Behind every great deed, every act considered a true accomplishment, there is a long road paved with work, faith, and most of all dedication. Though they may begin with a mere thought, dedication can see even the most trivial of ideas to fruition. Portraying its effects within the world of art, Roman Opalka took dedication to a whole new level in his life-long work, working on a single piece of art for the bigger part of his life. Creating Details, as he would call them, Opalka painted a huge number of canvases that align into a single artwork striving towards mathematical infinity, one that the artist devotedly pursued.
Roman Opalka was born in France in 1931 to Polish immigrant parents that sought to return to Poland in the upcoming years. With the coming of World War II, the family got to settle in Poland only in 1946 after the liberation of Germany by the United States army, and young Opalka took the chance to study lithography at a graphics school after which he enrolled in the School of Art and Design. It is said that “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” and at the base of the stairs of his life-long artistic adventure laid no more than a simple idea. Waiting for his wife to arrive in a cafe in Warsaw, he envisioned the concept that would guide him for the rest of his career.
Opalka came to the idea of painting numbers on canvas; it may appear as simple as that and perhaps in a way it is, but the magnitude of this undertaking is what was to make it an important piece of conceptual art. Using a No. 0 brush, Opalka started painting the numbers in a line on a canvas that progressed sequentially until the canvas was filled, going over to the next one and starting where the previous one left off. Starting in 1965, the artist would daily work on recording the numbers with white paint against the black background of the canvas, or Details, as he liked to call them. Each of them measured the same, with the height of the canvas corresponding to the artist’s height (195 cm) and the width matching the girth of the door to his studio in Warsaw where the project had started (35 cm).
The form of each piece was the same: start at the top left corner of the canvas and progress in a line, ending at the bottom right. “Simple enough” is what most would probably think, were it not for the title of every Detail that embodies the purpose the artist had had. Naming each piece Opalka 1965/1 – ∞, he had intended to portray the list of numbers that stretches to infinity. Realizing that the time he has on this Earth is anything but infinite, Opalka thought of a way to reach notion in a different way.
In order to embody the concept of endlessness that Opalka was pursuing on a daily basis, he added another element to his practice around 1968, some three years after the conception of the project. He had replaced the black background of the canvas with the tone of gray, seeing it as a less symbolic color and one void of emotion. Furthermore, in 1972, he slowly started adding white pigment to the canvas background in the early 1970s, progressively whitening the base of his Details as the number on them grew. Looking to grasp the infinity in his lifetime, Opalka expected to be painting white numbers on a white surface by the time he reached the number of 7,777,777. It happened sooner than he thought, and by 2008, he was already putting up white against white, passing the 5.5 million mark.
There was more to Roman Opalka’s “infinity chase” than the mere numbers he painted on the canvas. Though each of his Detail pieces is an indisputable gem of the contemporary conceptual art, it is their alignment and the higher purpose of each of the parts that make this whole single piece truly unique. Realizing the thought behind the meticulous physical work, Opalka stated that “It’s important that my last Detail should not be finished by me, but my life.” Passing away at the age of 79, Opalka entered the artistic history, claiming a unique place and, in a way, ownership over numbers.
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Year | Exhibition Title | Gallery/Museum | Solo/Group |
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2016 | Roman Opalka : Passages | Galerie Dominique Levy, London | Solo |
2016 | Unfinished : thoughts left visible | Metropolitan Breuer, New York | Group |
2016 | Everybody | LAAC – Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine, Dunkerque | Group |
2015 | Roman Opalka : The end is defined | Christie’s Mayfair, London | Solo |
2015 | Une brève histoire de l’avenir | Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels | Group |
2015 | Narcisse, le pouvoir de l’autoportrait | Centre d’art contemporain Walter Benjamin, Perpignan | Group |
2015 | Une passion pour l’Art | Collection Philippe Piguet – Espace d’Art Contemporain, Annecy, France | Group |
2015 | State of Life – Polish Contemporary Art within a Global Circumstance | National Art Museum of China, Peking | Group |
2015 | Identité, identités | Centre d’Art Contemporain, Châtellerault, France | Group |
2015 | La répétition | FRAC Franche-Comté, Cité des Arts, Besançon, France | Group |
2014 | Art or Sound | Fondazione Prada, Ca’ Corner della Regina palazzo, Venice | Group |
2014 | Les dérivés de la photographie | Art au mur / Artothèque, Pessac | Group |
2014 | Le cercle parfait de la lune ne dure qu’une nuit | Château Guiraud, Sauternes | Group |
2014 | A corps perdu | Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux | Group |
2014 | Le Mur – Œuvres de la Collection Antoine de Galbert | la Maison rouge, Paris | Group |
2014 | Roman Opalka | Dominique Lévy, New York | Solo |
2013 | Performer | Art Station Gallery, Poznan | Group |
2013 | Prima Materia | Punta della Dogana, Venice | Group |
2013 | Le Festival Ritournelles | FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux | Group |
2013 | Les aventures de la vérité | Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence | Group |
2012 | Roman Opalka: OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Ciam La Fabrique, Université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail, Toulouse | Solo |
2011 | Roman Opalka: II tempo della Pittura | Galerie Michela Rizzo, Venice | Solo |
2011 | First and Fifth Passage of a million | Venice Casino, Venice | Solo |
2011 | II tempo della pittura, Carpaccio et Opalka | Correr Museum, Venice | Solo |
2011 | Roman Opalka: Octagon | Gallery ZAK| BRANICKA, Berlin | Solo |
2011 | Roman Opalka | Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp | Solo |
2011 | Le vertige de l’infini | La Collégiale and the Tessé Museum, Le Mans | Solo |
2010 | Roman Opalka: Oktogon | Art Stations Foundation, Poznan | Solo |
2010 | Roman Opalka:Passages | Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris | Solo |
2010 | Passages | Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York | Solo |
2009 | Roman Opalka: OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Galleria Melesi, Lecco | Solo |
2008 | Roman Opalka | Musée National Marc Chagall, Nice | Solo |
2007 | Details 1965/1 - ∞ | Cueto Project New York | Solo |
2006 | Roman Opalka: Octagone | Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne Métropole, Saint Etienne | Solo |
2006 | Roman Opalka: témoignage d’une vie (Testimony of a Life) | Slought Foundation, Philadelphia | Solo |
2004 | OPALKE 1965/1 - ∞, Détails photographies (Autoportraits) et un Détail peintures | Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris | Solo |
2004 | OPALKE 1965/1 - ∞, Details photographies | CCC de Tours, Tours | Solo |
2004 | Opalka avant OPALKA, Le Décompte, Dessins (1949-1965) | Galerie Ephemere, Paris | Solo |
2003 | OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Grant Selwyn Fine Arts, New York | Solo |
2003 | Grande Rétrospective Roman Opalka | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne | Solo |
2003 | Opalka: Octogone | Galeria Atlas Sztuki, Lödz | Solo |
2002 | OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Gallery La Jolla | Solo |
2002 | OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Gallerie Grant-Selwyn, Los Angeles | Solo |
2002 | Roman Opalka: Gerhard-Altenburg-Preis 2002 | Lindenau Museum, Altenburg | Solo |
2001 | Installation permanente par Roman Opalka d’ ‘OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Musée d’Arte Moderne et Contemporain, Lodz | Solo |
2001 | Roman Opalka, OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Galerie Foksal, Warsaw | Solo |
2001 | Roman Opalka OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Renn Espace d’Art Contemporain,Paris | Solo |
2001 | Homage pour ses 700 ans à Roman Opalka, OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Musée de l’Architecture, Warsaw | Solo |
2001 | Roman Opalka, OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | La Verrière- Fondation Hermès, Brussels | Solo |
2001 | Dans la série des maîtres: Roman Opalka, OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Sabanci University, Istanbul | Solo |
1999 | OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Katowice Galerie, Passau | Solo |
1998 | Art contemporani en essais publics | Musée des Beaux Arts, Vilafrancia del Penedes | Solo |
1998 | OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Städtische Galerie, Ravenburg | Solo |
1998 | Un parcours de Roman Opalka | Lieu d’Art Contemporain (L.A.C.), Sigean | Solo |
1998 | Unity in expansion: OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota | Solo |
1998 | OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Katowice Gallery, Katowice | Solo |
1997 | Opalka Vers l’énumération (w strone liczenia) | Musée Narodowe W Gdansku, Gdansk | Solo |
1997 | D’Oïda | Palma Dotze Galeria d’art, Vilafranca del Penedes | Solo |
1996 | Roman Opalka | Galeria Miejska Arsena, Poznan | Solo |
1996 | Roman Opalka – Private Collection | Galeria Starmach, Kraków | Solo |
1996 | Roman Opalka | Centrum Sztucki Wspolczesnej, Warsaw | Solo |
1995 | Roman Opalka, OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Szépmüvészeti Mùzeum, Budapest | Solo |
1994 | Roman Opalka 1965/1 - ∞ | Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin | Solo |
1994 | Roman Opalka, Opalka 1965/1 - ∞ | Galeria Zacheta – Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw | Solo |
1993 | Roman Opalka | Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen | Solo |
1993 | Roman Opalka: Kaiserring | Mönchehaus-Museum, Goslar | Solo |
1992 | Roman Opalka | Galerie Christine et Isy Brachot, Paris | Solo |
1992 | OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen | Solo |
1992 | OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Galerie Froment-Putman, Paris | Solo |
1992 | OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich | Solo |
1991 | Roman Opalka | Galerie Ishy Brachot, Brussels | Solo |
1991 | Roman Opalka | Primo Piano, Rome | Solo |
1991 | Roman Opalka | Galerie Appendix, Warsaw | Solo |
1991 | Roman Opalka | Galerie du Triangle, Bordeaux | Solo |
1991 | OPALKA 1965/1 - ∞ | Mala Galerija, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia | Solo |
1990 | Roman Opalka | Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montréal | Solo |
1990 | Rétrospective: Roman Opalka | Centre d’Art contemporain, Mont-deMarsan | Solo |
1990 | OPALKE 1965/1 - ∞ | Ecole d’Art, Dunkirk | Solo |
1990 | Roman Opalka | Galerie Le Chanjour, Nice | Solo |
1990 | Roman Opalka | Galerie Walter Storms, Munich | Solo |
1989 | Roman Opalka | John Weber Gallery, New York | Solo |
1988 | Roman Opalka 1965/1 - ∞ | Galleria Ariete, Lecco | Solo |
1987 | Roman Opalka | Primo Piano, Rome | Solo |
1986 | Roman Opalka | John Weber Gallery, New York | Solo |
1986 | Opalka 1965/1 - ∞: La Différence | Centre de Creation Contemporaine (CCC) de Tours, Tours | Solo |
1986 | Roman Opalka | Walter Storms Gallery, New York | Solo |
1984 | Roman Opalka | Galerie Isy Branchot, Brussels | Solo |
1983 | Roman Opalka | John Weber Gallery, New York | Solo |
1982 | Opalka 1965/1 - ∞ | Galerie Isy Branchot, Paris | Solo |
1982 | Roman Opalka | Erker Gallery, Saint-Gall | Solo |
1982 | Roman Opalka | John Weber Gallery, New York | Solo |
1981 | Roman Opalka | Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster | Solo |
1981 | Roman Opalka | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal | Solo |
1981 | Roman Opalka | Galerie Walter Storms, Villingen | Solo |
1980 | Roman Opalka | Galerie Art in Progress, Düsseldorf | Solo |
1980 | Roman Opalka | La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla | Solo |
1980 | Roman Opalka | Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto | Solo |
1980 | Roman Opalka | Galerie Walter Storms, Munich | Solo |
1980 | Roman Opalka | Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milan | Solo |
1980 | Roman Opalka | Rice Museum, Houston | Solo |
1979 | Roman Opalka | Museum of Art, Allentown | Solo |
1979 | Roman Opalka | Muhlenberg College, Muhlenberg | Solo |
1979 | Roman Opalka | John Weber Gallery, New York | Solo |
1979 | Roman Opalka | Minneapolis Institut of Contemporary Art, Minneapolis | Solo |
1979 | Roman Opalka | Art Museum, Grand Rapids | Solo |
1978 | Roman Opalka | Mead Art Museum, Amherst | Solo |
1978 | Roman Opalka | Colombus Museum, Colombus | Solo |
1978 | Roman Opalka | J.W. Gallery, New York | Solo |
1977 | Roman Opalka | Hôte du Musée d’art et d’histoire, AMAM, Geneva | Solo |
1977 | Roman Opalka | 16 Détails au Dem Work, 1965/1 - ∞, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld | Solo |
1977 | Roman Opalka | John Weber Gallery, New York | Solo |
1976 | Roman Opalka | Galeria Wspolczesna “Ruch”, Warshaw | Solo |
1976 | Roman Opalka | Museum Boymans – Van Beuningnen, Rotterdam | Solo |
1976 | Roman Opalka | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels | Solo |
1976 | Roman Opalka | Galerie Schweinebraden, Berlin | Solo |
1975 | Roman Opalka | John Weber Gallery, New York | Solo |
1975 | Roman Opalka | Museum Chelm, Chelm | Solo |
1974 | Roman Opalka | John Weber Gallery, New York | Solo |
1974 | Roman Opalka | Galeria Krzysztofory, Krakow | Solo |
1973 | Künstler in Museum’ 73 | Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich | Solo |
1972 | Opalka Roman | Salone Annunciata, Milan | Solo |
1972 | Opalka 1965/1 - ∞ -Travel sheets | Galleria LP 220, Turin | Solo |
1972 | Roman Opalka | Galleria La Beresca, Genoa | Solo |
1972 | Roman Opalka | William Weston Gallery, London | Solo |
1972 | Roman Opalka | IV Biennale international de la gravure, Krakow | Solo |
1971 | Roman Opalka | Galleria II Punto, Turin | Solo |
1969 | Roman Opalka | Galeria Wspölczesna “Ruch”, Warsaw | Solo |
1966 | Roman Opalka | Galeria Dom Artysty Plastyka, Warsaw | Solo |
2014 | Art or Sound | Fondazione Prada, Venice | Group |
2014 | Les dérivés de la photographie | Art au mur | Artothèque, Pessac | Group |
2014 | Le cercie parfait de la lune ne dure qu’une nuit | Château Guiraud, Sauternes | Group |
2014 | A corps perdu | Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux | Group |
2014 | Le Mur – Œuvres de la Collection Antoine de Galbert | la Maison rouge, Paris | Group |
2013 | Performer | Art Station Gallery, Poznan | Group |
2013 | Prima Materia | Punta della Dogana, Venice | Group |
2013 | Le Festival Ritournelles | FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux | Group |
2013 | Les aventures de la vérité | Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence | Group |
2012 | FRAC Forever | Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz | Group |
2011 | The Art of Deceleration. Motion and Rest in Art from Casper David Friedrich | Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg | Group |
2011 | All you always wanted to know about White | FRAC-Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux | Group |
2011 | Roman Opalka, Art Brussels | Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels | Group |
2011 | Studies for an Exhibition | David Robert Art Foundation, London | Group |
2011 | TRA: The Edge of Becoming | Palazzo Fortuny, Venice | Group |
2011 | Qi (Energy) is Full | Daegu Art Museum, Seoul | Group |
2010 | Personal Structures Time Space Existence | Künstlerhaus Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz | Group |
2010 | Personal Structures Time Space Existence | Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna | Group |
2010 | Rien ne sert de courir | résidence artistique du Kulturforum Sud-Nord, Cotonou | Group |
2010 | Day-to-day | Mortos Gallery, New York | Group |
2010 | Better than God | Museum Twentse Velle, Enschede | Group |
2009 | Look at me Faces and Gazes in Art 1969-2009 | Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano | Group |
2009 | Essential Experiences | Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo | Group |
2009 | Vivre l’art – collection Venet | Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux | Group |
2009 | COSTANTI del classic nell’arte del XX XXI secolo | Fondazione Puclisi Cosentino, Catane | Group |
2009 | Espèces d’espaces | Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York | Group |
2009 | Dans l’oell du critique – Bernard Lamarche-Vadel et les artistes | Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris | Group |
2009 | IN-FINITUM | Palazzo Fortuny, Venice | Group |
2009 | Metissages | Musée Baron Gérard, Espace d’Art Actuel, Bayaux | Group |
2009 | Visione del mondo | Art Forum Wurth, Capena | Group |
2009 | Look at me Face and Gazes in Art 1969 – 2009 | Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano | Group |
2009 | L’âme. Omaggio a Renato Caccioppoli | Studio d’Arte Contemporanea Pino Casagrande, Rome | Group |
2009 | Poêtique du chantier | Musée – Château, Annecy | Group |
2008 | Genau + anders – Mathematik in der Kunst von Dürer bis Sol LeWitt | MUMOK, Vienna | Group |
2008 | l’lvresse de l’Absolu | Fondation Salomon, Alex | Group |
2008 | L’istante e la durata del tempo | Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa | Group |
2008 | Sensitive systems | Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul | Group |
2008 | Rythmus 21 – Positionen des Abstrakten | Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich | Group |
2008 | La sottile linea d’ombra | Fondazione Mudima, Milan | Group |
2008 | Autour d’une passion | Château de Fraïsse, Fraïssé des Corbières | Group |
2008 | Regarde de tous tes yeux, regarde ! L’art contemporain de Georges Perec | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes | Group |
2008 | Academia – Qui es-tu? | Chapelle de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris | Group |
2008 | The Panza Collection and Ways of Seeing: Giuseppe and Giovann Panza | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington | Group |
2008 | Meditations Biennale | Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan | Group |
2007 | En quête d’identité | Centre Photographique d’lle de France, Pontault Combault | Group |
2007 | Zeitgeist | Cueto Project, New York | Group |
2007 | Face to Faces | Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri | Group |
2007 | Artempo - Where time becomes art | Musée Fortuny, Venice | Group |
2007 | Personal Structures Time Space Existence | Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam | Group |
2007 | 30 Jahre walter storms galerie | Walter Storms Gallery, Munich | Group |
2007 | Numerica | Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena | Group |
2007 | Stemperando 2007 | Istituto National d’Arte Contemporanea, Carrina | Group |
2007 | Beauty is embarrassing | Western Project, Culver City | Group |
2007 | Out of time – Werke aus den Sammlungen | Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen | Group |
2007 | 20 ans du Musée d’Art Moderne- L’Art après 1960 dans les collections | Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne | Group |
2006 | Face à Faces | City Art Center, Edimbourg | Group |
2006 | La force de l’Art, un nouveau rendez vous avec la creation en France | Grand Palais, Paris | Group |
2006 | Vinilo – Discos y carátulas de artistas | MACBA, Barcelona | Group |
2006 | Les avant-gardes polonaises de Malevitch à Filcinski | Musée Matisse, La Cateau Cambresis | Group |
2006 | Une proposition de Mathieu Mercier | FRAC-Basse-Normandie, Caen | Group |
2006 | Tenture 2001 | Musée Départemental de la Tapisserie, Aubusson | Group |
2006 | Polish Painting of the 21st Century | Zacheta-National Gallery of Art, Warsaw | Group |
2005 | EXIT-Ausstieg aus dem Bild | ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe | Group |
2005 | L’oeuvre en Programme | CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux | Group |
2005 | The Giving Person | Fondation Culturale Edison, Naples | Group |
2005 | Face a Faces – Portraits et Autoportraits | ARTCURIAL, Paris | Group |
2005 | Chronos | II Filatoio Caraglio, Cuneo | Group |
2005 | En Attente | Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg | Group |
2005 | East Art Museum | KEOM Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen | Group |
2005 | Egocentric, Immoral, Outmoded, Zacheta | National Gallery of Art, Warsaw | Group |
2005 | A visages Découverts, Le Dix-Neuf | Centre Régional Art Contemporain, Montbeliard | Group |
2004 | Singular Forms (sometimes repeated) – Art from 1951 to the Present | Guggenheim, New York | Group |
2004 | Das unbekannte Meisterwerk | Kunsthaus, Potsdam | Group |
2004 | ZERO Die europaische Vision- 1958 bis heute | Museum Für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Zagreb | Group |
2004 | Vis à Vis, Opalka-Pistoletto | Musée des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing | Group |
2004 | Monocromos. Desde Malevich hasta hoy | Musée national Centre d’Art Reina Sofia, Madrid | Group |
2004 | Avante-Gardes Polonaises, hier et aujourd’hui | Espace de l’art concret, Mouans-Sartoux | Group |
2003 | Shine | Museum Bojimans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam | Group |
2003 | 20 anos | FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen | Group |
2003 | Autour de Richard Stanislawski | Palais Ujazddowski, Warshaw | Group |
2002 | Non composition: 15 Case Studies | Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford | Group |
2002 | Life is Beautiful | Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle | Group |
2002 | Kunst 2002 – Zurich | Galerie Zéro, L’Infini, Zurich | Group |
2002 | Octogone Opalka | Expo 02, Morat | Group |
2002 | Babel 2002 | National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul | Group |
2002 | La Part du Blanc | Site Odeon-5, Paris | Group |
2002 | Married by Powers | Centre d’Art de Rotterdam, Netherlands | Group |
2002 | 1968-1977, Les Annees 70 : l’art en cause | CAPC, Bordeaux | Group |
2002 | RICOMINCIO DA TE | Quaderni Della Galleria Melesi, Lecco | Group |
2002 | Vis a Vis: Opalka et Pistoletto | Istituto Polacco di Roma et Galleria di Pino Casagrande, Rome | Group |
2002 | Verweile doch … Die Sammlung VII | Lenbachhaus Kunstbau und Stadtische Galerie Munich | Group |
2002 | Schwarz-Weiss | Arbeiten auf Papier, Munich | Group |
2001 | Transcultural visions 2: Polish American Contemporary Art | Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago | Group |
2001 | In between: Art from Poland 1945 -2000 | Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago | Group |
2001 | Camoshow | Kunstmuseum, Wiesbaden | Group |
2001 | Blanc | Galerie Valérie Cueto, Paris | Group |
2001 | 50 outstanding contemporary artists | Palais de la Culture, Warsaw | Group |
2001 | 10 ans d’expositions | Centre d’Arte contemporain Bouvet Ladubay, Saumar | Group |
2001 | Der Zwang zur Wiederholung | Musée cantonal des Beaux Arts, Sion | Group |
2001 | Monets Vermächtnis, Série: Ordnung und Obsession (l’heritage de Monet La série: l’ordre et l’obsession) | Kunsthalle, Hamburg | Group |
2001 | La esperitualidad del vacio | Fundacion Bancaja, Valencia | Group |
2000 | Zeitwenden | Kunstmuseum, Bonn | Group |
2000 | Das fünfte Element | Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf | Group |
2000 | 10 Artistes du XXème s | Zacheta Museum, Warsaw | Group |
2000 | O time suspend your flight | KunstMuseum, Bergen | Group |
2000 | L’autre moitié de l’Europe | Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris | Group |
2000 | Verteidigung der Moderne Positionen der Polnische Kuns nach 1945 | Wurth Museum Kunzelsau | Group |
2000 | Global conceptualism, Points of Origin 1950s-1980s | Miami Art Center, Miami | Group |
2000 | Czas I Chwile, Time and moments | Galerie Stara, Lublin | Group |
1999 | Die Macht des Alters – Strategien der Meisterschaft | Kunstmuseum, Bonn | Group |
1999 | Global Conceptualism: Points of Origins 1950s-1980s | Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows | Group |
1999 | Das XX. Jahrhundert. Ein Jarhrhundert Kunst in Deutschland | Nationalgalerie, Berlin | Group |
1999 | On Your Own Time | PS1 MoMA, New York | Group |
1998 | Index D’Audiencia. Art Contemporani en espais publics de Vilafranca | Musée des Beaux Arts, Vilafranca del Penedès | Group |
