1934
Mary Bauermeister is born on September 7 in Frankfurt am Main as daughter of Wolf Bauermeister, professor of anthropology and genetics, and the singer Laura Bauermeister. 1946-54
Bauermeister attends secondary school in Kalk, a district of Cologne. The drawing teacher Günther Ott recognizes her artistic talent and fosters it. She carries out initial works in charcoal, coloured pencil and pastel on paper. 1954-57
Bauermeister begins her studies at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm. There she attends the basic courses taught by Max Bill and Helene Nonné-Schmidt, a student of Paul Klee’s. However, she cannot reconcile the school’s rigorously constructive orientation with her own ideas. As she writes to Günther Ott, “The only artworks which receive serious attention here are constructed, mathematically ‘provable’, rectangular …. “. She leaves Ulm after one semester and registers at the Staatliche Schule für Kunst und Handwerk in Saarbrücken as a student of Otto Steinert. There she experiments with various photographic techniques. In 1956 Bauermeister returns to Cologne, where she takes up residence as a free-lance artist and supports herself with the sale of her pastels.
1960
Bauermeister rents a flat in the attic of Lintgasse 28, in the heart of the Old Town of Cologne. Concerts and exhibitions take place there between March 26, 1960 and October 14, 1961. The Atelier Mary Bauermeister is firmly associated with cuttingedge musical and artistic events. With its new radio studio and the Studio für elektronische Musik, the broadcasting company WDR in Cologne is as much a magnet for musicians from all over the world as the IGNM Festival für Neue Musik. At night, after the WDR events, the international audience and artists from Europe and the U.S. go to Bauermeister’s studio where, within the framework of a Contre-Festival, many artists perform who have been rejected by the official IGNM jury. The intermediate events in the Bauermeister studio can be considered the first performances and provide the artists – who will later join to become the Fluxus movement – with important impulses. Very much to the benefit of both artists’ work, Bauermeister forms a close friendship with Karlheinz Stockhausen, who likewise participates in the studio concerts. 1961
Bauermeister attends Stockhausen’s composition course at the lnternational Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, where she composes her painterly conception, a painters’ score or instructions for action inspired in part by Stockhausen’s parameter concept. 1962
Bauermeister’s works are shown in a museum for the first time. Jan Willem Sandberg, the director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, invites Bauermeister and Stockhausen for a joint intermedia presentation. Works by Bauermeister dating from 1958 to 1962 are shown, tape recordings of electronic music by Stockhausen and other composers are played during the museum’s opening hours, and his scores placed on display in glass cases in the immediate vicinity of her artworks. The exhibition travels to the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, to the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and, in early 1963, to the Groninger Museum.
Concurrently with this presentation, Sandberg also mounts the exhibition Four Americans with works of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Alfred Leslie and Richard Stankiewicz, including Rauschenberg’s famous Monogram. Bauermeister is so impressed by Rauschenberg’s and Johns’s works that she decides to move to New York, where she go in early October 1962. 1963
In December 1963, Bauermeister signs a contract with Galeria Bonino. She takes part in the group show 2 sculptors, 4 painters. With Alfredo and Fernanda Bonino’s support she accomplishes her breakthrough on the New York art market. AII of the prominent New York museums purchase her works; she is represented in all important exhibitions. The art critic Brian O’Doherty writes about the young artist in the New York Times: “lt will be interesting to see if she has the intelligence and cunning to cope with the major success she is obviously going to have.” 1964-1965
Mary Bauermeister – Paintings and Constructions is the title of her first solo exhibition at Galeria Bonino in March 1964, at which, among other things, the first lens boxes are presented. The second solo exhibition of the “large, six-foot-tall Lorelei”, as she is called by The New Yorker magazine, takes place the following year, now devoted primarily to the lens boxes. 1966-1969
Her third solo exhibition at Galleria Bonino in 1967 is likewise devoted above all to the lens boxes. In the 1960s, in addition to the exhibitions at her gallery, Bauermeister takes part in numerous group exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe, among others the Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture and Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Towards a Cold Poetic lmage at the Schwarz Gallery in Milan, and Pictures to Be Read/Poetry to Be Seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, all taking place in 1966. In their exhibitions, catalogues and inventories, the American museums regularly refer to Bauermeister as an American artist. She takes part in numerous exhibitions of younger-generation American artists. In 1967 she marries Stockhausen in San Francisco. 1970
In the early 1970s Bauermeister takes up primary residence in Europe. Already in 1968, in Rösrath outside of Cologne, she has had a house built for herself surrounded by a large garden which she incorporates into her artistic work. Owing to the high demand for her works, she continues to visit New York regularly. 1972
Bauermeister has been working as an artist for twenty years when the Mittelrhein Museum in Koblenz presents the first retrospective of her oeuvre. Altogether 105 paintings, objects and works on paper of the years 1952 to 1972 are shown. Also in 1972, she has her first solo exhibition at the Arturo Schwarz Gallery in Milan. 1980 – 1990
Already in the late seventies, Bauermeister begins working with water surfaces, crystals and prisms to design pleasure and meditation gardens. She also works in the area of site-specific art, creating, for example, the Tree of Life for the Goethe lnstitute in London. Between 1984 and 1986 she designs a garden for the Kölnische Rückversicherung; for the Federal German Foreign Office in Bonn she develops a Sculpture in a Pleasure Garden.
In 1985, Bauermeister participates in the lnternational Crystallography Congress at Universität Bielefeld. There she presents her works in a solo exhibition and discusses “symmetries and serial processes in art and music” with members of the mathematics faculty.
In 1986 at the Postnuklearen Aktionstage (post-nuclear action days) in Wuppertal, Bauermeister joins political scientists and art historians to discuss the “socio-political relevance of contemporary art”. The same year, the Cologne Kunstverein shows the exhibition Die sechziger Jahre. Kölns Weg zur Kunst-Metropole – vom Happening zum Kunstmarkt (The Sixties – Cologne’s Road to Becoming an Art Metropolis – From Happening to Art Market) in which Bauermeister likewise plays a prominent role. Two works by Bauermeister are included in the 1988 exhibition Return to the Object: American and European Art from the Fifties and Sixties presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. 1990 – 2000
In the nineties, Bauermeister continues to participate in important exhibitions, as the group show at the Staempfli Gallery in New York and the exhibition Fluxus Virus at the Temporäres Museum Kaufhof Parkhaus in Cologne. In 1995 the Museum of Modern Art of New York invites her to participate to the Artist’s Choice -Elisabeth Murray, Modem Women. In 1998 her works are on view in the Kölnische Galerie der Wünsche at the Stadtmuseum of Köln. 2000
The Deutsches Buch and Schriftenmuseum of Leipzig shows Bauermeister’s works in the exhibition Nicht ans Wort gebunden. 2002
The Rosenkrantz collection is shown at the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal; Bauermeister is one of the represented artists. 2004
On the occasion of Bauermeister’s seventieth birthday, the Cologne Museum Ludwig purchases the “sewn picture” from the tripartite workgroup Needless Needles of 1964. 2007 – 2009
With her “sewn picture” Needless Needles, Bauermeister is represented in the exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, presented at MoCA in Los Angeles, and subsequently at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York and finally at the Vancouver Artgallery in 2009. 2010
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen am Rhein presents Welten in der Schachtel. Worlds in a Box, a solo show dedicated to Mary Bauermeister. 2012 – 2013
In 2012 the Museum Fluxus+ of Potsdam presents a solo show Zopf ab dedicated to Bauermeister. The same year the Frauen Museum in Bonn organizes Retrospektive, an important retrospective exhibition of the artist.
With the intention to analize the dynamics of social and political positions within the history of art and the themes of emancipation of art since the early fifties, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum of Düren presents the exhibition Mary Bauermeister. Die 1950er Jahre. 2014
Bauermeister takes part in several group shows in the US and in Europe, including Spielobjekte – Die Kunst der Möglichkeiten at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, Intermedial at 401contemporary in Berlin, At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington.
Il Museum Fluxus+ in Potsdam mounts a solo exhibition Kunst(t)träume dedicated to Mary Bauermeister. 2015
Smith College Museum of Art of Northampton presents Mary Bauermeister. The New York Decade, an exhibition dedicated to the New York period and the works created between 1962 and the early 1970s.
In the same year the Mittelrheimuseum of Koblenz opens the exhibition Mary Bauermeister – Da Capo – Werke aus sechzig Jahren, that focuses on her works of the Sixties.
Bauermeister participates to the group show Zero – Die internationale Kunstbewegung der 50er und 60er Jahre organized by the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. 2016
Bauermeister’s works are shown in China and South Korea. The exhibition Horizonte – Mary Bauermeister und chinesische Künstler is presented at Nanjing Xinchen Wenhua Yishu Zhongxin (Whenshine Galerie), at Nanjing Xuanhe Meishuguan (Xuanhe Galerie) and finally at Goethe Institut in Beijing.
Nam June Paik Art Center of Seoul invites Bauermeister to participate to the group show Point – Line – Plain – TV.
1962
Mary Bauermeister schilderijen & Karlheinz Stockhausen electronische muziek, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, The Netherlands; Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands; Stedejilk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 1964
Bauermeister: Paintings and Constructions, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
Drawing Exhibition (exhibition in conjunction with Karlheinz Stockhausen concert), Jerrold Morris International Gallery, Edward Johnson Building, Macmillian Theatre, Toronto, Canada 1965
Large Six-Foot Tall Lorelei, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
Bauermeister: Paintings and Constructions, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY 1966
Galeria Bonino, New York, NY 1967
Bauermeister: Paintings and Constructions, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY 1969
Galeria Bonino, New York, NY 1970
Mary Bauermeister: paintings and constructions, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
Art Center, Summit, NJ 1971
mary bauermeister. zeichnungen konstruktionen, Galerie Atelier 67, Ulm, Germany
Mary Bauermeister: Überbleibsel, Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne, Germany
howevercalls, Galerie Judith Weingarten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1972
Petschek Arts, London, UK
Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
Mary Bauermeister: Gemälde und Objekte, Mittelrhein Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Mary Bauermeister: Recent Paintings and Constructions, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
Mary Bauermeister, Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy 1973
Mary Bauermeister, Galerie Schloss Remseck, Neckar Rems, Germany 1974
20 Jahre Retrospektive Mary Bauermeister Gemälde und Objekte 1954-74, Rathaus Bensberg, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Mary Bauermeister, Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1978
Mary Bauermeister Oeuvre d’art, Galerie La Cité, Luxembourg, Luxembourg 1979
Mary Bauermeister, Galerie Rolandshof, Bonn, Germany 1980
Mary Bauermeister Retrospektive 1955-1980, Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders (now Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders), Bergisch Gladbach, Germany 1981
Galerie La Cité, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
1986
Lichtkreuze – Kruezbäume – Baumskulpturen, Haus Stammen, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany 1987
Mary Bauermeister, Galerie Rolandshof, Remagen-Rolandseck, Germany 1991
Galeria Bonino, New York, NY 1992
Galeria Bonino, New York, NY 2002
Galerie Inge Becker, Cologne, Germany 2003
Mary Bauermeister: Auf den Punkt gebracht – Arbeiten von 1955 bis 2002, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany 2004
Needless Needles, Zum 70. Geburtstag von Mary Bauermeister, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Mary Bauermeister: All things involved in all other things, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany 2009
Mary Bauermeister: Aus meinem Skizzenbuch – Ein Tag in New York, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany 2010
Welten in der Schachtel: Mary Bauermeister und die experimentelle Kunst der 1960er Jahre, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany 2012
Mary Bauermeister: Zopf ab, Museum Fluxus+, Potsdam, Germany
Mary Bauermeister. Kulturgewächs – Spektrum über 60 Jahre, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany 2013
Mary Bauermeister. Die 1950er Jahre, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum, Düren, Germany
Zopf ab, Gold oben!, Kunstverein Nümbrecht, Germany 2014
Die Visionärin (The visionary), 401contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Kunst(t)träume, museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam Germany 2015
Mary Bauermeister – Da Capo – Werke aus sechzig Jahren, Mittelrheimuseum, Koblenz, Germany
Mary Bauermeister. The New York Decade, Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA 2016
Farbrausch (Blaze of Colour), 401contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Mary Bauermeister: Omniverse, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Mary Bauermeister: Point the way: with different material, Museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam, Germany
Horizonte – Mary Bauermeister und chinesische Künstler, Nanjing Xinchen Wenhua Yishu Zhongxin (Whenshine Galerie), Nanjing Xuanhe Meishuguan (Xuanhe Galerie), Goethe Institut, Beijing, China
Querschnitt durch das Oeuvre der Künstlerin Mary Bauermeister, Museum Fluxus+, Potsdam, Germany
Mary Bauermeister, Galerie Kirchgasse, Steckborn, Switzerland
Farbrausch, Kunstinitiative Wurzeln und Flügel e.V., Schloss Reuschenberg, Neuss, Germany 2017
Pli Score Pli, Kunstmuseum Solingen, Germany
Mary Bauermeister 1 + 1 = 3, Studio Gariboldi, Milan, Italy
Mary Bauermeister: Das ernste Spiel – die Chiffernschrift von Natur und Transzendenz, himmel und himmel Gallery, Munich, Germany
Mary Bauermeister – Zeichen, Worte, Universen, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Mary Bauermeister: No Fighting on Christmas. The air-conditioned nightmare, DavisKlemmGallery, Wiesbaden, Germany 2019
Mary Bauermeister: Live in Peace or Leave the Galaxy, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1961
Opening Exhibition Moltkestr, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany
Der Geist der Zeit in Malerei und Plastik, Atelier Neufert, Sachsenturm, Cologne, Germany
originale. musikalisches theater, Atelier Bauermeister Lintgasse, Cologne, Germany 1962
Ars Viva, Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany; Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
30 deutsche Maler: Situation 1962, Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Sommerausstellung (together with Waldemar Grzimek), Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany 1963
2 Sculptors, 4 Painters, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
International Artists’ Summer Seminar, Gallery Lounge, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ; Riverside Museum, New York, NY
Schrift en beeld, Art and writing / L’Art et l’ecriture, Schrift und Bild, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany 1964
1964 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Box Show, Byron Gallery, New York, NY
Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
World Art Show, Washington Square Galleries, New York, NY
Museum of Art, Science and Industry (now the Discovery Museum), Bridgeport, CT
“Old Hundred”: Selections from The Larry Aldrich Contemporary Collection, 1951-1964: Sculpture, The Larry Aldrich Museum (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT 1965
Selected Works by Contemporary New Jersey Artists, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
1+1=3: An Exhibition of Retinal and Perceptual Art, Lower Gallery, University Art Museum of the University of Texas (now the Blanton Museum of Art), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Highlights of the Season 1964/65, The Larry Aldrich Museum (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT
Young America 1965: Thirty American Artists Under Thirty-Five, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
John S. Newberry: A Memorial Exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Arnot Art Gallery (now Arnot Art Museum), Elmira, NY
44 Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions: Assemblage, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Deceived Eye, Fort Worth Art Center (now the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth), Fort Worth, TX
Stone and Crystal Exhibition, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
The Box Show, Byron Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Boxes and Wall Sculpture, RISD Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Paintings and Sculpture from the Contemporary Collection, 1951-1964, of The Larry Aldrich Museum, organized by the Fine Arts Committee of the Friends of Channel 13-WNDT, Alexander’s Department Store, Fifth Floor Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings from the Collection of Betty Parsons, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
Art Today: Kinetic and Optic, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Premio Nacional e Internacional. Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Centro de Artes Visuales Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculptors’ Drawings, School of Art Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1966
European Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; DeCordova Museum (now the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum), Lincoln, MA
Artists for Core, Grippi & Waddell Gallery, New York, NY
2e Salon international de Galerien pilotes Lausanne. Artistes et découvreurs de notre temps, Museé Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland
Art in Process: The Visual Development of a Structure, Contemporary Study Wing, Finch College Museum of Art, Finch College, New York, NY; Eleanor Rigelhaupt Gallery, Boston, MA
American Landscapes: A Changing Frontier, National Collection of Fine Arts (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
American Painting, 1966, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
The Katonah Gallery (now the Katonah Museum of Art), Katonah, NY
Contemporary Art USA, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Science (now the Chrysler Museum of Art), Norfolk, VA
Annual Exhibition 1966: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Drawings from the Museum Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The First Flint Invitational: An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Flint Institute of Arts at DeWaters Art Center, Flint, MI
Twenty Years of American Sculpture 1946-1966: From the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Monmouth Museum, Asbury Park, NJ
50 Op-Pop Prints, Closson’s Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Mary Bauermeister, Marcelo Bonevardi, Robert Breer, Pietro Cascella, Fernandez-Muro, Armando Morales, Alicia Penalba, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
Maximum 12 x 20, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
Exhibition of Works to Benefit Channel 13, Finch College Museum of Art, Finch College, New York, NY
Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY
Towards A Cold Poetic Image, Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy 1967
1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art (now Carnegie Museum of Art), Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Pictures to be Read/Poetry to be Seen, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
VI Biennale Internationale d’Arte, Venice, Italy
Selection 1967: Recent Acquisitions in Modern Art, University Art Gallery (now Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive), University of California, Berkeley, CA
Art for your Collection VI, RISD Museum of Art (now RISD Museum), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Nuove tecniche d’Immagine, 6. Biennale D’Arte Repubblica Di San Marino, Palazzo Dei Congressi, City of San Marino, San Marino, Italy
N.Y. – L.A. Drawings of the 1960’s, Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; University of New Mexico Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Collectors 1967, Akron Art Institute (now Akron Art Museum), Akron, OH
The First Kent Invitational of Painting and Sculpture, School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Art from New Jersey – 1967, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
The Range of Art, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Fifty One Paintings Sculptures and Drawings, Benefit Auction for The Artist’s Technical Research Institute, The Artist Technical Research Institute, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, NY 1968
1968 Annual Exhibition; Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Graphics ’68, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Third Annual Art from New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Sculpture, murals & fountains: an anthology of contemporary art from the works of one hundred and sixteen artists from twenty-nine nations and six continents, HemisFair ’68 (1968 World’s Fair), San Antonio, TX
Listening to Pictures, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Art of Organic Forms, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Mary Bauermeister, Fletcher Benton, Agostino Bonalumi, Marcelo Bonevardi, Robert Breer, Pietro Cascella, Antonio Fernandez-Muro, Gyula Kosice, Ronald Mallory, Umberto Mastroianni, Armando Morales, Alicia Penalba, Galeria Bonino, New York, NY
Wragge Room, Bonwit Teller Department Store, New York, NY 1969
Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Black/White: Exhibition of Paintings and Constructions, Van Wickle Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Society for Contemporary Art 29th Annual, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Superlimited: Boxes and Things, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Contemporary American Painting & Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Painting and Sculpture Today 1969, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Contemporary Art: Acquisitions 1966–1969, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1970 National Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art (now San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), San Francisco, CA
The Owens-Corning Collection, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH 1970
Arts from New Jersey 1970, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
January ‘70: Contemporary Women Artists, Hathorn Gallery (now The Schick Art Gallery), Skidmore College, Saragota Springs, NY
Popular Mechanics in Printmaking, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Benefit exhibition for Preventative Medicine Strang Clinic, Pepsi Cola Building, 500 Park Avenue, New York, NY
The Permanent Collection–Women Artists, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Selections from the Guggenheim Collection, 1900-1970, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 1971
Artistas de la Galeria Bonino de New York, Estudio Actual, Caracas, Venezuela
Park East Synagogue Art Show, Park East Synagogue, New York, NY
Drawings USA/71, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
Contemporary Selections 1971, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
31st Annual Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Drawings in St. Paul from the permanent collection of the Minnesota Museum of Art, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
Rudolph Collection, Williams College Museum of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Multiples: The First Decade, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Introduction to artists recently joining the gallery; Mary Bauermeister, Morris Broderson, Cristóbal Toral, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY 1972
III. Bienal de Arte Coltejer, Medellin, Columbia
Women: A Historical Survey of Works by Women Artists, Salem Fine Arts Center (now the Robert E. Elberson Fine Arts Center), Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Women in Art: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Art Gallery, Brainerd Hall (now the Gibson Gallery), State University College (now The State University of New York at Potsdam-SUNY Potsdam), Potsdam, NY
Unique/Multiples: Sculpture/Photos, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Movement, Optical Phenomena and Light: Kinetic and Optic Painting and Sculpture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
After Surrealism: Metaphors and Similes, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida State University, Sarasota, FL
Selections from the The Aldrich Museum Collection and Paintings on Paper: Selections from the Collection, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT
Galerie Pelart, Kassel, Germany
American Woman Artists Show, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Focus on Women, Van Deusen Gallery, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Szene Rhein-Ruhr ’72, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Critics’ Choice, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
Opus Demercificandi, Centro Tool, Milan, Italy 1973
Bildhauerinnen, Berlin, Germany
Tableaux Modernes. Art Contemporain, Espace Cardin, Paris, France 1974
Within the Decade: Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Permanent Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The 20th Century – 35 American Artists, Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy
Ars Intermedia, Galerie Les Contemporains Genval-Lac with Galerie Kümmel Cologne, Genval, Belgium
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 1964-1974: Selections from the Collection, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT
Multiples: ein Versuch die Entwicklung des Auflagenobjektes darzustellen = An Attempt to Present the Development of the Object Edition, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, Germany 1975
Feminie 75, UNESCO, Paris, France
JP1: Art International, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
A Change of View, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT
Masterworks in Wood: The Twentieth Century, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1976
Bosces, Museé de l’art Moderne, Paris, France
Fall Selections 1976: the Museum and its Resources. Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection, New Gifts and Loans, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT 1977
Private Images: Photographs by Sculptors, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles,CA
Künsterlinnen International, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Künstlerinnen international 1877-1977, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
Fall, 1977: Contemporary Collectors, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT
Spacescapes, Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY 1978
Turm – Lebensbaum, Goethe Institut, London, UK
Selections from the Collections 1978: New Acquisitions–Gifts and Loans, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT
The Sixties Collection Revisited, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT 1979
Kölner Künstler persönlich vorgestellt von Mitgliedern aus Vorstand und Ausschuss des Kölnischen Kunstvereins, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany 1980
Printed Art: A View of Two Decades, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Sculptural Forms, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT
Signale aus dem Verborgenen: Magisch-Meditatives in der Kunst von Mary Bauermeister Rita Furore Ingeborg Lüscher, Galerie Rolandshof, Remagen-Rolandseck, Germany
Drawings in Saint Paul: Selections from the Miriam B. and Malcolm E. Lein Collection, Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota 1981
Fluxus: Aspekte des Phänomens, Kunst- und Museumsverein, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Bildhauertechniken, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany 1982
Meditationsecke (Happening), Kunstzentrum Wachsfabrik, Rodenkrichen, Germany
Fästwel -mit F. Lauten und P. Fuchs, Kürten, Germany
Medium Papier, Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders (now Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders), Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany
Exhibition of works by women artists as part of “Women’s Week,” Denison University Art Galleries, Denison University, Granville, OH
Galerie Burg Zweiffel, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany 1983
Twenty Contemporary Women, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 1984
Intermedia: Between Painting and Sculpture, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (now The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum), Ridgefield, CT 1985
Vom Klang der Bilder: die Musik in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Kunst und Technik, Bonn, Köln, Aachen, Augsburg, München, Düsseldorf, Germany
Licht, Zeit, Bewegung, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Aspects of Constructivism, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Atrium Gallery, Schenectady, NY 1986
Die 60er Jahre – Kölns Weg zur Kunstmetropole; vom Happening zum Kunstmarkt, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Von Salatköpfen und Neutönern, WDR Produktion mit Mary Bauermeister, Bazon Brock, Hans G Helms, Allan Kaprow, Thomas Schmidt, Arthus Caspari, Jörg Immendorf im Rahmen der Eröffnung des Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany
New Acquisitions and Permanent Collection, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ
Relief Sculpture: Selections from the Museum’s Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Odd and Intense, Pictogram Gallery, New York, NY
Archetype: Eastern Cultures – Western Art of the Twentieth Century, Ethnographic Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Assemblage: Piece by Piece, Cox Fine Arts Center, Ohio State Fair, Columbus, OH
Accent on Sculpture: Small-scale Works from the Permanent Collection, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH 1988
The Art of the Object of the Sixties, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Kunst der 60er und 70er Jahre, Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders (now Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders), Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany 1992
Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
Fluxus Virus, Temporäres Museum, Praterinsel, München, Germany
Contemporary European Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Transparency, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
Shizen: Exhibition of German Contemporary Art, Japanese-German Center, Berlin, Germany, Aula Carolina, Aachen, Germany; Gallery Yamaguchi SOKO, Gallery Tsubaki; TOTO Super Space Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Galerie Villa Rolandseck, Bonn, Germany 1993
Fluxus Virus 1962-1992, Temporäres Museum, Kaufhof Parkhaus Köln, Cologne, Germany;Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Haus zum Roten Ochsen, Erfurt, Germany; Smolny Kathedrale, St. Petersburg, Russia; Haus des Künstlers, Moscow, Russia
In the Spirit of Fluxus, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; Wexner Center for the Visual Arts (now Wexner Center for the Arts), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain 1994
Worlds in a Box, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Favorite Things: The Community Selects, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 1995
Artist’s Choice: Elizabeth Murray – Modern Women, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Altered and Irrational: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Transparenz – Verdichtung, Weisse Galerie, Cologne, Germany 1996
Ruhm: Werke von Künstlerinnen in nordrhein-westfälischen Museen, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany 1998
Fazit, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Kölnische Galerie der Wünsche, Kölnische Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany
Return to the Object: American and European Art from the Fifties and Sixties, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Essence of the Orb, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
The Big Picture: American Art Since 1950, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Mary’s und Ben’s Lustspiel, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany 1999
Wasserklage, Kunst- und Musikperformance, Rösrath, Germany
WordVolume, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Carved, Modeled, Welded, Assembled, Drawn: Sculptors’ Works in the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, UB Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2000
Museum der Wünsche, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany
Nicht ans Wort gebunden, Deutsches Buch und Schriftenmuseum, Leipzig, Germany
positions, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
The Vera, Silvia and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2002
As time goes by, Kunstverein Region Heinsberg, Germany
Nature Art, Birdland, Madison, CT
Sammlung Rosenkrantz, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Fluxus und Freunde: Sammlung Maria und Walter Schnepel/Fluxus and Friends: The Maria and Walter Schnepel Collection, Neues Museum Weserburg (now Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst), Bremen, Germany; Fondazione Morra, Naples, Italy; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Stille Betrachtung, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Kleine Formate, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany 2003
Skulpturen zum Frieden, Leichingen, Germany
American Sculpture from the FIA’s Collection, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI 2004
25 Jahre Rösrather Künstler, Alte Lederfabrik, Rösrath, Germany
Contemporary American Sculpture: Collection of the FIA, Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw, MI 2005
Broken Glass: Glas in Kunst en Architectuur, Glaspaleis Heerlen, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Dual Vision: The Simona and Jerome Chazen Collection, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY 2006
Webs, Loops, and Skeins in Modern and Contemporary Art, RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
ConFLUXaction, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Besonderheiten / Exceptionals, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany 2007
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; PS.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), Long Island City, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2008
To become more like music, Mummery+Schnelle, London, United Kingdom 2009
Twentieth-Century Prints from the Collection, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
That 70’s Show, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
“Privat”: Wuppertal Sammler der Gegenwart im Von der Heydt-Museum, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany 2010
Eye Rhymes, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Power Play, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Anarchy of Silence: John Cage and Experimental Art, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway; SCHUNCK Museum, Heerlen, The Netherlands 2011
Surveyor, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA 2012
Abstract Expressionism: Then & Now, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
On the Road to Fluxus, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Nostalgia is an Extended Feedback, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, South Korea
Rationale III: Raum + Bau. Architektinnen, Planerinnen, Künstlerinnen der Konkreten Kunst, Stadtkritik und Bonnnova, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Best of, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
SchlussPunkt, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany 2013
Shakers & Movers, Galerie Veneklasen Werner, Berlin
Nur Hier: Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Ankäufe von 2007 bis 2011, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH, Bonn, Germany
Gut aufgelegt. Die Sammlung Heinz Beck, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
RESONANZEN: Mary Bauermeister – Jakob Mattner, 401contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Wonder Room: Into the Woods, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH 2014
Spielobjekte – Die Kunst der Möglichkeiten, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
Intermedial, 401contemporary, Berlin, Germany
At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Single Moms – alleinstehende Mütter und ihre Lebenswelten, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
ornamental structures, Kunstverein Worms, Worms, Germany
transparent – durchsichtig – transluzid – durchscheinend, Kunstinitiative Wurzeln und Flügel e.V., Schloss Reuschenberg, Neuss, Germany
LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn, Germany 2015
Zero – Die internationale Kunstbewegung der 50er und 60er Jahre, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Frauen in Krieg und Frieden. 15-45-15. Geschichte, Dokumente, zeitgenössische Kunst, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
accompagnata, Galerie Rosemarie Bassi, Remagen, Germany
It’s Never Just Black or White, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY 2016
Flux-us, CUBO Centro Unipol, Bologna, Italy
Neupräsentation der Sammlung, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Das Neue, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Point – Line – Plain – TV, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, South Korea
Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
It’s Elemental: Water, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Rendezvous der Künstler – Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Helmut Klewan, Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg, Schaezlerpalais, Augsburg, Germany; Regional Gallery in Liberec (Oblastní Galerie Liberec), Liberec, Czech Republic 2017
Präsent: zwischen den Zeilen : Kunst in Briefen von Niki de Saint Phalle bis Joseph Beuys, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Sound Goes Image: Partituren zwischen Musik und Bildender Kunst, Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenburg, Germany
Spielraum: Kunst, die sich verändern lässt, Landesgalerie Linz, Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseums, Linz, Austria; Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
The Time Is N♁w, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Masterclass: A Survey of Work from the Twentieth Century, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Supernature, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Katharina von Bora: Von der Pfarrfrau zur Bischöfin – Die Geschichte der widerlichen Reformation – Künstlerpaare, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
The Klewan Collection: Portrait(s) of Modernism, Orangerie, Lower Belvedere, The Belvedere, Vienna
aRtoRT, AdK Arbeitskreis der Künstler e.V. Bergisch Gladbach, Technologie Park, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany 2018
Fountain of Youth, ESPE (École supérieure du professorat et de l’éducation), Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Light, Line, Color and Space, UB Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Alma Thomas: The Light of the Whole Universe, Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Objects Like Us, The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
KÖLN 68! Protest. Pop. Provokation, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany 2019
Art of Defiance: Radical Materials, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
“Cry Gold and See Black,” curated by Julie Mehretu, Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
33 Positionen in einer Aussergewöhnlichen Ausstellung von Werken Unterschiedlichster Materialien und Techniken, Kunst Kabinett Hespert, Reichshof, Germany
Spiritual by Nature, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Galeria Bonino, organized by Fundación Espigas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Centro de Promoción en Nueva York, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto, República Argentina (Consulate General of Argentina in New York), New York, NY
Transverse Wave: Mary Bauermeister and Rashid Al Khalifa with Sound Design by Simon Stockhausen, me Collectors Room Berlin / Olbricht Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Geschenkt, gekauft und wiedergefunden, Mittelrheinmuseum, Koblenz, Germany
Zeitgenössische Kunst Künstlerfreunde aus der Sammlung Mary Bauermeister (Contemporary Art Friends from the Collection of Mary Bauermeister), Kunst Kabinett Hespert, Reichshof, Germany
es ist alles eitel, AdK Arbeitskreis der Künstler e.V. Bergisch Gladbach, Kulturhaus Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Oppositions: Art and Power in the Vietnam Era, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH 2020
Sibylle Mania – Blicke in 19 Ateliers, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
Fight Art: Arte “Face to Face”, Spazio Arte, CUBO, Bologna, Italy
KölnSkulptur #10: ÜberNatur – Natural Takeover, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
Neu aufgestellt: Neuerwerbungen, Schenkungen, Dauerleihgaben und mehr (Reorganized: New Acquisitions, Donations, Permanent Loans and more), Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
DETOX, Galerie Eigenheim, Weimar, Germany
FLUXUS – Kriegskinder (Children of War), Museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam, Germany
Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Paper Power, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY 2021
Surrealism in American Art, Centre de la Vielle Charité, Marseille, France
KRAUTSCAPES, suns.works, Zürich, Switzerland
Alternative Worlds: Mary Bauermeister, Lee Bontecou, Claire Falkenstein & Alma Thomas, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
Beyond Belief, Haus Kunst Mitte, Berlin, Germany
