Biography

Tàpies was born in the bosom of a bourgeois Catalan family of booksellers. With an indefatigable artistic career extending over more than six decades, his production arose in a convulsive historical moment. Between 1936 and 1939, Spain lived immersed in a Civil War that birthed a dictatorship lasting until 1975. For Catalonia – a territory in the northeast of the Peninsula which speaks a different language and contains cultural and historical differences – the new political regime implied limitations on their freedoms. For him and his family, who during the sociopolitical conflict had positioned themselves on the side of the defeated, it represented a turning point that would mark both the artistic and vital trajectory of young Antoni. Since then, he became concerned with social struggles and his work acquired a denouncing and critical tone that he never abandoned.

Practically self-taught, his first works were influenced by magical surrealism as seen in the work of artists such as Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Max Ernst. In his early years, he participated in the founding of the avant-garde magazine and movement Dau al 7, led by the poet Joan Brossa and linked to the surrealism and the Dada.

The decade of the fifties, parallel to the new European currents, gave way to the informalist styles in which materiality was gaining prominence. His particular alphabet came to be in this time where each one of his signs acquired a concrete meaning. The A and T refer to his initials but also to those of his name and that of his wife, Teresa. The X helped him to cross out and indicate enigmas. The cross transcends its Christian connotation to unite shamanism, Hindu cultures and/or Egyptian mythology. Over the years, Tàpies was constantly renewing his artistic methodology. Yet his underlying concerns stayed consistent, with small variations, throughout his career.

Works

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Documents

Publications

Awards

2010 Awarded the noble title “Marquis” by the Spanish King Juan Carlos I. Awarded by the 5th International Graphic Arts Biennial Douro, Portugal

2005 Receives the Italian Lissone Prize for his complete works

2003 “Premio Velázquez de las Artes Plásticas” from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Cultura

2002 “Premio Nacional de Grabado y Arte Grafico” of the Calcografia Nacional and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid

1998 Honorary doctorate from the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts

1996 Cross of the Order of Santiago of the Portuguese government

1993 Picasso Medal of the UNESCO

1992 Honorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Mass

1991 “Premio Tomás Francisco Prieto” of the Fundación Cultural Casas de la Moneda

1990 Honorary doctorate from the Universities of Glasgow and the Balearic Islands

1988 Honorary doctorate from the University of Barcelona. “Commendeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” of the French government. Honorary member of the Austrian Society of Fine Artists

1985 “Prix international de peinture” from the French government. Appointed member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden

1984 Peace Prize of the Spanish Society for the United Nations

1983 Rembrandt Prize of the M. Töpfer Foundation, Hamburg

1982 Prize of the Wolf Foundation, Jerusalem (together with Chagall)

1979 Literature Prize of the City of Barcelona for his autobiography

1974 Receives the Stephan Lochner Medal of the City of Cologne

1972 Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen

1967 Grand Prize of the Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennale

1966 Grand Prize of the VI Biennale di Mentone

1964 Prize of the Guggenheim Foundation, New York

1960 Prize of the International Biennale of Graphic Arts in Tokyo

1958 First Prize of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

Solo exhibitions (Selection)

2024

Antoni Tàpies Retrospectiva, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

Antoni Tàpies: Art i activisme en l’obra d’Antoni Tàpies, Museo d’Historia de Catalunya, Barcelona

Antoni Tàpies: The Practice of Art, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

2023

Antoni Tàpies zum 100. Geburtstag, Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz, Chemnitz

Exposición: Antoni Tàpies. La práctica del arte, Museum Reina Sofía, Madrid

Tàpies/Miró – Welt auf Papier, Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster

The Practise of Art, Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels

Antoni Tàpies, Timothy Taylor, London

Antoni Tàpies, Galerie Thomas, Munich

2022

Little Things. Parts I & II, Pace, Geneva

Antoni Tàpies: Transmaterial, Pace Gallery, New York

Antoni Tàpies, Galerie Boisséree, Cologne

Antoni Tàpies: Challenged Artworks: Breaking, Matter And Gesture In 20th Century Avant-Garde, Galeía Leandro Navarro, Madrid

Antoni Tàpies: Creus, Galerie Lelong & Co, Paris

Tàpies. Melancholia, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Bercelona

2021

Tàpies: Foregrounding Reality, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

2019

Antoni Tàpies, Pace Gallery, Geneva

Tàpies Today, Galería Mayoral, Barcelona

2018

Antoni Tàpies: Political Biography, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

2017

Antoni Tàpies: Temps, matère, mémoire, Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris

Antoni Tàpies: Paintings, 1970–2003, Nahmad Contemporary, New York

Antoni Tàpies: Revulsion and Desire, Timothy Taylor, London

2015

Tàpies. From Within, PAMM Miami, Florida

Antoni Tàpies: 1923 – 2012, Pace, New York

2014

Collection, #8, Fundacion Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain

2013

Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao

Fundació Antonie Tàpies and Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

2012

Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik

Fundació Cristino de Vera, Tenerife

The Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

Antoni Tàpies. Bild, Körper, Pathos, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany

2011

Galerie Lelong, Paris

2010

Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona

Waddington Galleries, London

Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

The Pace Gallery, New York

2009

Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York

Museo delle Arti Catanzaro MARCA, Catanzaro, Italy

Galerie Pierre Levy, Paris

2008

Waddington Galleries, London

Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona

Galerie Lelong, Zurich; touring to Galerie Lelong, Paris

Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid

2007-08

Museum Schloss Moyland

2007

Gana Art Gallery, Seoul

EMMA-Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland

Kunsthalle Talstrasse, Halle (Saale), Germany

2006-08

Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; touring to Instituto Cervantes, Madrid; Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i de la Modernitat (MuVIM), Valencia; Instituto Cervantes de Toulouse, Toulouse; Instituto Cervantes de Praga, Prague; Instituto Cervantes de Berlín, Berlin

2006-07

Galleria Tega, Milan

2006

Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto

Waddington Galleries, London

PaceWildenstein, New York

Hôtel des Arts, Toulon

Galerie Lelong, París

Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid

Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona

Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

Erker Galerie, St. Gallen

Galleria d’arte il gabbiano, Rome (in collaboration with Galerie Lelong)

2005

Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo

Fundacion Caixa Galicia, Ferrol, Spain

Galerie Lelong, Zurich

Waddington Galleries, London

Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone

Galerie Daniel Tanner Gmbh, Basel

Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

Cajalón, Zaragoza

Centro de Exposiciones y Congresos, Zaragoza

2004

Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid touring to Fundació Caixa Galicia

ANTONI TÀPIES. Bilder und Vorstellungen, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nürnberg

Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro

Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander

Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan

Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona

2003-2004

Kunsthalle in Emden; touring to Sinclair-Haus ALTANA Kulturforum, Bad Homburg

2003

PaceWildenstein, New York

Waddington Galleries, London

Galería Toni Tàpies, Barcelona

Galerie LeLong, Paris

2002

Musée Picasso, Antibes

2001

Ameringer Howard, Boca Raton, Florida

Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

Waddington Galleries, London

2000

PaceWildenstein, New York

Galerie Lelong, Paris

Retrospective exhibition organized by Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; touring to Haus der Kunst, Munich

1999

Cantro Cultural Casa del Cordon, Burgos

Pelaires, Centro Cultural Contemporani, Mallorca

Serge Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco

1998–99

Galeria Toni Tapies Editicions T, Barcelona

Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona

1998

Fundacio Antoni Taopes, Barcelona

Galerie Lelong, Paris

Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid

Citta di Locarno, Musei e cultura, Pinacoteca di Casa Rusca, Switzerland

PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles

1997–98

Galerie Lelong, Zurich

Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover; touring to Kunsthalle Krems, Austria

1997

Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy

Christian Stein, Milan

Sala de Exposiciones Banco Zaragozano, Zaragoza, Spain

Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto, Portugal

1996–97

Edicions T Galleria D’Art, Barcelona

1996

Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan; touring to Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata; The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma; Kirik Art Space Harajuku, Tokyo

Auditoria de Galicia, Santiago do Compostela

Waddington Galleries, London

1995–6

Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, Germany

PaceWildenstein, New York

1995

Mary Anthony Galleries, New York

PaceWildenstein Soho, New York

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Galerie Lelong, Paris

Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid

Edicions T Galleria D’Art, Barcelona

Galerie Lelong, Zurich

Pace Prints, New York

Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Berlin

Musée d’Art Moderne, Céret, France

1994

Palacio de Sástago, Zaragoza, Spain

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Escola Pia Balmes, Barcelona

Associated American Artists, New York

Galerie Lelong, Paris

Waddington Galleries, London

Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris

Galerie Maeght, Barcelona

1993–94

Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden; touring to Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

1993

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts

Pace Gallery, New York

Spanish Pavilion, XLV Biennale de Venezia, Venice

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Erker Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Galerie Hete A.M. Hünermann, Düsseldorf

1992–93

Museum of Modern Art, New York; touring to The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela

1992

Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; touring to IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia; Serpentine Gallery, London

Associated American Artists, New York

Annely Juda Fine Art, London

1991–94

Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; touring to Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Vaduz; Manchester City Art Galleries

1991–93

Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; touring to Long Beach Museum of Art, California; Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Florida International University Art Museum, Miami; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas

Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; touring to Fundaçao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Pabellón Mudéjar, Seville; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Rekalde Ikustaretoa, Bilbao; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

1991–92

Galerie Lelong, Paris

1991

Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo

Galería Carles Taché, Barcelona

Galerie Lelong, New York

Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Galerie Lelong, Zurich

Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Waddington Galleries, London

1990–91

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; touring to Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

1990

Galerie Lelong, New York

Galerie Lelong, Paris

Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago

Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

Kunstverein Bayreuth, Germany

1989

Galerie Lelong, New York

Elkon Gallery, New York

Art Gallery of China, Beijing

Galerie Lelong, Zurich

Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Marta Cervera Gallery, New York

1988–89

Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Maine; touring to Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Maryland; Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire; David Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Musée Cantini, Marseilles

Erker Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1988

Galerie Lelong, Paris

Galerie Brusberg, Berlin

Annely Juda Fine Art, London

Saló del Tinell, Barcelona; touring to Llotja, Palma de Mallorca

Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Cleto Polcina Arte Moderna, Rome

1987

Galerie Lelong, Zurich

Galería Carles Taché, Barcelona

1986–87

Galería Theo, Madrid; touring to Galería Theo, Barcelona; Galería Theo, Valencia

Galería Carles Taché, Barcelona

Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona

Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida

1986

Galeria Punto, Valencia, Spain

Gesellschaft bildender Künstler Österreichs, Künstlerhaus, Vienna; touring to Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York

Galeria Theo, Madrid, Spain

Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles, France

Dau al Set, Barcelona

Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris

1985

Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki

Palazzo Reale, Milan

Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco

Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf

Musée d’Art Moderne, Brussels

Galerie Adrien Maeght, Paris

1984–85

Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris

1984

Galerie Brusberg, Berlin

Museo Municipal de San Telmo, San Sebastián, Spain

Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York

Galerie Maeght Lelong, Zurich

Galería Antonio Machón, Madrid

1983–84

Galerie Maeght, Barcelona

1983

Galerie Marika Marghescu, Hannover, Germany

Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Belles Arts, Barcelona

Galerie Maeght, Zurich

Abbaye de Sénanque, Gordes, France

Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris

Städtische Galerie im Prinz Max Palais, Karlsruhe, Germany

1982–83

Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

1982

Palacio de la Lonja, Zaragoza, Spain

Marisa del Re Gallery, New York

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista, Biennale di Venezia, Venice

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles

Studoo Dueci, Rome

1981

Galerie Maeght, Barcelona

Gallery Ueda, Tokyo

Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf

Fondation du Chateau de Jau, Cases de Pene, France

Galerie Maeght, Zurich

M. Knoedler & Co, New York

Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco

1980–81

Galerie Maeght, Zurich

1980

Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany

Studio Dueci, Rome, Italy

Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1979–80

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany; touring to Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany; Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum, Linz, Austria

1979

Galeria Punto, Valencia, Spain

Galerie Maeght, Paris

1978–79

Galerie Isernhagen, Germany

Galerie Maeght, Barcelona

1978

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Galeria Sen, Madrid

Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, France

Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf

Galeria Artema, Barcelona, Spain

Galerie Maeght, Paris

1977–78

Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany; touring to Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland

1977

Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; touring to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal

1976

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France; touring to Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo

1975

Galerie Maeght, Barcelona

La Mulassa, Vilanova i la Geltru

Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Ruth S Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles

Galerie Maeght, Zurich

Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

1974

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Hayward Gallery, London; touring to Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea

Galería Juan Martín, Mexico City

Gallery Moos, Toronto

1973–74

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; touring to Musée Rath, Geneva; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium

Sala Gaspar, Barcelona

Galería Juana Mordó, Madrid

1973

Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

1972

Städtische Galerie im Haus Seel, Siegen, Germany

Galerie Maeght, Paris

1971

Galerie Maeght, Zurich

Galleria Il Collezionista d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome

Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Galerie Börjeson, Malmö, Sweden

Sala Gaspar, Barcelona

1970

Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Sala Gaspar, Barcelona

Galerie Bleue, Stockholm

1969

Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany

Galerie van de Loo, Munich

Galerie Stadler, Paris

Galerie Maeght, Paris

Gallery Moos, Toronto

Sala Gaspar, Barcelona

1968

Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna; touring to Kunstverein Hamburg; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

Galeria Schmela, Düsseldorf

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Galerie Maeght, Paris

1967

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

Galerie Maeght, Paris

1966

Galerie Biosca, Madrid

Galerie Stadler, Paris

Galerie Jacques Verriere, Cannes

Galerie Buren, Stockholm

1965

Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne

Galerie van de Loo, Munich

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1964

Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne

La Tartaruga, Galleria d’Arte, Rome

Cacharreria del Ateneo de Madrid, Madrid

Galerie Stadler, Paris

Gallery Moos, Toronto; touring to Galerie Agnès Lefort, Montreal

Sala Gaspar, Barcelona

1963

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Galerie Berggruen, Paris

Galerie Im Erker, St. Gallen, CH

Notizie, Turin, Italy

1962–63

Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; touring to Phoenix Art Center, Arizona; Pasadena Art Museum, California; Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles

1962

Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover; touring to Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Galeria Il Segne, Rome, Italy

1961

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York; touring to Gres Gallery, Washington D.C.

Sala Gaspar, Barcelona

Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Essen, Germany

Galerie Stadler, Paris

1960

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Galerie Blanche, Stockholm, Sweden

1959 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Galerie Stadler, Paris

1958

Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan

1957

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Galerie Stadler, Paris

Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf

1956

Galerie Stadler, Paris

1955

Sur, Galeria de Arte, Santander, Spain

1954

Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona

1953

Museo Municipal, Mataro, Sapin

Marshall Field & Company, Chicago

Galeria Biosca, Madrid

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

1952

Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona

1951

Casino de Ripoll, Ripoll

1950

Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona

Group exhibitions (Selection)

2023

Tàpies / Miró – Welt auf Papier, Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Germany

2022

International Artists: Made In France Viii, Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Mixed Double: The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, Mgksiegen, Siegen, Germany

2021

Personae. Masks Against Barbarism, Es Baluard, Museum Of Modern & Contemporary Art, Palma De Mallorca, Spain

Wild and Brilliant: The Martha Jackson Gallery and Post-War Art, Hollis Taggart, New York

Little Things: Parts I & II, Pace Gallery, Geneva

Jours blancs, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris

2017

Three Decades of Modern and Contemporary Masters: 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s, The Elkon Gallery, New York

MACBA Collection. Beneath the Surface, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art

The Space of Dreams, Galeria Mayoral, Cadaqués, July 21–August 15, 2017. Travelled to: Galeria Mayoral, Barcelona

Large Format, The Elkon Gallery, New York

Works on Paper, The Elkon Gallery, New York

Louise Nevelson/Antoni Tàpies: Above the Surface, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, Florida

2016

Talking on Paper, Pace Beijing

Press Art. Die Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel Vol. II, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana (MASILugano), Switzerland

2015

The Wounded Canvas, Helly Nahmad Gallery, New York

Picasso and the 20th Century Art: Masterpieces from the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo

2014

On The Road / En el camino, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Europe 1900–1975: Selections from the Museum’s Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2013

Hantaï, Hartung, Soulages, Tàpies, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

Davant l’horitzó, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

SEHNSUCHT ICH, Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Vienna

A Visit to the Romanesque: In the Company of Antoni Tàpies, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

Image and Abstraction, Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York

Collection Renard, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen

2012

Fortuny and Wagner, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

Masterpieces from the Berardo Collection, Gary Nader Art Centre, Miami

Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949–1962, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 6, 2012–January 14, 2013. Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The Panza Collection and Selections from Major Gifts of Beatrice and Philip Gersh, Rita and Taft Schreiber, and Marcia Weisman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Auf Augenhöhe: Meisterwerke aus Mittelalter und Moderne, Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany

Art as Magic: Visionary Artists and Their Inner Supernatural World, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan

2011

Beijing Voice: Leaving Realism Behind, The Pace Gallery, Beijing

Tàpies—Louise Bourgeois, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid

TRA-The Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

Un corps inattendu: Carte blanche Jean-Louis Prat, Le FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Antoni Tàpies and Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Lelong, Paris

2010

Collection: MOCA’s First 30 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2009

In-Finitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Abstraction + Warhol, Woxart, Prague

Fautrier, Wols, Tàpies, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Berlin, February 16–April 25, 2009. Traveled to: Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Bremen

2008

Summer Exhibition, Waddington Galleries, London

20th Century Spanish Drawings: Dibujos Españoles del Siglo XX, Brass Museum of Art, Miami Beach

The Hands of Art, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany

Collecting Collections: Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2007

Anywhere Out of This World: Postwar Works from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Col·lecció, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

The 239th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice

2006

Between Picasso and Dubuffet, Works from the Planque Foundation. Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin. Traveled to: Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao

Postwar Directions: Abstract Expressionism to Minimalism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Le Noir est Une Couleur: Hommage Vivant à Aimé Maeght, Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

Homage to Chillida, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Paper Works by Abstract Masters, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York

2005

Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo

The 237th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London

2004

Summer 2004, PaceWildenstein, New York

Art and Utopia. Action Restricted, Museu d’Art contemporani de Barcelona

The Spirit of White, Galerie Beyeler, Basel

2003

Esquire Show House, Trump World Tower, New York

2002

Artespañol del Siglo XX, Galería Guereta, Madrid

2001

Claude Monet… up to digital impressionism, Fondation Beyeler, Basel

Glossalgia, Hellenic American Union Galleries and the Frissiras Museum, Athens

Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2000

Preview of the Season, Ameringer/Howard Fine Art, Boca Raton

00: Drawings 2000 at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

Summer 2000, PaceWildenstein, New York

High Lights, Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery of Art, London

Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows, New York

1999

Panza: The Legacy of a Collector, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Ragtime, Estudio Helga De Alvear, Madrid

Powder, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado

Berardo Collection 1917–1999, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal

1998

Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Francisco Toledo, Associtated American Artists, New York

Group Show, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles

1997

Winter Group Show, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York

Inaugural Exhibition Ace Gallery Mexico, Ace Gallery, Mexico

The Age of Modernism: Art in the Twentieth Century, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Arte vivo: Los pintores de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid

1996

Después de Goya: Una Mirada Subjetiva, Palacio de la Lonja; Sala Luzán, Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada; and, Palacio de Montemuzo

Chimeriques Polymeres: Le plastique dans l’Art du Xxeme siecle,Promenade des Arts, Nice

75 Jahre Graphisches Kabinett: Jubliaumsausstellung Teil III, Nach 1940: Dubuffet, Fontana, Giacometti, Tapies, Wols, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Bremen

1995

Summer 1995, PaceWildenstein, New York

Regards croisés, Fondation “la Caixa,” Barcelona

1994

fragmentos para um museu imaginário, Fundação de Serralves, Porto

Dream of the Absolute, Galerie Beyeler, Basel

The Art of Assemblage: Early Works, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia

Gaudi to Tapies: Catalan Artists, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory Universtiy, Atlanta

The Brushstroke and its Guises, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York

Obra Sobre Papel, Galería Elvira González, Madrid

Kounellis, Serra, Tàpies, Turrell, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona

1992

Conversation, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Zurich

Homage to Francis Bacon, Beyeler Gallery, Basel

Repetición/Transformación, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Transform: BildObjektSculptur im 20. Jahrhundert, Kunstmuseum und Kunsthalle Basel

Summer show, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Summer group exhibition, The Pace Gallery, New York

Opere di Collezione 2, Cleto Polcina Artemoderna, Rome

Sculpture, Waddington Galleries, London

Arte en España: 1920–1990, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona

1990

Inaugural Exhibition: One Hundred Years of American and European Art, Adelson Galleries, New York

High & Low, Modern Art and Popular Culture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 7, 1990–January 15, 1991. Traveled to: Art Institute of Chicago, February 20–May 12, 1991, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Informalisme a Catalunya. Pintura, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona

Exposition Inaugurale, Musee Temporaire, Fondation Daniel Templon, Frejus, France

Segno, gesto, materia. Protagonisti dell’Informale europeo, Arte 92, Milan

Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1967–1988, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

