* 1936 in Piraeus (Greece)
lebt / lives in Rome (Italy)


Selected Exhibitions / Ausgewählte Ausstellungen

2011
Jannis Kounellis, Galerie Artist, Isanbul (Turkey)
2010
Isole mai trovate - Islands never found, Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (Greece)
Ergo, materia. Arte povera, MUAC - Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (Mexico)
CHE FARE? Arte povera - Die historischen Jahre, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz (Lichtenstein)
Hinterlassenschaft, Kolumba, Köln (Germany)
Jannis Kounellis. Freedom or Death - La libertá o morte, HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning (Denmark)
2009
Jannis Kounellis, Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli (Italy)
Jannis Kounellis, Galerie Klaus & Elisabeth Thoman, Innsbruck (Austria)
MARKIERUNGEN (with Sean Scully), 401contemporary, Berlin (Germany)
1968. Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Germany)
2008
Jannis Kounellis, Galerie Lelong, Zürich (Switzerland)
2007
Labyrinth, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (Germany)
2006
Jannis Kounellis. Atto Unico, La Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano (Italy)
Jannis Kounellis, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
Where Are We Going? Opere scelte dalla Collezione Francois Pinault, Palazzo Grassi, Venezia (Italy)
Corrispondenze. Dal presente al pasato, Centro per l'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (Italy)
2005
Edinburgh College of Art und Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
Jannis Kounellis. Opus I, Albertina, Wien (Austria) and Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne (France)
Kounellis, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris (France)
Italian Art 1950-1970. Masterpieces from the Farnesina Collection, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi (India)
Arte Povera, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota (Japan)
Atto Primo and Atto Secondo. La Collezione, MADRE Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Napoli (Italy)
2004
Jannis Kounellis. New Works, Sprovieri, London (UK)
Kounellis in Sarajevo, Ars Aevi Forum, Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athen (Greece)
Kounellis, Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln (Germany)
Immendorf Kounellis, Villa Massimo, Roma (Italy)
Shanghai Art Museum: Encounters with Modernism, Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Works and Days, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (Denmark)
Photo Image in American Prints: 1960s-1990s, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco (USA)
2003
Jannis Kounellis at St. John's Church, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning (Denmark)
Jannis Kounellis, Torrione Passari, Molfetta (Italy)
Jannis Kounellis, Monastero Mechitarista, Isola di San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venezia (Italy)
Jannis Kounellis, Palais de l’Unesco, Paris (France)
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Galerie Thoman, Innsbruck (Austria)
2002
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma (Italy)
Senza Titolo…, Hallen für Neue Kunst, Schaffhausen (Switzerland)
Jannis Kounellis, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent (Belgium)
Opening of stazione Dante, subway, Napoli (Italy)
2001
Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln (Germany)
Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Prato (Italy)
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo (Urugay)
Bottini dell’Olio, Livorno (Italy)
Kunststation St. Peter, Köln (Germany)
Notturno tenebroso, Diözesanmuseum, Freising (Germany)
Kounellis, Prato, Gli Ori (Italy)
2000
Jannis Kounellis en Mexico, Chiesa di San Auguitin, Citta del Messico (Italy)
1999
Jannis Kounellis. II Sarcofago degli Sposi, Österreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Wien (Austria)
1998
Jannis Kounellis, via monte di Tappia, Napoli (Italy)
Kounellis, Galerie Lelong, Paris (France)
Alfredo Pirri, Jannis Kounellis, Bernhard Rudiger, Volume!, Roma (Italy)
1997
Kounellis, Refettorio delle Stelline, Milano (Italy)
Jannis Kounellis. Die Front, das Denken, der Sturm, Museum Ludwig in der Halle Kalk, Köln (Germany)
1996
Kounellis, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (Spain)
Kounellis, Castelluccio di Pienza - La Foce (Italy)
Jannis Kounellis, Galleria Bernd Kluser, München (Germany)
Jannis Kounellis, La Balera, Galleria Loza Koper, Capodistria (Slovenia)
1995
Kounellis, Salara, Bologna (Italy)
Jannis Kounellis, Chateau de Plieux, Plieux (France)
Jannis Kounellis, Die eiserne Runde, Hamburger Kunsthalle (Germany)
1994
Kounellis. Fumo di pietra, Galerie Lelong, Chatellerault
1993
Jannis Kounellis, Lineare notturno, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen (Germany)
Jannis Kounellis, Belvedere, Castello, Praha (Czech Republic)
1992
Jannis Kounellis, Cimitero di Mercatello sul Metauro (Italy)
Kounellis, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milano (Italy)
Kounellis, La commedia dell'arte, Lucio Amelio s.r.L, Napoli (Italy)
1991
Kounellis - Frammenti di Memoria, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover (Germany)
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur (Switzerland)
Kounellis, Casa Centrale degli Artisti, Nuova Tretjakov, Moskwa (Russia)
Kounellis, Galerie Lelong, Zürich (Switzerland)
Jannis Kounellis, Synagoge Stommein, Pulheim (Germany)
1990
Kounellis, Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli (Italy)
Kounellis, Espai Poblenou, Barcelona (Spain)
Kounellis, Via del mare, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
La stanza vede, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (Netherlands)