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Joseph Kosuth is one of the pioneers of Conceptual art and installation art, initiating language based works and appropriation strategies in the 1960s. His work has consistently explored the production and role of language and meaning within art. His nearly forty year inquiry into the relation of language to art has taken the form of installations, museum exhibitions, public commissions and publications throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia, including five Documenta(s) and six Venice Biennale(s), one of which was presented in the Hungarian Pavilion (1993).

Awards include the Brandeis Award, 1990, Frederick Weisman Award, 1991, the Menzione d'Onore at the Venice Biennale, 1993, and the Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government in 1993.

He received a Cassandra Foundation Grant in 1968, being the choice of Marcel Duchamp one week before he died. In June 1999, a 3.00 franc postage stamp was issued by the French Government in honor of his work in Figeac. In February 2001, he received the Laurea Honoris Causa, doctorate in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Bologna. In October 2003 he received the Austrian Republic's highest honour for accomplishments in science and culture, the Decoration of Honour in Gold for services to the Republic of Austria.

In October 2009 Kosuth's exhibition ni apparence ni illusion, an installation work in white neon that runs for 280 meters throughout the 12th century original medieval walls of the Louvre palace, opened at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

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