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Solo Shows

1972
Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, Youth Forum, Picasso Phenomenon
1978
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Atelier T. Dabac, Manifestos
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Podroom Gallery, Mangelos no. 9 – Shid Theory
1979
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Gallery Dubrava, Mangelos no.9 – Energy
1981
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Gallery PM, Mangelos 1-9 – Retrospective
1986
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Gallery Sebastian, Mangelos
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Gallery of Dom JNA
1988
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Gallery PM, Mangelos – Paintings
1991
Zagreb, Croatia, Museum of Contemporary Art
Ljubljana, Slovenia, City Gallery
1993
Ghent, Belgium, Opus Operandi, Mangelos Books
1995
Sid, Serbia, Ilijanum, Mangelos – exhibition and promotion of the book: D.B.Mangelos, My Father Ilija – A Draft for Antimonography
1996
Novi Sad, Serbia, Gallery of Contemporary Art, mangelos
1997
Berlin, Germany, Galerie Rainer Borgemeister, A B C
1998
New York, USA, A/D Gallery
London, UK, Antony d’Offay Gallery
1999
Ljubljana, Slovenia, Museum of Modern Art, Theses or Manifestos
Miami, Florida, USA, Gallery Centre, Miami-Dade Community College
2001
Berlin, Germany, The Drawing Room, Les Paysages des Mots
2003
Porto, Portugal, Museu de Arte Contemporânea Fundação de Serralves, Mangelos Nos. 1 – 9 1/2
Graz, Austria, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Mangelos Nos. 1 – 9 1/2
2004
Barcelona, Spain, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Mangelos Nos. 1 – 9 1/2
Kassel, Germany, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Mangelos Nos. 1 – 9 1/2
Pittsburgh, USA, Carnegie Museum of Art, The 54th Carnegie International
2005
New York, USA, Peter Freeman Inc, Mangelos: Les Lettres et les Mots
2011
London, UK, Frieze Art Fair
2012
New York, USA, Peter Freeman Inc, Pythagoras
2013
Paris, France, galerie frank elbaz, Miroirs Noirs
2014
New York, USA, Galerie St.Etienne, Ilija/Mangelos: Father&Son, Inside&Out
Berlin, Germany, Aanant&Zoo Gallery, documenta – ?
2015
Brazil, Sao Paolo, International Art fair SP Arte
2016
New York, Peter Freeman Inc, mangelos: a retrospective of exhibitions 1972-1981
2017
Vienna, Austria, Galerie Martin Janda, Mangelos: Manifestos, Theses, Projects and Notes
Dallas, USA, galerie frank elbaz, Julije Knifer/Mangelos: Investigating the Limits of Painting
2018
Belgrade, Serbia, Goethe-Institut,  Ilija – Mangelos Phenomenon
2019
Zagreb, Croatia, Galerija Nova, Mangelos: Manifestos, Theses, Projects and Notes 
2021
Zagreb, Croatia, Collection Richter, Documents of one experiment
Zagreb, Croatia, gallery Spot, “Dear friends, dear enemies”

Selected Group Shows

1959-1966
As a member of the group Gorgona, exhibition of new forms of artistic communication and publication of anti-magazine “Gorgona”
1968
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Gallery 212, Permanent Art
1969
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Gallery 212, Visual PoetryZagreb, Gallery of the Student Centre, Typoetry
1977
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Gorgona
Mönchengladbach, Germany, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Gorgona
1978
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Posters – artists’s works
1981
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Gallery of the Student Centre, Beyond Aesthetics
1982
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Innovations in Croatian Art in the 1970s
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, Collegium Artisticum, Innovations in Croatian Art in the 1970s
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Verbal-Vocal-Visual in Yugoslavia
1985
Split, Yugoslavia, Diocletian’s Gallery, Anti-museum: noart
1986
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Gallery Karas, Geometrie
1987
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, Collegium Artisticum, Yugoslav Documenta 87
1988
Sremska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia, Museum of Srem, 150th Anniversary of the Gymnasium in Sremska Mitrovica
1989
Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Art Acquisitions 23 (1984-1988)
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Gallery ULUS, Scenes of Language
Dijon, France, FRAC de Bourgogne: Gorgona
1991
Zagreb, Croatia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Acquisitions 1986-1991
1993
Sydney, Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Horse who Sings – Radical Art from Croatia
Sète, France, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Le Milieu du Monde
1994
Cologne, Germany, Gallery Schüppenhauer, Zwischen Zeit Raum II (Between time and space II)
1996
Paris, France, Centre George Pompidou, Galerie d’art graphique, Dessins acquisitions 1992-1996
1997
Zagreb, Croatia, Artistic Pavilion, Cartographers
Venice, Italy, Biennale di Venezia, Ex Macello, Dolo, Gorgona, Gorgonesco, Gorgonico
Warzawa, Poland, Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Cartographers

Eindhoven, Netherlands, MU, Flow
San Francisco, USA, Rena Bransten Gallery, New Work
1998
Maribor, Slovenia, Umetnosna galerija, Kartografi
1999
Budapest, Hungary, Mucsarnok
Vienna, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Aspects Positions – 50 years of art in Central Europe 1949-1999
2000
Porto, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Circa 1968
Budapest, Museum Ludwig, Aspects – Positions
Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Das Funfte Element – Geld oder Kunst
Ljubljana, Moderna Galerija, 2000 + Art East Collection
Prague, National Gallery, Beyond Preconceptions – The Sixties Experiment
2001
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Art in Central Europe, 1949-1999
Graz, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, In Search of Balkania
2005
Kassel, Germany, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, In den Schluchten des Balkans
Cetinje, Montenegro, 5 Cetinjsko bijenale, Love it or Leave it
Dubrovnik, Croatia, Umjetnička galerija, Filip Trade Collection
2006
London, UK, Tate Modern, Open Systems, Rethinking Art c.1970
Otterlo, Netherlands, The Kröller-Müller Museum, Living Art on the Edge of Europe
Hagen, Germany, Karl Ernst Osthaus – Museum der Stadt Hagen, EAST ART Museum
Graz, Austria, Neue Galerie, Fluxus, Happening, Kontextkunst
New York, USA, MoMA, Eye on Europe, Prints, Books and Multiples to Now
New York, USA, Andrea Rosen Gallery
2007
New York, USA, MoMA, Live/Work: Performance into Drawing
2008
Berlin, Germany, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Transmediale 08: Conspire
New York, USA, MoMA, Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing
Warsawa, Polland, Museum of Modern Art, As Soon as I Open My Eyes I See a Film
Belgrade, Serbia, Gallery 03ONE, Ilija’s World
2009
Bremen, Germany, The Weserburg, Bremen’s museum of modern art, Who Killed the Painting?
Novi Sad, Serbia, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Conceptual Art – Archive of Documents, Information and Art Works 1968-2007
Zagreb, Croatia, Klovićevi Dvori, Avantguarde Tendencies in the Croatian Art
2010
Paris, France, Centre George Pompidou, Promesses du passé
Berlin, Germany, Aanand & Zoo, You Are Kindly Invited To Attend
2011
Barcelona, Spain, MACBA, Museum of Parallel Naratives. In the Framework of l’Internationale
Paris, France, galerie frank elbaz, Gorgona, with Julije Knifer, Mangelos and Josip Vaništa
New York, USA, MoMA, I am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing
2012
Vienna, Austria, Belvedere, Gold
Berlin, Germany, Deutsches Historisches Museum, The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945
Ljubljana, Slovenia, Galerija Škuc, Word Out of Joint
2013
Paris, France, Center George Pompidou, Modernités plurielles (de 1905 à 1970)
Porto, Portugal, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Conceptual Form and Material Actions
Velika Gorica, Slovenia, Galerija Galženica, eBook (artist’s book)
Ljubljana, Slovenia, MSUM, The Present and Presence: Repetition 4 Micro-political Situations
Tallin, Estonia, Kumu – Art Museum of Estonia, Critique and Crises. Art in Europe since 1945
2014
Nîmes, France, Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, Personal Cuts
Madrid, Spain, Elba Benitez Gallery, The Sky is Blue in Some Other Way: A Diagram of a Possible Misreading
2015
New York, USA, MoMA, Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America 1960-1980
New York, USAMitchell-Innes & Nash, Knifer, Mangelos, Vaništa
2016
Vienna, Austria, Galerie Martin Janda, Der “Geist” ist die Memorie
Milano, Italy, FM Centre for Contemporary Art, Non-Aligned Modernity
2017
Karlsruhe, Germany, ZKM, Art in Europe 1945-1968
Istanbul, Turkey, Pera MuseumCold Front from the Balkans
Dallas, USA, galerie frank elbaz, Meandering, Abstractly
Bologna, Italy, P420, Gorgona, PostGorgona
Porto, Portugal, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Collection Serralves 1960-1980
Vaduz, Lichtenstein, Kunstmuseum, Gorgona
Dallas, USA, The Warehouse, Doubles, Dobros, Pliegues, Pares, Twins, Mitades
Zagreb, Croatia, Gallery Miroslav Kraljevic, Shakespeare Among Us
Belgrade, Serbia, MoCAB, Sequences. Art of Yugoslavia and Serbia from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art
2018
Zagreb, Croatia, Museum of Contemporary Art, „Mangelos Vol 1“
Paris, France, Musée national Picasso, Guernica
Porto, Portugal, The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Table of Dreams: Two Contemporary Art Collections
2019
Dallas, USA, The Warehouse, The Sensation of Space
2020
Belgrade, Serbia, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (MoCAB), Reflections of our time: Acquisitions of the Museum of Contemporary Art 1993-2019 
New York, USA, ADAA – Artlogic Viewing Room​, Peter Freeman Inc.: A Map of Mixed Emotions: Works on Paper, Transmissions: Mel Bochner, Rober Filliou, Michael Heizer, Mangelos, Franz Erhard Walther
Pancevo, Serbia, The 19th Biennial of International Contemporary Art,  Death to Art! Long Live Art!
2021
Vienna, Austria, SPARK Art Fair, Utopia: Post-War. Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovic and Mangelos among others
Belgrade, Serbia, Goethe Institute, New Gallery of Visual Arts and U10, Wer nicht denken will, fliegt raus! – Joseph Beuys and Mangelos – 100 Years and Art Today
Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wer nicht denken will, fliegt raus! – Joseph Beuys and Mangelos – 100 Years and Art Today
Madrid, Spain, 1 Mira Madrid, MANGELOS & MLADEN STILINOVIĆ: WORD IMAGES
2022
New York, USA, Peter Freeman Inc., From Scratch: Mangelos, Julije Knifer, Július Koller, Mladen Stilinović & Goran Trbuljak
Zagreb, Croatia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sad songs of War
Vienna, Austria, Galerie Martin Janda, curated by Asier Mendizabal: Reroute—Reorient
Vienna, Austria, ERSTE Foundation, General Alert. Wars that Have Never Ended
Madrid, Spain, Museo Reina Sofía, An Act of Seeing that Unfolds