEINER - CLOSE TO A RAINBOW, 2021

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Lawrence Weiner, LAWRENCE WEINER - CLOSE TO A RAINBOW, 2021

Installation view from CLOSE TO A RAINBOW at Holstebro Kunstmuseum

Lawrence Weiner, A B, 2014

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Lawrence Weiner, A B, 2014

Faber-Castell pencil, gouache on folded archival paper, 101 x 81 cm

Lawrence Weiner, 2 BLOCKS OF SALT (IN THE MORNING MIST) / 2 BLOKKE AF SALT (I MORGENDISEN), 1991

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Lawrence Weiner, 2 BLOCKS OF SALT (IN THE MORNING MIST) / 2 BLOKKE AF SALT (I MORGENDISEN), 1991

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Lawrence Weiner, 2 BLOCKS OF SALT (IN THE MORNING MIST) / 2 BLOKKE AF SALT (I MORGENDISEN), 1991

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Lawrence Weiner, 2 BLOCKS OF SALT (IN THE MORNING MIST) / 2 BLOKKE AF SALT (I MORGENDISEN), 1991

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Lawrence Weiner, 2 BLOCKS OF SALT (IN THE MORNING MIST), 1991

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Lawrence Weiner, 2 BLOCKS OF SALT (IN THE MORNING MIST), 1991

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Lawrence Weiner, 3 COINS & A FOUNTAIN, 2008

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Lawrence Weiner, 3 COINS & A FOUNTAIN, 2008

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Lawrence Weiner, TORN ASUNDER WITH A SPARK FROM ABOVE / FLÅET I STYKKER MED EN GNIST FRA OVEN, 2014

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Lawrence Weiner, TORN ASUNDER WITH A SPARK FROM ABOVE / FLÅET I STYKKER MED EN GNIST FRA OVEN, 2014

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Lawrence Weiner, TORN ASUNDER WITH A SPARK FROM ABOVE / FLÅET I STYKKER MED EN GNIST FRA OVEN, 2014

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Lawrence Weiner, TORN ASUNDER WITH A SPARK FROM ABOVE / FLÅET I STYKKER MED EN GNIST FRA OVEN, 2014

Lawrence Weiner, TORN ASUNDER WITH A SPARK FROM ABOVE / FLÅET I STYKKER MED EN GNIST FRA OVEN, 2014

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Lawrence Weiner, CAREFULLY BALANCED ON THE EDGE OF A HOLE IN TIME, 1999

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Lawrence Weiner, CAREFULLY BALANCED ON THE EDGE OF A HOLE IN TIME, 1999

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Lawrence Weiner, CAREFULLY BALANCED ON THE EDGE OF A HOLE IN TIME, 1999

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Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Biography & CV

Lawrence Weiner (1942-2021) was born in New York, USA and lived and worked in New York, USA.

 

Weiner had a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY, USA (2007); different major solo exhibitions include Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark (2021); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (2013); Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2007); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico (2004); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,  Wolfsburg, Germany (2000); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA (1994) and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA (1990). Weiner participated in documenta 5, 6, 7 and 13 (1972, 1977, 1982, 2012); the 36th, 41st, 50th and 55th Venice Biennales (1972, 1984, 2003, 2013) and the 27th Biennale de Sao Paulo (2006). Among many honors he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Graduate Center, City University of New York (2013), a Skowhegan Medal for Painting/Conceptual Art (1999), the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (1995), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1994), and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1976, 1983).

 

The artist is represented in several prominent public collections worldwide, including mumok in Austria; Lawrence Weiner Poster Archive at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada; Holstebro Kunstmuseum and the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) in Denmark; Musée national d’art moderne Centre Pompidou in France; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Lenbachhaus in Germany and Art Institute of Chicago, Guggenheim Museum, MoMA and Whitney Museum of American Art in the USA.

Selected solo exhibitions

  • 2023

    Lawrence Weiner: WITHIN A REALM OF RELATIVE FORM, Lisson Gallery, Beijing, China

    Lawrence Weiner APRÈS ICI & LÁ, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France.

  • 2022

    The Language of Lawrence Weiner, Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation, Venice, Italy

    Apropos Lawrence Weiner, Marian Goodman Gallery, NYC, NY, USA

  • 2021

    CLOSE TO A RAINBOW, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark

    LAWRENCE WEINER, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany

  • 2020

    New work: Lawrence Weiner, KODE, Bergen, Norway
    Lawrence Weiner, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal

  • 2019

    Coleção Berardo de 1960 à atualidade, Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
    LONG AGO FAR AWAY, OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway

  • 2018

    In Tandem With The Sands, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

  • 2017

    Inherent Innate Tension, Marian Goodman Gallery, NYC, NY, USA
    Nothing to Lose (The Book), Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Málaga, Spain
    OUT OF SIGHT, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
    Inherent Innate Tension, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
    ROSY-FINGERED DAWN | ΡΟΔΟΔΑΚΤΥΛΟΣ ΗΩΣ with Douglas Gordon at Gagosian, Athens, Greece

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Site-specific works

Lawrence Weiner, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark, 2021

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Lawrence Weiner, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark, 2021

MATTER AS WE KNOW IT + RED PAINT + YELLOW MUD + GREEN SLIME & BURRIED WHERE THE EARTH IS SOFT ENOUGH, 1995

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Lawrence Weiner, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark, 2021

MATTER AS WE KNOW IT + RED PAINT + YELLOW MUD + GREEN SLIME & BURRIED WHERE THE EARTH IS SOFT ENOUGH, 1995

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Lawrence Weiner, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark, 2021

MATTER AS WE KNOW IT + RED PAINT + YELLOW MUD + GREEN SLIME & BURRIED WHERE THE EARTH IS SOFT ENOUGH, 1995

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Lawrence Weiner, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark, 2021

MATTER AS WE KNOW IT + RED PAINT + YELLOW MUD + GREEN SLIME & BURRIED WHERE THE EARTH IS SOFT ENOUGH, detail, 1995

Lawrence Weiner, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark, 2007

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Lawrence Weiner, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark, 2007

HE WEIGHT OF THE LIGHT / FROM ABOVE / BROUGHT TO BEAR ON THE FROTH / OF THE WAVES ON THE SEA

Lawrence Weiner, Skrift og tegn, Egebjerg, Ballerup, Denmark, 1996

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Lawrence Weiner, Skrift og tegn, Egebjerg, Ballerup, Denmark, 1996

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Lawrence Weiner, Skrift og tegn, Egebjerg, Ballerup, Denmark, 1996

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Lawrence Weiner, Skrift og tegn, Egebjerg, Ballerup, Denmark, 1996

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Posters

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