| 1973 |
Born in Zurich, Switzerland |
| Studied Photography at the Schule für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| 1991 | Visited 'de ateliers', Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2000 | Artist in Residence, Delfina Studios, London, England |
|
Lives and works in New York NY, USA and Los Angeles CA, USA |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 | Scratch & Sniff, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England Vignettes, Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow, Scotland Beauty, Gagosian, Paris, France |
| 2023 | Flea Circus, Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street, London, England Denominator, Gagosian Beverly Hills, Los Angeles CA, USA Ice Cream Truck Democracy, Gagosian, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2022 |
PLAY, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Urs Fischer: Pink Motor, Jason Haam, Seoul, Korea Lovers, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico L'arc, Station F, Paris, France (commission) |
| 2021 |
CHAOS #20-#31, Pace Gallery, online Bourse de Commence: Pinault Collection, Paris, France |
| 2019 |
2, K11 Musea, Hong Kong The Lyrical and the Prosaic, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon Leo, Gagosian, Paris, France ERROR, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich CT, USA PLAY, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles CA, USA Sculpture, NGA National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia SIRENS, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany Images, Gagosian, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2018 |
Dasha, Gagosian, London, England Urs Fischer & Rudolf Stingel, Paul Coulon Gallery, London, England PLAY, Gagosian, New York NY, USA soft, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England Things, Gagosian, New York NY, USA Sōtatsu, Gagosian, New York NY, USAMaybe, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland |
| 2017 |
Bus Stop (permanent installation), Paradise Plaza, Miami FL, USA Bliss, Urs Fischer x Katy Perry, 39 Spring Street, New York NY, USA " ", Gavin Brown's enterprise, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy Big Clay #4 and Two Tuscan Men, Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy Faules Fundament (Rotten Foundation)!, Karma, New York NY, USA The Public & the Private, Legion of Honor, San Francisco CA, USA [Music note title], Gagosian, Hong Kong The Kiss, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England You, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York NY, USA |
| 2016 | Mind Moves, Gagosian, San Francisco CA, USA Mon Cher…, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France Battito Di Ciglia, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy Untitled (Lamp/Bear), Simmons Quad, Brown University, Providence RI, USA Small Axe, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Ursula, JTT, New York NY, USA Misunderstandings in the Quest for the Universal, Gagosian, New York NY, USA |
| 2015 |
Bruno & Yoyo, Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland Fountains, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA ∞, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland Big Clay #4, Seagram Building, New York NY, USA Sadie Coles HQ-in-residence, T293, Naples, Italy |
| 2014 |
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA Julian, KARMA, Amagansett NY, USA Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England mermaid / pig / bro w/ hat, Gagosian Gallery, New York NY, USA last supper, Gagosian Gallery, New York NY, USA Lever House Art Collection, New York NY, USA Untitled (Lamp/Bear), Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar |
| 2013 |
Melodrama, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy YES, Slaughterhouse, Deste Foundation Project Space, Hydra, Greece MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2012 |
Tables, Heads, and Arms, Gagosian Gallery at Eden Rock Gallery, St Barthélemy, French West Indies Festival d'Automne à Paris, "Urs Fischer", Festival d'Automne à Paris, Cour Chimay and Chapelle des Petits Augustins, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Madame Fisscher, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy (cat.) schmutz, schmutz, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France Beds & Problem Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills CA, USA Skinny Sunrise, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria |
| 2011 |
with Cassandra MacLeod dngszjkdufiy bgxfjkglijkhtr kydjkhgdghjkd, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA with Georg Herold, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland Untitled (Lamp/Bear), Seagram Plaza, New York NY, USA |
| 2010 |
Douglas Sirk, Sadie Coles HQ, New Burlington Place, London, England Oscar the Grouch, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich CT, USA |
| 2009 |
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty, New Museum, New York NY, USA with Mark Handforth and Georg Herold, Dear _________! We _____ on ________, hysterically. It has to be _____ that _____. No? It is now ______ and the whole _______ has changed ______. all the _____, ______", Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway |
| 2008 |
Blurry Renoir Debussy, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?, A show conceived by Urs Fischer & Gavin Brown, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2007 |
Agnes Martin, Regen Projects II, Los Angeles CA, USA you, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA Uh…, Sadie Coles HQ, Balfour Mews, London, England large, dark & empty, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland with Ugo Rondinone, get up girl a sun is running the world, 52nd International Art Biennale, San Stae Church, Venice, Italy Cockatoo Island, Kaldor Art Projects and the Sydney Federation Trust, Sydney, Australia |
| 2006 |
with Rudolf Stingel, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy Oh. Sad. I see., The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland Mary Poppins, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston TX, USA Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland Paris 1919, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2005 |
Mr Watson - come here - I want to see you, Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany Camden Arts Centre, London, England Jet Set Lady, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi,Istituto dei Ciechi, Milan, Italy Fig, Nut & Pear, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA |
| 2004 |
Elton John?, Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England Feige, Nuss und Birne, Gruppe Österreichische Guggenheim, Vienna, Austria Kir Royal, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Not My House Not My Fire, Espace 315, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
| 2003 |
Portrait of a Single Raindrop, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA need no chair when walking, Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England |
| 2002 |
What Should an Owl do with a Fork, Project Room, ICALA Institute of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles CA, USA Mystique Mistake, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland Bing Crosby, CFA Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany |
| 2001 |
Mastering the Complaint, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2000 |
with Amy Adler, Cappillon - Urs just does it for the girls, Delfina Foundation, London, England The Membrane - and why I don't mind bad-mooded People, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, The Netherlands with Keith Tyson, Tagessuppen / Soups of the Day and 6 1/2 Domestic Pairs Project, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland Without a Fist - Like a Bird, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England |
| 1999 |
Espressoqueen - Worries and other stuff you have to think about before you get ready for the big easy, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1997 | Hammer, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1996 |
Frs Uischer, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland |
Group Exhibitions
| 2024 |
Post Human, Jeffrey Deitch, Orange Drive, Los Angeles LA, USA |
| 2022 |
SWISS MADE From Ferdinand Hodler to Urs Fischer, Gagosian, Gstaad, Switzerland Haunted Realism, Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, England REPEATER, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England |
| 2021 |
The Greek Garden, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France The Tenth Anniversary, ARTFLYER, Athens, Greece Anti-Structure, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA Nature of Robotics: An Expanded Field, EPFL ArtLab École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland An Ideal Landscape, Gagosian, Madison Avenue, New York NY, USA Hong Kong Exchange, Gagosian, Hong Kong |
| 2020 |
SUPERUNKNOWN | MAX ERNST & YVES TANGUY WITH URS FISCHER, Nahmad Contemporary, New York NY, USA Crushed, Cast, Constructed: Sculpture by John Chamberlain, Urs Fischer, and Charles Ray, Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, England Vampiros: La evolución del mito (Vampires: The Evolution of the Myth), CaixaForum Barcelona, Fundació Bancària "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain Amuse-Bouche: The Taste of Art, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland La rivoluzione siamo noi. Collezionismo italiano contemporaneo, XNL Piacenza Contemporeana, Piacenza, Italy American Pastoral, Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, England 100 Sculptures, No Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA To Paint Is to Love Again, Mier Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2019 |
Just what is it that makes today so different, so appealing?, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France Chairs Beyond Right and Wrong, R & Company, New York NY, USA Meet Me in the Bathroom: The Art Show, The Hole Gallery, New York NY, USA Miss Dior Love 'n Roses Exhibition, MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China Futures of Love, Magasins Généraux, Paris, France An Exhibition for Notre-Dame, Gagosian, Paris, France Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now, Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, England Flora + Fauna, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England The Way We Are, Wesenburg Museum für Modern Kunst, Germany People, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2018 |
