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

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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