Rebecca Warren


Rebecca Warren

Rebecca Warren (b. 1965) makes sculptures in a variety of materials including clay, bronze, steel and neon. The artist also creates collages and wall mounted vitrines using assemblages of objects she has collected. Warren says about her work that it comes from a strange nowhere, then gradually something comes out into the light. There are impulses, half-seen shapes, things that might have stuck with you from decades ago, as well as more recently. It’s all stuff in the world going through you as a filter …’

‘To say that Rebecca Warren’s sculptures are always extremely tactile seems like an understatement. They offer themselves as hybrids between unwrought form, symbolic informe, and transmitter, an object triggering an entire chain of associations with lofty and lowly forerunners or reproductions, whether drawn from antiquity or from the artistic and non-artistic canons. Seething before our eyes is cultural primal matter, in which the hand of the artist at times seems to play simply the role of catalyst, while the elements fuse themselves together.

Bice Curiger, ‘In all things a song lies sleeping’, in Rebecca Warren – Every Aspect of Bitch Magic, London: Fuel Publishing, 2012, p. 13

Image: Rainer, 2017, hand-painted bronze, 299 x 51 x 46 cm; 117 3/4 x 20 1/8 x 18 1/8 in, edition 1 of 2, plus 1 AP

Solo Exhibitions


Group Exhibitions


Surface Works

Ida Ekblad, Günther Förg, Joan Mitchell, Albert Oehlen, Rebecca Warren

London: 41 Dover Street
25 April – 27 May 2023

Selected Institutional Exhibitions


Biography


VITA

1965

Born in United Kingdom


1989–1992

Goldsmiths College, University of London, London (B.F.A.)


1992–1993

Chelsea College of Art, London (M.F.A.)


1993–1994

Ruskin School, University of Oxford, Oxford (Artist in Residence)


2013

Elected RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London


2014

Professor of Arts, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf


2020

Awarded OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire)


Lives and works in London, United Kingdom

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Arts Council Collection, London

British Council Collection, London

Dallas Museum of Art

The Hepworth Wakefield

Kunsthaus Zürich

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Phoenix Art Museum

The Roberts Institute of Art, London

Royal Academy of Arts, London

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Saatchi Gallery, London

Sammlung Goetz, Munich

Tate, London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

The Now Voyager
Belvedere 21, Vienna (catalogue)


2021

Radio Caroline, 2015–2016
Window Gallery, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

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Matthew Marks Gallery, New York


2020

Frieze Sculpture, London


2019

Souls
Maureen Paley: Morena di Luna, Hove


2018




Carte Blanche
Fiac Hors les Murs, Musée National Eugène Delacroix, Paris

Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris



Tout Ce Que Le Ciel Permet
Le Consortium, Dijon (catalogue)




2017



All That Heaven Allows
Tate St Ives, St Ives (catalogue)

Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles




2016



The Main Feeling
Museum of Art, Dallas



Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear?
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York


2013

Glenn Brown and Rebecca Warren: Collected Works
Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver (catalogue)

The Living
Kunstverein München (catalogue)


2012

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)

Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Ghent


2011

Come Helga, This Is No Place For Us II
Maureen Paley, London


2010

The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago;
Bluhm Family Terrace, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago


2009

Feelings
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue)


2007

Come Helga, This Is No Place For Us
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Large Concretised Monument to the Twentieth Century
Chiswick Business Park, London (permanent installation)


2005

Pas De Deux
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne


2004

Dark Passage
Kunsthalle Zürich (catalogue)

Family Badge
Antiquariat Buchholz, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne


2003

The Boiler Room
The Saatchi Gallery, London

Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

SHE
Maureen Paley Art, London


2002

Fleischvater
Modern Art, London


2000

The Agony and the Ecstasy
Maureen Paley, London


1997

The Showroom, London (with Fergal Stapleton)


1996

Cleveland, London (with Fergal Stapleton)


1995

Manliness without ostentation...
The Agency, London


1994

Retrospective: Your Mother
152c Brick Lane (with Fergal Stapleton)


1993

I Have Every Vice in the World
Dolphin Gallery, Oxford

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

ASensitiv. GIACOMETTI / WARREN
Fondation Giacometti, Paris

Surface Works
Galerie Max Hetzler, London


2022

My Reflection of You
The Perimeter, London


2021

Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham, Nottingham (will travel to The Levinsky Gallery, The Arts Institute, University of Plymouth, Plymouth; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall) (catalogue)

The Flames: The Age of Ceramics
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (MAM), Paris (catalogue)

Lives of an Object
ARCH, Athens

Albert Oehlen – "Big Paintings By Me With Small Paintings By Others"
Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI), Lugano

Mirrors and Windows

Sammlung Philara, Dusseldorf


2020


00s. Cranford Collection: the 2000s
MO.CO., Montpellier

Skarstedt, New York


2019


Installationen aus 25 Jahren Sammlung Falckenberg
Deichtorhallen - Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg

Objects of Wonder: British Sculpture 1950s to Present

Palais Populaire, Berlin


2018



Generations Part 3

Sammlung Goetz, Munich



Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich



Knock Knock: Humour in Contemporary Art

South London Gallery, London



A TIME CAPSULE REVISTED: Works Made by Women for Parkett, 1984 –
2017

Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich



Rebecca Warren - Anna Fasshauer - Michail Pirgelis
Kunstverein Reutlingen



Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings
Tate St Ives, St Ives;
Pallant House, Chichester;
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge



Exchanges

Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Manchester



Approaching The Figure
Skarstedt Gallery, New York

ISelf Collection: Bumped Bodies
Whitechapel Gallery, London


Profound Identities: Beauty and Subjugation from The Goss-Michael Collection
Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas


DEATH IS IRRELEVANT: Selections from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, 1975 – 2018
Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill

Trance
Aishti Foundation, Beirut



2017

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Für Barbara, curated by Leo Koenig

Hall Art Foundation I Schloss Derneburg, Derneburg


THE GAP BETWEEN THE FRIDGE AND THE COOKER
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The Modern Institute, Glasgow

Disobedient Bodies: J.W. Anderson Curates The Hepworth Wakefield
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield

Night in the Museum: Arts Council Collection Curated by Ryan Gander
Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester

Aging Pride
Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Rachel Whiteread
Tate Britain, London

CORPUS: The Body Unbound
The Courtauld Gallery, London


2016

The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

la mia ceramica
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris (catalogue)

Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible
The Met Breuer, New York (catalogue)

Notes on Gesture - I, II, III

Siobhan Davies Studios, London


Vija Celmins, Thomas Demand, Ellsworth Kelly, Ken Price, Paul Sietsema, Rebecca Warren, Terry Winters
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York


Night in the Museum: Arts Council Collection
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, London


Open Windows – Reflections on Beuys
Sexauer Gallery, Berlin

Conversation autour d'une collection: Collection Jocelyne et Fabrice Petignat Villa Bernasconi, Lancy



2015



Figure
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin 



Sculpture: Juan Muñoz, Thomas Schütte, Rosemarie Trockel, Rebecca Warren

Skarstedt Gallery, New York



Flirting with Strangers - Encounters with Works from the Collection

21er Haus, Vienna



Plasters: Casts and Copies
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield



10 Sculptures

Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles



ArtZuid: International Sculpture Biennial
Amsterdam (catalogue) 



A Man Walks Into A Bar

me Collectors Room, Berlin

Summer Exhibition 2015
Royal Academy of Arts, London

La Peregrina
Royal Academy of Arts, London



2014


SHE: Picturing women at the turn of the 21st century

Bell Gallery and Cohen Gallery, Granoff Center, Providence



Cast for Life
Skarstedt Gallery, New York

Cool Place: Sammlung Scharpff

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (catalogue)

Summer group exhibition
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles


Love Story - The Collection Anne & Wolfgang Titze

Galerie Belvedere, Vienna


The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture
Hayward Gallery, London (catalogue) 



In der Wohnung
Gebert Foundation, Rapperswil

Somewhat Abstract
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham


Albert Oehlen: Talking about Painting
Folkwang Museum, Essen

Then and Now
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)

Summer Exhibition 2014
Royal Academy of Arts, London


2013

REMEMBER EVERYTHING: 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)

Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Joyce Pensato, Matthias Schaufler, John Sparagana, Rebecca Warren
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Riotous Baroque
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (catalogue)

V22 Collection Show
V22 Workspace, London

From Figuration
Skarstedt Gallery, London



2012

To Hope, To Tremble, To Live. The David Roberts Collection
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield

A House of Leaves: First Movement
The David Roberts Art Foundation, London

Darren Almond, Katharina Fritsch, Martin Honert, Gary Hume, Paul Sietsema, Rebecca Warren, Terry Winters
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

The Space Between
Tate Britain, London

Looking Back for the Future
Kunsthalle Zürich


2011

Camulodunum
Firstsite, Colchester

ILLUMInations
54th Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale, Venice (catalogue)

Lustwarande ’11 - Raw
Park De Oude Warande, Tilburg

Modern British Sculpture
Royal Academy of Arts, London (catalogue)

The Shape Of Things To Come: New Sculpture
Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue)

The Collectors Show
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven


2010

Public Art Fund: Statuesque
City Hall Park, New York;
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (catalogue)

The Contemporary Figure
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection
Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai

Grand National: Art from Britain
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium

SV10: Members’ Show
Studio Voltaire, London

The Saatchi Gallery at Ipswich Art School
Ipswich Art School, Ipswich


2009

Accrochage
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Classified
Tate Britain, London

DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool

Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

British Council Collection: The Third Dimension
Whitechapel Gallery, London


2008

The Vincent Award 2008
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)

Origins
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York  
    
Blasted Allegories
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne (catalogue)

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Barbican Art Gallery, London

Donald Young Gallery, Chicago


2007

Makers and Modelers
Gladstone Gallery, New York

Five Works in Bronze
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

The Third Mind: Carte Blanche to Ugo Rondinone
Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Gallery Artists
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (catalogue)

No Room for the Groom
Herald St, London


2006

Turner Prize 2006
Tate Britain, London (catalogue)

Toutes Composition Florales
Counter Gallery, London

Flutter
The Approach, London

Strange I’ve seen that face before
Museum Abteiberg – Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach (catalogue)

If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it
The Showroom, London

Gregor Schneider: Totalschaden
Bonner Kunstverein

Tate Triennial 2006
Tate Britain, London (catalogue)

China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles

Anne Chu, Gary Hill, Martin Puryear, Rebecca Warren, James Welling
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago


2005

Body: New Art from the UK
Ottawa Art Gallery;
Oakville Galleries;
Edmonton Art Gallery;
Vancouver Art Gallery (catalogue)


The British Art Show 6
Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition:
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester;
Cornerhouse, Manchester;
The Bonington Gallery, Nottingham;
Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol;
Arnolfini - Contemporary Art Center, Bristol;
BALTIC - Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (catalogue)

Translations
Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Trumpets of Justice
Counter Gallery, London

Drunk & Stoned 2
Gavin Brown Gallery, New York

Zoo Story: An exhibition of animals in art — for the young and young at heart
Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City


2004

Sculpture: Precarious Realism between the Melancholy and the Comical
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (catalogue)

Strange I’ve seen that face before
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

Collage
Bloomberg Space, London


2003

Frass
153-155 Grays Inn Road, London

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Still Life
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago;
Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas;
Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota;
Museo de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo;
MALI - Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima

4 Old Works
56a Clerkenwell Road, London


2002

The Galleries Show
Royal Academy of Arts, London (catalogue)

Summer Exhibition 2002
Royal Academy of Arts, London (catalogue)


2001

Neon Gallery, London

Tattoo Show
Modern Art, London

New Labour
The Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue)


1999

Limitless
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

Day of the Donkey Day
Transmission, Glasgow    

It’s a Curse it’s a Burden
The Approach, London


1998

Root
Chisenhale Gallery, London (catalogue)

The Kindness of Strangers
W139 Gallery, Amsterdam (catalogue)

Craft
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Richard Salmon, London (catalogue)

BANK
The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London


1997

Martin
Commercial Gallery, London;
146 Brick Lane, London

Class Vegas
The Embassy, London

Material Culture: Sculpture from the 80s and 90s
Hayward Gallery, London (catalogue)


1996

Light
Richard Salmon, London;
Spacex Gallery, Exeter (catalogue)

Happy Shopper
Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, London

Dog U Mental VIII
BANK, London

Artforum Berlin 1996
Messegelände, Berlin

NIS Project at world PC Expo, Tokyo

On Camp/Off Base: Pimple Life
Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Centre, Tokyo (catalogue)

Out of Space
Cole and Cole, Oxford

Fuck Off
BANK, London (catalogue)

Disneyland After Dark: La Ronde
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (catalogue)

I Beg to Differ
Milch, London


1995

Happy Squirrels Club
BANK, Eindhoven

Model Home
P.S.1 – Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City;
The Clocktower Gallery, New York

The Meaning of Life..., parts 1 & 2
Center of Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

The Meaning of Life...
Art Node Foundation, Stockholm

Cocaine Orgasm
BANK, London (catalogue)

Disneyland After Dark: La Ronde
Konstmuseum Uppsala, Uppsala (catalogue)

Insignificance
The Agency, London (catalogue)

Laure Genillard, London

Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden


1994

Miniatures
The Agency, London

Destroy All Monsters
The Tannery, London

MIND THE GAP...
Acud Galerie, Berlin


1993

Whitworth Young Contemporaries
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Monographs

FUEL Publishing / Tate (Eds.): Rebecca Warren: ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, London / St Ives, 2017

Rennie Collection (Ed.): Glenn Brown and Rebecca Warren, Vancouver, 2015

Kunstverein München (Ed.): Rebecca Warren. The Living, London, 2014

FUEL Publishing (Ed.): Rebecca Warren. Every Aspect of Bitch Magic, London, 2012

Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications (Eds.): Rebecca Warren, Berlin, 2012

Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books, Rebecca Warren, Cologne, 2009

Beatrix Ruf (Ed.): Rebecca Warren, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, 2005


Others

Whitechapel Gallery (Ed.): Creating Ourselves: The Self in Art, London, 2017

Philadelphia Museum of Art (Ed.): Embracing The Contemporary, Philadelphia, 2016

Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): Then and Now, Berlin, 2014

Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): REMEMBER  EVERYTHING: 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, 2014

Hans Werner Holzwarth (Ed.): Sammlung im Wandel. Die Sammlung Rudolf und Ute Scharpff, Berlin, 2014

Hans Werner Holzwarth (Ed.): Art Now Vol. 4., Köln, 2013

Bice Curiger (Ed.): ILLUMInations. 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale Di Venezia, Milan, 2011

Penelope Curtis / Keith Wilson (Eds.): Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2011

Saatchi Gallery (Ed.): Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, London, 2011

Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium (Ed.): Grand National: Art from Britain, Vestfossen, 2010

Phaidon Press Limited (Ed.): Vitamin 3-D: new perspectives in sculpture and installation, London, 2009

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Ed.): The Vincent Award 2008. Francis Alÿs, Peter Friedl, Liam Gillick, Deimantas Narkevicius, Rebecca Warren, Amsterdam, 2008

Hans Werner Holzwarth (Ed.): Art Now Volume 3, New York, 2008

Parkett: Olaf Nicolai, Ernesto Neto, Rebecca Warren, Vol. 78, 2006

Beatrix Ruf, Clarrie Wallis (Ed.): Tate Triennial 2006. New British Art, Tate, London, 2006

Tate (Ed.): Turner Prize 2006. Tomma Abts, Phil Collins, Mark Titchner, Rebecca Warren, London, 2006

Susanne Titz, Toby Webster (Ed.): Strange I’ve seen that face before, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, 2006

Hayward Gallery (Ed.): British Art Show 6, London, 2005

Vancouver Art Gallery (Ed.): Body: New art from the UK, Vancouver, 2005

Kunsthalle Wien (Ed.): Skulptur: Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Komik, Vienna, 2004

Royal Academy of Arts (Ed.): The Galleries Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2002

Wilding, Alison (Ed.): Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2002

Saatchi Gallery (Ed.): New Labour, London, 2001

Chisenhale Gallery (Ed.): Root, London, 1998

W139 Gallery (Ed.): The Kindness of Strangers, Amsterdam, 1998

Richard Salmon (Ed.): Craft, London, 1998

Hayward Gallery (Ed.): Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and 90s, London, 1997

Kettle’s Yard, Richard Salmon Gallery (Ed.): Craft, London, 1997

The Showroom Gallery (Ed.): Fergal Stapleton and Rebecca Warren, London, 1997

Richard Salmon (Ed.): Light, London, 1996

Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Centre (Ed.): On Camp/Off Base: Pimple Life, Tokyo, 1996

BANK (Ed.): Fuck Off, London, 1996

Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Ed.): Disneyland After Dark: La Ronde, Berlin, 1996

BANK (Ed.): Cocaine Orgasm, London, 1995

Uppsala Konstmuseum (Ed.): Disneyland After Dark, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, 1995

The Agency (Ed.): Insignificance, London, 1995

Publications


Rebecca Warren: The Now Voyager

Published by Verlag Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König, Cologne, 2022
With texts by Stella Rollig, Axel Köhne, and Rebecca Warren
 

€ 29.80

la mia ceramica

Lynda Benglis, Ida Ekblad, Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Liz Larner, Fausto Melotti, Navid Nuur, Pablo Picasso, Sterling Ruby, David Salle, Josh Smith, Rosemarie Trockel, Rebecca Warren, Edmund de Waal
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2016
With an introduction by Edmund de Waal

€ 35.00

THEN AND NOW

Anthony Caro, Barbara Hepworth, Bridget Riley, Edmund de Waal, Rebecca Warren

Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris 2014
With a text by Jurriaan Benschop

€ 15.00

REMEMBER EVERYTHING

Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra, Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Bridget Riley, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler

Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications / Ridinghouse, Berlin and London 2014
With texts by Julie Sylvester and Jean-Marie Gallais
Edited by Jean-Marie Gallais

€ 45.00

Rebecca Warren

Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2012
With a text by Jörg Heiser

€ 35.00

Rebecca Warren: Every Aspect of Bitch Magic

FUEL, London 2012
Edited by Rebecca Warren and FUEL
With a text by Bice Curiger

€ 45.00

Selected Press


Blau International Magazine October 2022

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Tate Etc. Autumn 2017

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Mousse Magazine 2016

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PORTER Magazine Summer 2015

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Frieze January 2011

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Artforum September 2010

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Parkett 2006

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