Dimanche sans fin - Maurizio Cattelan & la collection du Centre Pompidou

Centre Pompidou-Metz - METZ, France
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Dimanche sans fin - Maurizio Cattelan & la collection du Centre Pompidou

curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Chiara Parisi

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May 8, 2025 - February 2, 2027

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Born in 1960 in Padua, Italy
Lives and works in New York, New York, USA

Maurizio CATTELAN

Maurizio Cattelan is one of the most popular as well as controversial artists on the contemporary art scene. Taking freely from the real world of people and objects, his works are an irreverent operation aimed at both art and institutions. His playful and provocative use of materials, objects, and gestures set in challenging contexts forces commentary and engagement.

Cattelan first achieved notoriety on an international scale in New York with "La Nona Ora" (The Ninth Hour), a wax statue of Pope John Paul II hit by a meteorite, which was originally exhibited in 1999 at Kunsthalle Basel. Since 2010, "L.O.V.E.", a public art intervention permanently installed in Piazza Affari, Milan, triggered the reappropriation by citizens of a square otherwise forgotten. In that same year, Cattelan started a biannual, picture-based publication, TOILETPAPER, co-created with the photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. In 2011, he provoked a lively debate with an installation of two thousand stuffed pigeons, presented at the 54th Venice Biennale. That same year, Maurizio Cattelan was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, in which all his works were suspended from the ceiling.

From September 2016 and for one year long, in the same museum's restroom, he replaced the toilet with a fully functional replica cast in 18-karat gold, making it available to the public. Later that year, he was invited to exhibit a selection of his most important works at the Monnaie de Paris, resulting in a retrospective titled after one of his works, "Not Afraid of Love". In 2018 he curated "The Artist Is Present"" at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, a group show born with the idea of questioning the most hallowed principles of art in the modern era: originality, intention and expression.

In late 2019, a solo exhibition of his major works, "Victory is Not an Option", took place at at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire: on the night of the opening, "America", the fully-functioning toilet made of 18-karat gold already exhibited at the Guggenheim, was stolen from the exhibition venue by unknown thefts. In December 2019, Cattelan’s new work, "Comedian", a banana duct-taped to the gallery’s booth wall, debuted at Art Basel Miami Beach fair, stimulating debates and discussions among audiences of all types around the world about the nature and the value of art.

In 2021, a solo exhibition is dedicated to the artist at the Fondazione Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milano (Italy). Two solo shows also took place in China with "The Last Judgment" at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, and in 2022 with a retrospective exhibition at Sea World Culture and Arts Center (SWCAC) in Shenzhen. 

Betwen 2023 and 2024, Cattelan was honored with major solo exhibitions with "We" at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul (South Korea) and "The Third Hand" at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (South Korea). 

As part of the 15th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou-Metz (France), an exceptional exhibition entitled "Endless Sunday. Maurizio Cattelan and the Centre Pompidou Collection" will run for three years. Curated by Chiara Parisi and the artist himself, this extraordinary exhibition takes over the entire museum and brings together more than 400 works from the museum's collections, engaging in dialogue with over thirty works by Cattelan.

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solo shows

2025
- Maurizio Cattelan: Sussurro, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
- Thinking Like a Mountain, GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, Italy 
- Dimanche sans fin - Maurizio Cattelan & la collection du Centre Pompidou, curated by Maurizio Cattelan and Chiara Parisi, Metz, France
- Bones, Gagosian, Davies Street & Burlington Arcade, London, UK

2024
- The Third Hand, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Sunday | Curated by Francesco Bonami, Gagosian, New York, USA

2023
- We, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

2022
- Wish You Were Here, UCCA - Sea World Culture and Arts Center (SWCAC), Shenzhen, China

2021
- The Last Judgment, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
- Breath Ghosts Blind, Fondazione Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano, Italy

2019
- Victory is Not an Option, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK

2016
- Not Afraid of LOVE, La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France

2014
- Cosa Nostra, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, USA

2013
- Maurizio Cattelan, Kaputt, Foundation Beyeler, Switzerland

2012
- Maurizio Cattellan, Amen, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
- Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: Maurizio Cattelan, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

2011
- Maurizio Cattelan, All, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York

2010
- L.O.V.E., Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy 
- The Menil Collection, Houston, USA
- Deste Foundation Project Space, Hydra, Geece

2008
- Kölner Synagoge, Stommeln, Germany
- Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria

2007 
- Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
- Maurizio Cattelan, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

 2004  
- La fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Piazza XXIV Maggio, Milan, Italy
- Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
- Now, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Chapelle des Petits Augustins de l’Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
- Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea Trento, Trento, Italy

2003 
- Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, USA
- Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
- Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece 

2002
- Galerie Marian Goodman, New York, USA
- Maurizio Cattelan: Felix, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

2001
- Maurizio Cattelan: Him, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
- Hollywood, (Special Project foir the Venice Biennale), Palermo, Italy
- Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

2000
- Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
- La rivoluzione siamo noi, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
- CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan
- Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, USA 
- The 6th International Carribean Biennale, Saint Kitts

1999
- L'Arbre, Forum du Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Galerie Anthony d'Offay, London, UK
- Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland 
- Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy

1998 
- Inova, UWV Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
- Project 65: Maurizio Cattelan, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1997
- Espace Jules Verne, Centre d'Art de Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
- Le Consortium, Dijon, France
- Maurizio Cattelan: Dynamo Secession, Wiener Secession (cat. texte de Francesco Bonami), Vienna, Austria
- Moi-même-Soi-même, Perrotin, Paris, France
- Galleria Massimo Minini, Brademia di Brera, Milan, Italy
- Pavillon Italien avec Cucchi et Spaletti, Biennale de Venise, Italy

1996
- Maurizio Cattelan: Tre installazioni per il Castello, Castello di Rivoli, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Turin, Italy 
- Ars Futura, Galerie Nicola Von Senger, Zurich, Switzerland
- Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
- Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy

1995 
- Errotin, le vrai lapin, Perrotin, Paris, France

1994
- Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland
- Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
- Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, USA
- Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK

1993
- Galerie Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
- Tarzan & Jane, Galerie Raucci Santamaria, Naples, Italy

1992 
- Edizioni dell'Obbligo, Spazio Juliet, Trieste, Italy

1990 
- Strategie, Galleria Neon, Bologne, Italy

1989
- Biologia delle passioniu, Galleria Neon, Bologne, Italy

1988
- Natura Codarda, Galleria Neon, Bologne, Italy

group shows

2025
- Portofranco, Palazzo Soranzo Novello, Castelfranco Veneto, Italy
- 1+1The Relational Years, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, MAXXI, Rome, Italy

2024
- How Did You Come into the World? Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori, Japan
- Eccentric. Aesthetics of Freedom, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
- In the House of the Trembling Eye, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
- With My Eyes, Vatican Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
- Museum Without Borders, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany

2022
- Reaching for the Stars. From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
- Hyperréalisme. Ceci n'est pas un corps, Musée Maillol, Paris, France

2021
- La Suite - Mirada sobre los artistas de la colección FRAC, Francia, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Arcimboldo Face to Face, Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
- Lost in Italy, Luxembourg + Co, London, UK

2020
- JUNQUE, curated by Jamian Juliano Villani, Massimo De Carlo, London, UK

2019
- La Source, Fondation Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, France 

2018
- The Artist is present, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
- In Tune With The World, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

2016
- Thomas, Demand: L’image volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy 
- Carambolages, Galerie national du Grand Palais, Paris, France

2015
- Picasso. Mania, Grand Palais, Paris, France
- Trittico, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy 
- Ennesima: Una mostra di sette mostre sull'arte italiana, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
- Going Public: International Art Collectors in Sheffield, Sheffield Cathedral, Sheffield, UK
- La Grande Madre: Donne, maternità e potere nell'arte e nella cultura visiva 1900-2015, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
- SPIN-OFF: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Centro de Arte Contemporanea de Quitó, Quitó, Ecuador
- LIBERI TUTTI! Arte e società in Italia. 1989 - 2001, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
- Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggengheim Museum, New York, USA 
- Arts & Foods. Rituali dal 1851, Triennale di Milano, Padiglione di Expo 2015 in cittM, Milan, Italy
- Myth/History II: Shanghai Galaxy, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China
- In Part, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy 
- Chercher le garçon, MacVal, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
- Un Museo ideale: Ospiti d’eccezione nelle collezioni del Novecento Dal Futurismo al Contemporaneo, Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy
- Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany 

