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Imi Knoebel, Raum 19 (Room 19), 1968. As reinstalled by Helen Mirra at Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY. Collection Dia Art Foundation. Photo: Bill Jacobson.
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Wechsler, Max. "Imi Knoebel: Kunstmuseum, Winterthur." Artforum 22, no. 2 (October 1983), p. 86.
Imi Knoebel. New York: Dia Art Foundation, 1987. Texts by Franz Dahlem, Kubinski/Dubost, Katharina Schmidt, and
Johannes Stüttgen.
Schenker, Christoph. "Imi Knoebel: The Limits of Communicability." Flash Art, no. 161 (November–December 1991), pp. 103–07.
Imi Knoebel: Oeuvres de 1968 à 1996. Grenoble: Musée de Grenoble, 1996. Texts by Rudi Fuchs, Serge Lemoine, Johannes Stüttgen, and Max Wechsler.
Imi Knoebel: Genter Raum. Düsseldorf: Kulturstiftung der Länder, with the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2001. Text by Anette Kruszynski.
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| Biography |
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Imi Knoebel was born in Dessau, Germany, in 1940. From 1963 to 1971, he was a student of Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His first exhibition, IMI + IMI, with Imi Giese, a fellow student of Beuys’s, was held in Copenhagen in 1968. Since that time, Knoebel has exhibited his works in Documentas 5 (1972), 6 (1977), 7 (1982), and 8 (1987), and at Sonsbeek (1971). In 1987 Knoebel oversaw an installation of his own work, as well as that of Beuys and Blinky Palermo, for the inaugural exhibitions at Dia’s galleries on West 22nd Street in New York City. In 1996–97, a retrospective of his work traveled throughout Europe, to such venues as Haus der Kunst, Munich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Centre Julio González, Valencia. In summer 2009, he will have a major retrospective at the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. His monumental cycle, 24 Colors—for Blinky, 1977, is currently on view at Dia:Beacon. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
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