Giuseppe Penone (B. 1947) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin and made his debut as part of Arte Povera, with a research focused on nature and its processes of transformation. Since 1968 he presents actions, documented by photographs, intended to view and modify the natural processes of growth (Alpi Marittime, 1968; Alberi serie, since 1969; Gesti Vegetali serie, since 1984). Even the human body and its relationship with the environment are the subject of the artist’s research, who works with images, projections, footprints and casts of body parts in various materials. Since 1978 he deals with the issue of contact between body and matter (Soffi series), presenting, modified, exaggerated or graphically processed, fingerprints or parts of the human body (the series Propagazioni, Terre d’ombra and Anatomie, from the mid-nineties). His work, also accompanied by poetic texts of his own creation, has been shown in numerous international exhibitions. Penone in 2014 was awarded with the Imperial Premium for Japanese Art Society sculpture.
Giuseppe Penone - Stiftung Saarländischer Kulturbesitz, Saarbrücken
Giuseppe Penone. Foglie di bronzo / Leaves of Bronze – Gagosian, San Francisco, CA
Giuseppe Penone: Incidenze del vuoto – Complesso monumentale di San Francesco, Cuneo
Giuseppe Penone. Matrice di linfa – Palais d’Iéna, Paris
A Tree in the Wood - Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
Giuseppe Penone. Selected Works - Gagosian, Geneva
Idee di Pietra - Gagosian Gallery, Gstaad
Equivalenze - Gagosian Gallery, Roma
Giuseppe Penone: Matrice - Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, Roma
Giuseppe Penone. Des corps de pierre - Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade
Giuseppe Penone: A Question of Identity. Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Giuseppe Penone. Anafora - Reggia di Venaria Reale, Venaria Reale, Torino
Fui, Sarò, Non sono (I was, I will be, I’m not) - Marian Goodman Gallery, London
Ebbi, Avrò, Non ho (J’eus, J’aurai, J’e n’ai) - Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Giuseppe Penone - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Giuseppe Penone - MART, Rovereto
Giuseppe Penone. Regards croisés - Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Giuseppe Penone: Being the River, Repeating the Forest - Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
Giuseppe Penone: Spazio di luce - Gagosian Gallery, Roma
Giuseppe Penone - Musée Grenoble, Paris
Giuseppe Penone: Ramificazioni del Pensiero | Branches of Thought - Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Prospettiva Vegetale - Forte Belvedere & Giardino di Boboli, Firenze
Breath Is A Sculpture - Beirut Art Center, Beirut
Giuseppe Penone: Circling - Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London
Giuseppe Penone: Ideas of Stone - Madison Square Park, New York, NY
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Giuseppe Penone - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Penone Versailles - Chateau de Versailles, Versailles
Giuseppe Penone: Entre les lignes - Chapelle du Méjan, Arles
Giuseppe Penone: Intersecting Gaze - Gagosian Gallery, London
Traversées - La Fabrique du Pont d’Aleyrac, Saint-Pierreville
Giuseppe Penone - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY Giuseppe Penone - Centre d'arts et de nature, Parc du Château, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone: Spazio di Luce - Whitechapel Gallery, London
Giuseppe Penone: The Hidden Life Within - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Giuseppe Penone - Huanch of Venison, London
Giuseppe Penone: Neue Arbeiten - Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Giuseppe Penone: Nelle Mani – In the Hands - Fondation De Pont, Tilburg
Giuseppe Penone: Des veines, au ciel, ouvertes - Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu, Hornu
Giuseppe Penone - Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Giuseppe Penone - Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Giuseppe Penone: Matrice de séve - Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Giuseppe Penone. Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota
Giuseppe Penone: Idee di pietra. Piazza del Duomo, Pietrasanta
Giuseppe Penone. Museo de la Ciudad, Quito
Giuseppe Penone. Nelle mani: opera dal 1968 al 2008 - Galleria Tucci Russo,Torino
Giuseppe Penone -Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota
Giuseppe Penone - Villa Medici, Rome
Giuseppe Penone - Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
Giuseppe Penone - Frith Street Gallery, London
Giuseppe Penone - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna
Giuseppe Penone - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Giardino delle Sculture Fluide, 2003 – 2007 - Reggia di Venaria Reale, Torino
Giuseppe Penone: Sculture di linfa - Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
Giuseppe Penone: Neue Arbeiten - Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
Sculptures et dessins récents - Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne
Giuseppe Penone: Sulla punta della matita si specchia la pelle dell’universo - Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice
Sorgente di cristallo. Fujikawa Gallery, Osaka
Giuseppe Penone: Élévation - Jardin Public du Parc du Jas de Bouffan, Aix-en-Provence
Giuseppe Penone - CeSAC Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Il Falatoio
Giuseppe Penone - Museum Kurhaus, Kleve
Giuseppe Penone: Retrospective Exhibition 1968–2004 - Centre Pompidou, Paris
Giuseppe Penone: The Imprint of Drawing - The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Dévoiler l’invisible - Centre Georges Pompidou - Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Giuseppe Penone - Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
Giuseppe Penone: Paesaggi del cervello - Chiesa della Maddelena, Pesaro
Ombra di terra - Galerie Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli
Giuseppe Penone: Spoglia d’oro su spine d’acacia - Spazio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Roma
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva
Giuseppe Penone - Fujikawa Gallery/Next, Osaka
Respirare l'ombra - Synagoge Stommeln, Pulheim-Stommeln
Giuseppe Penone - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Giuseppe Penone: Sculptures et dessins récents - Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne
Giuseppe Penone. Tucci Russo Studio per l'Arte Contemporanea, Torino
Giuseppe Penone: Dessins et Sculptures 1968-2000 - Rennes Espace, Paris
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne
Guiseppe Penone 1968-1998 - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
Giuseppe Penone: To Breathe - The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
Giuseppe Penone: The Veins of Stone - Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Giuseppe Penone 1994-1998 - Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Giuseppe Penone - Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldor
De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Tilburg
Giuseppe Penone: Die Adern des Steins - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Giuseppe Penone: The Veins of Stone - The Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi
Giuseppe Penone - Carré d'Art, Musée d'art Contemporain, Nimes
Giuseppe Penone. Gallerie Artiscope, Brussels
Giuseppe Penone - Frith Street Gallery, London
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Pozzuoli
Giuseppe Penone - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Giuseppe Penone: L'image du toucher - Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, Amiens
Giuseppe Penone - Centro Culturale Teresa Orsola Bussa De Rossi, Fossano
Giuseppe Penone - Chateau d'Annecy, Annecy
Images de Pierre - Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva
Giuseppe Penone. Drawings and Sculpture - Frith Street Gallery, London
Giuseppe Penone: Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
Giuseppe Penone: I Have Been a Tree in the Hand - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Giuseppe Penone: Raccogliere gli sguardi - Galerie Jule Kewenig, Freehen-Bachen, Cologne
Giussepe Penone Invita Johannes Cladders - Foro per l'Arte Contemporanea Scavi Archeologi, Verona
Penone: Le acque, I venti, le genti, gli alberi, I serpi sono vene di pietra. Refectoire de l'Abbaye de Tournus, Tournus
Le acque, I venti, le genti, gli alberi, I serpi sono vene di pietra - Refectoire de l'Abbaye de Tournus, Tournus
Giuseppe Penone - Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino
Giuseppe Penone: L'Espace de la Main - Musee de la Ville de Strasbourg, Strasbourg
Giuseppe Penone: Foglie e suture - Silo Art Contemporain, Eglise de Courmelois, Val-de-Vesle/Reims
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria Christian Stein, Torino
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
Giuseppe Penone - Dean Clough Art Foundation, Halifax
Giuseppe Penone - Fortezza da Basso, Firenze
Giuseppe Penone: Recent Sculpture - Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Giuseppe Penone: Recent Sculpture - Henry Moor Sculpture Trust, Halifax
Giuseppe Penone: Courbes de niveau - Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria Christian Stein, Milano
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria Christian Stein, Torino
Giuseppe Penone: Contour Lines, Six Weeks of Sculpture - Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Giuseppe Penone: Occhi avidi di materia, mani svuotate di memoria. Ritrovare nell’acqua le impronte delle mani. Ritrovare nella terra lo sguardo degli occhi - Galleria Christian Stein, Torino
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria d’Arte Moderna Villa delle Rose, Bologna
Giuseppe Penone: Sculpture - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Giuseppe Penone - Musée Rodin, Paris
Giuseppe Penone - Alfonso Artiaco Spazio d’Arte, Pozzuoli
Giuseppe Penone - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Giuseppe Penone: Pages de terre - Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
Giuseppe Penone: Eine neue Arbeit - Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Christian Stein, Milano
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
Giuseppe Penone - Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble
Giuseppe Penone: Neue Arbeiten - Galerie Buchmann, Basel
Giuseppe Penone - Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes
Giuseppe Penone : Creuser la Mémoire de la Boue (Exercise de Sculpture) - Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi
Giuseppe Penone - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Giuseppe Penone: Pfad – Sentiero - Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
Giuseppe Penone. ARC – Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Giuseppe Penone: Grande gesto vegetale, alberi verticali e disegni - Galleria Christian Stein, Torino
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
Giuseppe Penone - National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; traveled to Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Giuseppe Penone - Samangallery, Genova
Giuseppe Penone - Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
La condanna del vegetale al ricordo dei suoi gesti l’opera vegetale dello scultore: Giuseppe Penone: Disegni e sculture - Galleria Konrad Fischer, Torino
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milano
Giuseppe Penone - Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, NY
Essere Fiume - Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
Giuseppe Penone - Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Giuseppe Penone - Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven
Giuseppe Penone: Recent werk - Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam
Giuseppe Penone: Albero d’acqua e grande zappa - Galleria Christian Stein, Torino
Giuseppe Penone - Ausstellung Studio, Mönchengladbach
Giuseppe Penone - Lisson Gallery, London
Giuseppe Penone - Vereniging Aktuele Kunst, Ghent
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria Studio G7, Bologna
Giuseppe Penone. InK – Halle für Internationale neue Kunst, Zürich
Giuseppe Penone. Galleria il Tritone, Biella
Giuseppe Penone: Objecte, Zeichnungen, Projektionen, Fotos - Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
Giuseppe Penone: Le sculture divelte in zolle e capovolte conservano le intercapedini di vuoto che le patate reimpiono - Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
Giuseppe Penone - Studio Torelli, Ferrara
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria Giuliana De Crescenzo, Roma
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Salvatore Ala, Milano
Giuseppe Penone: Bäume – Augen- Haare – Wände - Tongefäss - Kunstmuseum, Luzern
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria Cavellini – Nuovi Strumenti, Brescia
Giuseppe Penone - Studio Deambrogi, Milano
Giuseppe Penone: Una mostra in tre parti / Eine Ausstellung in drei Teilen / An Exhibition in Three Parts - Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne
Giuseppe Penone: 1216 peli - Galleria Sperone, Torino
Giuseppe Penone: Sei opera - Galerie Multipli, Torino
Giuseppe Penone - Sperone Gallery, New York, NY
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria Schema, Firenze
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie ‘t Venster, Rotterdam
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria Multipli, Torino
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Klau Lupke, Frankfurt
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria Sperone-Fischer, Roma
Giuseppe Penone - Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne
Giuseppe Penone: Il pelo, come l’unghia e la pelle, occupa spazio - Galleria Sperone, Torino
Giuseppe Penone - GalleriaToselli, Milano
Giuseppe Penone - Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne
Giuseppe Penone: Svolgere la propria pelle. Galleria Sprone, Torino
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria Toselli, Milano
Giuseppe Penone: Aktionsraum 1 - Munich
Giuseppe Penone - Galleria Sperone, Torino
Penone: Deposito d’arte presente - Torino