1947 "1st exhibition", Städtische Gallerie, Munich
1950 "Zen 49", Central Collecting Point, Munich /"Great Art Exhibition Munich", Haus der Kunst, Munich
1952 "Iron and Steel", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / "Contemporary Drawings from 12 Countries 1945-1952", The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1954 "Work - Social - Occupation in Art", Kunstverein Hannover
1955 "Peinture et Sculpture non-figuratives en Allemagne d'aujourd 'hui", Cercle Volney, Paris; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart / IX. Premio Lissone, Lissone
Fred Thieler, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, A. Cat.
1956 "Zen 49", Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio / "junger westen", Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
1957 "lively color - couleur vivante", Municipal Museum, Wiesbaden / "Zen 49 - Abstract Art", Ludwigshafen Culture House / X Premio Lissone, Lissone / "Arte Tedesca dal 1905 ad oggi", Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome / A
new direction in painting ", Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim
1957 Fred Thieler (leaflet) Galerie Schmela Düsseldorf, 2nd single exhibition after the first exhibition by Yves Klein.
1958 Fred Thieler (cat.) Text, Werner Haftmann, Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich
1958"Hans Platschek, Emil Schumacher, Fred Thieler", Märkisches Museum, Witten / 29th Venice Biennale / "The 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture", Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1959 5th Biennale São Paulo / "European Art Today", The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota / XI. Premio Lissone / "Art after 1945 - Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking", documenta 2, Kassel
Fred Thieler, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, A. Cat.
1961 "Interferences", Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden / Wiesbaden City Museum / "Peinture et Sculpture Contemporaines en Allemagne", Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi / "International Painting", Eschenbach
Fred Thieler, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, A. Cat.
1962 Haus am Waldsee Berlin, enounter with Manfred de la Motte and John Cage
1962 "16 German Artists", Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. / "Present to 1962", Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Fred Thieler, Tokyo, National Museum of Art, A. Cat.
1963 "German Art of Today", Fine Arts School, Addis Ababa
Fred Thieler, Osaka, Municipal Museum of Art, International
Biennial Exhibition of Prints Tokyo, A. Cat.
1964 "The Spirit of New Berlin in Painting and Sculpture", The American Federation of Arts, New York / "German Painting Today - Tysk Malerkunst i dag", State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster; Copenhagen; Finland / "Masterpieces of the 20th Century", documenta 3, Kassel
1967 "Collage 67", Municipal Gallery in Lenbachhaus, Munich / "Expo 67", Montréal
1968 "20th century artist", Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
1972 "Pictures, Sculptures, Objects, Watercolors, Drawings", Kunstmuseum Bonn
1973 "Theme: Informel - On the Structure of a 'Different' Time", Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin / "Leaf Arts", Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
1974 "Artists make flags for Rottweil", Rottweil / "Kunstmuseum Bonn 1949-1974 - 25 years of art in the Federal Republic of Germany", Kunstmuseum Bonn
1975 "When the war was over - Art in Germany 1945-1950", Academy of Arts, Berlin / "Arnold Bode's 75th birthday", Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel / "Graphics of the German Informel", Albrecht Dürer Society, Nuremberg
1978 "German Art since 1945", Kunstverein Lübeck / Overbeck Society, Lübeck
1980 "Realism and Expressionism in Berlin Art", Frederick S.Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, California
1981 "Berlin expressive, longitudinal cuts 3", Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
1982 "Avant-garde around 1960 - painting, objects from the years 1955-1962", working group 68, Ganserhaus, Wasserburg am Inn / "Informel", gallery Georg Nothelfer, Berlin / "25 years after", gallery Heimeshoff, Essen
1983 "Klaus Fussmann, Bernhard Schultze, Fred Thieler", Gallery Students, Berlin / "Gray Zones - Color Worlds", New Society for Fine Arts, Berlin / Academy of Arts, Berlin / "Informel - The Painting of the Informal Today", Modern Gallery, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
1985 "The Artists of the Informel - An Exhibition for the 70th Birthday of Bernard Schultze", Gallery Gunzenhauser, Munich / "Art in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1985", New National Gallery, Berlin / "Un art autre: Tachism - Informel - Lyrical Abstraction" , Gallery Heseler, Munich
1986 "German Informal Painting - The Jupp Lückeroth Collection", Municipal Museum, Gelsenkirchen / "Zen 49 - The First Ten Years", Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
1987 "BerlinArt 1961-1987", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988 "Structure and Gesture", Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen / "Stations of Modernity", Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
1989"Abstraction and Figuration", Galerie Neher, Essen / "Eberhard Roters in Honor", Berlinische Galerie, Berlin / "40 Years of Art in the Federal Republic of Germany", Städtische Galerie Schloss Oberhausen / "Art in Berlin from 1900 to the present day", Gulbenkian Foundation , Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon / "From the> Bridge to the Informel", Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg / "Art in Berlin 1815-1989", High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia / 25 artists in the footsteps of Zen 49 ", Gallery Heimeshoff, Essen
1990 "Blue - color of the distance", Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg / "Berliner Kunst Stücke", Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
1991 "Early German Informel, Lückeroth Collection", Städtisches Museum, Sindelfingen / "Berlin! The Berlin Gallery Art Collection visits Dublin ", Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin /" Interference - Art from West Berlin 1960 -
1990 Riga; Marble Palace / Manege, St. Petersburg / "Picture Sculpture Room - 11 German Artists in 11 Rooms", Neher Gallery, Essen / "Berliner KUNSTstücke - The Berlin Gallery Visiting Leipzig", Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
1992 "Locations", galleries of Esslingen, Villa Merkel and Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen
1993 "Deutsches Informel", Museum of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald / "'68 - Art and Culture", Städtische Galerie Haus Seel, Siegen
1996 "Artists from Paris and Berlin", Gallery Georg Nothelfer, Berlin / "Art in Germany 1945-1995", Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg
1997 "Companions - Artists of the Informel", Gallery Michael Schlieper, Hagen
1998 "Art of the Informel - Painting and Sculpture after 1952", Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund; Kunsthalle in Emden, Henri Foundation and Eske Nannen, Emden; Neue Galerie, Linz / "Fred Thieler, Mienske Janssen-Bitters, Gaby Thieler", Galerie Bremer, Berlin
1999 "Graphics of the Informel", Gallery in the festivals, Neckargemuend / "Review of the modern age - from Bauhaus to Informel", Gallery Meißner, Hamburg / "From Pierre Alechinsky to Maurice Wyckaert - Collection Lühl, Mönchengladbach", Art Collections Chemnitz / "With our Artists in the next Millennium ", Galerie pro Art, Freiburg /" Informel Painting and Sculpture ", Marianne Hennemann Gallery, Bad Homburg /" Art after the Disaster ", Henze & Ketterer Gallery, Bern /" ZEN 49 and Guests ", Gallery Maulberger, Munich
2000 "Paper Stations of the 20th Century - Blickwechsel", Galerie Maulberger, Munich / "The Color Blue", Galerie Rieder, Munich / "Times are Changing - On the Road !, from the 20th Century!", Kunsthalle Bremen / "Good morning, Painting ", Kunstverein Augsburg
2001 "3 x Informal - Gerhard Hoehme, Fred Thieler, Hann Trier", Galerie Neher, Essen
2002 "8th Studio Exhibition - THE BIG ABSTRACTION", Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Bern
2003 "Berlin-Moscow / Moscow-Berlin 1950 - 2000", Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Staatliches Historisches Museum am Roten Platz, Moscow / "Horizons - Landscape Paintings", Galerie Neher, Essen / "Modern Times II - Classical Modernism and Art after 1945 from Arp to Winter", Galerie Neher, Essen
2004 "Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Fred Thieler, Conrad Westphal", Gallery Maulberger, Munich / "On Paper", Gallery Neher, Essen / "Accrochage II", Gallery Georg Nothelfer, Berlin / "Silent Painting - Saxon Painting", Art Collections Chemnitz / SUMMER LUST - ART PIECES - Three generations meet ", Galerie Rothe, Frankfurt a. M. / "Heinrich Wildemann & Contemporaries", Gallery Frank Schlag & CIE., Essen / "Aspects of Abstraction", Galerie Maulberger, Munich
2005 "Typeface, Sign, Gesture - Carlfriedrich Claus in the Context of Klee to Pollock", Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz / "COLOR · SURFACE · FORM", Galerie Neher, Essen / "Tachism, Informel, Action Painting - Scriptural & Gestural Painting - Part II" , Gallery Georg Nothelfer, Berlin / "Modern Times III", Galerie Neher, Essen / "Painting - World of Colors", Galerie Neher, Essen / "Informal Tendencies - Change as Principle", Galerie Maulberger, Munich / '' Art shows, what you do not see '- From Informel to today - artist positions from five decades International graphic prints and series - The Städtische Sammlung Erlangen - Overview III ", Städtische Galerie Erlangen
2006 "DREISCHRITT - west-eastern resonance - art from a private collection in Berlin", galerie paterre, Berlin / "Impulse - Informel and ZERO in the collection Ingrid and Willi Kemp", Museum der Stadt Ratingen / "Finale 3 x 21 artists from 7 exhibitions", Kreissparkasse Rottweil / "Full House - Faces of a Collection", Kunsthalle Mannheim / "Art from the 20th Century II", Galerie Neher, Essen / "Informel - a World Language", Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau / "Christmas Exhibition - Artists of the Gallery", M Art Gallery, Hamburg
2007 "INSIGHTS - PRIVATE COLLECTION PIEPENBROCK", Berlinische Galerie, State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin / "Classical Positions of the Informel", Döbele Gallery, Dresden / "Auction 24", Lehr - Auction House and Gallery, Berlin / "Blickpunkte - Frühling 2007 ", Galerie Neher, Essen /" Ways of Abstraction ", Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf /" Paper Stations of the 20th Century ", Galerie Maulberger, Munich /" The Group ZEN 49 '- From the Municipal Collections Schweinfurt ", Kunstmuseum Bayreuth /" GRAPHICS IN THE LIGHT ", Berlinische Galerie, State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin /" Auction 25 ", Lehr - Auction House and Gallery, Berlin
2008 "GRAPHIC IN THE LIGHT", Berlinische Galerie, State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin / "ABSTRAKT · KONKRET · INFORMELL", Galerie Neher, Essen
2009 "AS TIME GOES BY - KUNSTWERKE ÜBER ZEIT", Berlinische Galerie, State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin / "Tachism, Informel, Action Painting", Gallery Georg Nothelfer, Berlin / "German Informel - Drawings and Prints from the Staatsgalerie ", State Gallery Stuttgart / 6th Art Karlsruhe /" Summer in Berlin - Picture Change ", Gallery Georg Nothelfer, Berlin /" German Action ", Gallery Maulberger, Munich / 43rd ART COLOGNE, Cologne /" Black Dominance ", Gallery Georg Nothelfer, Berlin / "CLASSIC MODERN AND ART AFTER '45", Galerie Neher, Essen
2010 44. ART COLOGNE, Cologne / "SPRING 2010 - Classical Modernity - Art after '45", Galerie Neher, Essen / "Le grand Geste! - Informel and Abstract Expressionism, 1946-1964", Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf / "RE-MEETING - New presentation of the collection ", Märkisches Museum, Witten /" Moving Structures - Presentation of the collection focus on German Informel ", Gustav-Lübcke Museum, Hamm /" Bringing forms to explode - Works of the German Informel on paper ", Städtische Kunsthalle, Museums of the City of Recklinghausen / "Art after 1945 - paintings, works on paper, sculptures", Gallery Draheim, Wiesbaden / "ACCROCHAGE - Selected Works", Gallery Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
2011 "40 Years of the Gallery Georg Nothelfer 1971-2011", Gallery Georg Nothelfer / 45th ART COLOGNE, Cologne / "Art in Berlin 1880-1980 - New Collection Presentation", Berlinische Galerie, State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin / "25 Years! - Henri Nannen Collection and Surprise Guests ", Kunsthalle in Emden, Henri Foundation and Eske Nannen, Emden /" Private Passions - Kunsthalle looks behind the scenes of private art collections in Mannheim ", Kunsthalle Mannheim /" Schöne Aussichten - Wiedereröffnung der Neue Galerie ", Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Neue Galerie, Kassel
"Phenomenon Informel.Pioniere und Grenzgänger", Museum for Contemporary Art Collection Hurrle, Durbach
2012 9. Art Karlsruhe / "The View: The Word: The Gesture.", RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck / "Summer 2012. 20th Century Art - Works on Paper and Paintings", Galerie Neher, Essen / "Zauberspiegel - Die Sammlung after 1945 ", Kunsthalle Bremen /" KLEIN - BUT FEIN V: Picture and Poetry - an Approach ", Galerie Maulberger, Munich /" Abstraction and Informel - Gestural Color Worlds in Painting since 1930 ", Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach / Bern
Galerie Maulberger Munich "Fred Thieler in the flow of color"
2013"WORLD TRIP - art from Germany on the way - works from the art inventory of ifa 1949 - heute", Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations e. V. (ifa's own publication)
Pyanoe, Steffi, "Dispute of the Super Powers", in: Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, Ticket, No. 7, 14.-20. Feb., p. 18 (newspaper)
10. art Karlsruhe (catalog)
Kaprowski, Annika, "Dance in the Black Forest", in: Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, No. 21 625, March 9, p 30 (Newspaper
47th ART COLOGNE, Cologne (catalog)
Kohler, Michael, "And Fischli is swimming alone", in: Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt a. M., No. 92, 20.-21. Apr., pp. 34-35 (newspaper)
Karich, Swantje, "Now beats the present", in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt a. M., No. 92, Apr. 20, p. 37 (newspaper)
44th Art Basel (catalog)
Gropp, Rose-Maria, "In peace lies the power - also for art", in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt a. M., No. 136, June 15, p. 37 (newspaper)
"STRUCTURE: Cimiotti and Contemporaries", Galerie Maulberger, Munich (catalog)
"1838-2013 - 175 YEARS GALLERY BOISSERÉE", Galerie Boisserée, Cologne (catalog)
"Painting", MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art, Duisburg / "Farbklänge", Gallery Georg Nothelfer, Berlin
"New Gallery - Newly Seen", Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, New Gallery, Kassel / "AUS DER ZEIT", Villa Schöningen, Potsdam / 10th Art Karlsruhe / 47th ART COLOGNE, Cologne / 44th Art Basel / "Art in Berlin 1945 until today - New Collection Presentation ", Berlinische Galerie, State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin /" STRUCTURE Cimiotti and Contemporaries ", Galerie Maulberger, Munich /" 1838-2013 - 175 YEARS GALLERY BOISSERÉE ", Galerie Boisserée, Cologne / "SPRING · SUMMER · 2013". Gallery Neher, Essen
2014 "Intuition of Painting - Works from Five Decades", Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery, Bielefeld / "Painting", Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
"Spring 2014. Art from the 20th Century", Galerie Neher, Essen / ARCO - 33rd Art Fair Madrid / 48th ART COLOGNE, Cologne / "Spring 2014", Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf / "SUMMER 2014. Art from the 20th century. Jahrhundert ", Galerie Neher, Essen /" AUTUMN 2014. 20th Century Art ", Galerie Neher, Essen / Cologne Fine Art, Cologne
2015 "SPRING 2015 - Art from the 20th Century", Galerie Neher, Essen / 12th art Karlsruhe / "Art in Berlin 1880-1980", Berlinische Galerie, State Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin / "Abstract Works BOTT - HARTUNG - THIELER - WINTER ", Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach / Bern
2016 13th art Karlsruhe (catalog)
"Fred Thieler Homage to the 100th Birthday", Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery, Bielefeld (Catalog)
"Fred Thieler's 100th Birthday", Galerie Maulberger, Munich
"Fred Thieler's 100th Birthday", Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin
"Fred Thieler's 100th Birthday", Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart
50th ART COLOGNE, Cologne (catalog)
19.9. - 31.10.2017 GERMANY8 - GERMAN ART IN CHINA
The Imperial Ancestral Temple
Art Museum, Beijing
Taimiao Temple, Forbidden City
2018 Fred Thieler Informel Exh. Gallery Maulberger
Fred Thieler, painting drawing, gallery Nothelfer