개념미술의 창시자 중 한 명인 로렌스 와이너(Lawrence Weiner)는 1960년대 후반부터 주로 언어에 기반을 둔 작업을 지속해왔다. 산세리프 서체로 대부분 제작되는 그의 텍스트 작업은 물리적 과정을 수행하는 재료와 구성을 지칭한다. 작가는 자신의 작업을 장소 특정적이라 정의하지 않으나 각 작품은 주변 환경과 특별한 관계를 형성하게 된다. 그것이 공공장소이든 혹은 갤러리 전시장이나 서적이든 각 문맥 안에서 관람객 혹은 독자가 개인의 경험에 근거한 해석을 도출하도록 한다.
대부분의 개념 미술 작업이 그러하듯 와이너의 작품 역시 작가가 반드시 작업의 구현에 참여해야 한다는 의무로부터 벗어난다. 그는 전통적인 예술가와 관객의 관계를 근본적으로 재구성, 작품의 구현에 대한 책임을 관객에게 전가하였으며, 이는 궁극적으로 예술 유통의 표준 시스템을 재정의하였다. 이후 와이너의 작업은 점차 해석의 주관성을 강조하는 격언 및 구어 등을 내포하는 단순한 행위와 레디메이드 구조의 탐구로 확장되었다. 또한 그의 작업은 형태와 색상을 이용하여 언어의 도표 및 문법적 요소의 상호 작용을 지속해서 다루고 있다.
1942년 뉴욕 출생인 와이너는 2021년 타계하였으며, 뉴욕에서 거주하며 작업하였다. 작가는 회화, 건축 및 조각에 대한 초기 실험을 거쳐 1968년부터 언어를 작업의 주요 수단으로 선택하였다. 1970년 암스테르담에 위치한 배를 거주지로 결정한 이래 유럽과 미국을 오가며 작업을 하였다. 마이애미 페레즈 미술관(Pérez Art Museum, 2017), 밀워키 미술관(Milwaukee Art Museum, 2017), 브레겐츠 미술관(Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2016), 암스테르담 스테델릭 박물관(Stedelijk Museum, 2014), 바르셀로나 현대미술관(Museu d' Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2013), 뮌헨 하우스 데어 쿤스트(Haus der Kunst, 2007), 뉴욕 휘트니 미술관(Whitney Museum of American Art, 2007), 멕시코 시티 타마요미술관(Museo Tamayo, 2004), 볼프스부르크 미술관(Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2000), 미니애폴리스 워커 아트 센터(Walker Art Center, 1994), 워싱턴 D.C. 허쉬혼 박물관 및 조각 정원 (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1990)등 에서 주요 개인전이 개최되었다. 또한 카셀 도큐멘타(1972, 1977, 1982, 2012)와 베니스 비엔날레(1972, 1984, 2003, 2013)에 참여하였으며, 전 세계적으로 유수의 공공 커미션 작업을 진행하였다. 와이너는 다양한 아티스트북과 에디션 작업 외 <Beached>(1970), <Do You Believe in Water?>(1976), <Plowman’s Lunch>(1982)을 포함한 음악, 영화, 영상 작업 등 폭넓은 활동을 하였다.
2024
Lawrence Weiner: A PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS ASAP, UCCA Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2023
LAWRENCE WEINER: UNDER THE SUN, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2022
Lawrence Weiner: OUT OF SIGHT, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2019
JUST IN TIME / ZUR RECHTEN ZEIT, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
WATER & SOME OF ITS FORMS, Taro Nasu, Tokyo, Japan
WHISKED AWAY FROM, OSL Contemporary, Oslo, Norway
2017
FOREVER & A DAY (SIEMPRE Y UN DIA), Various public installations in Mexico City: Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico; Plaza de la Constitucion/Zocalo; Nezah Ualcoyotl; Museo Tamayo; Marquesina Cervantes Sa Avedra, Mexico
Lawrence Weiner: Inherent Innate Tension, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Lawrence Weiner: OUT OF SIGHT, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
Lawrence Weiner: Inherent, Innate Tension, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2016
Used As Other Than Itself, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Of Its Own Full Circle, Austrian Frederick and Lilian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Lawrence Weiner, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria.
