Ugo Rondinone

Born 1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland. Lives and works in New York.

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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Gallery Exhibitions

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External Exhibitions

the rainbow body

Ugo Rondinone

Aspen Art Museum is pleased to present the rainbow body, Ugo Rondinone’s (b. 1964, Brunnen, Switzerland) first major institutional show in Colorado in a career spanning over three decades. The Museum’s second-floor...

December 12, 2024—March 30, 2025

EXTERNAL EXHIBITIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

The exhibition included Ugo Rondinone's vierteraprilzweitausendundelf, 2011.

June 22, 2022—January 8, 2023

CaixaForum, Valencia

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

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 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

June 8—September 8, 2018

Parc des Eaux-Vives, Geneva

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

February 4, 2018—January 10, 2019

Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca

vocabulary of solitude

Ugo Rondinone

December 16, 2017—December 30, 2018

Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj

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

October 29, 2017—March 22, 2018

The Bass Museum of Art, Miami

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

October 22, 2017—January 7, 2018

Château De Versailles, Versailles

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

June 21—September 3, 2017

New Museum, New York

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

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

March 10—April 21, 2017

Garage, Moscow

every time the sun comes up

Ugo Rondinone

October 18—November 5, 2016

Place Vendôme, Paris

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

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

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

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

October 21, 2015—January 10, 2016

Palais de Tokyo, Paris

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

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

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

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

April 23—May 7, 2013

Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Plaza, New York

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

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

April 7—September 19, 2010

Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle

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

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

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

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

March 5—April 28, 2003

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

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

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

September 10—November 21, 1999

Kunsthaus Glarus

dog days are over

Ugo Rondinone

May 5—September 15, 1996

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich

heyday

Ugo Rondinone

January 25—April 28, 1996

Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva

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Films

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i don’t live here anymore

Ugo Rondinone

A presentation of the historical photographic work by Ugo Rondinone.

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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. (This link opens in a new tab). 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.⁠