Peter Downsbrough
CV
CV
Biography
Born 1940 in New Jersey, USA.
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Peter Downsbrough, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Peter Downsbrough, Le lieu et l´espace d´une oeuvre, GDM, Paris France
2022
Peter Downsbrough, MAMCO Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
2021 – 2022
Peter Downsbrough. Two Pipes 1970-2022, Cologne, Skulpturenpark Köln, Kunst-Station St. Peter, Schlosspark Stammheim, Cologne, Germany
2021
Peter Downsbrough, Kunsthalle Kunstverein Bremerhaven e. V., Bremerhaven, Germany
Peter Downsbrough, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2020
Peter Downsbrough, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria
Peter Downsbrough, Facade de L'Ecole Nouvelle, St Gilles, Brussels, Belgium
2019
One Wall, One Work: Peter Downsbrough: Krakow Witkin Gallery, Newbury Street, Boston, MA, USA
Peter Downsbrough. OVERLAP/S, Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
Peter Downsbrough, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
Peter Downsbrough, Notations, àngels barcelona ,Barcelona, Spain
2018
Peter Downsbrough / John Cornu, Attic, Brussels, Belgium
Peter Downsbrough, Association interface, Dijon, France
2017
Peter Downsbrough, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
Peter Downsbrough, ETE 78, Brussels, Belgium
2015
Peter Downsbrough. Centre de Livres d’Artiste, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France
Peter Downsbrough. Another Space. Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Peter Downsbrough. UND, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
Peter Downsbrough. TIME, Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany
Peter Downsbrough FILMS 2003 – 2012, LG London, London, UK
Peter Downsbrough. Photographs, Àngles Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2014
Peter Downsbrough, Musée régional d'art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon à Sérignan, Sérignan, France
2013
Peter Downsbrough: The Book(s) 1968-2013 / curated by Moritz Küng, Fabra i Coats, Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
The PS1 - Special Project (1980) And Other Works, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2012
Peter Downsbrough, Laure Genillard, London, UK
2011
Peter Downsbrough, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Platform3, Munich, Germany
Y8, Hamburg, Germany (curated by Marc Glöde)
The Book(s), deSingel, international arts campus, Antwerp, Belgium (curated by Moritz Küng)
Centre Culturel Jacques Franck, St.Gilles, Brussels, Belgium
2010
Pôle édition, École nationale supérieure d’art, Dijon, France
La BF15, Espace d’art contemporain, Lyon, France
Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
2009
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Galerie Thermal, École nationale supérieure d’art, Nancy, France
La Verrière Hermès, Brussels, Belgium
Five Films and Two Books, Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Ho, Histoire de l’oeil, Marseille, France
Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany
The Published Books, Specific Object, New York, USA
Le Cabinet du livre d’artiste, Université Rennes, Rennes, France
2 Peter Downsbrough / Artists and Photographs, Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2008
Showcase Alfred Vandaele, Drongen, Belgium
Dead Center / Marginal Notes, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, USA (with Jeanne Silverthorne)
Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels, Belgium
Àngels, Barcelona, Spain
2007
Galerie de Multiples, Paris, France
Centre d’art contemporain la Synagogue de Delme, France
Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels, Belgium
2006
White-Out Studio, Knokke, Belgium
Intérieur, Lille, France
SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor aktuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
2004
Peter Downsbrough. POSITION, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódz, Poland
Galerie cent8, Paris, France
FRAC—Fonds régional d’art contemporain, Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Films, videos, editions, 1980–2004, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2003
Galerie Evelyne Canus, Basel, Switzerland
Peter Downsbrough. POSITION, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten / Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (curated by Marie-Thérèse Champesme)
Argos, Brussels, Belgium
Peter Downsbrough. POSITION, Espace de l’art concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
2002
Épreuve d’artiste, Lille, France
Unrealized Projects, Peter Downsbrough, cent8, Paris, France (with Laurent Parriente)
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
L’Aquarium, École des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes
2001
La Première Rue, Briey en Fôret, France
Manfred Baumgartner Gallery, New York, USA (with Marjorie Welish)
2000
Galerie Martine et Thibault de la Châtre, Paris, France
Lycée Européen Montebello, Lille, France
Art Connexion, Lille, France
Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury, UK
École des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, France
1999
Sint Lukasgalerij, Brussels, Belgium
La Criée, Rennes, France (with Cécile Bart)
Stéphane Ackermann Contemporary Art, Luxembourg
