short biography

Jannis Kounellis (born 1936, Piraeus / Greece; died 2017 in Rome / Italy) lived and worked in Rome and was co-founder of the Arte Povera movement and one of the most famous Greek contemporary artists. He studied at Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and had a Professorship at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Photography, assemblages, installations, performances

http://www.cheimread.com/artists/jannis-kounellis

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collection/s

ACE GALLERY Los Angeles ARCO Foundation Collection ARS AEVI - Museum Of Contemporary Art Sarajevo Artothek München Benesse Art Site, Naoshima CAPC Contemporary Art Museum Bordeaux CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela Ca la Ghironda, Bologna Castello di Rivoli, Turin ° Centre Pompidou Paris Centre d´Art et de Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire Centro Pecci, Prato Collection Lambert, Avignon ° Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia Daimler Contemporary, Berlin ESSL MUSEUM Klosterneuburg FRAC Grand Large - Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque GAM Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin ° Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin Hamburger Kunsthalle Herbert Foundation, Ghent Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington K20/K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen ' Kolumba Kunstmuseum Kunst Museum Winterthur Kunstmuseen Krefeld Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz ° Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Kunstpalais Erlangen MAMCS - Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg ° MUSMA Matera MUSPAC L´Aquila Mart Rovereto & Galleria Civica Trento Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich Montevideo, Amsterdam Museion, Bozen/Bolzano Museo MADRE, Naples Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid ' Museo del Novecento, Milan Museu Berardo, Lisbon Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach Museum Brandhorst, München Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde Museums Vledder Neue Galerie Graz / Bruseum Nomas Foundation, Rome REINKINGPROJEKTE Hamburg S.M.A.K. Ghent Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Sammlung FER Collection, Ulm Sammlung Goetz, München Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl ° Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Synagoge Stommeln Tate Modern, London The Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE, Miami The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) UBS Art Gallery, New York Vancouver Art Gallery Weserburg Bremen ZKM | Karlsruhe kunsthalle weishaupt, Ulm n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
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