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| Solo Exhibitions (Selected): | ||
| 2008 | Galerie Gilles Peyroulet & Cie, Paris Seuil / Threshold | |
| 2003 | Bibliotheque Nationle de France, Paris: Mikael Levin, Photographies | |
| 2000 | Storefront for Art and Architecure, New York: Common Places |
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| 1998 | Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin: The Burden of Identity and Suche (War Story) |
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| 1997 | International Center of Photography, New York: War Story |
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| 1994 | Goethe House and French Cultural Services, New York:
The Border Project |
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| 1989 | Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany: Traumhafte Reise
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| 1988 |
Centre d'Action Culturelle Granit, Belfort, France: Silent Passage
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| 1986 | Galerie Michele Chomette, Paris | |
| 1984 | Susan Harder Gallery, New York | |
| 1983 | Ernesto Mayans Gallery, Santa Fe | |
| 1980 | Fundacion Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela | |
| 1979 | Camera Obscura, Stockholm | |
| 1977 | The Photographers' Gallery, London | |
| Group Exhibitions (Selected): | ||
| 2003 | Venice Biannual."Notes from the Periphery" shown in "Structures of Survival" | |
| 2001 | École nationale supérieure de beaux-arts, Paris: Des Territoires | |
| 2000 | Museum of the City of New York: New York Now 2000 | |
| 1999 | White Columns, N.Y: Coming of Age | |
| 1997 | Färgfabriken- Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture,Stockholm: Form Follows [Anything] |
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| 1996 | Galerie F-15 Alby, Moss, Norway: James Welling and Mikael Levin | |
| 1995 | French Cultural Services, New York: The Landscape in Question | |
| 1993 | Grand Palais, Paris: Salon Decouverts ( Curated by Jean-Claude Lemagny) | |
| 1990 | Brooklyn Museum, New York: New Acquisitions Musem Ludwig, Cologne:Vom Landschafsbild zur Spurensicherung |
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| 1989 | Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm: Lewis Baltz and Mikael Levin | |
| 1987 | One Penn Plaza, New York: Beautiful Photographs (Curated by Gene Thorton) | |
| 1985 | Pavillon des Arts, Paris: La Photographie Creative (Curated by J.C. Lemagny) Caves Sainte-Croix, Metz, France: Construire le Paysage de la Photographie |
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| 1984 | Witkin Gallery, New York: Trees and Clouds | |
| Grants/Awards/Commissions: | ||
| 2006 | Visiting Artist. Cooper Union. New York. | |
| 2005 | Artist in Residence. Chinati Art Foundation. Marfa, Texas. | |
| 2002 | Commission "La Bassée: A French Landscape in Transition." Direction Régional de L'environment, Paris. | |
| 2001 | Artist in Residence. Caribbean Contemporary Arts. Port of Spain, Trinidad. | |
| Artist in Residence. Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Bethany, Connecticut | ||
| 2000 | Commission "Sanctuaire de Source." Direction Régional de L'environment, Paris. | |
| Visiting Artist. Ecole d'Architecture, Nantes, France. | ||
| 1999 | Commission "La Bassée - The alluvial plain." Direction Régional de L'environment, Paris. | |
| 1997 | Fellowship. Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York. | |
| 1996 | Artist's Residency. Institut Francais de Thessalonique, Greece | |
| 1993 | Project Grant "The Border Project." French Ministry of Foreign Affairs | |
| 1991 | Artist in Residence. Light Work, Syracuse, New York | |
| 1987-91 | Commission "Les Quatre Saisons du Territoire."
