Claes Oldenburg
Born 1929 in Stockholm Pop Art Swede, 20th/21st century
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1946 – 1950	Studies English literature, art and dramatics at Yale University, New Haven; Watercolor and perspective at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
1951 – 1952	Claes Oldenburg works as a journalist and reporter for the police in Chicago
1952 – 1954	Studies at the Art Institute in Chicago
1953	First exhibition of his drawings Satirical at the Restaurant Club St. Elmo, Chicago
1955	The Bramson Gallery: A Collection of Paintings by Claes Thure Oldenburg, Evanston
1956	Goes to New York
1959	Judson Gallery: Drawings Sculptures Poems, New York
1960	Reuben Gallery: The Street, New York
1961	Ray Gun Mfg. Co: The Store, New York (in collaboration with Green Gallery)
1962	Green Gallery: Claes Oldenburg, New York; Group exhibition: Sidney Janis Gallery: The New Realists, New York
1963	First Soft-Sculptures made of Vinyl; Dwan Gallery: Oldenburg, Los Angeles
1964	Galerie Ileana Sonnabend: Claes Oldenburg, Paris; The Pace Gallery, Claes Oldenburg, Boston; Sidney Janis Gallery: Exhibition of Recent Work by Claes Oldenburg, New York
1966	Moderna Museet: Claes Oldenburg. Sculptures und Drawings, Stockholm
1968	Group exhibitions: documenta 4, Museum Fridericianum, Orangerie, Galerie zur schönen Aussicht, Kassel; Whitney Museum of American Art: 1968 Annual Exhibition, Contemporary American Sculpture, New York
1969	The Museum of Modern Art: Claes Oldenburg, New York; Group exhibition: Museum of Contemporary Art: Art by Telephone, Chicago
1972	Group exhibition: documenta 5: Mouse Museum. A Selection of Objects collected by Claes Oldenburg, Kassel
seit 197	Collaboration with the dutch artist and art historian Coosje van Bruggen
1977	Group exhibitions: Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Schlossgarten: Sculpture, Münster; dokumenta 6, Orangerie und Neue Galerie: Wirklichkeit - Klischee und Reflexion und Objektkataloge, Kassel
1978	Group exhibition: Nationalgalerie Berlin: Aspects of the 60s, From the collection Reinhard Onnasch, Berlin
1982	Group exhibition: documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
1985	Group exhibitions: The Museum of Contemporary Art: The Panza Collection, Los Angeles; Art Gallery of New South Wales: Pop Art 1955-70, Sydney
1986	Group exhibitions: Musée National d´ Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou: Qu´ est-ce que la sculpture moderne?, Paris; Museum Ludwig: Europe/Amerika: The story of an artistic fascination since 1940, Cologne
1988	Palais des Beaux-Arts: Claes Oldenburg. Tekeningen/Dessins, Brüssel
1990	Group exhibition: The Museum of Modern Art: High and Low, Modern Art and Popular Culture, New York
1991	Group exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts: Pop Art, London
1992	Portikus: Claes Oldenburg, Multiples 1964-1990, Frankfurt/Main
1993	Group exhibitions: Guggenheim Museum SoHo: Four Rooms, New York; Martin-Gropius-Bau: American Art in the Twentieth Century, Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993, Berlin
1994	Pace Wildenstein: Sculptors´ Maquettes, New York
1995	National Gallery of Art: Claes Oldenburg, An Anthology, Washington
2000	Group exhibition: Kunsthalle Hamburg: einräumen, Hamburg
2002	Group exhibition: Schirn Kunsthalle: Shopping, A Century of Art and Consumer Culture, Frankfurt/Main
2003	Group exhibitions: MUMOK Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig: X-Screen. Filmische Installationen und Aktionen der 60er und 70er Jahre, Wien; Dickinson Roundell Inc.: The Legacy of the Readymade in Post-War and Contemporary American Art, New York
2005	Group exhibitions: Zwirner & Wirth: POP, New York; Museum Ludwig: Art in chocolate, Cologne; Kunsthalle Wien: Superstars, Vienna
2006	Group exhibitions: Peggy Guggenheim Collection: Venice 1948-1986. The art scene, Venice; Kunstmuseum Bern: Six Feet Under, Bern
2007	Group exhibitions: Kunsthalle Hamburg: Das schwarze Quadrat, Hamburg; Woodward Gallery: When Art Worlds Collide, The 60´s, New York; Walker Art Center: Picasso and American Art, Minneapolis; David Zwirner: a point in space is a place for an argument, New York
2008	EL SOURDOG HEX: Claes Oldenburg, The Store, and later, (sculptures and drawings, 1960 - 1970), Berlin; Group exhibitions: MARTta Herford: Hands of Art, Herford; Kunsthalle Kiel: Heavy Metal, Die unerklärbare Leichtigkeit eines Materials, Kiel
2009	Group exhibitions: Kunsthalle Bielefeld: 1968, Die Große Unschuld, Bielefeld; Museum Junge Kunst: Rückschau in die Moderne. Grafik und Malerei im 20. Jahrhundert aus der Sammlung Richard H. Mayer, Frankfurt/Oder; Whitney Museum: Claes Oldenburg. Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The Music Room, New York