Constant Nieuwenhuys - Exhibitions

Exhibitions

In 1940 Constant held his first exhibition together with Hans Wiesman at art galery Aalderink in Amsterdam. In 1947 he had his first solo exhibition at art galery Santee Landweer in Amsterdam.

A few of Constant's exhibitions over the years are mentioned here. The list is by no means complete:

• 1953 For a spatial colorisme in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Constant with Aldo van Eijck
• 1956 XXVIII Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Venice
• 1959 II. Documenta, Kassel
• 1959 Constant. Constructions and models Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
• 1961 Niw (sic!) Babylon in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
• 1964 4. Documenta, Kassel.
• 1964 Académie Royale, Kopenhagen.
• 1964-1965 '45-'85 Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
• 1967 New Babylon in Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo.
• 1974 New Babylon, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
• 1974-1975 Constant. An illustration of freedom , Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
• 1978 Constant. Paintings 1969-77, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
• 1980 Constant. Paintings 1940-1980, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
• 1985 Work from the period 1975-1985, Centraal Museum in Utrecht
• 1985 Arbeiten auf Papier 1948-1985, in Kultur-historischen Museum der Stadt Bielefeldt
• 1986 Constant 1945-1983, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn
• 1993 Constant. Drawings, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
• 1994 Constant. Models / Constructions, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
• 1994-1995 Constant. Œuvreprijs 1994, Chabot Museum, Rotterdam
• 1996 Constant: paintings 1948-1995, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam & Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum Ålborg
• 1997 Situacionistes. Art, politica, urbanisme, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
• 1998 Constant, etchings and lithographs, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela
• 1998-1999 Constant - New Babylon, Witte de With (Centrum voor hedendaagse kunst), Rotterdam
• 1999 Another City for Another Life: Constant’s New Babylon, The Drawing Center, New York
• 2001 Constant, une rétrospective, Musée Picasso Antibes
• 2002 Constant. New Babylon, Documenta 11, Platform 5, Kassel Hauptbahnhof
• 2004 Constant graphic, Cobra Museum
• 2005-2006 Tribute to Constant, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
• 2006 Play! The art of play, Cobra Museum
• 2008-2009 Constant. In his studio, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
• 2009 Time as Matter. MACBA collection. New Acquisitions, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
• 2009 Intensely Dutch, Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australië
• 2011 Klee und Cobra. Ein Kinderspiel, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
• 2012 Klee and Cobra. A Child’s Play, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek & Cobra Museum

In 1966 Constant represents the Netherlands with his New Babylon at the Biënnale of Venice; in 1999 a retrospective of the New Babylon project is organised in New York and in 2002 New Babylon gets an honorary position at the Documenta 2002 in Kassel.