Torino, 1926-2019.
As the only female representative of the Arte Povera movement and a major protagonist in the Italian art scene since the 1960s, Marisa Merz stands out for having followed her own reserved and independent artistic path. Her museum solo shows include major exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou – Paris (1994); Kunstmuseum Winterthur (1995 and 2003); Stedelijk Museum – Amsterdam (1996); Galleria d’Arte Moderna Villa delle Rose – Bologna (1998); Museo MADRE – Naples (2007); Centre international d’art et du paysage – Ile de Vassivière (2010); Fondazione Querini Stampalia – Venice (2011); Fondazione Merz – Turin (2012); Serpentine Gallery – London (2013); Macro Museo d’Arte Contemporanea – Rome (2016). Recently, she held the solo show “The Sky Is a Great Space” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York and the Hammer Museum – Los Angeles, in 2017, and then at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art – Porto, and the Museum der Moderne – Salzburg, in 2018; “Marisa Merz. Geometrie sconnesse palpiti geometrici” at the MASI – Lugano, in 2019 and “Marisa and Mario Merz. A pencil point can surpass consciousness” at the Merz Foundation – Turin, in 2021. After taking part in several editions of the Venice Biennale since 1972, she was awarded the Special Jury Prize in 2001 and in 2013 she was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
Selected solo shows
2023
Mario e Marisa Merz, UMoCA, Under Museum of Contemporary Art, Colle Val d’Elsa
2022
Marisa & Mario Merz, Museo Rath, Gèneve
2021
Marisa e Mario Merz. La punta della matita può eseguire un sorpasso di coscienza, (with Mario Merz), Turin, Fondazione Merz
2019
Marisa Merz. Geometrie sconnesse palpiti geometrici. Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati Collection, Lugano, MASI Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana
2018
Athens, Bernier/Eliades Gallery
O céu é um grande espaço, Serralves (Portugal), Museu de Arte Contemporânea
Der Himmel ist ein weiter Raum, Salzburg, Museum der Moderne
2017
The Sky Is a Great Space, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Los Angeles, Hammer Museum
2016
New York, Gladstone Gallery
Marisa e Mario Merz. Sto con quella curva di quella montagna che vedo riflessa in questo lago di vetro, Rome, Macro Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
2013
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, (sala personale e Leone d’oro), Venice, 55th Esposizione Internazionale d’arte contemporanea
London, Serpentine Gallery
New York, Gladstone Gallery
Athens, Bernier/Eliades Gallery
2012
A proposito di Marisa Merz, Rome, MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo
Milan, Galleria Christian Stein
Marisa Merz. Disegnare disegnare ridisegnare il pensiero immagine che cammina, Turin, Fondazione Merz
Zuoz (Switzerland), Galleria Monica De Cardenas
2011
La danza delle ore, Brussels, Gladstone Gallery
Non corrisponde eppur fiorisce, Venice, Fondazione Querini Stampalia
2010
New York, Gladstone Gallery
Ile de Vassivière (France), Centre international d’art et du paysage
2008
Milan, Galleria Christian Stein
2007
Naples, MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina
Agra (Switzerland), Buchmann Galerie
2006
New York, Gladstone Gallery
2004
New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery
Milan, Galleria Christian Stein
2003
Una stanza, Winterthur, Kunstmuseum
2002
Paris, Galerie Marian Goodman
Milan, Galleria Christian Stein
1998
Milan, Galleria Christian Stein (with Domenico Bianchi)
Bologna, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Villa delle Rose
1996
Marisa Merz. Tekeningen, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum
1995
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum
1994
Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou
New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery
1993
Milan, Galleria Christian Stein
1990
Switzerland, Galleria Christian Stein (with Mario Merz)
1983
Düsseldorf, Galerie Konrad Fischer
1980
Turin, Galleria Tucci Russo
1979
Athens, Galerie Jean and Karen Bernier
1978
Milan, Galleria Franco Toselli, (with Nicola De Maria and Mario Merz)
Città irreale (with Mario Merz), Naples, Galleria Lucio Amelio
1977
L’età del rame, Milan, Galleria Salvatore Ala
1975
Ad occhi chiusi gli occhi sono straordinariamente aperti, Rome, Galleria L’Attico
1974
Milan, Galleria Franco Toselli (with Mario Merz)
1970
Rome, Galleria L’Attico / Aeroporto dell’Urbe
1967
Turin, Galleria Sperone
Turin, Piper Pluri Club