Group Exhibitions
2024
„Sounds of Bethany“, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
„Stiller Humor“, oqbo | raum für bild wort ton, Berlin
2023/24
„Wort Schrift Zeichen – Das Alphabet der Kunst“, Kolumba Museum, Köln
2022/23
„making being here enough – Ort und Subjekt“, Kolumba Museum, Köln
(15.09.2022-14.08.2023)
2022
„In die Weite“, Kolumba Museum, Köln
„Going Global – Abstract Art at Mid-Century“, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA/USA
2021
„July, August, September“, Temporary project space, Köln
„Lovely Creatures“, Ludwig Forum, Aachen
„Sound and Silence”, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Deutschland (Katalog)
2020
„John Dewey und die Neupräsentation der Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst”, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Deutschland
„Gezeichnete Stadt – Arbeiten auf Papier 1945 bis heute”, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Deutschland (Katalog)
„AUSSER VIELLEICHT EINE KONSTELLATION, Hommage á Giandomenico Tiepolo”, galerie oqbo | raum für bild wort ton, Berlin, Deutschland
2019
„Sound Art?”, Fundació Miró, Barcelona, Spain (catalogue)
„Sound Unheard”, Goethe-Institut Paris, France
„Artists Respond, American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975”, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA (catalogue)
2018
„Collecting on the Edge”, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Uta State University, USA (catalogue)
„Types of Typewriting. Schreibmaschinentexte seit den 1950er Jahren”, galerie oqbo | raum für bild wort und ton, Berlin, Germany
„(senza fine / endless) – with Giovanni Anselmo, Terry Fox, Rolf Julius”, e/static, Turin, Italy
Art and Vinyl – Artist Cover and Records. Kunstmuseum Basel/Gegenwart
2017
Extended Composition, Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt Biel/ Bienne, Switzerland
„Oracle”, KADIST, San Francisco, USA
„Sonifikationen – Klingende Datenströme / Sonifications – Audible Data Streams”, Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik. Villa Elisabeth, Berlin
2016
„gelbe MUSIK – works, notes, and photographes from the archive of Ursula Block”,
Mathew Gallery, Berlin, Germany
„Mind Over Matter: Conceptual Art from the Collection”, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley/San Francisco, USA
„Frieze Masters London 2016, Spotlight: Terry Fox.”, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Fransisco, USA
2015
„Ich kenne kein weekend. Aus René Blocks Archiv und Sammlung”, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein und Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany, 2015/2016 (catalogue)
„Kunst Buch Werke. Künstlerbücher der 70er und 80er Jahre aus dem Archive Artist Publications, München”, Staatliche Bibliothek Regensburg (brochure)
„Mein Körper ist das Ereignis. Wiener Aktionismus und Internationale Performance”, museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig, Wien (catalogue)
2014
„Performance Art Week / Ritual Body – Political Body”, Palazzo Mora, Venedig (catalogue)
„Input/Output – Schnittpunkt Worpswede. Worpswede zeitgenössisch”, Barkenhoff Worpswede (catalogue)
„69/96”, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil, Switzerland
2013
Galerie Krinzinger, Wien, Austria (with lecture by Lisa Steib)
„mex21”, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
Armory Show New York, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Art Basel, Switzerland / Galerie Löhrl, Germany
„State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970”, Travelling: SITE Santa Fe Santa Fe, New Mexico / Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York / Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, until January 2014
2012
„A House Full of Music, Strategien in Musik und Kunst”, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Germany
„Locus Solus. Impressions of Raymond Roussel”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
„State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970”, Orange County Museum of Art, New Port Beach, and University of California, Berkeley Museum of Art, San Francisco / Travelling: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC Canada
2011
„Lautsprecher – Klangkunst im Museum Ostwall”, Dortmund, Germany
„State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970”, Orange County Museum of Art, New Port Beach, and University of California, ,Berkeley Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA
„Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
„29th biennial of graphic arts”, International Centre of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Slovenia
„Neuerwerbungen für die Sammlung”, Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany
2010
„Through Labyrinths”, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and Centre Cultural Bancaja, Valencia, Spain
„Resurrectine”, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
„Auteur / Amateur”, Galerie Layr/Wuestenhagen, Wien, Austria
„Radical Light – Alternative Film & Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 – 2000” University of California, Berkeley Museum of Art and Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco, USA
2009
„On Top of the Whale”, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY, USA
„Gestern oder im 2. Stock, Karl Valentin, Komik und Kunst seit 1948”, Münchner Stadtmuseum, München, Germany
„Schönes Wetter heute, n’est-ce pas, Henning?”, Kunstforeningen 44, Moen, Denmark
2008
„California Video”, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (catalogue)
„Art/Tapes/22”, University Art Museum, Long Beach, California, USA
„Looking For Mushrooms”,Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk, Minimal Art San Francisco 1955-1968, Museum Ludwig Köln, Germany
2007
„Evidence of Movement”, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
„1997-2007”, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst in Bremen, Germany
„Japan and the West – Fulfilled Emptiness”, Wolfsburg, Germany (catalogue)
2006
„Sonambiente”, Sound Festival, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
„Ostseebiennale der Klangkunst”, Travelling Show: Rostock Kunsthalle / Germany, St. Jakobi Kulturkirche, Stralsund / Germany, Ystad Kunstmuseum / Schweden (catalogue)
2005
„50 Jahre/Years documenta, 1955 – 2005”, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
„Marking Time”, Los Angeles Cotemporary Editions (LACE), USA
„Characters – Werke aus der Sammlung”, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Schweiz
„Solid Concept V” (with David Ireland, Paul Kos, Tom Marioni, Alan Scarritt, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA
„Vinyl. Schallplatten und Cover von Künstlern”, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen / Germany, Barcelona / Spain, Porto / Portugal)
„After the Act – The (Re)Presentation of Performance Art”, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
„Der lange Atem”, Performance Festival, Maschinenhaus Essen, Germany
Galerie Seinsoth, Bremen, Germany
2004
„Vespers”, Experimental music and audio art, Film and Videoscreening, Berlin, Germany
„Lydbilleder VII – Site and Sound”, Museet For Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
„Behind the facts. Interfunktionen 1968 – 1975”, traveling show: Foundation Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain / Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal / Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Germany
2003
„Before and after Sound”, Galerie e/static, Turin, Italy
„Solid Concept”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA
2002
„First Decade: Video from the EAI Archives”, Museum of Modern Art, Department of Film and Video, New York, USA
„Beyond Boundary, Bay Area Conceptual Art of the 1970’s”, Pasadena Museum of California Art, USA
„Litanies of Interference”, Inventionen, Berliner Festival Neuer Musik, Germany
„40 Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen”, Kunstsommer Wiesbaden, Germany
„Berner Himmelsleiter”, Soundfestival EMIT TIME, Bern, Switzerland
2001
„Visual Sound”, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA
„Looking at you”, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Germany
„Museum of our wishes”, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
„A Survey of Artist‘ Ephemera 1960-1999”, CCAC Institute S.F.., USA
2000
„Bildobjekte”, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
„The American Century, Part II: 1950-2000”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1998
„Out of Actions – between performances and the object 1949-1979”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA, traveling show: MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria / Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain / Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
„Directed and Reflected”, Brückenmusik IV, Deutzer Brücke, Cologne, Germany
1997
„Scene of the Crime”, UCLA-Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
„Bridge”, Gallery Satellite, New York, NY, USA
„Generations”, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California, USA
1996
„SFAI 125th Anniversary Tribute Exhibition”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA
„Withdrawing”, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY, USA
„Sonambiente”, Akademie der Künste Ost, Berlin, Germany
„John Cage, Terry Fox, Gudrun Wassermann”, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany
1995
„A table of simple sounds”, Kleinodieen, Maastricht, Netherlands
„Endurance”, Exit Art/ The First World, New York, NY, USA
„Zeichnungen”, Galerie Fischer, Berlin, Germany
„Skulpturen”, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1994
„Die Stillen”, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany
1993
„Licht”, Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne, Germany
„Zeitgleich”, Kunsthaus, Essen, Germany
„Labyrinth of the Spirit”, The Hammond Galleries, Lancaster, Ohio, USA
1992
„Amphion Sound Installations“, various locations in Cologne and Potsdam, Germany
„Arte Sella ’92“, Borgo Valsugana, Italy
„Block’s Collection“, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
1991
„Brennpunkt 2″, Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany
„Umsonst“, Lighthouse I.B.K., Nijmegen, Netherlands
„Buchstäblich: Bild und Wort in der Kunst heute“, Von der Heydt- Museum Wuppertal, Germany and Kunsthalle Barmen, Germany
„Galerie Fri-Art“, Fribourg, Switzerland
„Living Dangerously“, Astrophysikalisches Observatorium, Potsdam, Germany
„Belluard-Bollwerk 91″, Belluard-Bollwerk, Fribourg, Switzerland
1990
„In Site”, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
„Sydney Biennale”, Sydney, Australia
„Furkart 1990”, Furkapass, Switzerland
„Animalia”, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
„Art Conceptual/ Formes Conceptuelles”, Galerie 1990-2000, Paris, France
„Circuit”, Galerie Aleph, Almere, Netherlands
1989
„Solid Concept”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, USA
„Ressource Kunst”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
„Arno 89”, Piazza di Ognisanti, Florence, Italy
„Art in the Anchorage 89”, Anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge, New York, NY, USA
„Fenetres en Vue”, Citywide Exhibition of Windows, Liège, Belgium
„Ressource Kunst”, Stadt Galerie, Saarbrücken, Germany
„Klang”, Burg Stolberg, Stolberg, Germany
„D.I.S.C.O.T.E.Q.E.”, Maison du Son, Ville de Villeurbanne, France
1988
„Berlin Art”, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
„Die Gleichzeitigkeit Des Anderen”, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
„Animal Art”, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
„Landschap Mensenwerk”, Neerijnen, Netherlands
„Tour Decades of Assemblage Art”, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
„Ohne die Rose Tun Wirs Nicht”, Städtisches Museum Haus Koekoek, Kleve, Germany
1987
„Von Chaos Und Ordnung Der Seele”, Neue Psychiatrische Klinik, der Universität Mainz, Germany
„Berlin Art 1961-1987”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
„L’Etat Des Choses l”, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland
„Echo Festival”, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands
„documenta 8”, Kassel, Germany
„3, Symposium Formine”, Galleria Flaviana, Locarno, Switzerland
„L’Etat Des Choses 2”, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland
1986
„Fire/Nze”, Piazza Santa Spirito, Florence, Italy
„Festival Beeldende Muziek”, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt, Belgium
„World Wide Sound Sculpture”, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
„Video Wochen Im Wenkenpark”, Basel, Switzerland
„A.P.: Artists Photographs”, Commune Di Marciana, Isola Elba, Italy
„La Lepra Pazza”, Piazza Santa Feheita, Florence, Italy
„Rosenfest”, Teatro Olympico, Rome, Italy
1985
„Paris Biennale”, Paris, France
„Biennale Des Friedens”, Kunsthaus und Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
„Ensemblia”, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
„Music in Art in the 20th Century”, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
„Amalfi Arte 2”, Amalfi, Italy
1984
„Venice Biennale”, Venice
„Italy Primitivism”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
„Content”, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
„Hunger for Words”, Art for Social Change, New York, NY, USA
1983
„Holland Festival”, Amsterdam, Netherlands
„Ensemblia”, Galerie Lohrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
„Site Strategies”, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California, USA
1982
„Traum”, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
„Suono/Amblente/Musica”, Commune Di Rimini, Italy
„Die Nacht in der Oper”, Opera House, Graz, Austria
„Revolutions Per Minute”, Box of L.P. Discs of Artists Sound Works published by Ronald Feldman, New York, USA (original cover designs by the artists from a traveling exhibition)
1981
„Performance”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
„IX Krakov Meetings”, Pawilon Wystawowy, Krakov, Polen
„Labyrinto”, traveling exhibition originating in Milan, Italy
„Arsenal 2”, Arsenal Cinema, West Berlin, Germany
1980
„A Listening Room”, The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA
„International Performance Festival”, Lyon, France
„Video Wochen Essen”, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
„Space, Time, Sound”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
1979
„Doctors and Dentists”, 591 Broadway, New York, NY, USA
„Estuary”, (Dance by Simone Forti), Merce Cunninham Dance Studio, New York, NY, USA
„Listen International”, Lisbon, Portugal
„Numbers”, Galleria Nuova 13, Allessandria, Italy
„Audio Scene 79”, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
„Sound”, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los, Angeles, California, USA
1978
„A Selection”, Hartnell College, Salinas, California, USA
„International Performance Festival”, Galerie Insam, Vienna, Austria
„A Sense of the Self‘ traveling exhibition originating in Purchase”, New York, NY, USA
„Video Selection”, Venice Biennale Archives, Venice, Italy
1977
„Airwaves”, 2 L.P. Dise Anthology of Artists Sound Works, published by 110 Records, New York, NY, USA
„Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
„Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era”, National Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
„documenta 6”, Kassel, West Germany
„03 23 03”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
1976
„Group Show”, M.L. D’Arc Gallery, New York, NY, USA
„Video Series”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
„Video Tapes Produced in Europe”, The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA
„Exchange: D.F.W./S.F.O.”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
„Video Art: A Survey”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
„Changing Channels”, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
„A Tight 13 Minutes”, M.O.C.A., San Francisco, California, USA
„Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
1975
„Biennial of Contemporary American Art”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
„Video Art”, Contemporary Arts Center, Cicinnati, Ohio, USA
„L’Art Corporal”, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France
„Bodyworks”, Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
„Recontre Internationale Ouverte De Video”, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
„Biennale de Paris”, Musee D’Art Moderne, Paris, France
„Americans in Florence: Europeans in Florence”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
„Video Art”, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
„International Open Encounter on Video”, Galleria D’Arte Moderna, Ferrara, Italy
„Exchange, D.F.W./S.F.O.”, Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
„Video Art U.S.A.”, Sao Paulo Museum, Brazil
1974
„Record as Artwork”, traveling exhibition originating Galerie Francois Lambert, Milan, Italy
„Middle Market”, I.C. Nelson Gallery, Davis, California
„Collectors Video”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
„Art Now”, J.F.K. Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., USA
„Circuit”, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany
„M.O.C.A. Ensemble”, M.O.C.A., San Francisco, California, USA
„South of the Slot”, 63 Bluxome Street, San Francisco, California, USA
„Video Art”, Contemporary Arts Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1973
„Video International”, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, NY, USA
„All Night Sculptures”, M.O.C.A., San Francisco, California, USA
„Circuit”, traveling video exhibition, USA
1972
„documenta 5”, Kassel, West Germany
„Projection”, Louisiana Museum, Denmark
„Notes and Scores for Sound”, Mills College, Oakland, California, USA
„San Francisco Performance”, Newport Harbor Art Museum, California, USA
„Performance Spaces”, School of Visual Art, New York, NY, USA
„Third Biennale”, Cotjer, Medelin, Columbia
„Sources”, San Francisco Art Institute Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
„Encuentros”, Pamplona, Spain
„Video West”, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, NY, USA
„Arte De Sistemas 2”, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentinia
„St. Jude Invitational”, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California, USA
1971
„Group Show”, Cheltenham Art Center, Philadelphia, USA
„Project: Pier 18”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
„Arte De Sistemas”, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentinia
„Six Comedy Sonatas”, M.O.C.A., San Francisco, California, USA
„Prospect 71”, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
1970
„The Eighties”, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
„Sculpture Annual”, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California, USA
„Sound Sculpture As”, M.O.C.A., San Francisco, California, USA
„Body Works”, traveling video exhibition organized by Willoughby Sharp, USA
„Fish, Fox, Kos”, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California, USA
1969
„Summer Symposium”, Van De Voort Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
„The Return of Abstract Expressionism”, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California, USA