Marion Baruch
Biography
1929 Born in Timişoara, Romania
1949–1950 Academy of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania
1950–1954 Lives in Israel
1950–1954 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
1954–1957 Lives in Italy
1954–1957 Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, Italy
1978–1980 Long stays in England
1991 Legal registration of NAME DIFFUSION, an individual
company founded by Marion Baruch
1998 NAME DIFFUSION is turned into an association
1998–2011 Lives and works in Paris, France
since 2011 Lives and works in Gallarate, Italy
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Marion Baruch. Nocturne by day, spazio lima, Milano, Italy
Widerstandsgeist, Neuer Aachner Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Marion Baruch. Soziales Gewebe, HLHE Dialog, Haus Lange, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany
2023
Everything Begins with Nature and Ends at the Supermarket, LRRH Aerial, Dusseldorf, Germany
Marion Baruch, Galerie Urs Meile, Zurich, Switzerland
Marion Baruch, Galerie Rudolfinum, Praha, Czech republic
2022
MARION BARUCH. ENDLESS GOING TRYING TO SAY, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
Marion Baruch: Bomba, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
The soft Revolution, WTA World Textile Art’s Italian Exhibition, Museo del Tessile, Busto Arsizio VA, Italy
Paura della libertà - Un omaggio a Carlo Levi, Museo Temporaneo Navile, Bologna, Italy
2021
Décalage, HGB Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
Achu Pnimi (Inner Meadow), Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020
Marion Baruch, les Abattoirs, musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Mouvement perpétuel, essayer dire. Retrospective Marion Baruch, Magasin des horizons, Grenoble, France
Pré, près, prêt, pré, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France
Letting go endless blooming, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
Marion Baruch. Retrospektive – innenausseninnen, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (exh.
cat.)
2019
Résonances, Galerie Laurence Bernard, Geneva, Switzerland
Natura abitata, La BF15, Lyon, France
Structured Detour, la rada, Locarno, Switzerland
2018
Marion Baruch. Abbraccio lo spazio e lo attraverso, MA*GA, Gallarate, Italy
Fanni Fetzer vous propose Marion Baruch, jevouspropose, Zurich, Switzerland
2017
Back to the Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy
Le parti pris des nuages, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France (exh. cat.)
2016
Le temps éclaté par la profondeur du vide, Galerie Laurence Bernard, Geneva, Switzerland
Eingang, In & Out, Up & Down, Durch und Durch, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
Le Printemps de Toulouse, L’adresse du Printemps, Toulouse, France
De jour en jour, Château de Degrés, Gragnague, France
Mancanza / Here and Where, Otto Zoo, Milan, Italy
2015
Marion Baruch – Teatro della memoria, Teatro del Popolo, Gallarate, Italy
2014
Marion Baruch, Sculpture Ambiente, Mars, Milan, Italy
2013
Lampi di memoria, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
2012
Start–Marion Baruch, NeufCube, Paris, France
2011
PARISchutes, Théâtre Le vent se lève, Paris , France
2009
Une chambre vide, Galerie du Buisson, Paris, France
Mon corps où es-tu?, 32 rue Sorbier, Paris, France
1994
Prénom d’artiste, Studio Morra, Naples, Italy
Cafeteria NAME DIFFUSION, Galleria Luciano Inga-Pin, Milan, Italy
1991
Mattia knows it, Galleria Luciano Inga-Pin, Milan, Italy; Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1971
Baruch + Fronzoni: Contenitore-Ambiente, Centro Domus, Milan, Italy
1956
La Cupola, Rome, Italy
1954
Micra Studio, Tel Aviv, Israel
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Material Manipulations, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
2023
KUNST-STOFF. TEXTIL ALS KÜNSTLERISCHES MATERIAL, Museum im Deutschhof, Heilbronn, Germany
Unerwartete Begegnungen. Neue Perspektiven auf die Sammlung, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
Sammlung in Bewegung, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany
Uncertain Weavings, THE ADDRESS, Brescia, Italy
2021
Amazons of POP! Women artists, superheroines, icons 1961-1973, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Kaléidoscope du réel, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France
Structures of Radical Will, Fondation CAB, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
One Is Always a Plural, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Structures of Radical Will, Fondation CAB, Brussels, Belgium
werden und vergehen. Zustandsberichte aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
SNAPSHOT, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
Transition, Galerie Urs Meile, Ardez, Switzerland
2021 = 5, Exposition anniversaire des 5 ans de la galerie, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France
2020
„La vie dans l’espace“. Accrochage des collections, MRAC, Musée régional d’art contemporain,
Sérignan, France
The Backward Glance can be a Glimpse into the Future, von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
Shifting, Pop-up Art Parcours, Galerie Urs Meile, Ardez, Switzerland
Restons unis, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
accrochage italien, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, France
She-Bam Pow POP Wizz! Les amazones du POP (1961–1973), MAMAC, Nice, France
2019
Ici Éden, Galerie Laurence Bernard, Geneva, Switzerland
Indus 3, Art:Concept, Paris, France
Présence, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, France
La vie moderne, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Performativity, Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy
Gigantisme – Art & Industrie, Triennale 2019, FRAC Grand Large – Hauts de France, Dunkerque,
France (exh. cat.)
Technoculture 2, blueFACTORY, Fribourg, Switzerland
Suffis-toi d’un buis, Ménagerie de Verre, Paris, France
Le pressentiment de mon indiscipline, dialogue autour de la ligne avec Bernar Venet, Galerie Anne-Sarah
Bénichou, Paris, France (exh. cat.)
Doing Deculturalization, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Rumeurs & Légendes, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
La rencontre de Madame Baruch et Monsieur Al Held, Galerie Ziegler SA, Zurich, Switzerland
2018
L’Atlas des Nuages, Fondation Francois Schneider, Wattwiller, France
Formes d’histoires, Les Tanneries – Centre d’art contemporain, Amilly, France
Marion Baruch e Alessandro Teoldi, Viasaterna, Milan, Italy
2017
Life a User’s Manual, Art Encounters, Contemporary Art Biennale, Muzeul de Art
Arad; Muzeul de Artă Timişoara, Timişoara, Romania (exh. cat.)
Interferencias. Colección del MAMCO de Ginebra en el Museo, Bienalsur, Museo
Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
La ruche et la valise, Villa Bernasconi. Centre d’art, Grand-Lancy, Switzerland
Entangled: Threads & Making, Turner Contemporary of Margate, Kent, England (exh. cat.)
Attitude/Sculpture #2, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence, Italy
Kunstbrulé, Umberto Cavenago Studio, Monza, Italy
Locus Amoenus, C.A.R.S., Museo Tornielli, Ameno, Italy
2016
Time is out of joint, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy (exh. cat.)
21st Century. Design after Design. W. Women in Italian Design, XXI Triennale di Milano, Design Museum, Milan, Italy
2015
Sviluppo-Parallelo, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
2013
Autoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell’arte italiana contemporanea, MAMbo, Bologna, Italy
2012
SI - Scrittrici Insieme, Villa Montevecchio, Samarate (VA), Italy
2007
Le trame di Penelope, MA*GA, Gallarate, Italy (exh. cat.)
2005
Naissances, Musée de l’homme
2003
Mobilités, Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, France
2002
Lines of Mobility, Kunstverein Nurnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
2001
Bibliobus, Centre d’art contemporain Cimaises et Portique, Albi, France
2000
Micropolitiques, Le MAGASIN de Grenoble, Centre d’art contemporain, Grenoble, France (exh. cat.)
MoneyNations 2, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria (exh. cat.)
Le temps déborde, part of the project Identités mutiples by Synesthésie, Forum culturel de Blanc-Mesnil, France
1999
Uman Tunnel, collective project for Oreste, Venice Biennale 1999, Venice, Italy
1998
moneynations@access, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Technoculture, Fri Art, Fribourg, Switzerland
1997
Exogen, Nikolaj – Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark (exh. cat.)
1996
Ad on exchange, Zingmagazine, New York, USA
Doppio Morgen, Galleria Luciano Inga-Pin, Milan, Italy
Escape Attempts, part of the project Compartements by Globe, Fabrikken, Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark (exh. cat.)
Le piace Internet?, Teatro Miela, Trieste, Italy
Natura Naturans, Museo di Storia Naturale, Trieste, Italy (exh. cat.)
Interplace access, Viafarini, Milan, Italy (exh. cat.)
1995
Forum Féminin/Masculin, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Féminin/Masculin, Istituto italiano di cultura, Paris, France
When Tekkno Turns to Sound of Poetry, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany (exh. cat.)
50e Anniversaire des Comités d’Entreprise, La Villette, Paris, France
Messe 2 ok. Talking the economic ökonoMiese machen, side event of Messe Koln, Cologne, Germany
1994
Femmes publiques, Palais de la Femme, Paris, France (exh. cat.)
Pro-Création?, Fri Art, Fribourg, Switzerland (exh. cat.)
Ars Lux, Made in Bo, Bologna, Italy
1993
Business Art/Art Business, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands (exh. cat.)
Marchio di Fabbrica, Tecnopolis, Bari, Italy (exh. cat.)
Serial, Kruggase 8, Zurich; Labor Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (exh. cat.)
1992
Avantgarde & Kampagne, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany (exh. cat.)
Fin de siècle, Galleria Luciano Inga-Pin, Milan, Italy
Saremarte, SMAU, Milan, Italy
1991
Briefing, Galerie Luciano Inga-Pin, Milan, Italy
1968
Salon de la jeune sculpture, Paris, France
1967
III Mostra Internazionale di Scultura, Museo d’Arte moderna, Fondazione Pagani, Castellanza, Italy
1955
1a Mostra Nazionale Universitaria di Pittura, Bari, Italy
SELECTED ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES AND INTERVENTIONS
2005-ongoing
Tapis volant, card game, is created by three artists, Marion Baruch, Arben Iljazi, Myriam Rambach,
and activated by the collective NAME DIFFUSION, in interaction with an always open list of
persons and structures. It has been created in partnership with France Terre d’Asile refugee
Centre for unaccompanied minors (Caomida Stephane-Hessel) in Boissy-Saint-Leger, and at
Musée de l’homme, Paris, scientific advisor: Hélène Trocmé Fabre
2003
Fête des Langues d’ici, Synesthésie, Fabrique de couleurs, Montreuil, France
Un soir dans le jardin des Langues, ECObox, Paris, France
2002
Palabres, Contemporaines, Synesthésie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2000
Eurovision2000, Brussels, Belgium
Bordercartograph, Sortie du Net, Synesthésie, Aubervilliers, France
1997
Just Watch, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland (exh. cat.)
SELECTED INTERNET PROJECTS
2005
Les langues d’ici avec ceux qui les parlent, Synesthésie 16: http://www.synesthesie.com/copresences
2002
Ta langue est belle comme la mienne: http://www.namediffusion.net
Dialogue avec Djilali Benamrane et Thuy Tien Ho autour des radios rurales paritaires,
Synesthésie 12: http://www.synesthesie.com/syn12
Violence Online Festival: http://violence.newmediafest.org/violencexp.html
2001
bibliomail: http://www.namediffusion.net
2000
Displacement for: cartographes sans papiers, Synesthésie 9: http://www.synesthesie.com/syn9
1998
Je suis une sans-papière: http://www.synesthesie.com/syn6
Displacement for: http://www.moneynations.ch/euroland/displacement_for
Dossier en Synesthésie: http://www.cicv.fr/SYNESTHESIE
1997
Bordercartograph, Liste de diffusion:
http://groups.yahoo.com/messages/bordercartograph
1996
Gene Ban: http://www.companatico.com/namediffusion
Code your soul: http://www.edita.fi/bitch
Public collections
Art Collection Roche, Basel, Switzerland
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
les Abattoirs, Musée – FRAC Occitanie Toulouse,Toulouse, France
MA*GA, Museo Arte Gallarate, Gallarate, Italy
MAM, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France
MAMbo, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
MAMCO, Musee d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
MRAC Occitanie, Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain, Sérignan, France
Museion, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy