Biography - Galerie Francesca Pia

1982	born in Bern, Switzerland
2004–2008	Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design, Geneva

Lives and works in Frankfurt am Main

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2024	A Certain Lack of Coherence (duo exhibition with Jonas von Ostrowski), Porto
2023	Lady Helen (duo exhibition with Philippe Daerendinger), Berlin
2021	Istituto Svizzero, Patience Will Reward Those Who Lie in Wait, Milan
2020	PZII, We’ll Take Your @#$&! and Sell It Down the River, London
2019	Entrance, Auf Augenhöhe (duo exhibition with Richard Nikl), Prague Galerie Francesca Pia, Last Gasp, Zurich Twenty Years, Shredding Paper, Berlin One gee in fog, And a thousand spirits stray (duo exhibition with Simone Monsi), Geneva
2018	Éclair, Going thus the way of hitchhiking, unsupervised trick-or-treating and door to door sales, Berlin Kunsthaus Glarus, We, on the Other Hand, Can Do Everything Remotely, Glarus
2017	ARTISSIMA, Present Future, Galerie Francesca Pia, Turin Youth Club, Youth Club #2, with Mathis Gasser, London
2016	Swiss Institute, Every Home a Fortress Every Hearth a Blossom, New York Aargauer Kunsthaus, Manor Kunstpreis, Aarau Xippas, Mathis Gasser – Marta Riniker-Radich, Paris
2015	Forde, Wer wagt mit mir ein Tänzchen, der wird sich verrenken, with Tina Braegger, Geneva 8, rue Saint-Bon, The sharpest pencil in the stack, Paris
2013	Kunsthaus Langenthal, Scuffling grinding tearing pounding banging slamming, Langenthal
2012	Galerie Francesca Pia, The Color of Mud and Clouds, Zurich
2011	Fondation Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel Hard Hat, Sons of Crocodile Hunters, Geneva
2010	New Jerseyy, Zebedee, Basel
2009	Hard Hat, Cowboys Today No Cover, Geneva

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2023	Dietikon Projektraum, hub and spoke, Dietikon Mehdi Chouakri, Venus und Sonne im Zehnten Haus, Berlin
2022	Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Systems of Belief, Graz Swiss Art Awards, Basel suns.works, Lorenzo Bernet, Spring Equinox, Zurich Nest, ZHdK, Aggregating Matter: Of Dandelions and Architectures, Zurich Kunsthalle Fri Art, La réforme de Pooky, Fribourg
2021	Die Treppe, Jan Kiefer, Group Show, Birsfelden Kunsthaus Glarus, Eine Haus ohne Licht ist nur ein halbes Haus, Glarus
2020	Stadtgalerie, Kasten, Bern
2019	Entrance Gallery, Auf Augenhöhe, Prague Studioli, Sunvault, Rome One Gee in Fog, And a Thousand Spirits Stray, Geneva Deborah Schamoni, Erratic resistance, Munich
2018	Basis Projektraum, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Frankfurt am Main Art Berlin, Verlörung, curated by Tenzing Barshee, Berlin Sonnenstube, Fedeli alla linea – Mostra di disegno contemporaneo, Lugano Villa du Parc, Centre d’art contemporain, Ideally located, Annemasse Sankt Ulrichplatz 5, Keins, Vienna
2017	Kiefholzstrasse 401, Saturday, curated by Max Ruf and Richard Sides, Berlin LIYH, Immersion, curated by Yann Chateigné, Geneva
2016	Musée de Pully, Charles Blanc-Gatti/Hypothèses d’une généalogie, curated by Julien Fonsacq, Pully Swiss Institute, Kiss and go, Rome Galerie Francesca Pia, Spring Awakening, Zurich
2015	La Salle de Bains, hors les murs: Galerie des Terreaux, Les choses que tout le monde ignore et qui ne laissent pas de traces n’existent pas, Lyon Centre PasquArt, Bourse de la Fondation Vordemberge-Gildewart, Biel Fri Art, Clouds in the Cave, Fribourg Plymouth Rock, A Form is a Social Gatherer, Zurich
2014	Swiss Art Awards 2014, Messe Basel Kunsthaus Glarus, Klöntal Triennale. A Place Like This, Glarus Artgenève, Hinterland, curated by Yann Chateigné, Geneva
2013	Centre d’Art Contemporain, Hotel Abisso, Geneva Standards, Plus Jamais Seul, Rennes Association Rats, Splendid Splash, Vevey Galerie Francesca Pia, X-Mas Show, Zurich
2012	Aargauer Kunsthaus, La jeunesse est un art, Aarau Curtat Tunnel, Plate Mappe, Lausanne Praz Delavallade, Shake & Bake, curated by Hard Hat, Paris
2011	Manoir de Martigny, Reflets, aventures et embuscades, curated by Balthazar Lovay, Martigny 1m3, Le vertige de la moraine, strate III, Lausanne Centre d’art contemporain, Lissignol-Chevalier, Bourses des fonds Berthoud, Galland 2009-2010, Geneva Swiss Art Awards 2011, Messe Basel Independent, with Hard Hat, New York Galerie Rotwand, Le Fédéral à Semen-Contra, curated by Martin Jaeggi and Denis Pernet, Zurich Aargauer Kunsthaus, Voici un dessin suisse, Aarau
2010	Galerie Francesca Pia, Die Grosse Inventur – 20 Jahre Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich Swiss Art Awards 2010, Messe Basel Kunsthaus Glarus, Of Objects, Fields, and Mirrors, curated by Daniel Baumann and Maja Wismer, Glarus Musée Rath, Voici un dessin suisse, Geneva
2009	Artissima 16, with Hard Hat, Turin Centre d’art contemporain, Bourses des fonds Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier, Galland 2009-2010, Geneva Galerie Francesca Pia, Top Ten Allegories, Zurich Circuit/New Jerseyy, A New Spirit in Lasagnas, Lausanne/Basel
2008	Villa Dutoit, Accrochages, curated by Christian Besson, Geneva
2007	Galerie Evergreene, Flexibility, Flexibility & Flexibility, curated by Fabrice Stroun, Geneva

Awards

2023	Prix de la Fondation Lélo Fiaux
2022	Swiss Art Award
2016	Manor Kunstpreis Aargau Studio grant from the City of Geneva
2010	Swiss Art Award Bourse de la Société des Arts de Genève
2009	Bourse du Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain (FCAC) de Genève

Residencies

2018
2017
2015
2014
2013

Berlin residency, Canton of Geneva
Fondation Landis & Gyr, London
Istituto Svizzero, Rome
Fieldwork Marfa, Texas
Atelier Gleis 70, Zurich

Public Collections

Kunsthaus Glarus
Swiss Federal Art Collection (BKS/CAC)
Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain Genève (FCAC), Geneva Kunsthaus Glarus
Mamco, Geneva
MASI, Lugano
Musée Jenisch, Vevey

Curatorial

2011–2014
2012

Artistic direction (with Balthazar Lovay and Pablo Hurtado) of the independent art space Hard Hat, Geneva
A Strangely Luminous Bubble, LIYH, Geneva