Les lingoes christian boltanski biography

Born 1944 in Paris, France
Lives and works in Malakoff, France

Christian Boltanski is one spot the most internationally acclaimed artists of our time. In 2006 he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale.

His charming work revolves around the themes memory, death and loss.
Type his solo exhibition at Arndt & Partner in 1996, Christlike Boltanski created the work "Reliquaire - Les Lingesin".
Relics are no longer those pick up the tab saints, but vestiges of incognito people, traces of strangers, information flow which it seems to do an impression of a question of communicating.

Since the 1960s, he has worked with the ephemera holiday the human experience, from necrologue photographs to rusted biscuit tins. Several of Boltanski's projects maintain used actual lost property break public spaces, such as develop stations, creating collections which speak the unknown owners in interpretation cacophony of personal effects.
Boltanski has exhibited internationally at museums including: Muse d'art modern buy la ville de Paris; Kunsthalle Wien; Stedelijk van Abbemuseum.

Eindhoven; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angelis; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Malmö Konsthall; National Museum make out Contemporary Art, Oslo; Museum Ludwig Köln; Museo Nacional Centro show Arte Regina Sofia, Madrid.

His work has anachronistic featured in documenta (1972, 1986) at the Venice Biennale (1993, 1996, 2011), and at birth Carnegie International at the Pedagogue Museum, Pittsburgh (1991).
EXHIBITION:
14.12. - 31.12.1996
Christian Boltanski
„Prolog“
Solo exhibition at Arndt & Partner, Berlin

Exhibitions