Rudolf Stingel

Rudolf Stingel was born in 1956 in Merano, Italy, and currently resides and works between New York and Merano.


Stingel is renowned as a conceptual artist, particularly recognised for his installations that envelop exhibition spaces with monochrome carpets. Rising to prominence in the late 1980s, Stingel initially gained recognition for his monochromatic silver paintings, which incorporated tones of red, yellow, or blue.


In 1989, Stingel introduced Instructions, a manual available in multiple languages detailing the process behind creating his silver paintings - abstract canvases characterized by undertones of red, yellow, or blue. During the 1990s, Stingel embarked on producing Abstract paintings by first applying a single colour onto the canvas and then spraying silver paint through pieces of gauze. Similarly, his works on paper employ a comparable technique, applying oil paint through tulle. Many of Stingel’s prints and installations challenge the traditional notion of authorship in art, highlighting the democratic and collaborative nature of the artistic process. His diverse installations incorporate a wide array of materials, including Styrofoam, carpet, and cast polyurethane. Notably, for his retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 2007, Stingel adorned the walls with metallic Celotex, encouraging visitors to inscribe the soft surface, thereby blurring the lines between artist and audience interaction.


Stingel’s work is held in numerous public collections including the François Pinault Collection Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; the Museion – Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano; the MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome; the Beyeler Foundation, Basel; the Tate Modern, London; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; De la Cruz Collection, Miami; the Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge; the MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York; the The Broad, Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Rudolf Stingel

Biography

Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2021
F, Kirchner Waldlandschaft mit Bach, 1925, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
F, Bourse de Commerce Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce Pinault Collection, Paris
2019
CH, Rudolf Stingel, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
2016
USA, Rudolf Stingel: Part VII, Gagosian Park & 75, New York
USA, Rudolf Stingel, Gagosian Gallery, New York
I, Rudolf Stingel, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2015
UK, Rudolf Stingel, Sadie Coles HQ, London
USA, Rudolf Stingel, Gagosian Gallery, New York
USA, Rudolf Stingel & Marianne Vitale, Karma, New York
HK, Rudolf Stingel, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
2014
USA, Rudolf Stingel, Gagosian Gallery, New York
I, Rudolf Stingel, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2013
I, Rudolf Stingel, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia
2012
UK, Rudolf Stingel, Sadie Coles HQ, London
F, Rudolf Stingel, Gagosian Gallery, Paris
2011
USA, Rudolf Stingel Curated by Francesco Bonami, Gagosian Gallery, New York
2010
I, Sol LeWitt presented by Rudolf Stingel, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
D, Rudolf Stingel. LIVE, Neue National Galerie, Berlin
2009
USA, Rudolf Stingel, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
UK, Rudolf Stingel, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2008
USA, Rudolf Stingel, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2007
UK, Rudolf Stingel, Sadie Coles HQ, London
USA, Rudolf Stingel, MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2006
UK, Rudolf Stingel, Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Garden, Edimburgo
I, Urs Fischer/Rudolf Stingel Curated by Rudolf Stingel, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2005
USA, The Nature of Things, Birmingham Museum & Art Galleries, Birmingham
USA, Rudolf Stingel, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2004
D, Home Depot (Dornbracht Installation Project), Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt Am Mein
UK, Rudolf Stingel, Sadie Coles, London
USA, Plan B, Grand Central Terminal, New York
USA, Plan B, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
I, Rudolf Stingel, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2023
I, Reaching for the Stars, Da Maurizio Cattelan a Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Curated by Arturo Galansino, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
2022
I, Winter Wunderkammer, MASSIMODECARLO, VSpace
2021
F, Black and White in the Pinault Collection, Couvent des Jacobins, Rennes
2019
I, Luogo e segni, Punta della Dogana, Venezia
USA, From Day to Day, De La Cruz Collection, Miami
I, MCMXXXIV, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2018
I, Dancing with Myself Curated by Martin Bethenod, Florian Ebner, Punta della dogana, Venezia
AUS, Eurovisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection Curated by Sue Cramer, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2017
USA, Abstract / Not Abstract, Moore Building, Miami
USA, Wild West, Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY), New York
2016
I, Passo dopo passo Curated by T. Barshee, M. Everett, D. Michalska, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
I, Prototypology: An Index of Process and Mutation, Gagosian Gallery, Roma
USA, Progressive Praxis, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
D, Dancing with my self. Self-portrait and self-invention works from the Pinault collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen
I, La finestra sul cortile. Scorci di collezioni private Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, GAM, Milano
A, The Language of Things. Material Hi/Stories from the Collection Curated by Luisa Ziaja, Axel Köhne, 21er Haus, Wien
USA, Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
I, L’image voleé Curated by Thomas Demand, Fondazione Prada, Milano
2015
I, Liberi Tutti! Arte e Società in Italia 1989 - 2001, Museo Ettore Fico, Torino
A, Flirting with Strangers, 21er Haus, Wien
I, Ennesima. Una mostra di sette mostre sull'arte italiana Curated by Vincenzo De Bellis, Triennale di Milano, Milano
USA, Dissolving Margins, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
N, The Noing UV It Curated by Steven Claydon e Martin Clark, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
UK, Losing the Compass, White Cube Mason's Yard, London
F, Picasso et l'art contemporain, Grand Palais, Paris
USA, You've Got to Know the Rules...to Break Them, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
2014
I, Somos Libres II: Works from the Mario Testino Collection, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin
USA, GOLD, Bass Museum of Art, Miami
USA, Beneath the Surface, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
USA, One Way: Peter Marino, Bass Museum of Art, Miami
USA, Artists for Artists: 51st Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
MC, ArtLovers: Histoires d’art dans la collection Pinault, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco

Bibliography

Year
Author, Publication Title, Date
2019
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2017
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2016
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2012
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2011
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2010
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Public collections

Country
Location
France
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
François Pinault Collection, Paris
Italy
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Roma
Museion - Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano
Switzerland
Beyeler Foundation, Basel
United Kingdom
Tate, London
United States of America
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
De la Cruz Collection, Miami
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Broad, Los Angeles
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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