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

Arte Abierto, Mexico City, Mexico

Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA

2024

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

Galerie Krobath, Vienna

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland

Würth Museum, Künzelsau, Germany

Biography

Portfolio

Videos

Daniel Buren, Alicja Kwade, Bertrand Lavier, Lee Ufan, Ugo Rondinone

UN ÉTÉ À L’HÔTEL DU CAP-EDEN-ROC

Tour

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

vierterseptemberzweitausendundvierundzwanzig, 2024

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

Available publications

Daniel Buren, Alicja Kwade, Lee Ufan, Bertrand Lavier, Ugo Rondinone

Un été à l’Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc

€30.00

More publications

Solo show (selection)

2025

Arte Abierto, Mexico City, Mexico

Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA

2024

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

Galerie Krobath, Vienna

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland

Würth Museum, Künzelsau, Germany

Esther Schipper, Berlin

Esther Schipper, Paris

Mennour, Paris

2023

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

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

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

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

"luminous light", Galerija Kula, Split, Croatia

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

"goodnight mr Eilshemius", Phillips Collection, Washington DC

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

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

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

"light", Gladstone Gallery, New York

2022

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

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

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

"life time", Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

"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

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

2021

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

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

"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

"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

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

"nuns + monks", Gladstone Gallery, New York

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

2020

"Ugo Rondinone", Galerie Krobath, Vienna

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

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

"Snow Moon", Paradeplatz, Zurich, Switzerland

"THANX 4 NOTHING", Gladstone Gallery, New York

"nuns + monks", Esther Schipper, Berlin

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

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 Marciano Collection", Marciano Foundation, Los Angeles, USA

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

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

"drifting clouds", Gladstone Gallery, New York

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

2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

"winter moon", MAXXI, Rome

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

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

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

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

"flower moon", Bristol Hotel, Paris

2016

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

"primordial", Gladstone Gallery, Brussels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2015

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

"clouds", Galerie Krobath, Vienna

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

"feelings", Kukje Gallery, Seoul

"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

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

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

"poems", Sorry we’re closed, Brussels

"soul", Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

"primal", Esther Schipper, Berlin

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

"soul", Gladstone Gallery, New York

"pure moonlight", Almine Rech Gallery, Paris

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

2012

"primitive", The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK

"pure sunlight", Sadie Coles HQ, London

2002

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

"cigarettesandwich", Sadie Coles HQ, London

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

"no how on", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

"on perspective", Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark

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

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

2001

"kiss tomorrow goodbye", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

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

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

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

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

"slow graffiti", Galerie Schipper & Krome, Berlin

2000

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

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

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

"hell yes!", Sadie Coles HQ, London

"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

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

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

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

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

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

"moonlight and aspirin", Galleria Bonomo, Rome

1996

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

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

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

1995

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

"meantime", Galerie Froment-Putman, Paris

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

1994

"Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany"

"Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, 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