Claire Fontaine is a Paris based collective founded in 2004

Solo Exhibitions
2012 ‘1493’, Espace 1414, San Juan
2012 ‘Claire Fontaine’, T293, Rome
2012 ‘Équivalences’, La Douane, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
2012 ‘M-A-C-C-H-I-N-A-Z-I-O-N-I’, Museion, Bolzano
2011 ‘M-A-N-I-P-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S’, SIZ Gallery, Rijeka
2011 ‘Working Together’, Metro Pictures, New York
2011 ‘The Assistants’, Petra, Mexico D.F.
2011 ‘I’, Yama, Istanbul
2011 ‘The Interpreter’, Artist Projects, Art Brussels
2011 ‘P.I.G.S.’, MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain
2011 ‘Some instructions for the sharing of private property’, Onestar Press, Paris
2011 ‘No Family Life’, Air de Paris, Paris
2011 ‘Fighting Gravity’, Regina Gallery, London
2011 ‘Fighting Gravity’, Regina Gallery, Moscow
2011 ‘Arando en el mar’, Gaga Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico D.F.
2010 ‘Consumption’, Helena Papadopoulos Gallery, Athens
2010 ‘Closed for Prayers’, Dvir Gallery, Hangar 2, Jaffa Port, Israel
2010 ‘Kultur ist ein Palast der aus Hundescheiße gebaut ist’, MD72, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin
2010 ‘Unbuilding’, Caterina Tognon Gallery, Venice
2010 ‘Economy’, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
2010 ‘Future Tense’, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, México, D.F.
2009 ‘Inhibitions’, Reena Spaulings, New York
2009 ‘After Marx April, After Mao June’, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
2009 ‘Recessions’, Galerie Gabriele Senn, Wien
2009 ‘The exhibition formally known as Passengers’, CCA Watti, San Francisco
2009 ‘Changement de Propriétaire’, Sorry We’re Closed, Bruxelles
2009 ‘Tamed’, Perché Napoli?, T293, Piazza Amendola, Naples
2009 ‘Call + 972 2 5 839 749’, Andres Janacu / Galería Perdida at Project Row House, Houston
2009 ‘Interior Design for Bastards’, T293, Naples
2009 ‘Destroy and Rejuvenate’, Regina Gallery, Moscow
2008 ‘Feux de Détresse’, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
2008 ‘Lucky In The Misfortune’, Masion Descartes, Institut Français des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam
2008 ‘Asleep’, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008 ‘They Hate Us For Our Freedom’, Contemporary Art Museum St.Louis, St. Louis
2008 ‘Change’, Galerie Neu, Berlin
2008 ‘Counter-Poison’, Komplot, Bruxelles
2008 ‘Claire Fontaine’, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
2008 ‘Tragitti periferici’, Facoltà di Architettura, Università degli studi di Catania, Catania
2008 ‘Instructions for the sharing of private property’, project space, The Kitchen, New York
2008 ‘Capitalism is not working’, House of Gaga, México, D.F.
