Massimo Kaufman Biography
Massimo Kaufmann was born in Milan in 1963 where he lives and works today.
Massimo Kaufmann has always defined himself as a painter but has used the most disparate means of expression throughout his artistic production, arriving at painting canonically understood only at the end of the nineties.
Active since the end of the 1980s, he belongs to the generation of artists born after 1960, who established themselves on the Italian scene after the experiences of Arte Povera and Transavantgarde; a new generation that grew up outside of ideologies and crosses the most disparate mediums.
His first solo exhibition dates back to 1986. Between the end of the 80s and the early 2000s he collaborated with some of the main Italian galleries such as Giò Marconi (Milan); Massimo Minini (Brescia); Lia Rumma (Naples) but also internationally with solo shows in galleries such as Studio Guenzani (Milan, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1995); Annina Nosei Gallery (New York, 1990); Gian Enzo Sperone Gallery (Rome, 1993) and Sperone-Westwater Gallery (New York, 1994). His works have been exhibited in some of the main Italian and international museums including: MACRO, Rome (2011); Pecci Museum, Prato (1990; 2011); Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, Milan (2010); MAMbo, Bologna (2009); Museo della Permanente, Milan (2006, 2001); National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome (2005); Kunstmuseum, Klagenfurt (2002); Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftungr Ludwig, Vienna (1998, 1999); PAC, Milan (1989, 1998); Fondation Cartier, Paris (1990).