Bruno Gironcoli

Biography

Born in1936 in Villach Carinthia, AT

Died in 2010 in Vienna, AT

Education

1951-1956
Goldsmith training, Innsbruck, AT

1957-1959 / 1961-1962
Academy of Applied Art, Vienna, AT

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
Bruno Gironcoli - Toni Schmale, Albertina Modern, Vienna, AT

2019
SCULPTURES, Clearing, New York, USA
WORKS ON PAPER, Clearing, New York, USA
Prototypes for a New Species, SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, DE

2018
Shy at Work, MUMOK – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, AT

2017
One Body, Two Souls, Clearing, Brussels, BE
The Surrealist Spirit, Conversation with André Bloc, Natalie Seroussi, Meudon, FR

2014
Bruno Gironcoli: Dialogue Sculpture - Graphics, Gironcoli Museum, Herberstein, AT

2013
Modelle and Zeichnungen, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna, AT
Context, Orangerie und Garten Museum Belvedere, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna, AT

2012
Cavalcade: Sculptures and Drawings, MAMCO, Geneva, CH

2010
Bruno Gironcoli. A Memory Space, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, AT
In Memoriam Bruno Gironcoli, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, AT

2008
Sculptures From 1956 – 2008, Galerie Magnet, Klagenfurt, AT
Model and Prototype, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman - Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, AT
New Sculptures and Drawings, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich, DE
Sculptures and Works On Paper, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Zurich, CH

2007
Bruno Gironcoli – 11 Sculptures, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen, DE

2006
Bruno Gironcoli’s 70th Birthday  - Works From Ferdinandeum and Tyrolean Private Collections, Innsbruck, AT

2005
Early Works, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT

2004
Giants – European Conversation Pieces, The Hague, NL
Inauguration of Gironcoli Museum, Herberstein, AT
Gironcoli – Kristall, STRABAG Haus, Vienna, AT

2003
Venice Biennale, Austrian Pavilion, Venice, IT
Sculptures and Works On Paper, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich, DE
Bruno Gironcoli – Printmaking, Galerie Jünger, Baden, AT
Venice Contemporary Art Biennale, Austrian Pavillon, curated by Kasper König, Venice, IT

2002
Bruno Gironcoli – Sculptural work / Works on Paper 1964 – 1977, Galerie Hofstätter, Vienna, AT

2001
Bruno Gironcoli – Objects, Drawings, Galerie Chobot, Vienna, AT

2000
Bruno Gironcoli – Sculptures and Drawings, Galerie Altnöder, Salzburg, AT

1999
Sculptures And Works On Paper, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, FR
Lady Madonna, MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, AT

1998
Bruno Gironcoli: Sculptures 1989 –1998, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, AT

1997
The Unbegotten, MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, AT

1995
Bruno Gironcoli: Works 1962-1995, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz, AT
Bruno Gironcoli: Newer drawings and sculptures, Rupertinum, Salzburg, AT

1992
Bruno Gironcoli: Sculptural Works, Galerie der Stadt Wels, Oberösterreich, AT
Bruno Gironcoli. Works on Paper, Ulysses Gallery, New York, USA

1991
Sculptures  & Works on Paper, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, AT

1990
Bruno Gironcoli, Works From The Tiroler Private Collections: 1968 –1990, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, AT
Works on Paper, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, AT
Bruno Gironcoli: Sculptural works 1978 –1990, Museum des 20, Vienna, AT
Bruno Gironcoli: Graphic Arts, Galerie Chobot, Vienna, AT

1986
Paternal - Maternal: A Fictional Model Idea, Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz, AT

1974
The Drawings and Characters of Bruno Gironcoli, Galerie Grünanger-gasse, Vienna, AT

1971
San Paolo Biennale, Sao Paulo, BR

1968
Bruno Gironcoli: Sculptures – Paintings, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, AT

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
The Animal Within, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwing Wien, Vienna, AT

2022
Future Bodies from a Recent Past – Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE

2021
Grand Ménage, Clearing, Paris, FR

2020
Just in case you would have forgotten, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, AT
The Beginning, Albertina Modern, Museum der Gegenwart, Vienna, AT
Hooks & Claws, Gallery Gregor Staiger, Zurich, CH

2019
DOG DAYS, Clearing, Brooklyn, USA
Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial 2019, Fellbach, DE
L’âge de raison, Clearing, Brussels, BE

2018
L’esprit souterrain, Domaine Pommery, Reims, FR

2017
Le Rêve des formes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR

2016
Fritto Misto, Clearing, New York, USA
Detour, Bruno Hironcoli, Eva Hesse, Tobias Pils, Greenspongallery, New York, USA

2014
The Century of the Bed, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna, AT

2013
Eine kleine Machtmusik ... Bericht aus dem Depot, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, AT
Amazing! Clever! Linguistic! An Adventure in Conceptual Art, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
39GreatJones – Eva Presenhuber Gallery. Löwenbräu Areal Zurich, CH

2012
Art, Science & Fiction, MAC’s Grand Hornu (Kat.), BE

2010
The Poetics of Life, Galerie Dana Charkasi, Vienna, AT

2008
Bauen ohne Grundriss: “Mind Expanders”, MUMOK – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien

2007
The Third Mind. Carte Blanche to Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR

2005
Occupying Space. Sammlung Generali Foundation, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE

2003
Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, FR

1999
In The Network Of Identity, Galerie Heike Curtze, Salzburg, AT

1998
Austria im Rosennetz, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, BE

1996
Austria im Rosennetz, MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, AT

1993
Memory as Desire: Bruno Gironcoli and Tina Bepperling, Österreichisches Kulturinstitut, New York, USA

1992
Identity : Difference - Tribune Trigon 1940 – 1990, A topography of modernity, Neue Galerie und Stadtmuseum, Graz, AT

1989
Prospect 89, Schim Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE

1986
Eye For An Eye, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, AT

1985
Take Space - Aspects of Austrian Sculpture 1950 – 1985, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, AT

1984
Arte Austriaca 1960-1984, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, IT

1973
The Austrian Exhibition, Richard Demarco Gallery, London, UK

1968
Profile VIII, Österreichische Kunst heute, Bochum, DE
Super Design. Gironcoli, Göschl, Hollein, Oberhuber, Pichler, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, AT

Selected Awards

2004
Emeritus status confered by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT

1993
Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis (Grand Austrian State Prize), AT

1989
Austrian Sculpture Prize of the Erste Allgemeine Generali-Foundation, AT

1976
Fine Arts Prize of the city of Vienna - Sculpture, AT

Selected Public Collections

MoMa, New York, NY
MAMCO, Geneva, CH
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
Lenbachhaus, Munich, DE
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, AT
Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
Gironcoli Museum, Schloss Herberstein, AT