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Biography
- 1965
Born in Gribbohm, Germany
Studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HfBK), Hamburg, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
- 2020
Peer Gynt, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin, Germany
- 2019
LiquiditätsAuraAroma, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Gallery Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
im AntliTZ des SchädelapparaTZ, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany - 2018
Unheil, Sprüth Magers Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Dead + Juicy, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
The Next Quasi Complex, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy - 2017
Dead + Juicy, The Contemporary Austin, TX
Glissade dans la sueur perlée des aisselles, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
Hell’s Bells: A Western, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
In the Moloch of the Presence of Being, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany - 2015
Three Sisters, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
UN EX-SURROGATE, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden - 2014
In the House of Boogie-Love, Gallery Sprüth Magers at art berlin contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Knick-Falte in der Schädeldecke, Gallery Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
sweet Sub-NOTHING- Spores, Gallery Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy - 2013
Above the point of the glowing silence, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
No Time No Screws, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
Im Modder der Summenmutation, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Der Pappenheimer, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Le Grand Macabre, Opera, Chemnitz, Germany
Kreatürliche Unschuld, Fries Museum Netherlands, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands - 2012
John Bock: Die Walze, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
Into the Quasi-Me-Hill, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Barneys Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Die abgeschmierte Knicklenkung im Gepaeck verheddert sich im weissen Hemd, Staedelmuseum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Danube Festival, Kunst Halle Krems, Krems, Austria
Lecker Puste (Delicious Breath), Métamatics Research Initiative, performance at The Watermill Center, Watermill, NY
Presenza Activa / Active Presence, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea De Vigo, Spain - 2011
Im Schatten der Made, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Lost-Egg in the Desert, Jumex Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico
iRonic, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
OHR-WALACHEI, Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin, Germany
John Bock - Klosterfelde, Berlin, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
John Bock: Howdy Bamington, Third Streaming, New York, NY
Lichterloh / roh, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA - 2010
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Nöle, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
John Bock: New Commission for the Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
FischGrätenMelkStand, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
Der Seewolf, Münster Ferry Boat, Art Parcours at Art 41 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Centro de Arte Contempraneo de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Curve-Vehicle incl. π-Man-(.), The Curve, Barbican Centre, London , UK
UK Sexy Socks, stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium - 2009
Folasch, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
No Time No Screws, Eleni Koroneou, Athens, Greece
Die abgeschmierte Knicklenkung im Gepäck verheddert sich im weisse,n Hemd (fashion Show lecture), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, September 25 and 26.
über den PARA-Behälter Sympto,n Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, Germany
The Big Sleep, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK - 2008
Palms, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Inside Beyond, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
PARA – SCHIZO, ensnarled, Arko Art Center and Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea
Film Retrospective, curated by XYZ, Mikrokosmos Cinema, Athens, Greece - 2007
Stapelung, P.S.1. MoMA, New York, NY
John Bock. Films, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
John Bock, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Ausstellungstitel, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Sadie Coles, London, UK
Buggelpiste, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Malträtierte Fregatte, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Dandy, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK - 2006
Mit Schisslaveng, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Lütte mit Rucola, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Medusa im Tam Tam Club, Staatsoper Unter Den Linden, Berlin, Germany
Zero Hero, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
John Bock… Surrogat, The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Wien, Austria - 2005
Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille, France
A-Buba, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Skipholt, Kling & Bang, Reykjavik, Iceland - 2004
John Bock Curates, ICA, London, UK
MultiplexKomplex Petit-four transmits the BeWorldMigraineSolution through the metallic
NoseAirHairPeriscope + Gast, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Which Feeder?,with Bendix Harms, Anton Kern Gallery, NY
Wenn ich in ‘ne scheune gehe und kein stroh ist da, dann bin ich falsch, Galerie Michael Neff,
Frankfurt, Germany
Meechfieber, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy - 2003
Klynken I knæk, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj
Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy
The Death of Raymond Roussell, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil - 2002
Saltimbocca, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, GermanyI
Accobmitlas, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany
mieses BrutCashFlow ist NeutraKnecht, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Wien, Austria - 2001
Lehm, Lehm, Lehm, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
When I am Looking Into the Goat Cheese Baiser, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Meech City, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Ma’am Prociutto Crudo, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany
Sadie Coles Gallery, London, UK - 2000
Projects 71, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Multiple Quasi-Maybe-Me-Be Updown, Recent Works/Jacob Fabricius, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fashion Show, Recent Works/Jacob Fabricius, Copenhagen, Denmark
Marcia Fortes, June, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aller Anfang Ist Merz – Von Kurt Schwitters Bis Heute, Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Yes Sir No Sir, Stella Lohaus, Antwerp, Belgium
Martin Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Kunstverein Bremen, Bremen, Germany - 1999
Gegenwartskunst in Deutschland, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Zeitwenden Rückblick und Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Maybe-Me-Be-Microworld Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Lombardi Bängli, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
SoonSonicShySONSupernovaSideUP, Charim Klocker, Vienna, Austria
Opt APEtrouve Moving Diagramm, Gio Marconi, Milan, Germany
MolkeMeMindVehikle, Klosterfelde, Statement Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Quasi-ich-isoquantenschar-Kammer, Nachbar, Galerie Krinzinger/ Benger Park Bregenz, Austria
Paramoderne=Rokokkogobrot, ‘Kraftwerk Berlin’, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Existo-Tour 99, ‘ars viva 99/00 – Grenzgänge, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Schnitt Ausstellungsraum, Cologne, Germany
Der Fall des reinen Tausches in der Edgeworth-Box, “Home & Away”, Expo Café und Kunstverein
Hanover, Germany (cat.)
Bildung Information, Kommunikation und Didaktik in der zeitgenössischen bildenden Kunst,
steirischer herbst, Graz
Memme Muss schlafen, S.M.A.K, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Opt APEtrouve Moving Diagramm, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
ApproximationRezipientenbedürfniscomaUrUktraUseMaterialMiniMaxi, 48 Biennale di Venezia,
Italy - 1998
1Mio $ Knödel Kisses, (1 Million Dumpling Kisses), Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Tirol Österreich
Heu in der Kadernwelle, (Hay in the Tractor-Hitch), Berlin, Germany
Regardez le Discjockey Long John Silver, Städt. Museum am Abteiberg
MienGribbohmWien, (My GribbohmVienna), Wiener Secession, Vienna
Silageproppen verstopft den Streptopenfluss im Love-Time-Multiplikator, Caulk Clogs
Strept-River in the Love-Time-Multiplier), Offenbach
Kunst und Papier auf dem Laufsteg, (Love and Paper on the Runway), Deutsche Guggenheim,
Berlin, Germany
BommelbabyfaceNelson,(Pompom-Babyface-Nelson), Laurids & Mattheus, Karlsruhe
Memme Muss schlafen, S.M.A.K, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Meechfieber im Paradoxonmodderkarton, (Meechfever in Paradox-Mold-Box), H.M. Klosterfelde,
Hamburg, Germany - 1997
Am Tüddelband der Liebeselastizität, (On the Tuddelband of Love-Elasticity), element,
Berlin, Germany
Rasputin ist Mütterchen, (Rasputin is Mommy), Performatrix, KX, Hamburg, Germany
Das Gängelband der Kunstwohlfahrt, (The Reins of Art-Welfare), Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Molloch, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
Die molekulare Heimsuchung des Herrn 0.47, (The Molecular Affliction of Mr. 0.47), Hochschule
für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany - 1996
Die dynamische Nacht des Tiberius, (The Dynamic Night of Tiberius), Hochschule für Bildende
Künste (HfBK)
Die Drecksschleuder (The Dirt Sling), Frankfurt, Germany
Gribbohm, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
Der Onkel im Koffer (The Uncle in the Suitcase), Maastricht, Netherlands
Der Heilige Anwalt in Antwerpen (The Holy Lawyer of Antwerp), Lokaal 05, Antwerp, Belgium - 1995
Der Fremde in der 4. Etage (The Stranger on the 4th Floor), Trojanisches Schiff, Hamburg,
Germany
Das Feld (The Field), Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
Das Kunstwerk des 21. Jahrhunderts, (The Artwork of the 21st Century), Friedensallee 12,
Hamburg, Germany - 1994
Törtchen der Leidenschaft, (Tartlet of Passion), Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany
Heilung Nr. 4, (Healing #4), Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
Kunstkarton, (Art-Box), Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany - 1993
Elefant (Elephant), Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
4 x Rezipientenmodelle (4 x Recipient-Models), Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HfBK),
Hamburg, Germany
Die Kunstwohlfahrtsmaschine (The Art-Welfare-Machine), Hochschule für Bildende Künste,
Hamburg, Germany
Komparativer Kunstfähigkeitsvorteil (Comparative Artistic-Advantage), Friedensallee 12,
Hamburg, Germany
Der kleine Rezipient und der grosse Rezipient (The Small Recipient and the Large Recipient),
Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
Haschkeks (Hash Cookie), Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany - 1992
Mord und Robotermalerei (Murder and Robot-Painting), Pudelsclub, Hamburg, Germany
Kunst-Mädchen-Erfolg-Tod (Art-Girl-Success-Death), Hochschule für Bildende Künste,
Hamburg, Germany
Jackson-Action, Hochschule für Bildende
Künste, Hamburg, Germany
Paul-Eluard-Gesichtskorrektur (Paul-Eluard-Face-Correction), Hochschule für Bildende Künste,
Hamburg, Germany
Wie werde ich berühmt? (How Do I Become Famous?), Hochschule für Bildende Künste,
Hamburg, Germany Group Exhibitions
- 2020
Studio Berlin, Berghain, Berlin, Germany
KölnSkulptur #10, Skulpturenpark Köln, Germany
Großes Welttheater - 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele, Salzburg Museum, Salzburg, Austria
Nur nichts anbrennen lassen. Neupräsentation der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
We don’t use it I No lo utilizamos, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile (online space)
- 2019
Installationen aus 25 Jahren Sammlung Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Territorium, Kunsthalle Schlieren, Zurich, Switzerland
Fuzzy Dark Spot, Sammlung Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (forthcoming)Uferhallen Kunstaktien, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany (forthcoming)
New Acquisitions 2017 – 2018, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
ankst, Städtische Galerie Cordonhaus Cham, Bavaria, Germany
- 2018
Exhibiting the Exhibition: From the Cabinet of Curiosities to the Curatorial Situation, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Pizza is God, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Art of Recollecting, G2, Leipzig, Germany
Club Conscious, Observatorium, Meatpack, Antwerp, Belgium - 2017
And Then There Were None, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany
Berlin Now, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Atopía, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Lima, Peru
Silent Empire, Funkhaus Berlin, Germany
Portfolio Berlin 03, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
Once upon a time... The Western – A new frontier in Art and Film, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
The Inner Skin: Art and Shame, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
Atlas I, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy - 2016
Flying over the Abyss, NEON Foundation, Athens Conservatoire, Athens
Implosion 20, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Wolfburg Unlimited: A City as World Laboratory, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Ich, Schrin Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
ILLUMINATION, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nothing Happens, Twice: Artists Explore Absurdity, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK - 2015
Same But Different, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
H.D. Buttercup’s Apartment, curated by Michael Fuchs Galerie, H.D. Buttercup, Los Angeles, CA
Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY
Flying over the Abyss, NEON Foundation, Thessaloniki Center for Contemporary Art,
Thessaloniki, Greece
An Evening of Performances at David Roberts Art Foundation, DRAF, London, UK
Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Germany
Avatar und Atavismus, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Paperworlds, Buchheim Museum, Bernried am Starnberger See, Germany
Poor Art - Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and Parallel Practices 1968-2015, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Oslo, Norway
Storylines, Guggenheim, New York, NY
NGORONGORO, Lehderstrasse 34, Berlin, Germany
Flux-Labyrinth, Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, New York, NY
Cannibalism? On Appropriation in Art, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, National Gallery of Art,
Warsaw, Poland
Self-Inflicted Justice by Bad Shopping, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Bare Wunder, curated by Veit Loers, Seis + Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany
La La La Human Steps, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
YES WE'RE OPEN, Giò Marconi, Milan, Italy - 2014
Letter from Mr. Faustus - Seven Adaptations from Berlin, curated by Amir Fattal and Stephen
Köhler, Herzliya Museum Tel Aviv, Israel
A Man Walks Into A Bar…, Landshuter Strausse 49, Mainburg, Germany [cat.]
8, Bremer Kunstfrühling, Bremen, Germany
films by John Bock, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Atopia: Migration, Heritage, and Placelessness. Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art
Contemporary Collection, Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico
Bloodflames Revisited, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Broken. Slapstick, Comedy, and Black Humor: Goetz Collection, Haus Der Kunst, Munich,
Germany
Der Stachel des Skorpions, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
High Performance, The Julia Stoschek Collection at the ZKM, Museum Villa Stuck, Karisruhe,
Germany, traveling to Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany; Berlin Gallery Weekend,
Radialsystem, Berlin Germany
Homunculus: Playing the Masculine Pathetic, curated by James Boaden, Nottingham
Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
I’m Still Here, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Lens-Based Sculpture, Akademie der Künste, Berlin Germany
Off the Runway, River School, Cape Cod, MA
PAPERWORLDS: Childhood Drawings by Contemporary Artists, curated by Valeska Hageney
and Sylvia Volz, me Collectors Room, Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany
Slapstick! The Art of Comedy, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
The Sting of the Scorpion, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
Tala Madani, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK - 2013
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times Revisited Kiev Biennale Selection, Chronos Art Center,
Shanghai, China, and TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland
ARTZUID 2013, Foundation ArtZuid, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Echoes of Silence, NEON at ReMap4, Athens, Greece
Exquisite Corpse, Vallois, Paris, France
HEIMsuchung-Unsichere Räume (Unsafe Spaces in Contemporary Art), Kunstmuseum Bonn,
Bonn, Germany
ll Palazzo Enciclopedico - 55th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2013,
Venice, Italy
John Bock – Keren Cytter – Paul Pfeiffer – Gillian Wearing – Akram Zaatari, Regen Projects,
Los Angeles, CA
METAMATIC Reloaded, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
Number Six: Flaming Creatures, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
Nur Skulptur, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
ARCTIC, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Slapstick!, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
Temptation of the Diagram, curated by Matthew Ritchie, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York, NY - 2012
30 Räume/ 30 Künstler (30 rooms / 30 artists), Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design,
Nuremberg, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Accelerating Toward Apocalypse: Works from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd.,
Givon Art Forum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Active Presence: Action, Object & Audience, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial,
Asturias, Spain
Active Presence: Action, Object and Public, MARCO, Vigo, Spain
Alpenrepublik, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Arsenale 2012, Ukrainian Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine
DECADE: Contemporary Collecting 2002–2012, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Deste Fashion Collection, Barney’s New York, New York, NY
First International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Ukraine 2012, Ukraine
Funny, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition by Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Number Six: Flaming Creatures, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rohkunstbau XIX Moral, Rokunstfestival 2012, Marquardt, Germany
Skulptur, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany
Track, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Various stages, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany - 2011
6th Curitiba Biennial, Curitiba, Brazil
8 1/2: Thirteen artists celebrating the 100th anniversary of Trussardi, Fondazione Nicola
Trussardi, Milan
Berlin 2000-2011: Playing Among the Ruins, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Clap, Hessel Museum of Art, Annadale-on-Hudson, Red Hook, NY
Coleccion Art Foundation Mallorca 2011, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain
Geschmack, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
International Biennial of Contemporary Art or Curitiba: Beyond the Crisis, Curitiba, Brazil
Knock, Knock! From the Collection of Paul and Sara Monroe, Anderson Gallery VCU Arts,
Richmond, Virginia
Luminous Interval (Daskalopoulos Collection), Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
MakeUp, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Surreal versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
The Art Magazine Becomes Art, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK
The Collectors Show, The Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands
The Luminous Interval: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Transformed Objects, KAI 10 Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany
Zwei Sammler: Thomas Olbricht and Harald Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany - 2010
The Beauty and the Distance, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
25 Reasons We Still Need Superman, Video Art Touring Festival, Sarai CSDS, New Delhi;
Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China
Adaptation: Between Species, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Art Parcours, Art 41 Basel, Switzerland
At Home/ Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Bard
Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Away and Boil Your Head, An exhibition curated by XYZ within the project OTHERS: Le Biennali
d'arte di Marrakech, Istanbul, Atene a Palermo e Catania, Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino,
Palazzo Valle, Catania, Italy
Behind the Curtain, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
CAC, Málaga, Spain
Curious? Art in the 21st Century from Private Collections, Art and Exhibition Hall of the
Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, Germany
Figura Cuncta Videntis, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in Four Acts: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Whitechapel
Gallery, London, England
Michael Stumpf: Rubble Stir, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
Nature, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin , Germany
Roboterträume, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
Skin Fruit, Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York, NY
The Drawing Room, The Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Library of Babel/ In and Out of Place, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, 176 Zabludowicz
Collection, London, UK
Permanent Trouble – Aktuelle Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie,
Regensburg, Germany - 2009
Berlin 2000, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
CA
Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation, Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY
Eating the Universe. Vom Essen in der Kunst, Kunstahalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Fashionshow, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Filmshooting for Kie Ellens, Walhouse Film, Groningen, Netherlands
Klütterkammer ICA book launch, Walther König Buchhandlung, Berlin, Germany
KunstFilmBiennale on Tour, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Künstlergesprach mit Julia Stoschek, Münster (films: Urhütte, Hysterie im Nonchalance, Inside
Beyond) KunstFilmBiennale on Tour, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany
Il Giardino dei Lauri, Citta della Pieve, Italy
My Summer Show, Gallerie LeLong, New York, NY
Opening Eleni Koroneou, Athens, Greece
Precarious Form I: Prekäre Skulpturen, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Performative Impulses, Pinacoteca di Bari Tank TV, online exhibition
Repeat all, MIS, Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil
(re)Visions:(di)Visions, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
Stressed Spaces, multistory car park, KW14,‘s- Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Sur Le Dandysme Aujourd'hui, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Navarre, Spain
The Spirit of the Haus-20, Jahre Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Time Out Beijing Video art festival, Beijing, touring to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur,
Singapore, Bangalore, Mumbai, Dubai and Tokyo
TreppeHochStrichPunkt, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany
Vlassis Caniaris. In Contrapunto. National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation / M.I.E.T., Athens,
Greece - 2008
abc-art berlin contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Call it what you like, Collection Rik Reinking, Kunst Centret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg
Come-in. Interior Design as a Contemporary Art Medium in Germany, Galeri Nasional Indonesia,
Jakarta
e-flux Video Rental, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Fundação Calouste
Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Feelgood things, Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Forgotten Bar Project, Galerie Im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany
La Fete Est Permanente / The Eternal Network, FRAC, Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
Pivot Points Part 1, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Second Thoughts, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard
College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Tempo Tempo!, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany
The Hamsterwheel, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden [cat.]
The ICA Auction Exhibition, Insitute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
The sublime is now, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
Vertrautes Terrain, Aktuelle Kunst in und über Deutschland, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und
Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Videozone 4 (Videozone), International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel
When It’s a Photograph, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY - 2007
1st Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece
Absolumental 2, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Toulouse & région Midi-Pyrénées,
Toulouse, France
All about laughter, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Beyond the Country, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
Come, come, come into my world, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugal
Das Kapital - Blue Chips & Masterpieces, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main,
Germany
e-flux Video Rental, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
Cambridge, MA
Fit to Print: Printed Media in Recent Collage, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Fractured Figure, Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Franz West: Souflé, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
From the Earth to the Moon, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Ginnungagap / Pavilion of Belief, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany
Hamsterwheel, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain
Into Me / Out Of Me, Marco Rom, Italy; KW Berlin, Germany; P.S.1. MoMA, Long Island City, NY
Ironie der Objekte, MUSEION, Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bolzano, Italy
La città che sale, ARCOS, Museo di Arte Contemporanea del Sannio, Benevento
Live/Work: Performance Into Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Material: An Exhibition of Mixed Media Sculpture, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
Mayflies, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Panic Room, Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Centre for
Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Performa 2007, P.S.1 Contempory Art Center, New York, NY
Quotidian, BUIA Gallery, New York City, NY
Re-dis-play, Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Repeat All, M100, Centro Culturtal Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile
Sculpture Exhibition, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Soufflé, eine Massenausstellung, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
The Harder You Look, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
HDTS 07, The High Desert Test Sites, Los Angeles, CA
Timer 01, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy
To Be Continued…, Magasin 3 Stockolm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Unmonumental: The Object In The 21st Century, New Museum, New York, NY
Voci dalla luna: omaggio a Federico Fellini, GC.AC and MAN, Galleria Comunale d'Arte
Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone and Museo d`Arte di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever, Baltic, The Center for Contemporary Art,
Gateshead, UK - 2006
Implosion, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
ACTION, Frac Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur, Marseille, France
Constructing New Berlin, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Dada’s Boys, Identity and Play in Contemporary Art, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburg, UK
Fliegende Kühe und andere Kometen—Nicht nur komische Dinge in der Kunst, Villa Merkel,
Esslingen, Germany
Group Show, Galleria Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co., Milan, Italy
Mapping the Studio, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nature Attitude, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Nothing But Pleasure, Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY - 2005
A Certain Tendency in Representation – Cineclub, curated by Francesco Manacorda,
Thomas Dane, London, UK,
Abnormal, Nyehaus, New York, NY
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Desenhos: A-Z [Drawings: A-Z], Porta 33, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal
Dionysiac, Centre Pompidou, France
Forme a venire, Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Florence, Italy
Girls on Film, curated by Kristine Bell, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
Imagem & Acao, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY, Curated by David Humphrey
Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
Portrait, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2005, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Reykjavik Arts Festival 2005, Reykjavik, Iceland
What’s New Pussycat? Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany
When Humor Becomes Painful, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich - 2004
I Am The Walrus, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Body Display - Performative Installation #4, Secession, Vienna
Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA
John Bock and Bedix Harms, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY
Planet B, Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria - 2003
Editions and Multiples 1990 – 2003, Helga Maria
Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany
GROTESK! – Grotesque! 30 Years of Witty Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Sitings: Installation Art 1969 – 2002, MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Penetration, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
The Great Drawing Show: 1550-2003 A.D., Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - 2002
Do It, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Pamela Echeverria, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil,
San Angel, Mexico
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany, Curated by Okwui Enwezor
Extension, Magasin3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Hello, My Name is…, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Penetration, curated by Mark Fletcher, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, France - 2001
Drawings, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
April is the Cruelest Month, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Hypermental. Rampant Reality 1950-2000, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
New Settlements, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
Magazin3, Stockholm, Sweden
I Love NY, Benefit show, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY - 2000
Death Race 2000, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Drawing 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Koppel op Kop, Ars Viva, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany
Kunst Museum Düsseldorf, February, Germany
Existo-Tour 99, ars Viva, Kunsthaus Dresden
Art Auction, MoCA, Los Angeles, CA
Jacob Fabricus, Modenschau aus MoMA
Le College, Fond Regional de’ Art Contemporain (FRAC), Reims, France
Rückblick und Ausblick, Vienna, Austria
Gribbohm, Sprengel Museum Hanover, Germany
FRAC, Reims, France Sprengel Museum Hanover, Hanover, Germany - 1999
Children of Berlin, PS1, New York, NY
German Open, Kunst Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany - 1998
ApproximationRezipientenbedürfniscomaUrUktraUseMaterialMiniMaxi, 48 Biennale di Venezia,
Italy
LiquiditätAuraAromaPortfolio, (Liquid-Aura-Aroma-Portfolio), Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Press
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2010Modern PaintersJohn Bock -
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2010New York TimesArt in Review: John Bock
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2007Art ReviewJohn Bock: Hide and Seek -
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2006ARTnewsSpray the Ketchup, Fling the Lettuce -
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2005Flash ArtJohn Bock: A Man in Space
Publications
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Wesensprasenz No 4d
John Bock
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "John Bock: In the Moloch of the Wesenspräsenz" at the Berlinsche Galerie, Berlin 2017