
Born in Boulogne-Billancourt (Paris) in 1938, Daniel Buren lives and works in situ.
In the mid 60’s, Buren began to create paintings that radically questioned and explored the economy of the media used in his work and the relationship between background (support medium) and form (painting).
In 1965, when he was painting pictures that combined rounded forms and stripes varying in sizes and colours, he chose to use an industrial fabric with fixed vertical 8,7 cm-wide stripes alternating white with another colour. Beginning from this extremely simple and banal visual register, Buren further impoverished it by repeating it systematically to reach the grade of zero painting. This reflection will cause the observer’s attention to shift from the work to the physical and social environment within which the artist intervenes.
Eventually, he abandoned his studio in 1967, to favour work in situ, starting from the street, then the gallery, the museum, the landscape or the architecture.
His “visual tool” is based on the use of alternating stripes, which let him reveal the significant details of the site where he is working, by employing them in specific, and at times complex, structures lying somewhere between painting, sculpture and architecture.
His in-situ works play with points of view, spaces, colours, light, movement, the surrounding environment, angles or projections, acquiring their decorative force by radically transforming the sites.
Incisive, critical and engaged, Buren’s work is in a continual state of development and diversification, and never fails to stimulate comment, admiration and disagreement. In 1986, he realized his most controversial public commission, today classified as a "historical monument" Les Deux Plateaux (The Two Plateaus), for the Courtyard of Honour of the Royal Palace in Paris. In the same year, he represented France at the Venice Biennale, where he was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Pavilion.
Buren is one of the most active and acclaimed artists on the international art scene today, and his work has been shown in leading galleries and museums, and in a wide range of sites around the world.
In 2007, Daniel Buren received the Praemium Imperiale, awarded by the Emperor of Japan, a recognition which is widely regarded as the “Nobel Prize” for the Visual Arts.
Among his recent solo shows: Fare Disfare Rifare, lavori in situ e situati, Fondazione Pistoia Musei - Palazzo Buontalenti, 7th March - 27th July ( (2025); De cualquier manera, trabajos in situ, Museo de Arte Italiano, Lima (2019), Like Child’s Play, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia (2018); Quand le textile s’éclaire: Fibres optiques tissées. Travaux situés 2013-2014, Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany (2018); Daniel Buren – Del medio círculo al círculo completo: un recorrido de color, Obras in situ, MAMBO – Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotà (2017), Proyecciones/Retroproyecciones. Trabajos in situ, Centre Pompidou Malaga, Spain (2017); L’Observatoire de la Lumière, travail in situ, Fondation Vuitton, Paris (2016); Daniel Buren. A Fresco, Bozar, Bruxelles (2016); Axer / Désaxer, work in situ, Madre, Naples, Italy (2015); Daniel Buren – Zwei Werke für Recklinghausen, Festspielhaus und Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany (2015); De un patio a otro: laberinto, trabajos in situ, Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico (2014); Catch as Catch Can: works in situ, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom (2014). In the same year he signed the scenography of the ballet Daphnis et Chloé, by Ravel/Millepied at the Opéra Bastille, Paris.
2026
Carte blanche à Daniel Buren, Plantations, travaux in-situ, Musée des impressionnismes, Giverny, France
Comme un jeu d'enfant, travail in-situ, 2014-2026, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
Voile / Toile - Toile / Voile, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2025
DANIEL BUREN. Fare, Disfare, Rifare, Lavori in situ e situati 1968-2025, Palazzo Buontalenti, Pistoia, Italy
2024
Aux Beaux Carrés Acte II: travaux in-situ, Le Bon Marché, Paris, France
Haltes Colorées, MITICO, Belmond Hotel, Spain, Italy, South Africa, Brazil
Aux Beaux Carrés Acte I: travaux in-situ, Le Bon Marché, Paris, France
2023
Allegro ma non troppo, travail in-situ, Palais d'Iéna, Paris, France
Les Nuages colorés, travail in-situ, Siège de Lazard Frères, Paris, France
L'Horizon, infiniment, work in-situ, Galleria Continua, Burj Al Arab Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE
2022
Comme tombées du ciel, les couleurs in-situ et en mouvement, travail in-situ, Liège-Guillemins railway station, Belgium
Flags, Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Daniel Buren, Daegu Museum, Daegu, South Korea
Au détour des routes et des chemins, work in-situ, Île d'Arz, France
Voile / Toile, Toile / Voile, work in-situ, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Daniel Buren : Mur(s) pour Simon, travaux in-situ et en six mouvements, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Daniel Buren: Going for a Walk in a Zigzag, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
2021
BJRV IN SITU SUR PLATEAU, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, Dijon, France
Daniel Buren / Œuvres de la Collection Lambert, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Pavoisé, travail in-situ, Jardin d'hiver, Palais de l'Élysée, Paris, France
2019
Daniel Buren. De cualquier manera, work in-situ, Museo de Arte Italiano, Lima, Perú
Les Couleurs au Matin Calme, work in-situ, Dong-A Media Centre, Séoul, Republic of Korea
2018
The colors above our heads are under our feet as well, The Baker Museum, Florida, USA
Comme un jeu d'enfant, work in-situ, Sydney, Australia
Voile / Toile - Toile / Voile, (1975-2018), work in-situ, WalkerArt Center, Minneapolis, USA
2017
Proyecciones / Retroproyecciones, work in-situ, Centre Pompidou Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Autour du retour d'un détour - Inscriptions. Version VI, 1986/2017, travaux in-situ, Galleria Continua Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
Up and Down, In and Out, Step By Step, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Sculpture in the city, One Creechurch, London, UK
Une Pause colorée, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
2016
Daniel Buren, Avant et après le marché Saint-Pierre, Galleria Continua, Fierze Masters, Regent's Park, London, UK
Décor, Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Daniel BUREN. A Fresco, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
Comme un jeu d'enfant, work in-situ, Aguascalientes, Mexico
Voile / Toile, Toile / Voile, work in-situ, Yacht Club Bregenz, Austria
L'Observatoire de la lumière, travail in-situ, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Daniel Buren: Un Tigre ne peut pas changer ses rayures, Museumcultuur Strombeek, Strombeek, Belgium
2015
Daniel Buren, Nouvelle peinture murale, travail in-situ, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
Voile/Toile-Toile/Voile, work in-situ, Izmir, Turkey
Daniel Buren. Axer / Désaxer, work in-situ, MADRE Musée d’Art Contemporanea Donnaregina, Napoli, Italy
Les Flèches, travail in-situ et in motion, Musée d’Amiens, Amiens France
Comme un jeu d’enfant, travail in-situ, 2014/2026, MADRE Musée d’Art Contemporanea Donnaregina, Napoli, Italy
D’une Arche aux Autres, work in-situ, Jardins de l’église du Sacré-Cœur, Casablanca, Maroc
Cabane éclatée aux Plexiglas opaques colorés, Hôtel des Galeries, Brussels, Belgium
Daniel Buren. Une chose à faire, work in situ and situated 1965-2015, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2014
Tappeto volante de Daniel Buren, Il Mercato Centrale, Firenze, Italy
Daniel Buren, Fondation Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido Oaxaca, Mexico
Carte blanche, Metropolitan Art Society, Beyrouth, Lebanon
Grille de lecture : recto-verso, travail in-situ, Fondation Venet (Inauguration), Le Muy, France
Catch as Catch Can: works in situ, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Daniel Buren. Défini, Fini, Infini, work in-situ, MaMo- Marseille Modulor, Centre d’art de la Cité Radieuse, Marseille, France
Comme un jeu d’enfant, travail in situ, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France
2013
Sept Couleurs pour une cheminée, Chemnitz, Germany
Lightness of Being, City Hall Park, work in-situ, New-York, USA
Vitrines Louis Vuitton, Hong Kong, Tokyo (Japan), Shanghai (China), Paris (France), London (UK)
Couleurs superposées, Acte XV, Théâtre La Piscine, Châtenay-Malabry, France
2012
Intersezione VII. Costruire sulle vestigia: impermanenze, work in-situ, MARCA, Museo delle Arti Cantazaro, Catanzaro, Italy
Excentrique(s), travail in-situ, Monumenta, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2011
Hirose Collection 2 Daniel Buren, Hirose Collection, Hiroshima, Japan
Daniel Buren / Projections diaphanes, travail in-situ, Institut français de Dakar, Sénégal
Écho d’échos: vues plongeantes, travail in-situ, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
Voile/Toile-Toile/Voile, work in-situ, Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Le Décor et son double, work in-situ, 1986-2011, SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gand, Belgium
Echos, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Couleurs superposées, Theater Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Allegro Vivace, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
2010
Photos-souvenirs au carré. Daniel Buren, La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
Architecture, contre-architecture: transposition, Daniel Buren, travail in-situ, MUDAM, Luxembourg
Multiplications Work in-situ for a Synagogue, Synagogue Stommeln, Pulheim, Germany
Taking Place, work in-situ, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Art Parcours, work in-situ, Old University, Bale, Switzerland
Daniel Buren – Circa il ritorno di una svolta, lavoro situato, versione IV, work in-situ, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
2009
Daniel Buren/ Modulation, work in-situ, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
Pergola, work in-situ, La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
Glasstress, work in-situ, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy
Vide ou Plein ?, work in-situ for two spaces, Art Dubai, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Transmutation, work in-situ, in “Arte in memoria 5”, Sinagoga di Ostia Antica, Ostia, Rome, Italy
Daniel Buren - Artists Books, Fundacao Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2008
La Coupure, Primo: Entrée en matière, work in-situ, Musée National Picasso, Paris, France
Plung In #45, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
En voir de toutes les couleurs, autour des Deux Plateaux, Cour d'honneur du Palais Royal, Paris, France
Stadthimmel, work in-situ, Place de la Gare centrale, Basel, Switzerland
2007
La Cabane éclatée aux Plexiglas colorés et transparents, travail in-situ, Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Palais de Chaillot, Paris, France
Armory Public View: A Colored Square in the Sky, work in-situ, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California, USA
Quintette à Ankara, Les Jardins de l'Ambassade de France en Turquie, Ankara, Turkey
2006
Filtres colorés, Hermès Dosan Gallery, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Intervention II, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
La Collection en trois temps et quatre actes - Acte II, Musée d’art contemporain, Marseille, France
The Snow Show, dans le cadre des jeux Olympiques d’hiver de Turin, Sestrières, Italy
Couleurs et Ombres portées, Galleria Continua Beijing, China
2004
De l’Azur au Temple du Ciel, work in-situ, Temple du Ciel, Beijing, China
L’Observatoire de la couleur, Observatoire de Nice, Nice, France
Quatre Fois moins ou Quatre Fois plus, travail in-situ, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2003
Transitions : works in-situ, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
Form specific, Moderna galerja Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Il Soffitto Arlecchino, work in-situ, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
2002
Projection colorée, work in-situ, Innsbruck, Austria
De la Cabane aux châteaux, Château de Grignan, Grignan, France
2001
La Place des drapeaux, work in-situ, Multicultural centre Ars Aevi, Sarajevo
2000
Voyager à la verticale, travail in-situ, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France
A Cielo aperto, work in-situ, Santa Maria dello Spasimo, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
La Ville / Le Jardin / La Mémoire, travail in-situ, Villa Borghese, Académie de France, Roma, Italy
Lichtparcours / Braunschweig 2000, work in-situ, Brunswick, Germany
Mises en demeures / Cabanes éclatées, 1999-2000, travail in-situ, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
D’un Déplacement, l’autre, travail in-situ, La Verrière, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Bruxelles, Belgium
1999
Tapetto volante, work in-situ, Luci d'artista, Piazza Palazzo di Città, Turin, Italy
1998
Autres Intérieurs, Muséum Sztuki w Lozi, Łódź, Poland
1997
Parallélépipède & Trame, work in-situ, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan
Glissements : de la lumière sur la couleur, de la couleur dans la lumière, d'une couleur sur l’autre, travail in-situ, Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France
Implosion ou la Cabane aux quatre piliers, travail in-situ, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, France
1996
L’Art et la Mesure, Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai, France
Peintures de 1964 et 1965, Renn Espace d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Transparence de la lumière, Mito Art Tower, Mito, Japan
Erscheinen, Scheinen, Verschwinden, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Mirades, MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelone, Spain
25 Porticoes : la couleur et ses reflets (color and its reflections), public commission for Odaiba Bay, Tokyo, Japan
1995
Allégorie de la richesse, Chapelle de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France
Comme des Miroirs traversés, work in-situ, Comme des Garçons, Tokyo, Japan
Dialogues de Paix, Palais des Nations, Office des Nations Unies, Geneva, Switzerland
1994
Daniel Buren, work in-situ, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Rigidity / Flexibility on the Grid, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Placed, displaced, work in-situ, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1992
Vitrines, travail in-situ, Nina Ricci, Paris, France
Placed / Displaced / Projected II, National Gallery of Iceland, Listasafn Islands, Reykjavik, Iceland
1991
La Cabane éclatée 2 fois, work in-situ, Musée d'art moderne Saint Étienne, Saint Étienne, France
