Urs Fischer
1973
Born in Zurich, Switzerland
Lives and works in Berlin, Los Angeles and Zurich
Studied Photography at the Schule für Gestaltung, Zurich
Visited ‘de ateliers’, Amsterdam
Artist in Residence, Delfina Studios, London
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Marguerite de Ponty, New Museum, New York
“Dear _________! We _____ on ________, hysterically. It has to be _____ that _____. No? It is now ______ and the whole _______ has changed ______. all the _____, ______”, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Marguerite de Ponty, New Museum, New York (NY), USA
Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1), Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany
2008
Blurry Renoir Debussy, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
"Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?" A show conceived by Urs Fischer & Gavin Brown, Tony Shafrazi Gallery,
New York (NY), USA
2007
Large, dark & empty, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich Agnes Martin, Regen Projects II, Los Angeles You, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York Uh…. Sadie Coles HQ, London 52nd International Art Exhibition Biennale, Venice (with Ugo Rondinone)
Cockatoo Island, Kaldor Art Projects and the Sydney Federation Trust, Sydney
2006
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Gallerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Mary Poppins, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston (TX)
Paris 1919, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Galerie Massimo de Carlo, Milan
2005
Hamburger Bahnhof, Flick Collection, Berlin
“Mr Watson - come here, I want to see you”, Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece (cat.)
Jet Set Lady, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Istituto dei Ciechi, Milan, Italy
Camden Arts Centre, London
Fig, Nut & Pear, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
2004
Elton John?, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Feigge, Nuss und Birne, Gruppe Oesterreichische Guggenheim, Wien, Austria
Urs Fischer: Kir Royal, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (cat.)
315, Pompidou Centre, Paris (cat.)
2003
portrait of a single raindrop, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Need no chair when walking, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2002
What should an owl do with a fork, Project Room, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (CA)
Mystique Mistake, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Bing Crosby, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2001
Mastering the Complaint, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2000
Capillon – Urs just does it for the girls (with Amy Adler), Delfina Studios, London
Tagessuppen/Soups of the Day and Domestic Pairs Project (with Keith Tyson), Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
The Membrane – Why I don’t mind bad-mooded people, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
Without a Fist - Like a Bird, ICA, London
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
1998
Hammer, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
1997
Frs Uischer, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions
2009
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London
We Are Sun-Kissed and Snow Blind, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France & Galerie Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
Precarious Form, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1), Burger Collection, Berlin
Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
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 Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
Saints and Sinners, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham (MA), USA
Nothingness and Being, La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico
2008
Open Plan Living, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Archeology of the Mind, Malmö Konsthall, 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, Zürich
The Hamsterwheel, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden Blasted Allegories, Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
God is Design, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paolo, Brazil
Countdown, CGS Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
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
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York
Hamsterwheel, CASM Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Jubilee Exhibition, House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, Switzerland
Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
The Hamsterwheel, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture in the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Domestic Irony, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Traum and Trauma. Works
from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece
Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
The Hamster Wheel, Tese della Novissima, Arsnale de Venezia, Venice, Italy
Biennale d’ art contemporain, Lyon, France
The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (curated by Ugo Rondinone)
Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, N. Ionia, Athens, Greece
Church Ssan Stae (with Ugo Rondinone), 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Soufflé, eine Massenaustellung, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
2006
Collection 1, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Studio, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
The François Pinault Collection, a Post-Pop Selection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Defamation of Character, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Contrabando, Galleria Luisa Strina, São Paolo, Brazil
Cinq milliards d’années, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Codroipo (Udine), Italy (curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto)
The Vincent Award 2006, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before, Kunst, Design, Architektur im Kopf, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(Swiss Made) The Art of Falling Apart, Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Big Bang, Pompediou Centre, Paris
The High Lane Museum, The Studio, Dublin
2005
Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Big Bang. Destruction and Creation in 20th Century Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Bidibidobidiboo: Works from Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Material Time / Work Time / Life Time, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, (IL); Hayward Gallery, London; MART Rovereto, Italy
Ma Non Al Sud, Gallerie Civica d’Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Siracusa, Italy
(Swiss Made) The Art of Falling Apart: Works from the Hauser & Wirth Collection, CoBrA Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, Amsterdam
Closing Down, Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York
Put it in your mouth / I’ll see you on the dark side of the prune, Rivington Arms, New York
Modern Institute, Glasgow
2004
I Hate You – The Falckenberg Collection Meets Louisiana, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Monument to Now, Deste Foundation, Athens
L’Air du Temps – Collection Printemps Eté 2004, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA)
Sculpture: Precarious Realism between Melancholie and the Comic, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Memorable Memory, Migros Museum Collection, Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen, Switzerland
2003
Outlook, Athens (cat.)
50. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (cat.)
Inaugural Show, GBE Modern, New York
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, Migros Museum
für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
Dreams and Conflicts: The Viewer's Dictatorship, Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Kunstpreis der
Böttcherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
2002
Exile on Main Street, NICC, Antwerp, Belgium
The Object Sculpture, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
My Head is on fire but my heart is full of Love, Chrlottenborg Exhibition Space, Copenhagen
Lowland Lullaby (with Ugo Rondinone and John Giorno), Swiss Institute,
New York
The House of Fiction, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, Lokremise St. Gallen, Switzerland
PoT: The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art – The Independent, Liverpool, England (cat.)
2001
Squatters, Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Ziviler Ungehorsam, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Enduring Love, Klemes Gasser & Tanja Grunert, New York
2000
Drawings, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Manifesta 3, Ljubljiana
Sammlung (1). The Oldest Possible Memory, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1999
Eidgenössische Preise für Freie Kunst, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
999, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Le Repubbliche dell’Arte, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
Holding Court, Entwistle Gallery, London
1998
ironisch/ironic, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
de ateliers, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
1997
Dokumentation, Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Turin, Italy
été 97, Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1995-6
Calypso (with Antonietta Peeters and Avery Preesman), Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
1995
Assistent (with Maurus Gmür), Binz 39, Zurich
Karaoke 444&222 too, South London Gallery, London
Bundesstipendianten, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
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
Eidgenössisches Stipendium für freie Kunst
1997
Kiefer-Hablitzel Stipendium
1995
Eidgenössisches Stipendium für freie Kunst