DAVID XII

2025 PIROUETTE, Museum of Modern Art, New York City – USA, DIABOLUS (PROTECTOR), Belvedere Museum, Vienna – AT

2024 Nationalgalerie: A Collection for the 21st Century, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin – DE, Raising Flags, museum in progress, Vienna – AT

2023 ARCUS (Shadow of a Rainbow) Memorial for Homosexuals Persecuted During the Nazi Era, w/ Karl Kolbitz, Karlsplatz, Vienna – AT I DIABOLUS (PROTECTOR), museum in progress, Vienna – AT

2022 SPORTS CLUB NEW YORK, Eva Presenhuber, New York (solo) – US I A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9, David Zwirner, New York – US I Salon de Paris, Dvir Gallery, Brussels – BE I Under the Volcano, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv – IL I BLACK PAGES 1-100, Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna – AT I Para Sekutu yang Tidak Bisa Berkata Tidak, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta – ID

2021 MMXXI, Dvir Gallery, Brussels – BE (solo) | Things Things Say, Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona, Barcelona – ES | PARADISE 2021, Kortrijk Triennial, Kortrijk – BE | One decade of sculptors, KÖNIG, Vienna – AT | SECRET, The Forward, New York City, 2021 – US | KOLÉ SÉRÉ, Braunsfelder, Cologne – DE | Une journée en Utopie, FRAC Grand Large-Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque – FR

2020 RIBOCA2, Riga International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia – LV | O (DIABOLUS-PALMA-OVUM-LUNA-COR), Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld – DE | News from Home, Dvir Gallery, Brussels – BE | A shelter in the folds of the infinite, Sans Titre (2016), Paris – FR | Je me souviens, Dvir Gallery (online exhibition) | ‘Corona’, Paul Celan, 1948, Dvir Gallery, Brussels – BE

2019 INFERNO CHICAGO, Chicago Manual Style, Chicago – US (solo) | PALMA, Vis, Hamburg – DE (solo) | INFERNO MILANO, Bar Basso via Federico Vavassori, Milan – IT (solo) | PS NEW YORK, Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna – AT (solo) | NICO, Institut für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg – DE | Feeling for a Spider, 4649, Tokyo – JP | Greater, Jahn und Jahn, Munich – DE | Works from the collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin – DE | 2817 homage to Georges Perec, Dvir Gallery, Brussels – BE | Blow Up, Friedman Benda, New York City – US

2018 FLYRT, Kunstverein München, Munich – DE (solo) | PALMA, Sperl, Vienna – AT (solo) | MONSTER, Performance Space New York Gala, New York City – US | Mort à Crédit, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv – IL | L’Avenir, FRAC Grand Large, Hauts de France – FR | Paradise Now: Palm Trees in Art History, Salon Diamond, Berlin – DE

2017 INTERNATIONALIS, Potts, Los Angeles – US (solo) | Take Me (I'm Yours), (curated by Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Roberta Tenconi), Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano – IT | Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna – AT | PS NEW YORK, Visual Identity for Performance Space New York w/ Erin Knutson, New York City – US

2016 KOKO PARADISE, Belvedere21, Vienna – AT (solo) | GRANDMASTER (feat. Monster), Dvir Gallery, Brussels – BE (Solo) | BADEN BADEN, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden – DE (solo) | MACHO AMORE ROMA, Instituto Svizzero, Rome – IT (solo) | VALIUM VALENTINE, MoMA PS1, New York City – US (duo w/ musician Andrew Wyatt)| The printed room – Works off paper, (curated by Harry Burke), SALT, Birsfelden – CH | Walter Benjamin, (curated by Noam Segal), Tel Aviv Museum, , Tel Aviv – IL | REYER REYER ORTMEYER, Leopoldmuseum (w/ Stina Reyer, Clasha Reyer, Cordula Reyer, organized by Thomas Oberender, Hans Ulrich Obrist), Vienna – AT | They printed it! On curating, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich – CH | Dilemma, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv – IL

2015 DAVID (KOKO II), Bodega, New York City – US (solo) | MEDITATION UNITED, Tank TV London – UK | Take me (I’m yours), (curated by Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi), Monnaie de Paris, Paris – FR | Playtime 9800, (curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Charles Teyssou), Sepulveda, Los Angeles – US | New Needs, Haus Wittmann, Vienna – AT | The Spring Press, Printed Matter, New York – US

