BIO / BIBLIOGRAPHY

Urs Fischer

BORN 1973, Zurich

Forthcoming/Current Exhibitions

2007 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, 10/06/07-21/11/07 (group)
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, August (solo)
Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, 17/09/07-31/12/07 (group)
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, Fall (solo)


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007 Kaldor Art Projects, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
2006 'Oh. Sad. I see.', The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
'Mary Poppins', Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston
'Paris 1919', Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan
2005 'Fig, Nut & Pear', Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
'Jet Set Lady', Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
Camden Arts Center, London
Hamburger Bahnhof, Flick Collection, Berlin
Gallery Hydra Workshops, Hydra
2004 'Elton John?', Sadie Coles HQ, London
'315', Centre Pompidou, Paris
'Kir Royal', Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich
'Feige, Nuss und Birne', Gruppe Oesterreichische Guggenheim, Wien
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
'Mystique Mistake', The Modern Institute, Glasgow
'Bing Crosby', Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2001 'Mastering the Complaint', Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich
2000 'Capillon - Urs just does it for the girls' (with Amy Adler), Delfina, London
'Tagessuppen/Soups of the Days and Domestic Pairs Project' (with Keith Tyson), Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus
'The Membrane –Why I don’t mind bad-mooded People', Stedelijk Museum Bureau, 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

2007 'Disorder in the House', Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
2006 'THE STUDIO', Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin
The Vincent Van Gogh Biennial Award for Contemporary Art in Europe 2006, (nominee), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
'FIVE BILLION YEARS', Palais de Tokyo, Paris
'Infinite Painting - Contemporary Painting and Global Realism', Villa Manin Centre of Contemporary Art, Passariano, Udine
'Strange I've Seen That Face Before', Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach
'Day for Night: Whitney Biennial 2006', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
'Big Bang', Centre Pompidou, Paris
'Where are we going?' (selection from the Franois Pinault Collection), The Palazzo Grassi, Venice
'The Vincent 2006', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
'Contrabando', Galleria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo
'The Studio', The Hugh Lane Museum, Dublin
2005 'Ma Non Al Sud', Gallerie Civica d’Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa; Galleria Civica d'arte contemporanea Montevergini, Siracusa
Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
'(Swiss Made) The Art of Falling Apart', Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
'Put It In Your Mouth / I’ll see you on the dark side of the prune', Rivington Arms, New York
'Closing Down', Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York
'Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2004 'Skulptur: Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Realismus', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
'Monument to Now', Deste Foundation, Athens
Group Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
'L’Air du Temps – Collection Printemps/Été 2004', Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
2003 'silver convention', Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
Galerie Grimm & Rosenfeld, Munich
'Dreams and Conflicts: The Viewer’s Dictatorship', Biennale di Venezia, Venice
'Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse', Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
'Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered', Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
'Durchzug-Draft', Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich
2002 'Exile on Main Street', NICC, Antwerpen
'The Object Sculpture', The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
'My Head is on Fire but my Heart is full of Love', Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
'Lowland Lullaby' (with Ugo Rondinone John Giorno), Swiss Institute, New York
2001 'Squatters', Museo Serralves, Porto
'Ziviler Ungehorsam', Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover
'Enduring Love', Klemes Gasser & Tanja Grunert, New York
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 'Eidgenössische Preise für Freie Kunst', Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
'999', Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona
'Le repubbliche dell’arte', Palazzo delle Pappesse, Siena
'Holding Court', Entwistle Gallery, London
1998 'ironisch/ironic', Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
'de ateliers', De Ateliers, Amsterdam
1997 'Dokumentation', Hotel, Zurich
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Torino
'été 97', Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporain, Geneva
1996 '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