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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2024    Cobra: A Multi-headed Snake, Mohamed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rabat,     

                Marocco

    

                Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962, Grey Art Museum, NY, United

                States

                Endless Imagination, Museum Cobra, Amstelveen, the Netherlands


                Transformation, Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum, Kópavogur, IS

                Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962, Addison Gallery of American

                Art, Andover, United States
                

2023    Tajiri / Wagemaker, Mayor Gallery, London, United Kingdom 
 

                Cobra 75: Grenzeloos en vrij, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, the Netherlands

                

                35 jaar Kasteeltuinen Arcen, Arcen, the Netherlands

     

                Art at the Parc, Parc Broekhuizen, Leersum, the Netherlands

2022    Collectie JK Art Foundation, Noord Brabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands

2021    United States of Abstraction. American Artists in France, 1946-1964, Musée d'Arts de Nantes,    

                France

                United States of Abstraction. American Artists in France, 1946-1964, Musée Fabre, Montpellier,

                France

2020    Resurrected Matter - Postwar expressions in the works of Tadeusz Kantor, Shinkichi Tajiri and   

                Jaap Wagemaker, Museum of Art, Timisoara, Romania
 

                Ben Cobra, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, the Netherlands

                International Pop, Mayor Gallery, London, United Kingdom

                Meet the Icons of Modern Art, 125 years Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

      

                100 Keyworks in the Public Space: Sentinals, Venlo, the Netherlands

2019    Pinball Wizard - The  work and life of Jacqueline de Jong, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the

                Netherlands

               Signs of Freedom, Limburgs Museum/Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, the Netherlands

               Jazz era in the Fifties, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

                Istanbul Experimental film Festival, screening of The Vipers film, Istanbul, Turkey


2018    Lost, Loose, Loved: Foreign Artists in Paris 1944-1968, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

                Out of Office: Art in Business, Singer Museum, Laren, the Netherlands

                Manzoni in Holland, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, the Netherlands

 

2017     Then They Came For Me: Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII and the Demise of 

                Civil Liberties, Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, USA

                Art Zuid, fifth edition of the international Sculpture Biennale, Amsterdam, the

                Netherlands

             

                Sculptures 2017, Sculpture Garden at the Anningahof Estate, Zwolle, the Netherlands

 

2016     ZEN - Eugène Brands / Shinkichi Tajiri, Gallery Krikhaar, Salernes, France  

                Dans l'atelier, l'artiste photographié, d'Ingres à Jeff Koons, Petit Palais, Paris, France    

 

                Screening of The Vipers film during the exhibition: the Beat Generation, Centre Pompidou,

                 Paris, France    

 

                Miró & Cobra, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovak Republic  

 

                Van Armando tot Tajiri - Ontdekkingen van een verzamelaar, Jan Cunen Museum, Oss, the

                Netherlands

 

2015     Gimme Shelter, Forten en Ficties in Laagland (Gimme Shelter, Forts and Fictions in

                 Lowland), Kunstfort (Art Fort) biVijfhuizen, the Netherlands     

 

                The Wall in Our Heads, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, PA, U.S.A. (Oct. 23 – dec.13)    

                The Avantgarde Won’t Give Up - Cobra & Its Legacy, Gallery Blum & Poe, New York, USA

                 (Sep. 9 - Oct.17)    

 

                 Miro & Cobra, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, the Netherlands    

 

                 The Avantgarde Won’t Give Up - Cobra & Its Legacy, Gallery Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA

                 (Nov. 5 - Dec. 23)    

 

                 Miró & Cobra, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, the Netherlands    

 

                The World Goes Pop, Tate Modern, London, UK

 

2014     The Wall in Our Heads, 25th commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Goethe institute,

                 Washington DC, U.S.A.

2013    The World of Manga, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, the Netherlands an iniative of

                Shida  Bliek/Tenrande Foundation

  

                Ik hou van Holland (I love Holland), Dutch art after 1945, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, the

                Netherlands      

             

                Hundertwasser und Japan, Unteres Belvedere Museum (Lower Belvedere Museum), Vienna,

                 Austria. Two sculptures and the film Vipers of Tajiri were part of this exhibition    

             

                Johan van der Keuken / Up to the light. Film- maker and photographer, Eye Museum,

                Amsterdam. Presented the film Tajiri he made in 1962, 16 mm, b/w, 10 minutes.    

             

                 Hundertwasser, The Straight Line is Godless, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, the

                 Netherlands. Two sculptures and the the Vipers of Tajiri were part of this exhibition and

                 some personal letters and photos

2012     Cobra, 1000 Days of Free Art, traveling exhibition which premiered at the Sakip Sabansci

                 Museum,Istanbul,Turkey. Works are on loan from the Cobra Museum of  Modern Art,

                 Amstelveen, the Netherlands    

             

                Pop Art in Europa, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, the Netherlands   

 

                Cobra, under the eyes of a passionate. Carte blanch to Gilbert Delaine (Sous le regard d’un

                passionné. Carte blance à Gilbert Delaine), LAAC Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine,

                Dunkerque, Belgium     

             

                Tajiri meets Sabine Weiss & Leonard Freed, photography exhibition, Museum Het Valkhof,

                 Nijmegen, the Netherlands

2011     Art Zuid, second edition of the international Sculpture Biennale, Amsterdam, the

                Netherlands

2010    Vaders en Zonen (Fathers and Sons), sculptors choose sculptors, Museum Beelden aan Zee,

                Scheveningen, the Netherlands    

               

                Beeld Hal Werk, sculpture exhibition in an abandoned factory: the Kromhouthal van Stork,

                 Amsterdam-north, the Netherlands

2009     Art Zuid, first edition of the international Sculpture Biennale, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

               

                Een Stoet van Beelden (A Procession of Sculptures), ten sculptors, Kröller-Müller Museum,

                 Otterlo, the Netherlands

2008     Freedom: American statuary art, Den Haag Sculptuur 08, Lange Voorhout, The Hague, the

                 Netherlands

2005     De Paleistuin: Den Haag sculptuur 2005, contemporary Dutch sculpture, The Hague, the

                 Netherlands

 

2003     De magnetische tijd: Videokunst in Nederland 1970-1985 ( The Magnetic Time: Video art in

                 the Netherlands 1970-1985)

               

                Nederlands instituut voor Mediakunst (Dutch Institute for Media Art), Amsterdam, the

                Netherlands

    

                Cobra in the Hermitage: The past of the present, Cobra and contemporaries from the

                Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in the Hermitage's Petrovskaya Gallery, The State Hermitage

                Museum St. Petersburg, Russia

 

                Chez Zadkine: Zadkine en zijn Nederlandse leerlingen (Zadkine and his Dutch pupils), Singer

                Museum, Laren, the Netherlands

 

2002     Van Cuypers tot Dibbets, 100 years art in Limburg, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, the

                 Netherlands

    

                 Focus Paris, bekering tot abstract (Focus Paris, Conversion to Abstract), Cobra Museum of

                 Modern Art, Amstelveen, the Netherlands

 

2001    Tajiri & Family, exhibition of works by Tajiri, Ferdi, Giotta, Ryu, Tanéa and Shakuru  in Cobra

                Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, the Netherlands
              

                Tajiri & Family, ABP, Heerlen, the Netherlands


2000    Unfinished Past: coming to term with the Second World War in the visual arts of  Germany

                and the Netherlands, neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nürnberg,

                Germany     

               

                De voorstelling: Nederlandse kunst in het Stedelijk Paleis, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,

                 the Netherlands. Curator Rudi Fuchs and guest curator Queen Beatrix

1998     Cobra en de beeldhouwkunst (Cobra and Sculpture), Cobra Museum of Modern Art,

                 Amstelveen, the Netherlands  

               

                Dialogue: Shinkichi Tajiri, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Else Alfelt 1948-1998, Museum

                 Carl-Henning pedersen & else Alfelt, Herning, Denmark

1997    De kunst van het verzamelen (The Art of Collecting), Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels,

                Belgium    

               

                Blijvend in verbeelding: de verwerking van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in de beeldende kunst

                (Fixed in Imagination: the processing of World War II in the Visual Arts),

                Stichting Literatuur & Kunst, Maatschappij, at Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam and

                Zuidhollands Verzetsmuseum (Zuidhollands Resistance museum), Gouda, the Netherlands

1996     Cobra & The Stedelijk, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands    

                

                Grupo Cobra: obras de la colleccion del Stedelijk Museum de Amsterdam, curator Rudi

                 Fuchs, Fundación La Caixa, Madrid, Spain

1995     Werken op papier uit de collectie van ABN AMRO Bank (Works on paper from the collection

                of ABN AMRO Bank), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1994     Het Grote Gedicht – Nederlandse Beeldhouwkunst 1945-1994 (the Great Poem –  Dutch

                 Sculpture Art 1945-1994), Grote Kerk, the Hague, the Netherlands    

                

                Veertien Nederlandse Papierkunstenaars (Fourteen Dutch Paper Artists),  Koninklijke

                Bibliotheek Den Haag (National Library of the Netherlands), The Hague, the Netherlands

1993     Cobra Liège 93, Musée d’Art Moderne Liège, Belgium

 

1992     Art for ASAP (Amsterdam Society for Aids Prevention), exhibition and auction in Beurs van

                 Berlage, Amsterdam, the Netherlands    

                

                Het beeld van de eeuw, Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the

                 Netherlands

1990     Sierhuis and Tajiri, Sonsbeek i.A.C., Arnhem, the Netherlands

 

1989     Tajiri-students-multi-media-mail-art-exhibition, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany    

1988     Cobra 40 Years Later (Collection Stuijvenberg) nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, the  Netherlands

 

1987     Berlin von aussen (Berlin from outside), NGBK, Berlin, Germany    

                

                Cobra, Instituto Universitario Olandesa (Dutch University institute), Florence, Italy     

                

                Klasse Tajiri (Class Tajiri), Galerie Christofer Weber, Berlin, Germany                                         

               

                Cobra (collection Stuijvenberg), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

1986     Cobra (Collection Stuijvenberg), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan     

               

                Cobra, Amerikahaus (America House), Berlin, Germany

1985     Das Aktfoto, München Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany

 

1984     L'Art à Paris 1945-1966, Centre national des Art plastiques, Paris, France    

               

                COBRA (Collection Stuijvenberg), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela

1983     De bevrijding van het beeld (The Liberation of the Image), Dutch Sculpture 1945-1960,            

              Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1982     Cobra, Musée des Arts Modernes, Paris, France     

                

                Seeing Double: A survey of Contemporary Stereoscopic Imagery, VSW: Visual Studies

                 Workshop, Rochester, New York, U.S.A. a.o. Lorran Meares

                

                '60-'80 Attitudes/concepts/images, a selection from twenty years of visual arts, Stedelijk

                 Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1980     Klasse Tajiri (Class Tajiri), DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany

 

1979     Makes Machine no.9, height 580 cm. commissioned by DAF Trucks

 

1978     Fotografie in Nederland 1940-75, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1977     Beelden Buiten 1977/78, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands

 

1975     Galerie Pegasus, Berlin, Germany

 

1973    Japanese Artists in Europe, national Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan    

               

                Enkel Des Stijl, Neue Galerie im Alten Kurhaus, Aachen, Germany

1972    Kunst uit Holland (Dutch Art), Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium    

                

                Japanese Artists in Europe, national Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Japan             

               

                Kunst na 1945 (Art after 1945), Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Gent (Museum of

                Contemporary Art in Ghent), Belgium

1971    Sonsbeek buiten de perken / Sonsbeek 71, park Sonsbeek, Arnhem, the Netherlands

 

1970    World Expo, Osaka, Japan                 
    

                Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

 

1969    Tajiri, Lucebert, Appel, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland    

               

                Nelson Rockefeller Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.     

               

                Kunst und Museumverein, Wuppertal, Germany

               

                Nederlandse beeldhouwkunst '64/'69', Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands    

               

                Profile IX. Niederländische Kunst Heute, Städtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum, Germany

1968    Science Fiction, Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Germany    

               

                Reiche des Phantastischen, Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany    

               

                Dokumenta IV, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany    

               

                Parc Middelheim, 6th Biennale for sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium

1967    Galerie Krikhaar, Amsterdam, the Netherlands     

               

                Expo 67, Montreal, Canada

1966     Cobra 1948/51,Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands    

               

                Parc Sonsbeek, 5th international sculpture exhibition, Arnhem, the Netherlands     

               

                Beelden Buiten (Sculptures Outdoor), dépendance galerie Espace, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1964     Dokumenta III, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany    

               

                Balans (Balance), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, the Netherlands     

               

                Collectie Bo Boustedt, beeldhouwwerken, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands    

              

                12 beeldhouwers uit Nederland, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium

1963    Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan. Awarded Mainichi Shibum prize for sculpture    

               

                150 jaar Nederlandse kunst, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands     

               

                Beeldhouwkunst 1813-1963 in Nederland, Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, the Netherlands

1962    World Expo, Seattle, U.S.A. in the American section of the exhibition Art since 1950    

               

                The 31st Biennale of Venice, Dutch Pavillion, Venice, Italy. Together with the painters

                Jaap Wagemaker en Corneille

1961     Art of Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), New York, U.S.A.   

               

                Bewogen beweging, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands     

              

                10 Sculptors, new London Gallery, London, England    

               

                Tajiri and Lucebert, Galerie Blance, Stockholm, Sweden    

               

                 Parc Middelheim, 6th Biennale for sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium    

               

                International Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture, Carnegie institute,

  Pittsburgh, U.S.A.    

              

                17e Salon de Mai, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands    

               

                Kunst van Heden (Art of now), Stedelijk Museum  Amsterdam, the Netherlands    

               

                 Yasse Tabuchi, Shinkichi Tajiri, Ulf Trotzig, S.d.S. Hallen, Malmö, Sweden

1960     America Cultural Center (Centre Culturel Americain), Paris, France    

               

                Sculpture of the 20th century, Grosvenor Gallery, London, England    

               

                L’Art Hollandais après la guerre, palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgium

1959     Documenta II, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany    

               

                Parc Middelheim, 5th Biennale for sculpture, Antwerp, Belgium     

               

                Group A’dam, Galerie im Hause Behr, Stuttgart, Germany    

               

                Verbondenheid der kunsten liga nieuw beelden, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1958     Parc Sonsbeek, 4th international sculpture exhibition, Arnhem, the Netherlands    

               

                Group '53, Düsseldorf, Germany    Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.    

               

                Trends in Contemporary Dutch Art, Arts Council, London, England     

               

                Facetten van de Hedendaagse Beeldende Kunst, Rijksmuseum Twente, Enschede,

                 the Netherlands

1957    Phases, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands    

               

                Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany    

               

                Nederlandse Beeldhouwkunst, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

1956     Troisième Exposition Phases, Galerie Klèber, Paris, France    

               

                5 sculpteurs (5 sculptors), Galerie de Beaune, Paris, France

1954     Phases, Galerie Facchetti, Paris, France    

                

                 American Artist, University Illinois, Illinois, U.S.A.    

               

                Tajiri en Sugai, Galerie d’Aujourd’hui, Brussels, Belgium

1953     Galerie Hutter, Basel, Switzerland    

                

                 VI Salon d ’Octobre, Galerie Craven, Paris, France     

                

                Galerie du dragon, Paris, France

1951     Zimmergalerie Franck, Frankfurt, Germany     

                

                Salon de Mai, Paris, France    

                

                Salon des Jeunes Sculpteurs, Paris, France    

               

                Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Paris, France     

               

                The 2nd International Exhibition of Experimental Art (COBRA), palais des Beaux Arts, Liège,

                Belgium

1950     Tajiri et Doucet, Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris, France

1949     Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France          

              

                1st International Exhibition of Experimental Art (COBRA), Stedelijk Museum  Amsterdam,

                the Netherlands    

               

                Galerie Saint-placide, Paris, France

               

                Galerie de Mai, Paris, France

1947    Chicago Artists and Vicinity, Art institute of Chicago, U.S.A.
              

                Momentum, Chicago, U.S.A.

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