| 2006 | Imi Knoebel, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (solo) |
| 2005 | Von Paul Gauguin bis Imi Knoebel. Works of the Hilti Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein |
| Les apprences sont souvent trompeuses, capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France |
| Private/Corporate III, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004- 2005 | Tear Down This Wall: Paintings from the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA |
| Leben mit Kunst – Wege zur Kunst, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany |
| Vision einer Sammlung – Eröffnungsausstellung, Rupertinum Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria |
| 2004 | Arbeiten auf Papier/Grafiken, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany |
| Moskau Berlin – Berlin Moskau, Historisches Museum, Moscow, Russia |
| 2003 | Berlin Moskau – Moskau Berlin 1950 - 2000, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany |
| Nine Little Giants, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany |
| 2002 | Painting on the Move, Es gibt kein letztes Bild. Malerei nach 1968, Museum für Gegenwartskunst and Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland |
| Pure Freude, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (Cat.), Germany (solo) |
| Kunstraum 21, Cologne, Germany (solo) |
| 2001 | Viele Grüsse Imi Knoebel, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt am Main (Cat.), Germany (solo) |
| Schaufenster mit Licht, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany |
| 2000 | Von Angesicht zu Angesicht, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany |
| Unvollendete Vergangenheit, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany |
| Regarding Beauty, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany |
| 1999 | Silent Friendship, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan |
| Das XX Jahrhundert, Neue Nationalgalerie and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany |
| 1998 | 50 espèces d’espaces, oevres du Centre G. Pompidou, Musées de Marseille, France |
| 1997 | Imi Knoebel - Eine Ausstellung, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Cat.), Germany |
| Painting – The Extended Field, Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden |
| Imi Knoebel Retrospectiva 1968-1996, IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia (Cat.), Spain |
| 1996 | Rot Gelb Weiss Blau, Ludwigforum Aachen (Cat.), Germany (solo) |
| Linienbilder 1966-68, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum (Cat.), Switzerland (solo) |
| Imi Knoebel Retrospektive 1968-1996, Haus der Kunst, Munich (Cat.), Germany (solo) |
| Imi Knoebel Works 1968-1996, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Cat.), Netherlands (solo) |
| 1995 | Rot Gelb Weiß Blau, Städtische Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (Cat.), Germany (solo) |
| 1994 | Phosphorsandwiches, Museum Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany (solo) |
| Unbound: Possibilities in Painting, Hayward Gallery, London, UK |
| 1993 | Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960 to the Present, Dallas Museum of Art and Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA |
| 1992 | Mennigebilder, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (Cat.), Germany (solo) |
| Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1969 to the Present, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and The Saint Louis Art Museum, USA |
| 1991 | Portraits, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany (solo) |
| Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany |
| 1989 | Imi Knoebel, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (Cat.), Netherlands (solo) |
| 1988 | BiNationale Deutsche Kunst der Späten 8oer Jahre, The Institute of Contemporary Art and other locations, Boston, USA |
| 1987 | Richter, Knoebel, Judd, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany |
| Imi Knoebel, Dia Art Foundation, New York (Cat.), USA (solo) |
| 1986 | Imi Knoebel, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (Cat.), Germany (solo) |
| 1984 | Heerstraße 16, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany (solo) |
| 1983 | Radio Beirut, Dia Art Foundation, Cologne, Germany (solo) |
| Imi Knoebel, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (solo) |
| 1982 | Imi Knoebel, Stedelijk Van-Abbe-Museum, Eindhoven, Germany (solo) |
