JOSEPH KOSUTH

Joseph Kosuth lives and works in New York and London. He has participated at numerous Documentas and Venice Biennales, and his work is included in most museum collections in the US, Europe, Australia and Asia. In 2001 he received the Laurea Honoris Causa doctorate in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Bologna and in 2003 the Austrian Republic’s highest honour for accomplishments in science and culture, the Decoration of Honour in Gold. In 2012 Kosuth was inducted into the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Kosuth’s exhibition entitled ni apparence ni illusion, an installation work throughout the twelfth-century walls of the original Louvre Palace, opened at the Musée du Louvre, Paris in 2009, and will become a permanent work this year. His work on the façade of the Council of State of the Netherlands was unveiled in October 2011 and he is preparing a permanent work for the four towers of the façade of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, planned for 2015. Recent exhibitions include (Waiting for -) Texts for Nothing Samuel Beckett, in play, at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2010, and – in an extended version – at the Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, 2011. His most recent exhibition is Sigmund Freud and The Play on the Burden of Representation, 21er Haus, Belvedere Museum, in cooperation with the Sigmund Freud Museum, both Vienna. The exhibition acknowledges the 75th anniversary of the death of Freud.

Courtesy Sprüth Magers