THE COLLECTION XXIX- SPIRITS OF INTERNATIONALISM: 6 EUROPEAN COLLECTIONS 1956-1986, MHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, 20 january – 29 april 2012, by Bart De Baere, Jan De Vree and Anders Kreuger.
MAXXI ARTE/ COLLECTION. REGARDING MARISA MERTZ, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Roma, 26 january 2012 – 6 january 2013.
FORME ET INFORME: LES COLLECTIONS DU MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE NANTES S’EXPOSENT AU MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE DOLE, Musée des Beaux-arts, Dole, 5 february – 27 may 2012.
COMMON PLACES: PRINTING, EMBROIDERY, AND THE ART OF GLOBAL MAPPING, LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 18 february – 23 september 2012.
CIRCUS WOLS, Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, 25 february – 28 may 2012.
ARTE POVERA IN CITTÀ, GAMeC, Bergamo, 6 april – 15 july 2012, by Germano Celant, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Maria Cristina Rodeschini.
REALITAT UND ABSTRAKTION 2- KONKRETE UND REDUCTIVE TENDENZEN AB 1980, Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus (AT),1 may – 28 october 2012.
AN ACCUMULATION OF INFORMATION TAKEN FROM HERE TO THERE, Sperone Westwater, New York, 4 may – 16 june 2012.
ALIGHIERO BOETTI, PIER PAOLO CALZOLARI, MARIO MERZ, GIUSEPPE PENONE & MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong,15 may – 28 july 2012.
TAPIS VOLANTS, Academie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis, Roma, 29 may – 21 october 2012 / FRAC Occitaine Toulouse Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, 16 november 2012 – 27 january 2013.
ADDIO ANNI 70. ARTE A MILANO 1969-1980, Palazzo Reale, Milano, 31 may – 2 september 2012.
DOCUMENTA (13), Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, 9 june – 16 september 2012, by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev; cat., edited by Cordelia Marten, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, 2012.
GLI AMORI DIFFICILI, Scaramouche gallery, New York, 12 july – 10 august 2012.
TIME, after TIME, Ronchini Gallery, London, 6 september – 4 october 2012, by Jason Lee and Carlo Berardi; cat. edited by Lorenzo Ronchini, Carlo Berardi, Jason Lee.
PROPOS D’EUROPE 11: LA PLASTICITÉ DU LANGAGE (Entre les mots – Entre les langues), Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, 6 september – 16 december 2012, by Jeanette Zwinbenberger.
ARTE POVERA. FER GROSSE AUFBRUCH, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, 9 september 2012 – 3 february 2013, by Bernhard Mendes Bürgi; cat., edited by Bernhard Mendes Bürgi.
5th ANNIVERSARY. JOSEPH SUNOL COLLECTION, Fundació Suñol, Barcellona, 27 september 2012 – 2 march 2013.
IN THE HOLOCENE, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Boston),19 october 2012 – 6 january 2013, by João Ribas.
C@RTE DEL MONDO – SPAZIALITÀ E MONDIALIZZAZIONE, GAMeC, Bergamo, 6 october – 11 november 2012, by Emanuela Casti and Giacinto Di Pietrantonio.
FROM DE CHIRICO TO CATTELAN: A SURVEY OF 20TH CENTURY ITALIAN ART, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 8 october – 29 november 2012.
RETOUR À L’INTIME, COLLECTION GIULIANA ET TOMMASO SETARI,La Maison Rouge, Paris, 20 october 2012 – 13 january 2013.
CANTIERE DEL ‘900, Gallerie d’Italia Palazzo Beltrami, Milano, from 25 october 2012.
HOMO FABER. IL RITORNO DEL FARE NELL’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA,Castello Sforzesco, Sale della Rocchetta, Milano, 8 november 2012 – 6 january 2013, by Mimmo di Marzio.
TEXT(URE),Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, 15 november – 22 december 2012.
POP ART A TORINO!?, MACA Museo Arte Contemporanea Acri, Acri (CS), 8 december 2012 – 10 february 2013, by Francesco Poli.
QUARTETTO – ARTE POVERA. ALIGHIERO BOETTI, PIER PAOLO CALZOLARI, JANNIS KOUNELLIS, MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO, progettoarte elm, Milano, 18 december 2012 – 20 january 2013.