Born: Essen, Germany, 1956

Education: Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, 1977
Completed advanced studies in 1981 after studying with Fritz Schwegler

2001 – 2010
Professor at Kunstakademie Münster

2010 – 2019
Professor at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Currently lives and works in Düsseldorf.

2023

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2022

George Economou Collection, Athens (catalogue)

2020

Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

2019

6. Stilleben (6th Still Life), Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA

2017

Multiples, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Kunstraum St. Georgen, Hansestadt Wismar, Germany

2016

Zita – Щapa: Chamber Piece by Katharina Fritsch and Alexej Koschkarow, Schaulager, Basel (catalogue)
Museum Folkwang and Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany (catalogue)
Hahn/Cock, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

2015

Asklepios 8, Novartis Campus, Basel

2014

Postcards, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

2013

Hahn/Cock, Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London

2012

The Art Institute of Chicago

2011

Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf

2009

Kunsthaus Zürich. Traveled to Deichtorhallen Hamburg (catalogue)

2008

Tischgesellschaft, Zollamt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2007

Palazzina dei Giardini, Galleria dell Civica, Modena, Italy

2006

White Cube, London
Parkhaus, Düsseldorf

2005

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2004

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2003

Rattenkönig / Rat-King, Schaulager, Basel (permanent installation)

2002

K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (catalogue)

2001

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue)
Tate Modern, London (catalogue)
Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (catalogue)

2000

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Multiples, Kunstforum Bâloise, Basel

1999

Damenwahl (with Alexej Koschkarow), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (catalogue)
White Cube, London
Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg, Germany (catalogue)

1996

New Work, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Traveled to Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (catalogue)
Ludwigforum, Aachen, Germany

1995

German Pavilion (with Martin Honert and Thomas Ruff), Venice Biennale (catalogue)

1993

Dia Center for the Arts, New York (catalogue)

1990

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

1989

Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany (catalogue)
Portikus, Frankfurt
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

1988

Kunsthalle Basel (catalogue)
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1987

Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany (catalogue)

1985

Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne

1984

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle (with Thomas Ruff), Munich

2023

Reaching for the Stars: From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
YOU ARE HERE* Contemporary Art in the Garden, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Embodied Spirit, White Cube, Seoul

2022

Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Qatar Creates, Doha
Bibliomania: Das Buch in der Kunst, Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
The Milk of Dreams, Venice Biennale
My Reflection of You, The Perimeter, London
Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Schatzhaus und Labor: 25 Jahre Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
Sweet Lust, White Cube, Paris

2021

Katharina Fritsch Gotthard Graubner Andreas Gursky Rosemarie Trockel: Raum Zeit Stille, Galerie Schwarzer, Düsseldorf

2020

Continuously Contemporary: New Works from the Emanuel Hoffman Foundation, Museum für Gegenwartskunst at the Kunstmuseum Basel
Kunst aus Deutschland unterwegs, Kunstpalast, Minsk
Mäuse – Feinde, Freunde, Spiegelbilder, Museum Brot und Kunst, Forum Welternährung, Ulm, Germany
MOVING ENERGIES: 10 Years, me Collectors Room, Berlin
Neuerwerbungen Herbst 2020, Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf
(Self) Portraits, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich

2019

5 Ways In: Themes from the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Alles Farbe!: Jörn Stoya und die Sammlung des Museum Morsbroich, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Feine Früchtchen: Obst in illustrierten Pflanzenbüchern und moderner Kunst, Museum im Prediger Schwäbisch-Gmünd, Germany

2018

Basel Short Stories: Von Erasmus bis Iris von Roten, Kunstmuseum Basel
The Earth is Flat, Carriage Trade, New York
Unexchangeable, WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, Bogotá
People, Deitch Projects, New York
If Everything Is Sculpture Why Make Sculpture? Artist’s Choice: Peter Fischli, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
A TIME CAPSULE: Works Made by Women for Parkett, 1984–2017, Parkett Space, Zurich

