short biography

Christian Boltanski (b. 1944, Paris; d. 2021, Paris) was a conceptual artist. He had become known for his installations of memory inventories, which often take almost monumental proportionss. In 1972, 1977, and 1987 he participated at documenta 5,6 and 8. In 2011 he represented France at the Venice Biennale. He lived with his wife Annette Messager in Malakoff near Paris.

paintings, sculptures, objects, films, photography

http://www.artnet.de/k%C3%BCnstler/christian-boltanski/

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collection/s

ARCO Foundation Collection ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj ARS AEVI - Museum Of Contemporary Art Sarajevo ARTIUM MUSEOA, Vitoria-Gasteiz ° BRANDTS Odense Benesse Art Site, Naoshima CAPC Contemporary Art Museum Bordeaux CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela Carré d´Art, Nimes Centre Pompidou Paris Collection Lambert, Avignon ° Consortium Dijon DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt De Pont Museum, Tilburg Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Alcoitao FRAC Grand Large - Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque FRAC OCCITANIE Montpellier Fondation Cartier, Paris Fondation Francès, Senlis Fotomuseum Winterthur Frac Bourgogne, Dijon Frac Franche-Comte, Besancon ° Frac Lorraine, Metz Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno Guggenheim Bilbao Hamburger Kunsthalle Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (closed) High Museum of Art, Atlanta ° IVAM Valencia International Centre of Graphic Art, Ljubljana K20/K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen ' Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City Kunst im Deutschen Bundestag Kunsthaus Zürich Kunstmuseen Krefeld Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Kurt Eisner Kulturstiftung, München LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art LUDWIGMUSEUM Koblenz Lenbachhaus, München MAC Musée d´Art Contemporain, Marseille . MACBA Barcelona ' MACS Le Grand Hornu MAGASIN III Stockholm MAMAC Nice ° MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Marian Goodman Gallery, London Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis Montevideo, Amsterdam Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art ' MuHKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp ' Museion, Bozen/Bolzano Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid ' Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb ' Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne ° Musée d´Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Norway, Oslo National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea REINKINGPROJEKTE Hamburg RUBELL MUSEUM Miami Rosenblum Collection & Friends Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels S.M.A.K. Ghent Schaulager, Münchenstein Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto Situation Kunst (Für Max IMDAHL), Bochum South London Gallery Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence Sprengel Museum, Hannover Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw Weserburg Bremen West Collection, Oaks ZKM | Karlsruhe Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna documenta Kassel n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
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  • 30. Nov 30. Nov 1972
    14 x 14 Kunsthalle Baden-Baden