Michelangelo Pistoletto In front of Fondazione Pistoletto - Cittadellarte, Biella Photo © Andrea Oitana

1933                   
born in Biella, Italy

1955
starts exhibiting his works

1960
first solo show at Galleria Galatea in Turin

1962
first Mirror Paintings

1965/1966
a set of works makes him the founder and protagonist of Arte Povera

1967
starts to work outside traditional exhibition spaces, with the first instances of that “creative collaboration” he developed over the following decades by bringing together artists from different disciplines and diverse sectors of society

1991-2000
Professor of Sculpture at the Vienna Fine Arts Academy

Lives and works since 1990 in Biella, Piemonte

1958
San Fedele Prize, Milan

1967
Belgian critics’ prize and Prize of the São Paulo Biennale

1978
Scholarship of DAAD Berlin

2002
Diploma di Benemerito della Cultura e dell’Arte, Italy

2003
Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifelong Achievement

2004
Laurea honoris causa in Political Science at Turin University

2007
Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts, Jerusalem

2012
Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

2013
Praemium Imperiale for painting, Tokyo

2015
Laurea honoris causa from the Universidad de las Artes of Havana in Cuba

2016
Honorary Degree in Communication and Art Education of Brera Academy of Fine Arts

1966
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1967
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels

1969
Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam

1973
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover

1974
Matildenhöhe, Darmstadt

1976
Palazzo Grassi, Venedig

1978
Nationalgalerie, Berlin

1979
Rice Demenil Museum, Houston

1983
Palacio de Cristal, Madrid

1984
Forte di Belvedere, Firenze

1988
P.S.1, New York; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden

1989
Kunsthalle, Bern; Secession, Vienna

1990
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome

1991
Museet for Samditkunst, Oslo

1993
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

1994
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

1995
Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna

1996
Lenbachhaus, Munich

1997
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato

1999
MMAO, Oxford; Henry Moore Foundation, Halifax; Galerie Taxispalais, Innsbruck

2000
GAM, Turin; MACBA, Barcelona

2001
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon; Contemporary Museum of Bosnia, Sarajevo; Ludwig Museum, Budapest

2003
MuHKA, Antwerp

2005
Galleria Civica, Modena

2007
MAMAC, Nice; NCCA, Mosca

2010
MARCA, Catanzaro; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

2011
MAXXI, Roma

2012
Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz

2013
Musée du Louvre, Paris

2016
GAMeC, Bergamo; Blenheim Palace, Woodstock; Museo National de Bellas Artes, La Habana

2017
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice (Venice Biennale)

2018
Palazzo Ducale, Mantova; YARAT, Baku

He has participated 13 times in the Venice Biennale (1966, 1968, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1986, 1993, 1995, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2017) and four times in Documenta, Kassel (1968, 1982, 1992 and 1997).