Pop Minimalism | Minimalist Pop, The Moore Building, Miami FL, USA WILD WEST, Foundation de 11 Lijnen, Belgium Black Hole: Art and materiality from Informal to Invisible, GAMeC Galleria d'Arte Moderna et Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy How to See [What Isn`t There]. A Group Show with Works from the BURGER COLLECTION, Hong Kong Curated by Gianni Jetzer, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany Mad World, Marciano Foundation, Los Angeles CA, USA Triennale 2018, Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle, Le Locle, Switzerland Spiegelgasse, Hauser & Wirth, London, England Object: Administration, KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium Sculptures, Yoshii Gallery, New York NY, USA About Photography, Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA General Rehearsal, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland Nudes, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England Dancing with Myself, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy Eurovisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, Museum of Modern Art Heide, Heide, Germany (touring) New York by Night, Hadrien de Montferrand, Beijing, China Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now), The Met Breuer, MET Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY, USA Kiss Off, Luxemborg & Dayan, New York NY, USA Wendepunkte. Von Nolde bis Oppenheim, Graphische Sammlung ETH Zrich, Zurich, Switzerland Close at hand. Modern and Contemporary Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA The Anatomy of Disquiet, The Karpidas Collection, Dallas TX, USA |
| 2017 |
Abstract / Not Abstract, organised by Jeffrey Deitch and Gagosian, Moore Building, Miami FL, USA made on the table, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England Project 06: Cindy Sherman & Urs Fischer, OV Project, Brussels, Belgium The Trick Brain, AЇshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon Darren Bader: (@mined_oud), Museo MADRE, Naples, Italy Home. Homage to Colin de Land, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy Wild West, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York NY, USA Frieze Sculpture 2017, Regent's Park, London, England Fragile State, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, NAS National Art School, Sydney, Australia (touring exhibition in Australia to 2019) Midtown, Lever House, New York NY, USA The Transported Man, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan MI, USA ProjectArt Presents: My Kid Could Do That, Red Bull Arts, New York NY, USA Bearable Lightness of Being, Grimm, Amsterdam, The Netherlands moving in every direction. Environments-Installations-Narrative Spaces, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time, AGSA Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Black and White, Tripoli Gallery, Southampton, New York NY, USA Provocateur: From Picabia to Prince, Edward Ressle Gallery, New York NY, USA Body Doubles, Lokremise, St. Gallen, Switzerland Printed Matters II, Gesso Artspace, Vienna, Austria The gap between the fridge and the cooker, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland Liquid Antiquity, organised by the DESTE Foundation, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece |
| 2016 |
Franz West - ARTISTCUB, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria Desire, The Moore Building, Miami FL, USA Juxtapoz x Superflat, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada Die Kerze, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany Dancing with Myself: Self-portrait and Self-invention, Works from the Pinault Collection, Museum Folkwag, Essen, Germany Juxtapoz x Superflat, Vulcan's Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle WA, USA Melodrama, Act 2: New York, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York NY, USA Capital: Debt - Territory - Utopia, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany Good Dreams, Bad Dreams: American Mythologies, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon And Now the Good News: Opere dalla collezione Annette e Peter Nobel, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Lugano, Switzerland Faux Amis (False Friends), Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, Switzerland Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA Sculpture on the Move, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, The Met Breuer, MET Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY, USA In the Making: Artists, Assistants, and Influence, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York NY, USA Michael Chow: Voice for My Father, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA, USA (touring) Spring Gala, New Museum, New York NY, USA |
| 2015 |
Unrealism, Moore Building, Miami FL, USA A Few Free Years: From Absalon to Zobernig: Donations by Friedrich Christian Flick to the Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany Beverly Hills 20-Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, 1995-2015, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills CA, USA Skeleton: The body's armature in contemporary sculpture, museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands New Skin, AЇshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon Saar, Serra, Surls, and more: Thirty New Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA, USA The Mannequin of History: Art After Fabrications of Critique and Culture, Mata, Modena, Italy Ametria, Benaki Museum (in conjunction with the DESTE Foundation), Athens, Greece Sprayed: Works from 1929 to 2015, Gagosian Gallery, London, England Arts & Foods: Rituals since 1851, Expo Milan, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy Michael Chow: Voice for My Father, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (touring) Sleepless - The bed in history and contemporary art, 21er Haus, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria Michael Chow: Voice for My Father, Ullens Center for Contemporary Arts, Beijing, China (touring) Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening, Barbican Centre, London, England (touring) COOL - As a State of Mind, MAMO, Marseille, France |
| 2014 |
The Event Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England Je ne sais pas ce que j'ai vu, Cité du design, Saint-Etienne, France Fierce Creativity: Artists for Peace and Justice, Pace Gallery, New York NY, USA Horror Vacui, Gagosian Gallery, Athens, Greece Le jardin décomposé / Decomposed Garden, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France A Very Short History of Contemporary Sculpture, Phillips, London, England Horror Vacui, Gagosian Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland Gratwanderung: Kunst zwischen Schloss und Rebhaus, landauf-bachab, Uster, Switzerland Burning Down the House, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea ArtLovers: Histoires d'art dans la collection Pinault, Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Monaco Joyride, Marlborough Broome Street, New York NY, USA The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery, London, England Group show curated by Urs Fischer, Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England In NO time, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland The House, Faggionato, London, England An American in Paris: Works from a Private Collection, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France Between Heaven and Hell, Elevation 1049, Gstaad Biennale, Gstaad, Switzerland |
| 2013 |
A Place in Two Dimensions: A Selection from Colección Jumex, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Zero Hours, Art Sheffield 2013, Site Gallery, Sheffield, England Somos Libres: The World of Contemporary Art through the Eyes of Mario Testino, MATE, Asociación Mario Testino, Lima, Peru Island, Dairy Art Centre, London, England Station to Station, Riverfront Studios, Brooklyn NY, USA (touring to train stations: Union Station/The Pennsylvanian, Pittsburgh PA, USA; Chicago Union Station, Chicago IL, USA; St. Paul Union Depot, Minneapolis/St. Paul MN, USA; Santa Fe Farmer's Market Pavilion NM, USA; La Posada Hotel, Winslow AZ, USA; Skyline Drive-in Theater, Barstow CA, USA; Los Angeles Union Station CA, USA; 16th Street Train Station, Oakland/San Francisco CA, USA) Van Gogh, Dali and Beyond: The World Reimagined, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia) Body Pressure: Sculpture Since the 1960's, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (touring) Drawing Line into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA, USA Crystal Maze IV - 1 + 2 + 3 = 3, Nouveau Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France The Player: Viaggio nelle passioni contemporanee, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC, USA (touring) Collection on Display: Monica Bonvicini, Heidi Bucher, Tom Burr, Urs Fischer, Pamela Rosenkranz, Marcus Schinwald, Cathy Wilkes, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2012 |
Seuls quelques fragments de nous toucheront quelques fragments d'autrui (Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, The Drawing Center, New York NY, USA (touring) Ensemble, Galerie kreo, Paris, France Westbau Pool, etc., Löwenbräu Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland Painting Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland Riotous Baroque. From Cattelan to Zurbarán - Tributes to Precarious Vitality, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey The Painting Factory: Abstraction after Warhol, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA Poule!, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico Micro mania, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA (touring) Inside a Book a House of Gold: Artists' Editions for Parkett, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, Nero HQ, Rome, Italy (touring) There's a hole in the sky, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, KHOJ International Artists' Association, New Delhi, India (touring) In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India (touring) |
| 2011 |
Home Alone, Sender Collection, Miami FL, USA In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (touring) Now: obras de La Colección Jumex, Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands (touring until 2013) Artists for Haiti, David Zwirner, New York NY, USA Lustwarande 2011 - Blemishes, Park De Oude Warande, Museum De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands Produced by Migros: Collection Migros Museum Fur Gegenwartskust, Kunstalle Fridericanium, Kassel, Germany Investigations of a Dog: Works from the FACE Collections, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (touring) Sculpture Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland ILLUMInazioni / ILLUMInations, 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy New Contemporary Galleries featuring the John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia L'invention de l'oeuvre: Rodin et le Ambassadeurs, Musée Rodin, Paris, France Sympathy for the Devil, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium Kunstsammlung im Alphenhof Nr. 6 Kunstbetreib, Alpenhof St Anton, Switzerland Dont Do It Etc., Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland Investigations of a Dog: Works from the FACE Collections, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (touring) Voici un dessin suisse (1990-2010) / Here Is a Swiss Drawing, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (touring) Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York NY, USA Modern British Sculpture, RA Royal Academy of Arts, London, England 8 ½, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy |
| 2010 |
