Travelling Retrospective Venue, The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburg, Scotland – Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway – Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

"The Blue Carpet, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov", MACRO Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Italia
"Angeologia", The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo Museum, Ireland
"Illustration for children books and The Ship of Tolerance", Kunsthause, Zug, Switzerland
"The Flying Paintings", Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
"The Flying Paintings, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov", Sprovieri, London, England
"Vertical Opera", Guggenheim Museum, New York, America
 

"Entre Libre, Ilya Kabakov", Galerie Dourven, France
"Under the Snow", CAC, Malaga, Spain
"Under the Snow", Sprovieri, London, UK
"Labyrinth (My Mother’s Album), Ilya Kabakov", Strasbourg, France
"Ilya and Emilia Kabakov", Galleria Continua, Italy
"Tennis Game", Marat Guelmna Gallery, Moscow, Russia

"Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. The Canon", Galeria Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
"Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Under the Snow", Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere
"Ilya Kabakov, Orbis Pictus", Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"I sleep in the Orchard", Sprovieri, London, England
"20 Ways to get an Apple, Listening to the Music of Mozart", Maribur Slovenia"
"What We Shall See After Death, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov", Atlas Sztuki Foundation, Lodz, Poland
"Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Retrospective", The Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
"Outside the White Cube", Arndt and Partner Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"Under the Snow", CAC Malaga, Spain

 

"The Center of Cosmic Energy", Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
"Paintings and Installation", TR3 Gallery, Ljubjana, Slovenia
"Orbis Pictus. Children’s Book Illustrator As A Social Character", Museum of Modern Art Kamakura and Hayama, Hayama, Japan
"Under the Snow", Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany, will travel to Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampiere, Finland; CAC Malaga, Spain

 

"10 Albums", Atlas Sztuki Gallery, Lodz, Poland
"The Album of My Mother", Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland.
"Evening, Morning, Night", Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland.
"Ilya and Emilia Kabakov", Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Köln, Germany.
"Spivak’s Generation", Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Germany.
"The Center of Cosmic Energy", Tufts University Art
Gallery,Medford, MA.
"The Red Vagon", The Wiesbaden Museum, Wiesbaden, Germany.
"The Ship of Siwa", L’Opera National De Paris, Paris, France
"The Strange Museum", Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy.
"Ilya Kabakov", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, France
"Ilya and Emilia Kabakov—Rooms No 2 & 3", Kewenig
Galerie, Cologne, Germany
"Ilya Kabakov—Paintings", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
"The Thaw", Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

 

"Morning, Day, Evening," Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center,
Copenhagen, Denmark
"St. Francois d’Assise", Stella Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
"The House of Dreams", Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
"The Ship of Siwa", Siwa, Egypt
"Monument to the Useless things", Brigitte Schenk Galerie,
Germany
"Steirischer Herbst 2005", Minoriten Galerien, Graz, Austria
"The Utopian City and Other Projects," Kunsthaus Zug,
Switzerland
"The Utopian City and Other Projects", Albion Gallery, London, England
"The Strange Museum", Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
"Where is our place?", Musee les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
"Die Architekturprojekte", Kunsthaus Zug, Germany
 

"The Empty Museum with Emilia Kabakov", The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
"Were is our place?", MAXXI—Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
Die Architekturprojekte, Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany
"Where is our place?", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Verbal Photography: Ilya Kabakov and Boris Michailov. Installations: The Ship, Uncle Udas Album and Oga Georgievna, Somethings is Burning", Museu Serralves, Museu de Are Contemporanea, Portugal
"Incident in the Museum and other installations", The State Heritage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
"The Teacher and the Student", Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
"The Utopia World", Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
"The Empty Museum with Emilia Kabakov", Tallin Art Mall, Tallin, Estonia
"Ilya Kabakov’s Album Theater –Sitting-in-the-Closet Primakov", Shugoarts, Tokyo
"20 Ways to Get and Apple Listening to the Music of Mozart", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
 

"Center of Cosmic Energy", Galerie Clara Maria Sels GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Where is our place?", Fondazione Querini Stampalia ONLUS, Venice, Italy
"Ilya Kabakov", Galerie in Trakhaus, Salsburg, Germany
"Photo and Video the Documentation of a Life and creativity", House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
"10 Characters", Tretyakov State Gallery at Crimsky Val, Moscow, Russia

 

"Ilya Kabakov: Universalsystem zur Darstellung von Allem", Kunsthalle Goppingen, Goppingen, Germany
"Paintings, Sketches Drawings from the Installation “Not everyone will be taken into the future”", Galeria Trakhaus, Salsburg, Austria
"Paintings, Sketches, Drawings from the Installation :Not everyone will be taken into the future", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
"Toilet in the Corner", Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK
"Ilya Kabakov im Zentrum Russischer Kunstlerpublikationen", Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany
"Ilya Kabakov – Meet the Angel (small installations and paperwork)", Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc, Moscow, Russia
"Ilya Kabakov – Children’s Books ad Related Drawings, 1956 – 1982" The Chinati Foundatio, Marfa, TX, USA

 

"20 Ways to Get an Apple Listening to the Music of Mozart", Museum of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA
"20 August 1968", Grazier Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
"The Tennis Game II", Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
"Premio Querini – Furla der l’Arte," Fondazione Querini, Stampalia, Venice, Italy
"Two Windows", Thaddeus Ropac Gallery Installation, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
"The Palace of Projects", Kokerei Foundation, Essen, Germany
"Ilya Kabakov: 10 characters – Albums", Installation Monument to a Lost Glove, The RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA
"The Empty Bottle", University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
"Ilya Kabakov – Installation – 20 August 1968", Galerie Clara Maria Sels GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany

 

"The Universal System of Explaining Everything Goppingen", Kunsthalle, Germany (catalogue)
"The Boat of My Life", Nexus Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
"The Palace of Projects", The Armory on 26th Street and Lexington Avenue, Public Art Foundation, New York, USA (catalogue)
Installation in Echigo, Tsumarigo, Japan
"Labyrinth (My Mothers Album)", Tate Gallery, London, UK
"Ilya Kabakov. Retrospective", Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland (catalogue)
"Das Funfte Element", Gelt oder Kunst, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
 

"The Life and Creativity of Charles Rosenthal", Mito Tower, Mito, Japan (catalogue)
"The Old Library", Amsterdam Fonds Noor de Kunst, The Doelenzal of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue)
"The Boat of My Life and Works from a Private Collection", Duke University Museum, North Carolina, travelling exhibition
"Retrospective of Drawings", Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Cantieri della Zisa, Palermo, Italy (catalogue)
 

"A Meeting: Jan Fabreand llya Kabakov", Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
"The Palace of Project, with Emilia Kabakov", The Roundhouse, London, travelling to Manchester, Upper Campfield "Market, and the Crystal Palace", Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (catalogue)
"16 Installations", Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium (catalogue)
"Treatment with Memories", Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
"The Collector", Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
"The Metaphysical Man", permanent installation, Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
"My Grandfather's Shed", permanent installation, Moenchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goeslar, Germany
"The Children's Hospital, with Emilia Kabakov," Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
"Retrospective of Drawings and Albums", Stadtgallery Heerlen, The Netherlands, travelling to Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
"The Last Step, permanent installation", Bremerhaven, commissioned by the Federal Republic of Germany, Bremerhaven, Germany
 

"It Happens Tomorrow", Galerie Weisses Schloss, Zurich, Switzerland
"The Reading Room", curated by Donna Stein, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, USA (brochure)
"The Artist's Library", Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"The Life of Flies", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
"Monument to the Lost Glove", Traffic Triangle at Flatiron Building, Sponsored by Public Art Fund Inc.
"Twenty Ways of Getting an Apple", Moderna Galeria, Ljubljana, Slovenia (catalogue)
 

"llya Kabakov, Storyteller", Køge Bugt Kulturhus, Copenhagen, Denmark (catalogue)
"The Reading Room", Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, Retrospective (catalogue)
"On The Roof", Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (book)
"Voices Behind the Door", installation, Foerderkreis der Leipziger Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany, (book)
"The Tennis Game", Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland, with Pavel Pepperstein (catalogue)
"Books: A Retrospective with Drawings", Thea Westreich in collaboration with Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
"llya Kabakov. Storyteller", Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
"Ten Characters", Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany (portfolio)
"Music on the Water," Landeskulturzentrum, Salzau, Kiel, Germany, permanent, installation, music by V.Tarasov (book)
"The Garbage Man", permanent installation, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway (book)

 

"C'est ici que nous vivon (We are living here)", Centre G. Pompidou, Paris, France (Book “Installations” 1983-1995)
"Collector", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France, Installation (catalogue)
`"Change of Scene VIII", Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (catalogue)
"The Boat of My Life, Unrealised Projects", Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, Germany (catalogue)
"Incident at the Museum or Water Music", Modern Art Center of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
"The School Library", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Metaphysical Man", Kunsthalle Degress Gallery, Bremen, Germany
"llya Kabakov. The Sea of Voices" Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland (catalogue)
"The Bridge", installation, Recalde Art Space, Bilbao, Spain (catalogue)
"No Water", permanent installation, MAK Museum, Vienna, Austria
"The Red Corner", Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
"Unrealised Projects", Kunstverein, Ludwigsburg, Germany (catalogue)
"Kabakov: Operation Room (Mother and Son)",The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
"Unrealised Projects", Exhibition Space, Reykjavik, Iceland
"llya Kabakov: In the Apartment of Nicolai Victorovich", Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
"llya Kabakov and Joseph Kosuth: The corridor of Two Banalities", Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland (catalogue)
"The Golden Underground River, The Boat of My Life, The Album of My Mother", Centre National D' Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
"Incident at the museum or Water Music, music by V. Tarasov", Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany
"llya Kabakov: Operation Room (Mother and Son)", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue - book "Five Albums")
"Artist's Despair or Conspiracy of Untalented", Barbara Weiss Gallery, Berlin, Germany
 

"llya Kabakov -The Big Archive", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue)
"The Boat of My Life", Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
"Communal Kitchen", Musee Maillol, Paris, France
"NOMA (Moscow Conceptual Circle installation)", Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany (book)
"School N6", Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, USA
"Incident at the Museum or Water Music, music by Vladmir Tarasov", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA (catalogue)
"The Red Pavillion, musical arrangement by V. Tarasov", Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"Concert for a Fly, music by V. Tarasov", Chateau D'Oiron, France
"Illustration as a Way to Survive, installation in memory of Ulo Sooster", Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
"Illustration as a Way to Survive, installation in memory of Ulo Sooster", Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland (catalogue)
"The Empty Museum", Staattiche Hochschulefur Bildende Kunste-Stadelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

 

"Life of Flies" Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (book)
llya Kabakov: Incident at the Museum, Water Music, music by V. Tarasov. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
"llya Kabakov. He Lost His Mind, Undressed Ran Away Naked", University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Illinois, USA
"Unhanged Painting", Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
"Illustration as a Way to Survive (installation in memory of Ulo Sooster)", Koninklijke Academic voor Schone Kunsten, Kortrijk, Belgium (catalogue)
"In Memory of Pleasant Recollections", Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium (catalogue)
"llya Kabakov", Galleria Sprovieri, Rome, Italy (catalogue)
"On the Communal Kitchen", New Documents, Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris, France (book)
 

"52 Entretiens dans la Cuisine Communitaire", Ateliers Municipaux d'Artistes, Marseille, Paris, France
"Dialogue with Yuri Kuper," Exhibition travelled to Halle d'Art Contemporain, La Criee, Rennes, France (catalogue)
"llya Kabakov (3 installations from Ten Characters), The Power Plant", Toronto, Canada (catalogue)
"On the Communal Kitchen", installation, FIAC International Art Fair, Paris, France, represented by Dina Vierny Gallery (catalogue)
"The Targets", Peter Pakesch Gallery, Vienna, Austria
"My Motherland/The Flies", Wewerka and Weiss Galerie, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
"Ripped Off Landscape", permanent installation, Dresden Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

 

"The Ship", Neue Galerie of Museum Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
"Four Cities Project", Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland (catalogue)
"Seven Exhibitions of one Painting", Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany (catalogue)
"He Lost his Mind, Undressed, Ran Away Naked", Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA (catalogue)
"Ten Characters", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C, USA (catalogue)
"The Rope of Life & Other Installations", Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA (catalogue)
 

"White Covers Everything but Itself", De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Exhibition of a Book," DAAD-Galerie, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
"The Untalented Artist and Other Characters", Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (catalogue)
"Ten Albums: Ten Characters", Riverside Studios, London, England
"Who Are These Little Men? "Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
"Communal Apartment - The Ship", Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
"The Beautiful Go's in Moscow", two person exhibition with Michael Grobman, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Israel (catalogue)
"Two Albums", University of Sarbrucken, Germany
"Who Are These Little Men?"Galerie de France, Paris, France (catalogue)
 

"Ten Albums", Portikus-Ausstellung 9, Frankfurt, Germany (catalogue)
"Ten Characters", Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA (catalogue)
"Before Supper", Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (catalogue)
"Neue Galerie", Schlossli Gotzental (with V. Pivovarov), Dierikon, Switzerland
"Kunstverein", Bonn, Germany (with E. Bulatov)

 

"The Gos-yos, (with I. Tschuikov)", Museum of Modern Art, Basel, Switzerland
"Along the Margins", Centre Nationale des Arts, Plastiques, Paris, France (catalogue)