2017

COLORI L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Chicago, Ibiza, etc., Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Paradigm of Art: Contemporary Art of Germany, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
200 Jahre Aufbau, Kunstverein in Hamburg
Unerwartete Begegnungen. Nolde, Kippenberger, Fritsch & Co. in der Sammlung der Westfälischen Provinzial, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany

2016

Life Itself, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Iconoclastic gestures, heterodox images, Fundació “la Caixa”, Barcelona
Autonom und profan: Skulptur Projekte im Territorium der Kirche, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany
Sculpture on the Move: 1946–2016, Museum für Gegenwartskunst at the Kunstmuseum Basel (catalogue)
Pavlova's Dawg and Other Works by Gallery Artists, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
Mary & der Vulkan (Mary & the volcano), Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Big Picture: Art After 1945, Seattle Art Museum
Viaje alrededor del mundo, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico
Broken White, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Mikro Makro – Das Große im Kleinen entdecken, Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf

2015

The Shell, Almine Rech Gallery, New York
Heartbreak Hotel, Zuecca Project Space, Venice
Artist Rooms, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Future Present, Schaulager, Basel
Sommer Nacht Traum, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany
10 Sculptures, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
The Great Mother, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
I am because of you, Yuan Space, Beijing
Top Hundred, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
No Place Like Home, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT
The Problem of God, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
Mythologies comparées, Roland Barthes, Chapelle du Carmel, Libourne, France
Madonna: Frau—Mutter—Kultfigur, Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hanover, Germany
A Few Free Years: From Absalon to Zobernig, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
No Man’s Land, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (catalogue)
The New Contemporary, The Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue)

2014

Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Early Works, Galerie Johnen, Berlin
Room Service: On the Hotel in the Arts and Artists in the Hotel, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Loveless, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Auf der Spur der Erfindung—Bildhauer zeichnen,Akademie-Galerie - Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf
The Paths of German Art from 1949 to the present, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection, The Contemporary Austin. Traveled to The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London
Manifesta 10: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Basic Research: Notes on the Collection, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
Use me, Herbert Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
Peter Fischli David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Martin Honert, Gary Hume, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Summer Group Exhibition, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
The Bilderberg Collection, St. Moritz Art Masters, Chesa Planta, Samedan, Switzerland
One Million Years – System and Symptom, Kunstmuseum Basel
Sculpture After Sculpture, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (catalogue)
A Tribute to Anita Reiner, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Boom She Boom: Works from the MMK Collection, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

2013

FULL HOUSE, Galerie Schönewald Fine Arts, Xanten, Germany
Out of the Ordinary, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
People: Selected Parkett Artists’ Editions (1984–2013), Parkett Space, Zurich
Sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy: 1945 to the Present, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Dreams of Venice, L’Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Château Labottière, Bordeaux, France
Images for Images, Artists for Tichy – Tichy for Artists, GASK – Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutná Hora, Czech Republic
PARKETT – 220 Artists Editions & Collaborations since 1984, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Coulisses, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, France
Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: Have you seen me before?, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Travelling the world: Art from Germany, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

2012

Schaulager Satellite, Messeplatz Basel / Art Basel
Darren Almond, Katharina Fritsch, Martin Honert, Gary Hume, Paul Sietsema, Rebecca Warren, Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
Contemporary Art from the Collection, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Katharina Fritsch, Alexej Koschkarow, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf
Cit Art Foundation, Neues Museum, Nuremberg
Mein Rasierspiegel—Von Holthuys bis Beuys, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (catalogue)
Bildspeicher II, Akademie-Galerie - Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf
La Beauté animale, Grand Palais, Paris
10 Jahre Sammlung Rheingold, Schloss Dyck, Jüchen, Germany. Traveled to Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany; and Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
Think Twice: Twenty Years of Contemporary Art from Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Whitechapel Gallery, London (catalogue)

2011


Dreamscapes, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis


Identidad Femenina en la colección del IVAM, Memorial da América Latina, São Paulo. Traveled to Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura, Fortaleza, Brazil; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile; and Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay (catalogue)
Black Swan: The Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
DogCatMouse, Kunsthaus Zürich
Oceanomania: Souvenirs of Mysterious Seas, Villa Paloma, Monaco
No Substitute, Glenstone, Potomac, MD
Figure in the Garden, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Entfesselte Welten, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Hanover, Germany
ILLUMInations, Venice Biennale
Beziehungsarbeit: Kunst und Institution, Künstlerhaus, Vienna (catalogue)
MMK 1991–2011: 20 Years of the Contemporary, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Nod Nod Wink Wink: Conceptual Art in New Mexico and Its Influences, The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Donne Donne Donne, Fondazione Pier Luigi E Nataline Remotti, Camogli, Italy
Vor dem Gesetz. Skulpturen der Nachkriegszeit und Räume der Gegenwartskunst, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
The Deer, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

2010


Silent Revolution, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Objectes Desclassificats, CaixaForum, Barcelona

Conversation Pieces: Act III, Galerie Johnen, Berlin

Was tun? Was geschieht? Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Rheingold, Stiftung Schloss Dyck, Jüchen, Germany

Larger Than Life – Stranger Than Fiction, Triennale Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany (catalogue)
Alpha Omega—Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago

Intensif-Station, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Lebenslust & Totentanz, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria

IVAM Donaciones, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Spain
Fourth Plinth Finalists, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
Gwangju Biennial, South Korea

New Work: Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Martin Honert, Charles Ray, Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Analysis of Flight Data: Art of the 80s: A Düsseldorf Perspective, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Luc Tuymans: A Vision of Central Europe, Grootseminarie, Bruges, Belgium

2009

Sculpture in the IVAM's Collection, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Spain

KölnSkulptur 5, Stiftung Skulpturenpark Köln 

Bestandsaufnahme III: Open Exchange, Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg, Germany

Le Sort Probable de L'homme qui avait avalé le Fantôme, Centre des Monuments Nationaux Conciergerie, Paris

75 Years of Looking Forward, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Event Horizon, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Benches & Binoculars, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis


2008

Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
The Color of Life, The Getty Villa, Los Angeles
You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil, White Cube Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Von Gerhard Richter bis Rebecca Horn: Werke aus der Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
We are Stardust, We Are Golden. Woman at Johnen + Schöttle since 1984, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
Ad Absurdum: Energien des Absurden von der klassischen Moderne zur Gegenwart, MARTa Herford, Germany
God & Goods – Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin Center for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy
Kavalierstart 1978–1982: Aufbruch in die Kunst der 80er, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Painting Now and Forever, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Parkhaus, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Avantgarde aus Westfalen, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany

2007

I Want to Believe, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Disorder in the house, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels (catalogue)
Art Contemporain en Allemagne, Palais der Schönen Künste, Brussels
Schlaf & Traum, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
Rockers Island, Olbricht Collection,Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Paper, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives, United Kingdom
Dead! Dead! Dead!, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
Summer Exhibition 2007, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Bodycheck – 10. Triennale der Kleinplastik in Fellbach, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Fellbach, Germany
Door Cycle, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Als wäre nichts gesagt: Kunst der 80er Jahre aus den Sammlungen der Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Museum Hause Esters/Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
The Eclectic Eye: Pop and Illusion, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center
A Conversation in Three Dimensions, Philadelphia Museum of Art
I Am as You Will Be, Cheim & Reid, New York
True Romance. Allegories of Love from the Renaissance to the Present, Kunsthalle Wien. Traveled to Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; and Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany (catalogue)

2006

EGOmania, Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena, Italy
Figures in the Field, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
We Humans are Free: From the Collection of S.M.A.K., Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Wettbewerb Hafencity, Hamburger Architektur Sommer
Lang leve Beeldhouwkunst!, Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
Dark Matter, White Cube, London
bidibidobidiboo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
No Negative, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium
Small Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Radar: Selections from the Collection of Vicki & Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum (catalogue)
Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Six Feet Under: Autopsy of our Relation to the Dead, Kunstmuseum Bern. Traveled to Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
Anos 80, Uma Topologia, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
No Negative, objectif_exhibitions, Antwerpen, Belgium
Art Metropole: The Top 100, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Women of Europe, The Citadel, Saint-Tropez, France

2005

Skulls—Images in the face of death, Schönewald Fine Arts, Xanten, Germany
Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Traveled to Hayward Gallery, London; and MART, Rovereto, Italy
Zwischen Tür und Angel, Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
Long Playing, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Simple(s) & Elémentaire(s), FRAC Aquitaine, Musée de Gajac, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France
Mythologies, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Spielräume, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Enchanté Château, Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain, Alex, France
Van Gogh bis Beuys, CROSSART: Meisterwerke der Moderne aus zehn deutschen und niederländischen Museen, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Blickachsen, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
Flashback, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel
In Passing: Professors of the Kunstakademie Münster in Dialogue with the Collection,Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
Donna Donne, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Hot Needle: Graphic Works of the 1980s, City Gallery, Prague
Jahresgaben 2005, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
Zoo Story: An exhibition of animals in art–for the young and young at heart, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York
Schöner Leben, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
‘Twas the Night Before…, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2004

100 Artists See God, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Traveled toLaguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, PA; and Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville
cremers haufen: alltag, prozesse, handlungen, kunst der 60er Jahre und heute, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany (catalogue)
Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo
Sammlung Plum, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (catalogue)
Animals, Haunch of Venison, London (catalogue)
Transcultures, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, New Orleans Museum of Art
Vanitas, Eitelkeit Van De Ijdelheden,IKOB,Internationales Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, Eupen, Belgium

2003

Stacked, D’Amelio Terras, New York
Maler-Bildhauer aus der Sammlung Garnatz, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Germany
Strangely Familiar, New York State Museum, Albany
Coollustre, Collection Lambert, Hotel de Caumont, Avignon, France. Traveled to Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; and Le Magasin, Grenoble, France (catalogue)
Durchgehend geöffnet, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Torn Between Two Lovers, curated by Katharina Fritsch, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Tierausstellung, Galerie Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf
Sukûn-Stille. Über den Wunsch und die Mühsal Kunst zum Beruf zu machen,Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (catalogue)
Sculpture: Darren Almond, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Ugo Rondinone, Tony Smith, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Avant, Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
Fast Forward, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
Multiple!/Multiple!, Contemporary Collectors’ Gallery, Roslyn Harbor, NY

2002

Die Pop Art und die zeitgenössische Bildhauerkunst,Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen, Germany (catalogue)
Something, Anything (curated by Nayland Blake), Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Sphere, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
Shopping, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Traveled to Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
To Eat or Not to Eat, or the Relations between Art and Questions of Eating, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain
Wegweiser, Galerie Schönewald Fine Arts, Xanten, Germany

2001

A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland (catalogue)
Collaborations with Parkett 1984 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Ohne Zögern: Die Sammlung Olbricht Teil 2, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Und keiner hinkt: 22 Wege vom Schwegler wegzukommen, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany. Traveled to Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; and Tate Modern, London
Die Sammlung als Bild. Kugelkopf, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, Germany. Traveled to Kunstverein Neuhausen, Fildern, Germany
Museum unserer Wünsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art,Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Objectif (Camouflage), CCASA-CCAWA Satellite, Center of Contemporary Art of Southern and West Africa, Brussels
Ex(o)DUS, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Genußscheine, Portikus, Frankfurt
Fortuna Düsseldorf, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel

2000

Quotidiana: The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Mensch, Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany (catalogue)
Food for the Mind, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst im Haus der Kunst, Munich
ARCHE, Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany
Kabinett der Zeichnung: Eine Ausstellung des Kunstfonds, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Traveled to Kunstverein Lingen, Germany; Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, Germany; and Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Szenenwechsel XVIII, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
The Intuitive Eye: Frederick R. Weisman Collection Exhibition, FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Los Angeles
Hypermental: Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950–2000 von Salvador Dali bis Jeff Koons, Kunsthaus Zürich. Traveled to Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (catalogue)
Figurare, Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy
Auktion zugunsten des Fußballvereins Fortuna 95 Düsseldorf, Galerie Christine Hölz, Düsseldorf
Ghosts, Delta Axis @ Marshall Arts, Memphis

1999

The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, California Center of the Arts, Escondido, CA. Traveled to Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles
Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
Powder, Aspen Art Museum, CO (catalogue)
The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, Seattle Art Museum (catalogue)
Crosscurrents: New Art from MoMA, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Doppelgänger, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (catalogue)
dAPPERTutto, Venice Biennale
Das XX, Jahrhundert: Kunst, Kultur, Politik und Gesellschaft in Deutschland, Nationalgalerie, Berlin (catalogue)
Romancing the Brain, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (catalogue)
Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center. Traveled to Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ; MoMA PS1, New York; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; Fundació “la Caixa”, Barcelona; and Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada
Am Horizont, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany (catalogue)
Retrace Your Steps: Remember Tomorrow, Sir John Soane's Museum, London
Limitiert, Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Krefeld, Germany
Save the day! Eine Aktion anlässlich des 60. Geburtstags von Jean-Christophe Ammann, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (catalogue)
Pretty, nice and fine. Einfach schön, Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Krefeld, Germany

1998

Artificial: Figuracions contemporànies, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Maverick: Jean-Marc Bustamante, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Roni Horn, Thomas Schütte, Andreas Slominski, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Rats, Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (catalogue)
Skulptur Figur Weiblich, Landesgalerie Oberösterreich, Linz, Germany (catalogue)
Fast Forward: Trademarks, Kunstverein Hamburg
Triennale der Kleinplastik, Göppingen, Germany
Die Macht des Alters – Strategien der Meisterschaft, Deutsches Historisches Museum/ Kronprinzenpalais Berlin. Traveled to Kunstmuseum Bonn; and Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Germany
Auf der Spur: Kunst der 90er Jahre im Spiegel von Schweizer Sammlungen, Kunsthalle Zürich
Im Auftrag: Druckgraphik 1918 bis 1998 für die Schweizerische Graphische Gesellschaft Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zürich, Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin. Traveled to Civica Galleria d'Arte Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona, Switzerland; and Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland
Artist’s Proof - künstlerisch erprobt, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany. Traveled to Kunsthalle Nürnberg
Eight People from Europe, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
Hommage à Lidice, Schleswig-Holstein-Haus, Schwerin, Germany
Kunst und Kunststoff, Deutsches Kunststoff Museum, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf

1997

Pro Lidice, National Museum Prague
Die Sammlung der Dresdner Bank, Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt
Die Epoche der Moderne: Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Miniaturen heute - today - aujourd'hui - oggi, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Biennale de Lyon, Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (catalogue)
Infra-slim Spaces, Soros Contemporary Center for Art, Kiev, Ukraine
Sammlung Ackermans, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany

1996

Everything That’s Interesting is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection, The Factory, Athens School of Fine Arts. Traveled to Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
Private View, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, United Kingdom
Stilleben – Nature morte: Natura Morta – Still life, Helmhaus Zürich
Collections du Castello di Rivoli, Nouveau Musée/Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980–1995, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
En helvetes förvandling - Tysk konst från Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kulturhuset Stockholm
Sammlung Garnatz,Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Germany

