Active since the early 1960s, Georg Baselitz work has always been provocative and diverse. His early pieces, such as The Big Night Down the Drain and the Heroes series, which depict vulnerable and distorted human figures in chaotic landscapes, set the tone for his career. The Heroes series is particularly significant as it reflects a critical view of society and the human condition after World War II, portraying broken figures that are both heroic and suffering, a recurring theme in Baselitz’s work.
Georg Baselitz is renowned for his revolutionary approach of painting motifs upside down, a technique he introduced in the late 1960s to challenge traditional artistic conventions. With his Fracture Paintings, Baselitz began breaking apart the pictorial space, leading to his iconic inversion of trees, portraits, and eagles, which freed his art to focus on conceptual color schemes and unexpected themes like The Orange Eaters or reflections on Soviet propaganda. In recent years, the depictions of himself; sometimes alongside his wife, Elke – are influenced by the broader human experience of the body and its ephemeral nature.
In addition to painting, Baselitz is a master of drawing, woodcut, and etching. From the 1980s, he added sculpture to his practice, creating raw wooden figures carved with axes and chainsaws, and later expanding into bronze works in the 2000s. Baselitz has exhibited extensively, with his most recent solo shows including: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (2023); Albertina, Vienna (2023) and The Morgan Library & Museum, New York (2022); Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (2023); Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice (2022); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2018); Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2018).
Born 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Germany
Lives and works in Munich, Germany
Selected solo exhibitions
2025
Ein Bein von Manet aus Paris, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
First Feet, Munchmuseet, Oslo, Norway
2024
The Last Decade, Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Türkiye
adler barfuß, Thaddaeus Ropac, Seoul Fort Hill, South Korea
adler barfuß, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Georg Baselitz: Belle Haleine, Galleria degli Antichi, Sabbioneta, Italy
A Confession of My Sins, White Cube, London, UK
2023
Late Work, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Die Pumps sind Falsch, Contemporary Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland
Sculptures 2011 – 2015, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
Malelade – Georg Baselitz zum 85. Geburstag, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Pinakothek der Moderne, München, Germany
Baselitz in the Studio, Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Derneburg, Germany.
Man sollte… Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Nackte Meister, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Austria
La boussole indique le nord, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
100 Zeichnungen – Georg Baselitz, Albertina Modern Wien, Vienna, Austria
Georg Baselitz zum 85. Geburtstag, Museum Würth 2, Künzelsau, Germany
2022
New Drawings Part II, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France
Six Decades of Drawings, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, USA
Ein Bild und sieben Linolschnitte, Galerie Michael Werner, Berlin, Germany
Schinkel nach Athen tragen – Georg Baselitz, Pomonatempel Pfingstberg, Potsdam, Germany
2021
Zero Dom, Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Baselitz: The retrospective, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Archinto, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy
Springtime, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
Freitag war es schön, Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Pivotal Turn, The Met, New York, USA
2020
Akademie Rousseau, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
I Was Born into a Destroyed Order, Michael Werner Gallery, London, England
Darkness Goldness, White Cube, London, England
Years later, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
2019
Georg Baselitz: Devotion, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
Georg Baselitz. Die Schenkung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Gallerie dell´Accademia, Venice, Italy
2018
Hall Art Foundation at Schloss Derneburg Museum, Holle, Germany
Corpus Baselitz Museum Unterlinden Colmar, Colmar, France
Hommage à Georg Baselitz, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland; Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Georg Baselitz, Kunstmuseum Basel, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
Maniera Baselitz, Kuperstichkabinett, Dresden, Germany
2017
Georg Baselitz: The Prints 1997-2017, Musée des Beaux-Arts, le Locle, Switzerland
Georg Baselitz: The Heroes, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Georg Baselitz: Recent Works on Paper, Gagosian, Athens, Greece
2016
Georg Baselitz: The Heroes, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Georg Baselitz: Jumping Over My Shadow, Gagosian, New York, USA
2015
Georg Baselitz: Visit from Hokusai, Gagosian, New York, USA
Georg Baselitz, White Cube, Hong Kong
Georg Baselitz: Sigmund’s Cave, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Georg Baselitz, White Cube, Glyndebourne Festival, Glyndebourne, UK
2014
Georg Baselitz — Back then, in between, and today, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
ARTIST ROOMS Georg Baselitz, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, UK
Georg Baselitz: Farewell Bill, Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, UK
2013
Le côté somber—new sculptures and paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
BDM Gruppe, Victoria and Albert Museum, John Madjeski Garden, London, UK
Georg Baselitz: Background Stories, Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Aus der Sammlung – Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Georg Baselitz – Eugène Leroy, Le récit de condensation, MUba Eugène Leroy de la Ville de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
Georg Baselitz: Besuch bei Ernst Ludwig, Kirchner Museum, Davos, Switzerland
Georg Baselitz: Works from 1968 to 2012, Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
Romantiker kaputt, Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Hintergrundgeschichten, SMD Schloß, Dresden, Germany
Baselitz:Tier, Landschaft, Ort, Franz Marc Museum, Kochel, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Georg Baselitz: Graphik, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Remix, Galleria Bellinzona, Milan, Italy, Traveled to: Grand Hotel Villla, Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
2012
Romantiker kaputt, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, Germany
Das Negativ—New Works, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Georg Baselitz: Die Berliner Jahre, Bilder aus der Sammlung Baselitz, Potsdam, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, USA
Georg Baselitz: Das Naturmotiv, Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany; Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Prinzenpalais, Oldenberg, Germany
2011
Georg Baselitz, Le Monde à l’envers, tel qu’il est, Cabinet des Estampes, Lüttlich, Belgium
Georg Baselitz: Between Eagles and Pioneers, White Cube, London, England
Georg Baselitz, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Georg Baselitz—Grafiken, Galerie Doris Hölder, Ravensburg, Germany
Lustspiel, Georg Baselitz / Arnulf Rainer, Neues aus dem Atelier, Arnulf Rainer Museum, Baden, Austria
Georg Baselitz: A la pointe du trait, Musée Cantini, Marseille, France
Georg Baselitz: Remix, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Georg Baselitz: The Early Sixties, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, USA
Folk Thing Zero, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Georg Baelitz: 25 Jahre Meisterwerke, Niels Borch Jensen Galerie & Verlag, Berlin, Germany
Watercolours, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2010
Skulpturen, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Baselitz Re-Mixed, Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palac, Helsinki, Finland
Baselitz, 50 Jahre malerei, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Pinturas Recentes, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil
Georg Baselitz: Non Conform, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
Georg Baselitz Big Night (Remix) xylographies, Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris, France
Georg Baselitz: Ausstellung im Labyrinth, Kreissparkasse, Munich, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Editionen—Hommage à Catherine Putman, Galerie Jordan Seydoux, Berlin, Germany
Georg Baselitz, monumental sculptures, paintings and aquarelles, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2009
Baselitz: Derneburger Spuren 1975–2006, Sparkasse Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Volk Ding Zero—Folk Thing Zero, Landesmuseum für Klosterkultur, Münster, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Hotel des Arts, Toulon, France
Baselitz: 30 Jahre Skulptur, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Baselitz: 50 Jahre Malerei, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Dr Freud Und Andere Musik, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Dresdner Frauen, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Georg Baselitz: Obra reciente, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain
Georg Baselitz, 1960–2008, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Remix 65/66, Galerie Margareta Friesen, Dresden, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Galerie Henze & Ketterer & Triebold, Riehen, Switzerland
Georg Baselitz—Gemälde und Skulpturen 1960–2008, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Georg Baselitz: Etchings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Georg Baselitz, Galerie Radicke, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Mrs, Lenin and the Nightingale, White Cube, London, UK
Georg Baselitz, Galerie Ruhnke, Potsdam, Germany
2008
Remix, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Georg Baselitz, Museo d‘Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy
Georg Baselitz: La Grande Notte in Bianco, Gagosian, Rome, Italy
Baselitz auf Papier, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Bildweg, Galerie Gebr, Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Wer kennt Anna Selbdritt, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Georg Bazelitz: 23 January 1938, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2007
Georg Baselitz: The Bridge Ghost’s Supper, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Remix Paintings, Gagosian, New York, USA
Georg Baselitz: A Retrospective, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Georg Baselitz, Museo Civico di Belle Arti, Lugano, Switzerland
The Russian Pictures, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne, France; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Georg Baselitz: Remix, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2006
Retrospektive, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Baselitz, Eine einzige Leidenschaft—die Maleri, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
Georg Baselitz: Remix, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Works on Paper, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
2005
Georg Baselitz, Andere, Ansichten, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Aquarelle, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
2004
Georg Baselitz: Pictures That Turn Your Head, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Malelade, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany
Upside down, boy you turn me, Baselitz in der Hess Collection, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
2003
Georg Baselitz—Monumentale Aquarelle, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Georg Baselitz—Monumentale Aquarelle, FRAC de Picardie, Amiens, France
Georg Baselitz, Recent Paintings, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, USA
Georg Baselitz: New Paintings, Gagosian, Heddon Street, London, UK
1999
The Large-Scale Prints of Georg Baselitz, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
Georg Baselitz, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
1998
Georg Baselitz—Portraits of Elke, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico
1997
Georg Baselitz: Recent Paintings, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, USA
Retrospective, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1996
Georg Baselitz: New Works, Galerie Springer, Berlin, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, Los Angeles, USA
Georg Baselitz, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Georg Baselitz, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
1995
Georg Baselitz, Retrospective, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, Los Angeles, CA; Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
1991
Georg Baselitz, Grabados 1964–1991, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzales, Valencia, Spain
1990
Georg Baselitz, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Baselitz: The Hero Paintings, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
1988
Georg Baselitz—Dipinti 1965–1987, Sala d’Arme di Palazzo Veccio, Florence, Italy
1987
Georg Baselitz: Sculpture and Early Woodcuts, Anhony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Georg Baselitz, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
1985
Georg Baselitz—Vier Wände—Skulpturen, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Holzschnitte, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Retrospective, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Georg Baselitz: Sculptures et Gravures Monumentales, Galeries Mansart et Manzarine, Paris, France
1984
Georg Baselitz: Recent Paintings, Mary Boone / Michael Werner Gallery, New York, USA
La Grande Parade, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1983
Sculpture Retrospective, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
1979
Georg Baselitz, Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne, Germany
1976
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
1972
Georg Baselitz: Bilder und Zeichnungen, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Georg Baselitz—Portretten, Galerie im Goeth-Institut-Provisorium, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1970
Georg Baselitz, Galerie Franz Dahlem, Galeriehause in der Lindenstraße, Cologne, Germany
1966
Warum das Bild ‘Die großen Freunde’ ein gutes Bild ist!, Galerie Rudolf Springer, Berlin, Germany
1965
Georg Baselitz, Galerie Friedrich & Dahlem, Munich, Germany
1964
Georg Baselitz, Galerie Michael Werner, Berlin, Germany
1963
Georg Baselitz, Galerie Werner & Katz, Berlin, Germany
Selected group exhibitions
2024
Accrochage, Michael Werner Gallery, Athen, Greece
2023
The Echo of Picasso, Museo Picasso, Malaga, Spain
Austria-German Painting 1970 to 2020, Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria
No Feeling is Final: The Skopje Solidarity Collection, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Per Kirkeby & co.: Kirkeby, Baselitz, Lüpertz, Penck, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
Baselitz in the Studio, Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Hildesheim, Germany
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2022
Grenzenlos: Einblicke in ein unbekannte Privatsammlung, Kunsthaus Zofingen, Switzerland
Munch and Beyond, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Zwölf herausragende historische Bilder, Cologne, Germany
2021
Wonderland, Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria
Diversity United, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany
The Human Touch, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
An Ideal Landscape, Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison, USA
Hong Kong Exchange, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
2020
Inspiraatio – Nykytaide & Klassikot, Ateneum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Baselitz/Basquiat, Skarstedt, New York, USA
Contemporary Art: Five Propositions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
2019
Baselitz – Richter – Polke – Kiefer, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
2018
Remembering Tomorrow: Artworks and Archives, White Cube Hong Kong
Memory Palace, White Cube, London, England
2016
Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic 1945–1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Creature, The Broad, Los Angeles, USA
Hunting Scenes in Germany, Rayski/Baselitz, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, USA
Georg Baselitz + Albert Oehlen, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
2015
German Art since 1960, Essel Museum, Vienna, Austria
All the World’s Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Portraits from the École des Beaux-Arts Paris, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
Painted Blind, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA
Natural Histories, Gagosian, Athens, Greece
2014
One Way: Peter Marino, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA
BAD THOUGHTS, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Summer Presentation, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands
Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Harmony Korine, Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel, Rudolf Stingel, Franz West, Gagosian, New York, USA
Germany divided: Baselitz and his generation, British Museum, London, UK
2013
Munch by Others, Haugar Art Museum, Tønsberg, Norway
From Gesture to Language, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Stories of History: Cy Twombly and Georg Baselitz, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Albertina Contemporary, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
DISASTER / The End of Days, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
in progress, Werke aus der mumok Sammlung, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
2012
Hieroglyphs, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, USA
Zeitgespenster, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
BILDERBEDARF, The Civic and the Arts, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden, Germany
The Biennale of the Art of Painting: Man In Focus, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Electric fields: Surrealism and beyond—La collection du Centre Pompidou, The Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Self Portrait, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Grotesque Factor, Museo Picasso Málaga, Malaga, USA
2011
Selections from the Guggenheim Bilbao Collection II, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Flowers for Summer, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, USA
Folk Thing Zero, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy, London, USA
Made in Italy, Gagosian, Rome, Italy
Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art from Alumni Collections, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, USA
Un Corps Inattendu, FRAC Auvergne, France, Clermont Ferrand, France
The Pilgrim, The Tourist, The Flaneur (and The Worker), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Compass—Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2010
Kupferstichkabinett, Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, UK
Inquiring Eyes: Greensboro Collects Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, USA
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
lla Romana a Firenze: 105 anni di residenze per artisti, Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia, Italy
LE GRAND GESTE!—Informel and Abstract Expressionism, 1946–1964, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, GermanyThe Wing in the Contemporary Art, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2009
Scapa Memories, Eine Sammlung—Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Paint Made Flesh, The Phillips Collection, Washington, USA
La Escultura en la Colección del IVAM, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
DEFIANCE & MELANCHOLY—German Painting from the Dresden Albertinum / Galerie Neue Meister, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Wintry, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
War Cultures, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
2008
Zeichnungen aus dem Karl August Burckhardt-Koechlin-Fonds, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Die Skulpturen der Maler, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
made in munich—editionen von 1968-2008, Haus der Kunst München, Munich, Germany
UBS Openings: Paintings from the 1980s, Tate Modern, London, UK
Gouge: The Modern Woodcut 1870 to Now, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
XXth Century, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Auerbach, Soutine, Baselitz, Moholy Nagy, and Brandtner: Four Countries: Five Artists, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
MATRIX/REDUX, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
Blood on Paper: the Art of the Book, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The Immediate Touch: German, Austrian, Swiss Drawings from St, Louis Collections, 1946–2007, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA
Whole Lotta Love, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2007
Liebe auf den ersten Blick (Love at First Sight), Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany
Exposures: The Contemporary Self-Portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Kunst nach 1970: Aus der Sammlung der Albertina, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
A tribute—35 years of the Essl Collection, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Vienna, Austria
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1-2-3: The Collection in Focus, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
What Is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Paint It Blue, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2006
Silent Power—Baselitz, Immendorff, Lupertz, Penck, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Eye on Europe—Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Tokyo Blossoms, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, USA
Bucolica, the contemporary landscape, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Die Gesichter hinter den Bildern, The Columns, Seoul, South Korea
Mirada multiple, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2005
The Figure In and Out of Space, Gagosian, West 24 th Street, New York, USA
Benjamin Katz und Georg Baselitz, Attori a rovescio, Villa Faravelli, Imperia, Italy
Big Bang, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Stratification: An Installation of Works since 1960, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, USA
Private/Corporate III, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2004
German Art—Deutsche Kunst aus amerikanischer Sicht, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
El regreso de los Gigantes—Pintura alemana 1975-1985 ón Deutsche Bank, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
An International Legacy, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA
Shanghai Art Museum: Encounters with Modernism, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003
Embracing the Present—The UBS Art Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
Soltanto un quadro al massimo: Cucchi-Baselitz, Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy
Collection Display—Positions in Painting: 1970–1985, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Un jardin secret — Collection Monique Dorsel et Emile Lanc, Centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium
50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Obras seleccionadas—Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación “la Caixa,“ Patio Herreriano—Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain
2002
Confronting Identities in German Art, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
Meisterwerke Der Graphischen Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Man in the Middle—From the Deutsche Bank Collection, State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Time Space Motion, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
A Selection from the Erasmus Collection—Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, the Netherlands
Rough Cuts—European Figurative Prints from Gauguin to Paladino, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2001
The Modern Woodcut, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Geometrie & Gestus, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Vision, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi, Japan
A Journey Into Painting, Museo dell´ Arredo Contemporanea, Russi Ravenna, Italy
Mythic Proportions—Painting in the 1980’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
2000
The Cities Collect, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Visage: Painting and the Human Face in 20th-Century Art, National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Landschaften eines Jahrhunderts, MMK Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Wörlen, Passau, Germany
1999
Creacion y figura, Figuracion en el siglo XX, Fundacion Bancaja, Alicante, Spain
House of sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, USA
Kunst—Welten im dialog, Von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart —Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Examining Pictures—Exhibition of 56 artists links generations of painters, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
The first view, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
1998
Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
The Hess collection—new works, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Louisiana at 40, The collection Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
1997
Menschenbilder, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Magasin 3, Selections from the collection, ARKEN—Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøi, Denmark
La sculpture des peintres, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
Skulptur—Projekte in Munster 1997, Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Munster, Germany
1996
Baselitz—Lüpertz, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1995
Unser Jahrhundert, Menschenbilder—Bilderwelten, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The muse? Transforming the image of woman in Contemporary art, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Der Blick hinter den Spiegel—Bildnisse und Selbstbildnisse in der Sammlung Wurth, Museum Wurth, Kunzelsau, Germany
1994
The Essential Gesture, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, USA
German Art—Aspekte deutscher kunst 1964/1994, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
The Tomantic Spirit in German Art 1790–1990, Royal Scottish Academy and Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Hayward Gallery¸Southbank Centre, London, England; and Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
1993
Denmark: Works 1990–1993, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1992
Transform, BildObjektSkulptur im 20, Jahrhundert—Kunstmuseum und Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Documenta 9, Kassel, Germany
1991
La sculpture contemporaine après 1970, Fondation Daniel Templon Musée Temporarire, Fréjus, France
Ansichten von Figur in der Moderne: skulptur exemplarisch I, Stadtische Musee Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
1989
Einleuchten: Will, Vorstel & Simul in HH, Hamburg Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Bilderstreit—Wiederspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst 1960, Museum Ludwig in den Rheinhallen der Koln Messe, Cologne, Germany
Sculpture, Centre national des arts plastiques, Roeun, France
Arbeit in Geschichte, Geschichte in Arbeit – Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
1987
L’époque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Standing sculpture, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
1986
In Tandem: The painter/sculptor in the 20th century, Whitchapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1985
German Art in the 20th Century, Painting and Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
The European Iceberg, Creativity in Germany and Italy Today, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Wild visionary spectral-new German Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia; Art Gallery of western Australia, Perth, Australia and National Art Gallery, Wellington, Australia
1984
Legendes, A Michel Montaigne, Musée d’art contemporain CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Bella Figura, Eine skulptur-Ausstellung, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Von hier aus, Zwei Monate neue deutsche kunst in Dusseldorf, Messegelande Halle 13, Dusseldorf, Germany
An international Survey of recent painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1983
Expressions : new art from Germany, Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis, USA
1982
Zeitgeist, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
1981
A New Spirit in Painting, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
1980
Modell für eine Skulptur, German Pavillion, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
1976
Georg Baselitz,Galerieverein München, Munich, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany
1975
XIII Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
1974
Georg Baselitz, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
1972
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
1966
Die große Feude, Galerie Springer, Berlin, Germany
1962
2, Pandämonium, Berlin, Germany
1961
1, Pandämonium, Manifesto and Exhibition with Eugen Schönbeck, Berlin, Germany