2014 KISH KUSH, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv – IL (solo) | BALLS, HDdM, Vienna – AT (Solo) | We Fragment, Collect and Narrate, (curated by Sayoko Nakahara), Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren – DE | Homo Ludens – Meessen De Clercq, Brussels – BE | I Multiplied Myself To Feel Myself, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna – AT | On Paper III, Kunsthalle CCA Andratx, Andratx – ES | Poetry will be made by all, (curated by Simon Castets, Kenneth Goldsmith, Hans Ulrich Obrist), Luma Foundation, Zurich – CH

2013 GRANDMASTER WORLD CHAMPIONS, Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna – AT (solo) | MACHO AMORE, Federico Vavassori, Milan – IT (solo) | The St. Petersburg Paradox, Swiss Institute, New York City – US | We Fragment, Collect and Narrate, (curated by Sayoko Nakahara), Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun – CH | YC, Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels – BE | Champs Elysees, (curated by Julie Boukobza, Simon Castets, Nicola Trezzi), Palais de Tokyo, Paris – FR | Le Quotidien, Manuel De Survie A L’ordinaire, La Brasserie, Foncquevillers – FR | We Fragment, Collect and Narrate, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen – BE

2012 SCHAAK SHOW, (curated by Philippe van Cauteren), Museum for Contemporary Art (SMAK), Ghent – BE (solo) | SAD EIS, Meessen de Clercq, Brussels – BE (solo) | Estate, (curated by Lucie Fontaine), Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City – US | Matter of Choices, Kunsthalle CCA Andratx, Andratx – ES | So near the garden but still miles away, Palazzo Santacroce, Rome – IT | Modern Talking, Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca, Cluj – RO

2011 Tomorrow is the Question, (curated by Philippe van Cauteren), Museum for Contemporary Art (SMAK), Ghent – BE | Out of Storage / Provisoire et définitif, (curated by Hilde Teerlinck, Guus Beumer), Timmefabrik, Maastricht – NL | La Vie Mode d’Emploi (Life A User’s Manual) - Meessen De Clercq, Brussels – BE | La Colección del CCA Andratx, Kunsthalle CCA, Andratx – ES | Vandelay Industries, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland – NZ | Nach Demokratie, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna – AT | Good Friends, Asian Art Society, (curated by Michael Bullock, Paul Kopkau), New York City – US

2010 NAVY ROYAL, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen – DE (solo) | INTERNATIONALISMUS, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn – DE (solo) | Fokus Lodz Biennale, Lodz Biennale, Lodz – PL | Triennale Linz, (curated by Stella Rollig), Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz – AT | Final XXX, (curated by Kimberli Meyer), MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles – US | Stories and Stages - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main – DE | One Leading Away from Another, 303 Gallery, New York City – US | Christmas in July, (curated by Simon Castets), Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York City – US | Wystawa (curated by Susanne Pfeffer), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw – PL

2009 KANT ELEGANT, The Watermill Center, Watermill NY – US (solo) | MAURICE Hotel Marienbad, (curated by Susanne Pfeffer), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin – DE (solo) | SABOTAGE, FvR, Cologne – DE (solo) | FREIHEIT, Oppenheimer 34, Frankfurt/Main – DE (duo w/ Anne Imhof) | One’s History is Another’s Misery, (curated by Jelle Bouwhuis), Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam – NL | (Monumentalismus) One’s History is Another’s Misery, Autocenter, Berlin – DE | Crossing the line, (curated by Julie Boukobza), MACY's, New York City – US | FFFF, Asian Song Society, (organized by Jenny Schlenzka), New York City – US, Political/Minimal, Muzeum Sztuki, (curated by Klaus Biesenbach), Lodz – PL

Exhibitions
E2022-03	SPORTS CLUB NEW YORK
E2018_01	FLYRT
E2019_03	INFERNO CHICAGO
E2014_01	KISH KUSH
E2016_01	KOKO PARADISE
E2013_02	GRANDMASTER
E2014_02	ST. PETERSBURG PARADOX
E2021_01	MMXXI
E2020_03	DIABOLUS MONDIAL
E2016_05	BADEN BADEN
E2017_01	INTERNATIONALIS
E2008_02	POLITICAL MINIMAL
E2015_01	DAVID
E2019_01	BLOW UP
E2019_02	PALMA
E2016_05	GRANDMASTER (feat. MONSTER)
E2019_04	PS NEW YORK
E2015_05	TAKE ME (I'M YOURS)
E2008_01	LA LOVE
E2010_02	WYSTAWA \| DILEMMA
E2019_07	SUM
E2012_02	SCHAAK
E2019_08	NICO
E2010_03	KANT ELEGANT KALIFORNIA
E2019_06	HOMAGE
E2019_02	INFERNO MILANO
E2013_03	MACHO AMORE
E2012_02	SAD EIS
E2009_01	MAURICE
E2013_05	CHAMPS ELYSEES
E2018_05	CONTRE
E2018_07	MORT A CREDIT
E2010_01	NAVY ROYAL
E2010_06	ONE
E2015_06	9800
E2009_03	KANT ELEGANT
E2020_05	CORONA PAUL CELAN 1948
E2020_02	O
E2016_02	VALIUM
E2023_01	DIABOLUS (PROTECTOR)
E2023_02	GRANDMASTER (FLAG)
E2023_03	ARCUS (Shadow of a Rainbow)

- Works
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  DIABOLUS
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  DIABOLUS
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  DAVID
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  LE LOVE (ANDREAS BAADER & NICO)
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  PALMA
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  LE LOVE (SANDRA OH & JESSE WILLIAMS)
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  DIABOLUS
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  GRANDMASTER
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  ROI
- SO-00020
  
  KOKO
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  PALMA
- SO-01229
  
  COR
- SO-00023
  
  FLYRT POETICA
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  GRANDMASTER
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  COR
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  GRANDMASTER
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  SAD EIS
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  FMSO
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  PALMA
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  ARCUS
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  ARCUS
- SO-00011
  
  DIABOLUS
- SO-00012
  
  PALMA
- SO-00014
  
  PALMA
- SO-00015
  
  INTERNATIONALIS
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  KOKO
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  KOKO
- SO-00019
  
  KOKO
- SO-00063
  
  SAD EIS
- SO-00078
  
  PERFORMANCE SPACE NEW YORK
- SO-00021
  
  GRANDMASTER LAPIS
- SO-00022
  
  DILEMMA
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  FLYRT POETICA
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  GRANDMASTER
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  GRANDMASTER
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  GRANDMASTER
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  PION
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  PION
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  TOUR
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  TOUR
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  FOU
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  FOU
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  CAVALIER
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  CAVALIER
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  DAME
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  ROI
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  ARANEA
- SO-00047
  
  COR
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  COR
- SO-00055
  
  PION
- SO-00058
  
  LA LOVE
- SO-00059
  
  GALA LA LOVE
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  GRANDMASTER
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  LASSO LADEN
- SO-00069
  
  MERRY ME ME
- SO-00070
  
  BOW BOUQUET
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  LA FIN
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  KISS KUSS
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  PETER WEISS
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  XXX BURRICHTER ORTMEYER
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  KANT ELEGANT KALIFORNIA
- SO-00076
  
  KANT ELEGANT KALIFORNIA
- SO-00077
  
  KANT ELEGANT KALIFORNIA
- SO-00078
  
  PS NEW YORK
- SO-00094
  
  DAVID IV
- SO-00087
  
  BOBBY LOBBY
- SO-00089
  
  PING PONG CHOU CHOU
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  MERCEDES 240
- SO-00103
  
  DAVID
- SO-00116
  
  COCO NOIR
- SO-00117
  
  COCO NOIR
- SO-00049
  
  ARANEA
- SO-00036
  
  PION
- SO-00064
  
  SAD EIS
- SO-00102
  
  DAVID XII
- SO-00037
  
  PION
- SO-00101
  
  DAVID XI
- SO-00127
  
  MONSTER III
- SO-00098
  
  DAVID VIII
- SO-00097
  
  DAVID VII
- SO-00032
  
  PION
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  DAVID X
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  DAVID VI
- SO-00095
  
  DAVID V
- SO-00035
  
  PION
- SO-00033
  
  PION
- SO-00034
  
  PION
- SO-00092
  
  DAVID II
- SO-00093
  
  DAVID III
- SO-00109
  
  DAVID I-XII (FULL UNION) MONSTER
- SO-00091
  
  DAVID I
- SO-00099
  
  DAVID IX
- SO-00106
  
  DAVID UNION III
- SO-00107
  
  DAVID UNION IV
- SO-00104
  
  DAVID UNION I
- SO-00120
  
  MAGNUS MAGNET
- SO-00105
  
  DAVID UNION II
- SO-00114
  
  DAVID MONSTER V
- SO-00115
  
  DAVID MONSTER VI
- SO-00110
  
  DAVID UNION MONSTER I
- SO-00111
  
  DAVID UNION MONSTER II
- SO-00112
  
  DAVID UNION MONSTER III
- SO-00113
  
  DAVID UNION MONSTER IV
- SO-00108
  
  DAVID DISPLAY
- SO-00119
  
  GRANDMASTER WORLD CHAMPIONS
- SO-00121
  
  TOTO
- SO-00122
  
  555 LAX
- SO-00123
  
  MACY's
- SO-00150
  
  NICO
- SO-00125
  
  MONSTER I
- SO-00126
  
  MONSTER II
- SO-00128
  
  MONSTER IV
- SO-00129
  
  MONSTER V
- SO-00130
  
  MONSTER VI
- SO-00131
  
  MONSTER VII
- SO-00132
  
  MONSTER VIII
- SO-00133
  
  MONSTER IX
- SO-00134
  
  MONSTER X
- SO-00135
  
  MONSTER XI
- SO-00136
  
  MONSTER XII
- SO-00137
  
  MONSTER XIII
- SO-00138
  
  MONSTER & MONSTER IX
- SO-00139
  
  GRANDMASTER
- SO-00140
  
  GRANDMASTER
- SO-00141
  
  GRANDMASTER
- SO-01232
  
  ARANEA
- SO-00142
  
  GRANDMASTER
- SO-00222
  
  PALMA
- SO-00143
  
  GRANDMASTER
- SO-00144
  
  GRANDMASTER
- SO-00145
  
  GRANDMASTER
- SO-00227
  
  MONSTER 1000
- SO-00145
  
  GRANDMASTER
- SO-00146
  
  GRANDMASTER
- SO-00147
  
  GRANDMASTER
- SO-00196
  
  DIABOLUS
- SO-00148
  
  GRANDMASTER
- SO-00149
  
  MONSTER
- SO-00151
  
  FLYRT POETICA
- SO-00152
  
  ALLIIERTEN
- SO-00080
  
  PS NEW YORK
- SO-00081
  
  PS NEW YORK
- SO-00169
  
  FREIHEIT
- SO-00086
  
  PS NEW YORK
- SO-00153
  
  DIABOLUS
- SO-00154
  
  DIABOLUS
- SO-00155
  
  DIABOLUS
- SO-00156
  
  DIABOLUS
- SO-00157
  
  DIABOLUS
- SO-00160
  
  SCHACH SCHUH
- SO-01228
  
  BENJAMIN
- SO-00161
  
  OKKUPATION
- SO-00162
  
  SABOTAGE
- SO-00163
  
  VALIUM I
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  VALIUM II
- SO-00165
  
  VALIUM III
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  VALIUM IV
- SO-00167
  
  VALIUM V
- SO-00168
  
  VALIUM VI
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  SANKT PETERSBURG PARADOX
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  DIABOLUS
- SO-00196
  
  DIABOLUS
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  PHD BESO
- SO-00199
  
  MONSTER (PS NEW YORK)
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  PALMA
- SO-00225
  
  DIABOLUS
- SO-00226
  
  PALMA (TAPISSERIE)
- SO-00053
  
  COR
- SO-00170
  
  O (DIABOLUS-PALMA-OVUM-LUNA-COR)
- SO-01233
  
  PS NEW YORK COR
- SO-01229
  
  COR
- SO-00172
  
  O (DIABOLUS)
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  O (PALMA)
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  O (OVUM)
- SO-00181
  
  O (DIABOLUS COR)
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  O (DIABOLUS COR)
- SO-00188
  
  O (DIABOLUS)
- SO-00191
  
  O (DIABOLUS)
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  LE LOVE (BABRA STREISAND & BOBBY FISCHER)
- SO-01277
  
  LE LOVE (GABRIEL OCASIO-CORTEZ & TELFAR CLEMENS)
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  LE LOVE (GLENN GOULD & THOMAS BERNHARD)
- SO-01282
  
  LE LOVE (LILLIAN EVANTI & ALMA THOMAS)
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  LE LOVE (PEGGY OKI & TONY ALVA)
Contact

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