1998 | Dies Macht des Alters – Strategien der Meisterschaft | Kronprinzpalais, Berlin | Group |
1998 | La règle du jeu | Abbaye-aux-Dames, Caen | Group |
1998 | Lieu personne temps | Galerie TNB, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes | Group |
1998 | Le dessin en procès | Box Château d’Eau, Bourges | Group |
1998 | Sentimentale Journée | Musée d’Art Contemporain, Strasbourg | Group |
1997 | Art in Poland 1945 – 1995 | Mucjarnok Palace of Art, Budapest | Group |
1997 | La Magie du Chiffre | Stadtsgalerie, Stuttgart | Group |
1997 | Areopagitica 28 freir Peinten | G.A.M.E.S., Mönchengladbach | Group |
1997 | Made in France 1947 – 1997 | Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris | Group |
1997 | Lengyelorszàg Müvészet 1945-1996 | Szépmüvézeti Mùzeum - Ludwig Mùzeum, Budapest | Group |
1996 | Horizons | Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea | Group |
1996 | Berechenbarkeit der Welt | Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn | Group |
1996 | Horizons – 14 Polish Contemporary Artists Today | Sonje Museum, Kyongiu and Seoul | Group |
1996 | Photographie contemporaine dans les collections nationales | Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris | Group |
1995 | Zapatos usafos y talleres de artistas | Salon Gaudi, Barcelona | Group |
1995 | Europa de postguerra 1945-1965 Arte despues del Diluvio | Centre Cultural, Barcelona | Group |
1995 | L’Art du portrait aux XIX et XX siècles en France | Tokyo Art Museum, Tokyo | Group |
1994 | Preferirei di no – Cinque stanze tra arte e depression | Museo Correo, Venice | Group |
1994 | Même si c’est la nuit | C.A.P.C. Bordeaux | Group |
1994 | L’art du portrait aus XIX et XX siècles en France | Musée d’Art de Shoto, Japan | Group |
1994 | Horst Antes Museum Schloss Mosigkan | Galerie Pels-Leudsen, Berlin | Group |
1994 | La suite vous appartient… | Centre Lotois d’Art Contemporain, Figeau | Group |
1993 | Autoportraits contemporains: here’s looking at me | E.L.A.C., Lyon | Group |
1993 | Das offene Bild – Aspekte der Moderne in Europa nach 1945 | Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig | Group |
1993 | Machine per la pace – Machine for peace | XLV ème Biennale de Venice, Venice | Group |
1993 | L’art en France | Musée des Beaux Artes, Sophia | Group |
1993 | Cathédrales | Galerie Caudine Papillon, Paris | Group |
1993 | Le jardin de la Vierge | Musée instrumental, Old England, Brussels | Group |
1993 | Cartographies imaginaires | FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Villeneuvre d’Ascq | Group |
1993 | Konsequenz der Zeit | Galeria Apendix, Warsaw | Group |
1993 | Polnische Avant-garde 1930 – 1990 | Neuen Berliner Kunstvereins, Berlin | Group |
1992 | Manifeste I | Musée national d’arte moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris | Group |
1992 | Das offene Bild – Aspekte der Moderne in Europa nach 1945 | Westfalisches Landesmuseum, Munster | Group |
1991 | Strategies for the last painting | Feigen Gallery, Chicago | Group |
1991 | Words & # | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Dayton | Group |
1991 | Present Continuous | Bath Festival Exhibition, Bath | Group |
1990 | L’arte conceptual, une perspective | Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris | Group |
1990 | Concept Art – Eïne Perspective | Deichtorhallen, Hamburg | Group |
1990 | 1965 – 1975 Aspects and Practices of European Art | Castello di Rivara, Torino | Group |
1990 | Summergroup Show | John Weber Gallery, New York | Group |
1990 | Installationsfotos | Galerie Wanda Dunikowski, Cologne | Group |
1988 | Zéro, un Moviment Europeu | Fundacio Caixa de Barcelona, Barcelona | Group |
1988 | Vision and Unity | Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn | Group |
1987 | Fifty Years of Collecting: An Anniversary Selection | The Salomon R. Guggenheim Fondation, New York | Group |
1987 | Périgueux, Collections pour une région | Périgueux et FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux | Group |
1986 | L’Art et le Temps | Barbican Center, London | Group |
1986 | Qu-est-ce que l’art français? | Centre régional d’Art contemporain, Toulouse | Group |
1986 | Beuys zu Ehren | Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich | Group |
