Bertrand Lavier has exhibited his work at the
Serpentine Gallery in London, the
Villa Sauber and École Supérieure d’Arts Plastiques in
Monaco, the
Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, at the
Middelheim Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, the
Kröller-Müller Museum in
Otterlo in the
Netherlands, the
Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, the
Haus der Kunst in Munich, and the
Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt am Main, in Germany, the
MAMCO in Geneva, the
Kunsthalle in Berne, Switzerland, the
Macro Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma and the
Villa Medici in Rome,
Castello di Rivoli (Castle of Rivoli), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin, and the
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, in Prato, Italy, the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (
Mumok) and
Palais Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna, Austria, the
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in
Vaduz,
Liechtenstein, the
State Hermitage Museum in
Saint Petersburg in Russia, the
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and
MoMA PS1 in New York, the
Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York, the
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), and the
BAMPFA in Berkeley, California, the Atelier
Hermès Dosan Park in
Seoul, South Korea, the
Hong Kong Museum of Art, the
Centre Georges Pompidou, the
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the
Grand Palais, the
Louvre Museum, the
Musée d’Orsay, the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, the
Palais de Tokyo, the Musée de la
Monnaie de Paris, and the
Bourse de Commerce–Pinault Collection in Paris, France, the
Punta della Dogana in Venice, Italy, the
Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris and the Espace Louis Vuitton in Tokyo, Japan, the
Palace of Versailles, the
Fondation Vincent van Gogh in Arles, and
Le Consortium museum in
Dijon, France.
Selected solo exhibitions • Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France 1975 • ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France in 1985 • Le Consortium museum, Dijon, France in 1986 and in 1988 • University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) in Berkeley, CA in 1988 • Musée National d’Art moderne- Centre Georges Pompidou (National Museum of Modern Art), Paris, France in 1991 • Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien in Vienna, Austria in 1992 • Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (museum of contemporary art), Turin, Italy in 1996-1997 • “Bertrand Lavier: Walt Disney Productions” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, United States in 1999 • “Bertrand Lavier, Expositions 1976–2001” at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland in 2001 • Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France in 2002 • “Lavier in Prato” at the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy in 2004 • “Correspondances Bertrand Lavier/ Edouard Manet” at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France in 2008 • “Bertrand Lavier at Villa Medicis”, Rome, Italy in 2009 • “Fontaine de Bertrand Lavier” at Chateau de Versailles, France in 2009 • Atelier Hermès, Seoul, South Korea in 2010 • “Bertrand Lavier since 1969” retrospective exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France in 2012 • “l’Affaire Tournesols” exhibition at the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France in 2014 • “Une retrospective” at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein in 2016 • “Merci Raymond” at the Musée de la Monnaie de Paris, France in 2016 • “Bertrand Lavier: La Vénus d’Amiens” exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France in 2016 • “The Project 2016: Bertrand Lavier à l’École des Beaux Arts de Monaco”, Monaco in 2016 • “Walt Disney Productions” exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland in 2017 • “Medley” exhibition at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan in 2018 • Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris, France in 2021 • “Bertrand Lavier, Unwittingly But Willingly" at Le Consortium museum, Dijon, France in 2021-2022 • “Bertrand Lavier Solo Exhibition” at the Fosun Foundation in Shanghai, China in 2022
Participation at biennale and selected group exhibitions •
37th Venice Biennale in 1976 • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) PS1, New York, NY “Une idée en l’air” in 1980-1981 •
Documenta in 1982 and 1987 • “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture” at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, NY in 1984 • The UCLA Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA in 1985 • The John Gibson Gallery in New York, NY in 1986 and 1987 • The Center of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada in 1986 • “Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties” at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, NY in 2000 • “Contrepoint 2, de l’objet d’art à la sculpture”, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France in 2004-2005 • The Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong in 2009 ==Selected public and private collections ==