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, Thin Film, with Jonas von Ostrowski, Porto

2023

Lady Helen, Philippe Daerendinger – Marta Rinicker-Radich, 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, with Richard Nikl, Prague
Galerie Francesca Pia, Last Gasp, Zurich
Twenty Years, Shredding Paper, Berlin
One gee in fog, And a thousand spirits stray, 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, organised by 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)

 

2024

Gallery Kirchgasse, Rot, Steckborn

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, Spring Equinox, organised by Lorenzo Bernet, Zurich
Nest, ZHdK, Aggregating Matter: Of Dandelions and Architectures, Zurich
Kunsthalle Fri Art, La réforme de Pooky, Fribourg

2021

Die Treppe, Jan Kiefer, 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
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 Lissignol-Chevalier, Bourses des fonds Berthoud, 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

 
2023Prix de la Fondation Lélo Fiaux
2022Swiss 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