Born in 1936 Turin, Italy
Worked and lived in Milan, Italy
( † 2007, Milan, Italy)
Solo Exhibitions
2017
“Luciano Fabro”, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
2015
“Fabro”, Casamadre Arte Contemporanea, Napoli, Italy
“Luciano Fabro”, Galleria Christian Stein, Milano, Italy
“Luciano Fabro”, Marianne Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2014
“Luciano Fabro”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2013
“Luciano Fabro: 100 Disegni”, Kunstmuseum Winterhur, Zurich, Zwitserland
“Luciano Fabro: Disegno In-Opera”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
2007
Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Zwitserland
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
2005
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
2004
Musée Bourdelle, Paris, France
1998
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
1997
Galleria Helia Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1996
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1995
“Il Giorno mi pesa Sulla Notte”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
“Luciano Fabro”, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
1994
“Sisifo”, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium “Giardino all’Italiana”, Basel, Switzerland “Fabro Ni Opera-Luciano Fabro”, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy “Luciano Fabro: Sisyphus”, Gegen Wartskunst Museum, Basel, Switzerland “Bagnanti”, Permanent Installation in The Open-Air Museum of Sculpture, Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
1992
“La naissance de Venus”, Galerie Durand-Desert, Paris, France
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1991
“Ogni ordine e contemporaneo di ogni altro ordine”, Museo Casa Bianca, Venice, Italy Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland
1990
Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain “Computers di Luciano Fabro, Caramelle di Nadezda Mandel Stam”, Christian Stein Gallery, Milan, Italy
1989
“Troubadours”, Elisabeth Kaufmann Gallery, Basel, Switzerland “L’infinito”, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy “Nord, sud, est, ouest, giocano a Shangai”, Capodimonte Museum, Naples, Italy “Two nudes descending a staircase dancing the Boogie-Woogie”, Stein – Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1988
“Effimero / Ovaie”, Christian Stein Gallery, Turin, Italy “Luciano Fabro con tre nudi che scendono le scale”, Mario Pieroni Gallery, Rome, Italy “C’est la vie”, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium “Basta la Vista, Eirstocke”, Kunstverein, Monaco
1987
“Landscapes”, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland “Etat”, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France “Obelisques”, Sparta – Petit Gallery, Chagny, France
1986
“Prometeo Efeso”, Christian Stein Gallery, Milan, Italy
1985
“Il Belgio”, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
1984
“Die Deutschland”, Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1983
“Premio Neue”, Sammlung Ludwig Gallerie, Oberhausen, Germany “Italia Vota”, Minini Gallery, Brescia, Italy Pinacoteca Comunale, Loggetta Lombardesca, Ravenna, Italy
1982
“La Foglia”, Saman Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland “Italia a Pennello”, Banco Gallery, Brescia, Italy
1981
“1962”, Mario Pieroni Gallery, Rome, Italy “Sehnsucht”, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany “Duister Kristal: Luciano Fabro-Pier Paolo Pasolini”, Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium Museum Boymans-van Bauningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1980
“1-100”, Galleria Toselli, Milan, Italy “Letture parallele IV”, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy “Habitat delle erbe”, Christian Stein Gallery, Turin, Italy “Iconografie”, Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, NY
1979
“Il giudizio di Paride”, Mario Pieroni Gallery, Rome, Italy
1978
“Io”, Il Collezionista Gallery, Rome, Italy “Allestimento teatrale”, Liceo Artistico, Pescara, Italy “Tu”, Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1977
“Attaccapanni”, Framart Gallery, Naples, Italy
1976
“Double Face”, Galleria del Cortile, Rome, Italy Galleria del Cortile, Rome, Italy “A e na roba mas granda par podei pensala (P.P. Pasolini)”, Incontri Internazionali d’Arte, Rome, Italy
1975
“Allestimento teatrale (Cubo di specchi)”, Bagno Borbonico, Pescara, Italy “Iconografie”, Arena Gallery, Florence, Italy “Letture parallele III. Coreografie”, Christian Stein Gallery, Turin, Italy
1974
“Ogni ordine e contemporaneo di ogni altro ordine, sinottica degli insiemi e delle Proporzioni”, Sperone – Fischer Gallery, Rome, Italy Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy “Ogni ordine e contemporaneo di ogni altro ordine”, Notizie Gallery, Turin, Italy Galleria del Cortile, Rome, Italy “Letture parallele II”, Salle Patino, Geneva, Switzerland
1973
“Letture parallele I”, Borgogna Gallery, Milan, Italy
1971
Borgogna Gallery, Milan, Italy Notizie Gallery, Turin, Italy Galleria del Leone, Venice, Italy “Informazione sulla presenza italiana”, Incontri internazionali d’arte, Rome, Italy
1970
“Fabro Bekleidung”, Aktionsraum I, Monaco
1969
“Quid nihil nisi minus, Lenzuola”, La Salita Gallery, Rome, Italy Galleria di Nieubourg, Milan, Italy
1968
“Davanti, dietro, destra, sinistra (Tautologie)”, Notizie Gallery, Turin, Italy “0 mm (Tautologie)”, Solothurn, Restaurant Chutz, Turin, Italy
1967
Notizie Gallery, Turin, Italy
1965
Vismara Gallery, Milan, Italy
Group Exhibitions
2014
Latin Lovers, Frac-Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
The Seal Salut D’Honneur Jan Hoet, Mu.Zee, Oostende, Belgium
CHE FARE ? Arte Povera. A period in history, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
Collection Study III: Art in Europe after 1968, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
2012
Dormitorio Pubblico, Campoli Presti, Paris, France
Another Castle, Etablissement d’en face, Brussels, Belgium
2004
“Basico”, Tucci Russo, Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice, Turin, Italy
1998
“Arte Italiana 1945-95”, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Yonoga City Museum of Art, Tottori, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1997
“Face A L’Histoire 1933-1996”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (cat.)
Traveling Exhibition of Mrs. Goetz, Arte Povera Collection to Germany and Austria, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, the Netherlands “Future, Present, Past”, 47th Biennale of Venice, Venice, Italy (cat.)
1996
“Dessins” (nouvelles acquisitions, 1992-96), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France “Contemporanea”, Capo di Monte, Napels, Italy
1995
ARS 95 Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (cat.)
1993
“La collection Christian Stein, un regard sur l’art italien”, Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrenées, Labege-Innopole, France
“Gravity and Grace. The changing condition of sculpture 1965-1975”, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
“De Aanloop I. The Running Start”, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
“Tutte le strade portano a Roma?”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy “La Collection”, Musée Departmental d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart, France
“L’Ordre du Temps”, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Kerguehennec, France (cat.)
“Moving”, Fondation de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Complessa”, XLV Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy “Koerper II”, Elisabeth Kaufmann Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
“Des coins remplis de ce qui a été raflé dans des coins”, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
“Un’avventura internazionale. Torino e le arti 1950-70”, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
“Utopia. Arte Italiana 1950-1993”, Das Direktorium der Salzburger Festspiele & Die Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
“Het sublieme gemis / The Sublime Void”, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
“Devant, le futur / The Future Lies Ahead”, Taejon Expo ’93, Taejon, South Korea
“De verzameling / The Collection”, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
“Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, Luciano Fabro, Mauruzio Mochetti, Giulio Paolini, Ettore Spalletti”, Tel-Aviv
Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
“Una collezione”, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands “The Italian Metamorphosis 1943-1968”, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1992
“Il pensiero tangibile – La pensée tangible (Buren, Boetti, Poirier, Fabro, Raynaud, Paolini, Raysse, Pistoletto)”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy “Bari / Molfetta Sala dei Templari”, Condé de L’Escaut, Chateau de l’Hermitage, Lille, France
“La mémoire des formes”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan-Locmine, France Galerie Durand-Desert, Paris, France
“Platzverfuhrung”, Aalen – Stoccarda, Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
“TransForm – Bild Objekt Skulptur im 20 Jahrhundert”, Kunstmuseum and Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
“Het dei van de eeuw, van Rodin tot Jeff Koons / A Century in Sculpture, from Rodin to Jeff Koons”, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Territorium Artis”, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Germany
“La collection Christian Stein, un regard sur l’art italien”, Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France
“Natural Order. Recent European Sculpture from the Tate’s Collection”, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
“Paolo Uccello, Battaglie nell’arte del XX Secolo”, La Salerniana, Erice, Italy
“Troppo Grande”, Udine, Italy
“L’arte povera Jalons”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
“Des Dessins”, Le Landeron, France
“Les Collections du Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain des Pays de la Loire”, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes,
Nantes, France
“Terrae Motus alla Reggia di Caserta”, Fondazione Lucio Amelio, Caserta, Italy
“Arte Povera: Early Works”, Stein – Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY