Alighiero Boetti
Alighiero Boëtti was an Italian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1940. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Galleria Continua, Rome and will be on exhibit at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich on May 21, 2022, among other locations. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Whitechapel Art Gallery have featured Alighiero Boëtti’s work in the past.Alighiero Boëtti’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $15 USD to $4,590,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is $4,590,000 USD for Sottrazione, sold at Christie’s New York in 2021. Alighiero Boëtti has been featured in articles for ArtDependence Magazine, Christie’s Daily and Ocula. The most recent article is Christie’s France Post War and Contemporary Art Live and Online Sales Total €19,4 Million written for ArtDaily in December 2021. The artist died in 1994.
Artist’s alternative names: Alighiero Boetti, Alighiero e Boëtti, Boetti
Past exhibitions
Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
- Alighiero Boetti: Thinking about Afghanistan, Tornabuoni Art, Paris, Paris, France
- Salman Alighiero Boetti, Tornabuoni Art, Milan, Milan, Italy
- Alighiero Boetti: Works 1977-1991, Andrea Caratsch Gallery, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
- Alighiero Boetti, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2020
- Alighiero Boetti, GAM, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Turin, Torino, Italy
2019
- Alighiero Boetti: Decoding His Universe: Works On Paper. 1968-1991, Tornabuoni Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Alighiero Boetti: Arazzi, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
- Alighiero Boetti: Embroideries including Mappas, Tuttos and a Rug, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, London, UK
2018
- Alighiero Boetti: Time By Boetti: Libri Rossi, High Line Nine, Chelsea, New York, USA
- Alighiero Boetti, Robilant+Voena, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
- Alighiero Boetti: The Fantastic World, Dep Art, Milan, Italy
2017
- Alighiero Boetti, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, London, UK
- Alighiero Boetti, Tornabuoni Art, Paris, Paris, France
- Alighiero Boetti: Magie straordinarie, Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK
2016
- Alighiero Boetti, Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
- Alighiero Boetti, Tornabuoni Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Alighiero Boetti, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, London, UK
2015
- Alighiero Boetti: A Private Collection, Luxembourg + Co., London, London, UK
- Alighiero Boetti, Galeria Pelaires, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
2014
- Alighiero Boetti: i Colori, Luxembourg + Co., London, London, UK
2013
- Alighiero e Boetti, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York, USA
- Alighiero Boetti – Alighiero e Boetti, Art Bärtschi & Cie, rue du Vieux Billard, Geneva, Switzerland
- Alighiero Boetti: La Forza del Centro, Gladstone Gallery, New York (24th Street), Chelsea, New York, USA
2012
- Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan, MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, New York, USA
- Alighiero Boetti, Tate Modern, Bankside, London, UK
- Order and Disorder: Alighiero Boetti by Afghan Women, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Common Places: Printing, Embroidery, and the Art of Global Mapping, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
2011
- Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan, Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels, Belgium
2010
- Alighiero Boetti, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
- Insicuro Noncurante, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2009
- Alighiero e Boetti: Mappa, Gladstone Gallery, New York (21st Street), New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
- Out of Joint. Moments of Disruption: Chapter 2, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
- Out of Joint. Moments of Disruption: Chapter 1, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
2021
- Di Tutti I Colori, Galleria Continua, Rome, Rome, Italy
- Arte moderna e contemporanea. Antologia scelta 2022, Tornabuoni Art, Milan, Milan, Italy
- Arte moderna e contemporanea. Antologia scelta 2022, Tornabuoni Art, Florence, Florence, Italy
- Double “I”, MAMC Saint-Étienne, Saint-priest-en-jarez, France
- Seen in the Mirror. Things from the Cartin Collection, David Zwirner, New York (20th Street), New York, USA
- Ti Con Zero, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Rome, Italy
- The self-taught enigma, MAMC Saint-Étienne, Saint-priest-en-jarez, France
- Alighiero E. Boetti, Richard Long & Thomas Schütte, Gladstone Gallery, New York (24th Street), Chelsea, New York, USA
- Revolving, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, USA
- Ciao Maschio, Galleria Comunale d`Arte Moderna Roma, Rome, Italy
- Show-Case: Exhibiting the Archive, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
- Arcimboldo Face to Face, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
- Esprit de géométrie, ML Fine Art, Milan, Italy
- From the Living Room: Sol Calero selects from the Hiscox Collection, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
- Minimal – Conceptual – Abstract: Works From 1950 Until Today, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
2020
- Arte moderna e contemporanea. Antologia 2021, Tornabuoni Art, Florence, Florence, Italy
- Arte moderna e contemporanea. Antologia 2021, Tornabuoni Art, Forte dei Marmi, Forte Dei Marmi, Italy
- Arte moderna e contemporanea. Antologia 2021, Tornabuoni Art, Milan, Milan, Italy
- Silent Revolutions: Italian Drawings from the Twentieth Century, The Menil Collection, Museum District, Houston, Texas, USA
- Carl Andre & Alighiero Boetti: Chess Game, Massimo De Carlo, Milan / Lombardia, Milan, Italy
- Italia Minimal, Tornabuoni Art, Paris, Paris, France
- Arte Povera, Repetto Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
- Bochner Boetti Fontana, Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, New York, USA
- Unconventional Figures, Rosenberg & Co., Upper East Side, New York, USA
- ONLINE: From Word To Sign, ML Fine Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Back to London. A journey through image, time, word and space, Mazzoleni Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Stunning Spaces, Cortesi Gallery, Milan, Milan, Italy
- The Shadow, TOTAH, Lower East Side, New York, USA
- Mappa Mundi, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
- Portraits & Self-Portraits. Made by Artists for Parkett since 1984, Parkett Editions, Zürich, Switzerland
2019
- Marie Hazard & Alighiero Boetti, Marc Jancou Contemporary, Offsite Chalet Rossinière, Geneva, Switzerland
- Entrare Nell’Opera: Enter Into The Work/Actions And Processes Of Arte Povera, MAMC Saint-Étienne, Saint-priest-en-jarez, France
- A Drawing Room, Photo & Contemporary, Torino, Italy
- Utopia, Tornabuoni Art, Paris, Paris, France
- Tutto. Perspectives on Italian Art, Sammlung Goetz (Goetz Collection), Munich, Germany
- Grids & Structures, Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
- Boetti, Calzolari, Kounellis: Paper Media, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York, USA
- Paper Media: Boetti, Calzolari, Kounellis, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York, USA
- What beauty is, I know not, König Berlin (St. Agnes), Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
- Museum, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt – TOWER, Frankfurt, Germany
- Visible Traces (Mountain Water Air), Lévy Gorvy, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Entrare nell’opera, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
- Black & White, ML Fine Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Step By Step – Visions of an Art Dealer’s Collection, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Villa Sauber, Monte-carlo, Monaco
- Who’s Afraid of Drawing? Works on Paper from the Ramo Collection, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, UK
- Constellations: A Choreography Of Minimal Gestures, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
- Oltre la Pittura, Rossi & Rossi, Hong Kong, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
- MCMXXXIV, Massimo De Carlo, Milan / Ventura, Milan, Italy
- Sguardi. Collezione Comunale di Arte Contemporanea, Casa Masaccio Center for Contemporary Art, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2018
- Stage of Being, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
- Senza Titolo 3 – Opere su Carta, Opere Scelte Contemporary Art Gallery, Torino, Italy
- Tutto: Perspectives on Italian Art, Sammlung Goetz (Goetz Collection), Munich, Germany
- October 1968. “arte povera più azioni povere” at Arsenali in Amalfi, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
- Lord Duveen, My Pictures Never Look So Marvellous As When You Are Here, Lévy Gorvy, London (Old Bond Str), Mayfair, London, UK
- Codice colore: Opere dalla collezione di Alessandro Grassi, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy
- Beyond Borders, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
- Towards Infinity: 1965-1980, Simon Lee Gallery, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Da Uno a Dieci, mc2gallery Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
- Italy – USA: Two Art Worlds connected – Post War to Pop, Tornabuoni Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- The Second Yinchuan Biennale: Starting from the desert. Ecologies on the edge, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
- Ricognizioni #1, Guastalla Centro Arte, Livorno, Italy
- Arte Povera. A Creative Revolution, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Colour Format Landscape, Felix Ringel Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Towards Infinity: 1965-1980, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- General Rehearsal. A show in three acts from the collections of V-A-C, MMOMA and KADIST, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Petrovka Street, Moscow, Russia
- A Luta Continua. The Sylvio Perlstein Collection, Hauser & Wirth, New York, 22nd Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
- General Rehearsal. The Electric Comma, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Moscow, Russia
- BOOM: Art and industry in the 60s in Italy, Tornabuoni Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Dancing with myself, Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
- Ghisla Collection, Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno, Switzerland
- Challenging Beauty, The Parkview Museum Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- More Than Words…, Mazzoleni Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
2017
- The Electric Comma, V-A-C Foundation, Venice, Venice, Italy
- A Tale of Two Worlds. Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection 1940s-1980s, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
- Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go, Almine Rech, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- The Air Vibrates with the Buzz of Insects, Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art, Rochechouart, France
- Black & White, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
- Poor Art | Arte Povera: Italian Influences, British Responses, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, UK
- Group Show, Cortesi Gallery, Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
- Arte Povera, Hauser & Wirth, New York, 22nd Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
- I am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Mazzoleni Invites: DimoreGallery – (Un)Comfort Zone, Mazzoleni Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- The Sky in a Room, Phillips New York, Midtown, New York, USA
- Vincenzo Agnetti: Territories, Lévy Gorvy, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- On aime l’art…!! Un choix d’Éric Mézil parmi les oeuvres de la Collection agnès b., Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
- Summer Group Show, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, London, London, UK
- Red over Yellow: A Selection from a Private Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
- gesture form technique IV, Taro Nasu Gallery, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- And what, for example, am I now seeing?, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
- Boetti / Salvo: Living, Working, Playing, Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano, Switzerland
- L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte, GAM, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Turin, Torino, Italy
- Segni di carta: Art from the 20th Century, ML Fine Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Gabriele De Santis: Truth be told, Frutta, Rome, Rome, Italy
2016
- Concrete Islands, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Tudo Joia, Bergamin & Gomide, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Vivre!!, Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration, 12e, Paris, France
- Dancing with Myself: Self-portrait and Self-invention. Works from the Pinault Collection, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
- Cosmic Connections, TOTAH, Lower East Side, New York, USA
- Metamorphosis: the alchemists of matter. A point of view on Arte Povera, Repetto Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
- Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Checkmate. Games of International Art from the Sixties to Now, Cortesi Gallery, London, London, UK
- IT: the Italian Thing, Phillips London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Unravelled, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
- Making & Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
- Metatextile: Ruptured narratives, exchanged values, Edel Assanti, Fitzrovia, London, UK
- Poor Art, Centre Pompidou Paris, 4e, Paris, France
- LEXICON, Gagosian Gallery, Paris (rue de Ponthieu), 8e, Paris, France
- Alighiero Boetti & Flora Hauser: focus (2-7), Ibid Gallery, London, London, UK
- From Giorgio de Chirico to Alighiero Boetti: Italian Drawings and Prints from the Collection, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Beim Stadthaus, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Drawing Dialogues: Selections from the Sol LeWitt Collection, The Drawing Center, Soho, New York, USA
- An Imagined Museum: Works from the Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
- Verba Volant Scripta Manent, TOTAH, Lower East Side, New York, USA
- ARTE FIERA 40: Storia di una Collezione, MAMbo, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2015
- Painting after Painting, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan, Milan, Italy
- Losing the Compass, White Cube, London (Mason’s Yard), St. James’s, London, UK
- Maurizio Nannucci: Top Hundred, Museion, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy
- A brief history of the future, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
- Ornament, Reduction, Continuum, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
- Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, The Menil Collection, Museum District, Houston, Texas, USA
- WORD BY WORD, Luxembourg + Co., London, London, UK
- Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, Hammer Museum, Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- On Show, Austin / Desmond Fine Art, Bloomsbury, London, UK
- Sings/Words, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
- Ceci N’est Pas Une Idée, Tornabuoni Art, Paris, Paris, France
2014
- By Proxy, James Cohan, New York (26th Street), Chelsea, New York, USA
- Material Gestures Cut, Weave, Sew, Knot, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, West Town, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, National Mall, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
- Arte Povera and ‘Multipli’, Torino 1970-1975, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Bringing the World into the World, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, USA
- La disparition des lucioles, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
- Le Corbeau et le Renard, Kunstmuseum Basel, Gegenwart, Basel, Switzerland
- La Bella Figura, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
- Between Sign and Writing – a path through Italian art, Tornabuoni Art, Paris, Paris, France
- Group Exhibition, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, 6e, Paris, France
2013
- Snow Variation: Group Exhibition, Massimo De Carlo, Milan / Ventura, Milan, Italy
- Anni ’70. Arte a Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Rome, Italy
- To Open Eyes Art and Textiles from the Bauhaus, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
- Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
- Gli Anni Settanta: Arte a Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Rome, Italy
- Disturbing the Peace, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
- Denys Zacharopoulos, MOMus Contemporary, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Arte Povera, Baronian Xippas, Brussels (Rue Isidore Verheyden), Brussels, Belgium
- Talkie Walkie, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, 3e, Paris, France
- Signs / Words, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
- Trade Routes, Hauser & Wirth, London, Piccadilly, London, UK
- NEUNZEHNHUNDERTSIEBZIG., Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
2012
- text(ure), Patrick Heide Contemporary, St. John’s Wood, London, UK
- In the Holocene, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- From De Chirico to Cattelan: A Survey of 20th Century Italian Art, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, London, UK
- Arte Povera: The Great Awakening, Sammlung Goetz (Goetz Collection), Munich, Germany
- Gli amori difficili, Scaramouche, Lower East Side, New York, USA
- Alighiero Boetti, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- AN ACCUMULATION OF INFORMATION TAKEN FROM HERE TO THERE, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
- Ministry of Truth – International Group Exhibition, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, Chaoyang, Beijing, China
- Spirits of Internationalism 6 European collections, 1956 – 1986, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2011
- Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977, The Art Institute of Chicago, Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb, Pace New York (508 West 25th Street), Chelsea, New York, USA
- Atlas. How To Carry the World On One’s Back?, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Line and Space: American Drawings and Sculpture Since 1960, From a Private Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
- Distant Star, Regen Projects II, Los Angeles, California, USA
- 1991… (Memorial Promenade), Galerie Thomas Schulte, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
2010
- The Drawing Machines, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany
- Alighiero Boetti and Jay Heikes, Boesky Gallery (118 East 64th Str), Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Arte Povera 2, Galerie Di Meo, 6e, Paris, France
- The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York, Lower East Side, New York, USA
- They Knew What They Wanted, Ratio 3, San Francisco, California, USA
- Space: From the MAXXI’s Art and Architecture Collections, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy
- 20 Years Already!, Art Bärtschi & Cie, rue du Vieux Billard, Geneva, Switzerland
- Arte Povera, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
- The Traveling Show, Museo Jumex, Santa Maria Tulpeltac, Mexico City, Mexico
- Functions of Drawing: Conceptual Art on Paper from the MMK Collection, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
2009
- Repetition: Summer Display 1983 (Play Van Abbe), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Veronika and Peter Monauni Collection, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
- Italics. Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008, Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
- A, B, C…: Letters in Freedom, Museion, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy
- Zig Zag, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
- In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989, MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, Midtown, New York, USA
- Your Gold Teeth II, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY Chelsea (509 W), Chelsea, New York, USA
2008
- Astrazione Informale Segno. Postwar Italian Art 1950-60, Zonca & Zonca, Milan, Italy
- Red Sky, Luhring Augustine, Chelsea, Chelsea, New York, USA
2005
- The Shape of Time, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA