Daniel Buren (b. 1938) has been the subject of major museum exhibitions worldwide. He has exhibited in the Venice Biennale more than 10 times and was awarded the Golden Lion in 1986. Buren participated in documenta V, VI, and VII. In 2007, he received the Praemium Imperiale for Painting from Japan and was selected to exhibit at MONUMENTA 2012 at the Grand Palais in Paris. He has been the subject of large-scale, solo exhibitions at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN, the Art Institute of Chicago, Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, Bozar in Brussels, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Metz, and Malaga, Guggenheim New York and Bilbao, among countless other institutions. Currently, the Museum of Modern Art has 13 of Buren’s works on view. Daniel Buren lives and works in situ.
Exhibitions
For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960
9 Feb – 29 Jun 2024
The Warehouse
The Colored Mirrors, situated works, low reliefs
10 May – 18 Jun 2022
39 Walker
Tondi, situated works
7 Sep – 13 Oct 2018
39 Walker
Quand le textile s’éclaire: fibers optiques tissées. Travaux situés 2013-2014
18 Mar – 10 Jun 2018
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
From Half Circles to the Full Circles: A Coloured Journey
8 Sep 2017 – 1 Jul 2018
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá
Del Medio Círculo Al Círculo Completo: Un Recorrido De Color
9 Aug 2017 – 7 Jan 2018
Modern Art Museum of Bogota
To Align: works in situ 2017
13 May – 24 Jun 2017
Bortolami
University of Disasters
30 Mar – 22 Apr 2017
Bortolami
Como un juego de niño
21 Jul – 3 Oct 2016
Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes
Observatory of Light
11 May 2016
Fondation Louis Vuitton
Daniel Buren: A Fresco
19 Feb – 22 May 2016
Bozar, Bruxelles
Daniel Buren / Miami
3 December 2015 – 31 December 2016
De un patio a otro – trabajos in situ, 2014
13 Mar – 29 Jun 2014
Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara
Electricity Fabric Paint Paper Vinyl… Works in Situ & Situated Works from 1968 To 2013
10 Jan – 16 Feb 2013
Bortolami
ELECTRICITY PAPER VINYL...Works in Situ & Situated Works From 1968 to 2013 (Dedicated to Michael Asher)
10 Jan – 16 Feb 2013
Petzel Gallery
Out of the Blue
21 Sep – 21 Nov 2012
Bortolami
Monumenta 2012: Daniel Buren: Excentrique(s) Travail in situ
10 May – 21 Jun 2012
Grand Palais, Paris
Échos, Works in situ
8 May – 9 Sep 2011
Centre Pompidou-Metz
Allegro Vivace
12 Feb – 22 May 2011
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Architecture, contre-architecture : transposition. Travail in situ.
9 Oct 2010 – 22 May 2011
Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art (MUDAM), Luxembourg
To Cut Out: Situated Works 1969 - 2009
30 Oct 2009 – 22 Dec 2001
Bortolami
Variable/Invariable
11 Jan – 15 Feb 2007
Bortolami
The Eye of the Storm
25 Mar – 8 Jun 2005
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Le Musée qui n’existait pas
26 Jun 2002 – 23 Sep 2022
Le Centre Pompidou
Daniel Buren
2 Oct – 14 Dec 1991
Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux (CAPC), Bordeaux
Within and Beyond the Frame
1 Oct – 1 Nov 1973
John Weber Gallery
Press
Thom Waite In Rio, Daniel Buren offers an antidote to ‘totally disgusting’ hotel art Dazed Apr 2024Alice Zucca Daniel Buren’s Colored Mirrors: Reflections and Perception SLEEK Magazine May 2022Mark Westall 5 Exhibitions To See In New York During Frieze Week FAD Magazine May 2022Joelle Diderich Daniel Buren Brings Disruptive Art to France’s Presidential Palace WWD Sept 2021Jo. Lawson-Tancred Daniel Buren: reimagining space through stripes Financial Times May 2021Mike Payton Miami Beach Recieves Design Proposal for 5th Street Pedestrian Bridge Miami Beach Times Aug 2019Annie Armstrong Next Up on the High Line in New York: Paintings ARTnews Feb 2019Eva Zanardi Daniel Buren: Tondi, situated works, at Bortolami Gallery Quiet Lunch Sept 2018Miriam Cosic French conceptual artist Daniel Buren The Saturday Paper Jul 2018Hannah Martin Memphis Design Comes to Life at Raquel Cayre’s Dream House in SoHo Architectural Digest May 2018Samantha Rees The @ettoresottsass Instagram Comes to Life in a Memphis-Inspired Soho Dream House Vogue May 2018Hannah Mcgivern Centre Pompidou Málaga extends its French ties with a five-year collaboration The Art Newspaper Feb 2018Gary Pini Mega Guide to Art Basel Miami Beach 2017 Paper Magazine Nov 2017Hollie Smith Oria Ito and Daniel Buren Design YOOMA Hotel in Paris Designboom Jul 2017William Menking Six can’t-miss sculptures from the Münster Sculpture Project The Architect’s Newspaper Jun 2017Vladimir Belogolovsky Whatever You Do, Don’t Call Daniel Buren’s Artworks “Installations" Metropolis Jun 2017Roberta Smith What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week The New York Times Jun 2017William Menking Artist Daniel Buren transforms Tribeca gallery with mesmerizing installation The Architect’s Newspaper Jun 2017Lynn Chaya daniel buren transforms bortolami’s tribeca gallery with playful trademark stripes designboom Jun 2017Jerry Saltz Daniel Buren New York Magazine Jun 2017Nicholas Duffy Daniel Buren Injects Color Inside Bortolami Gallery’s New Manhattan Space Interior Design Jun 2017Brook Mason Why 25,000 Square Feet is the New Normal for Art Galleries Architectural Digest Jun 2017The New Yorker Goings on About Town The New Yorker Jun 2017Eloise Maxwell Daniel Buren Art in America May 2017Matthew Higgs Best of 2016 Artforum Dec 2016Evan Moffitt Art in the Heartland Frieze Nov 2016Carly Ayres Seeing stripes: Daniel Buren shows ten early works at New York’s Nahmad Contemporary Wallpaper* Sept 2016Gean Moreno No Return Ticket: Daniel Buren in Miami The Miami Rail Sept 2016Pei-Ru Keh City limits: Bortolami Gallery’s ‘Artist/City’ upends the traditional exhibition model Wallpaper* Aug 2016Michael Slenske Child’s play: Daniel Buren showcases his new installation at the Museo Espacio Wallpaper* Jul 2016Melissa Minton Daniel Buren Brings Color to Frank Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton Architectural Digest May 2016Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Daniel Buren on his Career, Luxury Collaborations, And Why he ‘Hated’ the Venice Biennale Blouin Artinfo Sept 2015Emily McDermott Stripes Across The Decades Interview Mar 2015Janelle Zara Infinity and Beyond Artforum Jul 2014Jonathan Bell Daniel Buren takes over the rooftop of Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse with ‘Défini, fini, infini' Wallpaper* Jul 2014Barbara Casavecchia Other People and Their Ideas: Massimo Minini Art Review Mar 2014French Embassy Daniel Buren Exhibition French Embassy in the United States Feb 2013Austin Considine Daniel Buren, Between the Lines Art in America Jan 2013Roberta Smith Daniel Buren: ‘Electricity Fabric Paint Paper Vinyl … The New York Times Art & Design Jan 2013AMS ART: Daniel Buren woven optical fibre stripes The Snap Assembly Jan 2013— Electricity…fabric…paint…paper…vinyl: Works in situ & situated works by Daniel Buren at Bortolami Artdaily Jan 2013SOFIA The acclaimed Daniel Buren presents his work at Bortolami Gallery and Petzel Gallery, in New York The Coolture Jan 2013Austin Considine Daniel Buren, Between the Lines Art in America Jan 2013Andrew Russeth Daniel Buren Shows His Stripes OBSERVER arts Jan 2013Vanessa Yurkevich GALLERY NIGHT [VIDEO]: Daniel Buren’s Openings at Petzel and Bortolami Blouin Artinfo Jan 2013Jennifer Eberhart Gallery happenings this January 2013 Examiner Jan 2013Fan Zhong Don’t Miss: Daniel Buren’s Fresh Stripes Magazine Jan 2013Andrew Russeth Daniel Buren Shows His Stripes: The Celebrated Artist’s Two-Gallery Show Is On, After a Sandy Delay Gallerist Jan 2013— 10 Top NYC Gallery Shows That Open This Week Blouin Artinfo Jan 2013Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Glowing Tapestries Woven From Fiver Optic Strands: Fiber-optic Fabric Makes Daniel Buren’s Well Known Stripes Luminescent Fast Company Jan 2013Tobias Grey Daniel Buren’s Bright Periphery The Wall Street Journal May 2012Juliette Soulez A Work of "Light, Volume, and Air": See Daniel Buren's Monumenta Pavilion of Floating Colored Circles Blouin Artinfo May 2012Marc Sanchez, interview with Daniel Buren About Monumenta Daniel Buren Monumenta 2012 May 2012Alison Hand Lines, Stripes, and Squares Abstract Critical Jan 2012Coline Milliard Daniel Buren Modern Painters Nov 2011Anne Rorimer Content as Context: Surveying the Site New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality Sept 2011Alexander Alberro and Nora M. Alter Staging the Political: Repetition, Difference, and Daniel Buren’s Cabanes Éclatées Grey Room 40 May 2010Kristen Swenson Daniel Buren at Bortolami-Dayan Art in America Sep 2007Karen Rosenberg An Afternoon in Chelsea: A Critical Tour of the Galleries New York Magazine Feb 2007Roberta Smith Art in Review: Daniel Buren The New York Times Feb 2007David Rimanelli Earning His Stripes Artforum Jan 2007Jerôme Sans Daniel Buren: A Composite Sketch Flash Art Jul 2006Daniel Buren and Olafur Eliasson In Conversation Artforum May 2005Anne Rorimer Daniel Buren: From Painting to Architecture Parkett Dec 2002Cedar Lewisohn, interview with Daniel Buren What I Call »In Situ« Spike 2001Alexander Alberro The Turn of the Screw: Daniel Buren, Dan Flavin, and the Sixth Guggenheim International Exhibition October Apr 1997Anne Rorimer Up and Down, In and Out, Step by Step, a Sculpture, a Work by Daniel Buren Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies Apr 1985Jean-François Lyotard and Thomas Repensek Notes on the Pragmatic of Works: Daniel Buren October Sept 1979Writings
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“Being Curated: Exhibiting Exhibitions”
Frieze
April 2013 -
“Function of the Museum”
in Theories of Contemporary Art, Prentice Hall, Inc
1985 -
“The Function of the Studio”
in October, Cambridge
Fall 1979 -
“The function of an exhibition”
in Studio International, vol. 186, n° 961
December 1973 -
“It Rains, It Snows, It Paints”
in Arts Magazine, New York, vol. 44, n° 6
April 1970 -
“Beware! (Mise en garde!)”
in Konzeption/Conception, Stadtischer Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
1969