West, Franz

Franz West
Franz West
Date of Birth	February 16, 1947
Place of Birth	Vienna , Austria
Date of death	July 26, 2012 (65 years old)
Place of death	Vienna , Austria
Citizenship	Austria
Genre	installation, sculpture
Study	Vienna Academy of Fine Arts
Awards	[d] ( 1988 )
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Franz West ( him. Franz West , February 16, 1947 , Vienna - July 26, 2012 , Vienna ) - contemporary Austrian artist .

Franz West, Qwertz (2001), Rotterdam, Holland

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Education

1977–1982 Academy of Fine Arts , Vienna

Creativity

Flause (1998)

West began his career in the mid- 1960s in Vienna, when the local movement, Viennese Actionism , was in full swing. In the early 1970s, West began making a series of small sculptures called "Adaptives" ("Paßtücke"). These were objects that were considered complete works of art when the viewer took them and transferred or performed a number of other actions. In many respects, Vesta’s large-scale aluminum sculptures are enlarged versions of “Adaptives.” West also created colorful soft sofas and armchairs that transform museums and galleries into comfortable surroundings . West participated in exhibitions around the world, he participated in Document IX (1992) and Document X (1997), Kassel, Germany; The Venice Biennale (1988, 1993, 1997, 2003).

Solo exhibitions

2009: Build a House with the Roof: Work, 1972–2008 , Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2008 Franz West - The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
2008 Antwerp Sculpture Show - Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp
2008 Franz West - Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna
2008 Paßstück , Gagosian Gallery, New York
2008 Franz West: Asymmetrische Kunst, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2007 Franz West - Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt
2007 Franz West - Die Macht der Frauen - Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
2007 Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga
2006 Desplacement and condensation , Gagosian Gallery, London
2006 Franz West - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2006 Franz West - Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2005 Sale , Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
2005 Franz West - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2005 Dinge und Menschen - Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt
2004 Franz West: early work - Zwirner & Wirth, New York
2004 Franz West: Recent Sculptures - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

2004 Franz West - Selbstbeschriebung - Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
2004 Hurdy Gurdy - James Kelly - Contemporary, Santa Fe
2004 Franz West - Bernier / Eliades Gallery, Athens
2004 Franz West - Am Brunnen vor dem Tore, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
2003 Franzwestite - Franz West - works 1973—2003 - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2003 Franz West - We'll not carry coals - Kunsthaus Bregenz , Bregenz
2003 Franz West - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2003 Franz West - Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2003 Sisyphos: Litter And Waste , Gagosian Gallery, New York
2002 Franz West: Merciless - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA, North Adams
2002 Franz West - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2001 Franz West - Appartement - Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2001 Franz West: Gnadenlos - Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
2001 Franz West , Gagosian Gallery, London
2001 Franz West - 2Topia - Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
2001 Franz West - Obsorge - Kunsthaus Zug, Zug
2001 Franz West - In der Schweiz - Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

2001 Franz West -Alpenglühn - Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt
2000 Franz West - In & Out - ZKM | Center for Arts and Media Technologies (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe), Karlsruhe
2000 Franz West - Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2000 Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman FRANZ WEST - Die Aluskulptur - Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck
2000 Franz West - Pre-Semblance and The Everyday, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago
1999 Franz West - Creativity: Furniture Reversal - Galerie Sabine Knust - Maximilian Verlag, Munich
1999 Franz West - New Sculptures and Installations - David Zwirner, Inc., New York
1999 Franz West - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
1997 Franz West - Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
1996 Franz West - Kombi - Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis BV: BKV, Bregenz
1996 Franz West - David Zwirner, Inc., New York
1994 Lisson Gallery Franz West - Lisson Gallery, London
1994 Franz West - Home Elements (A Retrospective) - David Zwirner, Inc., New York
1993 Franz West - David Zwirner, Inc., New York
1990 Franz West - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
1988 Franz West - Schöne Aussicht - Portikus, Frankfurt

Public collections

Kunsthaus Bregenz , Bregenz
Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg
Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz
Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum, St. Pölten
Österreichischer Skulpturenpark, Unterpremstatten
Albertina, Vienna
Augarten Contemporary (vormals Atelier Augarten), Vienna
BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
Generali Foundation, Vienna
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK, Vienna
Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna
Volpinum Kunstsammlung, Vienna

Middelheim Museum, Antwerp
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
FRAC - Limousin, Limoges
FRAC - Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier
FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris
Center Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
Center for Arts and Media Technologies (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe), Karlsruhe
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst - GfZK, Leipzig
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

Kunstraum Grässlin, St. Georgen
Zerynthia, Rome
MUDAM - Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Malága, Malaga
Tate Modern, London
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
The Margulies Collection, Miami
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
The West Collection, Oaks, PA
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington