Monographs
2023 |
Abby Haywood, Priya Bhatnagar, Annie Roff (eds.), Urs Fischer: Look at Love with Love (New York: Kiito-San, 2023) |
2022 |
Francesco Bonami, Adriana Kuri Alamillo, Nicholas Cullinan, Urs Fischer: Lovers (Mexico City: Fundacion Jumex Arte Contemporaneo, 2022) |
2021 | Abby Haywood (ed.), The Intelligence of Nature (Bolzano: Longo AG through Point B Solutions, 2021) |
2020 |
Gregor Jansen, Fischer: Sirens (Berlin: Holzwarth Publications, 2020) |
2019 |
Urs Fischer and Spencer Sweeney, HEADZ (Los Angeles: Kiito-San, 2019) Priya Bhatnagar, Urs Fischer: Sculptures 2013–2018 (Los Angeles: Kiito-San, 2019) Priya Bhatnagar, Jamie Gecker, Abby Haywood, Angela Kunicky, Annie Roft and Natalie Skinner, Urs Fischer: Paintings 1998 – 2017 (Los Angeles: Kiito-San, 2019) Urs Fischer, Band-AIDS (Los Angeles: Kiito-San, 2019) |
2017 |
Urs Fischer, Dominique Clausen, Phantom Paintings (Switzerland: Kiito-San, 2017) Joachim Pissarro, Bruno & Yoyo (Kiito-San / Switzerland: Vito Schnabel Gallery, 2017) |
2016 |
Urs Fischer, Yes (Athens: DESTE Foundation; Los Angeles: Kiito-San, 2016) Bice Curiger, Mon Cher… (Arles: Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, 2016) Massimiliano Gioni, Urs Fischer: False Friends (Athens: DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2016) |
2013 |
Urs Fischer (ed.) The Making of Yes (New York: Kiito-San, 2013) Jeffrey Deitch, Jessica Morgan, Ulrich Lehmann, Urs Fischer: Museum of Contemporary Art (New York: Kiito-San, 2013) Massimiliano Gioni (ed.) 2000 Words (Athens: DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2013) |
2012 |
Adam McEwan, Urs Fischer: Beds & Problem Paintings (California: Gagosian Gallery, 2012) Caroline Bourgeois (ed.) Madame Fisscher (New York: Kiito-San, 2012) Oscar the Grouch (Greenwich (CT): The Brant Foundation; New York: Kiito-San, 2012) Gerald Matt (ed.) Urs Fischer: Skinny Sunrise (New York: Kiito-San, 2012) Urs Fischer and Georg Herold, Necrophonia (New York: Kiito-San, 2012) |
2011 |
Urs Fischer (ed.), dngszjkdufiy bgxfjkglijkhtr kydjkhgdghjkd (Self-published artist book in three parts) Juan Roselione-Valadez. Text by Karl Haendel, Thomas Houseago, David Moos, Heidi |
2010 |
Urs Fischer and Darren Bader, The Bearded Island / The Artist’s Lament (Self-published artist book) |
2009 |
Massimiliano Gioni (ed.), Urs Fischer: Shovel in a Hole (New York: JRP Ringier, 2009) |
2008 |
Urs Fischer and Gavin Brown, Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns? (New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 2008) Urs Fischer, Helmar Lerski (self-published artist book) Urs Fischer, Fractured Figure: Volume II Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection (New York: Deitch Projects, 2008) Jeffrey Deitch, Urs Fischer and Cassandra Macleod, Fractured Figure Volume I (New York: Deitch Projects, 2008) |
2007 |
Rein Wolfs and Urs Fischer, Urs Fischer: Paris 1919 (Zürich: JRP Ringier, 2007) Urs Fischer: Cockatoo Island, Sydney (Sydney: Kaldor Public Art Projects, 2007) |
2006 |
Urs Fischer, Paris 1919 (Zürich: JRP Ringier, 2006) Urs Fischer / Rudolf Stingel, (Milan: Galleria Massimo de Carlo, 2006) Urs Fischer, “Mr Watson - come here, I want to see you” (London: Sadie Coles HQ, 2006) Claudia Schmuckli, Urs Fischer: Mary Poppins (Houston: Blaffer Gallery, 2006) |
2005 |
Urs Fischer and Eugen Blume, Urs Fischer: Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof (Cologne: Dumont, 2005) Ugo Rondinone, Urs Fischer, brochure (London: Camden Arts Centre, 2005) |
2004 |
Urs Fischer, Good Smell Make-up Tree (Geneva: JRP Ringier, 2004) Urs Fischer, Alison Gingeras (eds.), Livre numéro 2. Espace trios-cent-quinze, creation contemporaine et prospective (Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2004) Urs Fischer and Mirjam Varadinis (eds.), Kir Royal (Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich; JRP Ringier, 2004) |
2003 | Marc-Olivier Wahler (ed.), Extra: How Many Extra Layers Can We Graft onto Reality Before It Collapses? (Basel: Christoph Merian Verlag, 2003) |
2000 |
Urs Fischer, The Membrane – and why I don’t mind bad-mooded people (Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2000) Beatrix Ruf, Time Waste Urs Fischer Radio-Cookie und kaum Zeit, kaum Rat (Zürich: Edition Unikate, 2000) |
Selected Publications
2021 |
Bice Curiger, Carlotta Graedel Mathai and Franziska Lentzsch (eds.), Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to Zurbaran (Zurich: Zurcher Kunstgesellschaft Kunsthaus, 2021) Roberta Tenconi, Vicente Todoli and Fiammetta Griccioli (eds), INDEX Maurizio Cattelan (Milan: Pirelli HangarBicocca / Marsilio Editore, 2021) |
2019 |
René Lüchinger, ‘VII. What’s Next?’, Ringen um Ringier: über die kunst der digitalisierung in einem schweizer medienkonzern, (Göttingen: Steidl, 2019), illus. IV |
2017 |
Leigh Robb, Versus Rodin: bodies across space and time (Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia) Judith Blackall, EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection (Sydney: National Art School, 2017) |
2014 |
Don Thompson, The Supermodel and the Brillo Box (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) Penelope Curtis, Martin Herbert, Lisa Lee, James Lingwood and Ralph Rugoff, The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture (London: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2014) Hans-Peter Wipplinger (ed.), Deep Feelings: From Antiquity to Now (Nuremberg: Institute of Modern Art Nuremberg, 2014) Gerald A. Matt, Synne Genzmer (eds.), Gerald A. Matt: Artists Talks (Nuremberg: Institute of Modern Art Nuremberg, 2014) |
2012 |
Jan van Adrichem, Raw Stardust: Excursions in Contemporary Sculpture II (Tilburg: Fundament Foundation, 2012) |
2011 |
Daniel Birnbaum et al., Defining Contemporary Art – 25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks (London: Phaidon, 2011) Zuckerman Jacobson (eds.), Beg Borrow and Steal (Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2011) |
2010 |
Gioni, Massimiliano (ed.) What Good Is the Moon? The Exhibitions of the Trussardi Foundation (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2010) |
2009 |
Hans Werner Holzwarth (ed.), 100 Contemporary Artists (Cologne: Taschen, 2009) Adriano Pedrosa, Laura Hoptman, Jens Hoffman, Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation (London/New York: Phaidon, 2009) Josh Smith, Ghost: A Guest + a Host (Athens: DESTE Foundation, 2009) |
2008 |
Heike Munder (ed.), Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst: Sammlung / Collection 1978 – 2008 (Zürich: JRP Ringier Kunstverlag) Caroline Cros, Qu’est-ce que la Sculpture Aujhourd’hui? (Paris: Beaux-Arts editions, 2008) Jörg Heiser, All of a Sudden: Things that Matter in Contemporary Art (New York: Sternberg Press, 2008) Vivian Rehberg and Hans Werner Holzwarth (eds.), Art Now, Volume 3 (Cologne/London: Taschen, 2008) Beatrix Ruf (ed.), Blasted Allegories: Works from the Ringier Collection (Zürich: JRP Ringier, 2008) |
2007 |
Jens Hoffmann and Christina Kennedy (eds.), The Studio (Dublin: Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane, 2007) Daniel Kurjakovic, Album – On and Around Urs Fischer, Yves Netzhammer, Ugo Rondinone, and Christine Streuli, participating at the 52nd Venice Biennale (Zürich: JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, 2007) Stéphanie Moisden and Hans Ulrich Obrist (eds.), Lyon Biennial 2007: The 00s: The History of a Decade that Had Not Yet Been Named (Zürich: JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, 2007) Bundesamt für Kultur (ed.), Swiss Art Award 2007 (Berne: Bundesamt für Kultur BAK, 2007) Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection (Athens: DESTE Foundation, 2007) Gerald Matt, Eedelbert Köb, Angela Stief (eds.), Traum & Trauma: Werke aus der Sammlung Dakis Joannou, Athen (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007) Jörg Becher, Die 50 Wichtigsten Künstler der Schweiz (Basel: Echtzeit Verlag, 2007) Emmanuel Berard and Emanuela Mazzonis (eds.), Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture from the François Pinault Collection (Milan: Palazzo Grassi, 2007) Richard Flood, Massimiliano Gioni and Laura Hoptman (eds.), Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century (New York: Phaidon, 2007) Firma Renata Kaiser (ed.), The Hamsterwheel / Wheeeeel (Toulouse: Le Printemps de Septembre, 2007) |
2006 |
Emmanuel Berard, Emanuela Mazzonis (ed.), Sommario. La Collezione François Pinault. Una Selezione Post-Pop (Venice: Palazzo Grassi, 2006) Alison Gingeras and Jack Bankowsky, Where Are We Going? Selections from the François Pinault Collection (Venice: Palazzo Grassi, 2006) The Vincent van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe (Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 2006) Tony Webster, Strange that I’ve Seen that Face Before: Objekt, Gestalt, Phantom (Cologne: Dumont, 2006) Francesco Bonami, Infinite Painting (Codroipo, Italy: Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, 2006) |
2005 |
Salvatore Lacagnina, Ma non al sud: Paolo Chiasera, Enzo Cucchi, Urs Fischer, Peter Fischli & David Weiss (Milan: Silvana, 2005) Emmanuelle Antille (ed.), Swiss made (the art of falling apart): Works from the Hauser & Wirth Collection (Zwolle: Waanders, 2005) Carol Becker et al., Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2005) Jordan Kantor and Igor Zabel, Vitamin D: new perspectives in drawing (London / New York: Phaidon, 2005) Dario Cimorelli (ed.) Ma Non Al Sud (Siracusa: Galkeria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea Siracusa, 2005) |
2004 |
Sabine Folie, Skulptur. Prekarer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Komik (Vienna: Kunstalle Wien, 2004) Jeffrey Deitch, Monument to Now (Athens: DESTE Foundation; New York: D.A.P., 2004) |
2003 | Die Preistrager des Eidgenossischen Kunst-Stipendiums 1993 / Les Laureats de la Bours fedeerale des Beaux-Arts (Berne/Bienne: Bundesamt fur Kultur; Centre PasquArt, 1994) (exh. cat.) |
2002 |
Will Bradley, My Heart is on Fire but my Head is Full of Love (Copenhagen: Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, 2002) Michaela Unterdörfer (ed.), The House of Fiction (Nurenberg: Verlag für modern Kunst, 2002) |
2000 |
Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Manifesta 3: Borderline Syndrome – Energies of Defence (Ljubljana: Cankarjev, 2000) |
1999 |
Eidgenössische Preise für Freie Kunst 1999, exh. cat. (Zürich: Kunsthalle Zürich, 1999) Anna Helwing and Urs Fischer, Le Repubbliche dell’Arte, Schweiz. Suisse. Svizzera. Svizra (Siena: Palazzo delle Papesse, 1999) Francesco Bonami and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Sogni/Dreams (Turin: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, 1999) |
1998 |
Rein Wolfs, ironisch/ironic: maurizio cattelan, urs fischer, alicia framis, steve mcqueen, earnout mik/marjoleine boonstra, exh. cat. (Zürich: Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 1998) (exh. cat.) |
1997 |
Guarene Arte 97 (Turin: Neos Edizion; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, 1997) |
1992 | Urs Fischer and Claudia di Gallo, Urs Fischer, Claudio Di Gallo, Ugo Rondinone, Markus Schwander (Lucerne: Kunstmuseum, 1992) (exh. cat.) |
Artist Writings
2009 | Urs Fischer and Darren Bader, The Bearded Island (The Artist’s Lament) / An Essay Commissioned for the Exhibition "Regarding Henry's Show" @ The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2009 (Greenwich (CT): Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2009) |
2008 | Urs Fischer, Helmar Lerski (self-published artist book) |