group exhibitions 2010-2001

• 2010
• Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung - Bonn
  '1/1 ...... 1/100 - Editionen aus Deutschland, den Niederlanden und der Schweiz', December 5, 2009-January 24, 2010.
  [website]
• Galerie Mueller-Roth - Stuttgart
  'Künstlerbücher : Helmut Dirnaichner, Ulrich Erben, François Morellet, Karin Sander, Gavin Young, herman de vries', 19 November 2010-29 January 2011.
  [website]
• Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes - Valenciennes
  'Tenir, debout', November 5, 2010-March 6, 2011. Curated by Emmanuelle Delapierre and Marie-Claire Sellier; participating artists: Marina Abramovic & Ulay, Kader Attia, Richard Avedon, a.o.
  [press release] [website]
• Forum Botanische Kunst - Thüngersheim am Main
  'Pflanzenarsenale. Zeitgenössische Darstellungen von Medizinal-, Gift- und Drogenpflanzen', 31 October - 19 December 2010. Participating artists: herman de vries, Peter Lippmann, Briony Morrow-Cribbs, Werner Henkel and others.
  [website]
• Bleibtreu Galerie - Berlin
  'Situation 51 : herman de vries, Dan Attoe, Joseph Beuys, Mark Dion, Mario Merz', 10 November 2010-29 January 2011.
• Centre des livres d'artistes - Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
  'poésies concrète visuelle', June 15-September 18, 2010. Participating artists: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Pierre Garnier, Robert Lax, Paul de Vree and others. herman de vries is represented with 'in den feldern der erfahrungen ...' (1990), 'hommage aan de chaoten' (1969) and 'semantische perspektiven v72-42' (1972).
  [brochure] [website]
• Graphische Sammlung der ETH - Zurich
  'Der Natur', August 18-October 15, 2010.
  [website]
• Rijksmuseum Twenthe - Enschede
  'Push Pull : WJM Kok, Frank Mandersloot en collectie', March 20-June 13, 2010.
  [website]
• Institute of Visual Arts - Milwaukee WI
  'Spatial City. An Architecture of Idealism', Institute of Visual Arts in the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, February 6-April 18, 2010. The first touring exhibition in the USA of the colelctions of the FRAC. Participating artists François Morellet, herman de vries and others. Other venues: Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago (May 23-August 8, 2010) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (September 10-December 30, 2010).
  [catalogue] [checklist] [flyer] [press release] [website]
• Centre des livres d'artistes - Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
  'Atlas, Cartes et plans. Topographie, toponymes, territoires (Atlas, maps and plans. Topography, toponyms, territories : Atlas, maps and plans)', February 2-May 29, 2010.
  [brochure] [website]
• Kunsthalle Kiel - Kiel
  'Dopplereffekt. Bilder in Kunst und Wissenschaft', January 31-May 2, 2010. Participating artists: Josef Albers, Joseph Beuys, Albrecht Dürer, Olafur Eliasson, herman de vries, and others.
  [catalogue] [press release] [website]
• Galerie EL - Centrum Sztuki w Elblag - Elblag
  'Reminiscencje = Reminiszenzen. Wystawa stala', 2010.
  [website]
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• 2009
• X Initiative New York - New York
  'In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists', December 10, 2009-January 31, 2010. Curated by Victor Brand, Andrew Roth, Philip Aarons.
  [publication]
• Kunsthalle Schweinfurt - Schweinfurt
  'Diskurse - Deutsche Kunst nach 1945', permanent exhibition, started in 2009. Curated by Erich Schneider and Andrea Brandl. herman de vries was represented with 'all' (1994).
  [catalogue]
• Galerie Wit - Wageningen
  '41 Kunstenaars over vijf jaar Wit', November 22-December 20, 2009.
  [catalogue]
• Kunsthalle Schweinfurt - Schweinfurt
  'Fokus Franken : Triennale Schweinfurt für zeitgenössische Kunst', Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, November 13, 2009-February 14, 2010. Participating artists: Heinz Altschäffel, Rosário Rebello de Andrade, Anna Bien, et al.
  [catalogue]
• Mercer Union - A Centre For Contemporary Visual Art - Toronto
  'We interrupt this program', November 6-December 12, 2009. Curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan with Steven Leiber and Ted Purves.
  [website]
• Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - Stuttgart
  'Konkret. Die Sammlung Heinz und Anette Teufel im Kunstmuseum Stuttgart', October 3, 2009-January 10, 2010. herman de vries was represented with 'v68-207' (1968) and 'n.t.' (1971).
  [catalogue]
• Galerie Mueller-Roth - Stuttgart
  'Sammler - Beobachter - Grenzgänger : Poetische Hommage an Humboldt', September 19-October 31, 2009. Participating artists: Thom Barth, Marinus Boezem, Hamish Fulton, Maurizio Nannucci, Karin Sander, herman de vries, Georg Winter.
• ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus - Bad Homburg
  'An die Natur III. Die Altana Kunstsammlung', August 22-November 1, 2009. Curated by Johannes Janssen. The exhibition travelled to the Langen Foundation, Neuss (May 30 May-September 5, 2010) and the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (March 13-May 24, 2010).
  [flyer] [website]
• Musée du Louvre - Paris
  'Le Louvre invite Umberto Eco : Mille e tre', July 11, 2009-February 8, 2010. Curated by Umberto Eco; other participating artists Hamish Fulton, Anne and Patrick Poirier, and others. herman de vries is represented with 'eschenau sutra', 'catalogue incomplète d'exposition complète de luang prabang' and 'one and many'(2002).
  [catalogue] [website]
• Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst - Reutlingen
  'Das Quadrat in der Sammlung', June 28-December 23, 2009.
  [catalogue] [website]
• Espace de l'art concret - Mouans Sartoux
  'regard06 : quand la Géométrie devient Art', June 21, 2009-January 3, 2010.
  [website]
• Galerie De Rijk - The Hague
  'Zwart Wit', June 12-July 26, 2009. Participating artists Bernard Aubertin, Lucio Fontana, Jan Schoonhoven, Gerhard von Graevenitz, and others.
• Stedelijk Museum Schiedam - Schiedam
  'Kunst uit Huis V : Ron Klein Breteler collection', May 24-August 23, 2009.
  [press release] [website]
• Galerie Aline Vidal - Paris
  'How to change your life in a day', May 14-July 17, 2009.
  [website]
• e-flux - New York
  'Unbuilt Roads', April 11-May 16, 2009. Presented by Hans Ulrich Obrist based on the book Unbuilt Roads : 107 Unrealised Projects (Hatje Cantz 1997). Participating artists: Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Siah Armajani, Lothar Baumgarten, et al.
  [website]
• Galerie Arko - Nevers
  'revue futura 1965-1968, March 21-May 16, 2009. Curated by Didier Mathieu; participating artists: Mathias Goeritz, Klaus Burkhardt, Max Bense, Reinhard Döhl, a.o.
  [website]
• Rijksmuseum Twenthe - Enschede
  'Nieuw in de collectie', March 21-May 24, 2009. The museum presented 'ocean of streams'.
  [website]
• Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur - Cologne
  'Karl Blossfeldt. Pflanzenstudien und verwandte Positionen', March 13-June 7, 2009. Curated by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Rajka Knipper and Claudia Schubert; participating artists: Anna Atkins, Lawrence Beck, Simone Nieweg, et al.
  [website]
• Johan Deumens Gallery - Haarlem
  'onderweg', February 27-March 28, 2009. Participating artists: Frans Baake, Richard Long, Ulay, herman de vries, and others. herman de vries was represented with the 'journal de maroc 1999-2006' (25 parts, each 26.2 x 36.2 cm).
  [blog] [website]
• Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris
  'Vides (Voids). A retrospective', February 25-March 23, 2009. Curated by Laurent Le Bon, John Armleder, Mathieu Copeland, a.o.The exhibition travelled to the Kunsthalle Bern (September 13-October 11, 2009).
  [catalogue]
• Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - Stuttgart
  'Drei. Das Triptychon in der Moderne', February 7-June 14, 2009. Participating artists: Richard Artschwager, Francis Bacon, Giacomo Balla and others.
  [catalogue] [website]
• Elke Dröscher Galerie - Kunstraum Falkenstein - Hamburg
  'Stille - Leere - Konzentration', February 3-March 31, 2009. Participating artists Julius Bissier, Chen Ruo Bing, Ulrich Erben, Gotthard Graubner, Karl Prantl, herman de vries, and others.
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• 2008
• Sperone Westwater - New York
  'Zero in New York 1957-1966', November 6-December 20, 2008. Curated by David Leiber and Mattijs Visser.
  [catalogue] [video] [website]
• Borzo modern & contemporary art - Amsterdam
  'Relief & Construction', October 18-November 29, 2008. Other participating artists Joost Baljeu, Jan Schoonhoven, Ad Dekkers, and others.
  [newsletter] [website]
• Bayrische Staatsbibliothek - Munich
  '"Alles muss man selber machen" : Neuerwerbungen für die Sammlung der Maler- und Künstlerbücher', September 18-October 19, 2008.
  [website]
• Galerie Wit - Wageningen
  'kleuren van aarden ; Jan Hein van Rooy, Oswaldo Santana, herman de vries', August 26-31, 2008.
  [website]
• ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus - Bad Homburg
  'An die Natur II', June 1-August 3, 2008. Participating artists: Darren Almond, Siegfried Anzinger, Dieter Appelt, a.o. The exhibition travelled to the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden (November 8, 2008-February 8, 2009).
  [website]
• Lendroit Galerie - Rennes
  'Revues d'artistes, une sélection', November 7-December 19, 2008. Exhibition held at the Lendroit Galerie and the Cabinet du livre d'artiste both in Rennes and at the Galerie des Urbanistes, Fougères. Curated by Marie Boivent.
  [catalogue] [dossier]
• Kunstmuseum Bern - Bern
  '"I'm Full of Byars" James Lee Byars - Eine Hommage', September 12, 2008-February 1, 2009. Curated by Susanne Friedli. herman de vries showed his film 'a letter from james' (1977). The exhibition travelled to Milton Keynes Gallery, Midsummer (April 11-June 21, 2009).
  [catalogue]
• De Rijk Fine Art - The Hague
  'Walter Leblanc and Contemporaries', August 8-October 12, 2008. Participating artists Walter Leblanc, herman de vries, Ewerdt Hilgemann and others.
  [website]
• Galerie Aline Vidal - Paris
  'pour l'été', September 9-20, 2008. Participating artists Honoré d'O, Philippe De Gobert, François Morellet, and others.
  [website]
• ZKM Museum - Karlsruhe
  'bit international. [Nove] tendencije. Computer and Visual Research. Zagreb 1961-1973', February 23, 2008-January 18, 2009.
  [brochure] [publication] [website]
• Galerie Mueller-Roth - Stuttgart
  'Höhe-Breite-Tiefe;, 2008.
  [website]
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• 2007
• Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam - Amsterdam
  'Kunstenaarsboeken uit de collectie', December 4, 2007-January 6, 2008.
• Villa du Parc - Annemasse
  'Paysages divers', November 23, 2007-January 26, 2008. Participating artists Pierre Ardouvin, Valere Costes, Bertrand Lamarche, Glenda Leon, Paul Pouvreau, Natalie Wetzel. herman de vries is represented by the video filmnotes (1979).
  [press release] [website]
• Lycée Victor et Hélène Basch - Rennes
  'Co-éditions', Cabinet du Livre d'artiste, Lycée Victor et Hélène Basch, November 8-December 20, 2007. Organized by FRAC Bretagne; participating artists: Robert Barry, Peter Downsbrough, Gilbert Dupuis, Jean Le Gac, Anne et Patrick Poirier, and others.
• Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte - Schleswig
  'Zwischen Konstruktion und Reduktion, Sammlung Hupertz', Museum Schloss Gottorf, September 23-December 16, 2007. herman de vries was represented with 'from earth: iberia' (2006).
  [catalogue]
• Biennale internationale d’art contemporain de Melle 2007 - Melle
  'Eau, air, terre : La sagesse du jardinier', June 24-September 2, 2007. herman de vries was represented with 'die zweige der bäume (2003), 'salix' (2001), 'collected 01 08 2000' and 'collected october 1985'.
  [website]
• Neue Galerie - Graz
  'bit international – [Nove] tendencije : Computer und visuelle Forschung. Zagreb 1961–1973', April 28-August 26, 2007. Curated by Darko Fritz and continued at the ZKM, Karlsruhe (February 23, 2008-January 18, 2009.
  [brochure] [publication] [website]
• ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus - Bad Homburg
  'An die Natur I', April 27-August 19, 2007.
  [catalogue]
• Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof - Delft
  'Contour.Continuïteit, Heden en Verleden', March 4-May 28, 2007. Curated by Jan Hein Sassen, Jaap van den Ende; participating artists: Philip Akkermann, Tiong Ang, Karin Arink, Armando, Atelier van Lieshout, Wout Berger, a.o.
  [catalogue]
• Musée royal de Mariemont - Morlanwelz
  'herman de vries, lefevre jean claude, oxo - pascal le coq, hans waanders, éric watier', January 20-March 16, 2007.
  [catalogue]
• De Rijk Fine Art - The Hague
  '10 jaar Galerie-Kunsthandel De Rijk', January 20-March 4, 2007.
  [catalogue] [website]
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• 2006
• Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej - Warsaw
  'Les Éditions Incertain Sens. Exhibition of artists' books, December 20, 2006-February 18, 2007. Curated by Leszek Brogowski; participating artists: AAMCQ, Robert Barry, Bruno di Rosa, Peter Downsbrough, a.o.
  [catalogue]
• Galerie Art & Essai - Rennes
  'Fragments geographiques : oeuvres de la collection du FRAC Bretagne', October 5-November 3, 2006.
  [press release]
• Museum für Konkrete Kunst - Ingolstadt
  'Die Neuen Tendenzen - Eine europäische Künstlerbewegung 1961-1975', September 29, 2006-January 7, 2007. The exhibition travelled to the Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren (February 25-April 22, 2007).
  [catalogue]
• Artothèque de Caen - Caen
  'Prêts....partez : arts plastiques', September 8-23, 2006.
• Jan van Eyck Academie - Maastricht
  'Concrete poëzie, Fluxus en conceptuele kunst : een boekenfictie', May 20-21, 2006. Part of the research project 'The Tomorrow Book'. Curator Marc Goethals; other participating artists Vincenzo Acame, Carl André, Giovanni Anselmo and others.
  [catalogue]
• Museum Kunst Palast - Düsseldorf
  'Zero. Internationale Künst-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre', April 9-July 9, 2006. Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, Heike van den Valentyn, Mattijs Visser and Lorand Hegyi. Participating artists: Arman, Armando, Bernard Aubertin, ... et al. The exhibition travelled to the Musée d'art moderne, Saint-Etienne (September 15, 2006-January 15, 2007); Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
  [catalogue] [website]
• Museum der Stadt Ratingen - Ratingen
  'Impulse. Informel und Zero in der Sammlung Ingrid und Willi Kemp', April 9-June 5, 2006. Curated by Marie-Luise Otten; participating artists: Shusaku Arakawa, Erwin Bechtold, Francis Bott, Peter Brüning, and others.
  [catalogue]
• Centre PasquArt - Biel/Bienne
  'Branding. Das Kunstwerk zwischen Authentizität und Aura, Kritik und Kalkül', April 2-May 28, 2006. Curated by Dolores Denaro; other participating artists: Sam Abell, Francis Baudevin, Thomas Baumgärtel, and others.
  [catalogue] [website]
• Espace de l'Art Concret - Mouans-Sartoux
  'art multiple', January 29-June 11, 2006.
  [brochure]
• Museum der Moderne, Mönchsberg - Salzburg
  'Zero. Künstler einer europäischen Bewegung. Sammlung Lenz Schönberg 1956-2006', January 21-March 26 (extended until July 2), 2006.
  [catalogue]
• City Hünfeld
  'Das befreite Wort im offenen Buch der Stadt Hünfeld', 125 text-images on houses and objects. Curated by Jürgen Blum and the Stiftung Museum Modern Art Hünfeld.
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• 2005
• Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg - Strasbourg
  'Le Livre au risque des artistes', November 16, 2005-February 2006.
  [catalogue]
• Govett-Brewster Art Gallery - New Plymouth
  'Artspace Germany', October 1-November 27, 2005. Participating artists: Armando, Tony Cragg, Marianne Eigenheer, Ayse Erkmen, Christine Hill, Magdalena Jetelova, Per Kirkeby, Joseph Kosuth, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Simone Mangos, Nam June Paik, Giuseppe Spagnulo, Wawrzyniec Tokarski and herman de vries.
  [website]
• Centre des Livres d'Artistes - Saint Yrieix-la-Perche
  'Variation(s) II : livres et publications d'artistes 1962-2005', September 17-December 23, 2005.
  [catalogue] [website]
• Casa del Mantegna - Mantova
  'Guardare, raccontare, pensare, conservare. quattro percorsi del libro d'artista degli anni '60 ad oggi', September 7-November 28, 2005.
  [catalogue]
• Domaine national de Chambord
  'Chassez le naturel ...', June 24-November 3, 2005.
  [brochure]
• Museum im Kulturspeicher - Würzburg
  'Heimspiel - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Region', July 23-October 16, 2005. herman de vries was represented with (amongst others) 'landschaft in unterfranken'.
  [catalogue]
• Galerie Aline Vidal - Paris
  'plein feux', June 2-July 23, 2005. Participating artists herman de vries, Philippe De Gobert, Florence Doléac, Patrick Everaert, and others.
  [website]
• State of Sabotage - Vienna
  'State of the Art', April 29-June 29, 2005. Participating artists: Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Walter Dahn, Ludger Gerdes, Jochen Gerz, H.R. Giger, and others.
  [website]
• Art Affairs Gallery - Amsterdam
  'old & new, early and recent works', January 8-February 26, 2005. Participating artists: Armando, Sjoerd Buisman, Norman Dilworth, Kuno Gonschior, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Uwe Laysiepen, François Morellet, Jan van Munster, Jan Smejkal, herman de vries.
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• 2004
• Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum - Hagen
  'Die Farbe hat mich II (nicht nur rot) - Neuerwerbungen 2000-2004 für die Sammlungen des Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museums Hagen', September 12-November 14, 2004. Curated by Michael Fehr; participating artists: Bernhard Aubertin, Stephan Baumkötter, Stephan Bordarier, and others.
• Kunsthalle Erfurt im Haus zum roten Ochsen - Erfurt
  'Von Bonifatius bis Beuys oder: vom Umgang mit heiligen Eichen - Künstler des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts zur Baum- und Eichensymbolik', September 12-October 24, 2004. Participating artists: Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, a.o.
  [catalogue]
• Vögele Kultur Zentrum - Pfäffikon
  'Aus der Natur : herman de vries, Richard Long, Giuseppe Penone, Mario Reis', September 5-October 31, 2004.
  [audio CD] [publication] [website]
• Kröller-Müller Museum - Otterlo
  'Vrije Ruimte/Another Space', September 4-December 12, 2004.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles CA
  'Beyond Geometry. Experiments in Form 1940s-70s', June 13-October 3, 2004. Curated by Lynn Zelevansky; participating artists: Josef Albers, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Max Bill, Lucio Fontana, and others. The exhibition travelled to the Miami Art Museum, Miami FL (November 19, 2004-April 24, 2005.
  [catalogue] [website]
• Art Affairs Gallery - Amsterdam
  '4 positions : herman de vries, Lilian Cooper, Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver, Katrin Korfmann', May 15-August 26, 2004.
  [website]
• Museum of Contemporary Art - Zagreb
  'Zero. Europska visija 1958 do danas. Zbirka Lenz Schönberg = Zero. Die europäische Vision 1958 bis heute. Sammlung Lenz Schönberg', April 29-June 20, 2004.
  [catalogue]
• Espace de l'art concret - Mouans-Sartoux
  Pour un art concret : Espace de l'art concret, la donation Albers-Honegger = Konkrete Kunst [...] (Isthme éditions/Centre national des arts plastiques 2004).
• Musée des Beaux-Arts - Lausanne
  'Les éditions Média de Neuchâtel, une sélection', 2004.
• Bleibtreu Galerie - Berlin
  'Situation 19', 2004.
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• 2003
• Städtische Galerie ada - Meiningen
  'Hexen in der Bildenden Kunst der Gegenwart', November 14, 2003-April 19, 2004. The exhibition travelled to Kurmuseum Bad Wildungen (May 9-June 20, 2004).
• Museum für neue Kunst - ZKM Museum - Karlsruhe
  'The Daimler Art Collection- 100 Positionen aus über 60 Jahren Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin', May 24-August 31, 2003. Participating artists: Doug Aitken, Josef Albers, Jane Alexander, Ian Anüll, John Armleder, Hans Arp, and others. The exhibition travelled to the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit MI (November 7, 2003-January 18, 2004), to South Africa, Japan, Brazil, Singapore.
  [publication] [website]
• Städtische Galerie im Buntentor - Bremen
  'no art - no city! Stadtutopien in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, September 20-October 26, 2003. Curated by Florian Matzner. Participating artists Kim Adams, Louise Bourgeois, Stephen Craig, Olafur Eliasson, and others.
  [catalogue]
• Art Affairs Gallery - Amsterdam
  'zero / concept art from the 60s & 70s : objects, paintings, works on paper', September 6-October 19, 2003.
  [website]
• Kunstenaarscentrum Bergen - Bergen
  'De kerf verbeeld. Impressies van een nieuw landschap', August 31-September 28, 2003. Curated by Marianne van Gils; participating artists Eric Beets, Wout Berger, Sander Rood, Hans Tentije, herman de vries, Mischa de Vreede en Elly de Waard.
  [catalogue]
• WKV - Württembergischer Kunstverein - Stuttgart
  'Entdecken - Fördern - Handeln', July 12-October 12, 2003. Participating artists herman de vries, Susanne Ackermann, Hans Peter Adamski, Jörg Bach, Cristina Barroso, and others.
• De Zonnehof - Amersfoort
  'Tree Time : bomen en hun bijzondere betekenissen', June 21-September 28, 2003.
• Galerie Incontro - Zurich
  'Psychonautische Landkarte 2 = A Trip into Psychonautic Art : 60 Jahre lsd', April 18-May 18, 2003.
  [publication]
• Neues Museum Weserburg - Bremen
  'Kunstenaarsboeken et al. Künstlerpublikationen aus den Niederlanden', April 13-August 25, 2003. Participating artists Ulisses Carrión, Michael Gibbs, Stanley Brouwn, herman de vries an others.
  [website]
• RLB-Kunstbrücke - Innsbruck
  'Zero. Die europäische Vision - 1958 bis heute. Sammlung Lenz Schönberg', April 8-May 9 (extended until June 15), 2003.
  [catalogue] [poster]
• Hunter College - New York
  'Seeing Red Part II. Contemporary Nonobjective Painting', March 12-April 26, 2003. Curated by Michael Fehr (Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen) and Gabriele Evertz (Hunter College). Other participating artists Marc Angeli, Bernard Aubertin, Stephan Baumkötter, and many others.
  [catalogue] [catalogue-book]
• Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders - Bergisch Gladbach
  'Holland Konkret', March 16-April 27, 2003.
• Centraal Museum - Utrecht
  'Het kunstenaarsboek als wetenschappelijke bron', March 8-May 4, 2003. Curated by Anne van der Zwaag.
  [publication]
• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Salle de Lecture du dept. des estampes et de la photographie - Paris
  'Livres, imprimées et maquettes : les Éditions Incertain Sens', March 2003. Curated by Leszek Brogowski and Marie-Cécile Miessner.
  [catalogue]
• Kunstvereniging Diepenheim - Diepenheim
  'Een keuze uit de verzameling kunstenaarsboeken van Frits Becht', 2003.
• Rijksmuseum Twenthe - Enschede
  'Van Breughel tot Picasso', 2003.
• De Verbeelding - Zeewolde
  'Look and Feel : kunst landschap natuur', 2003.
• Galerie & Edition Hoffmann - Friedberg
  'The Square', 2003.
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• 2002
• Kaiser Wilhelm Museum - Krefeld
  'Sand in der Vaseline. Künstlerbücher II1980-2002', October 27, 2002-February 9, 2003. Curated by Sabine Röder; participating artists: Ida Applebroog, Barbara Bloom, Werner Büttner, Sophie Calle, Hans-Peter Feldmann, et al. Other venues: Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (March 23-June 9, 2003) and Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg (December 19, 2003-February 29, 2004).
  [catalogue]
• Centre PasquArt - Biel/Bienne
  'Kinderspiel. Un jeu d'enfant', October 12-November 30, 2002.
• De Zonnehof - Amersfoort
  'Artspace Germany', September 14-October 27, 2002.
• Art Affairs Gallery - Amsterdam
  'the elements : light/heat/cold/earth/air', June 16-August 31, 2002. Participating artists: Jan van Munster, Ewerdt Hilgemann, herman de vries.
• Belfort/Stadhuis - Aalst
  'Livres d'artistes', June 15-September 8, 2002.
  [catalogue]
• Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum - Hagen
  'Museutopia - Schritte in andere Welten. Eine Ausstellung zum 100jährigen Jubiläum der Folkwang-Idee Museutopia', June 9-October 15, 2002. Curated by Michael Fehr, Thomas W. Rieger and Birgit Schulte; participating artists: Micha Brendel, Stephen Craig, Alice Creischer, Mark Dion, ... et. al.
  [catalogue]
• Hofgarten - Düsseldorf
  'Hell-gruen 2002. 30 Kunstwerke im und um den Düsseldorfer Hofgarten', May 11-October 6, 2002. Participating artists: Mark Dion, Lois Weinberger, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Atelier für Spaziergangsforschung, Job Koelewijn, a.o.
  [catalogue]
• Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen - Sindelfingen
  'Geometrical Affairs / Cars : Sechzig ausgewählte Werke aus der Daimler Kunst Sammlung', May 3-July 3, 2002. Other participating artists Josef Albers, Robert Barry, Max Bill, Daniel Buren, Enrico Castellani, and others.
• Mendel Museum - Brno
  'Gallery of Contemporary Art 2002', May 2002-June 2006. Participating artists: Gerhard Lang, Matilda Downs, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Susan Derges, a.o. herman de vries was represented with 'Ilex canariensis' (collected on the island of El Hierro, Canary Islands), 1994.
  [catalogue] [website]
• Quartair - The Hague
  'Kunstenaar ontdekt!', 2002. Organised on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of 'Kijken naar hedendaagse kunst' of Liesbeth van Abbe.
• Diputación - Huesca
  'Obras de árboles', 2002.
• Kunsthaus Reha - Institut für konstruktive kunst und konkrete poesie - Rehau
  'Stoffe', 2002.
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• 2001
• Daimler Contemporary - Berlin
  'Geometrical Affairs : new acquisitions and works from the collection', October 27, 2001-February 3, 2002. Other participating artists Josef Albers, John Armleder, Robert Barry, and others.
  [website]
• Musée des Beaux-Arts - Pau
  'Oeuvres d'arbres', September 19, 2001-January 7, 2002. Participating artists Henri Cueco, Paul-Armand Gette, herman de vries, and others.
  [catalogue]
• Schirn Kunsthalle - Frankfurt am Main
  'Frankfurter Kreuz : Transformationen des Alltäglichen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst', June 16-August 12, 2001 [??].
• Kunsthal Charlottenborg - Copenhagen
  'Fra de Hollandse Lavlande = From the Low Countries, Reality and Art 1960-2001', October 11-December 9, 2001. Curated by Fred Wagemans; participating artists herman de vries, Hans Aarsman, Bas Jan Ader, Philip Akkerman, and others. Other venues: Fries Museum Leeuwarden ('De Grote Hoop', January 20-April 14, 2002), and Stedelijk Museum Schiedam ('De Grote Hoop', April 27-June 30, 2002). herman de vries was represented with 'journal of a visit to the 'weerribben' and surroundings, 12-30 May 1998, 1998.
  [catalogue]
• Museo Ideale Leonardo Da Vinci - Vinci
  'Leonardo In Azione E Poesia = Leonardo in Action & Poetry', April 15- 2001. Participating artists: Eric Andersen,Giuseppe Chiari, Philip Corner, an many others.
  [catalogue]
• Gallery Surge - Tokyo
  'Three Minutes Silence ... A new dialogue between human being, nature and technology', April 15-May 6, 2001. Participating artists: Anneke de Boer, Rob Moonen, Paul Panhuysen, and others.
  [catalogue] [website]
• Museum Kunst Palast - Düsseldorf
  'Die Sammlung Ingrid und Willi Kemp : Fokus Farbe: informel - konkret - figurativ', February 3-April 1, 2001.
  [catalogue]
• Art Affairs Gallery - Amsterdam
  'words and landscape : Robert Barry, Jan Smejkal, herman de vries, Lawrence Weiner', January 13-March 3, 2001.
  [website]
• Kabinett - Stuttgart
  'Kunst auf Zeit : Freistempel 1993-2001', 2001
  [catalogue]
• Städtisches Museum Göttingen - Göttingen
  'Persönlich - Kunst nach 1960 aus der Privatsammlung Baier', 2001.
• Museum voor Schone Kunsten - Ghent
  'Shoes or no Shoes', 2001.
• Museum Neuhaus/Fondation Robert - Biel/Bienne
  'Collection un choix', 2001.
• Remba Gallery - San Francisco
  'From Holland : small is beautiful', Remba Gallery hosts Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, 2001.

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