1995

Micromegas, American Center, Paris. Traveled to The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Signs & wonders: Niko Pirosmani (1862–1918) and recent art, Kunsthaus Zürich. Traveled to Centro Galego d’Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (catalogue)
Sleeper: Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Guillermo Kuitca, Doris Salcedo, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (catalogue)
Summer 1995, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Leiblicher Logos: 14 Künstlerinnen aus Deutschland, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany. Traveled to Altes Museum, Berlin (catalogue)
Le domaine du diaphane, Le Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France

1994

K. Fritsch, P. Halley, H. Kiecol, I. Knoebel, S. Levine, R. Prince, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Power Works, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington. Traveled to Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; Waikato Museum of Art & History, Hamilton, New Zealand; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (catalogue)
En miniature: Malerei und Skulptur, Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Krefeld, Germany
Zimmer in denen die Zeit nicht zählt: Die Sammlung, Udo und Anette Brandhorst, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (catalogue)
Même si c'est la nuit, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Das Jahrhundert des Multiple, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Aura, Secession, Vienna (catalogue)
Seeing the Unseen, 30 Shepherdess Walk, London
Young German Art of the 90s from North Rhine-Westphalia, Artsonje Center, Seoul. Traveled to Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre; Taipei Fine Arts Museum; Goethe-Institut, Singapore; International Art Gallery, Peking, China; The National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka; and National Gallery, Bangkok (catalogue)
Arca de Noè/Noah‘s Ark, Works from the Collections of the CAPC Musée de Bordeaux and the FRAC Aquitaine, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal

1993

Moving, Foundation De Appel, Amsterdam
Room 763, Hotel Carlton Palace, Paris (catalogue)
Lieux de la vie moderne,Centre d'Art Contemporain de Quimper, France

1992

Doubletake: Collective Memory & Current Art, Hayward Gallery, London. Traveled to Kunsthalle Wien (catalogue)
Der Teppich des Lebens, Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve, Germany
Ars Pro Domo: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Kölner Privatbesitz, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (catalogue)
Post Human, FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne. Traveled to Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (catalogue)
7. Thomas Bernstein, Günther Förg, Katharina Fritsch, Isa Genzken, Hubert Kiecol, Wilhelm Mundt,Thomas Schütte, Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw ( catalogue)
Oh! Cet écho!, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Tropismes: Colleción Fundació “la Caixa”, Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona (catalogue)
Animals, Galerie Kubinski, Cologne
Kunstprojekt Heizkraftwerk Römerbrücke, Saarbrücken, Germany

1991

Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (catalogue)
Carnegie International 1991, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
In anderen Räumen (In Other Spaces), Museum Haus Esters/Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Standpunkt der Moderne. From Picasso to Clemente: Work from the Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung Basel, Deichtorhallen Hamburg (catalogue)
Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Reinhard Mucha, Charles Ray, Rachel Whiteread, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Galleria Locus Solus, Genova, Italy
Skulpturen für Krefeld 2, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
Contemporary Art from the Collection of Jason Rubell, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC (catalogue)
L’espai i la idea: Selecció d‘obres de la collecció d’art contemporani, Fundació “la Caixa,” Barcelona

1990

Culture and Commentary: An Eighties Perspective,Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (catalogue)
New Work: A New Generation, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
Objectives: The New Sculpture,Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalogue)
Weitersehen 1980–1990, Museum Haus Esters/Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany (catalogue)
Hanne Darboven, Walter Dahn, Katharina Fritsch, Reinhard Mucha, Rosemarie Trockel, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Semi-Objects, John Goode Gallery, New York

1989

Katharina Fritsch, Martin Honert, and Thomas Ruff, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam
What is Contemporary Art? Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
Color and/or Monochrome, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Traveled to The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Bremer Kunstpreis, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (catalogue)
German Art of the late 80s, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

1988

Cultural Geometry, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, House of Cyprus, Athens
1988 Australian Biennale: from the Southern Cross: A view of World Art c. 1940–88, Sydney Biennale
BiNationale, German Art of the Late 80’s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Traveled to Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (catalogue)
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
Collections pour une région,CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Nature Morte, Galerie Philomene Magers, Bonn
Katharina Fritsch, Michael van Ofen, Jeff Wall: Krieg, Liebe, Geld, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne

1987

Hacen lo que quieren: Arte joven renano, Museo d’Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla
Anderer Leute Kunst, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Skulptur Projekte Münster, Germany (catalogue)
Res publica: Ideen und Konzepte für öffentliche Kunst, Galerie Sonne, Berlin
Bestiarium, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Multiples, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Ydessa Gallery, Toronto

1986

Von Raum zu Raum (From Space to Space), Kunstverein Hamburg (catalogue)
Sonsbeek '86, Arnhem, Netherlands (catalogue)
Aus den Anfängen, Kunstfonds Bonn
Europa/Amerika, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (catalogue)
A Distanced View, New Museum, New York
Sie machen was sie wollen: Junge Rheinische Kunst, Galerie Schipka, Sofia, Bulgaria

1985

Galerie Schneider (with Thomas Ruff and Bernd Jünger), Konstanz, German

1984

Von hier aus, Messegelände (Halle 13), Düsseldorf (catalogue)

1982

Möbel perdu, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
(Orte) der 10 heiligen Geliebten, Klassenausstellung Schwegler, Museum Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert, Germany

2019

Fette/Koschkarow/Lahme, Galerie Schönewald, Düsseldorf

2015

Künstler sammeln, Akademie-Galerie - Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf

2013

Sugar – Positionen aus der Klasse Katharina Fritsch, Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf

2010

Wrong, Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf

2003

Torn Between Two Lovers, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Das grüne Telefon - Klasse Katharina Fritsch, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Germany

2002

Nan Goldin, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Michael van Ofen,Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Luc Tuymans, Wandmalerei, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Alexander Knych, For Now and Forever,Malkasten, Düsseldorf

2001

Weege, Distortions, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Stefan Sehler, Suite, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Thomas Ruff, Nudes, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Dirk Skreber, Alte Schnittschnelle – Bilder, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Office Killer, Film by Cindy Sherman, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Peter Josef Abels, Die hängenden Mappen, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Marcus Weber, Be a Clown, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Sam Taylor Wood, Fotografien, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Hobbypopmuseum, Neue Arbeiten auf Papier, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Bernard Buffet, Bilder, Malkasten, Düsseldorf (after an idea by Alexander Roeb)
Glenn Brown, Bilder, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Christoph Steinmeyer, Decamerone & Stracciatella, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Arnold Böcklin, “Triton und Nereide” und Repliken, Malkasten, Düsseldorf

2000

Moritz R^®, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Fenja Braster, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Andreas Gursky, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Matthew Barney, Cremaster 2, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Olivia Berckemeyer, Death Metal Bar, 07. November 2000, Malkasten, Bar
Alexej Koschkarow, Guerra di Torta, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Das kleine Format, Malkastenausstellung, Malkasten, Düsseldorf

1992

Der Teppich des Lebens, Museum B.C. Koekkoek-Haus, Kleve, Germany

2022

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, 59th Venice Biennale

2014

Art Prize of the City of Düsseldorf

2008

Piepenbrock Preis für Skulptur, Kulturstiftung Hartwig Piepenbrock

2002

Konrad-von-Soest-Preis, Landesverband Westfalen-Lippe

1999

“Junge Stadt sieht Junge Kunst,” Stadt Wolfsburg, Germany

1995

Kunstpreis der Stadt Aachen, Germany

1994

Coutts & Co. International Award, London

1989

Kunstpreis Glockengasse, Cologne

1984

Kunstpreis Rheinische Post