
Born in 1939 in Piestany, died in 2007.
Lived and worked in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Solo Shows: (selection)
2018
Július Koller, Arco, Focus, gb agency, Madrid.
Július Koller, Subjektobjekt, Martin Janda, Vienna.
2017
Július Koller: One Man Anti Show, Museion, Bolzano.
2016
Július Koller: One Man Anti Show, MUMOK, Vienna.
2015
Július Koller, ?, Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.
Július Koller, Artissima, back to the Future, gb agency, Torino.
Július Koller, Situaciones Culturales, (with Adolfo Bernal), Galeria Casas Riegner, Bogota.
Július Koller, Odpadová Kultúra, Slovenská Národná Galéria, Bratislava.
Július Koller, A. for Atlantis, gb agency, Paris.
2014
Július Koller through the eyes of Zuzana Bartosova, Photographs by Kueta Fulierova, GASK, Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region, Kutna Hora.
2013
Operation U.F.O., The exhibition of Július Koller's Oeuvre, Messy Project Space, Bangkok.
U.F.O.– naut JK (Július Koller) orchestrated by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna.
2012
Július Koller Archive: Study Room, Tranzitdisplay, Prague.
Július Koller, Mini-Concepts/Maxi-ideas, gb agency, Paris.
U.F.O.– naut JK (Július Koller) orchestrated by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kurimanzutto, Mexico.
2011
Atlas of Fantastic Science, From the Július-Koller Visual Archive, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt.
2010
Science-Fiction Retrospective Július Koller, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava.
Július Koller, Slovak Institute, Vienna
Anti-Images III, Galeria Linea, Bratislava.
Július Koller, Martin Janda, Vienna.
2009
Jirí Kovanda & Július Koller, The Steins #7, Ludlow 38, New York.
Július Koller & Stanislas Lem, The Steins #6, Ludlow 38, New York.
Július Koller's Symposium, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava.
2007
Július Koller, Space is the Place, gb agency, Paris.
Art Premiere, gb agency, Art Basel, Basel. (avec Deimantas Narkevicius).
Július Koller: More, Kressling Gallery, Bratislava.
Július Koller, Raum aktueller Kunst, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna.
2006
Július Koller & Jiri Kovanda, Index, Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm.
Kontakt-Bau-Stelle (U.F.O.), Action-Performance, Mumok, Vienna.
Echo and Culture Situations, Július Koller & Kvetoslava Fulierovà, Institut Français, Bratislava.
2004
Kontakt, Kunstraum München, Münich.
Július Koller, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.
2003
Teenagers, Gallery Display, Prague. (with Roman Ondák)
Július Koller, Univerzálne Futurologické Operácie, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Koln.
1999
Július Koller, Gallery Soga, Bratislava.
Július Koller & Kveta Fulierová, Studio S, Bratislava.
Július Koller & Kveta Fulierová, Vlastivedné múzeum, Trebisov, Uzhorod.
1993
Július Koller, Up & Down, UBS, Novy Smokovec, Bratislava.
1991-92
Sonds, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava.
Július Koller, Gallery of Art, Zilina.
Július Koller, State Gallery Banská Bystrica.
1991
Post-komunikácia, The Art Gallery, Zilina.
1974
Textile Pictures, The State Research Institute of Textiles, Bratislava.
1970
J.K.Ping-Pong Club, Cabinet of the Gallery of the Young, Bratislava.
1969
Antigallery, Mending shop for stockings, Bratislava.
1968
Permanent Demystification I.,II., V-Club, Bratislava.
1967
Gallery of the Young, Bratislava.
The Tatran Regional Gallery, Poprad.
1966
Editorial Office Smena, Bratislava.
1965
Park of Culture and Repose, Bratislava.
Group Shows: (selection)
2018
Il va y avoir du sport!, Maison des Arts Centre d'Art Contemporain, Malakoff.
CUT / REZ, Examples of collage in artistic practices in Central and Eastern Europe from the Avant-garde until today, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
L'envol, La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris.
GCM do GMB, Bratislava City Gallery, Pálffy Palace, Bratislava.
Sprievodca Galériou Ganku, alebo U.F.O. Galéria, KHB, Kunshalle Bratislava.
2017
Uma Fresta de Possibilidades, Forum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora.
Musée en oeuvre(s), New display of the collection, Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Almost nothing, yet not nothing, MOT Satellite 2017 Fall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
L’air vibre du bourdonnement des insectes, Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart.
Life, A User's Manual, Timisoara Art Encounters, Timisoara.
Od bodu k pamatovej stope, Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica.
New display of the collection, Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Almost nothing, yet not nothing, MOT Satellite 2017 Fall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
10 years old, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena.
Umelka Happy Birthday / 90th anniversary of the first Arts House, Slovak Union of Visual Arts, Bratislava.
My sweet little lamb, The 4th episode, Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb.
Punto de Partida, Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel, Fundación Cultural Banco Santander, Madrid.
A vos marques, Centre d’Art de Meymac, Meymac.
2016
UFOMANY, Reflexion sur le projet d'artiste, Creative Villages, Ecole Cantonale d'Art, Valais.
Sublime. Les tremblements du monde, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Metz.
Kunst in Europa 1945–1968, ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe.
Umenie Tatier / Tatry, Tatra Galeria, Tatranská galéria, Poprad.
Todo o Património é Poesia, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora.
Not Knowing When The Dawn Will Come, Silvia Cintra + Box 4, Gávea.
All Heritage is Poetry, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Evora.
Le Cabaret au Salon, 61e Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge.
Action, Exposition Satellite , FRAC Franche Comté, Besançon.
Sitting Together.Parallel Chronologies of Coincidences in Eastern Europe, tranzit, Bratislava.
Shifters: Signaling in Latin America and Eastern Europe, gb agency, Paris.
2015
L'épais Réel (into the Real), La Criée, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes.
The soft codes, Conceptual tendencies in Slovak art, MWW, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw.
Unorthodox, The Jewish Museum, New York.
East Side Painting (1960-1990), Gandy Gallery, Bratislava.
Opening exhibition for new building, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.
ARStronomy, Casa Encendida, Madrid.
Air de Jeu, Nouveau Festival, 6th edition, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Art Has No Alternative/An Archive of Artists in Action, tranzit.sk, Bratislava.
Systems & Subjects, Works from the Generali Foundation, MAP and Museum der
Moderne Salzburg Collections, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg.
Modernités plurielles de 1905 à 1970, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris.
2014
La disparition des lucioles, Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon.
Emotional Resources, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland.
Short, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna.
Frieze Art Fair, gb agency, New York.
The Missing, or: One Thing Next To Another, Kunstsaele Berlin, Berlin.
Do it Moscow, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, GCCC, Moscow.
Les Choses - vol.1, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon.
Il Piedistallo Vuoto, Fantasmi dall’Est Europa, Museo Civico Archeologico,
Bologna.
Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
Il Piedistallo Vuoto, Fantasmi dall’Est Europa, Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna.
Parallel Forms, gb agency, Paris.
Modernités plurielles de 1905 à 1970, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris.
2013
Critique and Crises, Art in Europe Since 1945, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn.
Zero Years, Noughties, Freies Museum Berlin, Berlin.
It Will Remain In The Family. Children´s Interventions In Works Of Their Parents-Artists (And Vice Versa), Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Bratislava.
El mañana ya estuvo aquí, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey Marco, Monterrey.
Was ist Kunst, Jaqueline Martins Galeria, Sao Paulo.
If I known that something unknown, talks and performance, Lecture Room One, Minto House Edinburgh University, Edinburgh.
U.F.O.- NAUT JK (Július Koller) orchestrated by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna.
You, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno.
Inventing a future, gb agency, Paris.
Des Mondes Possibles, Frac Franche-Comté, Cité des Arts, Besançon.
Superusurpedsupper, Nomas Foundation, Roma.
Brouillon, an exhibition in motion, Argos, Kaaitheater & Musée de la danse production, Brussels.
Une Brève histoire des lignes, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz.
2012
U.F.O.- NAUT JK (Július Koller) Orchestrated by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kurimanzutto, Mexico.
Doppio Gioco, Double Game The Ambiguity of the Photographic Image, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice.
Zero Years, Slovak Visual Art between 1999 and 2011 from Four Curatorial Perspectives, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen.
Foreigners everywhere, Jewish Museum, Vienna.
We are all U.F.O.-nauts, Edinburgh Arts Festival, Edinburgh.
Moving forward, counting backwards, MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, México.
Delete. Art and Wiping Out, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava.
Spirits of Internationalism, 6 european collections 1956-1986, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
Is there anything to do here, is there anything to see?, exhibition by Rob Kennedy with Colin Cook, Julius Koller, Kostas Sfikas, and Walter Sickert, CCA, Glasgow.
Musée des enfants de la danse, Musée de la danse, Rennes.
Sincerely how am I talking?, curated by FormContent, Hollybush Gardens, London.
2011
Ostalgia, New Museum, New York.
Art Basel, gb agency, Art 42, Basel.
Museum of Parallel Narratives, In the Framework of L'Internationale, MACBA, Barcelona.
Fluxus East, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden.
2010
Sensorialités Excentriques, Musée départemental d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart.
Július Koller, Jirí Kovanda and Roman Ondák, gb agency, Art Features, Art Basel 41, Basel.
Starter, Arter, Istanbul.
Both Before and After, gb agency, Paris.
The Boy who cried Wolf, gb agency, Paris.
Star City (The Future Under Communism), Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham.
Les Promesses du Passé, Centre Pompidou, MNAM, Paris.
Che cosa sono le nuvole?, Museion, Bolzano.
2009
Artissima, gb agency, Torino.
Là où je suis n'existe pas, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse.
The Eighties-Postmodern in Slovak Visual Art, Slovak National Gallery /Slovenská Národná Galéria, Bratislava.
Nord, Nord-Ouest, gb agency, Paris.
The Death of the Audience, Wiener Secession, Vienne.
Intertext from the conceptual to the post-conceptual text, Gallery of Ján Koniarek, Koppl’s Villa,Trnava.
Performing the East, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg.
Minimal Shift, Galéria Jana Koniarka, Trnava.
A Mancha Humana / The Human Stein, CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela.
Fluxus East, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhaguen.
We can breathe in space, they just don't want us to escape, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Altefabrik, Rapperswil.
2008
Archeology of Mind, Kuntsi, Modernin taiteen museo, Vaasa.
Slovak Conceptual Art, Slovak Institute, Budapest.
1960- Sucasnost / Slovenske umenie cesti hoste, City Gallery, Prague.
U-Turn, Quadriennale, Copenhaguen.
Fluxus East, Ludwig Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest.
Master Humphrey’s Clock, De Appel, Amsterdam.
Fluxus East, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn.
Slovak Picture (Anti-Picture) 20th Century in Slovak Visual Art, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava.
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London.
Yes, No & Other Options, Art Sheffield 08, Sheffield.
Nouvelles du Mont Analogue, Musée d'art contemporain, Rochechouart.
Conspire, Transmediale 08, Festival for Art and Digital Culture, Berlin.
Why here is always somewhere else, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.
2007
Fluxus East, CAC, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius.
Fiac, Cour Carrée du Louvre, gb agency, Paris.
Fluxus East, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
Learn to Read, Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London.
Homage a Kassak, gallery of Art, Nové Zàmky.
Contemporary Slovak Art, Slovak Art in Collection of first Slovak investors group, Bratislava; City Art Museum, Ljubljana.
Recollection from 1987 to 2007, artistamp Museum of Art Pool, Art Pool Research Center, Budapest.
15th Exhibition of UBS Members, House of Art, Bratislava.
2006
Kontakt, Ester Bank Collection, Mumok, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna.
Night of Sun, Mail art, Kunstkammer im Schloss Barten Stein.
III International Convocation of Mail Art, Museum, Ceuta.
Arte y Naturaleza-Art and Nature, Internatioanl Mail Art Exhibition, Merida.
Erzählungen (Narratives), Kunsthaus, Graz.
Auditorium-Stage-Backstage, Kuntverein Frankfurt/Main (Tranzit-Action).
PeaceTower - Day for Night, Whitney Biennial 2006, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Autopoesis, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava.
Abstraction III, Umelecka Beseda Slovenska (slovak art group), Slovak Broadcasting-Radio, Bratislava.
Le Mouvement des Images, MNAM, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Shift, Gallery Grita Insam, Vienna.
...Concept has Never Meant Horse, Generali Foundation, Vienna.
In (ter) Media (s) Res, Gallery of Art, Zilina.
Collezionami, Biennale d'Arti Contemporanee Italian and Slovak Art, Citadella della Cultura, Archivio di Stato e Biblioteca Nazionale, Bari.
2004
Collected Views from East or West and West or East, Generali Foundation, Vienna.
Eintritt Frei - Kunst aus Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prag and Wien, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna.
Parallel Actions : Conceptual Tendencies in Central Europe from 1965 to 1980, Galerie der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig.
De ma Fenêtre, des artistes et leurs territoires, ENSBA, Paris.
Who if not we...?, BAK, Utrecht; Centraal Museum, Utrecht.
Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, Münich.
Begegnung auf höchster Ebene, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna.
2003
Links, gb agency, Paris.
Wir Müssen heute noch..., Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln.
Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice.
Now What? Dreaming a better world in six parts, BAK, Utrecht.
Parallel Actions: Conceptual Tendencies in Central Europe from 1965 to 1980, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York.
2001
Ausgeträumt..., Wiener Secession, Vienna.
Slowakische Träume, Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Wörlen, Passau.
2000
Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona.
Global Conceptualism, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Ludwig Museum Budapest; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.
1997
Face à l'Histoire (1933-96), MNAM, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
1996
23th Sao Paulo Art Bienalle, Sao Paulo.
1995
Before (Slovak art of 60's), Gallery of Art, Zilina.
60's in Slovak Art, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava.
Dream of Museum, Gallery of Art, Zilina.
1994
After the Spring, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Der Riss im Raum, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw.
1993
The 1st Floor, Municipal Gallery, Bratislava.
The 2nd Exit, Ludwig Forum, Aachen.
1992
Hills and Mills, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.
Zwischen Objekt und Installation, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund.
Ebb and Tide, Nová váznost, Slovak Radio, Bratislava.
1991
Dream of a Museum, Gallery of Art, Zilina.
On the Beautiful Blue Danube, (together with P.Rónai), Budapest.
Interspaces, The Bardejov Spa, Bardejov- Oscillations, Kmárno, Budapest.
1990
Art against Totality, Bratislava.
Nová váznost, The Clarists' church, SFVU Gallery, Bratislava.
Slowakische Kunst Heute, Villa Merkel, Esslingen.
Slovak Photography of the Sixties, Bratislava.
1989
Slovak Photography of the Eighties, Bratislava; Brno; Moscow.
Basement, Bratislava.
1988
Hommage á Kassák (100), Budapest.
The New Slovak Picture, Bratislava.
1987
Art of Today II, Club of Young Artists, Budapest Gallery, Budapest.
1986
The Body in Czecho-Slovak Photography 1900 - 1986, Kromeríz.
1982
Bilder aus der Slowakei, Galeria Pragxis, Essen-Kettwig.
1982 -87
Archelogical Monuments and the Present, Bratislava.
1980
Exhibition of Drawings, Pécs.
1979
Works and Words, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam.
Miejsca i chwile, Galeria Foto-medium-art, Wroclaw.
Dziekanka, Warsaw.
1976
The Seventies, CAYC, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo.
Multimedia, Museum de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo.
1974
Prospective '74, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paulo.
Hygiène de l'Art, Geneva.
1973
Wij hebben ook ideeën, Mikis Theodrakis Club, Aalst.
1971
Contemporary Slovak Graphic Art, Banská Bystrica.
Multisensorische Ereignisse: Tischtennis Aktion 71, Bielefeld.
Junge Tschechoslowakische Künstler, Bielefeld.
1970
The 1st Open Studio, Bratislava.
Polymúzická priestor, Piestany
1969
Contemporary Trends in Slovak Painting, Bratislava.
Jung Künstler aus der CSSR, Berlin.
Donation, Paris.
1968
Danuvius, Bratislava.
1967
Contemporary Slovak Painting Trends, Cracow.
Picture 67, Brno-Pictures 1965-67, Kosice.
1966
Exhibition of the Young, Bratislava