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Július Koller

Biography

Július Koller Born in 1939 in Piestany, died in 2007. Lived and worked in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2010

Retrospective exhibition (tour), National Gallery, Bratislava.

2009

Július Koller's Symposium, National Gallery, Bratislava.

2007

Space is the Place, gb agency, Paris.

Art Premiere, gb agency, Art Basel, Basel, (with D. Narkevicius).

Raum aktueller Kunst, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna.

2006

Július Koller & Jiri Kovanda, Index, Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm.

Kontakt-Bau-Stelle (U.F.O.), Action-Performance, Mumok, Vienna.

Echo and Culture Situations, Július Koller & Kvetoslava Fulierovà, Institut Français, Bratislava.

2004

Kontakt, Kunstraum München, München.

Isabella Bortolozzi gallery, Berlin.

2003

Július Koller Univerzálne Futurologické Operácie, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.

1999

Gallery SOGA, Bratislava.

Kveta Fulierová, Studio S, Bratislava.

Kveta Fulierová, Vlastivedné múzeum, Trebisov, Uzhorod.

1993

Up - Down, UBS, Bratislava, Novy Smokovec.

1991-92

Sonds, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava.

Gallery of Art, Zilina.

State Gallery Banská Bystrica.

1991

Post-komunikácia, The Art Gallery, Zilina.

1974

Textile Pictures, The State Research Institute of Textiles, Bratislava.

1970

J.K.Ping-Pong Club, Cabinet of the Gallery of the Young, Bratislava.

1969

Antigallery, Mending shop for stockings, Bratislava.

1968

Permanent Demystification I.,II., V- club, Bratislava.

1967

Gallery of the Young, Bratislava.

The Tatran Regional Gallery, Poprad.

1966

Editorial Office Smena, Bratislava.

1965

Park of Culture and Repose, Bratislava.

Group exhibitions (selection)

2009

Nord, Nord-Ouest, gb agency, Paris.

2008

U-Turn, Quadriennale, Copenhagen.

Fluxus East, Ludwig Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest.

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London.

Yes, No & Other Options, Art Sheffield 08, Sheffield.

Nouvelles du Mont Analogue, Musée d'art contemporain, Rochechouart.

Conspire, Transmediale 08, Festival for Art and Digital Culture, Berlin.

2007

Fluxus East, CAC, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.

Fiac, Cour Carrée du Louvre, gb agency, Paris.

Fluxus East, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.

Learn to Read, Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London.

Homage a Kassak, gallery of Art, Nové Zàmky.

Contemporary Slovak Art, Slovak Art in Collection of first Slovak investors group, Bratislava, City Art Museum, Ljubljana.

Recollection from 1987 to 2007, artistamp Museum of Art Pool, Art Pool Research Center, Budapest.

15th Exhibition of UBS Members, House of Art, Bratislava.

2006

Kontakt, Ester Bank Collection, Mumok, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna.

Night of Sun, Mail art, Kunstkammer im Schloss Barten Stein.

III International Convocation of Mail Art, Museum, Ceuta.

Arte y Naturaleza-Art and Nature, Internatioanl Mail Art Exhibition, Merida.

Erzählungen (Narratives), Kunsthaus, Graz.

Auditorium-Stage-Backstage, Kuntverein Frankfurt/Main (Tranzit-Action).

PeaceTower - Day for Night, Whitney Biennial 2006, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Autopoesis, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava.

Abstraction III, Umelecka Beseda Slovenska (slovak art group), Slovak Broadcasting-Radio, Bratislava.

Le Mouvement des Images, MNAM, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Shift, Gallery Grita Insam, Vienna.

...Concept has Never Meant Horse, Generali Foundation, Vienna.

In (ter) Media (s) Res, Gallery of Art, Zilina.

Collezionami, Biennale d'Arti Contemporanee Italian and Slovak Art, Citadella della Cultura, Archivio di Stato e Biblioteca Nazionale, Bari.

2004

Collected Views from East or West and West or East, Generali Foundation, Vienna.

Eintritt Frei - Kunst aus Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prag and Wien, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna.

Parallel Actions : Conceptual Tendencies in Central Europe from 1965 to 1980, Galerie der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig.

De ma Fenêtre, des artistes et leurs territoires, ENSBA, Paris.

Who if not we...?, BAK, Utrecht; Centraal Museum, Utrecht.

Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, München.

Begegnung auf höchster Ebene, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna.

2003

Links, gb agency, Paris.

Wir Müssen heute noch..., Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.

Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice.

Now What? Dreaming a better world in six parts, BAK, Utrecht

Parallel Actions: Conceptual Tendencies in Central Europe from 1965 to 1980, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York.

2001

Ausgeträumt..., Wiener Secession, Vienna.

Slowakische Träume, Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Wörlen, Passau.

2000

Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona.

Global Conceptualism, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Ludwig Museum Budapest; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.

1997

Face à l'Histoire (1933-96), MNAM, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

1996

23. Sao Paulo Art Bienalle, Sao Paulo.

1995

Before (Slovak art of 60's), Gallery of Art, Zilina.

60's in Slovak Art, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava.

Dream of Museum, Gallery of Art, Zilina.

1994

After the Spring, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

Der Riss im Raum, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw.

1993

The 1st Floor, Municipal Gallery, Bratislava.

The 2nd Exit, Ludwig Forum, Aachen.

1992

Hills and Mills, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.

Zwischen Objekt und Installation, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund.

Ebb and Tide, Nová váznost, Slovak Radio, Bratislava.

1991

Dream of a Museum, Gallery of Art, Zilina.

On the Beautiful Blue Danube, (together with P.Rónai), Budapest.

Interspaces, The Bardejov Spa, Bardejov- Oscillations, Kmárno, Budapest.

1990

Art against Totality, Bratislava.

Nová váznost, The Clarists'church, SFVU Gallery, Bratislava.

Slowakische Kunst Heute, Villa Merkel, Esslingen.

Slovak Photography of the Sixties, Bratislava.

1989

Slovak Photography of the Eighties, Bratislava, Brno, Moscow.

Basement, Bratislava.

1988

Hommage á Kassák (100), Budapest.

The New Slovak Picture, Bratislava.

1987

Art of Today II, Club of Young Artists, Budapest Gallery, Budapest.

1986

The Body in Czecho-slovak Photography 1900 - 1986, Kromeríz.

1982

Bilder aus der Slowakei, Galeria Pragxis, Essen-Kettwig.

1982 -87

Archelogical Monuments and the Present, Bratislava.

1980

Exhibition of Drawings, Pécs.

1979

Works and Words, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam.

Miejsca i chwile, Galeria Foto-medium-art, Wroclaw.

Dziekanka, Warsaw.

1976

The Seventies, CAYC, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo.

Multimedia, Museum de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo.

1974

Prospective '74, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo.

Hygiène de l'Art, Genève.

Wis hebben ook ideen, Aalst.

1971

Contemporary Slovak Graphic Art, Banská Bystrica.

Multisensorische Ereignisse: Tischtennis Aktion 71, Bielefeld.

Junge Tschechoslowakische Künstler, Bielefeld.

1970

The 1st Open Studio, Bratislava.

Polymúzická priestor, Piestany

1969

Contemporary Trends in Slovak Painting, Bratislava.

Jung Künstler aus der CSSR, Berlin.

Donation, Paris.

1968

Danuvius, Bratislava.

1967

Contemporary Slovak Painting Trends, Cracow.

Picture 67, Brno-Pictures 1965-67, Kosice.

1966

Exhibition of the Young, Bratislava

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Press articles

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Press (Selection)

2007

Documenta Magazine, #3, german / english, "Julius Koller".

Untitled, #42, english, "tranzit: an institution without institution", text by Tobi Maier, Summer.

Frieze, #111, english, "Julius Koller 1939 - 2007", text by Jan Verwoert, November / December.

2006

Index, english, "Engagement instead of Arrangement. Julius Koller's Erratic Work on the Re-Conception of Aesthetic Space 1960ff", text by Georg Schöllhammer.