Joseph Kosuth (b 1945, USA) is one of the pioneers of Conceptual art and installation art, initiating language based works and appropriation strategies in the 1960s. His work has consistently explored the production and role of language and meaning within art. His more than fifty year inquiry into the relation of language to art has taken the form of installations, museum exhibitions, public commissions and publications throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia, including seven Documenta(s) and 14 Venice Biennale(s), one of which was presented in the Hungarian Pavilion (1993).
Awards include the Brandeis Award, 1990, Frederick Wiseman Award, 1991, the Menzione d'Onore at the Venice Biennale, 1993, and the Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government in 1993. In June 1999, a 3.00 franc postage stamp was issued by the French Government in honor of his work in Figeac. In February 2001, he received the Laura Honoris Causa, doctorate in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Bologna. In October 2003 he received the Austrian Republic’s highest honour for accomplishments in science and culture, the Decoration of Honour in Gold for services to the Republic of Austria. In 2012 Kosuth received la classe des Arts de l’Académie Royale from the Académie Royale Sciences des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts of Belgium. In 2015 the Instituto Superior de Arte, at the University of Havana, awarded him an Honoris Causa doctorate, presented during the 12th Havana Art Biennial where he exhibited an extensive installation at the Biblioteca Nacional.
The exhibition ARCHIVIALE_001 will open at the Museo del ‘900 on 10 April and will be on show until 30 June 2024. Unfortunately, the Museo del ‘900 will be closed from 11 to 13 April due to the G7 meetings in Milan, and will reopen to the public on Sunday
From 15 March to 20 April The University of Ghent will present Eight Years: Joseph Kosuth in Ghent from 1990 to 1998. It is a cross-reference exhibition of information on the presence of an American artist in a Belgian city: consisting of a spatial chronology into which are inserted texts,
Lacan opened up an innovative space that is at the heart of our modernity and of our contemporary experience. Today we are debating issues of sex, love, identity, gender, power, belief or disbelief, all questions for which the psychoanalyst provided precious reference points. The visit should be seen and experienced
Statement Chairs is an ode to the experimental chair, the unexpected chair, the activist chair, and the chair in art. It brings together more than one hundred surprising chairs that are progressive in material, technological or social terms. Designers, artists and users talk about the many forms and meanings of
4th Industrial Art Biennial titled “Landscapes of Desire” is opening on May 13th in Labin, curated by Christoph Doswald and Paolo Bianchi.
From April 2 to November 26, Punta della Dogana presents the thematic exhibition Icônes revolving around works from the Pinault Collection, inviting reflection on the theme of the icon and the status of the image.