1988

Les années, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Aspects of Collage, Assemblage and the Found Object in Twentieth-Century Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

20 Años Theo: Gran Formato, Pequeño Formato, Galería Theo, Madrid

La Colección. Telefónica–España, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona

1987

L’art moderne en Europe. Les années décisives 1945–1953, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, France

Fifty Years of Collecting: An Anniversary Selection. Painting Since World War II, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Le siècle de Picasso, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

1986

Spagna: 75 anni di protagonisti nell’arte, Villa Malpensata, Lugano

Referencias. Un encuentro artístico en el tiempo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Pintar con papel, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid

1985

Un art autre: Tachismus, Informel, Lyrische Abstraction, Galerie Heseler, Munich

Black and White (From Manet to Kiefer), Galerie Beyeler, Basel

1984

La Grande Parade, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Textura, color y materia en la pintura, Sala de Exposiciones Juan de Villanueva, Aranjuez, Spain

El arte del siglo XX en un museo holandés: Museo Municpal Van Abbe de Eindhoven, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, February–March 1984. Traveled to: Museo de Albacete, Albacete, Spain

1983

Written Imagery Unleashed in the 20th Century, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York

Expressive Malerei nach Picasso, Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Aspects of Postwar Painting in Europe, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Projectes i realitzacions del Monument a Picasso, de Tàpies, Saló del Paranimf, Universitat de Barcelona

1982

Blau, Sala d’Exposicions de l’Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona

L’Univers d’Aimé et Marguerite Maeght, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

Portraits et figures, Galerie Beyeler, Basel

1981

Paris–Paris. Créations en France, 1937–1957, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1980

Zeichen des Glaubens–Geist der Avantgarde. Religiöse Tendenzen in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin

1979

Weich und Plastisch. Soft-Art, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich

1978

Katalanische Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin

The Silent Dialogue. The Still Life in the 20th Century, Galerie Beyeler, Basel

1977

Spagna. Avanguarda Artistica e realtà sociale (1936–1976), Biennale di Venezia, Venice

1976

Crónica de la pintura española de post-guerra 1940–1960, Galería Multitud, Madrid

Autres dimensions, Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Gran formato, Galería Theo, Madrid

1975

L’homme et son empreinte, Château de Sainte-Suzanne, Mayenne, France, June 8–September 1, 1974. Traveled to: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, September 20–November 17, 1974; Maison de la Culture, Bourges, France

1973

Poems from the Catalan. Brossa / Tàpies, Dau al Set, Galeria d’Art, Barcelona

1972

From Venus to Venus, Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Immagine per la Citta’, Palazzo dell’Accademia, Palazzo Reale, Genova, Italy

Concept & Content: Cage, Thompson, Tàpies, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

1971

Aspetti dell’Informale. Mostra Storica Internazionale, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Bari

1969

Artistes espagnols. Gris, Picasso, Miró, Tàpies, Chillida, Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Art espagnol d’aujourd’hui, Musée Rath, Geveva

1968

Peintures Européens d’aujourd’hui/European Painters Today, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, September 27–November 17, 1968. Traveled to: The Jewish Museum, New York, January 21–March 16, 1969; National Collection of Fine Arts, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 9–June 1, 1969; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, July 5–September 8, 1969; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, September 28–October 26, 1969; Dayton Art Institute, November 17–December 14, 1969

L’art vivant, 1965–1968, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

Menschenbilder, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt

1967

Spanische Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle, Nuremberg

VII. Mednarodna Graficna Razstava, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

Vom Bauhaus biz zur Gegenwart. Meisterwerke aus deutschem Privatbesitz, Kunstverein, Hamburg

Dix ans d’art vivant, 1955–1965, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

1966

Tradition und Gegenwart, Städtisches Museum, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Aspekte, Galerie Beyeler, Basel

1965

‘Novel–la’ de Joan Brossa i Antoni Tàpies, Sala Gaspar, Barcelona

Weiss–Weiss, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf

40 Key Artists of the mid-20th Century, The Detroit Institute of Arts

International 4. Burri, Nevelson, Tàpies, Van Leyden-Collages & Constructions, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

1964

Métaphysique de la matière, Galerie Stadler, Paris

Cinquante ans de ‘collages’. Papiers collés, assemblages, collages, du cubisme a nos jours, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Sant-Étienne, France

Intuiciones y realizaciones formales, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires

Documenta III. Internationale Ausstellung, Kassel

Painting & Sculpture of a Decade, Tate Gallery, London,

Exposición de pintura española del s. XX, Claustre del Monestir de Sant Esteve, Banyoles, Spain

1963

Önskemuset. The Museum of Our Wishes, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

The Dunn International. An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, September 7–October 6, 1963. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London

1962

Modern Spanish Painting, Arts Council of Great Britain, London

Pintura catalana, Casón del Buen Retiro, Madrid

Paris–Carrefour de la peinture–1945–1961, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

Strutture e stile, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin

1961

4 evidencias de un mundo jóven en el arte actual, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Arte e contemplazione, Palazzo Grassi, Venice

1960

New Forms–New Media I, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

New Spanish Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Before Picasso, After Miró, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Neue Malerei. Form, Struktur, Bedeutung, Städtische Galerie, Munich

Jonge kunst uit de collectie Dotremont–Brussel, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

La nueva pintura en España. Ten Contemporary Spanish Painters, Arthur Tooth and Son, Ltd., London

1959

Kunstsammler am Rhin und Ruhr. Malerei 1900–1959, Städtische Museum, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

4 Maler. Tàpies, Alechinsky, Messagier, Moser, Kunsthalle, Bern

II. Documenta ’59. Kunst nach 1945. Internationale Ausstellung, Kassel

Saura–Tàpies. Ölbilder, Galerie van de Loo, Munich

Arte nuova, Circolo degli Artisti, Palazzo Granieri, Turin

15 Maler in Paris, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

1958

Nouvelle École de Paris. Französische Malerei der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle, Mannheim

The 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

L’art du XXime siècle, Palais des Expositions, Charleroi, Belgium

XXIX Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Venice

Neue Malerei in Frankreich, Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Soest, Germany, April 13–27, 1958. Traveled to: Fritz-Henssler-Haus, Dortmund, May 6–25, 1958; Städtisches Gymnasium, Siegen, Germany, June 1–16, 1958; Deutsches Klingenmuseum, Solingen

The Exploration of Form, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London

1957

Pentagone, Galerie Arnaud, Paris

IV Bienal do Museo de Arte Moderna de São Paolo

Otro Arte. Exposición Internacional de Pintura y Escultura, Sala Gaspar, Barcelona

1956

Recent Abstract Painting, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England

III Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte, Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones, Barcelona

Expressions et structures (Appel, Arnal, Delhaye, Guiette, Riopelle, Serpan, Tàpies), Galerie Stadler, Paris

1955

Isern–Tàpies–Tharrats, Sturegalleriet, Stockholm

The 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Innaugural Exhibition, Galerie Stadler, Paris

Quincena de Arte. Exposición de Pintura, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Palacio de la Magdalena, Santander

Phases de l’Art Contemporain. Première confrontation Internationale d’Art Expérimental à Paris, Galerie R. Creuze, Paris

1954

Nebraska Art Association Sixty-Fourth Annual Exhibition, University Galleries, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

1953

Exposición del retrato actual, Real Círculo Artístico, Barcelona

1952

The 1952 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

XXVI Biennale di Venezia, Venice

I Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte. Exposición antológica, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona

1950

Un aspecto de la joven pintura. Tàpies-Cuixart-Ponç

The Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

Séptimo Salón de los Once, Galería Biosca, Madrid

Tàpies–Cuixart–Ponç, Galerías Sapi, Palma de Mallorca

1949

II Saló d’Octubre, Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona

1948

I Saló d’Octubre, Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona

Selected public collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland

Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, France

FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France

Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona

Galleria d’Arte Moderna Ca’ Pesaro, Venice

Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna

Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome

Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden

Hamburger Kunsthalle

Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Instituto di Tella, Buenos Aires

IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia

Kunsthaus Zürich

Kunstmuseum Basel

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark

Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Musée Cantini, Marseilles

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon

Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Museo de Arte Abstracto, Cuenca, Spain

Museo de Arte Moderna de São Paulo

Museo Nacional, Bogota

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna

Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna

Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Moderna Museet, Stockholm

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Reed College, Portland, Oregon

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Saison Museum of Art, Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan

Sammlung Essl, Vienna

Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo

Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal – The Berardo Collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Tate, London

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Washington University Gallery of Art, St Louis, Missouri

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts

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