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  Front: Abstraction and Immortality, 2012, Plaster, wood, acrylic, books, canvas, metal feet, (120 x 60 x 220 cm)
  Back right: Permanently Contemporary III, 2012, Cement, styrofoam, mdf panel, metal table feet, (140 x 160 x 190 cm)
  Back left: Art for the Masses, Formation Upwards, 2012, Wood, alkyd on cardboard, (240 x 200 x 630 cm)
  Installation view at Made in Germany Zwei at the Kestnergesellschaft in Hannover, Germany
  
  

  

  The Basics of Growth, 2012
  Books, plaster, wood, metal, tiles, styrofoam, cement, wood, plastic, scaffolding
  (detail, dimensions variable)
  Installation view at TRACK, S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium
  
  

  

  Conclusion to the Big Ideas, 2011
  Installation view at AMBACH & RICE, Los Angeles
  Photo: Robert wedemeyer
  
  

  

  End to The Grand Gesture, 2011
  Installation view at KLEMM'S Berlin
  Photo: Nick Ash
  
  

  

  The Everything of an Almost Future I - V, 2010
  Oil and acrylic on panel and wood, dimensions variable (up to 280 cm high)
  Installation view at Kunstverein Hamburg
  photo: Marco Schwensfeger

  
  CURRENT

  ~ Made in Germany Zwei
  Sprengel Museum, Kunstverein Hannover, and Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, DE
  May 17 – August 19, 2012
  

  Curated by Susanne Figner, Martin Germann, Antonia Lotz, Kathrin Meyer, Carina Plath, Gabriele Sand, Kristin Schrader, Ute Stuffer und René Zechlin.

  ~ Track
  S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
  May 12 – September 16, 2012
  

  Curated by Mirjam Varadinis and Philippe Van Cauteren

  
  PAST

  Berlin . Status
  Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
  April 6 – May 12, 2012

  Curated by Christoph Tannert and Sven Drühl

  ~ Acts of Refusal. Fleeing, Dreaming, Repeating, Watching (Among Others)
  ART IST KUKU NU UT at Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia
  September 16 – October 16, 2011
  

  Curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Kathrin Meyer (The Office, Berlin)
  Artists: Barthol Lo Mejor, Andreas Bunte, Libia Castro ja Olafur Olafsson, Ruben Grilo, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Flo Kasearu, Bernd Krauß, Eva Labotkin, Alon Levin, Olivia Plender, Laura Toots, Martijn in’t Veld, Peter Wächtler

  ~ Conclusion to the Big Ideas (solo)
  AMBACH & RICE, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  September 3 – October 1, 2011

  ~ will be home...
  AMBACH & RICE, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  August 10 – 27, 2011

  Artists: Grant Barnhart, Ellen Lesperance, Alon Levin, Roy McMakin, Jeffry Mitchell, Pablo Pijnappel, Abigail Reynolds, Karen Sargsyan, Martina Sauter, Ron van der Ende, Eric Yahnker

  ~ Material World
  Groninger Museum, Groningen, NL
  May 28 – August 28, 2011

  Curated by Sue-an van der Zijpp
  Artists: Pieke Bergmans, Nacho Carbonell, Iris van Herpen, Maartje Korstanje, Joris Laarman, Alon Levin, Karen Sargsyan, Marga Weimans

  ~ Conversation with Mihnea Mircan at *KURATOR, Rapperswil, CH
  June 19, 2011

  ~ End to The Grand Gesture (solo)
  KLEMM'S, Berlin, DE
  April 29 – June 11, 2011

  ~ Utopian Structures – New Existentialism Part 3
  *KURATOR, Rapperswil, CH
  April 16 – June 19, 2011

  Curated by Alexandra Blaettler 

  Artists: Emre Hüner, Alon Levin, Jen Liu, Metahaven

  ~ Art Brussels (with KLEMM'S)
  April 28 – May 1, 2011

  ~ Modernity in Very General Terms
  Art Cologne (solo with AMBACH & RICE)
  April 13 – 17, 2011

  ~ The Reality Effect
  Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zürich, CH
  March 11 – April 16, 2011

  Curated by Arjan van Helmond
  Artists: Lidwien van de Ven, Alon Levin, Arjan van Helmond

  ~ Zwischenraum : Space Between
  Kunstverein, Hamburg, DE
  October 15 – November 28, 2010

  Curated by Annette Hans, Anne Szefer Karlsen und Jamie Kenyon
  Artists: Oliver Bulas, Nick Evans, Julia Horstmann, Alon Levin, Ingrid Lonningdal, Ciara Phillips

  ~Helen Verhoeven and Alon Levin – Exhibition 1
  Leesmuseum / Tommy Hilfiger, Amsterdam, NL
  November 11 – 18, 2010

  Curated by Sandi Gehring
  Artists: Helen Verhoeven, Alon Levin

  ~ Alon Levin presents – Art Shows
  Klemm’s project room 7d5e
  4 solo exhbitions by Helen Verhoeven, Meiro Koizumi, Amalia Pica and Maria Barnas
  September 10 – December 18, 2010

  ~ 'This Week' presentation at Motto, Berlin
  Issue #2, 'Quarter Report I - Men With Ties' by Alon Levin
  October 29, 2010 at 8pm

  ~ The Disasters of Peace
  Umspannwerk Berlin-Tiergarten, Berlin, DE
  September 30 – October 10, 2010

  Curated by Jana Müller and Alexej Meschtschanow
  Artists: Viktoria Binschtok, Antje Blumenstein, Nathalie Djurberg, Wiebke Elzel & Jana Müller, Sebastian Gögel, Sven Johne, Renata Kaminska, Alicja Kwade, Alon Levin, Alexej Meschtschanow, Jana Müller, Regine Müller-Waldeck, Thomas Moecker Egill Sæbjörnsson Philip Topolovac Nasan Tur

  ~ Art Amsterdam (solo with Stroom Den Haag)
  The Object as Never Seen Before (Who Said the World Was Round)
  Hall 8, Booth 136, Amsterdam, NL
  May 27 – 30, 2010

  ~ History of Art, The
  The David Roberts Art Foundation Fitzrovia, London, UK
  May 7 – July 10, 2010

  Curated by Mihnea Mircan
  Artists: Agency, Nina Beier and Marie Lund, Pavel Büchler, Etienne Chambaud, Luc Deleu, Alison Gerber, Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi, Ian Law, Alon Levin, Jill Magid, Benoît Maire, Navid Nuur, Jonas Staal, Mladen Stilinovic

  ~ Color Fields: Structure, Space and Sphere
  galerie-muensterland,  Emsdetten, DE
  May 9 – June 27, 2010

  Curated by Andrea Brockmann
  Artists: Stephan Jung, Alon Levin, Daniela Löbbert, Jan Scharrelmann
  

  ~ Double Dutch
  HVCCA, Peekskill, NY, USA
  September 12, 2009 - July 26, 2010

  Curated by Marc Straus
  Artists: Marc Bijl, Martha Colburn, Fendry Ekel, Dylan Graham, Folkert de Jong, Job Koelewijn, Maartje Korstanje, Alon Levin, Erik van Lieshout, Serge Onnen, Daan Padmos, Karen Sargsyan, Lara Schnitger, Jennifer Tee, Rob Voerman, Guido van der Werve
  

  ~ Artist lecture at HVCCA, Peekskill, NY, US
  Epilogue 1
  March 7, 2010, 4 – 6 pm

  ~ The Armory Show (with AMBACH & RICE)
  Pier 94, New York, NY
  March 4 - 7, 2010

  ~ Art for the Masses (solo)
  AMBACH & RICE, Seattle, WA, USA
  February 13 – March 20, 2010

  ~ Remodeling Systems
  CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
  February 7 – March 21, 2010

  Curated by Yulia Tikhonova
  Artists: Vlatka Horvat, Pablo Helgura, Alon Levin
  

  ~ art forum berlin
  Things Contemporary (solo with Klemm’s)
  Berlin, DE
  September 24 – 27, 2009

  ~ Book Launch at art forum berlin
  Alon Levin – Things Contemporary
  September 23, 2009

  ~ Zweckgemeinschafft
  MICAMOCA, Berlin, DE
  September 17 – October 17, 2009

  Curated by Art At Work
  Artists: Saâdane Afif, AVAF, Davide Balula, Vanessa Billy, Rossella Biscotti, BURGHARD, Christian Capurro, Daniel Gustav, Cramer, Carly Fischer, Stanislao Di Giugno, Rubén Grilo, Mie Olise Kjærgaard, Marcus Knupp, Alon Levin, Lorna Macintyre, David Maljkovic, Cristiano Mangione, Alexej Meschtschanow, Nicola Pecoraro, Arcangelo Sassolino, Jack Strange, Ignacio Uriarte

  ~ Weak Signals, Wild Cards
  De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
  June 27 – July 26, 2009

  Curated by Clare Butcher, Lilian Engelmann, Mia Jankowicz, Christina Li, Ana Nikitović and Ji Yoon Yang
  Artists: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Heman Chong, Design Negation, Flying City, Yvonne Dröge Wendel, Famed, Andreja Kuluncic, Alon Levin, Oda Projesi, Merijn Oudenampsen, Laura Oldfield Ford, Maria Pask, and Lee Scrivner

  ~ Shifting Identities - (Swiss) Art Now
  CAC, Vilnius, LT
  April 10 – May 24, 2009

  Curated by Mirjam Varadinis
  Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Pawel Althamer and Artur Žmijewski, Emanuelle Antille, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Marc Bauer with Christine Abbt, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Lonnie van Brummelen with Siebren de Haan, Christoph Büchel, Stefan Burger, Mircea Cantor, David Chieppo, Claire Fontaine, Keren Cytter, Yan Duyvendak, Latifa Echakhch, Al Fadhil, Les Frères Chapuisat, Fucking Good Art, Goran Galić and Gian-Reto Gredig, Thomas Galler, Vidya Gastaldon, Georg Gatsas, Johannes Gees, Ingo Giezendanner aka GRRRR, Bob Gramsma, David Hominal, Huber.Huber, Georg Keller, San Keller, Isabelle Krieg, Jérôme Leuba, Alon Levin, Erik van Lieshout, Beat Lippert, Mark Manders, Aleksandra Mir, Gianni Motti, Shahryar Nashat, Adrian Paci, Mai-Thu Perret, Elodie Pong, Anne-Julie Raccoursier, Pamela Rosenkranz, Vittorio Santoro, Markus Schinwald, Shirana Shahbazi, Nedko Solakov, Loredana Sperini, Jules Spinatsch, Costa Vece, Christian Vetter, Andro Wekua, Jantine Wijnja, Ingrid Wildi

  ~ Artist lecture at SUNY New Paltz
  Imitations, Falsifications and some Truths
  [An expanding introduction note as a backward analysis to The fake, the future
  and the finite (a commemoration of the absolute in the 21st century)]
  February 25, 2009

  ~ Visiting Artist in the Sculpture Program, of the Art department at the State University of New York at New Paltz
  New Paltz, NY, USA
  February 1 – May 1, 2009

  ~ Postponed Modernism (solo)
  Klemms, Berlin, DE
  January 9 – February 14, 2009

  ~ NADA Art Fair
  Klemm’s, Miami, FL, USA
  December 3 – 7, 2008

  ~ Since We Last Spoke About Monuments
  Stroom, Den Hague, NL
  September 14 – November 9, 2008

  Curated by Mihnea Mircan
  Artists: Azra Aksamija, Matthew Buckingham, Sam Durant, Office KGDVS, Hans van Houwelingen, Irwin, Alon Levin, Metahaven, Ciprian Muresan, Tom Nicholson, Jonas Staal & Vincent van Gerven Oei, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor

  ~ Artist lecture at ISCP
  Imitations, Falsifications and some Truths
  [An expanding introduction note as a backward analysis to The fake, the future
  and the finite (a commemoration of the absolute in the 21st century)]
  July 15, 2008
  

  ~ Word Event
  Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH
  June 29 – October 5, 2008

  Curated by Maxine Kopsa and Roos Gortzak
  Artists: André Avelãs, Stuart Bailey & Frances Stark, Becky Beasley, Walead Beshty, Julia Born & Alexandra Bachzetsis, George Brecht, James Lee Byars, Paul Elliman, Aurélien Froment, Dora Garcia, Will Holder, Alon Levin, Amalia Pica, Falke Pisano, Michael Portnoy, Elizabeth Price, Mandla Reuter, Dexter Sinister, Sue Tompkins, Edward Underwood, Emily Wardill

  ~ Shifting Identities - (Swiss) Art Now
  Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, CH
  June 6 – August 31, 2008

  Curated by Mirjam Varadinis
  Artists: Adel Abdessemed, Pawel Althamer and Artur Žmijewski, Emanuelle Antille, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Marc Bauer with Christine Abbt, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, Lonnie van Brummelen with Siebren de Haan, Christoph Büchel, Stefan Burger, Mircea Cantor, David Chieppo, Claire Fontaine, Keren Cytter, Yan Duyvendak, Latifa Echakhch, Al Fadhil, Les Frères Chapuisat, Fucking Good Art, Goran Galić and Gian-Reto Gredig, Thomas Galler, Vidya Gastaldon, Georg Gatsas, Johannes Gees, Ingo Giezendanner aka GRRRR, Bob Gramsma, David Hominal, Huber.Huber, Georg Keller, San Keller, Isabelle Krieg, Jérôme Leuba, Alon Levin, Erik van Lieshout, Beat Lippert, Mark Manders, Aleksandra Mir, Gianni Motti, Shahryar Nashat, Adrian Paci, Mai-Thu Perret, Elodie Pong, Anne-Julie Raccoursier, Pamela Rosenkranz, Vittorio Santoro, Markus Schinwald, Shirana Shahbazi, Nedko Solakov, Loredana Sperini, Jules Spinatsch, Costa Vece, Christian Vetter, Andro Wekua, Jantine Wijnja, Ingrid Wildi

  ~ Open Studios
  ISCP, New York, USA
  May 9 – 12, 2008

  ~ Artist residency at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
  New York, NY, USA
  March 1 – August 31, 2008

  ~ Endless lowlands breaking up, Part 2
  Klemms, Berlin, DE
  February 22 – March 28, 2008

  Curated by Alexandra Blaettler 

  Artists: Gwenneth Boelens, Peggy Franck, Marijn van Kreij, Alon Levin

  ~ Endless lowlands breaking up, Part 1
  Binz39, Zürich, CH
  January 19 – February 16, 2008

  Curated by Alexandra Blaettler 

  Artists: Peggy Franck, Marijn van Kreij, Alon Levin

  ~ 27th Biennial of Graphic Arts
  Alkatraz Gallery, Ljubljana, SI
  September 6 – October 28, 2007

  ~ Tweeëntwintigduizendvijfhonderd; The Collection Almere, acquisitions 2001–2007
  Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, NL
  May 12 – October 21, 2007

  ~ Artist talk at De Appel
  Imitations, Falsifications and some Truths
  [An expanding introduction note as a backward analysis to The fake, the future
  and the finite (a commemoration of the absolute in the 21st century)]
  June 5, 2007
  

  ~ PILOT:3 event Venice
  Cloister of SS. Cosma e Damiano, Venice
  June 8 – 17, 2007

  ~ Prix de Rome  
  de Appel, Amsterdam, NL  
  May 19 – July 1, 2007

  Artists: Sung Hwan Kim, Maartje Korstanje, Alon Levin, Pablo Pijnappel, and Maaike Schoorel, Sema Bekirovic, Sagi Groner, Claire Harvey, Viviane Sassen and Anne Wenzel

  ~ Artist present: Artist talk at SMART project space
  'Imitations, Falsifications and some Truths
  (An introduction note)'
  March 23, 2007

  ~ The Stability of Truth  
  SMART Projects Space, Amsterdam, NL  
  March 3 – April 5, 2007

  Curated by Hilde de Bruijn
  Artists: Servet Kocyigit, Alon Levin, Seamus Harahan, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil

  ~ 3500 cm2 #70
  'What if I am out of context?'
  Blueroom a Rialtosantambrogio, Rome, IT
  February 17, 2007

  ~ Open Ateliers 2006
  Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
  November 25 – 26, 2006

  Artists: Wafae Ahalouch el Keriasti, Sookoon Ang, Heddy-John Appeldoorn, Marusya Baturina, Inge Beeftink, Sema Bekirovic, Krina Bisch, Gwenneth Boelens, Tim Braden, Agnieszka Czajkowska, Hala Elkoussy, Cevdet Erek, Mounir Fatmi, Peggy Franck, Michaela Früwirth, Yang Ah Ham, Inti Hernandez, Yuasa Katsutoshi, Tomoko Kawachi, Gal Kinan, Meiro Koizumi, Marijn van Kreij, Alon Levin, Liangshuo, Meiya Lin, Pere LLobera, Cristina Lucas, Joris Martens, Vika Mitrichenka, Vincent Olinet, Paulien Oltheten, Marco Pando Quevedo, Micha Patiniott, Malin Persson, Andre Pielage , Pablo Pijnappel, Chiara Pirito, Bradley Pitts, Sascha Pohle, Fernando Sanchez Castillo, Karen Sargsyan, Kwang-Ju Son, Sanghee Song, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Kuang-yu Tsui, Steve Van den Bosch, Helen Verhoeven, Evi Vingerling, Guido van der Werve, Mu Yuming

  ~ In order of appearance
  Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS
  May 14 – July 1, 2006

  Curated by Amalia Pica
  Artists: Eylem Aladogan, Narda Fabiola Alvarado,
 Eef Augustin,
 Tim Braden,
 Heidi Lynn, Ganshaw
Goh Ideta,
Yasmijn Karhof,
 Sung Hwan Kim,
 Judith Kurtag,
 Tine Meltzer,
 Alon Levin,
 Marco Pando Quevedo,
 Ryan Parteka,
 Amalia Pica,
 Sudsiri Pui-Ock,
 Igor Sevcuk,
 Mieke Van de Voort,
 Helen Verhoeven,
 Geirþrúður Finnbogadottir Hjörvar,
 Ragnar Kjartansson,
 Ingi Rafn Steinarsson,
 Haraldur Jónsson,
 Sara Björnsdóttir,
 Halla Gunnarsdóttir

  ~ ZOO Logical Garden
  Family park Harry Malter, Heusden, BE
  August 26 – October 1, 2006

  Curated by Angelique Campens
  Artists: Monika Bakke, Stefano Cagol, Vaast Colson, Marta De Menezes, Stefaan Dheedene, Johan Grimonprez, Katie Holten, Shih Chieh Huang, Charlotte Leouzon, Alon Levin, Gert Robijns, Anri Sala, David Shrigley, Superflex
  

  ~ Open Ateliers 2005
  Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
  November 26 – 27, 2005

  Artists: Eylem Aladogan, Narda Alvarado, Eef Augustinus, Sema Bekirovic, Karina Bisch, Tim Braden, Sonia Cillari, Brody Condon, Hala Elkoussy, Armen Eloyan, Cevdet Erek, Peggy Franck, Heidi Ganshaw, Jasper Hagenaar, Inti Hernandez, Shunji Hori, Goh Ideta, Yasmijn Karhof, Tomoko Kawachi, Wenda Kieskamp, Sung Hwan Kim, Gal Kinan, Meiro Koizumi, Marijn van Kreij, Susanne Kriemann, Judit Kurtag, Alon Levin, liangshuo, Patrick Makumbe, Armando Marino, Tine Melzer, Paulien Oltheten, Lisa Oppenheim, Marco Pando Quevedo, Ryan Parteka, Esteban Pastorino Diaz, Malin Persson, Amalia Pica, Andre Pielage, Chiara Pirito, Sudsiri Pui-Ock, Jewyo Rhii, Jimmy Robert, Fernando Sanchez Castillo, Igor Sevcuk, Naro Snackey, Stafanos Tsivopoulos, Helen Verhoeven, Evi Vingerling, Mieke Van de Voort, Mu Yuming

  ~ Information/Transformation
  Extra City, Antwerpen, BE
  September 4 – December 4, 2005

  Curated by Wim Peeters
  Artists: The Atlas Group, Sven Augustijnen, Gerard Byrne, Banu Cennetoglu, Willem De Rooij, Anita Di Bianco, Andrea Geyer, Jef Geys, Ivan Grubanov, Jan Kempenaers / Re-Photographing Project, Robert Kusmirowski, Dustin Larson, Alon Levin, Boris Mikhailov, Kirsten Pieroth, Tommy Simoens, Reinaart Vanhoe