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GALLERIA MASSIMO MININI
Via Apollonio 68 – 25128 Brescia tel. 030383034 [email protected] www.galleriaminini.it
YONA FRIEDMAN
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1952 in Budapest, Hungary
Lives and works in Paris
PROJECTS
1945
- Panel Chains
1946
- Movable Boxes
1953
- Cylindrical Shelters, 1953- 1958
1956
- Manifesto Architecture Mobile
- Studies for Mobile Architecture
- Trihedral system
- Curved Panel
1957
Projects:
- Ville du Bois de Boulogne
- Span Over Blocks, 1957- 1958
1958
Projects:
- Early models Ville Spatiale, 1958- 1962
- Ville Spatiale, visualization of the principles, 1958- 2006
- Ville Spatiale, scale of the concept, 1958- 1962, fantasies on complexity
- Cabins for the Sahara
- Stacked Concrete Boxes
1959
- Paris Spatiale
- Venice of Monaco
- Tunis
- Spatial settlements
- African Projects
1962
- Villes Ponts
1963
- Bridge Town over the Channel
- American projects
- Urban voids, 1964, 1970, 2006
1967
- Flatwriter
1968
- Interior Apartment, from 1968, using his appartment as his studio, Friedman created a very special interior.
1969
- Umbrella for Les Halles
1970
- Space Chains
- Bamboo constructions,
- Ville Spatiale Nice,
- Variations on a façade with no structure
1973
- Manuals
- Urban Mechanisms 1963, 1966, 1972
1974
- Commissioned to design office building for Centre Administratif, CDC Dubonnet Byrrh, Ivry
- Pictographic Art, text written in in ideograms to be understood through all languages.
1975
- Art in the street, ‘wall paper’to embellish the city.
1975
- Une Utopie réalisable (Achievable Utopias), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (solo)
- Urban Carpet, demonstration, Paris
- An anthropomorphic theory of science, lecture General Assembly of French Computer Research Association
- Une Utopie réalisable, exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Brasilia (solo)
1976
- Honorary Fellowship of Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague
- Participation Habitat Conference, Vancouver
1978
- Lycée David d’Angers, 1978- 1981
1979
- Green Architecture
1980
- Truths, 1980- 2000: large posters with images and philosophical statements.
- Belapur
1982
- Domes
- Museum of Simple Technology
1988
- Passerelle de Musée, proposition for the use of a bridge for museum space in Paris
- Green Church, a project for a green space
- Museum without Doors, a project for a exhibition shelter
1989
- Bicentennial French Revolution
1990
- Tel Aviv Peace Bridge
- Administrative Centre EU
- Hill of the Faiths, grouped sanctuaries for different faiths.
- Teatro Piranesi, a fantasy
- Emballage chocolat, models of packaging materials
- Lamellar Structures, from 1990
- Cylindrical Towers
- Cardtravel Boxes, 1990- 2000
- MoMa
1991
- Roofs 1 and Roofs 2. Local materials, simple technology, sophisticated ideas, Paris
- Chairs
1992
- Le Train
- Macaroni
- Protein Structures, 1992, 2000
- Crumpled Sheets, 1992- 1996
- 2 walls + 1 roof
1994
- Continent City
- Amorphous Architecture, 1994, 2009
1995
- Gribouilli, 1995- 2005
1996
- Various models, models with different materials and purposes.
- Museum Modern Art Bruxelles, expanding the cultural space on the roof of a building
- Merz Structures, from 2000, playful compositions made of various materials
- Moebian Structures
- Irregular tensegrity, 2000- 2005
- Photomontage with Balkis in Paris
1997
- Musée 21 Century, proposal for a museum for future use
2001
- Mosquito Net
2002
- Huangpu River Centre Shanghai, 2002- 2007
2003
- Utopia Station, poster project for the Biennale in Venice (Italy)
- Venise Collages, fantasy figures in the town of Venice
- Ville Spatiale deco, 2003, 2004
2004
- Gribouillis London, postcards of London with scribbles
- Musée de Rue, study
- Paris Olympic, proposal for a stadium in the street
- Ville Spatiale Milan Stadium
- Vienna Ville Spatiale
2005
- Venice Projects, from 2000
2006
- Merz Principle, theme description
- Merz Structures Zurich, studies for a project at Cabaret Voltaire
- Licornes, “The unicorns, always real friends of mine.”
- Île Sequin, embellishment of an island in the Seine with a ‘nazcagram’
- Iconostase, from 2006
- Musée des Graffitis, study
- Iconostase, from 2006
2007
- Ville Pont Marseille
2008
- Balkis Island, a poetic fantasy on a an island near the North Pole, a satellite town of Paris
- Museum of Afghan Civilization, a virtual museum to preserve the cultural heritage of Afghanistan
- Brescia
2009
- Meubles plus
- Villacoublay, embellishment of Villacoublay
2010
- Binckhorst, The Hague
EXHIBITIONS AND COMPETITIONS
2012
- Musée sans bâtiment and Architecture without building, CNEAI, Chatou, France
- Architecture without building, with Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
- Entry by Yona Friedman, installation curated by Maurizio Bortolotti at the Istanbul Design Biennal, Istanbul, Turkey
- Le musée de Rue et le musée Iconostase + Architectures Mobiles, CNEAI, Chatou, France (until jan 2013)
2011
- Architecture without buildings, Galerie des Projets, Biennale de Lyon, France (solo)
- Métropole Europe et autres projets, MUSAC, Léon, Spain (solo)
- Merz World: Yona Friedman and Thomas Saraceno, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
- Une ville spatiale pour artistes, Hangar Bicocca, Milano, Italy
- ‘Gribouillis’ at A l’école. L’art pour grandir, an exhibition of 38 modern artworks and workshops in 29 schools and colleges,
organized by the Fonds municipal d’art contemporain de la Ville de Paris (FMAC), Paris, France
- …&, iconostases 25 i.s., with Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris, France (solo)
- Yona Friedman und Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
- video conference at architecture [in] ]out[ politics, The Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon, Portugal
2010
- Merz Tier, exhibition ‘Berlin-Paris’, an exchange between galleries kamel mennour, Paris, France and neugerriemschneider,
Berlin, Germany (solo)
- Up to you, Stroom, The Hague, Netherlands
- Des utopies réalisées, Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France (solo)
- Yona Friedman – La città più moderna del mondo, Sale Docks, Venice, Italy (solo)
- Spatial City: An Architecture of Idealism, Inova Milwaukee, USA / Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago, USA / MOCAD, Detroit,
USA
- Space chain structure, Art Unlimited, gallery kamel mennour, Art 43 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- EURO-CITY, Yona Friedman and Rajan V. Ritoe (NL), A trans Pavilion, Berlin, Germany
- Yona Friedman: Around the Ville Spatiale, Mala galerije, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo)
- Métropole Europe et autres projets, gallery kamel mennour, Paris, France
- The Architecture of Survival. Learning from Yona Friedman, Symposium in Buda-Pest, KÉK Hungarian Contemporary
Architecture Centre, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art and the French Institute of
Budapest, Hungary
- Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back, video lecture for Leisure&Research, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Entry for Biennale d’art contemporain de Rennes, Rennes, France
- L’architettura Mobile in Marmo, Biennale Carrara, Carrara, Italy
- Yona Friedman’s video animation Guide Book for Visitors from Outer Space, Hangar Bicocca, Milano, Italy
2009
- Graffiti Museum, commissioned by the Fondation de France and the Centre National des Arts plastiques at the Jardin Lilolila,
Paris, France
- Part 1: Autour de la Ville Spatiale: 1957-1975, kamel menour, Paris, France (solo)
- Part 2: Maquettes d’études’, studies for the Shanghai Bridges, kamel mennour, Paris, France (solo)
- A streetproject, Los Angeles, USA
- Projections constructives, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
- Etc. Balkis Island, installations and murals, streetmuseum, films with Jean-Baptiste Décavèle, Centre d’Art et du Paysage, Île de
Vassivière, France
- Licorne Eiffel, permanent work of land art (solo) and an exhibition with Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Centre d’Art et du Paysage, Île
de Vassivière, France
- Modernism as a ruin, an archaeology of the present, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
- Improvisations, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris et CNEAI, Paris, France
- Xanadu, an imaginary city, ABC (Art Berlin Contemporary), Berlin, Germany, kamelmenour, Paris, France
- Ville Spatiale. Visualization of an idea, at Fare Mondi, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
- Summer workshop at the IUAV
- Balkis Island, with Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris, France
- La Création, Synagogue-centre d’art contemporain, Delme, France (solo)
- Cartoline Postali, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy (solo)
2008
- Tu ferais ta ville, CAPC (Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France (solo)
- Manifesto Marathon Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
- 1 Architecte, 1 Bâtiment, conference series, speech on the concept of the ‘Bridge Town’ over the river Huangpu in Shanghai,
Paris, France
- Les ponts de Shanghai, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France (solo)
- Street-Museum, plexiglass presentation space for inhabitant’s exhibitions, Corso Superiore di Arti Visive, a festival in Como,
Italy
- Sueño de casa propia, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico / VIMCORSA, Córdoba, Spain (solo)
- Peripheral vision and collective, opening exhibition Museion, Bolzano, Italy
- Old Masters, P74 Centre and Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Ambition d’art, IAC Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
- Ausstellung nr. 152, Yona Friedman, space chains, lamellar structures and Merz installations, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
(solo)
- Sphères, Prototype improvisé, installations with gauze, Le Moulin, Galleria Continua, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
2007
- Yona Friedman: une production récente, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (solo)
- Utopia Realizable, Bund 18, Shanghai, China (solo)
- Dare to make your own exhibition, ‘Lamellar Structures’ and ‘Moebian Structures’, CNEAI, Chatou, France (solo)
- Habitat / Variations, BAC, CACG, CEC, Geneva, Switzerland
- Twelve animation pictures, pictures made between 1960-1963, Bordeaux, France
- Points de Vue, contribution to Floating Territories.org, the internet platform addressing international contemporary art biennales
of Istanbul, Turkey, Athens, Greece, Venice, Italy
- Sueño de casa propia, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (solo)
- About Cities, Drawing Centre, New York, USA
2006
- Merzstructures, from Merzbau to Merzstadt and Merzwelt, topic for a conference in Zurich, Switzerland
- Dis-assembly, superstructures and urban wallpaper, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
- Project for MART, lamellar structures and Merz installations, Rovereto, Italy
- Utopias Realizadas, Caac, Sevilla, Spain (solo)
- On mobility, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- What is positive? Why?, WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
- Haus der Kunst. As long as it lasts, speech about the approach of creating a new museum for Munich, Germany
2005
- Yona Friedman, CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan (solo)
- Yona Friedman, Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (solo)
- ‘Historical Dimensions and Contemporary Potential’, Symposium Merzbau, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
2004
- Scribbles / (Gribouillis), irregular wire structures projected on London City, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
- Une ville spatiale, Aedes East Extension Pavillon, Berlin, Germany (solo)
- Installation titled ‘Embellisez votre ville’ (‘Do your city’) was created using polyester packaging and situated in the colonnades
of the museum, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France
- Archiskulptur, Fondation Beyerler, Basel, Switzerland
- Optimism of Utopia. In medio stat virtus, Osservatorio sull’Architettura at the Fondazione Targetti, Florence, Italy
2003
- Un-built Cities, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
- Micro Utopias, Biennale Valencia, Spain
- Rubbish is beautiful, interpretation of the Ville Spatiale composed of polystyrene packages, and posters for the project Utopia
Station, 50th Biennal Venice, Venice, Italy
2002
- Entry with the freeway interchange combined in the Ville Spatiale and crumpled sheet as a ‘shadow-roof’ and various other
works, Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany
- Urban Creation, 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
2001
- Ville Spatiale, a ‘mural’ and a large model, 1st Yokohama Triennal, Yokohama, Japan
- The Short Century. Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany / Haus der
Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany / MoMa PS1, New York, USA / Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2000
- Competition entry for a landmark for the square in front of the central station of Milan, Italy
- Théorie et Images or Architecture Mobile, Institut Français d’Architecture, Paris, France (solo)
1999
- Structures Serving the Unpredictable, Netherlands Architecture lnstitute (NAi), Rotterdam, Netherlands (solo)
1998
- ‘The Erratic City’, documentary in the exhibition Made in France, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and Guggenheim Soho,
New York, Premises, New York, USA
1997
- Tall Building Aesthetics, lecture at a conference on high-rise buildings, London, UK
- Function follows Form, lecture at the Art Critic’s Convention, London, UK
- ‘The Erratic City’, documentary about the principles of the Ville Spatiale at the exhibition Mastering the City. 100 Years of
urban planning in Europe, Netherlands Architecture lnstitute (NAi),Rotterdam, Netherlands
1996
- The Labyrinth, entry for the Nagasaki Competition, Nagasaki, Japan
1994
- Thinking about the City, lecture in Innsbruck, Austria
1992
- Hill of the Winds, Protein Structures, further exploration of the space-chain concept, competition entry, Japan
- A Continent City, lecture in Schwerin for the European Union, Germany
1991
- Roofs for People, entry for an international design competition, with Eda Schaur, Osaka, Japan
1990
- Competition entry for the redevelopment of part of the city centre of Samarkand, Uzbekistan
- Competition entry for Maison du Japon, Paris, France
- Entry on how to teach low-cost building techniques with ‘Picture Scripts’ as used by India’s Directorate of Adult Education, in
an exhibition showing best discoveries in all fields of research over the past twenty years for developing countries. International
Research and Development Center (IRDC), Ottawa, Canada
1989
- Pavilion of Simple Hydrotechnology, designed and built with Eda Schaur for an open-air exhibition at La Villette Science
Museum, Paris, France
- Competition entry for the Tokyo International Forum, with Eda Schaur, Tokyo, Japan
- Competition entry for the National Theater, with Eda Schaur, based on the principle of the Ville Spatiale, Budapest, Hungary
1988
- Collection FRAC, Orléans, France
1986
- Extension to the Bronx Museum, proposal based on a domed-roof structure, Bronx Museum, New York, USA
- Vision der Moderne, exhibition at Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
1982
- Museum of simple technology, a presentation of selfbuilders techniques with local people, Madras (India)
- Competition entry for the Opera House, Paris, France
- Competition entry for Tête Défense, Paris, France
1979
- Competition entry for a neighborhood in Angers, France, based on principles of La Ville Spatiale
- Yona Friedman en de architectuur – samen beslissen over onze omgeving, exhibition at Stichting Wonen, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
1978
- Barefoot Architects, lecture in Indonesia
- The Self-Supporting City, lecture in Bolivia, for UNESCO
- Immigration, a Tool for Development, lecture in Sao Paulo, Brazil
1976
- Participated at the Habitat Conference with the contributions Habitat= Ford + Roof and How to settle Earth, How to Live on
Earth, Vancouver, Canada
1975
- Une Utopie réalisable (Achievable Utopias), survey of twenty years of work on the occasion of CDC project in 1974, Musée
d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (solo)
- Urban Carpet, a demonstration on how to embellish a street, St. Germaine des Prés, Paris, France
- An anthropomorphic theory of science, lecture on an anthropomorphic theory in physics to General Assembly of French
Computer Research Association
- Une Utopie réalisable, exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Brasilia, Brazil (solo)
1974
- Commissioned to design office building based on the concept of self-planning for Centre Administratif of compagnie CDC
Dubonnet Byrrh, Ivry, France
1973
- Participated at conference on futurology, Frascati, ltaly
1970
- Competition entry for the Beaubourg project (Centre Pompidou), Paris, France
- Presented the space-chain structure at the World Expo, Osaka, Japan
- Participated at conference on futurology, Kyoto, Japan
1967
- Competition entry for the Parliament House, design for a multifunctional structure, integrating public space, Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania
1966
- Une ville spatiale, Galerie J, Paris, France (solo)
1964
- Architecture without architects, MoMa, New York, USA
1963
- Art Narrative, exhibition of narrative drawings and collages, elaboration of ideas developed in the Animated Cartoons, Paris,
France (solo)
1960
- Spatial Champs Elysées, competition entry for the Medina (city centre) of Tunis, Tunisia
- GEAM (Groupe d’Études d’Architecture Mobile) exhibitions and conferences in Paris (France), Luxemburg, Amsterdam (The
Netherlands), Gelsenkirchen (Germany) and Warsaw (Poland)
1959
- Ville Spatiale, ELC, Paris (France), 1959-1960