2007 ‘Équivalences’, Centre d’Art Villa Arson, Nice
2007 ‘Utlendinger Overalt’, The White Tube, Oslo
2007 ‘Get Lost’, Module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2007 ‘How to cook a wolf / How to?’, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
2007 ‘Taccuini Di Guerra Incivile’, T293, Naples
2007 ‘Téléphone Arabe’, Air de Paris, Paris
2007 ‘Footnotes on the state of exception’, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
2006 ‘Siamo tutti singolarità qualunque’, Il piccolo Museion, progetto Garutti, Museion, Bolzano
2006 ‘Couvrir Les Feux’, Zoo Galerie, Nantes
2005 ‘Foreigners Everywhere’, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
2005 ‘Requiem for Jean-Charles de Menezes’, Tratari, Graz
2005 ‘Etrangers Partout’, 21 rue Ste Marthe, Paris
2005 ‘Claire Fontaine’, Galerie Meerrettich im Glaspavillon an der Volksbühne, Berlin

Group Exhibitions
2012 ‘An incomplete history of incomplete works’, Galleria Francesca Minini, Milan
2011 ‘Re-writing Worlds (Art and Agency)’, Fourth Moscow Biennale, Moscow
2011 ‘Para Doxa’, Hétérodoxies de L’événement, Galerie Villa des Tourelles, Nanterre
2011 ‘Collector’, Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), Tripostal, Lille
2011 ‘Art in the City’, Teatro di Roma, Nomas Foundation, Rome
2011 ‘Monodrome’, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud & XYZ,3rd Athens Biennale, Athens
2011 ‘My Paris – Collection Antoine de Galbert’, me Collectors Room Berlin
2011 ‘Thomas Olbricht’s collection’, Maison Rouge, Paris
2011 ‘Terrible Beauty – Art’, Dublin Contemporary
2011 ‘Evidence of Bricks’, Time Based Art Festival, PIA, Institute of Contemporary art, Portland
2011 ‘Please close your eyes’, Congrès Européen de la Culture, Wroclaw, Poland
2011 ‘Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennal)’, 12th Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul
2011 ‘Linde Family Wing’, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston
2011 ‘Measure the city with the body’, ST Pauls Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2011 ‘Un Altro Mondo È Ancora Possibile?’, Contemporary Art Association, Palazzo Ducale, Genova
2011 ‘Big Brother’, Palais des arts et du Festival de Dinard, Dinard
2011 ‘Network’, Mastermind, Casablanca
2011 ‘The Normal Condition of Any Communication’, TPW Gallery, Toronto
2011 ‘Inerloqui,’ Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea , Venice
2011 ‘Relationship Building’, Kunstlerhaus Wien, Wien
2011 Beziehungsarbeit – Kunst und Institution, Vienna
2011 ‘The Pavement and the Beach’, Paradise Row, London
2011 ‘PhotoMonth’, Bunker Stuzki Contemporary Art Museum, Krakow
2011 ‘Seeing the Capital’, Nicolas Rivet and Laurence Schmidlin, Perla Mode
2011 ‘Wishing and Praying’, CRG Gallery, New York
2011 ‘Pisár Bartleby’, Etc. Gallery, Praha 2, Czech Republic
2011 ‘Volume Collection’, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka
2011 ‘Involuntary’, Ford projects, New York
2011 ‘PERROS NEGROS presents PERROS NEGROS’, Perros Negros, Mexico D.F.
2011 ‘Where Do We Migrate To?’, Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, Baltimore
2010 ‘To the arts, citizens!’, Fundação Serralves, Porto
2010 ‘Image at Work’, Xposeptember Festival, Stockholm
2010 ‘ ‘’…’’ ‘, Galerie Neu, Berlin
2010 ‘Exhibition, Exhibition’, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli
2010 ‘Foreigners Everywhere’, T293, Naples  
2010 ‘Languages and Experimentations’, Mart Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
2010 ‘The Traveling Show’, Fundación Jumex, Mexico City
2010 ‘Geography of Transterritories’, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
2010 ‘Fragments of machines’, IMO, Copenhagen and NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
2010 ‘Gallery, Galerie, Galleria’, Norma Mangione, Turin
2009 ‘Barock, Arte, Scienza, Fede e Tecnologia nell’Età Contemporanea’, MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples
2009 ‘Indagini di un cane’, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin
2009 ‘Going to Market’, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo
2009 ‘La Suite’, Air de Paris, Paris
2009 ‘Mamõyguara opá mamõ pupé – Panorama da Arte Brasileira 2009’, Museu de Moderna Arte de Sao Paulo, San Paolo
2009 ‘Contemplating the Void : Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum’, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2009 ‘Pivot Points 3’, MOCA Museum Of Contemporary Art, North Miami
2009 ‘de Avant-Garde: Depression’, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
2009 ‘Descent to Revolution’, Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus College of Art  & Design, Colombus
2009 ‘Eternal Tour 2009’, Neuchâtel
2009 ‘Utopics’, 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibitions, Biel / Bienne
2009 ‘FID de Marseilles’, 20ème Edition, Marseilles
2009 ‘It won’t stop until we talk’, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv 
2009 ‘Marriage Equality Now’, Giti Nourbakhsch Project Space, Berlin
2009 ‘Return to Function’, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison and Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
2009 ‘Identitätshüllen‘,  Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil
2009 ‘In May (After October)’, Gallery TPW, Toronto
2009 ‘Living Together – Estratexias para a convivencia’, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo
2009 ‘Oppositions & Dialogues’, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
2009 ‘The Making of Art, The Art World and It’s Players’, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2009 ‘Take the Money and Run’, De Appel, Amsterdam
2009 ‘Fax’, The Drawing Center, New York
2009 ‘Shifting Identities’, CAC Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
2009 ‘Problem Solving’, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
2009 ‘Blind chance and possible futures’, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem
2009 ‘Fragile Currency’, Klemm’s Gallery, Berlin
2009 ‘No More Reality’, The Depo, Istanbul
2009 ‘The Real Thing’, MU Eindhoven, Eindhoven
2009 ‘Audio, Video, Disco‘, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
2009 ‘Living Together’, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea , Vitoria – Gasteiz
2008 ‘The Possibility of an Island’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
2008 ‘Getting Even’, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
2008 ‘Interstitial Zones: Historical Facts, Archaeologies of the Present and Dialectics of Seeing’, Argos, Brussels
2008 ‘The Great Transformation – Art and Tactical Magic’, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo
2008 ‘An Unruly History of the Readymade’, Fundaciíon Jumex, Mexico City
2008 ‘Artfocus 2008’, The Jerusalem Foundation, Jerusalem
2008 ‘Perception of Ideas Leads to New Ideas’, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
2008 ‘Manifesta 7’, Principle Hope, Rovereto
2008 ‘Eight hours do not make a day’, Rental Gallery, New York
2008 ‘A Modest Proposal’, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2008 ‘One or two things’, Live’ work/presentations, South London Gallery, London
2008 ‘Passengers: Round 2’, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2008 ‘Faites vos je, Sextant et plus’, La friche la belle de mai, Marseille
2008 ‘Perplexed in Public’, Lisson Gallery, London
2008 ‘One Season In Hell’, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin
2008 ‘Industrial Lies: dystopian visions of the human development in the era of the immaterial’, Dispari e Dispari, Reggio Emilia
2008 ‘Less is less and more is more’, Musée d’Art Contemporain CAPC, Bordeaux
2008 ‘Live’ work / presentations’, South London Gallery, London
2008 ‘Revolutions – Forms That Turn’, 16th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
2008 ‘The Great Transformation‘, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
2008 ‘L’argent’, FRAC, Ile de France/Le Plateau, Paris
2008 ‘Jenseits von Eden – Eine Gartenschau: Lost Paradise – Der Blick des Engels‘, Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne
2008 ‘Peripheral Look and Collective Body’, Museion, Bolzano
2008 ‘Claire Fontaine and Marcelo Expósito’, S.A.L.E., Magazzini del Sale, Venice
2008 ‘La chute d’eau’, l’espace d’art Circuit, Lausanne
2008 ‘Valeurs Croisées’, Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d’art contemporain, Rennes
2008 ‘The Store’, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius
2008 ‘Bouncing Balls‘, Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder, MD72, Berlin
2008 ‘Records played backward’, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2008 ‘Where the lions are’, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, Hong Kong
2008 ‘Etcétera…’, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
2008 ‘Italia Italie Italien Italy Wlochy’, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Sannio – ARCOS, Benevento
2008 ‘Prêt-à-porter’, Fridericianum, Kassel
2008 ‘Contrapolis; or, Creativity and Enclosure in the Cities’, Nai, Rotterdam
2008 ‘Porte-Parole, Théâtre Universitaire de Nantes Bâtiments Censive et Tertre Pôle Étudiant’, Nantes
2008 ‘Unfair fair’, Loto Arte, Rome
2008 ‘Fate Presto’, Complesso di Santa Sofia, Salerno
2008 ‘Ghost in the Machine’, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2008 ‘The Artist’s Library’, Le Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière, l’île de Vassivière
2008 ‘Bad Moon Rising’, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
2008 ‘The object is the mirror’, Wilkinson gallery, London
2008 ‘Trouble Makers’, S.A.L.E., Magazzini del Sale, Venice
2008 ‘After Spinoza’, how to enter the machine, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam
2007 ‘French Kissing in the U.S.A’, The Moore Space, Miami
2007 ‘Terrible Video’, How to cook a wolf, Kunsthalle Zurich
2007 ’La chute d’eau’, l’espace d’art Circuit, Lausanne
2007 ‘Unmonumental – the art object in the 21st century’, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2007 ‘Pawnshop’, e-flux, New York
2007 ‘Emerging Wor(l)ds’, Tina B, the Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague
2007 ‘The Irresistible Force’, Tate Modern, London
2007 ‘White light / Write it. La Théorie Ondulante’, Lieu-Commun, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
2007 ‘Poetical Political’, Simon Lee Gallery, London
2007 ‘The history of a decade that has not yet been named’, Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Institut d’Art Contemporaine, Villeurbanne, Lyon
2007 ‘Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary – Optimism in the age of global war’, 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
2007 ‘The Great Society’, Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia
2007 ‘Belgrade Summer Festival’, Belgrade
2007 ‘Hello, Goodbye, Thankyou’, Galerie Castillo / Corrales, Paris
2007 ‘Someone else with my fingerprints’, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
2007 ‘Unlimited’, with Air de Paris, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris and Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, Art Basel, Basel
2007 ‘Otra de Vaqueros’, au Bac, Bâtiment d’art contemporain, Geneva
2007 ‘Subversion’, La box, Ecole nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges, Bourges
2007 ‘Some proposals for the next future’, PSG Gallery, Silpakorn University, Bangkok
2007 ‘A Theory-Fiction between the Real and the Possible’, Beijing Center for Creativity, Yonghe Museum, Beijing
2007 ‘The Backroom’, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
2007 ‘Power Play’, Artpace, San Antonio
2007 ‘Laws of relativity’, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin
2007 ‘The importance of not being seen’, Berlin Weekend, Café Moskau, Berlin
2007 ‘Beneath the Underdog’, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York
2007 ‘Multiplyplex. A Pedestrian Cinema Production’, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart
2007 ‘Otra de Vaqueros, Perros Negros’, UNAM, Mexico City
2007 ‘Radio Danièle’, radio program curated by Christopher Williams and John Kelsey (in conjunction with William’s exhibition at GAM / Bologna), Bologna
2007 ‘Quotidian’, Buia Gallery, New York
2007 ‘Inky Toy Infinitas’, Cereal Art, Philadelphia
2007 ‘Mount Analogue Academy’, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
2007 ‘For the people of Paris’, c/o Ghislaine Hussenot, Sutton Lane, Paris
2006 ‘Drapeaux Gris’, CAPC  Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
2006 ‘Domino’, Air de Paris, Paris
2006 ‘ANONYM’, In the Future no one will be famous, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2006 ‘Incipit,’ Espace Paul Ricard, Paris
2006 ‘The Look of Law’, University of California, Irvine
2006 ‘The Three Cities 2’, The Factory Hall, Milan
2006 ‘Group Therapy’, Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea Bolzano, Bolzano
2006 ‘Aakey’, CCC Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours
2006 ‘Upping the Anti’, Physics Room, Christchurch
2006 ‘Continuous Project #8’, CNEAI, Chatou, Malmaison, France
2006 ‘Image War: Contesting Images of Political Conflict’, CUNY Gallery, New York
2006 ‘La Maman et la Putain’, Air de Paris, Paris
2006 ‘Grey Flags’, The Sculpture Centre, New York
2006 ‘Ça s’ouvre ? Ça s’ouvre pas’, Ateliers d’Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, Marseille
2006 ‘The Dimes of March’, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
2006 ‘Mafia, or One Unopened Packet of Cigarettes’, STANDARD, Oslo
2006 ‘Optik Schröder, Kunstverein Braunschweig eV’, Braunscheig
2005 ‘Mars Pavilion’, 51° Biennale di Venezia’, Venice
2005 ‘Mots d’ordre, Mots de Passe’, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris
2005 ‘Etrangers Partout’, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
 
Commissions
2008 ‘Selected artist for a proposed monument to Charles Fourier’, Marie de Paris, Paris