Ugo Rondinone

Ugo

Rondinone

Born in 1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland
Lives and works in New York, United States

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.

Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia, Italy, 2022

portfolio

2025

"Terrone", Galleria d'arte moderna (GAM), Milano, Italy

2024

"cry me a river", Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland

2022

"the water is a poem unwritten by the air no. the earth is a poem unwritten by the fire", Petit Palais, Paris Musées, Paris

2017

"your age my age and the age of the rainbow", The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

2015

"i love john giorno", Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2003

"roundelay", Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Biography

Portfolio

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Artworks

Ugo Rondinone

blue black nun, 2024

Ugo Rondinone

gray brown monk, 2024

Ugo Rondinone

green brown monk, 2024

Ugo Rondinone

grey yellow nun, 2024

Ugo Rondinone

pink clock, 2024

Ugo Rondinone

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More artworks

exhibitions

Intimate Spaces

Sep 11 - Oct 11, 2025

Mennour, 28 avenue Matignon

Ugo Rondinone

Aug 9 - Sep 13, 2025

The Madoo Conservacy, Sagaponack, United States

Le Grand Bleu

Jul 2 - Jul 19, 2025

NEO VogelART LAB, Nice, France

Ugo Rondinone

PRIMORDIAL

May 17 - Sep 28, 2025

Skulptur i Pilane, Klövedal, Sweden

More exhibitions

Solo show (selection)

2025

"Terrone", Galleria d'arte moderna (GAM), Milano, Italy

Arte Abierto, Mexico City, Mexico

Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA

2024

"cry me a river", Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland

Würth Museum, Künzelsau, Germany

Galerie Krobath, Vienna

Museum SAN, Oak Valley, Wonju-si, South Korea

Esther Schipper, Berlin

Esther Schipper, Paris

Mennour, Paris

2023

"luminous light", Galerija Kula, Split, Croatia

"BURN TO SHINE", Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China

"Carte blanche à Ugo Rondinone when the sun goes down and the moon comes up", Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland

"nuns + monks at the sea", Gladstone Gallery, Brussels

"milwaukee landscape", The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

"Sunrise. East", Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

"The sun + the moon", Storm King Arts Center, New Windsor, New York

"goodnight mr Eilshemius", Phillips Collection, Washington DC

"the masks and the masked", Journal Gallery, New York

"light", Gladstone Gallery, New York

"i don’t live here anymore", Esther Schipper, Berlin

2022

"the water is a poem unwritten by the air no. the earth is a poem unwritten by the fire", Petit Palais, Paris Musées, Paris

"sunrise. east", Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

"vocabulary of solitude", Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

"life time", Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

"Chuck Nanney + Joel Otterson", curated by Ugo Rondinone, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

"burn . shine . fly", Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Kukje Gallery, Seoul and Busan, South Korea

"Eddie Martinez + Sam Moyer", curated by Ugo Rondinone, Landcraft Garden Foundation, Mattituck, New York

2021

"waterfalls & clouds", two-person exhibition with Pat Steir, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag, Zurich, Switzerland

"Ugo Rondinone", The National Exemplar, Iowa City, USA

"chuck nanney + joel otterson", curated by Ugo Rondinone, Martos Gallery, New York

"a yellow a brown a blue candle", The National Exemplar, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

"a sky. a sea. distant mountains. horses. spring", Sadie Coles, London

"vocabulary of solitude", Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

"your age, my age, and the age of the rainbows", Belvedere 21, Vienna

"feeling the Void and the Rhone", Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland

"nude in the landscape", Belvedere 21, Vienna - curated by Axel Köhne

"a wall. a door. a tree. a lightbulb. Winter", SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kunstsilo, Kristiansand, Norway

"vocabulary of solitude", Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand

"a rainbow. a nude. bright light. summer", Mennour, Paris

"nuns + monks", Gladstone Gallery, New York

2020

"Poetry", two-person exhibition with John Dilg, The National Exemplar Gallery, Iowa City, USA

"Snow Moon", Paradeplatz, Zurich, Switzerland

"nuns + monks", Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

"Ugo Rondinone", Galerie Krobath, Vienna

"nuns + monks", Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome

"nuns + monks", Esther Schipper, Berlin

"THANX 4 NOTHING", Gladstone Gallery, New York

2019

"earthing", Kukje Gallery, Seoul

"a wall . seven windows . four people . three trees . some clouds . one sun", Mennour, Paris

"everyone gets lighter", Kunsthalle, Helsinki

"sunny days", Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York

"THANX 4 NOTHING", Carré d’Art, Chapelle des Jésuites, Nîmes, France

2018

"your age and my age and the age of the sun", Fundacion Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico

"the radiant", Malta International Contemporary Art Space, Se Maison, Malta

"the true", The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas, USA

"The Marciano Collection", Marciano Foundation, Los Angeles, USA

"Ugo Rondinone: Clockwork for Oracles", Phillips, Paris

"drifting clouds", Gladstone Gallery, New York

"liverpool mountain", Liverpool Biennale, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool

2017

"your age my age and the age of the rainbow", The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

"let’s start this day again", Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA

"the world just makes me laugh", Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA

"good evening beautiful blue", Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA

"moonrise.east.july", Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, USA

"vocabulary of solitude", Arken Art Museum, Ishøj, Denmark

"where do we go from here", The Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul

"i love john giorno", Various institutions, New York

"the sky over manhattan", Sky Art, New York

"the sun", Gardens of Versailles, Versailles, France

"flower moon", Bristol Hotel, Paris

"winter moon", MAXXI, Rome

2016

"miami mountain", Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA

"primordial", Gladstone Gallery, Brussels

"seven magic mountains", Art Production Fund and Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada desert, USA

"vocabulary of solitude", Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

"windows poems and stars", La Caja Negra, Madrid

"ugo rondinone: moonrise sculptures", The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston

"becoming soil", Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France

"giorno d’oro + notti d’argento", Mercati dei Traiano, Rome

"two men contemplating the moon 1830", Esther Schipper, Berlin

"every time the sun comes up", Place Vendome, France

"giorno d’oro + notti d’argento", MACRO, Rome

"the sun at 4pm", Gladstone Gallery, New York

2015

"i love john giorno", Palais de Tokyo, Paris

"feelings", Kukje Gallery, Seoul

"walls + windows + doors", Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

"artists and poets", curated by Ugo Rondinone, Wiener Secession, Vienna

"clouds", Galerie Krobath, Vienna

"clouds + mountains + waterfalls", Sadie Coles HQ, London

"golden days and silver nights", seven artists from the John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2014

"breathe walk die", Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China

"naturaleza humana", Museo Anahuacalli, Coyoacán, Mexico

2013

"we run through a desert on burning feet all of us are glowing our faces look twisted", Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

"thank you silence", M-Museum, Leuven, Belgium

"ugo rondinone", Fatima Center for Contemporary Culture, Monterrey, Mexico

"soul", Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

"poems", Sorry we’re closed, Brussels

"pure moonlight", Almine Rech Gallery, Paris

"primal", Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

"soul", Gladstone Gallery, New York

"primal", Esther Schipper, Berlin

"human nature", Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Plaza, New York

2012

"primitive", The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK

"pure sunlight", Sadie Coles HQ, London

2003

"roundelay", Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2002

"no how on", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

"1988", Works on Paper Inc., Los Angeles, USA

"cigarettesandwich", Sadie Coles HQ, London

"on perspective", Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark

"the dancer and the dance", Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna

"lowland lullaby" (with Urs Fischer), Swiss Institute, New York

"a horse with no name", Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2001

"slow graffiti", Galerie Schipper & Krome, Berlin

"if there were anywhere but desert", Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

"kiss tomorrow goodbye", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

"FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France"

"yesterdays dancer", Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

"dreams and dramas", Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel

2000

"so much water so close to home", MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, USA

"hell yes!", Sadie Coles HQ, London

"in the sweet years remaining", Museum Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark

"a doubleday and a pastime", Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy

"love invents us", Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

"if there were anywhere but desert", Mont-Blanc boutique, New York

1999

"guided by voices", Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

"guided by voices", Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland

"in the sweet years remaining", Schipper & Krome, Berlin

"moonlighting", Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

"light of fallen stars", Yves Saint-Laurent, New York

1998

"so much water so close to home", Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna

"in the sweet years remaining", Galerie João Graça, Lisbon

"the evening passes like any other", Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

1997

"tender places come from nothing", Cato Jans der Raum, Hamburg, Germany

"stillsmoking", Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy

"moonlight and aspirin", Galleria Bonomo, Rome

"where do we go from here", Le Consortium, Dijon, France

1996

"heyday", Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

"dog days are over", Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

"ugo rondinone", Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy

1995

"cry me a river", Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland

"migrateurs", ARC – Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris

"meantime", Galerie Froment-Putman, Paris

1994

"Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany"

"Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany"

1993

"drawings", Centre d’Art Contemporain de Martigny, Martigny, Switzerland

"lightyears", Galerie Ballgasse, Vienna

1992

"c", Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland

1991

"far away trains passing by", Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany

"two stones in my pocket", Galerie Pinx, Vienna

"i’m a tree", Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland

1989

Galerie Pinx, Vienna

1987

"lucerne", Raum Für Aktuelle Schweizer Kunst, Lucerne, Switzerland

1986

"sec 52", Ricco Bilger, Zurich, Switzerland

1985

Galerie Marlene Frei, Zurich, Switzerland

vierterseptemberzweitausendundvierundzwanzig, 2024

Ugo Rondinone

pink grey nun, 2024

Ugo Rondinone

orange violet nun, 2024

Ugo Rondinone

sechsundzwanzigsterdezemberzweitausendunddreiundzwanzig, 2023

Ugo Rondinone

pink clock, 2024

Ugo Rondinone

gray brown monk, 2024

Ugo Rondinone

vierterseptemberzweitausendundvierundzwanzig, 2024