1964
Geboren in Aylesbury | Born in Aylesbury
Lebt und arbeitet in | Lives and works in London and New York
Einzelausstellungen | Solo Exhibitions
2021
The Work Life Effect, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju
2020
Redaction, Casey Kaplan, New York
Horseness if the Whatness of Allhorse, Taro Nasu, Tokyo
It should feel like unicorns are about to appear a.k.a. Half Awake Half Asleep, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
2019
Standing on Top of a Building: Films 2008-2019, MADRE–Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples
Stinking Dawn (with Gelatin), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2018
There Should Be Fresh Springs…Gallery Baton, Seoul
2017
Were People This Dumb Before TV? Esther Schipper, Berlin
The Lights are No Brighter at the Centre, CAC Vilnius
Extended Soundtrack for a Lost Production Line: Ton und Film, Presenhuber, Zurich
2016
Campaign, Muséo Serralves, Porto
Phantom Structures, Casey Kaplan, New York
What’s What in a Mirror, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin
The Red Wood Pigeon Meets Some Meetings, Air de Paris, Paris
Stardust Expressions, Taro Nasu, Tokyo
2015
All-Imitate-Act, Stedelijk Museum/Holland Festival, Amsterdam
Four Developments and a Thought Collective, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Liam Gillick, Australian Fine Arts, Brisbane
The Thought Style Meets the Thought Collective, Maureen Paley, London
2014
Complete Bin Development, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf
Revenons à nos moutons, Galerie Esther Schipper, Berlin
2013
Five Structures and a Shanty, Gallery IHN, Seoul
For the doors that are welded shut, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
From Fredensborg to Halen via Loch Ruthven Courtyard Housing Projections, HICA, Dalcrombie, Inverness-shire
Vertical Disintegration, Taro Nasu, Tokyo
Liam Gillick and Louise Lawler, Casey Kaplan, New York
2012
Four Propositions Six Structures, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Agreements, McNamara and Lead Times, Taro Nasu, Tokyo
Scorpion or Felix, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
From 199A to 199B, Hessel Museum of Art, New York
Scorpion or Felix, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2011
Sit in the machine, Air de Paris, Paris
2010
1848!!!, Esther Schipper, Berlin
”Ein langer Spaziergang... Zwei kurze Stege…”, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
Discussion Bench Platforms, A “Volvo” Bar + Everything good goes, Casey Kaplan, New York
2009
Literary Based H.Z, 2006, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Deutscher Pavillon auf der 53. Espositione Internazionale d'Arte La Biennale di Venezia | German pavilion at the 53. Venice Biennial, Venice
2008
Three Perspectives and a short scenario, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Kunsthalle , Zurich
Three Perspectives and a short scenario* Work 1988-2008, Kunstverein, Munich
2007
The Commune itself becomes a super state, Corvi-Mora, London
2006/07
The State itself becomes a super commune, Esther Schipper, Berlin
2006
Kubus im Petuelpark, Munich
2005
The two hundred and twenty second floor, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Corvi-Mora, London
Liam Gillick - Texte court sur la possibilité de créer une économie de l’équivalence, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
McNamara Motel: Selección de obras de texto 1990-2005, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga
2004
Discussion Island Moderation Platform, 1997 – David (Calendar and Location Shots), Lenbachhaus, Munich
(rider): law and creativity, konsthal, Lund (mit | with Philippe Parreno)
2003
projects 79 – Liam Gillick: literally, The Museums of Modern Art, Queens, New York
Hills and Trays and …, Schipper & Krome, Berlin
exteriordays, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
2002
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
The Wood Way, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2001
Galerie Javier Lopez, Madrid
Corvi-Mora Gallery, London
Annlee You Proposes, Tate Britain, London
„firststepcousinbarprize“, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich
2000
Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
renovation filter: recent past and near future, Arnolfini, Bristol
literally no place, Air de Paris, Paris
Woody, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu
Consultation Filter, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
Themagazineofthe4thofMarch, Galerie Schipper & Krome, Berlin
Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm
1999
David, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main
Kunsthaus ,Glarus,
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (mit | with Blake Rayne)
1998
c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo
The Trial of Pol Pot (mit | with Philippe Parreno), Le Magas in, Geneva
When do we need more tractors?, Galerie Schipper & Krome, Berlin
Révision: Liam Gillick, Villa Arson, Nice
Robert Prime, London
Big Conference Center, Orchard Gallery, Derry
When Purity Was Paramount, British Council, Prague
Up on the twenty-second floor, Air de Paris, Paris
Kunstverein, Hamburg
1997
Reclutamentoi, Galerie Emi Fontana, Milano
McNamara Papers, Erasmus and Ibuka! Realisations, The What If? Scenarios, Le Consortium, Dijon
Another Shop in Tottenham Court Road, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
A House in Long Island, Forde Espace d’art contemporain, L’Usine, Geneva
Discussion Island - A What If ? Scenario Report, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
Kunstverein, Ludwigsburg
1996
Documents, Galerie Schipper & Krome, Cologne (mit | with Henry Bond)
DocumentsThe What If ? Scenario, Robert Prime, London
Raum für Aktuelle Kunst, Vienna
Erasmus is Late ‘versus’ The What If? Scenario, Galerie Schipper & Krome, Berlin
1995
Documents, Kunstverein Elster Park, Leipzig (mit | with Henry Bond)
Part Three, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
Ibuka, Galerie Emi Fontana, Milano
Ibuka (Part 2), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Ibuka (Part 1), Air de Paris, Paris
1994
Interim Art, London
Documents, Galerie ars Futura, Zurich (mit | with Henry Bond)
McNamara, Galerie Schipper & Krome, Cologne
1993
An Old Song and a New Drink, Air de Paris, Paris (mit | with Angela Bulloch)
Documents, CCA, Glasgow (mit | with Henry Bond)
1992
McNamara, Hog Bikes and GRSSPR, Air de Paris, Nice
1991
Documents, Galerie Gio’ Marconi, Milano (mit | with Henry Bond)
Documents, A.P.A.C., Nevers (mit | with Henry Bond)
Documents, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London (mit | with Henry Bond)
1989
Diagrams, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
Ausgewählte Gruppenausstellungen | selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Intimate distance. Masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection, Mo.Co. – Hôtel des Collections, Montpellier
BAU [ SPIEL ] HAUS, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg
Folded Extracted Personified, Qatar MIA Park, Doha
Objects of Wonder – British Sculpture 1950s – Present, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin
2018
Liam Gillick Adam Pendleton, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York
Soziale Fassaden, MMK, Frankfurt
1998, Air de Paris, Paris
Architecture of Storage, German Center for Architecture Berlin, DAZ, Berlin
Twilight, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
2017
Elbphilharmonie Revisited, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Variable Dimensions: Artists and Architecture, MAAT, Lisbon
How to Live Together, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien
2016
A History: Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Fluidity, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
For an Image, Faster Than Light; Yinchuan Biennale 2015
Sommer Kino, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Saltwater: A theory of thought forms, 14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
(a) Moving Image Department, National Gallery, Prague
2015
Sommer Kino, Johnen Galerie, BerlinSaltwater: A theory of thought forms, 14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
(a) Moving Image Department, National Gallery, Prague
2014
Monochrome & Readymades, L’Onde Théâtre Centre d’art, Velizy-Villacoublay
El Hotel Eléctrico, M_kha, Antwerp
Last News from the Ether, La Panacée, Montpellier
The Decade 1984-1999, Centre Pompidou, Metz
2013
Poesia: Werke aus der Sammlung Reinking, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst
The Twentieth Century as Never Seen Before, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia
Neoplastic Room. Open Composition, Museum Sztuki, Lodz
Another Time, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane
Draft Urbanism, The Biennale of the Americas, Denver
2012
Positions on Conceptual Art, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Read, Look! We promise it’s not dangerous, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York
How to Make - Ideen, Notationen, Materialisierungen, Kunsthaus Dresden
Skulpturen und Reliefs aus der Sammlung, Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm
True Stories: Scripted Realities, Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
2011
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2010
Art: curated by Michael Craig-Martin, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin
Corporate Everything, centre d’art de Fribourg/Kunsthalle Freiburg, Fribourg
2008
Blasted Allegories, Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum, Luzern
Furniture conceived by artists, Edition Schellmann + Edition Schellmann Furniture, Munich
2007
Perspektive 07, Lenbachhaus, Munich
2006
Kristallisationen. 10 Künstler für Theresienthal, Andreas Murkudis Temporary, Munich
Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, Kunsthalle, Zurich
Broken Surface, Galerie Sabine Knust – Maximiliansverlag, Munich
slow burn, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneve
2005
Exit – Ausstieg aus dem Bild, ZKM, Karlsruhe
The Lisson Gallery Summer Show, Lisson Gallery, London
Strange, familiar and unforgotten, Galerie Erna Hécey, Bruxelles
Bühne des Lebens – Rhetorik des Gefühls, Lenbachhaus, Munich
Edgar Schmitz, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London
2004
100 artists see god, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Black Friday. Exercises in Hermetics, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
utopia station: auf dem weg nach porto allegre, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2003
Katharina Grosse, Sarah Morris, Eva Rothschild, Loris Cecchini, Liz Craft, Pae White, Liam Gillick, Martin Boyce, Rachel Feinstein, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Liam Gillick, Rodney Graham, Joao Penalva, The Power Plant contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
RE-PRODUKTION 2, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna
EN/OF EDITIONEN, heeresbaeckerei-kultur, Berlin
headache/phone card/soda/donuts/stereo, Great Portland Street Underground station, Frieze Art Fair /Platform of Art, London
2002
Dark Spring, in Kooperation mit | in cooperation with Liam Gillick, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal
Häuser für Leipzig. KünstlerInnen als ArchitektInnen, Galerie für zeitgenössiche Kunst, Leipzig
Liam Gillick, Ann Lee Proposes, Fondation Mamco, Geneva
Summer Cinema, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Urgent Painting, ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2001
MEGA-WAVE-Towards a New Synthesis, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama
Stadt unter dem Himmel/ City under the Sky, Part 3, Büro Friedrich, Berlin
The End of All Things, Galerie Massimo de Carlo, Milano
Liam Gillick und Gary Webb. Dedalic Convention: du und ich, Kunstverein, Salzburg
I love Dijon – nouvelles scènes, Le Consortium, Dijon
2nd Berlin Biennale, Berlin
2000
Aussendienst. Kunstprojekte in öffentlichen Räumen Hamburgs, Kunstverein, Hamburg
Intelligence, Tate Britain, London
Ausstellung der Jahresgaben, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
1999
Out of Sight - A Cross-reference Exhibition, Büro Friedrich, Berlin
Plug-ins, Salon 3, London
Transmute, MCA Chicago / New York / London / Taché-Levy / Bruxelles
Get together - Kunst als Teamwork, Kunsthalle, Vienna
Air de Paris: works by AND/ OR informations about, Kunstverein, Graz
Continued Investigation of the Relevance of Abstraction, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Konstruktionszeichnungen, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Oldnewtown, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Playtimes, Ecole supérieure d’art , Grenoble
1998
Projections, De Appel, Amsterdam
Dijon/Le Consortium.coll., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Ghosts, Le Consortium, Dijon
Minimal-Maximal, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Mise en Scène, Kunstverein, Graz
Places to Stay 4 P(rinted) M(atter), Büro Friedrich, Berlin
Weather Everything, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
Entropy, Ludwigforum, Aachen
Arena - Sport und Kunstausstellung, Galerie im Rathaus, Munich
Construction Drawings, PS 1, New York
Fast Forward, Kunstverein, Hamburg
1997
Group Show, Galerie Schipper & Krome, Berlin
Group Show, Air de Paris, Paris
Hospital, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Heaven - a Private View, PS 1, Long Island
Documenta X, Kassel
Kunsthalle, Braunschweig
Moment Ginza, Le Magasin, Geneva
Enter: audience, artist, institution, Kunstmuseum, Luzern
Life/Live, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
1996
Limited Edition Artist’s Books Since 1990, Brooke Alexander, New York
Glass Shelf Show, ICA, London
Itinerants Texts, Camden Arts Centre, London
All in One, Galerie Schipper & Krome, Cologne
Life/Live, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Dinner, Cubitt Gallery, London
How Will We Behave?, Robert Prime Gallery, London
Der Umbau Raum, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Everyday Holiday, Le Magasin, Geneva
Traffic, CAPC, Bordeaux
1995
Brillant, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis,
New British Art, Museum Sztuki, Lodz
Filmcuts, Galerie Neuger/Riemschneider, Berlin
Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery, London
Stoppage, Villa Arson, Nice
Summer Fling, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
Collection fin XX, FRAC Poitou Charentes, Angoulème
Bad Times, CCA, Glasgow
1994
The Institute of Cultural Anxiety, ICA, London
Lost Paradise, Kunstraum, Vienna
Das Archiv, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
WM/ Karaoke, Portikus, Frankfurt/Main
Cocktail I, Kunstverein, Hamburg
Backstage, Kunstmuseum, Luzern
1993
Dokumentation über, Arbeiten von, Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne
Backstage, Kunstverein Hamburg
Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London
1992
ON, Interim Art, London
Group Show, Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne
12 British Artists, Barbara Gladstone/ SteinGladstone, New York
The Speaker Project, ICA, London
Etats Specifique, Musée d’art moderne, Le Havre
Lying on top of a building the clouds look no nearer than they had when I was lying in the street, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne/ Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne / Le Case d’Arte, Milano
Tatoo, Air de Paris / Urbi et Orbi, Paris / Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne / Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
1991
The Multiple Projects Room, Air de Paris, Nice
Air de Paris à Paris, Air de Paris, Paris
1990
The Multiple Projects Room, Air de Paris, Nice
The Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
British Council Collection, London, UK
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
FER Collection, Laupheim, Germany
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC), France
Le Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC), France
Foundation Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Fundación Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich, Germany
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Musée des Beaux Arts et d’archéologie, Besançon, France
Museum der Angewandten Kunst (MAK), Vienna, Austria
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ilinois
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Tate Modern, London
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao