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Ugo Rondinone

Born 1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland. Lives and works in New York.
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Exhibition view: Ugo Rondinone, burn shine fly, Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (2022). Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Introduction

Ugo Rondinone is recognized as one of the major voices of his generation, an artist who composes searing meditations on nature and the human condition while establishing an organic formal vocabulary that fuses a variety of sculptural and painterly traditions. 

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Selected works

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Ugo Rondinone
vierundzwanzigsterseptemberzweitausendundvierundzwanzig, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 120 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
blue orange nun, 2024

Painted bronze, pedestal
188 x 64,4 x 45 cm
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dritteroktoberzweitausendvierundzwanzig, 2024
Watercolor on canvas, artist's frame
32 x 47 cm (12 5/8 x 18 1/2 in)
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the alphabet of my mothers and fathers A, 2024
Unique
Gilded farmers' tools

100 x 100 cm
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the alphabet of my mothers and fathers B, 2024

Unique
Gilded farmers' tools

100 x 100 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
the alphabet of my mothers and fathers C, 2024
Unique
Gilded farmers' tools

100 x 100 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
molucca sea, 2023
Blue glass
79 x 116 x 30 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
ligurian sea, 2023
Blue glass
81,3 x 126,9 x 34,6 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
sea of azov, 2023
Blue glass
79 x 128 x 34 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
the endless, 2023
Acrylic on wood, glass panel
245 x 160 x 8 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
the unlimited, 2023

Acrylic on wood, glass panel

245 x 160 x 8 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
dreizehnterseptemberzweitausenddreiundzwanzig, 2023
Watercolor on canvas, artist's frame
30,5 x 45,7 cm (unframed)
31,8 x 47 cm (framed)
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Ugo Rondinone
light blue clock, 2023
Stained-glass window, wire
ø 120 cm
Edition of 2
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Ugo Rondinone
neunzehnterdezemberzweitausenddreiundzwanzig, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
ø 120 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
achtundzwanzigsterdezemberzweitausenddreiundzwanzig, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

ø 120 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
brilliant light, 2023
Painted bronze
155 x 102,5 x 95,5 cm
Edition of 3
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Ugo Rondinone
burn to shine, 2022
Installation in two parts: burned wood, six projections
1000 x 1200 x 1200 cm (33 x 39 x 39 ft)
Edition of 3
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Ugo Rondinone
dreizehntermaizweitausenddreiundzwanzig, 2022
Watercolor on canvas, artist's frame
23 x 33 cm (unframed)
24,3 x 34,3 x 2,3 cm (framed)
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Ugo Rondinone
BURN TO SHINE (5), 2022
Single channel video (color, sound)
Duration: 13:36 min
Dimensions variable
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Ugo Rondinone
the alphabet of my mothers and fathers A, 2022

Gilded farmers' tools
213,4 x 213,4 x 25,4 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
the alphabet of my mothers and fathers C, 2022
Gilded farmers' tools
213 x 213 x 22,9 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
the alphabet of my mothers and fathers H, 2022
Gilded farmers' tools
213 x 213 x 34,3 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
the alphabet of my mothers and fathers B, 2022

Gilded farmers' tools
213 x 213 x 33 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
long last happy, 2020
Neon, acrylic glass, translucent foil, aluminum
313 x 768 x 15 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
violet blue nun, 2020
Painted bronze
294 x 157 x 100 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
the sun at 11:30 pm, 2018
Gilded bronze
ø 160 cm
Edition of 3
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Ugo Rondinone
zweiteraprilzweitausendundsiebzehn, 2017

Oil on burlap
341 x 401 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
the boulder, 2016

Bronze
11 x 36 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
red clock, 2016
Stained-glass window, wire
ø 100 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
woman at a window 1822, 2016
Cast aluminum
93,5 x 45,2 x 4,3 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
vierzehnterseptemberzweitausendundfünfzehn, 2015

Acrylic on canvas

270 x 520 x 3 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
primal, 2013

Bronze

47 parts: 20 x 25 x 8 cm approx., each
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Ugo Rondinone
moonrise. east. april, 2005
Cast aluminum, brown enamel, wood plinth
187 x 105 x 110 cm (sculpture)
58 x 121,5 x 119,5 cm (plinth)
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Ugo Rondinone
everything gets lighter everyone is light, 2004

Cast resin, Plexiglas base
294 x 223 x 248 cm
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Ugo Rondinone
i don't live here anymore, 1999
C-print, Plexiglas, Alucobond
Set of 5 prints
150 x 100 cm each

Gallery Exhibitions

the alphabet of my mothers and fathers Ugo Rondinone

the alphabet of my mothers and fathers

Ugo Rondinone
We are nothing without food. The spread of farming led to food surpluses, which spared some of us the daily chore of hunting and gathering. Trades and professions emerged as agriculture grew...
September 13—October 19, 2024
Esther Schipper, Berlin
Exhibition view: Ugo Rondinone, i don’t live here anymore, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2023. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

i don’t live here anymore

Ugo Rondinone
A presentation of the historical photographic work.
September 15—October 21, 2023
Esther Schipper, Berlin
En la casa de Marquès Esther Schipper Mallorca

En la casa de Marquès

Esther Schipper Mallorca
Visit us this summer for a special exhibition entitled Inside Marquès House in Palma de Mallorca held at the former residence of Martí Marquès Marquès, a historic house dating back to the...
July 12—31, 2021
Casa Museo Can Marquès, Palma de Mallorca
nuns + monks Ugo Rondinone

nuns + monks

Ugo Rondinone
Stones have been a presence and recurring material and symbol in my art. They are the subjects of the stone figures that I began with the monumental Human Nature installation at the...
September 11—October 17, 2020
Esther Schipper, Berlin
two men contemplating the moon 1830 Ugo Rondinone

two men contemplating the moon 1830

Ugo Rondinone
Esther Schipper is pleased to present two men contemplating the moon 1830, Ugo Rondinone’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Taken from a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, the exhibition’s title makes...
September 16—October 22, 2016
primal Ugo Rondinone

primal

Ugo Rondinone
Esther Schipper is pleased to present primal by Ugo Rondinone. Working in a variety of media like sculpture, installation, painting, photography and video, Ugo Rondinone has been continuously addressing transient and ephemeral...
April 26—June 1, 2013
Unday Ugo Rondinone

Unday

Ugo Rondinone
Ugo Rondinone's exhibition Unday is centred on binary pairs like interior and exterior, private and public, and it stages the archetypical character of windows (a recurring feature in Rondinone's work) and a...
May 12—June 17, 2006
Slow Graffiti Ugo Rondinone

Slow Graffiti

Ugo Rondinone
Ugo Rondinone's exhibition Slow Graffiti consists of two new works. The exhibition space is dominated by a tessellated mirror partition (5 x 5 meters) which is positioned in a way to reflect...
September 15—October 31, 2001
In the sweet years remaining Ugo Rondinone

In the sweet years remaining

Ugo Rondinone
The exhibition In the sweet years remaining is a coherent work: the 'multimedia' wall functions as a display, stage and architectural quotation for half-hearted and open isolation. The ambivalent attempt to paint...
January 22—March 6, 1999

External Exhibitions

Cry Me a River Ugo Rondinone

Cry Me a River

Ugo Rondinone
Despite his international career, the artist Ugo Rondinone (*1964), who grew up in Brunnen, still has close ties to Central Switzerland. His work is characterised by the overwhelming beauty of the landscape...
July 7—October 20, 2024
Kunstmuseum Luzern
Borås Art Biennial 2024 - Layers, Loops, Lines With Ugo Rondinone

Borås Art Biennial 2024 - Layers, Loops, Lines

With Ugo Rondinone
The eighth Borås international biennial of contemporary art highlights our relationship to time, space, and site, exploring links to our surroundings, the landscape, and the environment. Ugo Rondinone is participating with two works: long last happy, installed at the Stora...
June 15—September 15, 2024
Various locations in Borås, Sweden
BURN TO SHINE Ugo Rondinone

BURN TO SHINE

Ugo Rondinone
Ugo Rondinone BURN TO SHINE Museum SAN, Wonju Exhibition extended until December 1, 2024
April 6—December 1, 2024
Museum SAN, Wonju
burn to shine Ugo Rondinone

burn to shine

Ugo Rondinone
The exhibition takes its title from American poet and artist John Giorno’s 1994 poem of the same name.
November 8, 2023—January 1, 2024
Fosun Foundation, Shanghai
Hallen #4 With Ugo Rondinone

Hallen #4

With Ugo Rondinone
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce our participation in the fourth iteration of Hallen #4 Art Festival held here in Berlin at the Wilhelm Hallen. On view will be a monumental sculpture...
September 8—18, 2023
Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin
Installation view: Ugo Rondinone, the sun, Domaine des Etangs, Massignac, 2018 Photo © Arthur Pequin

the sun and the moon

Ugo Rondinone
the sun and the moon, two works by Ugo Rondinone, are formed with delicate circles fashioned from cast-bronze tree branches, one silver-leafed and the other gilded. The twin sculptures are both over sixteen feet tall. Installed parallel to one another,...
May 20—November 13, 2023
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York
when the sun goes down and the moon comes up Ugo Rondinone

when the sun goes down and the moon comes up

Ugo Rondinone
How is a place, an experience, a way of seeing radically reinvented? That is the question Ugo Rondinone explores in this exhibition on view from January 26 to June 18, 2023. For the third annual Open Invitation, the artist has...
January 26—June 18, 2023
Museum of Art and History, Geneva
the water is a poem unwritten by the air no. the earth is a poem unwritten by the fire Ugo...

the water is a poem unwritten by the air no. the earth is a poem unwritten by the fire

Ugo Rondinone
Ugo Rondinone’s exhibition the water is a poem unwritten by the air no. the earth is a poem unwritten by the fire at the Petit Palais comprises two ensembles of works enhanced by a new video installation. Revolving around human...
October 18, 2022—January 8, 2023
Petit Palais, Paris
Manifesta 14 With Ugo Rondinone

Manifesta 14

With Ugo Rondinone
For Manifesta 14, Ugo Rondinone brings forth an object of “beauty and contemplation” in one of Prishtina‘s most frequented public gathering spaces – Adem Jashari Square.
July 22—October 30, 2022
Various locations, Prishtina
YET, WITH LOVE with Ugo Rondinone

YET, WITH LOVE

with Ugo Rondinone
Under the theme of ‘Diaspora and All Minority of the World’, the exhibition Yet, With Love at the PODO Museum focuses on beings who are pioneering new lives beyond their geographical and...
July 5, 2022—September 17, 2023
PODO Museum, Jeju-do
LIFE TIME Ugo Rondinone

LIFE TIME

Ugo Rondinone
The Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt is dedi­cating a large survey exhi­bi­tion entitled LIFE TIME to Ugo Rondi­none with key paint­ings, sculp­tures, and video works from the artist.
June 24—September 18, 2022
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
Horizon and Limit. Visions of the Landscape | Horizonte y Límite. Visiones Del Paisaje With Ugo Rondinone

Horizon and Limit. Visions of the Landscape | Horizonte y Límite. Visiones Del Paisaje

With Ugo Rondinone
The exhibition included Ugo Rondinone's vierteraprilzweitausendundelf, 2011.
June 22, 2022—January 8, 2023
CaixaForum, Valencia
vocabulary of solitude Ugo Rondinone

vocabulary of solitude

Ugo Rondinone
Ugo Rondinone is recognised as one of the great voices of his generation, an artist who proposes trenchant reflections on nature and the human condition, while establishing a formal and organic vocabulary...
June 4 – September 4, 2022
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
burn shine fly Ugo Rondinone

burn shine fly

Ugo Rondinone
On the occasion of the 59th La Biennale di Venezia, the Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista will host a major solo exhibition of work by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, entitled burn shine...
April 20—September 24, 2022
Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice
nude in the landscape Ugo Rondinone

nude in the landscape

Ugo Rondinone
nude in the landscape at the Belvedere 21 is Ugo Rondinone’s first solo show in an Austrian museum. In the sunlit glass pavilion of the Belvedere 21, the artist brings together new...
December 12, 2021—May 1, 2022
Belvedere 21, Vienna
a wall. a door. a tree. a lightbulb. winter Ugo Rondinone

a wall. a door. a tree. a lightbulb. winter

Ugo Rondinone
Ugo Rondinone's solo exhibition at SKMU–Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, in Southern Norway, features four selected large-scale works, that underline an important element to the artist's work: understatement. These naturally crafted objects, that exist...
January 15—April 11, 2021
SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand
everyone gets lighter Ugo Rondinone

everyone gets lighter

Ugo Rondinone
Kunsthalle Helsinki opens its autumn season with everyone gets lighter, the Finnish solo debut of Ugo Rondinone. The exhibition is organized in conjunction with the Helsinki Festival. Borrowing its title from Rondinone's...
August 17—November 17, 2019
Kunsthalle Helsinki
sunny days Ugo Rondinone

sunny days

Ugo Rondinone
Opening on August 10 2019, Guild Hall presents sunny days, a solo exhibition by Ugo Rondinone featuring sun-themed sculpture and paintings, as well as a collaboration with area school children. The exhibition,...
August 10—October 14, 2019
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
Liverpool Mountain Ugo Rondinone

Liverpool Mountain

Ugo Rondinone
Liverpool Mountain is Swiss-artist Ugo Rondinone’s first public artwork in the UK and the first of its kind in Europe. Inspired by naturally occurring Hoodoos (spires or pyramids of rock) and the...
October 23, 2018—October 23, 2023
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
joy Ugo Rondinone

joy

Ugo Rondinone
The stone figure for Malta, titled the radiant, shows the human figure in the most elemental and archaic form, using the most ancient material, stone. The bluestone is rough-cut into blocks and...
October 13, 2018—March 31, 2019
Malta International Contemporary Art Space, Malta
another banana day for the dream-fish Ugo Rondinone

another banana day for the dream-fish

Ugo Rondinone
Like a tale in its principle and construction, with multiple levels of interpretation, addressed at once to children and adults, with its numerous rites of passage, the exhibition invites visitors, “from 7...
June 22—September 9, 2018
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
flower moon Ugo Rondinone

flower moon

Ugo Rondinone
June 8—September 8, 2018
Parc des Eaux-Vives, Geneva
The Collection Ugo Rondinone

The Collection

Ugo Rondinone
March 1, 2018—November 6, 2019
The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
your age and my age and the age of the sun Ugo Rondinone

your age and my age and the age of the sun

Ugo Rondinone
February 4, 2018—January 10, 2019
Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca
vocabulary of solitude Ugo Rondinone

vocabulary of solitude

Ugo Rondinone
December 16, 2017—December 30, 2018
Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj
moonrise. east. july Ugo Rondinone

moonrise. east. july

Ugo Rondinone
Ugo Rondinone’s moonrise. east. july—one of twelve sculptures representing each calendar month in the artist’s Moonrise series—is a nearly nine-foot-tall bust of a masklike figure. Paying homage to the moon and its...
November 17, 2017—April 15, 2018
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
good evening beautiful blue Ugo Rondinone

good evening beautiful blue

Ugo Rondinone
October 29, 2017—March 22, 2018
The Bass Museum of Art, Miami
good evening beautiful blue Ugo Rondinone

good evening beautiful blue

Ugo Rondinone
Spanning the entirety of the museum’s newly designed second floor, good evening beautiful blue by Ugo Rondinone is part of a major multi-institution retrospective comprising works that span three decades of the...
October 29, 2017—March 25, 2018
The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
the sun Ugo Rondinone

the sun

Ugo Rondinone
October 22, 2017—January 7, 2018
Château De Versailles, Versailles
the world just makes me laugh Ugo Rondinone

the world just makes me laugh

Ugo Rondinone
June 28—August 27, 2017
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO with Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, and Ugo Rondinone

UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO

with Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, and Ugo Rondinone
June 21—September 3, 2017
New Museum, New York
let's start this day again Ugo Rondinone

let's start this day again

Ugo Rondinone
May 6—August 20, 2017
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
The Transported Man with Ceal Floyer, Ryan Gander, and Ugo Rondinone

The Transported Man

with Ceal Floyer, Ryan Gander, and Ugo Rondinone
April 29—October 22, 2017
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Lansing
your age and my age and the age of the rainbow Ugo Rondinone

your age and my age and the age of the rainbow

Ugo Rondinone
March 10—April 21, 2017
Garage, Moscow
every time the sun comes up Ugo Rondinone

every time the sun comes up

Ugo Rondinone
October 18—November 5, 2016
Place Vendôme, Paris
golden days & silver nights Ugo Rondinone

golden days & silver nights

Ugo Rondinone
In June 2016 Ugo Rondinone presented a two-part exhibition entitled giorni d’oro + notti d’argento (golden days + silver nights) at two historic locations in Rome. The two environmental installations were conceived...
July 10—September 1, 2016
MACRO & Mercati di Traiano, Rome
seven magic mountains Ugo Rondinone

seven magic mountains

Ugo Rondinone
Ugo Rondinone’s seven magic mountains is a large-scale site-specific public art installation located near Jean Dry Lake and Interstate 15, approximately ten miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ongoing
Art Production Fund & Nevada Museum of Art, Desert South of Las Vegas
becoming soil Ugo Rondinone

becoming soil

Ugo Rondinone
For this exhibition, Ugo Rondinone turns the Carré d’Art space into a vast landscape associating the large paintings of starry nights and the monumental landscapes done in Indian ink or large blue...
April 15—September 18, 2016
Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes
vocabulary of solitude Ugo Rondinone

vocabulary of solitude

Ugo Rondinone
In the spring of 2016 you could explore the magical world of artist Ugo Rondinone in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. He brought together new and existing works in a large installation like...
February 13—May 29, 2016
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO with Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, and Ugo Rondinone

UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO

with Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, and Ugo Rondinone
October 21, 2015—January 10, 2016
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
breathe walk die Ugo Rondinone

breathe walk die

Ugo Rondinone
The Rockbund Art Museum is thrilled to introduce the very first exhibition in China of the internationally acclaimed artist Ugo Rondinone, born in 1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland, and living in New York...
September 13, 2014—January 4, 2015
Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
naturaleza humana Ugo Rondinone

naturaleza humana

Ugo Rondinone
February 6—May 18, 2014
Museo Anahuacalli Mexico, Mexico City
we run through a desert on burning feet, all of us are glowing our faces twisted Ugo Rondinone

we run through a desert on burning feet, all of us are glowing our faces twisted

Ugo Rondinone
The Art Institute of Chicago presents a selection of five towering sculptures by Swiss-born, New York–based artist Ugo Rondinone. These works, completed in 2013, are part of a series that the artist...
October 31, 2013—April 20, 2014
Art Institute of Chicago
thank you silence Ugo Rondinone

thank you silence

Ugo Rondinone
For the first time in Belgium, the exhibition thank you silence is bringing together various series of works created by Rondinone over the past few years. In addition to poetic verse and...
June 27—October 6, 2013
M Museum, Leuven
Human Nature Ugo Rondinone

Human Nature

Ugo Rondinone
April 23—May 7, 2013
Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Plaza, New York
nude Ugo Rondinone

nude

Ugo Rondinone
The Museum of Cycladic Art is pleased to announce an exhibition by the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, under the title nude. The exhibition is a new site specific installation. Rondinone intervened and...
May 25—October 15, 2012
The Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
the night of lead Ugo Rondinone

the night of lead

Ugo Rondinone
Both nationally and internationally, Ugo Rondinone is one of the most noted contemporary Swiss artists. But whereas institutions around the world regularly devote major exhibitions to his work, Rondinone's last solo show...
May 13—August 1, 2010
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
sunrise east Ugo Rondinone

sunrise east

Ugo Rondinone
April 7—September 19, 2010
Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle
the night of lead Ugo Rondinone

the night of lead

Ugo Rondinone
Ugo Rondinone’s The Night of Lead to be presented at MUSAC, the artist’s only museum exhibition this year Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio Coordination: Eneas Bernal The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla...
July 11, 2009—January 10, 2010
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla, Leon
We Burn, We Shiver. (with Martin Boyce) Ugo Rondinone

We Burn, We Shiver. (with Martin Boyce)

Ugo Rondinone
A sculptural conversation between two artists, We Burn, We Shiver. features newly created works by Martin Boyce and Ugo Rondinone. Both artists employ displacement as a method of unmooring the familiar from...
September 7—November 30, 2008
Sculpture Center, New York
clock for oracles Ugo Rondinone

clock for oracles

Ugo Rondinone
This major exhibition of new projects by internationally acclaimed Swiss artist, Ugo Rondinone, brought together new and older works in a series that contemplated time, love, despair, anonymity, aggression and alienation. ACCA...
January 28—March 7, 2004
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
guided by voices Ugo Rondinone

guided by voices

Ugo Rondinone
November 5—December 27, 2003
La Criée centre d'art contemporain, Théâtre National De Bretagne, Galerie Art & Essai, La Criée Centre D’art Contemporain, Rennes
roundelay Ugo Rondinone

roundelay

Ugo Rondinone
March 5—April 28, 2003
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
no how on Ugo Rondinone

no how on

Ugo Rondinone
The artist, Ugo Rondinone, born 1963 in Switzerland and currently living in New York, is a multimedia romantic. He creates suggestive atmospheres by means of highly artificial installations, which have a direct...
June 28—September 22, 2002
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
kiss tomorrow goodbye Ugo Rondinone

kiss tomorrow goodbye

Ugo Rondinone
This work, conceived specifically for the Palazzo delle Esposizioni by Ugo Rondinone brings together diverse elements in a complex dramaturgy: installation, sculpture, photography and sound. A deep voice reads passages from the...
February 9—April 9, 2001
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
guided by voices Ugo Rondinone

guided by voices

Ugo Rondinone
September 10—November 21, 1999
Kunsthaus Glarus
dog days are over Ugo Rondinone

dog days are over

Ugo Rondinone
May 5—September 15, 1996
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
heyday Ugo Rondinone

heyday

Ugo Rondinone
January 25—April 28, 1996
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva

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Letter from Berlin

October 2022
Welcome to the Letter from Berlin! This Letter from Berlin should rightfully be titled 'Letter from Paris'! We begin with projects in Paris: Etienne Chambaud's exhibitions in Paris and in Lille, as...
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Manifesta 14 with Ugo Rondinone
Various locations, Prishtina

Manifesta 14 with Ugo Rondinone

For Manifesta 14, Ugo Rondinone brings forth an object of “beauty and contemplation” in one of Prishtina‘s most frequented public gathering spaces – Adem Jashari Square – at a time when monuments...
July 22 – October 30, 2022
Ugo Rondinone, LIFE TIME
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main

Ugo Rondinone, LIFE TIME

Ugo Rondinone LIFE TIME Schirn Kunsthalle Römerberg 60311 Frankfurt am Main June 24 – September 18, 2022 Opening: June 23, 7pm www.schirn.de Artist talk: Ugo Rondi­none and curator Matthias Ulrich will be...
June 24 – September 18, 2022
Ugo Rondinone, vocabulary of solitude
Museo Tamayo

Ugo Rondinone, vocabulary of solitude

Ugo Rondinone vocabulary of solitude Museo Tamayo Paseo de la Reforma 51 Bosque de Chapultepec Del. Miguel Hidalgo 11580 Mexico City June 4 – September 4, 2022 www.museotamayo.org Ugo Rondinone is recognised...
June 4 – September 4, 2022
Ugo Rondinone, burn shine fly
Venice

Ugo Rondinone, burn shine fly

“The sculptures in ‘burn shine fly’ aims to engender an altogether contemporary version of the sublime, one in which the smallest candle sculpture is of no less consequence than the overarching totality...
April 20 – September 17, 2022
Ugo Rondinone, burn shine fly Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice
Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice

Ugo Rondinone, burn shine fly

Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice
On the occasion of the 59th La Biennale di Venezia, the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista will host a major solo exhibition of work by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, entitled burn...
April 20 – September 24, 2022
Ugo Rondinone, nude in the landscape
Belvedere 21, Vienna

Ugo Rondinone, nude in the landscape

Belvedere 21 has reopened - visitor information can be found here. nude in the landscape at the Belvedere 21 is Ugo Rondinone’s first solo show in an Austrian museum. In the sunlit...
Through May 1, 2022
Ugo Rondinone | UNQUESTIONING LOVE: An Auction to Benefit the New York City AIDS Memorial
New York, New York

Ugo Rondinone | UNQUESTIONING LOVE: An Auction to Benefit the New York City AIDS Memorial

UNQUESTIONING LOVE: An Auction to Benefit the New York City AIDS Memorial With works by Ugo Rondinone November 9 & 12, 2021 Christie's New York 20 Rockefeller Plaza New York www.nycaidsmemorial.org The...
November 9 & 12, 2021
Esther Schipper and Taro Nasu at Art Collaboration Kyoto 2021
Kyoto International Conference Center Event Hall

Esther Schipper and Taro Nasu at Art Collaboration Kyoto 2021

Art Collaboration Kyoto Joint presentation by Esther Schipper and Taro Nasu Booth B01 Kyoto International Conference Center Event Hall November 5–7, 2021 www.a-c-k.jp For Art Collaboration Kyoto, November 4 – 7, 2021,...
November 5–7, 2021
Paradise Kortrijk
various locations, Kortrijk

Paradise Kortrijk

From June 26 to October 24, 2021 the second Kortrijk Triennial will take place. Titled Paradise Kortrijk 2021, it includes works by Ryan Gander and Ugo Rondinone. Paradise Kortrijk 2021 invites contemporary artists to participate and...
June 26 – October 24, 2021
Ugo Rondinone at Belvedere, Vienna
Belvedere Palace Garden, Vienna

Ugo Rondinone at Belvedere, Vienna

In Ugo Rondinone's work, the rainbow features prominently as a recurring motif with multiple meanings. It is not only an impressive spectacle of nature but also a symbol of peace, equality, tolerance, and...
through November 1, 2021
Diversity United with Roman Ondak, Ugo Rondinone and Anri Sala
Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin

Diversity United with Roman Ondak, Ugo Rondinone and Anri Sala

⁠ Diversity United presents an artistic tour d'horizon of Europe currently. The trans-national exhibition shows paintings, sculptures, videos, new media, photographies, installations, drawings and object of art by about 90 artists from 34...
June 9 – September 19, 2021
Spotlight: Ugo Rondinone
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Spotlight: Ugo Rondinone

This week for our Spotlight we present Ugo Rondinone's zweiteraprilzweitausendundsiebzehn, 2017 and the quick, 2019.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Taking the universally recognized motif of a brick wall as point of departure, Ugo Rondinone's large scale...
Letter from Berlin – October 9, 2020
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Letter from Berlin – October 9, 2020

This Letter from Berlin introduces new documentation for Philippe Parreno’s Manifestations and Ugo Rondinone’s nuns + monks. Both exhibitions remain on view through October 17. This weekend the Lenbachhaus presents Ari Benjamin Meyers' K Club at Blitz Club...
Ugo Rondinone at Guildhall
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York

Ugo Rondinone at Guildhall

Opening on August 10, Guild Hall presents sunny days, a solo exhibition by Ugo Rondinone featuring sun-themed sculpture and paintings, as well as a collaboration with area school children. The exhibition, which explores...
August 10 – October 14, 2019
Matti Braun & Ugo Rondinone at The Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial 2019
Fellbach Triennial, Fellbach

Matti Braun & Ugo Rondinone at The Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial 2019

The 14th Small Sculpture Triennial will take place in Fellbach from June 1 through September 29, 2019. Titled 40,000 – A Museum of Curiosity this year's Triennial draws inspiration from the spectacular findings of...
June 1 – September 29, 2019
Ugo Rondinone at MICAS
MICAS, Malta

Ugo Rondinone at MICAS

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October 13 – March 31, 2019
Ugo Rondinone Launches New Website
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Ugo Rondinone Launches New Website

Visit Ugo Rondinone's extensive new website at www.ugorondinone.com
Stadtkino Basel

Ugo Rondinone Included In Art Basel Film Program

June 14, 10 Pm
Ugo Rondinone: let's start this day again
CAC–Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

Ugo Rondinone: let's start this day again

Starting May 6, 2017, CAC–Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati will present let's start this day again, a solo exhibition by Ugo Rondinone. This hypnotic installation will be carefully layered in groups that include a...
May 6 – August 20, 2017
The Transported Man, with Ceal Floyer, Ryan Gander and Ugo Rondinone
Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI

The Transported Man, with Ceal Floyer, Ryan Gander and Ugo Rondinone

April 29 – October 22, 2017

Films

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i don’t live here anymore Ugo Rondinone

i don’t live here anymore

Ugo Rondinone

A presentation of the historical photographic work by Ugo Rondinone.

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A golden ring sculpture by Ugo Rondinone in a small piazza in Venice

burn shine fly

Ugo Rondinone

Watch the exhibition film of Ugo Rondinone burn shine fly, at the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice, on the occasion of the 59th Venice Biennale.

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Tall and colourful stone sculptures fill a gallery space

nuns + monks

Ugo Rondinone
nuns + monks from Ugo Rondinone continues to address the dual reflection between the inner self and the natural world. Just as the external world one sees is inseparable from the internal structures of oneself, nuns + monks allows such layers of signification to come in and out of focus, prompting the viewer to revel in the pure sensory experience of color, form and mass while simultaneously engender in an⁠ altogether contemporary version of the sublime.⁠

Publications

Ugo Rondinone The Sun

Ugo Rondinone

The Sun
Ugo Rondinone’s Sun paintings are reproduced at unprecedented scale in a display-worthy elephant folio, published in a limited edition of 345 copies. New York–based, Swiss-born conceptual artist Ugo Rondinone’s Sun paintings are...
2022
Ugo Rondinone Phaidon Contemporary Artists

Ugo Rondinone

Phaidon Contemporary Artists
The definitive monograph on the work of one of the most prolific, versatile, and exciting artists of the last three decades. Over the past 30 years, Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone...
2022
Ugo Rondinone LIFE TIME

Ugo Rondinone

LIFE TIME
Time and transience, day and night, reality and fiction, nature and culture Ugo Rondinone adds a poetic dimension to everyday objects and phenomena. In typically Minimalistic arrangements, he puts a tree, a...
2022
Ugo Rondinone nude in the landscape

Ugo Rondinone

nude in the landscape
A mysterious atmosphere of calm and deceleration embraces visitors as they step into the exhibition Nude in the Landscape. With his multifaceted works, Ugo Rondinone has been enchanting the art world, and...
2022
Ugo Rondinone nuns + monks

Ugo Rondinone

nuns + monks
Ugo Rondinone (b. Brunnen, Switzerland, 1964; lives and works in New York) is a conceptual and installation artist whose oeuvre spans abstract painting, photography, and sculpture. Nature is where he has long...
2021
Ugo Rondinone Pure Sunshine

Ugo Rondinone

Pure Sunshine
Born in 1964, New York-based Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone is one of the leading voices in the contemporary visual arts. Using photography, video, painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, and text in turn, he...
2017
Ugo Rondinone Kiss Now Kill Later

Ugo Rondinone

Kiss Now Kill Later
Born in 1964, New York-based Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone is one of the leading voices in the contemporary visual arts. Using photography, video, painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, and text in turn, he...
2017
Ugo Rondinone burn shine fly

Ugo Rondinone

burn shine fly
Published on the occasion of 'burn shine fly', presented during the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2022, the project title is derived from the book of poetry and...
2023
Ugo Rondinone the water is a poem unwritten by the air / no. the earth is a poem unwritten by...

Ugo Rondinone

the water is a poem unwritten by the air / no. the earth is a poem unwritten by the fire
Ugo Rondinone’s 2022 exhibition the water is a poem unwritten by the air / no. the earth is a poem unwritten by the fire at the Petit Palais in Paris explores the...
2023