MADE TO BE, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
WHISKED AWAY FROM, OSL Contemporary Gallery, Oslo, Norway
CADMIUM & MUD & TITANIUM & FERROUS OXIDE & SO ON…, Dia, Beacon, NY, USA
AFTER ANY GIVEN TIME, Tichy Ocean Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic
2015
Within a Realm of Distance, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK
Lawrence Weiner - Per Kirkeby, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Within Grasp, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
A Translation From One Language to Another, Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Boston & MIT List Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
Becalmed Within the Embrace of a Whirlwind, Galería Horrach Moya, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2014
Along the Shore, i8 Gallery, Reykjavic, Iceland
Some Moved Pictures of Lawrence Weiner, GoMA Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
All in Due Course, South London Gallery, London, UK
Written on the Wind, Drawings by Lawrence Weiner, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lawrence Weiner, Bury Sculpture Center, Bury Art Museum, Lancashire, UK
2013
The Grace of A Gesture, Written Art Foundation & the 55th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
Forever & A Day, Art Aids Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Written on the Wind, Drawings by Lawrence Weiner, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
Lawrence Weiner, Works 1969-73, Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, Italy
Finding a Place to Put What, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
2012
Be that as it may, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
Concentricity per se, Blain Southern, Berlin, Germany
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ever so much/mai così tanto, Base progetti per l'arte, Firenze, Italy
Just before, Galleria Artiaco, Naples, Italy
2011
A Syntax of Dependency, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium
Lawrence Weiner: Altered to Suit, Electronic Arts Intermix, NY, USA
US THEM IT, 10 Downing Street, New York, NY, USA
Specific Object Presents Lawrence Weiner's Published Work from the Jean - Noel Herlin Archive, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2010
Dicht Bij, Bak, Utrecht, Netherlands
Lawrence Weiner, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
As To be In Plain Sight, Dencer Art Museum, CO, USA
Lawrence Weiner: Works, MMU, Manchester, UK
Lawrence Weiner, House of Art, Budweis, Czech Republic
Lawrence Weiner, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Lawrence Weiner, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Dicht Bij by Lawrence Weiner, BAK Utrecht, Netherlands
2009
The other side of cul-de-sac, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Inclined enough to roll, Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy
Under the Sun, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain
Placed on the tip of a wave, Regen Projects II, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Au Pays, l'Abbaye et Le Village de Corbigny, Nièvre-Bourgogne, France
Done With, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
The Bay of Naples, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
1/2 Empty, 1/2 Full, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
At the Level of the Sea, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2008
As far as the eye can see, K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
No Leftovers, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Order. Desire. Light, Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Laurence Weiner, MoCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2007
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
2006
Lawrence Weiner X Y & Z, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Nicht weit vom Stamm, Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2005
Laurence Weiner, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Laurence Weiner, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2003
Lawrence Weiner´s Wexner Center project, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
Laurence Weiner, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, Germany
2002
Laurence Weiner, Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Laurence Weiner, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
Laurence Weiner, The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, UK
Laurence Weiner, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, USA
In one end, Gandy Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2001
Galerie Ascan Crone, Andreas Osarek, Berlin, Germany
2000
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
1998
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
1997
Laurence Weiner, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2023
La morsure des termites, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2022
Broken Music Vol. 2: 70 Years of Records and Sound Works by Artists, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
2019
the verse of museu do louvre pau-Brazyl, Musee de Louvre Pau-Brazyl, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Other Side of the Wind, Galerie Martine Aboucaya , Paris, France
Un coeur simple, Dvir Gallery Brussels, Belgium
FURKA: Kunst auf dem Pass ab 1983, Haus Für Kunst Uri, Altdorf, Switzerland
There will never be a door. You are inside. Works from the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Sala de Arte Santander, Madrid, Spain
The World Exists To Be Put on a Postcard: Artists' postcards from 1960 to Now, British Museum, London, UK
A TRANSLATION FROM ONE LANGUAGE TO ANOTHER (PART I), MuseumCultuur Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium
2018
Programmed: Rules, Codes, Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018, Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA
Picture Gallery "Archive Gallery 2018/2019: Archives in Residence - AAP Archiv Künstlerpublikationen", Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Time Extended: 1964-1978 Part III Works and Documents from the Herbert Foundation, Herbert Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
ON BOARD THE SHIPS AT SEA ARE WE: Robert Therrien, Lawrence Weiner, Rachel Whiteread, Flag Foundation, New York, NY, USA
2017
A New Spirit in Booking, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2016
20 Bienal de Arte Paiz, Historic Center, Guatemala City, Guatemala
With a Touch of Pink - With a Bit of Violet - With a Hint of Green: Dorothee Fischer in Memoriam, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Encounters, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Only Lovers, Le Coeur, Paris, France
This One is Smaller than This One, Postmasters, New York, NY, USA
Group Show: 12 Solos, Blain Southern, Berlin, Germany
In Place Of, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA
2015
I Remember The Armenian Genocide, Galerie Sobering, Paris, France
Too early, Too late: Middle East and Modernity, Pinoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy
A Man walks into a bar…, ME Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
The Sea, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium
Driven Crusaders, Tours and Detours Around Detroit, FRAC - Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
Per Kirkeby & Lawrence Weiner, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Norway
2014
Artist Rooms, Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland, UK
The Space Where I Am, BlainISouthern, London, UK
Slow Learner, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
VAFA, AFA Macau, China
Crosswords 2, Galerie Jordan Seydoux, Berlin, Germany
La Biennale de Montreal 2014, Canada
Everyone Has A Name, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Blue Times, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Soleil Politique, MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy
Unicorn Is More Than Nation, Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Alchemy, Nest, The Hague, Netherlands
Kunst/Geschicten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Germany
Friendly Takeover, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
On The Blue Shore of Silence, Fitzroy Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Apparent Forms, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Bringing the World into the World, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Love Story, The Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Genius Loci, Spirit of Place, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy
On Drawing II, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Mind & Matter, Fonds M-ARCO Le Box, Marseille, France
The Disappearance of the Fireflies, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition, T-B A21, Vienna, Austria
Object Matter, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Norway
Drowning and Swallowing This Text, LACE, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
1984?, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2013
Station to Station, A Nomadic Happening, USA
2012
To the Moon via the Beach, Amphitheatre of Arles, France
dOCUMENTA (13) Kassel, Germany
Ecstatic Alphabets/ Heaps of Language, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
2011
Homage to Bas Jan Ader, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Von Carl Andre bis Gregor Schneider, Dorothee und Konrad Fischer: Archiv einer Haltung, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
A syntax of dependency, M KHA Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Made in Italy, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy
Artspeak, Vancouver, BC, Canada
CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Le chateau, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
2010
Drawing in Progress, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
Just Love Me, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Prints and Multiples, Mai 36 Galerie, Showroom Ramistrasse 35, Zurich, Switzerland
Cromocronias: Poeticas del color en la imagen-tiempo, Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada, Spain
2009
Embrace!, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960 - 1976, MoMA, New York City, NY, USA
Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-1978, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
Discover US!, UferHallen, Berlin, Germany
Espèces D' Espaces, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Feedbackstage, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Notation: Calculation and Form in the Arts, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Nous Tournous Dans La Nuit, Musee Departmental d'Art Contemporain, Rochechouart, France
2008
Ich kann mir nicht jeden Tag ein Ohr abschneiden, Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
16th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Call it what you like!, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark
Ambition d´art, Institute d´Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
A Room of One's Own, Castello di Rivoli Museo d´Arte Contemporanea,Turin, Italy
Die Hände der Kunst, MARTa Herford Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Herford, Germany
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Genau und Anders, Mathematik in der Kunst von Dürer bis Sol LeWitt, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Shanghai Biennale, China
2007
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Swiss Institute, New York, NY, USA
2006
Ideal City - Invisible Cities, Öffentlicher Raum in Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
INTO ME/OUT OF ME, KW KunstWerke, Berlin, Germany
Monuments with a Horizon Line, Buchmann Berlin, Germany
Public Space /Two Audiences, MACBA, Museu d´Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Location Shots, Galerie Erna Hecy, Brussel, Belgium
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Mental Image, Wortwerke und TextKunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
Plane/Figure, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2005
Strip - Bilder in Folge, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
Biennale Valencia 2005, Spain
Le Génie du lieu, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
E-Flux Video Rental, The Moore Space, Miami, FL, USA
Behind the facts, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2004
A Short History of Dutch Video Art, Shanghai Duolun Museum, Shangai, China
Minimal artists and conceptual artists, Yvon Lambert, New York, NY, USA
Invisible Beauty, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
A Minimal Future?, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2003
Singular Forms, Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, USA
A Short History of Dutch Video Art, Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK
Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Austria
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Wiener Festwochen, Vienna
University of Klagenfurt
Belgium
Anton and Annick Herbert Collection, Ghent
Het Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst Te Gent, Ghent
Middelheim Openluchtmuseum, Antwerp
Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario
Lawrence Weiner Poster Archive at the Vancouver art Gallery
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
Vancouver Art Gallery
Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto
Denmark
Gentofte Kommunes Kunstbibliotek, Hellerup
Stadtisches Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
France
CAPC Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Villeurbanne, Place Mendes-France
F.R.A.C. Nord de Calais
F.R.A.C. de Bourgogne
F.R.A.C. Rhone-Alpes
Musee de Toulon
Musee Saint Pierre, Art Contemporain, Lyon
Germany
Cologne and Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Deitchtorhallen, Hamburg
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
Hamburg Harbor
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Kunstverein Museum Schloss Morsbroich e.v
Krefelder Kunst Museen, Haus Esters
Museum fur Modern Kunst, Frankfurt
Salzhaus Sindelfingen
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Venloer Strasse 21, Cologne
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Iceland
University of Akureyri
Ireland
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Italy
Gennazzno
Egidio Marzona Collection, Bielefeld and Villa di Verzegnis
Panza di Biumo Collection, Varese
Rieper AG factory building, Vintl
Israel
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Netherlands
Boymans-van Beuningen Msueum, Rotterdam
Eindhoven, De Rode Loper
De Vleeshaal, Middelburg
Federal Courthouse Sint Annadal, Maastricht
Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
Haags Hogeschool, Den Haag
Kroller-Moller Museum, Otterlo
Maienburg Railway Station
Marin Visser Collection, Rotterdam
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Spui, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
Slovenia
Moderna Galerija Ljubjana, Slovenia
Spain
Barcelona
Guggenheim Bilbao
Switzerland
Castell Zuoz
Biel
Cosmorex Collection, Schaffhausen
Hotel Furkablick, Furka
Kunsthof Zurich, Cosmorex Collection
Kunstmuseum Winterthur
Musee de Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fond
World Wildlife Fund, Zurich
World Trade center, Zurich
UK
British Museum, London
Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Halifax
USA
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Carnegie Institute of Fine Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York, NY
Dannheiser Foundation, New York, NY
Dia Foundation, Beacon, NY
488 Greenwich Avenue, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Poets Walk, Citicorp Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Public Art Fund/Con Edison, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Sol Le Witt Collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Walker Center for the Visual Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2022
Oskar-Kokoschka-Prize, Austria
2015
Roswitha Haftmann Prize, Zürich, Switzerland
1999
Skowhegan Medal for Painting/Conceptual Art, Skowhegan, ME, USA
1995
Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Ludwig Museum, Cologn, Germany
1994
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, NY, USA
1991
Arthur Kopcke Prize, Arthur Kopcke Memorial Fund, Copenhagen, Denmark
1982
Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, and the State Film Board of the Netherlands
1976
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Washington, D.C., USA
72nd American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, prize, Chicago, IL, USA
DAAD, Berlin, Germany
1988
Singer Prize, Singer Museum, Laren, Netherlands
1983
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Washington, D.C., USA