Julije Knifer

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Born in 1924 in Osijek, Croatia. Died in 2004, Paris, France.

Education

1951 Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Croatia

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2010
KNIFER.Lignes.Autoportraits, galerie frank elbaz,, Paris, France, curated by Arnauld Pierre

2008
Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France

2004
Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland

2003
Maison de la Culture, Bourges, France

2002
galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France

2001
Venice Biennal (Croatia), Italy

2000
MAMCO, Genève, Switzerland

1999
galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France

1998
Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France

1997
Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf, Germany
MAMCO, Genève, Switzerland
Ikona Gallery, Venice, Italy

1996
La Box, Bourges, France
MAMCO (with Floquet), Genève, Switzerland

1993
Galerie Verney-Carron (with Morellet), Villeurbanne, France

1992
Villa Saint-Clair, Sète, France
Villa Arson, Nice, France

1991
Galerie Joseph Dutertre, Rennes, France

1988
Exhibition Space (with Haft, Pearson), Londres, UK

1987
Galerie Ingrid Dacic, Tübingen, Germany
Islozbeni Salon Doma JNA, Zagreb, Croatia
Galerija Meander, Apatin, Serbia

1986
Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galerija SC, Zagreb, Croatia

1985
Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg, Germany

1984
Galerija Likovnih Umjetnosti, Osijek, Croatia

1979
Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany

1976
Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy

1966
Galerija Suvremente Umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia

1958
Salon ULUH (Knifer/Senecic) Zagreb, Croatia

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2010
Les Promesses du Passé, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, curated by Christine Macel and Joanna Mytkowska
Changing the World, ARNDT, Berlin, Germany

2009
Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France, curated by Christian Bernard

2004
Beyond Géométry : Experiments in Form, 1940s-70, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France
Galerie Oniris, rennes, France
Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France

2003
Collection FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen, France
Musée de Nantes, Collection FRAC Bourgogne, Nantes, France
Linien, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Un choix dans les acquisitions récentes, FRAC Bretagne, France
Acquisitions, Acquisitions
Le Diable Evidemment, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brest, France
Le noir est une couleur, Galerie Lahumière, Paris, France
Multiples, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland

2002
L’Art d’aujourd’hui, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Appunti sull’Arte Contemporanea Croata, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Ravenne, Italy
Inauguration du Plateau, Espace d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France

2001
Oeuvres sur papier : Acquisition 1996-2001,Centre Goerges Pompidou-Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France
Bianco e nero, Vismara Arte, Milan, Italy
Opposizione Croata : Julije Knifer-Ivan Picelj, Galleria Starter,Milan, Italy
Suprotstavljanje i kontinuitet Novih tendencija, Annale, Porec, Croatia
EXACT 51 i Nove tendencije, Centro Cultural, Cascais (Lisboa), Portugal

2000
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein
Lignes de Conduite, Espace de l’Art concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Concrete Art in six countries of Central Europe from 1945 to these days, Varos Muvészeti
2000+Arteast Collection, The Art of Eastern Europe from 1960 to the present, Moderna
Galerija, Ljubjana, Slovenia
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Art concept, Espace de l’Art concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Aspekte/Positionen - 50 Jahren Kunst aus Mitteleuropa 1949-1999, Museum Moderner
Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienne, Austria
Inauguration du Plateau, Espace d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France

1999
Fragments, Frac Bretagne, Lannion, France
Knifer, Molnar, Morellet, Galleria Vismara Arte, Milan, Italy
Rayures, Acte ll, Musée de l’hôtel Dieu, Mantes-La-Jolie, France
Estampes et Art Géométrique, Musée de Vannes, France
Les artistes de la Galerie, Oniris, rennes, France
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Positionen der konkreten und kon,truktiven Kunst, Das Richard,
Haizmann Museum, Basel
This is yesterday – Esto es ayer, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Museum Moderne Kunst Stiftung, Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

1998
Le Dessin en Procès, Château d’Eau, Bourges, France
Dessiner-Décider, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, France
Expositon d’été, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Le Trésor, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Un Certain Classicisme, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France
Abstraktion zwischen 1945 und 1959, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein,
Germany
Le Consortium collectionne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Les artistes de la Galerie, Oniris, rennes, France

1997
Gorgona, Gorgonic Gorgonian, Villa Pisani, Stra (Venice), Italy
Reduction, Goddard de Fides Gallery, Perth, Australia
Geografia-Geometria, Miesne Kulturne centrum, Bratislava, Slovakia
Histoires de Blanc et Noir, Galerie Narodni, Prague, Czech Republic
Ainsi de Suite, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Sète, France
Made in France, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Biennale, Venice, Italy

1996
Porecki Annale, istarsaka sabornika, Oniris, rennes, France
La collection du FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
Dessins : nouvelles acquisitions 1992 – 1996, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Pompidou - Musée National d’Art moderne, Paris, France
125 vrhunskih djela hrvatske umjetnosti, Dom UHDLU, ZAgreb, Croatia
Histoires de Blanc et Noir, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Histoires de Blanc et Noir, Galerie Narodni, Prague, Czech Republic

1995
Galerie Oniris, Rennes, France
Konstruktivizam i Kineticka Umjetnosti, Muzef Suvremene Umjetnosti - ,Dom HDLU,
Zag Croatia
21. mednarodni graficni biennale, Moderna Galerija, Ljubliana, Slovenia
Morceaux choisis du Fond National, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France

1994
Europa-europa: das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa, Kunsthalle, Bonn

1993
Charlton-Knifer-Knobel-Mosset-Nixon, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany
Noir dessin, Centre Georges Pompidou, cabinet d’arts graphiques, Paris, France
The Horse who Sings: Radical Art from Croatia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney,
Australia
Blick in Archiv, Galerie Hofmann, Friedberg, Germany

1992
Ernst Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Noir et Blanc, Galerie du Théâtre National de Bretagne, Rennes, France
Manifeste, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Identitat : Differenz - 1940 - 1990. Eine Topographie der Moderne, Tribune Trigon, Grenoble, Graz,
Austria
Les Mystères de l’Auberge Espagnole, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Chateau de Fraissé, Fraissé-des-corbières, France

1991
Château de Oiron, France

1990
Cinq installations d’art, Ancienne Usine Plainpalais, Geneva, Switzerland
Kunstverein, Salzburg, Germany
Julije Knifer, Richard Paul Lohse, Le Consortium, Dijon

1989
Gorgona, FRAC, Université de Bougogne, Dijon, France

1988
Alfons Roig i els seus Arnics, Valence, France
Knifer i Kulmer, Karas Galerija, Zagreb, Croatia
Haft, Knifer, Pearson, Exhibition Space, London, UK
Exhibition Space (with Haft and Pearson), London, UK

1987
Panorama du XXe siècle, Musée de Grenoble, France

1986
Konkret Sieben, Kunsthaus, Nuremberg, Germany
Die Ecke, Hoffmann Galerie, Friedberg, Germany
Marijan Jevsovar, Julije Knifer, Ivan Koearic, Djuro Seder, Josip Vanista, Galerie du centre
culturel universitaire, belgrad, serbia
Geometrije, Galerija Karas, Zagreb, Croatia
Jugoslovenska grafika 1950-1980,Mujej survemene umjetnisti, Galerija
Suvemene umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia

1985
Marijan Jevsovar, Julije Knifer, Ivran Koearic, Djuro Seder, Josip Vanista, Galerie des arts plastiques,
Osijek, Croatia
Geometrije, Galerija Karas, Zagreb, Croatia
Bienale slavonaca, Galerija likovnih umjetnosti, Osijek, Slovenie

1983
Centar za kulturu Koprivnica, Koprivnica, Croatia
Primeri primarnog i analitikckog slikarstva u jugoslaviji 1974-1980, Zagreb, Croatia, Olbane
galerije, Piran, Slovenia; Collegium artisticum, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Julije Knifer,Galerie d’art contemporain, Zagreb, Croatia
Le minimalisme en Yougoslavie, Galerie d’art contemporain, Zagreb, Croatia
Jugoslawischer Konstruktivismum 1921-1981, Hedendaagse-Kunst, Utrecht, Holland
l’Ultima avanguardia, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

1982
Les innovations de l’art contemporain croate dans les années soixante-dix, Galerie d’art
contemporain, Zagreb, Croatia
Primjeri primarnog i analitickog slikarstva u Jugoslaviji 1974 - 1980, Galerija likovnih
umjetnoski, Osijek, Croatia
Akvizicije 20, Galeria suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia
Inovacije u hrvatskoj umjetnosti sedamdesetih godina, Musej savremene umetnosti,
Belgrad, Serbia
Galerija suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia

1980
XVI Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brasil
Slika=Slika, Radnicki univerzitt, Centar za kulturu, Belgrad, Serbia
Nove pojave u hrvastkoj umjetnosti, galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia
Jugoslavenska sekcja na Bienalu Sao Paolo, Museo National de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia
15. Zagrebacki salon, Umjetnicki paviljon, Zagreb, Serbia
Medunarodna izlozba likovnih umenosti Beograd ‘80, Muezj savremene umetnosti, Belgrad,
Serbia
Listovi, Galerija Karas, Zagreb, Croatia; Mestna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
jugoslovensko slikarsto sest decenije, Musej savremene umetnosti, Belgrad, Serbia
Nove pojave u hrvatskom slikarstvu, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia

1979
Likovne nagrade INA ‘79, Mderna galerija, Zagreb, Croatia
1. Biennale der Europäischen Grafik, Heidelberg, Germany
The 11th International Biennal Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, The National Museum of
Modern Art, Osaka, Japan
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Od Babica do Knifera, Graficki zavod Hrvatske, Zagreb, Croatia
13. Mednarodni graficni biennale, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
XV Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brasil
XIV. licky anala, Gospic, Otocac, Plitvice, Belgrad, Ostijek, Bihac, Delnice, Obrovac, Senj,
Drnis, Croatia

1978
Tendenzen in der jugoslawischen Kunst von heute, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Mala skila, Galerija Meduza, koper, Slovenia
Od babica do Knifera, Zadod za obrazovanje, Graficki skolski centar,Drusteveni dom,

1976
XXXVII Venice Biennal, Italy

1973
XIII Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brasil
Contemporary Yugoslav Art, The National museum of Art, Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan

1972
Contemporary Art in Yougoslavia, Mc Graw-III Inc., New York, USA

1971
Neue Tendenz, Landesmuseum, Mayence, Germany

1969
Nove Tendecije 4, Zagreb, Croatia
Contemporary Art in Yougoslavia, Mc Graw-III Inc., New York, USA

1967
Expo 67, Montréal, Canada

1966
Moderne Kroatische Kunst, Burgenländische Landesregierung, Eisenstadt,
1961
Nove Tendecije 1, Zagreb
Art Abstrait Constructif International, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France

Public collections

Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art Limited, Sydney

Canada
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Québec

Croatia
Moderna galerija, Zagreb
Muzej survemene umjetnosti, Zagreb

France
Centre Goerges Pompidou - Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
Collection Le Consortium, Dijon
Espace de l’Art Concret, Chateau de Mouans-Sartouix
Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
FRAC Auvergne
FRAC Basse Normandie
FRAC Bourgogne
FRAC Haute Bretagne
Musée de Grenoble
Musée de Cholet

Germany
Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München
Folkwang Musum, Essen
Kunsthalle, Nürnberg
Kunstverein, Berlin
Wihlelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rehein
Städlisches Museum, Mulheim an der Ruhr
Stiftung für konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen

Lichtenstein
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein

Serbia
Musej savremene umetnosti, Belgrad

Switzerland
MAMCO, Geneva