ZERO
This abridged list of group exhibitions includes only exhibitions in which Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker participated, and are the essential ZERO exhibitions. Those exhibitions, held mainly in Europe, give an idea of the network that was built by the German, French, Italian and Dutch artists between 1958 and 1966. It shows there were several important ZERO centres: in the Netherlands (The Hague and Rotterdam), Germany (Düsseldorf and Frankfurt) and Italy (Milan and Rome). From the beginning, the various artist collectives, including Zero, Nul and Azimut, made their own studios available to like-minded artists as exhibition and sale rooms. Gallery owners they befriended not only supported the artists’ initiatives in their capacity as commercial institutions, but also provided assistance in setting up and expanding the network; they also initiated experimental exhibitions in various museums. In Germany, Udo Kultermann was one of the first, in 1960, to present several ZERO artists in a museum context; Willem Sandberg subsequently opened the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to an initiative by Henk Peeters in 1962. The activities of the international ZERO movement reached as far as the USA.
Note: all used images are taken from various websites or from the Henk Peeters / Nul Archive
Used data is taken from the exhibition catalog Countdown to the Future, Sabanci Museum in Istanbul, 2015
Used data is taken from the exhibition catalog Countdown to the Future, Sabanci Museum in Istanbul, 2015
1958
- Düsseldorf, Atelier Heinz Mack und Otto Piene, Gladbacher Straße 69, 7. Abendausstellung – Das rote Bild
- Düsseldorf, Atelier Heinz Mack und Otto Piene, Gladbacher Straße 69, 8. Abendausstellung – Vibration
1959
- Antwerp, G58 Hessenhuis, Vision in Motion – Motion in Vision
- Wiesbaden, Galerie Renate Boukes, Dynamo 1
1960
- Milano, Galleria Azimut, La nuova concezione artistica
1961
- Düsseldorf, Galerie Schmela,, ZERO – Edition, Exposition, Demonstration
- Arnheim, Internationale Galerie A, Expositie Demonstratie ZERO
- Zagreb, Galerija suvremene umjetnosti, Nove tendencije
1962
- Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Nul
- Ghent, Centrum voor Kunstambachten, Gewezen St. Pietersabdij, Forum ’62
- Düsseldorf, Rheinwiesen, ZERO-Demonstration
1963
- Berlin, Galerie Diogenes, ZERO
- Frankfurt am Main, Galerie d in der Schwanenhalle des Römer, Europäische Avantgarde
1964
- The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, ZERO-0-Nul
- London, New Vision Centre Gallery, ZERO
- Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Documenta III – Sektion Licht und Bewegung
- Antwerp, Arena Centrum Deurne, Integratie 64
- Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, ZERO, Institute of Contemporary Art
1965
- Milano, Atelier Lucio Fontana, ZERO avantgarde 1965
- Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Nul negentienhonderd vijf en zestig
- The Hague, Pier von Scheveningen, ZERO op zee
1966
- Bonn, Städtische Kunstsammlungen, ZERO in Bonn
- Remagen, Bahnhof Rolandseck, ZERO Mitternachtsball