Selected group exhibitions
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2012
Nudes, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten/Center for Fine Arts, Brussels
This will have been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago [will travel to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis]
Art & Press, Walter Gropius Bau, Berlin [will travel to Sidetracks. Painting in the Paramodern Continiuum, Stavanger Kunstmuseum
Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, Sala de Arte Santander (Fundación Banco Santander), Boadilla (Madrid)

2011
The world belongs to you: artists from the Pinault collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
11th  Biennale de Lyon
Max Beckmann: Face to Face: Beckmann, Dumas, Katz, Museum der Bildenden Kunsten, Leipzig
PPP Pier Paolo Pasolini, Galerie Metis, Amsterdam

2010
Dineo Bopape, Marlene Dumas, Zanele Muholi, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem

2009
elles@centrepompidou: artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou, Paris
Mapping the Studio: artists from the Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice

2007
The painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, London [travelled to Castello di Rivoli]

2006
Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf [travelled to Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Johannesburg Art Gallery]
Essential Painting, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Os Annos 80, Museu Serralves, Porto
The Portrait Now, National Portrait Gallery, London

2005
The experience of art, Bienniale di Venezia, Venice
The Triumph of Painting: 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Saatchi Collection, The Saatchi Collection, London
Drawing from the modern, 1975–2005, MoMA, New York
Biennale darte contemporanea, Castello Svevo di Bari

2004
In Bed. Images from a Vital Stage, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo

2003
Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
(In Search of) The Perfect Lover, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden [travelled to Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deinze; Hauser and Wirth, London]

2002
Loud and Clear: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Marlene Dumas, Erik Kessels,  Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam (video production)

2001
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2000
Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum
Mixing Memory and Desire, Neues Kunstmuseum, Luzern
Europa: Differenti prospettive nella pittura, MuMi, Museo Michetti, Chieti
L’ombra della ragione: L’idea del sacro nel identità europea nel XX secolo, Bologna Galleria d’Arte Moderna

1999
Trouble Spot Painting, Muhka, Antwerp
Pathologiae sei donne per caso, Museion, Bolzano
Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London [travelled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago]
Regarding Beauty, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC [travelled to Haus der Kunst, Munich]

1998
Eight People from Europe, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
Szenenwechsel XIII, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
A Noir, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan

1997
Floating Images of Women in Art History, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomiya

1996
Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC

1995
Africus: Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa
XLVI Biennale di Venezia, Dutch Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Ripple across the water, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

1994
Du concept a l’image, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
L’ottobre degli Olandesi, Galleria Del Cortile, Roma

1993
Der zerbrochene Spiegel, Messepalast und Kunsthalle Wien [travelled to Deichtorhallen, Hamburg]

1992
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany

1991
The Interrupted Life, The New Museum, New York

1989
Prospect 89, Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der kunst seit 1960,  Rheinhalle der Kölnmesse, Cologne

1987
Art from Europe, Tate Gallery, London
18th Sao Paolo Biennal

1982
Documenta 7, Kassel

1980
The Critic Sees (een keuze van Paul Groot), Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
Ateliers ’63, een keuze uit het werk van deelnemers (1975-1980), Museum Bonnefanten, Maastricht [exhibition toured to Museum Fodor, Amsterdam

1978
Atelier 15: 10 young artists, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam