1957-1959
2-year contract as director’s assistent at the State Theater Darmstadt.
Marries Vera Mertz.
Friendship with Emmet Williams. Publishes the journal “material” for concrete poetry. The first edition is an anthology of concrete poetry.

1998
Exhibition “Carnaval des Animaux” Museum Friedericianum, Kassel.
Coin du Restaurant Spoerri in the exhibition “Out of Actions”, MOCA, Los Angeles.
Museu de Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Tokyo.
Exhibition “Vendredì Treize”, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris.
Exhibiton “Modifications” (Détrompe l’oeils; with Enrico Baj and Asger Jorn), Ronny van de Velde, Antwerp.
Exhibition “Ein Bild (Der Wolfspelz)” (A Picture (The Wolf’s Hide)”, Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
Exhibition “Bronzen” (Bronzes) , Galerie Henze Ketterer, Wichtrach.
Exhibition “Détrompe l’oeil”, Galerie A. Zaru, Capri.
Exhibition“Profession, Obsession”, Istituto Svizzero, Rom, among others.
Chambre No. 13 in the exhibition “Invested Spaces”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Summer exhibition “Gli Artisti del Giardino di Daniel Spoerri”, Il Giardino, Seggiano.
Banquet “Un coup de dés n’abolira jamais le hazard”, Vienna.
Banquet “Palindromic Dinner”, Vakanz.

“Patron Saints and Guardians” project with the creative department of the Non-Profit Workshops of Cologne “Allerhand”. Joint exhibition at the “Bottmühle”, Cologne.

Series “Piume per capelli – Hat feathers” shown in Rome for the first time.

For the exhibition “Nouveau Réalisme” D.S. mounts an exhibition space as “chambre basculé” as previously done in the 1970s. The works in this capsized exhibition space are imitations of works by the Nouveaux Réalistes.

For the Milan exhibition “Ultime Cena” in the Galleria delle Stelline, D.S. works with marble for the first time. Referring to the Last Supper he has 13 tableaus carved out of marble. The meals that famous people ate shortly before dying are depicted.

Move to Vienna. During this move, a further documentary film is made by Felix Breisach about Daniel Spoerri.

2009
Daniel Spoerri dedicates himself to a new task: Nearby the Austrian town of Krems, in the village of Hadersdorf am Kamp, he establishes two new houses which he calls „Kunst-Staulager” (stow away storage for art). One of the buildings serves as a museum (“Ab Art), starting with a show of works by Daniel Spoerri himself but meant to present exhibitions with other artist as well. In the other building there is a small restaurant (Eat Art) on the ground floor and there is a large very impressive function room on the first floor. As a matter of fact works by Daniel Spoerri can be seen all over the place among which to be mentioned is a part of the “Catena”, a “Genetic chain” composed with objects from the flea market. There will be different cultural events such as concerts or lectures.

Exhibitions being planned for next year in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France.

Spoerri received a prize for his marble work, the “Premio Michelangelo” in Carrara.

The artist continues creating huge bronze sculptures, small silver objects, small assemblages (“Eintagskästchen”) and “Faux Tableaux-poièges”

Two exhibitions in the little Austrian museum at Hadersdorf am Kamp presented selected Spoerri-works along with beautiful delicate drawings and watercolours by one of his best friends: André Thomkins. In autumn Spoerri’s new “Faux Tableaux-pièges” have been shown with big still-life photographs by Vera Mercer.

For the new series of “false” snare-pictures - which are a quotation of the artist himself – Spoerri uses mosaique-desktops dating from the Fifties. Thus he calls this series “Les années cinquantes”.

Preparing a big exhibition starting in May (22th) at the museum of natural history in Vienna, Spoerri is creating new assemblages using pages of old herbaria, meteorites and corals, as well as deer heads.

The Museum of Natural History in Vienna honoured Daniel Spoerri by naming a beetle after him: “Phylomyceta spoerrii”.

The gallery Levy (Hamburg) showed the whole series of assemblages on wash boards (catalogue).

The sculpture garden “Giardino” ist still growing. New friendly contacts in Austria led to an exchange of works: Erwin Wurm received a bronze snare picture by Daniel Spoerri and returned the favour by donating a double pair of bronze trousers to the “Giardino”.

A much older friendship had been celebrated with an exhibition in Hadersdorf where more than 300 works by Bernhard Luginbühl were shown. By way of exchange again works by Spoerri had been transported to the Luginbühl museum “Altes Schlachthaus” in Burgdorf (Switzerland).

Daniel Spoerri received the award „Commandeur de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres“ by the french ministry of culture.

2014
Several exhibitions, books and catalogues are in preparation.
Daniel Spoerri is working on collages with ancient tablecloths and is involved in the project “Orcus porcus”.

The sculpture „Acqua Golem“ is being presented in Marina di Grosseto (exhibition until 25th August 2014).

For the little town Castel del Piano Spoerri created a sculpture as a hint to the horse-race „Palio“ which takes place every year on 8th September, a construction with a couple of oversize horseshoes.

The artist’s 85th birthday was celebrated at the Gallery Levy in Hamburg. Levy presented an exhibition with many museum pieces showing the development of the “Tableau piège” (snare-picture) until today. (wonderful catalogue: “Il Spoerri oder There is”!)

Austria
The series of “bare thread oracles” (“Fadenscheinige Orakel”) has been accomplished (for the time being) with 99 of these textile collages.
(see also: exhibitions > Klagenfurt)

The considerable rest oft he textile materials – hundreds of stitched words and letters cut out by the artist – have found their way into a series of new blackboard-pictures by Daniel Spoerri.

Smaller collages and assemblages are constantly arising in Spoerri’s small studio in Vienna.

In summer 2015 a new sculpture has been installed in the garden oft he „Landesmuseum“ of Lower Austria in St. Pölten. „Dead End“ is a variation of a sculpture quite known to „Giardino“-visitors as „Das Massengrab der Klone“ (No.66)

www.spoerri.at keeps you informed about exhibitions and other activities at the Austrian museum founded by the artist.

Italy:
A new sculpture by Daniel Spoerri („chestnut acrobat“) has been inaugurated at the traditional chestnut festival in October 2015.

A project called „Orcus porcus“ is still in the state of arising respectively is being planned. Daniel Spoerri presented a model for an artistc intervention that could be an extension of the „Giardino“ since the ground in question is next to the Giardino-properties.

In spring 2015 an Eat-Art performance night was carried out in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. A variety of pot dishes, made in accordance with Daniel Spoerri’s instructions, were on offer. The walls were hung with reproductions of the artist’s adage cloths, on which he had reformulated well-known sayings to do with the home and hearth, thereby de-familiarising them in typical Spoerri style.

At the World Exhibition Expo in May 2015 Daniel Spoerri was represented with new porcelain tables that had been created in collaboration with the state porcelain manufacturer Meissen. These decorated the Swiss Pavilion.

2016
New series of Spoerri’s small-format material collages in square frames are created. These works had their origins in the 1980s with the „Cabinet anatomique“: Spoerri uses a doll’s tea service in his series „Five o’clock Puppet-Tea“. The artist adds more than a dash of irony to the work by quoting himself with this tableaux-piège in a miniature format.
In around 50 more small format box frames, he brings together doll fragments collected over many, many years („Pars pro toto“).

At the end of the year, Daniel Spoerri reinstated the existing work „alpha & omega“ (children’s chairs combined with a variety of skulls) in a showroom in Vienna’s Museum Quarter: the little chairs stand on the ground between skeletal pine trees in various Christmas tree stands, amid torn gift wrap and fairy lights – a pastiche of a large gift table.

In 2016 Daniel Spoerri picked up on an earlier idea. He reconstructed the displays of selected flea market stalls. The serendipity principle plays a different role here, because the objects were originally arranged by the stall’s salesperson. The title of these new flea market images is „Was bleibt“ (What remains).

Daniel Spoerri was awarded the Lovis Corinth Prize by the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg. The title of the exhibition he presented there was „Daniel Spoerri – Das offene Kunstwerk“ (Daniel Spoerri – The Open Artwork). A comprehensive retrospective exhibition of Daniel Spoerri’s works could be seen at almost the same time in the Museum for Contemporary Art, Krakow (MOCAK ).

2017
The year began with a spectacular ice-bar outside the traditional restaurant „Zum Schwarzen Kameel“ in Vienna. Gesturing to the opera ball and at the extravagant festive clothing that can be seen at the occasion, Spoerri had 200 glittering ladies’ shoes, with heels set with colourful decorative stones, frozen into a block of ice. It served as the bar at the „Stöckel-Eisbar“.

The Musée Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, places Daniel Spoerri’s works prominently at the centre of the exhibition „Les dadas des deux Daniel“. Curator Valentin Rodriguez, with a sure eye for his subject, exhibited selected choice pieces from two great collectors: Daniel Cordier and Daniel Spoerri. They are linked by their sense of the curious.

The „Ausstellungshaus Spoerri“ (Exhibition House Spoerri, Austria) was ruled by the sign of botany in 2017. Works by various artists were shown, all of whom worked with plants. – The link to the „Giardino“ is evident. Since 2016 it has had a director with a background in the natural sciences: Professor Stefano Mancuso, expert in „plant intelligence“.

In Verona the gallerist Giorgio Gaburro (Box Art Gallery) organised one of Daniel Spoerri’s concept meals for 100 people: the „Palindormic Banquet“!

2018
The project „Take me, I’m yours“, first put to the test in Paris, continues in the Villa Medici in Rome (1 June – 15 August). Daniel Spoerri’s participation once again demonstrated his joy in experimentation. The invited artists were instructed to make multiples that the visitors can take away with them for free. In addition to various miniature objects in series form, a skeleton was created out of sugar according to Daniel Spoerri’s instructions, which was then distributed amongst the visitors – bone by bone.

At the instigation of his good friend Gino di Maggio (Fondazione Mudima, Milan) Daniel Spoerri and his assistant Angelo Maineri create a new edition of the „Edition MAT“. Three variants of 30 objects by different artists, who had taken part in this Edition of movable multiples in 1959/60 and 1964, are made and are intended to form the basis for a Museum of Multiples, the brainchild of Gino di Maggio.

Entitled „La réaltà è congruente con l’imaginazione“, Daniel Spoerri’s work constructs a number of mirror objects referencing the „art multiplicator“ that had been created in the 1960s.

2019
A concept that had already been tried and tested in the „Ausstellungshaus Spoerri“ was picked up again in Marktoberdorf: Daniel Spoerri’s object pictures (in particular his „snare images“) were placed in contrast with large-format still life photographs by Vera Mercer.

Culinary themes were also featured elsewhere: both in the town of Krems, in the exhibition „Das Leben ein Festmahl“ (Life a Celebration Meal), which presented different elements of Daniel Spoerri’s oeuvre, and in the Museum Jean Tinguely (Basel), where „foodstuffs as a medium and as a material in art and in the kitchen“ were the focus of investigation („Amuse Bouche – Der Geschmack der Kunst“ - Amuse Bouche - The Taste of Art) Daniel Spoerri participated in the exhibition with an idea in which food concentrates were served in cube form: „Only flavour instead of food“. Eating a „menu“ of this sort is quickly concluded.

A symposium focusing on the person of the artist Daniel Spoerri took place for the first time in Paris in 2019, in the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (German Forum for Art History) – „Topographies de Daniel Spoerri: l’artiste en ses réseaux„. 18 art theorists undertook a close analysis of Daniel Spoerri’s ability to form „networks“. Barbara Räderscheidt, Susanne Neumann and Anna Mazzanti addressed a specialist audience on the subject of the „Giardino di Daniel Spoerri“ and presented insights into the Gesamtkunstwerk of the „Giardino“ from the perspective of their respective specialist scholarly fields.