Born Luzzara (Italy) in 1943. Lives and works in Parma (Italy).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Claudio Parmiggiani: Dematerialization, Frist Art Museum, Nashville (USA)
2018
Claudio Parmiggiani, Bortolami Gallery, New York (USA)
2017
Claudio Parmiggiani, Simon Lee Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
2016
Claudio Parmiggiani, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
2015
Claudio Parmiggiani, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong (China)
Porta Maggiore della Cappella di Celle, Collezione Gori, Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia (Italy)
La camera degli amori, Accademia di Francia Villa Medici, Roma (Italy)
2014
Claudio Parmiggiani, Bortolami Gallery, New York (USA)
Oltre le soglie dell'invisibile, Chiesa San Fedele, Milano (Italy)
Parmiggiani a San Lupo, Ex Oratorio di San Lupo, Bergamo (Italy)
2013
Senza Titolo, Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel (Switzerland)
Senza Titolo, Palais des Beaux Arts - BOZAR, Bruxelles (Belgium)
Claudio Parmiggiani, Simon Lee Gallery, London (UK)
2011
Lo Spazio del Cuore, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
2010
Naufragio con spettatore, Palazzo del Governatore, Parma (Italy)
2009
Fantasia Su Temi Rossiniani, Galleria Franca Mancini, Pesaro (Italy)
Naufrage avec spectateur, Morsiglia, Corse (France)
Fantasia su temi Rossiniani, Pesaro (Italy)
Claudio Parmiggiani, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Claudio Parmiggiani, Simon Lee Gallery, London (U.K.)
Galleria Christian Stein, Milano (Italy)
Dieci opere recenti, Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milano (Italy)
2008
Collège des Bernardins, Paris (France)
Inauguration of a fountain, Aubigné-sur-Layon (France)
Cenere, Galerie Serge le Borgne, Paris (France)
2007
Apocalypsis cum figuris (curated by Jean Clair), Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia (Italy)
La Barque des neuf planètes, Chapelle de l’Oratoire, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (France)
Gloria di Cenere, Galleria de’ Foscherari, Bologna (Italy)
2006
L’Isola del Silenzio, Chapelle des Brigittines, Brussels (Belgium)
Silencio a voz alta, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana (Cuba)
Galerie Pascal Retelet, Brussels (Belgium)
Teatro dell’arte e della guerra,Teatro Farnese, Parma (Italy)
2005
Pinxit et celavit, Galleria dell’ Oca, Roma (Italy)
In Silenzio a voce alta, Palazzo dei Musei, Modena (Italy)
Parole al margine degli occhi. Il libro nell’opera di Claudio Parmiggiani 1968-2003, Biblioteca Civica Poletti, Modena (Italy)
2004
Cenere, Galleria Christian Stein, Milano (Italy)
Polvere, Galleria Claudia GianFerrari, Milano (Italy)
Galerie Pascal Retelet, Brussels (Belgium)
2003
Invito a Claudio Parmigiani, Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Église Saint-Martin, Arles (France)
Croce di luce, Sacro Eremo, Carmaldoli, Arezzo (Italy)
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy)
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv (Israel)
Claudio Parmiggiani. Coeur Ardent, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Strasbourg (France)
2002
Sculpture d’ombre, Musée Fabre, Montpellier (France)
2000
Galleria Christian Stein, Milano (Italy)
Parmiggiani, Listasafni Island (National Gallery of Iceland), Reykjavík (Iceland)
1999
Hôtel des Arts, Toulon (France)
1998
Icona, FRAC, Corse (France)
Palazzo d’Accursio, Bologna (Italy)
Promotrice delle belle Arti, Torino (Italy)
1997
Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes (France)
Collezione Gori, Celle (Italy)
Galerie Sabine Wachters, Knokke (Belgium)
1996
Musée des Beaux Arts, Dijon (France)
1995
Chapelle de la Vieille Charité, Marseille (France)
Museo Civico, Siena (Italy)
Galerie Sabine Wachters, Brussels (Belgium)
Impronte del corpo e della mente, XLVI Biennale di Venezia (Italy)
MAMCO - Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Genève (Switzerland)
Galerie de Marseille, Marseille (France)
1993
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris (France)
Hôtel de Galliffet, Institut Culturel Italien, Paris (France)
Gallery Hlavniho Mesta Prahi, Praha (Czechoslowakia)
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris (France)
Galleria Christian Stein, Milano (Italy)
1992
Galerie Sabine Wachters, Brussels (Belgium)
Galerie Sabine Wachters, Knokke (Belgium)
Institut Mathildenhöle, Darmstadt (Germany)
1991
Villa delle Rose, Bologna (Italy)
1990
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Saint-Priest (France)
1989
Musée Picasso, Antibes (France)
Iconostasi, Galleria Christian Stein, Milano (Italy)
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris (France)
Terra, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon (France)
1988
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfürt (Germany)
A Lume Spento, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston (U.S.A.)
Gallery Wanda Reiff, Maastricht (Netherlands)
Galerie Raymond Bollag, Zürich (Switzerland)
1987
Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna (Austria)
Palais Rohan, Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg (France)
Villa Arson, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Nice (France)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien (Austria)
Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg (France)
Église Saint-Thomas, Strasbourg (France)
1986
Iconostasi, Galleria Christian Stein, Torino (Italy)
Iconostasi, Albert Totah Gallery, New York (U.S.A.)
Galleria Federica Maestri, Parma (Italy)
1985
Civici Musei, Reggio Emilia (Italy)
Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena (Italy)
1983
Galleria Mario Diacono, Roma (Italy)
1982
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris (France)
Galleria Christian Stein, Torino (Italy)
Padiglione d’ Arte Contemporanea, Milano (Italy)
1981
Galleria Mario Diacono, Bologna (Italy)
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfürt (Germany)
1979
Galleria Christian Stein, Torino (Italy)
Annemarie Verna, Zurich (Switzerland)
Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milano (Italy)
1978
Galerie Baronian, Brussels (Belgium)
Galleria De’ Foscherari, Bologna (Italy)
Centre culturel du Marais, Paris (France)
Galleria Mario Diacono, Bologna (Italy)
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy)
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Portofino (Italy)
1977
Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (Germany)
Et sic in infinitum, Galleria Christian Stein, Torino (Italy)
1976
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy)
Galleria Forma, Genova (Italy)
1975
Theatrum Orbis, Galleria La Tartaruga, Roma (Italy)
Galleria Schema, Firenze (Italy)
Annunciazione, Galleria Piero Cavellini, Brescia (Italy)
Alfabeto, Museo Lazzaro Spallanzani, Reggio Emilia (Italy)
L’Autorittrato, Galleria Martano, Torino (Italy)
1974
Galleria Alessandra Castelli, Milano (Italy)
Daphnephoria, Galleria Piero Cavallini, Brescia (Italy)
1973
Galleria La Bertesca, Genova (Italy)
1972
Deiscrizione, Galleria L’Uomo e l’Arte, Milano (Italy)
Malanngan, Galleria Christian Stein, Torino (Italy)
Mutazione, Galleria Christian Stein, Torino (Italy)
1971
Delocazione, Galleria Paolo Barozzi, Venezia (Italy)
L’azione concreta, Villa Olmo, Como (Italy)
1970
Il paradiso terrestre : zoo geometrico di Claudio Parmiggiani, Galleria Christian Stein, Torino (Italy)
Il paradiso terrestre : zoo geometrico di Claudio Parmiggiani, Galleria Diagramma, Milano (Italy)
Lo Zoo geometrico di Claudio Parmiggiani, Modern Art Agency, Montepulciano (Italy)
1968
Impronte di Claudio Parmiggiani, Centro documentazione visiva, Piacenza (Italy)
1967
Galleria Duemila, Bologna (Italy)
1966
Galleria La Carabaga, Genova (Italy)
Sala Comunale della Cultura, Modena (Italy)
1965
Libreria Feltrinelli, Bologna (Italy)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
The Unending Gift , Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Mélancolie, Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Brussels (Belgium)
2017
The Walk, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Contemporary Classicism, McCabe Fine Art, Stockholm (Sweden)
A Pied d’oeuvre(s). Les Sculptures dans les Collections du Centre Pompidou, La Monnaie de Paris, Paris (France)
2016
From here to eternity, Maison Particulière, Brussels (Belgium)
To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, Fondazione Prada, Milano (Italy)
2015
A.N.T.H.R.O.P.O.C.E.N.E, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
2050. A Brief History of the Future, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (Belgium)
Là où commence le jour, LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq (France)
Faux Amis, Simon Lee Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
By the Book, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (USA)
L’Ordre cache, saison 1, FRAC, Bourgogne, Dijon (France)
Au rendez-vous des amis, Palazzo Vitelli a Sant’Egidio, Città di Castello (Italy)
Codice Italia, The Italian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, Venezia (Italy)
25., Phoebus, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
2014
Michelangelo e il Novecento, Casa Buonarroti, Firenze (Italy)
Les Choses - Vol. 2, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon (France)
Saint Jerome, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Double Dream: Painting and Sculpture in Polo Real Torino, Turin (Italy)
Oltre. Le Soglie dell’Invisibile, Chiesa di San Fedele, Milan (Italy)
2013
The Other Portrait, (with Jeff Wall, Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon, etc.), Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Roverto, Roverto (Italy)
Wunderkammer. Art, Nature, Wonder Yesterday and Today, Museo Poldi Pezzoli & Gallerie d’Italia -Piazza Scala, Milan (Italy)
Books as Art Works from Fluxus to Conceptual Art, Archive of Visual Communication and Artist’s Books, Sicily (Italy)
BOOKHOUSE -La Forma del Libro, Museo delle Arti Catanzaro – MARCA, Catanzaro (Italy)
l’arte e’un romanzo, Palazzo della Penna, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Perugia (Italy)
Post-classici, La ripresa dellantico nell’arte contemporaneo (with J. Kounellis, G. Paolini, M. Pistoletto, …), Foro Romano Palatino, Roma (Italy)
Il teorema di Gauss, CO2 Gallery, Rome (Italy)
2012
Tout feu tout flamme, (with Alberto Burri, Chen Zhen, Jannis Kounellis, etc.), Tornabuoni Art, Paris (France)
100³: 100 anni, 100 stanze, 100 artisti, Art Hotel Gran Paradiso, Sorrento (Italy)
Arte torna arte, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Firenze (Italy)
Défier l'Éphèmére, Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours (France)
Particles, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Explorateurs, Musée de l’abbaye de Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne (France)
2011
La Vie Mode d’Emploi (Life A User’s Manual), Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Perspectives – On the Borders of Art and Philosophy, Hafnarhus, Reykjavik (Iceland)
Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (USA)
2010
Objects are like they appear, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
2009
ArtBasel 40, Galeria Stein (Milano), Basel (Switzerland)
2008
Absens, Meessen-De Clercq. Brussels (Belgium)
Emilio Villa, poeta e scrittore (curated by Claudio Parmiggiani), Chiesa di San Giorgio, Reggio Emilia (Italy)
2007
Contrepoint : Richard Deacon, Luciano Fabro, Anish Kapoor, Robert Morris, Claudio Parmiggiani, Giuseppe Penone, Michel Verjux. Musée du Louvre, Paris (France)
Samuel Beckett. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)
2006
XII Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara. La contemporaneità dell'arte. Museo della Scultura, Carrara (Italy)
Le Noir est une couleur. Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence (France)
Mélancolie. Génie et folie en Occident. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (Germany)
Scultura d'ombra. Palazzo Squarcialupi, Siena (Italy)
2005
Mélancolie. Génie et folie en Occident. Grand Palais, Paris (France)
2004
Skin deep. Il corpo come luogo del segno artistico. MART, Trento (Italy)
2001
Fables du Lieu. Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing (France)
2000
Cosmos. L'Arte alla scoperta dell'infinito.Palazzo Grassi, Venice (Italy)
1999
Cosmos, du Romantisme à l'Avant-garde. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal (Canada)
1998
Poussière. FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon (France)
L'ombra degli dei. Villa Cattolica, Bagheria (Italy)
1997
L'empreinte. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)
1995
XLVI Biennale di Venezia (Italy)
1992
Un regard sur l'art italien (la Collection de Madame Christian Stein). Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne (France)
1991
Intersezioni. Arte Italiana degli anni settanta-ottanta. Mucsarnok Museum, Budapest (Hungary)
Antiguitat / modernitat en l'art del segle XX. Fundatiò Mirò, Barcelona (Spain)
1990
La otra escultura. Palacio de Cristal, Madrid - Palau de la Virren, Barcelona (Spain)
Von der Natur in der Kunst. Massepalast, Vienna (Austria)
1989
Verso l'arte povera. Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan (Italy)
1988
Mnemosyne oder das Theater des Erinnerung. Schloß Herrsheim, Worms (Germany)
Classical Myth and Imagery in Contemporary Art. The Queens Museum, New York (USA)
Aus meiner sicht. Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (Germany)
1987
Zauber der Medusa. Künstlerhaus, Vienna (Austria)
1986
1960-1985: Aspekte Italienischer Kunst. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (Germany)
Kunst im Netzwerk. Kunsthalle, Hambourg (Germany)
Wunderkammer. XLII Biennale di Venezia (Italy)
1984
XLI Biennale di Venezia (Italy)
Ein anderes Klima. Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (Germany)
Der traum des Orpheus. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus. München (Germany)
1982
XL Biennale di Venezia (Italy)
Spelt from Sybil's Leaves. Power Gallery, Sidney (Australia)
1980
Arte e critica. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome (Italy)
1979
Photographie als Kunst 1879-1979. Kunst als Photographie 1949-1979. Museum des 20. Jahrhundert, Vienna (Austria)
Sistina: Società per Arte. Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy)
1977
Xe Biennale de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France)
Arte in Italia 1960 - 1977. Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy)
1974
I Biennale d'Arte Contemporeana, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Livorno (Italy)
Fotomedia. Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (Germany)
1973
Italian poetry 1912 - 1972. Finch Museum, New-York (USA)
VIIIe Biennale de Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (France)
1972
XXXVI Biennale di Venezia (Italy)
1970
Arte e Critica '70. Galleria Civica, Modena (Italy)
Exhibition of Contemporary Concrete Poetry. Geijutsu Seikatsu Gallery, Tokyo (Japan)
1969
Poesia concreta. Ca' Giustinian, Venice (Italy)
1968
Km 149.000.000. Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara (Italy)
Revort 2: Lombardo, Titone, Paolini, Parmiggiani, Richter. Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo (Italy)
1965
Zeroglifico. Palazzo dei Musei, Modena (Italy)
1964
Gerra, Parmiggiani, Poli, Ruspaggiari, Squarza, Valbonesi. Palazzo dei Musei, Modena (Italy)
1962
Cremaschi, Goldoni, Parmiggiani, Toricelli, Valbonesi. Sala comunale della Cultura, Modena (Italy)