1986 | Le choix d’André Dimanche | Musée Cantini, Marseille | Group |
1985 | L’Art et le Temps | Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva | Group |
1985 | L’Art et le Temps | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek | Group |
1985 | L’Arte et le Temps | Städtische Kunsthalle, Manheim | Group |
1985 | L’Arte et le Temps | Museum des 20 Jahrhundetds-Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna | Group |
1985 | L’Art de le Temps | Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne | Group |
1985 | Process und Konstruktion | Kunstlerwerkstätten, Munich | Group |
1984 | Ecritures dans la peinture | Villa Arson, Nice | Group |
1984 | Echanges artistes français à Berlin 1964-1984 | Goethe Institut, Paris | Group |
1984 | L’art et le temps, regards sur la quatrième dimension | Palais des BeauxArts, Brussels | Group |
1983 | 12 Artistes et le temps | La Chartreuse, Villeneuve-les-Avignon | Group |
1983 | Présences Polonaises | l’art vivant autour du musée de Lodz, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris | Group |
1982 | Lapidar | Galerie d+c Mueller Roth, Stuttgart | Group |
1982 | Covento | Eremitani San Agostino, Bergami | Group |
1981 | Deserto, Aspetti della condizione umana attraverso l’arte | Convento degli Eremitani San Agostino, Bergami | Group |
1981 | Les Genevois collectionent – Aspects de l’Art aujourd’hui 1970-1980 | Musée Roth, Geneva | Group |
1981 | Phoenix | Alte Oper, Frankfurt | Group |
1981 | Soundings | Neuberger Museum, New York | Group |
1980 | Pier & Ocean | Rijksmuseum, Kröller-Müller, Otterlo | Group |
1980 | Pier & Ocean | Hayward Gallery, London | Group |
1980 | Chiffres et lettres | Galerie Beyeler, Basel | Group |
1980 | L’Artiste pris à la lettre | Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris | Group |
1980 | Polnische Kunsthaus drei Jahrzehnten | Staatliche Kunstammlungen Dresden, Dresden | Group |
1979 | L’Avanguardia Polacca 1910-1978 | Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome | Group |
1979 | Sprachen jenseits von Dichtung | Westfälischer Kunstverien, Munster | Group |
1978 | New Treasures at the Institute | Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis | Group |
1977 | Time | Philadelphia College of Art, Philapdelphia | Group |
1977 | Recent Acquisitions Exhibition | Guggenheim Museum, New York | Group |
1977 | 22 Polnische Künstler aus dem Besitz des Museum Sztuki | Lodz Kölnischer Kunstverein, Koln | Group |
1976 | Today-To morrow | Lowe Art Museum, Miami | Group |
1976 | The mind’s eye | The Gallery of the Loretto Hilton Center, Saint Louis | Group |
1976 | The future of the present | Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables | Group |
1976 | Sorozatmüvek – Serial Works | Csok Istvan Gallery, Sveged | Group |
1975 | Roman Opalka | John Weber Gallery, New York | Group |
1975 | Word Image Number | Sarah Lawrence Gallery, New York | Group |
1975 | Locate-Order-Measure | University of Colorado, Boulder | Group |
1975 | Contemporary Europeans | Hillyer Art Gallery, Northhampton | Group |
1975 | Geschriebene Malerei | Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhre | Group |
1975 | Empirica L’Arte addizione e sottrazione | Museo Castelvecchio, Verona | Group |
1975 | Aspects of Polish Modern Arts | Galeria Wspôtczesna, Warsaw | Group |
1974 | Kunst in Polen von der Gotik bis heute | Kunsthaus, Zurich | Group |
1974 | Painting and Sculpture today 1974 | Museum of Art, Indianapolis | Group |
1974 | Painting and Sculpture today 1974 | Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati | Group |
1974 | Roman Opalka | John Weber Gallery, New York | Group |
1973 | Roman Opalka | John Weber Gallery, New York | Group |
1972 | Ateliers 72 | Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh | Group |
1971 | Aktuellt fran Polen | Konstmuseum, Göteborg | Group |
1971 | Graveurs polonais contemporains | Maison de la Culture de Bourges | Group |
1970 | 8 Internationale Graphik Ausstellung | Europahaus, Vienna | Group |
1970 | Jungle Polnische Künstler | Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin | Group |
1969 | Graphique Polonais | 10th Biennale de Sao Paulo | Group |