Centre d'Action Culturel Granit, Belfort, France |
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| 1985 | "Jury Prize" Festival International de la Photographie
Contemporaine, Dunkerque, France |
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| Major Public Collections: | ||
| Judisches Museum, Berlin (a selection from War Story in the permanent installation.) | ||
| Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | ||
| Metropolitan Museum, New York | ||
| Museum of Modern Art, New York | ||
| International Center of Photography, New York | ||
| Jewish Museum, New York | ||
| Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris | ||
| Centre national d'art et de culture George Pompidou, Paris | ||
| Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris | ||
| Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ | ||
| Victoria and Albert Museum, London | ||
| Israel Museum, Jerusalem | ||
| Moderna Museet, Stockholm | ||
| Statens Konstrad, Stockholm | ||
| Canadian Center for Architecture, Montréal | ||
| Solo Books and Catalolgs: | ||
| Pleasant if Somewhat Rude Views. Texts by Gabriel Levin. Onestar Press, Paris 2005. | ||
| Mikael Levin photographies. Exhibition catalog. Essay by Philippe Arbaïzar: "Informer le paysage". Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris 2003. | ||
| War Story. Exhibition catalog. Roundtable discussion with Jean-François Chevrier, Mikael Levin, and Annette Wieviorka . Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003. | ||
| Common Places Response Catalog. Texts by Catharina
Gabrielsson, Gertrud Sandqvist, Ingo Schulze, Alexandra Yerolympos, Jean-François
Chevrier, and others. Storefront for Art and Architecture, 2000 |
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| Common Places. Project catalog. Essay by Christopher Phillips, 1999 | ||
| The Burden of Identity. Exhibition catalog. Essay
by Peter Stephan Jungk. Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich, 1998 |
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| War Story. Texts by Meyer Levin. Introduction by Hanno Loewy, Afterword by Ellen Handy. Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich, 1997 (Also published in German as Suche.) | ||
| Borders. Exhibition catalog. Essays by Jean-Francois Chevrier, Reinhold Mißelbeck, and Laura Trippi, Goethe House / French Cultural Servies, New York 1994 | ||
| Silent Passage. Introduction by Andy Grundberg, Hudson Hills Press, New York 1988 | ||
| Publications / Group Exhibitions Cataloges: | ||
| Les voyages de Vauban. Guillaume Monsaingeon. Editions Parenthese.
Marseille. 2007. Epilogue: Sur Quelques Photographies de Mikael Levin Pp. 173-175. | ||
| Chinati Foundation newsletter. Artists in residence / Mikael Levin by David Tompkins. Vol 11 (October, 2006). Pp. 72-73. | ||
| Barrow Street. "Absent Memories" New York; Summer 2006. Pp. 53-63. | ||
| Dreams and Conflicts; the Dictatorship of the Viewer. la Biennale di Venezia. Marsilio Editions 2003. "Notes from the Periphery" Pp. 262-263. | ||
| Paysages territoires. L'Île-de-France comme métaphore. Parenthèses editions, Marseille, 2002. "La Bassée" Pp. 215-237. | ||
| Spectral Evidence; The Photography of Trauma by Ulrich Baer. (MIT Press, 2002.) Chapter Two: "To Give Memory a Place: Holocaust Photography and the Landscape Tradition." Chapter Three: "Meyer Levin's In Search, Mikael Levin's War Story." | ||
| Des territoires en revue. "Walking City" Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts. Paris, 5/5, October 20001 | ||
| Le Visiteur. "Common Places" Paris. Issue #6, Fall, 2000 | ||
| Arkitektur. "Allmänna Platser" by Catharina Gabrielsson. Stockholm. October, 2000 | ||
| Reflections in a Glass Eye. Works from the International Center of Photography Collection. Bulfinch Press, New York, 1999 | ||
| Photosynkyria 10+1. Camera Obscura, Thesssaloniki, 1999 | ||
| Handla. "Borderline" essay by Catherina Gabrielsson Åman. Nerenias & Santerus Förlag, Stockholm 1997 | ||
| Documenta X- the book. Cantz Verlag l997 | ||
| Kunstforum, #137; "Mikael Levin: Judische Spurensuche". 1997 | ||
| Blind Spot Photography Magazine. "Coming of Age". New York, #9, Spring 1997 | ||
| Magasin för modern arkitektur. "Out of the Archives - Referring to architecture" #12, Stockholm. 1995 | ||
| Les Quatre Saisons du Territoire.
four-volume set. Editions de l'Est 1992: L'Hiver Introduction by John Berger L'Automne Introduction by Claude Louis-Combert Le Printemps Introduction by Regis Durand, essay by Alain Buttard L'Ete Introduction by Jean-Claude Lemagny |
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| Un petit pan de mur blanc. Galerie Jean Pierre Lambert, Paris, 1987 | ||
| Cre. Art Photo 85. Festival International de la Photographie Contemporaine, Dunkerque, 1985 | ||
| La Photographie Creative. Contrejour, Paris, 1984 | ||
| Camera Obscura. Camera Obscura Gallery, Stockholm, 1981 | ||
| Audio: | ||
| "Aucun d'entre nous n'avait vu" Surpris par la Nuit France Culture, March 18, 2003. 10:30 PM - Midnight. Produced by Sèverine Nikel, Directed by Anna Szmuc. | ||
| Video: | ||
| War Story Introduction to the project, interview
with Mikael Levin. 22 minutes. Directed by Sussane Partoll. Produced by
the Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt / Media Films, Dornbirn, Austria. |
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| Bibleography: | ||
| Aletti, Vince. "Mikael Levin"
The Village Voice, 6/21/00 Allen, Bill. "Landscape as Metaphor" Santa Fe Reporter,
8/7/80 Anderson, Kathy. "Silent Passage" Art Documentation,
Spring 1989 Andre, Mila. "Bordering Europe’s Recent Past" Daily
News, 6/3/94 Apel. Dora. " Mikael Levin: War Story" Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing. Rutgers University Press, 2002 Arbaïzar. Philippe. "Informer le paysage" Mikael Levin; photographies Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Cahiers d'une exposition #43, 2003 Baboulet, Luc. "Mikael Levin: Le Territoire et ses Fantomes"; AMC Le Moniteur Architecture, # 133, April, 2003 Baboulet, Luc. "Des Territioires" AMC Le Moniteur Architecture, # 120, November, 2001 Baer, Ulrich. Chapter Two: "To Give Memory a Place: Holocaust Photography and the Landscape Tradition." Chapter Three: "Meyer Levin's In Search, Mikael Levin's War Story." Spectral Evidence; The Photography of Trauma (MIT Press, 2002.) Baer, Ulrich. "To Give Memory a Place: Holocaust Photography and
the Landscape Tradition" Representations, University of California
Press, #69, Winter, 2000 Borger-Bendegard, Lisbeth. "Städer med samma själ"
Svenska Dagbladet, 7/22/99 Boutoux, Thomas. Des Terrritoires Flash Art,February, 2002 Boxer, Sarah. "Into the ‘Black Heart’ of Evil: The Bodies,
the Overgrowth, the Lies" Buttard, Alain. "Reflections" Les Quatre Saisons du Territoire:
Le Printemps Chauveau, François. "Mikael Levin" Regard sur l’Image
July 1978 Chevrier, Jean-François. "Réflextion sur les traces." Roundtable discussion with Mikael Levin and Annette Wieviorka . War Story. Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003. Chevrier, Jean-François. Construire les Paysage de la Photographie
1984 Chevrier, Jean-François. "The Border Project" Borders,
Goethe House and French Cultural Services, New York 1994 Chevrier, Jean-François. "Paris,
Saturday, April 1..."; Common Places Demarquette, Alain. "On Traffic Flows and History" Common
Places Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New
York, 2000 Down Town "Why do Mikael Levin’s photographs remaind
us of fables?" 3/11/99 Dragone, Angelo. La Stampa 1/26/80 Duprez, Béatrice. "Email" Common Places Response
Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2000 Durand, Regis. "Presence et silence des formes" Art
Press #135, 4/89 Engel, Rachel. "Light and its Wonders" Maariv 10/14/80 Fleury, Jean-Christian. "Mikael Levin" Photographies Magazine,
December 1992 Fiedler, Peter Alexander. "Ein Sehr genauer Blick von außen"
Thüringische Landszeitung, 2/3/00 Gabriellson, Catharina. "Out of Nowhere" Common Places
Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2000 Gerard, Pascal. "Un Américain à Cambrai"
La Voix du Nord, Jan 14,2000 Gioia, Joe. "Water and Land" Lens on Campus April,1985 Grundberg, Andy. "The Image Aflot" Silent Passage. Hudson
Hills Press, New York 1988 Guerrin, Michel. "Les territiores artistiques de l’antimondialisation." Le Monde,
Paris, November 10, 2001 Handy, Ellen. "Sunset at a Lake; Looking for Landscape photography in
a New Millennium." Camera Work, Vol. 28, no. 2 (Fall/Winter
2001) Handy, Ellen. "Time, Memory, and the Limits of Photography"
Center for Handy, Ellen. "War Stories, the Lorelei,
Europe Today, and Documentary Photography" Handy, Ellen. Galerie Michele Chomette. December 1992 Helmer,Etienne. Les Repreneurs. ParisArt. November 20006 Hirsch, Marianne, and Spitzer, Leo. "War Stories: Witnessing in Retrospect" in Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust. ed. Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz. (Indiana University Press, 2003) Hoffman, Detlef. "Mikael Levin / Suche" Fotogeschichte,
1998 Hoone, Jeffrey. "Mikael Levin" Contact sheet # 71, Light
Work, Syracuse NY 1992 Horst, Sabine. "Kunst der Erinnerung" Journal Frankfurt.
No. 5/97 p.34-35 Jerusalem Post "Mikael Levin" 10/7/80 Keller, Alexandra. "Lebendige Geschichte (n)" Kurier
06/1/97 Köfler, Gretl. "Eine Spurensuche in Europa" Tiroler
Tageszeitung, 4/17/97 Körte, Peter. "Im Wüsten Land" Frankfurter
Rundschen, 6/19/96 Körte, Peter. "Drei Reisen nach Theresienstadt" Frankfurter
Rundschen, 2/26/97 Lambert, Jean-Pierre. Un Petit Pan de Mur Blanc. Galerie Jean-Pierre
Lambert, Leroy, Pascal. Festival International de la Photographie Contemporaine 1985 Levin, Mikael. "Réflextion sur les traces." Roundtable discussion with Jean-François Chevrier and Annette Wieviorka . War Story. Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003. Levin, Mikael. "War Story: Retracing My Father’s Steps"
History of Photography. Photography and the Holocaust. Interviewed
by Sussane Partoll. Vol. 23, no. 4 (Winter 1999). Loewy, Hanno. "Retracing a Journey Through Europe" War Story
Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich 1997, also published in German : "Auf
den Spuren einer Reise nach Europa" Suche, Gina Kehayoff
Verlag,Munich 1996. Loke, Margarett. "Mikael Levin" Art News, september
l997 Mayr, Beate. "Geschichte aus Nähe und Distanz"
Tip – Innsbruck Zeitung, 05/15/97 Mißelbeck, Reinhold."The Border Project" Borders,
Goethe House and Morton, Margaret. "Mikael Levin: Paris and Venice" NY Arts,
vol. 8, no 9 Papaioannou, Hercules. "Affinity and Apartness" Common Places
Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2000 Parmat, Carole. "About Mikael Levin's Photographs of Cambrai"
Common Places Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture,
New York, 2000 Photographie Magazine "Silent Passage" December, 1988 Philadelphy, Ursula. "Paris - Theresienstadt: Unterwegs im Jeep"
Der Standard 23/5/97 Phillips, Christopher. "Mikael Levin at the International Center
of Photography" Phillips, Christopher. "The
Untidy Intimacy of Places" Common Places 1999 Richter, Jürgen. "Spuren der Geschichte" Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung. 2/27/97 Robin, Régine. "Les photos dans les pas du père: le voyage de Mikael Levin." La Mémoire Saturé. Stock. Paris 2003 Roegiers, Patrick. "Eaux profondes" Le Monde
2/2/ 89 Rosen, Miriam. "Des Territoires" Artforum
February, 2002 Rothfeld, Michael. "The Killing Fields" Manhattan Spirit,
February 21, 1997 Sandqvist, Getrud. "Paradisus Terretris" Form February,
1989 Sandqvist, Getrud. "Katrineholm as Utopia"
Common Places Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture,
New York, 2000 Sauer, Benedikt. "Ihr habt uns auf unsere Geschichte gebracht"
Der Standard 05/31/97 Scheirz, Kai Uwe. "Discovering the Past" Common Places Response
Catalog, Schmidt, Konrad. "Traumhafte fotoreise zu den dusteren seen in
Skandinavien" Schrieber, Hauke. "Dreidimensionales Road Movie" Berliner
Morgenpost16/6/98 Shales, Ezra. "Picturing the Pictures of the Holocaust" Review,
march 15, 1997 Soulillou, Jacques. "On Traffic Flows and History" Common
Places Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New
York, 2000 Strauss, Monica. "The Landscape of Memory" Aufbau, May
9 1997 Sturman, John. "Mikael Levin" Art News December, 1988 Trippi, Laura. "Border Photographs" Borders, Goethe
House and Vetrocq, Marcia E.. "Venice Biennale: Every Idea But One" Art in America
September 2003 Werneburg, Brigitte. "Schmetterlinge auf Kimonos" TAZ
20-21/6/98 Westdeutche Allgemeine "Schnorkellos – aber nichtohne
Emotionen" 7/13/89 Wiegand, Wilfried. "Die zweite Vergangenheit" Frankfurter
Allgemeine 2/27/97 Wieviorka, Annette. "Réflextion sur les traces." Roundtable discussion with Jean-François Chevrier and Mikael Levin. War Story. Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003. Wigh, Leif. "Lewis Baltz and Mikael Levin" Fotografiska
Museet #1 1985 Yerolympos, Alexandra. "A City is its People" Common Places
Response Catalog, | ||
| Lectures: |
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| 2006 | Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris: "Christina`s History" | |
| 2001 | Montclair State University, Montclair, N.J.: "Recent projects" | |
| Malmö Konsthögskola, Malmö, Sweden: "War Story and other projects" (together with two week workshop "Malmö flanerie") | ||
| Design Trust For Public Space, New York: "Marked Landscapes" | ||
| 2000 | Johns Hopkins University (Neil Hertz: "Urban Photography")
Baltimore, Md. Ecole d'architecture de la Ville et des territoires. Valle de Marnes (Paris) |
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| 1999 | Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris: "Landscape and Memory" Triennale di Milano, Milan: "Katrineholm and Other Common Places" | |
| Studies | ||
| 1972-73 | Williams College | |
| 1974-76 | Hampshire College (B.A.) | |
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