short biography
Tomás Saraceno (born in 1973 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina) an architect and visual artist. After attaining his architecture degree at Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires in Argentina, he received postgraduate degrees in Art and Architecture from Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de la Nación Ernesto de la Carcova, Buenos Aires and from IUAV Venice. After he studied Art at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, he attended the International Space Studies Program at NASA Ames in 2009. The same year Saraceno participated at the Venice Biennale. His work has been exhibited in public museums like Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015), Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2013-16), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012), and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2011-12), amongst others.
In 2019 he will take part in the 58th Venice Biennale.
Space installations, environments, architectural work
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galleries
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16. Jun 19. JunArt Basel in Basel 2022 ART BASEL
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10. Jun 25. SepHomosphäre ' Kunsthalle Mainz
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01. Oct 29. May 2022Arts Towada 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Inter+Play Season 2 & 3 Towada Art Center, Aomori
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10. Sep 09. Jan 2022Zin Ex: Body and Architecture Tabakalera, San Sebastian
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25. Sep 28. Mar 2021Tomás Saraceno: Songs for the Air Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
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11. Sep 14. Mar 2021Tomás Saraceno - Moving Atmospheres Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
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05. Sep 15. NovFloating Utopias Lunds Konsthall
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26. Jun 12. JulDown to Earth Gropius Bau, Berlin
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16. May 11. OctRiga International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2020 Riga International Biennial Of Contemporary Art
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17. Oct 08. Mar 2020on the spiritual matter of art MAXXI Rome
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25. Sep 01. DecDominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tomás Saraceno. More-than-humans Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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28. Jun 01. DecThe Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
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11. May 24. Nov58. Venice Biennale 2019 Venice Biennale
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06. Apr 11. AugNegative Space. Trajectories of Sculpture ZKM | Karlsruhe
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13. Nov 01. Nov 2019Tomás Saraceno - Aerocene Öffentlicher Raum Wien
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17. Oct 06. Jan 2019Tomás Saraceno On Air Palais de Tokyo, Paris
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05. May 16. SepBruges Triennial 2018 "Liquid City | Vloeibare Stad" Bruges Triennial
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02. Dec 29. Apr 2018GRAVITY. IMAGING THE UNIVERSE AFTER EINSTEIN MAXXI Rome
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22. Oct 07. Jan 2018Voyage d’hiver - The groves of Versailles Chateau de Versailles
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01. Oct 30. Jun 2018Tomás Saraceno: Entangled Orbits The Baltimore Museum of Art °
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20. Sep 07. Jan 201814th Biennale de Lyon 2017 "Floating Worlds" La Biennale de Lyon
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15. Jul 25. Mar 2018Tomás Saraceno. Our Interplanetary Bodies Asia Culture Center (ACC), Gwangju
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01. Jun 03. SepTomás Saraceno Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich
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13. May 26. NovINTUITION PALAZZO FORTUNY, Venice
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06. May 08. OctMentales Gelb. Sonnenhöchststand Lenbachhaus, München
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22. Apr 28. AugSocle du Monde Biennale 2017 Socle du Monde Biennale, Herning °
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08. Apr 22. OctARoS Triennial 2017 "The Garden" ARoS Triennial, Aarhus °
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02. Apr 27. AugTomás Saraceno: How to catch the universe in a web Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
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17. Mar 28. MarAntarctic Biennale 2017 Antarctic Biennale
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11. Feb 30. AprTomás Saraceno - Aerosolar Journeys Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
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17. Dec 21. May 2017Tomás Saraceno. Stillness in Motion — Cloud Cities SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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11. Nov 12. Mar 201711th Shanghai Biennale 2017 Shanghai Biennale
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01. Aug 31. DecArtists in Their Time ISTANBUL MODERN
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26. Jun 26. JunReopening Sammlung Philara Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
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26. Apr 28. MayTOMÁS SARACENO - AEROCENE ESTHER SCHIPPER Berlin
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05. Dec 28. Mar 2016Wie leben? Zukunftsbilder von Malewitsch bis Fujimoto Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
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03. Dec 06. DecMetaforms 2015 ART BASEL Miami Beach °
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30. Oct 04. Sep 2016GLOBALE: Tomás Saraceno. Tuning Gravity’s Strings ZKM | Karlsruhe
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23. Oct 20. DecTomas Saraceno NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore
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24. Sep 04. Jan 2016A Brief History of the Future Louvre Paris
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11. Sep 24. Jan 2016A Brief History of the Future Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
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28. Jun 27. SepICASTICA 2015 "Cultivating Culture" ICASTICA Arezzo
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24. Jun 30. AugTomás Saraceno. Visionen mit Luft und Licht – Becoming Aerosolar Belvedere, Wien
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21. Jun 18. OctWIE RAUM WIRD MGK Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
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30. Apr 23. AugTomás Saraceno - 14 Billions (Working Title) SKMU Sorlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand °
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26. Mar 02. MayTOMÁS SARACENO. HYBRID SOLITARY... SEMI-SOCIAL QUINTET... ON COSMIC WEBS... Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
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26. Feb 12. AprCold War, Hot Peace Slought, Philadelphia
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13. Feb 25. Aprdo it (adelaide) Samstag Museum, Adelaide
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25. Jan 22. FebA Man Walks Into a Bar… Jokes & Postcards me Collectors Room Berlin (geschlossen)
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14. Nov 30. Jan 2015Living With A LOT OF Art Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
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20. Sep 18. Jan 2015Synthesis Reykjavik Art Museum
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28. Jul 16. NovNetz. Vom Spinnen in der Kunst Kunsthalle zu Kiel
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15. Nov 14. Decdo it (pristina) Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina
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19. Oct 01. DecMy Third Land Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam
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14. Sep 02. NovTOMÁS SARACENO Andersen´s Contemporary, Copenhagen
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22. Jun 06. OctEMSCHERKUNST.2013 Emscherkunstweg
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03. May 15. SepMOVING. NORMAN FOSTER ON ART Carré d´Art, Nimes
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15. Mar 13. AprTomas Saraceno. SocialQuasi SocialSolitary SpidersOn Hybrid Cosmic Webs ESTHER SCHIPPER Berlin
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02. Jun 27. JulTomas Saraceno. Air-Port-City / Cloud Cities Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
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28. Jan 28. JanWolkenkuckucksheime? art aspects kunstaspekte
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16. Sep 01. Apr 2012Labor-Projekt: Tomás Saraceno K20/K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen '
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15. Sep 19. Feb 2012Tomas Saraceno. Cloud Cities Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
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25. Jun 09. NovTomas Saraceno. Cloudy Dunes MACRO Rome
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19. Jun 09. OctMMK 1991-2011. 20 Jahre Gegenwart MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
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11. Jun 18. SepWir sind alle Astronauten - Universum Richard Buckminster Fuller MARTa Herford
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22. May 07. AugThe End of Money Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam
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26. Nov 23. Jan 2011(re)designing nature Künstlerhaus Vereinigung Wien
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04. Nov 18. DecTomas Saraceno. Cloud Cities Connectome Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
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02. Oct 14. NovRealidad y Utopía Akademie der Künste, Berlin
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30. Sep 04. DecTomas Saraceno: Cloud Cities pinksummer Genua
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20. Aug 31. OctTales of Resistance and Change. Artists from Argentina Frankfurter Kunstverein
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17. Jul 24. OctTomas Saraceno BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
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28. May 08. AugKlimakapseln. Überlebensbedingungen in der Katastrophe Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg '
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01. May 31. OctART FOR THE WORLD (THE EXPO) Expo 2010 Shanghai
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17. Apr 05. JunAntigrav. Figuren des Schwebens und Schwindels PARROTTA CONTEMPORARY ART Stuttgart (closed)
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25. Feb 20. JunTomas Saraceno Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
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22. Jan 19. MarTomas Saraceno Andersen´s Contemporary, Copenhagen
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09. Jan 17. AprRadical Nature Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
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13. Dec 04. Apr 2010CIRCUS HEIN Frac Centre-Val de Loire, Orleans
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12. Dec 13. DecCIRCUS HEIN Atelier Calder, Saché
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12. Nov 31. DecWe do it. Die Isola Nachbarschaft Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt
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31. Oct 30. NovRETHINK Relations SMK Statens Museum for Kunst / National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
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10. Oct 03. Jan 2010Tomas Saraceno - Dans Le Cadre Du Cycle Habiter MUDAM Musée d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
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16. Sep 10. Jan 2010Life Forms Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
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19. Jun 18. OctRadical Nature Barbican Centre, London
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07. Jun 22. Nov53. Venice Biennale 2009 "Making Worlds" Venice Biennale
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17. May 25. OctWANAS 2009: FOOTPRINTS Wanas Foundation, Knislinge
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14. May 30. AugTomás Saraceno: Lighter than Air Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
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14. May 07. AugTomás Saraceno: Lighter than Air Blaffer Art Museum, Houston
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06. Nov 18. Jan 2009T2 Torino Triennale Torino Triennale
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20. Sep 02. NovMEGASTRUCTURE RELOADED Öffentlicher Raum Berlin
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20. Sep 30. NovLiverpool Biennial 2008 Liverpool Biennial
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05. Sep 09. NovU-TURN 2008 U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
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14. Jun 21. SepSONSBEEK 2008 "Grandeur" SONSBEEK Arnhem
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28. May 25. AugPsycho Buildings: Artists Take on Architecture Hayward Gallery, London
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24. May 21. SepPeripherer Blick und kollektiver Körper Museion, Bozen/Bolzano
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15. May 24. AugReykjavik Experiment Marathon Reykjavik Art Museum
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22. Mar 19. AprTomas Saraceno: Galaxies Forming Along Filaments Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
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29. Feb 18. MayGREENWASHING Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
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18. Nov 17. Feb 2008Tomas Saraceno: Microscale, Macroscale, and Beyond Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA)
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20. Oct 07. DecTomas Saraceno: BIOSPHERE MW 32 pinksummer Genua
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04. Oct 17. Feb 2008Brave New Worlds Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
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19. Sep 06. Jan 20089. Biennale de Lyon 2007 La Biennale de Lyon
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13. Jul 16. SepWeather Report CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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21. Apr 17. JunTomas Saraceno The Vleeshal, Middelburg
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04. Apr 04. JunSharjah International Biennial 8 Sharjah Biennial
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04. Feb 25. FebThe Fit nüans Düsseldorf
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17. Nov 23. DecTomas Saraceno attitudes, Genf
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07. Oct 17. Dec27. Biennale São Paulo 2006 Sao Paulo Biennial °
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15. Jul 27. AugOn Mobility II DE APPEL ARTS CENTRE Amsterdam
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06. Jul 04. AugTomas Saraceno: Air-Port-City Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
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28. May 09. Julbeton wurst und andere teamgeister after the butcher, Berlin
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05. May 18. JunMarjetica Potrc / Tomas Saraceno Städelschule & Portikus, Frankfurt
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04. May 04. JunOn Mobility TRAFO House, Budapest
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13. Jan 25. Febpresented by Galerie Andreas Huber, Wien
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14. Dec 22. Jan 2006Buenos dias Santiago MAC Santiago de Chile
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26. Nov 14. Jan 2006FUORIUSO 2005 Fuori Uso, Pescara
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26. Sep 30. Jun 2006Sehnsüchtig gleiten Ballone rund um die Welt Öffentlicher Raum Berlin
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04. Sep 30. OctPursuit of Happiness Bureau Beyond / Het Gebouw, Utrecht
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02. Jul 18. SepProject Rotterdam Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (closed for renovation)
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30. Jun 30. Jundo it (berlin) KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
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09. Jun 06. NovLUNA PARK. Fantastic Art Villa Manin, Codroipo
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19. May 19. JunI still believe in miracles II Musée d´Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)
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29. Apr 25. JunThe Opening Andersen´s Contemporary, Copenhagen
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28. Jan 28. Feb1. Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
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07. Oct 16. Jan 2005Utopia Station Haus der Kunst, München '
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01. Oct 10. Jan 2005Tomas Saraceno pinksummer Genua
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01. Sep 05. Sep6. Werkleitz Biennale 2004 Allgemeingut Werkleitz Festival, Halle
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03. Jul 31. JulUNIVERSAL OUTSTRETCH Flaca, London
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10. Dec 08. Feb 2004unbuilt cities Bonner Kunstverein
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23. Nov 24. Jan 2004UTOPIA STATION Sindelfingen Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen
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15. Jun 02. Nov50. Venice Biennale 2003 "Dreams and Conflicts. The dictatorship of the Viewer" Venice Biennale