Born in 1954
Lives in Vienna and Limberg, Austria

Selection since 2000

2012
› Beauty Business, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA

› Albertina, Vienna, Austria
› CAC Málaga – Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga, Spain
› Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
› Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
› Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA 

2011
› Yes Biological, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
› The Beauty Business, gem – Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
› Beauty Business, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, USA
› Schöner Wohnen, MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
› Wear me out, Middleheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
› Misconceivable, Kunsthallen Brandts / Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
› Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria
› Micro-Retrospective, Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia (ICA-Sofia), Sofia, Bulgaria
› Test Site: How to Make a One Minute Sculpture, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

2010
› Liquid Reality, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (curator: Stephan Berg)
› Narrow Mist, UCCA – Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (curator: Jerome Sans)
› Private Wurm, Kunst der Gegenwart – Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
› Selbstportrait als Essiggurkerl, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
› Elogiate i ceti inferiori soprattutto per rimanere inferiori, BASE, Progetti per L’Arte, Firenze, Italy
› Gulp, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA
› Project – Selfportrait as Pickles, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, USA

2009
› Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
› Desperate Philosophers, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
› The Desperate Philosophers – Neue Skulpturen, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg, Austria
› Yes Biological, Wall House #2, Groningen, Netherlands

2008
› Keep a Cool Head, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
› The Artist Who Swallowed The World, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
› Spit in Someone’s Soup, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
› Desperate, Galerie de L’UQAM. Université du Quebec a Montréal, Montréal, Canada (curator: Patric Duhamel †)
› Tell, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
› Ich – Es – Überich, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
› Hypnose II, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
› Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich, Switzerland

2007
› Das lächerliche Leben eines ernsten Mannes, das ernste Leben eines lächerlichen Mannes, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
› Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
› Hamlet, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
› Le lieu unique, Nantes, France
› Direktionsskulptur – con vista sulle mie montagne, Museum Hetdomein Sittard, Sittard, Netherlands
› Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, France
› Erwin Wurm – New Sculptures, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

2006
› Keep a Cool Head, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
› The artist who swallowed the world, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
› Erwin Wurm – New Sculptures, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
› The Idiot, Sala de Exposiciones Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain
› I love my time, I don’t like my time: Recent works by Erwin Wurm, Rose Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
› Adorno was wrong with his ideas about art, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
› Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
› Home, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

2005
› MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Roma, Italy
› I love my time, I don't like my time, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
› Glue your brain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
› Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
› The Idiot, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
› Museu do Chiado, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
› Am I a House?, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

2004
› I love my time, I don’t like my time: Recent works by Erwin Wurm, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
› TRAC-Tecnologie e Ricerca Artistica Contemporanea, Palazzo Fichera, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Catania, Italy
› Photo and Video Sculpture by Erwin Wurm, KvadraT Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
› Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2003
› ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
› European Dream, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
› One Minute Sculptures, Orifice, ACCA Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia
› Erwin Wurm videos, RISD - Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
› One Minute Sculptures, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France
› Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

2002
› Fat Survival – Handlungsformen der Skulptur, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
› Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
› Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
› Fat Car, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
› Sculptures with embarrassment, Studio K, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
› Galerie Art: Concept, Paris, France
› Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA
› Sylvie Fleury and Erwin Wurm, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

2001
› Performance Drawings, Drawing Center, New York, USA
› Sleeping for two months, Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
› Videos 1991–2001, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
› Fat car, MAMCO Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
› Galerie Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland
› Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

2000
› The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
› FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France
› Galerie Art: Concept, Paris, France
› Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA
› Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland

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