Vitrines du hall, École des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes
Modèles 1983–1998, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1998
Maison Levanneur, Centre national de l’estampe et de l’art imprimé, Chatou, France
Espace d’art contemporain Agi Schöningh, Demigny, France
La Box, École nationale des Beaux-Arts, Bourges, France
Galerij Annie Gentils, Antwerp, Belgium
Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany
1997
Angle art contemporain, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, France
Galerie Walzinger, Saarlouis, Germany
Galerie Martine et Thibault de la Châtre, Paris, France
Dehors-Dedans, EPSM Lille, France
Métropole Centre régional de la photographie, Douchy-les-Mines. France
1996
Densities, Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium (in collaboration with Christian Kieckens)
Pavillon de Bercy, Paris, France
École des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, France
1995
École des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, France
Galerie Lydie Rekow, Crest, France
École des Beaux-Arts, Valence, France
Galerie Épreuve d’artiste, Lille, France
Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
One Five, Brussels, Belgium
1994
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Le Channel, Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Calais, France
Multiples, Les Entrepôts Laydet, Paris, France
Book Art Museum, Łódź, Poland
Tropismes Libraires, Brussels, Belgium
Architectural Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1993
Fondation pour l’architecture, Brussels, Belgium
Books—Bücher, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
École nationale des Beaux-Arts, Nancy, France
1992
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
L’Usine, Dijon, France
Photographs, The Archives, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Maquettes, The Archives, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1991
Tilman, Fesler & Coufo, Brussels, Belgium
Zeger Reijers Galerie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
Dům Umění Města Brna, Brno, Czechia
Open Column, Glyptothek, Munich, Germany
1990
Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris, France
Musée de la photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
(within the context of the Quatrième Triennale Internationale de la photographie)
Livres / Books, Bibliothèque Municipale, Rennes, France
Tilman, Fesler & Coufo, Brussels, Belgium
Zeger Reijers Galerie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Galerie Vega, Plainevaux, Belgium
1989
Tilman, Fesler & Coufo, Brussels, Belgium
Ars Musica Festival, Radiogebouw / Maison de la Radio, Brussels, Belgium
Musée Saint Pierre d’art contemporain, Lyon, France
Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg, Germany
Complete Bookworks, Archive Space (ASPC), Antwerp, Belgium
1988
Galerie De Lege Ruimte, Bruges, Belgium
Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, USA
1987
Galerie Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
Galerie Wschodnia, Łódź, Poland
Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
The White Room, White Columns, New York, USA
1986
Le Consortium, Dijon, France (with Robert Barry)
PWSSP State School of Fine Arts, Łódź, Poland
1985
Galerie L’A, Liège, Belgium
1983
Au fond de la cour à droite, Chagny, France
Maison de la Culture, Nevers Tendance Bis, Limoges
Gewad, Ghent, Belgium
De Fabriek, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1982
Consultation Point (Network), Łódź, Poland
Bureau de la Poésie (Network), Warsaw, Poland
Project De Gentenaar / Studio Skoop / Radio Toestel, Ghent, Belgium
Gallery A, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1981
Galerie Contretype, Brussels, Belgium
Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
Galerij Kiliaan, Antwerp, Belgium
1980
Librairie Post-Scriptum, Brussels Zona, Florence, Italy
Modern Art Gallerie, Vienna, Austria
Galleria Pellegrino, Bologna, Italy
Le Coin du Miroir, Dijon, France
Agora Foundation, Maastricht, Netherlands
Vitrine, Paris Un travail . . . , 11, rue Clavel, Paris, France (curated by René Denizot)
PS1 Special Projects, Long Island City, New York, USA
The Dice, Spectacolor Board, Times Square, New York, USA
Gallery A, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1979
Printed Matter, New York, USA
1 University Place, New York, USA
1978
Pool, Fine Arts Center, C. W. Post College, Greenvale, New York, USA
1977
Galerie Maier-Hahn, Düsseldorf, Germany
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Eight Books by Peter Downsbrough, Centre for Experimental Art and Communication, Toronto, Canada
Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, USA
Franklin Furnace, New York, USA
1976
Salle Simon I. Patiño, Cité Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland
1975
Wide White Space, Antwerp, Belgium
Paleis voor Schone Kunsten / Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Project Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Galerie 32, Paris, France
Elsa von Honolulu Loringhoven, Ghent, Belgium
1974
Galerie Toselli, Milan, Italy
Galerie 19, Paris, France
Galerie Delta, Brussels, Belgium
1973
Jack Wendler Gallery, London, UK
La Salita, Rome , Italy
Galerie 8, Paris, France
1972
Windham College, Putney, Vermont, USA
1971
112 Greene Street, New York, USA
1970
Two Pipes, Cornish, New Hampshire, USA
1963
Sun Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA
1961
Area, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Outdoor Sculptures, Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Saint-paul-de-vence, France
2023
Boiler Room with Société: The Hoarders, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Brussels, Belgium
Lines in Four Directions over 450 Years, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2022 – 2023
Outdoor Sculptures, Foundation CAB Saint-Paul-De-Vence, France
2022
Poetry in 3D. Text Sculptures and Poem objects since 1960, Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Leipzig, Germany
The Walls ,Centre National de l'Estampe et de l'Art imprimé ,Chatou, Paris, France
Skulpturale Poesie, Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
2021
The Belgian Connection, Galerie Blanche dans la Cité Radieuse du Corbusier, Briey, France
New York: The Eighties; Part Two, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
das wort steht im raum – sculptural poetry, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
2020
BOOKS. An exhibition of books about art and art about books, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Group Exhibition, Centre National de l'Estampe et de l'Art imprimé, Chatou, Paris, France
2019
Sampler #3. Anti-books ,MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
2018
Latitudes, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Newbury Street, Boston, MA, USA
2017
The City, My Studio / The City, My Life, Kathmandu Triennale 2017, Nepal
Variable Dimensions: Artists and Architecture, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
2016
This Outsideness, Galerie Art et Essai, Rennes, France
Pavilion Intervention, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain
Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection, Drawing Center, New York, USA
Between the Ticks of the Watch, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2015
A Line is a Line is a Line. Museumcultuur Strombeek /Gent CCStrombeek, Strombeek-Bever, Belgium
The Exhibition of a Film. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
In/visible, Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Eupen, Belgium
A Set of Lines, A Stack of Paper, KARST, Plymouth, UK
Tabs – Temporary Artist Book Shop, LAGE EGAL - Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Un regard sur la collection d’Agnès B., Musee LAM, Villeneuve de l’Ascq, France
2014
Sites of Reason: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Was Modelle können – Eine kleine Geschichte des Architekturmodells in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
1+1+1 =1080, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Entre Deux, Musée Régional d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France
Four Houses, Some Buildings and Other Spaces, 80 WSE Galleries, Steinhardt School, NYU, New York, USA
2012
Drop me a line, Laure Genillard, London, UK
Le Miroir et les Chemins, Museum of Contemporary Arts of the Federation Wallonie-Brussels, Hornu, Belgium
2011
The Fifth Column, Secession, Vienna, Austria
Peter Downsbrough, Àngels, Barcelona, Spain
In Other Words, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork, Ireland
CUT, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Morphologies, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
Construction in Process, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
You are here, L’Escaut, Brussels, Belgium
Mr. Memory, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
Limites Multiles, L’Orangerie, Bastogne, Belgium
La Tabacalera - Futuro Centro Nacional de Artes Visuales, Madrid, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris - Berlin - Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2010
Au Coeur des villes, Collection FRAC Lorraine, Etain, France
In the Face of Spatial Grandeur, Circuit, Centre d’art contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland
Landscape: Landscape?, Àngels, Barcelona, Spain
Vous êtes ici, exhibition in collaboration with the Université du littoral Côte d’Opale—Master 2, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dunkirk, France Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism; First Exhibition of the Frac Collections in the United States, Institute of Visual Arts (Inova), Milwaukee; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA
Vinyl: Disques et pochettes d’artistes; Collection Guy Schraenen, La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
Guía Secreta de La Rambla, La Virreina, Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain
Entre tu y yo—Between You and Me, La Tabacalera—Futuro Centro Nacional de Artes Visuales, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris—Berlin—Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Less Is More: Pictures, Objects, Concepts from the Collection and the Archives of Herman and Nicole Daled 1966–1978, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
LOOP Festival, Àngels, Barcelona, Spain
Espai 2 Atlas, cartes et plans. Topographies, toponymes, territoires, Centre des livres d’artistes, Saint-Yrieix-la-Parche, France
Some Cities and Modèles modèles 2, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Measuring Potentials, Potsdamer Strasse 88, Berlin, Germany
Ecce Homo Ludens. Le jeu comme art et comme mode de vie, Musée régional d’art contemporain Languedoc - Roussillon - Sérignan, France
Manières noires, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Mons, Belgium
Art, Architecture, Design, Galerie Georges Verney-Carron, Lyon, France
The Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition: Everything but Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Manières noires, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Mons, Belgium
Cities under the Gaze, 'Video Abierto', Murcia, Spain
Walking the Hinterland, Open Archive #2, Argos, centre for art and media, Brussels, Belgium
Les Rencontres Internationales, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Strategien gegen Architektur - Constructions, Spaces and Sites as Elements in Flux Open Archive#2, Argos, centre for art and media, Brussels, Belgium
Multiple / Readings, Antwerpse Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp, Belgium
Morphologies: Tara Donovan, Peter Downsbrough, Charles LeDray, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Bill Thompson, Ursula von Ryndingsvard, and Richard Serra, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Construction in Process, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
You Are Here, L’Escaut, Brussels, Belgium
2009
Argos—Open Lounge: David Claerbout, Manon de Boer, Peter Downsbrough, Vincent Meesen, Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Others, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
Still Moving Still, Internationaal Fotofestival Knokke-Heist, Cultureel Centrum Scharpoord and Laguna Hal, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
A Factory, A Machine, A Body . . . Archeology and Memory of Industrial Spaces, Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain
Time as Matter: MACBA Collection; New Acquisitions, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Dispositivos ópticos: La arquitectura como trayectorias de la mirada, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
Unconcealed, The Gallery, Norwich University College of the Arts, Norwich, UK
Phase zéro: 96 propositions spatiales, Galerie Serge Aboukrat, Paris Detanico / Lain, Peter Downsbrough, Anthony McCall, Thu Van Tran, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
2008
Film program, curated by Xavier Garcia-Bardon, in 'It’s Not Only Rock ’n’ Roll, Baby!', Paleis voor Schone Kunsten / Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels Autour et au-delà BROODTHAERS Onomwonden, various locations, Leuven, Belgium
High Fidelity. Artists’ Records in the Marzona Collection, Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
CHOOSING: William Anastasi—Dove Bradshaw—Peter Downsbrough—Tadaaki Kuwayama—Maurizio Nannucci—Richard Nonas—Chris Williams; A Group Exhibition Curated by Robert Barry, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany
2007
Univers industriel, Centre Régional de la Photographie, Douchy-les-Mines, France
Based on Paper: Revolution der Kunst 1960–1975, Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Chez Dominique Perrault Architecture: des oeuvres de la collection Billarant, Dominique Perrault Architectures, Paris, France
Jardin des Tuileries, FIAC, Paris, France
Extensions: Peter Downsbrough, Takahiko Iimura, Michael Snow, organized by Work in progress, Bourges, France
What a Great Space You Have . . . (L.A.), Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, USA
2006
Art Multiple, Espace de l’art concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Vinyl: Records and Covers by Artists, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Sites of Elasticity, video circuit in Lommel town center, Lommel, Belgium
in Brussels, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium
2005
Kontexte der Fotografie, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
Journal #8—Manon de Boer en Brussel, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
ICI et LA: Oeuvres de la collection de la Province de Hainaut, École régionale supérieure d’expression plastique, Tourcoing, France
Collection Daniel Bosser, extraits, Musée Matisse, Palais Fénelon, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France
Daumenkino: The Flipbook Show, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
Modèles modèles, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Le Génie du lieu, une proposition du Frac Bourgogne, Musée des Beaux-Arts et Palais des Ducs et des Etats de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
My One and Only, Wallspace, New York, USA
Records and Covers by Artists, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
No Comments, Museu Serralves—Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
Le tableau des éléments, MAC’s—Musée des arts contemporain, Le Grand-Hornu, Belgium
Cine y Casi Cine, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
The Annual AIDS Benefit Exhibition: Everything but Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2004
Sites, Musée du Bassin houiller Lorrain Carreau Wendel, Petite-Rosselle, France
Fotografie in België, Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
À angles vifs, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Copies as Originals, Biblioteca Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
L’intime, le collectionneur derrière la porte, La Maison rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
Fine Words Butter No Cabbage, White Walls 26th anniversary exhibition, the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
L’entrepôt du musée: Collection de la Province de Hainaut, B.P.S.22 espace de création contemporaine, Charleroi, France
Morphing Lights, Floating Shadows, Metamorph, 9th International Exhibition of Architecture, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Zona de mestizaje, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
La ville qui fait signes, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France
2003
Wiels! Le Centre des arts contemporains / Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst—proje(c)t Wielemans—Ceuppens, Brussels, Belgium
Outside of a Dog: Paperbacks and Other Books by Artists, BALTIC—The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
1:1 x temps, quantités, proportions et fuites, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
2002
Mobiles, Parcours d’artistes, St. Gilles, Brussels, Belgium
De concert: Oeuvres d’une collection privée, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
French Collection, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Extra Art: A Survey of Artists’ Ephemera 1960–1999, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Topos / Atopos / Anatopos, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
ars photographica, ASPC im Neuen Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
2001
Conception: Conceptual Documents 1969–72, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design (curated by Catherine Moseley), The Library, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK; Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Ici et maintenant, Ancien entrepôt royal Tour et Taxis, Brussels,Belgium
Extra Art: A Survey of Artists’ Ephemera 1960–1999, Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, California, USA
Au fur et à mesure, Espace de l’art concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
2000
Bruxelles (une ville) en photographies, Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
La Collection: Installations; L’Exotisme sans partage, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France
Paysage: 160 ans de photographie en Nord-Pas de Calais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing, France
Hors limite - Champs photographiques, Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France
L’artiste-concepteur à New York, MJC Terre Neuve, Dunkirk, France
99 Artisti della Collezione Marzona, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
1999
Zich Ophouden Bij . . . , Hallezalen Belfort, Bruges,Belgium
De Opening, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Footfalls, Greenport, New York, USA
Les Champs de la Sculpture 2000, Champs Elysées, Paris, France
1998
Grafteaux & Klein: Travaux d’architecture; Photographies de Philip Bernard, Pierre Devin, Peter Downsbrough, Max Lerouge, Musée d’art moderne, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Sans Titre a dix ans, Musée d’art moderne, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
Livres d’enfances, École nationale d’art décoratif, Aubusson, France (organized by Pays-Paysage, Centre national du livre d’artiste and Les Écoles nationales d’art décoratif de Limoges et Aubusson, France)
1997
Wide White Space in Middelheim, Braem Pavillon, Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldhouwkunst Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
Livres d’artiste: L’invention d’un genre 1960–1980, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Galerie Mansart, Paris, France
La rayure, l’intervalle, le jour . . . , FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Dunkirk, France
Hommage an Stéphane Mallarmés Würfelwurf, Neues Museum Weserburg and Institut Français, Bremen, Germany
Le bel aujourd’hui: Oeuvres d’une collection privée, Le Nouveau Musée—Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
1996
Winter Festival: Luc Deleu, Peter Downsbrough, Bernd Lohaus, Philippe Van Snick and Marthe Wéry, National Gallery, Sarajevo
Wide White Space, MAC—Galeries contemporaines des musées de Marseille, Marseille, France
D’une oeuvre l’autre, Musée Royal de Mariemont, Belgium
Spaced Out (Artists / Architects), Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
247 Projects for Uni Dufour, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Zoersel ’96, Zoersel, Belgium
Artistes / Architects, Centro Culturel de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Inviter 2, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany
Die Schrift des Raumes: Kunst Architektur Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
1995
Oeuvres acquises par le FRAC Bourgogne, Espace FRAC, Dijon, France
Wide White Space, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Les fragments du désir: Collections en exposition; Oeuvres du Fonds régional d’art contemporain Nord-Pas de Calais 1983–1995, Anciens Bâtiments des Magasins Old England, Brussels, Belgium
Euramis: James Bishop. Peter Downsbrough. James Reineking. Jerry Zeniuk, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany
1:1, Initiative Münchener Galerien, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich, Germany
Artists’ Books, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Artistes / Architectes, Le Nouveau Musée, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
1965–1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Passions privées. Art moderne et contemporain dans les collections particulières en France, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1994
Comme dans une image . . . , Galerie Gilbert Brownstone, Paris, France
Erratum Musical, Institut Français, Bremen, and other venues
L’art américain dans les collections publiques françaises de province 1960–1992, Musée de Toulon, France
Site-ations, Artists’ Project, Cardiff, UK
Metamorphosen des Schreibens, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Wide White Space, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten / Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1993
Le monde en éclats, l’oeuvre en effraction, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
L’Art, le mot, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France
Construction in Process, various locations, Łódź, Poland
1992
Regard multiple: Acquisitions de la Société des amis du Musée national d’art moderne, Musée national d’Art moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Red Cross: International Art Action, Berlin—Lodz—Praha—Bratislawa— Budapest—Sarajevo—Tirana, organized by the Artists’ Museum, Łódź, Poland
Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi 1931–1992: La Collection du Musée de Lodz; Un siècle d’art moderne, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France
Kolekcja Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
No Figure, Le Channel, Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Calais, France
1991
Fotografie als Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Munich, Germany
Le Consortium Collectionne, Château d’Oiron, France
Bild + Buch: Edition Hoffmann und Ottenhausen Verlag, Villa Toscana and Kammerhofgalerie, Gmunden, Austria
1990
Collection: U.S. Art, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France
Construction in Process: Back in Lodz, Łódź, Poland
1989
Aus dem Würfelmuseum—Zur Kritik der Konstruktiven Kunst, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
Présence discrète (extraits), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
Peter Downsbrough, Heinz Gappmayr, Leon Polk Smith, Tilman, Fesler & Coufo, Brussels, Belgium
1988
Sous le soleil exactement . . . , Villa Arson, Nice, France
1 Exposicion Internacional de Arte Postal en Granada—Homenaje a Federico Garcia Lorca, Granada, Spain
Works on Paper by 24 Artists, Onetwentyeight, New York, USA
1987
Utopia and Reality, Galeria Wschodnia, Łódź, Poland
Opening Exhibition, Onetwentyeight, New York, USA
Peter Downsbrough. Leo Copers. Eric Andriesse, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
10 Jahre Kunst, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
1986
The Artist’s Book as a Container of Ideas, Oldenburg University Library, Oldenburg, Germany
A. P., Artists’ Photographs, Archivio Storico, Comune di Marciana, Isola d’Elba, Italy
Law and Order, Benefit Exhibition for the Center for Constitutional Rights, Leo Castelli, New York, USA
1985
Process und Konstruktion, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich, Germany
Structures / Components 3x, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, USA (with Robert Barry and Robert C. Morgan)
1984
Tectonics, Musée de l’architecture, Liège, Belgium
Sans assurance, various locations, Pouilly, France
1983
Présence discrète, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
Artists’ Use of Language, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York, USA
1982
A Museum Experience: Exchange Between Artists 1931–1982, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; Museum Stuki, Lodz, Poland
Artists’ Books, Ben Shahn Gallery, W. Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, USA
1981
Alternatives in Retrospect, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Mise en pièces/ Mise en place/ Mise au point, Maison de la Culture, Chalon-sur- Saône and Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Konstrukcja w Procesie, Ul. PKWN 37, Łódź, Poland
Photofiction, Contretype, Brussels, Belgium
The Page as Alternative Space: 1970–1980, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York, USA
Künstlerbücher, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Libres d’Artistes, Metronom, Barcelona, Spain
Biënnale van de Kritiek / Biennale de la Critique, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi and Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium
1980
Printed Art: A View of Two Decades, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
A Collection—A Collector, The Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
Pool, Artists’ Space, New York, USA
Des travaux . . . , Journées d’art actuel, Limoges, France Radio by Artists, A Space, Toronto, Canada
1979
Elementary Concepts, Brno, Czechia
Manifesto Show, 7 Bleecker Street, New York, USA
Artists and Books: The Literal Use of Time, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA
Audio Scene ’79, Schloss Lengenfeld and Modern Art Gallerie, Vienna, Austria
1978
Artworks and Bookworks, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California and other venues
ISBN:0:00;0 LCCN: 780000, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. and other venues (organized by Independent Curators Inc.)
Les Livres d’Artiste: Une Sélection / Kunstenaarsboeken: Een selectie, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten / Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
The Art of Offset Printing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
America en la Mira, Museum of Contemporary Art, Morelia, Mexico, and other venues
Focus 78, Centre culturel du Marais, Paris, France
Detective Show, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Gorman Park, Queens, New York, USA
The Second Show, The $100 Gallery, New York, USA
Artists’ Books: Centro Libri d’Artista Cento, Zona, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Book Forms, Dayton Art Institute
1977
documenta 6, section 'Artists’ Books', Kassel, Germany
1976
Artists’ Books, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, and other venues
Rooms, PS1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York, USA
1974
Artists’ Books, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
To Separate = Trennen, Teilen, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany
Works/Words, The Clocktower, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, USA
1973
Drawings: Seventies, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Artists’ Books, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Incontri Internazionali d’Arte Contemporanea, section “Artists’ Books and Records,” Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
1972
Recent Work, 10 Bleecker Street, New York, USA
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, USA
Other Selected Projects / Large Scale Works
2015
LIMIT/S, a large wall piece, Andreas Murkudis, Berlin, Germany
2008
TEMPS/DE, ET, LA, LE/ DANS, Musée de la Vie Wallonne, Cour des Mineurs, Liège, Belgium
2007
TOUR/ AU, DE, LA, LE, RE, Le Musée en Plein Air du Sart-Tilman, Liège, Belgium
2005 – 2007
AGAIN/ AVEC/ ENCORE , exterior piece, Cité Internationale, Lyon, France
2004
MISE / EN, ET , exterior piece, Collège Mercier, Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
2003
VERS / ET, OU , exterior piece, Ville de Mouans-Sartoux, France
2000
BOULEVARD JACQMAIN ; AND /MAAR, OP ; AND /POUR, ET , exterior piece, Boulevard Emile Jacqmain, Brussels, Belgium
CZAS /JAK, OD , exterior piece, Kwadrat Building, Bydgoszcz, Poland
1998
BIBLIOTHEQUE UNIVERSITAIRE LE CREUSOT; ENTRE - TEMPS/ DE, ET, OU ( interior) & DE, ET, LA (exterior), 1% commission, Le Creusot, France
1997
THEATRE DE NÎMES / THEATRE DE NÎMES (exterior) & AVEC - REPERE/ DANS/ DE, ET, LA, LE, OU (interior), façade and foyer interior, Théâtre de Nîmes, Nîmes, France
1994
OKRES, Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Wydawnictwo Hotel Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland
1993
STALY/ TAK, JAK , wall piece, Kilinskiego, Lodz, Poland
1990
AS/ IF , exterior piece, Film Museum, Lodz, Poland
UNITE/ DE, LA , wall piece, Rennes, France
1987 – 1991
OPEN COLUMN , sculpture, Glyptothek, Munich, Germany
1980
THE DICE , video, Spectacolor Board, Times Square, New York, USA
Selected Bibliography
2021
Peter Downsbrough. A Look at Time, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne, Germany
2019
Peter Downsbrough. 10. 2017, Pamphlets #7, # 8, #9, #10, #11, #12, Le Botanique – Centre culturel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Peter Downsbrough, Here ... | Or, Avarie, Paris/Berlin
Peter Downsbrough, Hence | Here ... | Or, Avarie, Paris/Berlin
Peter Downsbrough, Hence | Here ... | Or | Option (special edition), Avarie, Paris/Berlin
2017
Peter Downsbrough. Cork City, Coracle, South Tipperary, Ireland
2015
Peter Downsbrough. Then Set, Centre de Livres d’Artiste, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
2013
SET [ IN - Peter Downsbrough, Editions Enigmatiques, Paris
Küng, Moritz (Ed.): Peter Downsbrough, The Book(s) Addendum, Hatje Cantz, Berlin, Germany
2011
Küng, Moritz (Ed.): Peter Downsbrough, The Book(s), Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, Germany
Streitberger, Alexander: "Shifting Places. Peter Downsbrough, The Photographs", Leuven University Press
2007
1:1 x temps: quantités, proportions et fuites, Frac Bourgogne, Dijon, 104 pages, Interview with P.D. by Sarah McFadden pp 21-31, Postface by Eva Gonzalez-Sancho and Frédéric Oyharçabal, French/ English, Distributed by FRAC Bourgogne
2006
NOTES, Conversations with Peter Downsbrough, Editions Facteur Humain, Brussels, 88 pages, Preface by James Welling; interview by Marie-Thérèse Champesme, French / English, Distributed by Exhibitions International (Europe) and D.A.P. (USA)
PETER DOWNSBROUGH, Published by Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès, Paris, 24 pages, Text by Alice Morgaine, French/ English
Christian Besson: “Abductions. L’oeuvre et son interprétant.”, Mamco, 318 pages, Essay on P.D.: “Quand l’oeuvre interprète l’oeuvre. Peter Downsbough multimedia”, pp 211-231, French
2005
ET/C, Frac Bourgogne, Dijon, 88 pages, bio-bibliography, Preface by Eva Gonzalez-Sancho; texts by Line Herbert-Arnaud, Michel Gauthier and Richard Klein, French/ English, Distributed by FRAC Bourgogne
EURAMI, James Bishop, Peter Downsbrough, James Reineking, Jerry Zeniuk, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Texts by Britta E.Buhlmann, Erich Franz, German/English
2003
VOLUME, Jean-Michel Place/photographie, Paris, 60 pages, photos, Text by Richard Klein, French/ English
POSITION, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten Brussel, in association with Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, and Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, with the support of Argos editions, Brussels and Mamco, Genève, 176 pages, bio-bibliography, Texts by Marie-Thérèse Champesme, Marjorie Welish, Russell Ferguson and Christian Besson, English / French
2002
Michel Gautier: “L’Anarchème.”, Mamco, 176 pages, Cover illustration by P.D., Essay on P.D.: “Les corps déflecteurs” pp 104-128, French
1999
OUTLINE, Works from 1967-2000, Cd-rom coproduced by cneai - Maison levanneur, Chatou, and TransEuropFilm, Paris, France
Cécile BART - Peter DOWNSBROUGH, La Criée/ FRAC Bretagne, Châteaugiron, 48 pages, drawings, photos, Text by Catherine Elkar, French/ English
1998
HAUPTSTRASSE 37, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, 76 pages, drawings, photos, Texts by Gudrun Thiessen-Schneider and Jörg Stürzebecher, German /English
1997
6 POST CARDS, Centre Régional de la Photographie, Douchy-les-Mines, and Sans Titre, Lille, Booklet with 16 b/w photographs, Italian bound, Text by Denis-Laurent Bouyer, French
1996
DENSITIES, Peter Downsbrough - Christian Kieckens, Imschoot, uitgevers, Gent, 48 pages, drawings, photos, Text by Raymond Balau, French / Dutch / English
PETER DOWNSBROUGH, Pavillion de Bercy, Paris, 48 pages, drawings, photos, Text by Michel Gauthier, French / English
1995
LE/LA, Galerie de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Quimper, 20 pages, drawings, photos, Text by René Denizot, French
1994
PETER DOWNSBROUGH, Architectural Gallery, Moscow, 24 pages, drawings, photos, Text by R.& m'Balau, Russian (translated from French)
1993
BOOKS/BUECHER, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, 24 pages, drawings, Text by Guy Schraenen, German / English
1992
UNITE / DE, LA, Ville de Rennes, Rennes, 60 pages, Text by Michel Gauthier French / English
1991
PETER DOWNSBROUGH, Dum Umeni Mesta Brna, Brno, 24 pages, photos, drawings, Text by Jiri Valoch, Czech
OPEN COLUMN. GLYPTOTHEK MUNICH, PETER DOWNSBROUGH, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, 128 pages, photos, drawings, Text by Rupert Walser, German /English
1990
PHOTOGRAPHS. A Selection 1977-1990, Imschoot uitgevers, Gent, 136 pages, photos, Text by René Denizot, French / English
1981
A- SET, Frankfurter Kunstverein Frankfurt/Main, 12 pages, photos, drawings, collage, Text by P.D. and Peter Weiermair, German / English
1977
PETER DOWNSBROUGH, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, 32 pages, photos, drawings, Text by P.D. and R.H.Fuchs, Dutch / English
PETER DOWNSBROUGH: AND, Anatol A.V. und Filmproduktion, Hamburg
Public Collections
Museum Stuki, Lodz, Poland
The Norman Fisher Collection, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, USA
The New York Public Library, New York, USA
The Getty Research Institute Research Library, California, USA
The Grunwald Center, the Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
National Gallery of Canada Library, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The Tate Gallery Library, London, UK
Sammlung Marzona, Staatliche Kunstbibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
Musée de Toulon, Toulon, France
Musée d’art moderne Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d’Ascq
Le Consortium, Centre d’Art, Dijon, France
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
FRAC Bretagne, Châteaugiron
FRAC Centre, Orléans, France
FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
DRAC Aquitaine, Montpellier, France
Ville de Rennes, Rennes
Ville de Mouans-Sartoux
Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie, Paris , France
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Belgium
Ville de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi
Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu, Belgium
Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Brussels,Belgium
Communauté Française de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Province de Hainaut, La Louvière Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve
Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostella, Spain