2014
- Art Lovers, Pinault Fondation, Forum Grimaldi, Monaco
- Art or Sound, Fondazione Prada, Ca' Corner della Regina, Venice, Italy
- The Human Factor Hayward Gallery, Southbank centre, London, UK
- Libre ! Musée des Beaux Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France
- Myth/History, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China
- La fine di Dio, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK

2013
- Happy Birthday, 25 ans de la Galerie Perrotin, Tripostal, Lille, France
- Dear portrait, Mostyn, Llandudno, UK 
- L'Art à l'épreuve du monde, Dépoland, Dunkerque, France 
- Les aventures de la vérité, Maeght Fondation, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
- Neon, la Materia Luminosa dell arte, MACRO, Rome, Italy
- NYC: 1993, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, USA
- Bestiario contemporaneo, Museo di Storia Naturale, Venice, Italy
- Deep Feelings: From antiquity to now, KunstHalleKrems, Krems an der Donau, Austria
- Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to Zurbaran Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
- Rêves de Venise, l'institut culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France

2012
- Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to Zurbaran, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland 
- Funny, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA 
- The Italian Artists in the ACACIA collection, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy
- Going around the corner : Percosi dalle collezioni Berlingeri, MACRO, Rome, Italy

2011
- American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
- Mémoires du futur: La collection Olbricht, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
- Il Belpaese dell’Arte: Etiche ed Estetiche della Nazione, Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
- ILLUMInazioni, 54th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
- Fondazione Prada Ca' Corner della Regina, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy
- In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana – Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy 
- Espiritu y Espacio: Coleccion Sandretto Re ReBaudengo, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain 
- Wax: Sensation in Contemporary Sculpture, GL STRAND, Copenhagen, Danemark 
- 8 1/2, the 100 th anniversary of Trussardi, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Firenze, Italy

2010
- Plus Ultra: Works from Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, MACRO, Rome, Italy 
- Cosa fa la mia anima mentre sto lavorando ? Opere d’arte contemporanea dal collezione Consolandi, MAGA, Gallarante, Italy
- Fresh Hell, Palais de Toyko, Paris, France
- La scultura italiana del XXI secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
- Gwangju Biennial: 10,000 Lives, Biennale Hall, Gwangju, South Korea
- XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Carrara, Italy
- Alpha Omega: Works from Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste foundation for contemporary art, Athens, Greece
- Spazio: Dalle collezioni di arte e architettura del MAXXI, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
- Languages and Experimentations : Giovani artisti in una collezione contemporanea, MART, Rovereto, Italy
- Dreamlands, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
- Sexuality and Transcendence, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
- Seconde main, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
- Ibrido: Genetica delle forme d’arte, PAC Padiglione d’arte contemporanea, Milano, Italy
- Skin Fruit: selections from Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York, USA

2009
​- Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, USA
- Investigations of a Dog: Work from the FACE Collections, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
- Civica 1989-2009: Celebration, Institution, Critique, Fondazione galleria civica di Trento, Italy
- Pop Life: Art in a Material world, Tate Modern, London, UK
- 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
- As long as it Lasts, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
- Una collezione trasversale: Da Duchamp a Nino Carlos, da Cattelan e EntangWiharso, ALT Arte contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
- Qui a peur des artistes ? : Une sélection d’oeuvres de la François Pinault Foundation, Le palais des arts et du festival de Dinard, France
- MakingWorlds (Fare Mondi), Venice Biennale, Italy
- Mapping the Studio: Artists From the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
- A Guest + A Host = A Ghost, Deste Foundation, Athens
- Un certain état du Monde ? Works from the François Pinault Fondation, Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia
- Noble Gäste: Meiserwerke der Kunsthalle Bremen, Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany 
- Spazio libro d'artista, Palazzo Manganelli, Catania, ltaly
- Sicilia 1968/2008: Lo spirito del tempo, Riso, Museo d'arte contemporanea della Sicilia, Palazzo Belmonte Riso, Sicily, Italy
- Seriously Funny, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA
- Desenhos de A-Z, Museu da cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
- Metessi 2, Palazzo Barnaba, Martina Franca, ltaly

2008
- Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, Collection Isabel and Agustin Coppel, La maison rouge-Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
- theanyspacewhatever, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
- Trahison, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- ltalics: ltalian Art between Tradition and Revolution, Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy ( co-organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago)
- After Nature, New Museum, New York, USA
- Revolutions-Forms That Turn, Sydney Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
- Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museion, Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy
- Traces du Sacré, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Azienda speciale Villa Manin and Villa Manin, Centro d’arte contemporanea, Passariano, Italy
- Other than Yourself: An investigation between Inner and Outer Space, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
- The Puppet Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

2007
- Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubelle Family Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, USA
- ​30/40 (part I), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
- Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
- Italian Mentalscapes, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Dream and Drama, Kunsthalle Wien and MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
- Tate Modern Gallery, London, UK
- Ironia Domestica. Uno sguardo curioso tra collezioni private italiane, Museion Museo d’Arte Moderna eContemporanea, Bolzano, Italy
- Freakshow: An Unatural History, BALTIC Center, UK
- Still Life & Kicking, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
- SAM at 75: Building a Collection for Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
- Camera con vista: Arte e interni in Italia, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy

2006
- Idea: Disegno italiano degli anni novanta, Palazzo Fontana di Trevi, Rome and Archivo di Stato, Turin, Italy
- La collezione François Pinault: Una selezione Post-Pop, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
- Eretica: L'Arte contemporanea del sacro al profano, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Palermo, Italy
- Allegra con brio: Arte italania dalla Pop o oggi, Chiesa del Suffragio, Carrara, Italy
- Where Are We Going? Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
- Infinite Painting: Pittura Contemporanea e realismo globale, Villa Manin, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Passariano, Italy
- Ecce Uomo, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
- Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, MART, Rovereto, Italy
- Wrong, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany

2005
- A Brief History of Invisible Art, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
- Seriality, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, USA
- Superstars. The Celebrity Factor. From Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
- Not a Drop but the Fall, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany
- ​The Art of Chess, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
- War is Over, GAMeC Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
- La scultura italiana del XX secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
- TRANSLATION, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
- Bidibidobidiboo: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d'Alba, Turin, Italy
- Expanding painting, Prague Biennial, Czech Republic
- Bologna Contemporanea, Galleria d’arte moderna, Bologna, Italy
- Fragile, Galerie Anales Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
- Dionysiac, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

2004
- Il Bello e le bestie: Metamorfosi, artifici e ibridi dal mito dell'immaginario scientifico, MART, Roverto, Italy
- What’s modern?, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
- Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- The joy of my dreams, 1st Seville International Biennial, Seville, Spain
- Monument to Now, part of ATHENS 2004 Culture, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
- The Ten Commandments, Deutsche Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
- Reflecting the Mirror, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
- Artist’s Favorites: An Exhibition in Two Acts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
- Love/Hate: From Magritte to Cattelan, Masterpieces from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, Villa Manin Codroipo, Italy
- FLIRTS: Kunst und Werbung/Arte e pubblicità, Museion, Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Bolzano, Italy
- Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
- Whitney Biennial, The Whitney, New York, USA
- Memory and Landscape, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
- State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

2003
- Objets? Objets!, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- C'est arrivé demain, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
- The Art of Chess, Gilbert Collection, London, UK
- Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
- Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Mednarodni graficni likovni center (MGLC), Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Europe Exists, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
- moving energy #02, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
- Partners, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2002
- Life, Death, Love, Hate, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
- Rien ne presse/Slow and Steady/Festina lente (part 2), Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland 
- Hollywood is a verb, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
- Public Affairs: Von Beuys bis Zittel, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Hello, My Name is..., Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Ouverture…Arte dall’Italia, La comunale, Galleria comunale d’arte contemporanea di Monfalcone, Italy
- Wallflowers, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Penetration, Marianne Boesky Gallery and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
- Photographier, Collection Lambert, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Avignon, France
- De Gustibus, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
- Le portrait s'envisage, Château de Tanlay Perrigny, France
- H, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
- SameDIFFERENCE, Ydessa Foundation, Toronto, Canada
- From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
- Out of senses, Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- L'art d'aujourd'hui: un choix dans la collection du Fonds national d'art contemporain, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

2001
- Hollywood, Perrotin, Paris, France
- Abbild: Recent Portraiture and Depiction, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
- Yokohama Biennale, Yokohama, Japon
- Dévoler, Vivent les Frac (suite), Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
- Visioni a catena: Famiglia, politica e religione nell'ultima generazione di arte italiana contemporanea, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
- The Beauty of intimacy: Lens and Paper, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
- Uniform: Order and Disorder, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy and MoMA PS1, New York, USA
- Biennale de Venise, Palerme, Italy
- Places in the Mind: Modern Photographs from the Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA


2000
- Home is where the HeArt is, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
- La jeune scène artistique italienne dans la Collection de la Fondation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d'art contemporain, Bignan, France
- Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
- Partages d’exotismes, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
- Présumés innocents: l'art contemporain et l'enfance, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Art Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany
- Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
- Over the Edges: The Corners of Ghent, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
- Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
- Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
- Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
- Narcisse blessé, Passage de Retz, Paris, France

1999
- Zeitwenden-Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Get Together-Kunst als Teamwork, Kunsthalle Wien, Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
- Dehors-Dedans, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
- Abracadabra, Tate Gallery, London, UK
- La casa, il corpo, il cuore, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Aperto: dAPERTutto (Aperto Over All) (Curator: Harald Szeemann), 48ème Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
- Signs of Life, Melbourne Biennial, Melbourne, Australia 
- The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
- Tales of the tip, Fundamental Foundation, Breda, The Netherlands
- Zeitwenden-Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy

1998
- Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
- Weather Everything, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany 
- Cet été là...exposition de variétés, Centre Régional d'Art contemporain Languedoc-Rousillon, Sète, France
- Manifesta 2, Biennale Européenne d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
- Ironisch/Ironic, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
- Echos and chaos, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
- Secession: A century of Artistic Freedom, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
- Maurizio Cattelan, KellyWood, ErwinWurm, Institute of Visual Arts, Inova, Milwaukee, USA
- Wounds, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Artificial, MACBA, Barcelone, Spain

1997
- Delta, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
- Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
- Transit : 60 artistes nés après 60, ENSBA, Paris, France
- TRUCE: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, Sante Fe, USA
- Summer show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
- Para-site, Bruxelles, Belgium
- Skulptur Projekte in Münster, Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
- Venice Biennale : Future Present Past, Italian Pavilion, Milan, Italy
- Cartographers: Geo-gnostic Projections for the 21st Century, Muzej suvremene umjutnosti, Zagreb, Croatia 
- Fatto in Italia, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Genève, Switzerland and ICA, London, UK
- Fargfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
- Art Call, Gallery 2112, Copenhague, Danemark
- Light Slow, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
- Connexion implicite, ENSBA, Paris, France
- Odisseo, Stadio della vittoria, Bari, Italy
- Moment Ginza: City guide, Magasin, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France

1996
- a/drift, Center for Contemporary Studios, Bard College, New York, USA
- J. Lieshout, J. Kleerebezem, P. Perry, M. Cattelan, Magasin, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
- Campo 6: Il villaggio a spirale, Galleria Civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin, Italy
- Ultime Generazioni, Quadriennale d'Arte di Roma, Rome, Italy
- L'art au corps : Le corps exposé de Man Ray à nos jours, MAC, Marseille, France
- Collections du Castello di Rivoli, FRAC Rhône Alpes et Le Nouveau Musée/ Institut de Villeurbannes, Villeurbannes, France
- Triple Axel, Le Gymnase, Roubaix, France
- Fool's Rain, ICA, London, UK
- Beige, Saga Basament, Copenhague, Danemark
- Alfabetizzazione, Castel S. Pietro, Italy
- Almost Invisible, Ehemaliges Umspannwerk, Singen, Germany
- Cabines de bain, Piscine de La Motta, Fribourg, Switzerland
- Exposition évolutive, Perrotin, Paris, France
- Departure Lounge, Clocktower Gallery, New York, USA
- Crap Shoot, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands 
- Once removed, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
- Interpol, Fargfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
- Traffic, CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain Bordeaux, France

1995
- Photomontage, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
- Caravanserraglio, Ex Aurum, Pescara, Italy
- La Collezione, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
- Kwangju Biennial: Beyond the Borders, Biennale de Kwangju, South Korea
- Das Spiel in der Kunst, Neue Galerie, Graz and Arlge Kunst, Germany
- Le Labyrinthe Moral, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

1994
- Maurizio Cattelan, Mark Gonzalves, Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland
- Incertaine Identité, Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland
- Rien à signaler, Galerie Analix, Genève, Switzerland
- Soggetto - Soggetto: Una nuova relazione nell'arte di oggi, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'arte contemporanea, Rivoli,Turin, Italy
- L'Hiver de l'amour, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris ; PS1, Long Island, New York, USA
- Prima Linea, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy

1993
- Galerie Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
- M. Cattelan, C. Hyvrard, P. Parreno, M. Wallinger, Perrotin, Paris, France
- Maurizio, Dépot Club and Hip Hop gallery, Bologna, Italy
- Documentario, Spazio Opos, Milan, Italy
- Maurizio Cattelan, Colette Hyvrard, Philippe Parreno, MarkWallinger, Perrotin, Paris, France
- Chambre 763, Hôtel Carlton Palace, Paris, France
- Medialismo, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy  
- Aperto '93: Emergency/Emergenza, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
- Nachtschattengewächse, Musée Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
- L'Arca di Noé, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy

1992
- Trekking, Gallerie Neon, Bologna, Italy
- Twenty Fragile Pieces, Galerie Analix, Genève, Switzerland
- Una domenica a Rivara, Castello di Rivara, Contemporary Art Center, Turin, Italy
- Ottovolante, Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy

1991
- Loro, Castello Visconteo, Trezzo, Italy
- Operazione S. Giustino, Milan, Italy
- Siamo qui e stiamo facendo, Castellafiume, Italy
- Medialismo, Galerie Vitolo, Rome, Italy
- Anni 90, Galerie d'Art Moderne, Bologne, Italy
- Briefing, Galerie Inga Pin, Milan, Italy
- Rassegna Piccoli Editori, Castello di Belgioioso, Italy 

1990
- Prodotti recenti, Galleria Neon, Bologne, Italy 
- La carta dell'artista, Castello di Belgioioso, Italy
- Improvisiazione libera: Esperienza musicale per 70 solisti, Prato, Italy 
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1989
- I Quaderni del San Sebastiano, Oratorio San Sebastiano, San Sebastian, Italy
- La mostra non mostra, Primo Piano Gallery, Milan, Italy 
- Metessi: Tracce, passagi, scritture, gesti, impronte d'arte contemporeana, Galleria Lidia Carrieri, Rome, Italy 

1988
Aumento di temperatura, Galleria Neon, Bologna, Italy

1987
Emergenze I-II-III, Galleria Neon, Bologna, Italy 

awards

2026
- Preis der Nationalgalerie (Prize of the National Gallery), Berlin

2018
- Honorary Professorship in Sculpture - Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara 

2009
- Quadriennale Prize in Rome 

2005
- Arnold-Bode Prize, Kassel 

2004
- Honorary degree in Sociology - University of Trento 
 

Actions

1999
- 6th Caribbean Biennial, co-organisée par Jens Hoffmann, St. Kitts, British West Indies, West Indies
- Let's get lost, Saint Martin College, London, Great-Britain (projet refusé)

1998
- Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

1995
- Choose your destination, how to get a Museum-paid vacation, University of South Florida, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, USA

1993
- Sonsbeek '93. International Sculpture Exhibition, Arnhem, Netherlands (projet refusé)

1992
- Doppiogioco, Serre di Rapolano, Italy
- Fondazione Oblomov, Accademia di Brera, Milan, Italy
- Rassegna piccoli editori, Castello di Belgioioso, Belgioioso, Italy

1991
- Stand abusivo, Arte Fiera Bologna, Italy

bibliography


2021
- Breath Ghosts Blind | Pirelli Hangar Bicocca

2016
- All | Guggenheim Museum
- All | La Monnaie de Paris

0000
- Victory is not an option | Blenheim Art Foundation

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The Pope felled by a meteorite as if by the hand of God (“La Nona Ora,” 1999), a miniature model of the artist in a Beuysian felt suit, hanging helplessly from a clothes rack (“La Rivoluzione Siamo Noi,” 2000), or the artist breaking into the temple of art through the museum floor (Untitled, 2001) – Maurizio Cattelan, in a mixture of Don Camillo, Pinocchio and court jester, always carries his pictorial statements to extremes so that the realistic depiction of well-practiced social and art world conventions tips over into the absurd and ridiculous. Rather theatrical and ephemeral in his actions, objects, and installations, but deploying ironic sophistication and unexpected turns, the artist spares no taboo in unmasking deceitfulness. Born in 1960 in the North Italian university town of Padua, he started his career in the eighties creating anti-functional design objects before deciding to work in the art world, which, in his own words, he found “much more appealing.” Since then, Cattelan has become an internationally renowned artist, even though he would not describe himself as one. However, without contradictions, provocations, and simultaneously existing differing truths, his work would not be what it is. This strategy, together with a visual power which imprints itself onto our memory, has led to the appearance of his actions and sculptures in the most important international art institutions and to participation in numerous significant group exhibitions and biennials. Since 1993 when Maurizio Cattelan settled in New York, he has alternatingly lived and worked both there and in Milan. Not owning a studio, he works in situ, as exhibitions offer him exactly the challenge needed to “find” new works, which are subsequently fabricated by others rather than being made by the artist himself. In this sense, he really is one of Duchamp’s greatgrandchildren.
In contrast to Duchamp, however, he does not relate the idea of the readymade to the selecting of found objects which are then declared as artworks, but views experienced reality in its irreconcilable, often absurd contradictions as a large readymade which he quarries for ideas. “We can find a philosophical idea through television, which we watch every day,” says Cattelan. He draws upon his own biography and links this to an Italian attitude to life that continually swings from banality to extreme devoutness and holy veneration. And he finds his subjects in the art world’s overheated mannerisms and rituals as much as in the social and political fractures of society. For Cattelan, style means nothing more than a particular artistic attitude that can be translated into different media, linguistic forms, and visual solutions. An artist like him who has made ironic distance the principle of his practice must rely on flexibility, but never on predictable conclusions. If on occasion this does not suffice he is happy to steal other artists’ ideas or even a whole exhibition. Such was the case with a project done for de Appel Gallery in Amsterdam. Maurizio Cattelan is a storyteller. Storytellers do not carry out revolutions, but they may inspire them. Each image that he generates through his actions and sculptures resembles a shared membrane between his and our emotions. In this, Cattelan really relies on an intensive working process of condensing and refining the ideas, the outcome of which is always an “image” full of narrative inventions. Why for example are the hands of the child in “Charlie Don’t Surf” (1997) nailed to the table with pencils? Cattelan loves these little stories, which emerge from within deeper levels of the work. They make the work lively and are triggers for individual stories, which vary from viewer to viewer. Despite all the variety of ideas and works, there are two founding principles in his oeuvre. Maurizio Cattelan differentiates between works which function as an idea or project, such as the footballers’ memorial wall in London on which the results of all the England team’s lost games are engraved or the figure with a Picasso mask which greets visitors at the entrance to MoMA in New York, and those works which are transformed into highly memorable images. Within this category fall such works as “Novecento” from 1997, which shows a horse hanging from the ceiling, or “Him” (2001) with Hitler as a boy kneeling repentantly. In his work, which in equal measure encompasses both humor and humility, it is this tragic but comical keynote that evokes strong, but sometimes also oppressive emotions in us, especially when Cattelan, in all his diversity, repeatedly centers on death as his central motif. In this the artist is very close to his ancestral and national roots. According to Francesco Bonami, death is “the very last moment of pathetic intimacy, the most radical way to avoid public responsibility.” Death is also the major subject of the exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz. For the first time, Maurizio Cattelan has allowed a total architectural installation to be part of his work. By making very few spatial interventions and with three groups of work especially created for Bregenz, he changes the building into a burial chamber, which transforms the building’s auratic potential into a borderland between disquieting anxiety and ironic distance. As usual, Cattelan does not want to disclose too much about his exhibition in advance. Yet, he wants his work to be located somewhere between “softness and perversity,” he says: “It should be tender, comforting and seductive and yet corrupted, twisted and consumed.”

2025

Jean-Marie APPRIOU, Daniel ARSHAM, Anna-Eva BERGMAN, Maurizio CATTELAN, Lynn CHADWICK, Julian CHARRIÈRE, Johan CRETEN, Wim DELVOYE, Jens FÄNGE, Bernard FRIZE, Laurent GRASSO, Hans HARTUNG, Gregor HILDEBRANDT, Klara KRISTALOVA, Georges MATHIEU, Jean-Michel OTHONIEL, Paola PIVI, Jesús Rafael SOTO, Kathia ST. HILAIRE, Xavier VEILHAN, Bernar VENET, Xiyao WANG, LEE Bae

June 6, 2025 - July 26, 2025

paris

8 avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris

Perrotin Matignon

Jean-Marie APPRIOU, Daniel ARSHAM, Anna-Eva BERGMAN, Sophie CALLE, Maurizio CATTELAN, Lynn CHADWICK, Julian CHARRIÈRE, Johan CRETEN, Gabriel DE LA MORA, Jens FÄNGE, Bernard FRIZE, Laurent GRASSO, Hans HARTUNG, Bharti KHER, Klara KRISTALOVA, Georges MATHIEU, Jean-Michel OTHONIEL, Paola PIVI, Jesús Rafael SOTO, Pierre SOULAGES, Xavier VEILHAN, Bernar VENET, Emma WEBSTER, LEE Bae

April 10, 2025 - June 4, 2025

paris

8 avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris

Perrotin Matignon

2021

Georg BASELITZ, Jason BOYD KINSELLA, Daniel BUREN, Alexander CALDER, Maurizio CATTELAN, Lucio FONTANA, Peter HALLEY, Keith HARING, Donna HUANCA, Alain JACQUET, Anselm KIEFER, Yves KLEIN, Jannis KOUNELLIS, Glenn LIGON, Georges MATHIEU, François MORELLET, Takashi MURAKAMI, Ugo RONDINONE, Peter SAUL, Kenny SCHARF, Andy WARHOL, Tom WESSELMANN, FISCHER Urs, LEE Ufan

September 4, 2021 - December 18, 2021

paris

8 avenue Matignon

OPENING PERROTIN SECONDARY MARKET

curated by Cecile Degos

2005

Maurizio CATTELAN, David HAMMONS, Yves KLEIN, Robert GOBER, Gabriel OROZCO, Robert RAUSCHENBERG and Susan WEIL, Joel SHAPIRO, Cindy SHERMAN, Felix GONZALEZ-TORRES, Abigail LANE, Richard LONG, Janine ANTONI, Jasper JOHNS, Sarah LUCAS, Christian MARCLAY, Jean-luc MOULENE, Bruce NAUMAN, Charles RAY, Gregor SCHNEIDER, Rudolf STINGEL, Andy WARHOL

October 29, 2005 - December 3, 2005

paris

76 rue de turenne 75003 Paris

Empreinte moi

curated by Philippe Ségalot

Sophie CALLE, Maurizio CATTELAN, Bernard FRIZE, Guy LIMONE, Jin MEYERSON, Mariko MORI, Takashi MURAKAMI, Jean-Michel OTHONIEL, Piotr UKLANSKI, Xavier VEILHAN, Peter ZIMMERMANN

January 15, 2005 - March 26, 2005

paris

76 rue de turenne 75003 Paris

Opening of the gallery space at 76 rue de Turenne

1997

Maurizio CATTELAN

May 24, 1997 - July 19, 1997

paris

30 rue Louise Weiss 75013 Paris

Moi-même, Soi-même

1996

Maurizio CATTELAN, Eric DUYCKAERTS, Vincent BEAURIN, Lilian BOURGEAT, ERICSON & ZIEGLER, Noritoshi HIRAKAWA, Colette HYVRARD, Ange LECCIA, Guy LIMONE, Henrik PLENGE JAKOBSEN, Kayoko TADA, Tom of Finland, Kenji YANOBE

April 20, 1996 - May 25, 1996

paris

26 rue de Beaubourg Paris

Exposition évolutive

1995

Maurizio CATTELAN

January 26, 1995 - March 11, 1995

paris

26 rue de Beaubourg Paris

Errotin le vrai lapin

1994

Maurizio CATTELAN, Eric DUYCKAERTS, Bernard FRIZE, Marie BOURGET, Benoît CARRE, ERICSON & ZIEGLER, Chiarenza & Hauser, Andrea FRASER, INFORMATION FICTION PUBLICITÉ (IFP), Christiane GEOFFROY, Noritoshi HIRAKAWA, Colette HYVRARD, Véronique JOUMARD, Pierre LE TAN, Ange LECCIA, Guy LIMONE, Philippe PARRENO, Julie ROBERTS, Jean-luc VILMOUTH, J. St. Bernard, Patrick CORILLON, ART ORIENTÉ OBJET

February 5, 1994 - March 26, 1994

paris

26 rue de Beaubourg Paris

1993

Maurizio CATTELAN, Colette HYVRARD, Philippe PARRENO, Mark WALLINGER

December 9, 1993 - January 8, 1994

paris

26 rue de Beaubourg Paris
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