200 Artworks-25 Years: Artists' Editions for Parkett, SAC Seoul Arts Center, Hangaram Museum, Seoul, South Korea (touring) The New Décor, Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia (touring) Die Nase des Michelangalo/ The Nose of Michelangelo, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland Investigations of a Dog: Works from the FACE Collections, La Maison rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France (touring) Divine Comedy, Sotheby's, New York NY, USA Past Monument: XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Carrara, Italy Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York NY, USA The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London, England (touring to Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia, in 2010) Alpha Omega: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece 200 Artworks-25 Years: Artists' Editions for Parkett, STPI Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore (touring) High Ideals & Crazy Dreams, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany Investigations of a Dog: Works from the FACE Collections, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal (touring) Voici un dessin suisse (1990-2010) / Here Is a Swiss Drawing, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland (touring to Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland in 2011) Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York NY, USA |
| 2009 |
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA Les enfants terribles, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico We Are Sun-Kissed and Snow Blind, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France Investigations of a Dog: Works from the FACE Collections, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (touring until 2011) Precarious Form I / Prekäre Skulpturen, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1), Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany 200 Artworks-25 Years: Artists' Editions for Parkett, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (touring until 2011) The living and the dead, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy Magritte & la Lumière / Magritte and Light, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Remembering Henry's Show: Selected Works 1978-2008, Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich CT, USA A Guest + A Host = A Ghost: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece Nothingness and Being, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Saints and Sinners, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA, USA |
| 2008 |
Ombres, New Galerie de France, Paris, France Open Plan Living, ART TLV 08, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Archeology of the Mind, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden Château de Tokyo / Palais de Fontainebleau, Château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France An Unruly History of the Readymade, La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico Sammlung / Collection, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland The Hamsterwheel, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden (touring) Tutti Frutti, BASE / Progetti per l'arte, Florence, Italy Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York NY, USA Blasted Allegories: Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland God is Design, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paolo, Brazil Countdown, CCS Center for Curatorial Studies Bard, Galleries, Annabelle-on-Hudson NY, USA Schweiz über alles, La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico |
| 2007 |
Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York NY, USA Hamsterwheel, CASM Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain The Third Mind: Carte Blanche to Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 00s: The history of a decade that has not yet been named, Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France The Hamsterwheel, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France (touring) Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece Franz West: Soufflé, eine Massenaustellung, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Traum & Trauma: Werke aus der Sammlung Dakis Joannou, Athen, MUMOK and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria The Hamsterwheel, Tese della Novissima, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (touring until 2008) Biennale d' art contemporain, Lyon, France Domestic Irony: A Foray into Italy's Private Collections, Museion, Bolzano, Italy Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture in the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2006 |
The Studio, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland The François Pinault Collection, a Post-Pop Selection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy Defamation of Character, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York NY, USA Contrabando, Galleria Luisa Strina, São Paolo, Brazil The Vincent Award 2006, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Cinq milliards d'années (Five Billion Years), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Prints, Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England Strange I've Seen That Face Before, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany Where Are We Going? Selections from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy Collection, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland Infinite Painting - Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy Day for Night, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye, MART, Rovereto, Italy (touring) Collection 1, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2005 |
Schweizer Druckgraphik 1980-2005, Helmhaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York NY, USA Goethe Abwärts - Deutsche Jungs Etc.: Works from the Falckenberg Collection, Helsinki Art Museum Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye, Hayward Gallery, London, England (touring) Ma Non Al Sud, Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Syracuse, Italy Closing Down, Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York NY, USA Big Bang. Destruction and Creation in 20th Century Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Put it in your mouth / I'll see you on the dark side of the prune, Rivington Arms, New York NY, USA Bidibidobidiboo: Works from Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Material Time / Work Time / Life Time, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland Swiss Made (The Art of Falling Apart): Works from the Hauser & Wirth Collection, CoBrA Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye, Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA (touring until 2006) |
| 2004 |
Central Station: Collection Harald Falckenberg, La maison rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France Skulptur: Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Komik, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Die Künstler - Editionen des Kunstmuseums Luzern, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland Memorable Memory, Migros Museum Collection, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland Group Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA Monument to Now, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece L'Air du Temps - Collection Printemps/Eté 2004, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland I Hate You - The Falckenberg Collection Meets Louisiana, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark |
| 2003 |
Silver Convention, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany |
| 2002 |
poT, II Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art - The Independent, Liverpool, England Exile on Main Street, NICC New International Cultural Centre, Antwerp, Belgium The Object Sculpture, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England My head is on fire but my heart is full of Love, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark The House of Fiction, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, Lokremise, St. Gallen, Switzerland with Ugo Rondinone and John Giorno, Lowland Lullaby, Swiss Institute, New York NY, USA Tomorrow's Fish and Chips, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany |
| 2001 |
walcheturm 00/07: mind-sediments, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland Squatters, Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal Ziviler Ungehorsam - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Falckenberg, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany Enduring Love, Klemes Gasser & Tanja Grunert, New York NY, USA |
| 2000 |
Let's Be Friends, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland Borderline Syndrome. Energies of Defence, Manifesta 3, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ljubljiana, Slovenia Sammlung (1). The Oldest Possible Memory, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise, St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| 1999 |
Drawings, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel PEACE, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland Eidgenössische Preise für Freie Kunst, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland with Marko Lehanka, Pizzeria Sehnsucht, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France Collection, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland 999, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland Le repubbliche dell'arte, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy Collection, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland Holding Court, Entwistle Gallery, London, England |
| 1998 |
Morning Glory. De Ateliers 1993-1997, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ironisch/ironic: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1997 |
été 97, Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Guarene arte 97,Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Dokumentation, Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1995 |
Die Grosse Zürcher Ausstellung, Kunsthaus Örlikon, Zurich, Switzerland With Antonietta Peeters and Avery Preesman, Calypso, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger des Eidgenössischen Wettbewerbs für freie Kunst, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland Karaoke 444&222 too, South London Gallery, London, England with Maurus Gmür, Assistent, Stiftung Binz39, Zurich, Switzerland Sogni/Dreams. 48th Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, 48th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Turin, Italy Donnaregina, Naples, Italy |
Special projects
| 2021 |
Louis Vuitton x Urs Fischer, London, England |
| 2019 |
Bag Launch - The Artycapucines collection, LVMH pop up, Los Angeles CA, USA |
Collections
|
Burger Collection, Hong Kong Fondation Carmignac, Paris, France Morra Foundation, Naples, Italy FRAC Fonds régional d'art contemporain Provence Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille, France Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland MASILugano Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium |
Awards and Grants
| 2006 |
The Vincent Van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe 2006 (nominee), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
| 2000 | Delfina Studios, London (residency) |
| 1999 |
Providentia-Preis, YoungArt Bundesamt für Kultur, Eidgenössisches Stipendium für freie Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1997 | Kiefer-Hablitzel Stipendium, Bern, Switzerland |
| 1995 |
Bundesamt für Kultur, Eidgenössisches Stipendium für freie Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland |