The Modern Institute

The Modern Institute

Urs Fischer

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Born 1973, Zurich; Lives in New York

Forthcoming and Current Exhibitions

2013

DESTE Foundation Project Space, Hydra (Solo, 03/06—29/09/2013. Urs Fischer and Josh Smith)

MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles (Solo, 21/04—19/08/2013)

2011

'Sympathy for the Devil', Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels (Group, 30/04/2011—30/11/2013. Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013

MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles

2012

'Festival d’Automne Paris', École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

'Madam Fisscher', Palazzo Grassi, Venice

'schmutz schmutz', Gagosian Gallery, Paris

'Beds & Problem Paintings', Gagosian Gallery, LA

'Skinny Sunrise', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

2011

'dngszjkdufiy bgxfjkglijkhtr kydjkhgdghjkd', Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow (With Georg Herold)

'Untitled (Lamp/Bear)', Seagram Plaza, New York

2010

'Douglas Sirk', Sadie Coles HQ, London

'Oscar the Grouch', The Brant Foundation, Greenwich CT

2009

'Marguerite de Ponty', New Museum, New York

2008

'Blurry Renoir Debussy', Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

2007

Kaldor Art Projects, Cockatoo Island

'Agnes Martin', Regen Projects, Los Angeles

'Large, Dark & Empty', Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

'Uh…', Sadie Coles HQ, London

'You', Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

2006

'Oh. Sad. I see.', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

'Large, Dark and Empty', Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

'Mary Poppins', Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston

'Paris 1919', Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

'Urs Fischer Rudolf Stingel', Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan

2005

Camden Arts Centre, London

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

'Fig, Nut & Pear', Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

'Jet Set Lady', Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan

'Mr. Watson — Come Here — I Want to See You', Hydra Workshops, Hydra, Greece

2004

'315', Centre Pompidou, Paris

'Elton John?', Sadie Coles HQ, London

'Feige, Nuss und Birne', Gruppe Oesterreichische Guggenheim, Wien

'Kir Royal', Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich

2003

'need no chair when walking', Sadie Coles HQ, London

'portrait of a single raindrop', Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

2002

'Bing Crosby', Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

'Mystique Mistake', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

'What should an Owl do with a Fork', Project Room, Santa Monica Museum of Art

2001

'Mastering the Complaint', Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich

2000

'Capillon - Urs just does it for the girls', Delfina, London (with Amy Adler)

'Tagessuppen/Soups of the Days and Domestic Pairs Project', Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus (with Keith Tyson)

'The Membrane -Why I don’t mind bad-mooded People', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

'Without a Fist - Like a Bird', Institute of Contemporary Art, London

1999

'Espressoqueen - Worries and other stuff you have to to think about before you get ready for the big easy', Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich

1997

'Hammer', Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich

1996

'Urs Fischer', Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012

'Pawel Althamer with Urs Fischer, Jacob Kassay & Jacub Julian Ziolkowski', DESTE Foundation, Athens

'Painting Now', Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

'Riotous Baroque. From Cattelan to Zurbarán—Tributes to Precarious Vitality', Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich

'The Painting Factory: Abstraction after Warhol', MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles

'Poule!', Jumex Foundation, Mexico

'Micro mania', Gagosian Gallery, Paris

2011

'Lustwarande 2011—Blemishes', Park De Oude Warande, Museum De Pont, Tilburg

'Sculpture Now', Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

'ILLUMInations', Arsenale, Venice Biennale, Venice

'Works in Progress, Rodin and the Ambassadors', Musée Rodin, Paris

'Sympathy for the Devil', Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels (Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair)

'Modern British Sculpture', Royal Academy of Arts, London

'Artists for Haiti', David Zwirner, New York

'In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art', De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg

'Produced by Migros: Collection migros museum für gegenwartskunst', Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel

2010

'Divine Comedy', Sotheby’s, New York

Post Monument: XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Carrara

'The New Decor', Hayward Gallery, London ((traveled to Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow: 10/21/10 – 2/6/11))

'Alpha Omega: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection', DESTE Foundation, Athens

'Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection Curated by Jeff Koons', New Museum, New York

'HIGH IDEALS & CRAZY DREAMS', Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg

'Here Is a Swiss Drawing (1990-2010)', Musée Rath, Geneva ((will travel to Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland: 1/29/11 – 4/23/11))

2009

'Beg Borrow and Steal', Rubell Family Collection, Miami

Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (with Mark Handforth and Georg Herold)

2008

Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

'Blasted Allegories, Works from the Ringier Collection', Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern

'God is Design', Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo

'Ombres', New Galerie de France, Paris

'Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns?', Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (curated by Urs Fischer and Gavin Brown)

2007

52nd Venice Biennale, Venice

'Domestic Irony. A curious glance at private Italian collections', Museion, Bolzano

'Fractured Figure', DESTE Foundation, Athens

'Sequence 1', Palazzo Grassi, Venice

'The Hamster Wheel', Arsenale, Venice Biennalle

'The history of a decade that has not yet been named', Biennale de Lyon, Lyon

'The Third Mind', Palais de Tokyo, Paris (curated by Ugo Rondinone)

'Traum and Trauma', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, MUMOK)

'Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century', New Museum, New York

2006

The Vincent Van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe 2006 (Nominee)

'Big Bang', Centre Pompidou, Paris

'Contrabando', Galleria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo

'Day for Night: Whitney Biennial 2006', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

'Defamation of Character', PS1, New York

'Disorder in the House', Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels

'FIVE BILLION YEARS', Palais de Tokyo, Paris

'Infinite Painting - Contemporary Painting and Global Realism', Villa Manin Centre of Contemporary Art, Passariano

'Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before', Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach

'The Studio', Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin

'The Vincent 2006', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

'Where are we going?', The Palazzo Grassi, Venice (selection from the François Pinault Collection)

2005

Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam

Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik

'(Swiss Made) The Art of Falling Apart', Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen

'Closing Down', Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York

'Ma Non Al Sud', Gallerie Civica d

'Put It In Your Mouth / I’ll see you on the dark side of the prune', Rivington Arms, New York

'Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2004

Regen Projects, Los Angeles

'L’Air du Temps - Collection Printemps/Été 2004', Migros Museum, Zurich

'Monument to Now', DESTE Foundation, Athens

'Skulptur: Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Realismus', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

2003

Galerie Grimm & Rosenfeld, Munich

'Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered', Migros Museum, Zurich

'Dreams and Conflicts: The Viewer’s Dictatorship', Biennale di Venezia, Venice

'Durchzug-Draft', Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich

'Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse', Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen

'Silver convention', Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin

2002

'Exile on Main Street', NICC, Antwerpen

'Lowland Lullaby', Swiss Institute, New York (with Ugo Rondinone John Giorno)

'My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love', Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen

'The Object Sculpture', The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

2001

'Enduring Love', Klemes Gasser & Tanja Grunert, New York

'Squatters', Museo Serralves, Porto

'Ziviler Ungehorsam', Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover

2000

'Drawings', Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

'Manifesta 3', European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

'Sammlung (1). The Oldest Possible Memory', Sammlung Hauser & Wirth in der Lokremise St. Gallen, St. Gallen

1999

'999', Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona

'Eidgenössische Preise für Freie Kunst', Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich

'Holding Court', Entwistle Gallery, London

'Le repubbliche dell’arte', Palazzo delle Pappesse, Siena

1998

'de ateliers', De Ateliers, Amsterdam

'ironisch/ironic', Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich

1997

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Torino

'Dokumentation', Hotel, Zurich

'été 97', Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporain, Geneva

1996

'Calypso', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (with Antonietta Peeters and Avery Preesman)

1995

'Assistent', Binz 39, Zurich (with Maurus Gmür)

'Bundesstipendianten', Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus

'Karaoke 444&222 too', South London Gallery, London

'Collection migros museum für gegenwartskunst Zurich', Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples

'Sogni/ Dreams. 48th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte', Venice Biennale, Venice & Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Turin

Residency

Delfina Studios, London