short biography

Tony Cragg (born 1949 in Liverpool/UK, lives in Wuppertal/Germany) is one of the most important international sculptors of the present. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London 1973 to 1977 and began his work in the 1970s with a focus on minimalist and conceptual art, later he began to explore the various shapes and surfaces of his sculptures, which were made of different materials as wood, stone, metal, kevlar, rubber, plastic and glass. 1978-1988 he taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He participated at several Venice Biennials (1997, 1993, 1988, 1986, 1980) and at documenta 1987 and 1982 in Kassel. He also had a lot of solo exhibitions in major museums and galleries, including the Louvre Paris, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Benaki Museum Athens, Konrad Fischer Galerie Düsseldorf, kestnergesellschaft Hannover, National Museum of Modern Art Seoul, MACRO Rome, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg, Lisson Gallery, London, National Galleries of Scotland Edinburgh, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Marian Goodman Gallery New York, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art Porto, BUNDESKUNSTHALLE Bonn, and others.

“My initial interest in making images and objects was, and still remains, the creation of objects that don’t exist in the natural or the functional world, which can reflect and transmit information and feelings about the world and my own existence”, Tony Cragg, 1985.

http://www.tony-cragg.com

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collection/s

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa ° ACE GALLERY Los Angeles ARS AEVI - Museum Of Contemporary Art Sarajevo Akademie-Galerie + Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Artothek München Arts Council Collection, London British Council Visual Arts, London CAC Malaga Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon Carré d´Art, Nimes Cass Sculpture Foundation, Goodwood ° Castello di Rivoli, Turin ° Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia EKEBERGPARKEN Oslo ESSL MUSEUM Klosterneuburg Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Alcoitao Fondation Cartier, Paris Frac Bourgogne, Dijon Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims Frac Ile-de-France / Le Plateau Paris Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d´Azur, Marseille ° Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona GoMA Glasgow Henry Moore Institute Leeds High Museum of Art, Atlanta ° Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin K20/K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen ' Kunsthalle Mannheim Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz ° Kunstmuseum Luzern Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Kunstsammlung Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz / Museum Gunzenhauser Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz Le Collège - Fonds Régional d´art contemporain, Reims Leeds Art Gallery MACBA Barcelona ' MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago MUDAM Musée d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg MUSEUM BEELDEN AAN ZEE Scheveningen Marian Goodman Gallery, London Mart Rovereto & Galleria Civica Trento Middelheim Museum, Antwerp Modern, Fort Worth MuHKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp ' Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museum Folkwang, Essen Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus Museum Reinhard Ernst, Wiesbaden Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau Museum Würth, Künzelsau Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa National Museum of Norway, Oslo New Art Centre, Salisbury Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Smithsonian Institution, Washington Southampton City Art Gallery Speed Art Museum, Louisville Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo The Roberts Institute of Art, London U-jazdowski, Warsaw UBS Art Gallery, New York Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal kunsthalle weishaupt, Ulm n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
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galleries

Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm Art & Public Cabinet, Genf BERNIER/ELIADES GALLERY Athens Buchmann Galerie, Berlin Catherine Putman, Paris Galeria Foksal, Warsaw Greve - St. Moritz Haas, Zürich Hachmeister Galerie, Münster Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf Jiri Svestka, Berlin Jordan Seydoux - Drawings & Prints, Berlin Karsten Greve - Köln Karsten Greve - Paris Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya ° Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo Klüser, München Knoll Galerie Wien Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf Lisson Gallery, London Lisson Gallery, New York Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris Mario Mauroner, Wien Mauroner, Salzburg Simoens Gallery, Knokke Thaddaeus Ropac, London Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg Thomas + Galerie Thomas Modern, München
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books

Anthony Cragg, Dinge im Kopf / Things on the Mind, Hg. Walter Smerling, Wienand Verlag Köln

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solo exhibition

CRAGG

opening: 07. Feb 2023 06:30 pm
08. Feb 2023 07. May 2023
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München
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group exhibition

SAMMLUNGSAUSSTELLUNG DEUTSCHE BUNDESBANK

01. Jan 2018 ∞
Kunstsammlung Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt
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  • 05. Dec 02. Jun 2000
    Zeitwenden Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • 14. Mar 06. Jun
    Collection 99 gfzk | Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
  • 12. Jun 25. Sep
    Paper Art 5 Leopold Hoesch Museum + Papiermuseum Düren