White Box for two Colors, work in-situ, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Site of flags, work in-situ, The Railway Square, Helsinki, Finland
1990
El color y su reflejo, work in-situ, Fundacíon Cultural MAPFRE VIDA, Madrid, Spain
1989
Im Raum: Die Farbe, work in-situ, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Valmy: Naissance d'une nation, travail in-situ, Ministère de la Défense, Valmy, France
La Visée, work in-situ, Col de la Furka, Furka pass, Switzerland
Sept Octogones fragmentés par le lieu, work in-situ, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Daniel Buren, ICA, Nagoya, Japan
Une Enveloppe peut en cacher une autre, work situated, Geneva, Switzerland
1988
Bouquets dans Lyon, travail in-situ, Musée des Tissus, Lyon, France
Trouées: Cinq Couleurs pour un lieu, work in-situ, Centre culturel français, Séoul, South Korea
Clarté, Nordjyllandsskuntmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
Festival dei du Mondi, [Ciao], work in-situ, Villa Redenta, Spoleto, Italy
Quatre Couleurs pour un patio, work in-situ, Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
Art Symposium, Minos Beach Hotel, Crete, Greece
Cabane éclatée n°3, position n°2, work in-situ, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Métamorphoses, Colombus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA
11 000 tulipes, work in-situ, Nationale Bloementoonstelling, Keukenhof, Netherlands
Art in the Garden: Installations, work in-situ, Glasgow Garden Festival, Glasgow, UK
A Room in a room, a work by Daniel Buren, Hirose Collection, Hiroshima, Japan
The Reverberation, work in-situ, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
1987
Ipotesi su alcuni indizi, work in-situ, Museo di Capodimonte a Napoli, Naples, Italy
Floating square, work in-situ, Albert Dock, a Tate Gallery Liverpool Summer Event, Liverpool, UK
Vis-à-vis, Musée de Saint Denis, Reims, France
Comme un lieu, situation 2, travail in-situ, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Comme un lieu, situation 2, travail in-situ, Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France
1986
Le Salon Royal, Théâtre de la Monnaie, Bruxelles, Belgium
Ce lieu d'où, travail in-situ, Musée d'art moderne, Liège, Belgium
1983
D'un Sens à l'Autre, work in-situ, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
C'est ainsi et autrement, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Points de vue ou le Corridorscope, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Voiles / Toiles - Toiles / Voiles, work in-situ, Thoune, Switzerland
1982
Le mur du fond, travail in-situ, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Plan contre plan, work in-situ, with Michael Asher, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
1981
Murs, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
D'un signe à l'autre. Affichages sauvages, work in-situ, Montreal, Canada
Affichages sauvages, work in-situ, Honolulu, Hawaï, USA
Affichages sauvages, work in-situ, organized by Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
1980
On Location: In the Labyrinth, work in-situ, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA
Ponctuations: Statue / Sculpture, travail in-situ, à l'initiative du Nouveau Musée de Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne et Lyon, France
Azulejos, Affichages sauvages, work in-situ, Lisbon, Portugal
1979
Voile / Toile - Toile / Voile, work in-situ, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Dal colore all'architettura e ritorno, work in-situ, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea di Milano, Milano, Italy
Static / Mobil, work in-situ, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Frost and Defrost, work in-situ, Otis Art Institute Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1978
Affichages sauvages, work in-situ, New York, USA
1977
Impromptu, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Affichages sauvages, work in-situ, Beijing, China
Place and placement, work in-situ, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Les Couleurs: Sculptures 1975-1977, travail in-situ, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1976
Un lavoro in situ, parte prima, Galleria Mazzini, Genova, Italy
Works done by Daniel Buren in situ, Institute of Contemporary Arts, New Gallery, London, UK
To Transgress, work in-situ, Leo Castelli [gallery], New York, USA.
Rooms P.S 1, work in-situ, The Institute for Art and Urban Ressources, N-Y, USA.
Sans Titre, work in-situ, Asperen, Netherlands
Ici / Hier, work in-situ, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ailleurs / Elders, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Désormais / Vanaf, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterloo, Netherlands
Ailleurs / Elders, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Fond - Forme, travail in-situ, Centre d’art contemporain, École supérieure d’art visuel (ESAV), Geneva, Switzerland.
1975
Daniel BUREN, Suite N°2: À Partir de là, work in-situ, Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Éparpillé / Rassemblé work in-situ, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland
Papier collés — Du Gris au Violet, Passage Le Bailli, Bruxelles, Belgium
Toile / Voile - Voile / Toile, work in-situ, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
1974
PH Opéra/Acte I : Exposition. Scène 6, travail in-situ, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium
Passage between inside and outside, works in-situ, Portland Centrer for the Visual Arts, Portland, USA
On The Hang-up, work in-situ, Los Angeles, USA
Papiers collés - Du Bleu au Jaune, work in-situ, Passage Le Bailli, Brussels, Belgium
1973
Sanction of the Museum, work in-situ, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1972
Trois Travaux dans Naples. Affichages sauvages, work in-situ, Napoli, Italy
1971
Collection de Monsieur et Madame B., Centre national d'art contemporain, Paris, France
Eine Manifestation, Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1970
Cent stations du métro parisien, travail in-situ, Métropolitain parisien, Paris, France
Affichages sauvages, work in-situ, Nagoya, Japan
Affichages sauvages, work in-situ, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fifty Bus Benches, Bus stations, Los Angeles, California, USA
Affichages sauvages work in-situ, Kyoto, Japan
Affichages sauvages, work in-situ, Tokyo, Japan
1969
Affichages sauvages, work in-situ, Paris, France
Affichages sauvages, work in-situ, Berne, Switzerland
Daniel Buren - Fuori tempo, a perdita d'occhio, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Daniel Buren per Bergamo. Illuminare lo spazio, work in-situ, Sala delle Capriate, GAMeC - Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, Italy
Connexions / Mille et trois plateaux, 4e épisode / Escape, Mamco, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
La Ligne rouge, work in-situ, Parc Taifeng Teda, Tianjiin, China
The eye of the storm, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Constructions, ARCA, Action régionale pour l'art contemporain, Marseille, France
Neuf Couleurs au vent, travail in-situ, Vieux-Port, Quebec, Canada
Coïncidences in-situ - Les Colonnes déplacées - Dispositif n° II, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2026
On walks and travels, work in-situ, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
Biennale de Chengdu, Chengdu, China
2024
For what it's worth value systems in art since 1960, The Warehouse Dallas Art Foundation, USA
2023
Bienalsur, Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art at Jax, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
Sleepless Nights -From the 1980's in the Moderna Museet collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2022
Festival Noor Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Architektur und Farbe: Innen und Aussen work in-situ, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany
Collection 1940s-1970s, permanent collection, galery 414, MoMA
2021
Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
Elle rit, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Stop Painting. An Exhibition by Peter Fischli, Foundation Prada, Venice, Italy
Metamorphosis, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
Festival Noor Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2020
Collection 1940s-1970s / Touching the Void, permanent collection, galery 413, MoMA, New York, USA
À travers les yeux d'Yvon Lambert, 20 ans après..., Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Musée en œuvre(s) / Nouvelle présentation des collections contemporaines, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Glass and Concrete, Manifestations of the Impossible, Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany
2019
The Shape of Time, Centre Pompidou West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China
La vie moderne. Nouveaux parcours dans les collections, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France
En plein air, work in-situ, High Line Park, New York, USA
La Collection de la Fondation. Le parti de la peinture, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
L'Aventure de la couleur. Œuvres phares du Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2018
Daniel Buren & Anish Kapoor, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Pompei, Materia archeologica: le collezioni, curated by Massimo Osanna, Andra Viliani, MADRE- Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Napoli, Italy
2017
Continua Sphères/ Ensemble, Le Centquatre, Paris, France
2016
Par tibi, Roma, nihil, work in-situ, curated by Raffaella Fascarelli, promoted by Nomas Foundation, Le Palatin, Rome, Italy
Comment l'art est devenu actif: de 1960 à nos jours, Tate Modern, London, UK
Kenpoku Art 2016, Station Hitachi, Hitachi, Japan
Quarante, MoMA PS 1, New York, USA
Kaléidoscope: Mystiques et Rationalistes, Modern Art Oxford, UK
Réalités artificielles, East Wing Biennale, Courtauld Art Institute, London, UK
2015
Major works from the Guggenheim Bilbao collection, Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Artists and Architecture, variable dimensions, Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
Follia Continua ! Les 25 ans de Galleria Continua, Le centquatre, Paris, France
Transmissions: L'art en Europe de l'Est et en Amérique latine, 1960-1980, MoMA, New-York, USA
12th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba
Open Plan / SP-Arte, Pavillon Biennal, São Paulo, Brazil
2014
Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
A History: Art, architecture, design From the 1980s Until Today, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Spirit of Place, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy
Fruits de la passion. La collection du Centre Pompidou, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
2013
Triennale di Milano, Palazzo dell'Arte, Milano, Italy
DLA Piper Series: Constellations, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2012
Les chefs d'œuvre de la donation Yvon Lambert, collection Lambert, Avignon
Triennale de Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2011
The Daled Collection of American and European Conceptual Art, MoMA, New-York, USA
2010
Daniel Buren & Alberto Giacometti. Œuvres contemporaines 1964-1966, Emirate Palace, Abu Dhabi UAE
Artistes du monde pour Handicap International, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris, France
Contemporary Art from the Collection, MoMA, New York, USA
2009
In & Out Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin 1968-1989, MoMA, New York, USA
Mapping the Studio, Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Fondation Pinault, Venice, Italy
Triennale de l'art en France, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2008
Geo/Metric: Prints and Drawings from the Collection, MoMA, New York, USA
Blood on Paper: the Art of the Book, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MoMA, USA
Prenez soin de vous, Bibliothèque nationale de France, site Richelieu, curated by Sophie Calle, Paris, France
Mobile Art Chanel, Mobil Art Contemporary Container by Zaha Hadid, Hong Kong, China
Geo/Metric: Prints and Drawings from the Collection, MoMA, New York, USA
Blood on Paper: the Art of the Book, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MoMA, USA
2007
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA, Contemporary Galleries, New York, USA
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2007
Le Musée qui n'existait pas, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2002
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA, Contemporary Galleries, New York, USA
Chanel / L'Art comme Univers, Musée des Beaux-Arts Pouchkine, Moscow, Russia
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
A Theater without Theater, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
7th International São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brasil
52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2006
10th Architecture Venice Biennale
2005
Versailles Off, Parc du château de Versailles, Versailles, Paris, France
International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
2004
Versailles Off, Parc du château de Versailles, Versailles, Paris, France
In our Time, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2001
Rendez-vous N°3, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
2000
Accrochage de réouverture du Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1999
Les Champs de la sculpture, travail in-situ, Champs-Élysées, Paris, France
The Museum as Muse - Artists Reflects, work in-situ, MoMA, New York, USA
1998
Rendez vous - Masterpieces from the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museum, work in-situ, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Painting - Object - Film - Concept: Works from the Herbig Collection, Christie's, New York, USA
1997
The Art of the Century, grand opening, work in-situ, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
La collection: chefs d'œuvres du Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Made in France 1947-1997- 50 ans de création en France, work in-situ, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
47th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy1995
Passions privées / collections particulières d'art moderne et contemporain en France, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1965-1975; Reconsidering the object of Art, MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
1994
Project for Heiankyo 1200th Anniversary, Celebration from Changan - New Kyoto '94, work in-situ, Town Hall Square, Kyoto, Japan
1993
45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1992
Manifeste, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1991
Buren-Parmentier, travail in-situ, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium
1990
Prints produced by Crown Point Press, work in-situ, The Tate Gallery, London, UK
Art et Publicité, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1989
Effets de miroir: Daniel Buren, Roy Lichtenstein, Michelangelo Pistoletto, travaux in-situ, CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Les Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Histoires de musée, travail in-situ, curated by Suzanne Pagé and Béatrice Parent, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1988
Art Kite Exhibition World Tour - Japan Tour, organized by Dr. Paul Eubel, Osaka, Japan
Abstractions, MoMA, New York, USA
Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italy
1987
For 25 years: Crown Point Press, MoMA, New York, USA
L'époque, la mode, la morale, la passion: Aspects de l'art aujourd'hui, 1977-1987, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Current Installations of Contemporary Art, MoMA, New-York, USA
1986
Contemporary Works from the Collection, MoMA, New York, USA
42th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1985
Les Immatériaux, curated by Jean-François Lyotard, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
13ème Biennale de Paris, Paris France
Biennale des Friedens, Hamburg, Germany
2nd Biennale d'Ushimado, Ushimado, Japan
18th Biennale de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
1984
Klars Form (Forme vivante), work in-situ, curated by Denise René and Dominique Viéville, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
Klars Form (Forme vivante), work in-situ, Helsinki Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
1983
Ars 83 Helsinki, work in-situ, Museum of Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
Some Recent Acquisitions, MoMA, New York, USA
17th Biennale de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil1982
Avantguardia / Transavanguardia, work in-situ, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Muro Aureliano, Roma, Italy
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
1981
Situations et Mutations: de place en place, curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, École des Arts Décoratifs, Strasbourg, France
Toyama now '81, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Westkunst, Cologne, Germany
1980
Printed Art: A View of Two Decades, MoMA, New York
39th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1979
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
1978
38th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1977
Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
Bookworks, curated by the artists, MoMA, New York, USA
37th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 1976
1975
Printsequence, MoMA, New York, USA
Color as langage / El lenguaje del color, organized by the International Council of the MoMA, Museo de Arte Moderna, Bogotá, Colombia
1974
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Eight Contemporary artists, work in-situ, MoMA, New York, USA
Projekt '74: Kunst bleibt Kunst, Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
1973
Contemporanea: Incontri Internazionali d'Arte, Villa Borghese, Roma, Italy
1972
Exposition en faveur des détenus politiques en Turquie, Cité Universitaire, Paris, France, 1972
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
36th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1971
VIth Guggenheim International, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA 1971
Projects: Pier 18, abandoned quay of the Hudson River and MoMA, New York, USA
1970
Information, MoMA, New York, USA
Using Walls, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA, 1970
10th Tokyo Biennale International Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
1968
6ème Paris Biennale, Paris, France
1967
18ème Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Musée d'art moderne, Paris, France
5ème Paris Biennale, Paris, France
2007
Praemium Imperiale, Painting section, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Commandeur de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres
1992
Grand Prix National de Peinture, Paris, France
1991
International Award for Best Artists, The Bad Wurtemberg Land, Stuttgart, Germany
1990
Living Treasure prize bestowed by New Zealand
1986
Golden Lion for the best pavilion at the 42nd Venice Biennale
1965
Grand Prix à la Biennale de Paris, Paris, France
Prix Lefranc de la Jeune Peinture, Paris, France
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Pinault Collection, Paris, France
2018
D'une Arche aux Autres, work in-situ, Parc de la Ligue Arabe, Casablanca, Maroc
Les Arcs de cercle coloré, Ambassade de France, La Havane, Cuba
2017
Diamonds and circles, London Underground, station Tottenham Court Road, London, UK
Sinusoïde, particular collection, Rossa, Switzerland
Le Cylindre incrusté aux couleurs, Commanderie de Peyrassol
Passeggiando, Piazza Verdi, La Spezia, Italy
2016
À partir de la grande porte, tout le parvis, work in-situ, Grand Cube at the Otemachi Financial District, Tokyo, Japan
Bayadères pour deux passerelles, Hunter College, New York, USA
2015
El Cubo, inauguration du Centre Pompidou Malaga, Malaga, Spain
2013
La Grande Diagonale, work in-situ, Istres, France
Daniel Buren. Broken Squares: work in situ and situated, 2011-2013, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
2012
Where is The Time, Donetsk, Ukraine
2011
Concave / Convexe: deux places en une avec fontaine, Piazza Arnolfo, Colle Val d'Elsa, Italy
Daniel Buren. Camminare sull'acqua, work in-situ, Cortone, Italy
Le Vent souffle où il veut, Nieuport, Belgium
2010
Daneil Buren - Danza Tra Triangoli e Losanghe Per Tre Colori, Macro, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Roma, Italy
2008
Le Banderuole colorate, Fondazione Zegna, Trivero, Italy
2007
Flèche, Gennevilliers, France
Passage de la Couleur, work in-situ, Art Basel, à l'initiative de la Galleria Continua, Bâle, Switzerland
Estuaire 2007, Quai des Antilles, Nantes, France
L'Emprise du lieu, Caves Pommery, Reims, France
2006
La Cabane rouge aux miroirs, Daniel Buren Peintures 1965-1968, Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai, France
2005
Perspectives, Headquarters Banca della Svizzera Italiana, Palazzo BSI, Lugano, Switzerland
La Cabane éclatée aux quatre salles, Collezione Gori, Santomato di Pistoia, Italy
2004
Cerchi nell'acqua - fountain, Napoli Azienda risorse idriche di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
2003
Somewhere along the way, some colors, Toki Messe, International Convention Center, Niigata, Japan
Fondation surgissante, Headquarters Telenor Eiendom Forneby As, Oslo, Norway
2000
Par Transparence, Alliance Française, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Trois Points de vue pour un dialogue, Jerusalem
1998
Sit Down, work in-situ, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, USA
Passage sous-bois, 1st Kimpo International Sculpture Symposium, Kimpo City, Republic of Korea
From Floor to Ceiling and Vice-Versa, Obayashi Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Ipotesi su alcuni indizi - II, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy
À travers le miroir incliné, la couleur, Industrial Kredit Bank, Düsseldorf, Germany
La Salle de concert - La Salle des miroirs, Dresdner Bank AG, Francfort, Germany
Encoder-Décoder: du code à sa lecture - Couleurs, Reflets, Transparence, Siège Thomson, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
1996
Soleil - Garde Corps, travail in-situ, Paris, France
Neuf couleurs au vent, Montreal, Canada
D'une Place à l'autre: Placer, déplacer, ajuster, situer, transformer, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands,
La Montée de la couleur et la Cascade de la couleur, New Trade Fair Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
1995
From one Place to another - From one Material to another - Passages in and out, Shinjuku I-Land, Shinjuku, Japan
1994
Déplacement - Jaillissement: D'une Fontaine Les Autres, Place des Terreaux, Lyon
Sens Dessus-Dessous, Parc des Célestins, Lyon, France
1991
Le Lafayette Café, Le Lafayette Café, Paris, France
1987
Frieze Paint - Paint on / under plexiglass, The Refco Collection, Refco New York Trading Room, USA
Diagonale pour des bambous, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France
Les Volets, Hotel Furkablick, Furkapasshöhe, Switzerland
1986
Les Deux Plateaux, Cour d'honneur du Palais Royal, Paris, France
1982
In the Dining Room, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, USA
Cabane éclatée aux 4 couleurs, work in-situ, 2012-2014, Parc international de la sculpture, Catanzaro, Italy
2018
Daphnis et Chloé, set design, Opéra National de Paris, Paris, France
2017
Daphnis et Chloé, set design, Staatsballet, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2014
Daphnis et Chloé, set design for ballet, by Ravel and Benjamin Millepied, Opéra Bastille, Paris, France
2012
Louis Vuitton / Woman. Spring-summer 2013, set design, Cour carrée du Louvre, Paris, France
2022
BurenCirque, Rotation, Parvis de l'Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France
Voile / Toile, Toile / Voile, work in-situ, baie de Nuottaniemi, Espoo, Finland
2018
Voile / Toile - Toile / Voile, (1975-2018), work in-situ, Lac Bde Maka Ska, Minneapolis, USA
2016
Voile / Toile, Toile / Voile, work in-situ, Lake Constance, Austria
2015
Voile/Toile-Toile/Voile, work in-situ, Izmir, Turkey
2011
Voile / Toile - Toile / Voile, work in-situ, Fenerbahçe Bay and Bosporus, Istanbul, Turkey
2005
Couleurs Superposées, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France
Couleur Superposées, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1985
Couleurs Superposées, Venice, Italy
1984
Couleurs Superposées, Stadsschouwburg, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1983
Voiles / Toiles - Toiles / Voiles, work in-situ, Thoune, Switzerland
Couleurs Superposées, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1982
Couleurs Superposées, Genazzano, Italy
Couleurs Superposées, Laforêt Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1979
Voile / Toile - Toile / Voile, work in-situ, Lac de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
1978
Ballet n°16 in Twelve Ballets: Ballets 8 à 19, Broadway and 6th Avenue, New York, USA
Ballet n°15 in Twelve Ballets: Ballets 8 à 19, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Ballet n°14 in Twelve Ballets: Ballets 8 à 19, Little Italy, New York, USA
Ballet n°13 in Twelve Ballets: Ballets 8 à 19, Lincoln Center, New York, USA
Ballet n°12 in Twelve Ballets: Ballets 8 à 19, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, USA
Ballet n°11 in Twelve Ballets: Ballets 8 à 19, 5th Avenue, New York, USA
Ballet n°10 in Twelve Ballets: Ballets 8 à 19, United Nations District, New York, USA
1977
Ballet n°9 in Twelve Ballets: Ballets 8 à 19, Chelsea, New York, USA
Ballet n°8 in Twelve Ballets: Ballets 8 à 19, Broadway and South Street, New York, USA
1975
Toile / Voile - Voile / Toile, work in-situ, Lac de Wannsee, Berlin, Germany
Painting - Daniel Buren in situ Part I, Fine Arts Building Gallery, New York, USA
1973
Act III, work in-situ, The New Theatre, New York, USA
1967
Manifestation 3, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France