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Columbus – in search of a new tomorrowFew artists, if any, have influenced video and media art to the same extent as Nam June Paik. Alongside Les Levine, the Korean-born artist could even claim to be a founder of these art forms. As early as 1969, Paik presented a performance by cellist Charlotte Moorman, who was wearing a bra consisting… Read more
Intro Bio Exhibitions
1932 | Born in Seoul, Korea |
1952-1956 | Studied Western Aesthetics, Music History, and Art History at the Universtiy of Tokyo |
1956-1958 | Studied Music History at the University of Munich and Composition under Wolfgang Fortner at the Freiburger Musikhochschule |
1960s | Member of the Neo-Dadaist group, Fluxus |
1958-1963 | Worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen in the WDR (West German Broadcasting) studio for electronic music in Cologne |
1969 | Developed the Video-Synthesizer with Shuya Abe |
1979-1996 | Professor at Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf |
2006 | died in Miami Beach, USA |
1981 | Will Grohmann Prize |
1989 | Kurt Schwitters Prize, Hanover |
1991 | Goslarer Kaiserring |
1992 | Picasso Medal from UNESCO |
1993 | Golden Lion for the best national pavillion at the Venice Biennale |
1998 | Kyoto Prize |
2001 | Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize, awarded by the City of Duisburg |
2011 | Ich sehe, also weiss ich (nicht), Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland |
2010 | Das im Entschwinden Erfasste. Videokunst im Museum Folkwang Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany |
Changing Channels, MUMOK Vienna, Vienna, Austria | |
MOCA’s First Thirty Years Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA | |
DIE KUNST IST SUPER!, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Berlin | |
2009 | RECORD > AGAIN!–40jahrevideokunst.de – Teil, 2. ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany |
Nam June Paik: Music for all Senses, MUMOK Vienna, Vienna, Austria | |
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA | |
Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany | |
The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA | |
2008 | DANS LA NUIT, DES IMAGES, Grand Palais, Paris, France |
Notation: Kalkül und Form in den Künsten, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany | |
Vom Funken zum Pixel, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany | |
2007 | Art in America, Now, MOCA Shanghai, China |
Centre Pompidou Video Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
2006 | Berlin-Tokyo / Tokyo-Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany |
SUMMER OF LOVE, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany | |
2005 | ÜBER SCHÖNHEIT, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany |
Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany | |
2004 | Nam June Paik – Global Groove 2004, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany |
2002 | Räume des XX. Jahrhunderts, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany |
Televisions – Kunst sieht fern, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria | |
2001 | Paul Kos / Nam June Paik, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA |
2000 | Aller Anfang ist MERZ, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany |
The Worlds of Nam June Paik, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA | |
1999 | VIDEO CLUB 99, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany |
1997 | Die Epoche der Moderne - Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany |
1996 | sonambiente, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany |
1995 | 4. Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey |
1993 | 45. Biennale Venedig, Venice, Italy |
1990 | 44. Biennale Venedig, Venice, Italy |
1987 | 19. Biennale São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
8. documenta, Kassel, Germany | |
1982 | Erste Retrospektive im Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA |
1977 | 6. documenta, Kassel, Germany |
1971 | happening & fluxus Kölnischer Kunstverein |
1963 | Exposition of music – electronic television, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany |
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