Biography
1950 | Born in Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany | |
1968 | Began to study medicine at the University of Tübingen |
1974 | Became a doctor, but decided to work exclusively as an artist | |
1975 | Made his first Milkstones |
1976 | First solo exhibition in Stuttgart | |
1977 | Collected the first pollen |
1983 | Began the first works using rice | |
1987 | Began the first works using beeswax |
1988 | Realized the first wax chamber | |
1989 | First visit to Japan Participated in group exhibition Color and/or Monochrome at National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto |
1990 | Participated in Lightseed at Watari-um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (together with Cy Twombly and Michel Verjux) | |
2000 | Wolfgang Laib, A Retrospective at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. |
2002 | Began to create major works using Burmese lacquer | |
2003 | Major Retrospectives at National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art and Toyota Municipal Museum of Art | |
2005 | Wolfgang Laib, The ephemeral is eternal at Fondation Beyeler, Basel | |
2013 | Wolfgang Laib at MoMA | |
2014 | Wax Room From the Known to the Unknown – To Where is Your Oracle leading You?, Studio complex of Anselm Kiefer, Barjac, France, opened in May |