Michael Biberstein (Swiss, –2013)

Timeline

1948
Born in Solothurn, Switzerland
1964
Moved to the U.S.
2013
Died

Exhibitions

2009
Résonance du Silence, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France (solo)
2009
Arte e Natura, Museo Villa dei Cedri, , Bellinzona, Italy
2008
Expansion – Résonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France
2008
Von der Kunst, Sträusse zu binden, Kunstmuseum Solothurn
2008
Linha de horizonte, Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brasil
2008
More Statements in the Spirit of Militant Agnosticism, Galerie Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (solo)
2008
Kunsthaus Skt. Josef, Solothurn (solo)
2007
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto (solo)
2007
Galerie Tanit, Munich (solo)
2007
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland
2007
Homage to Gérard Verdeijk, Centre Mitterrand, Périgueux, France
2006
categorias, Galerie Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (solo)
2006
Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona (solo)
2006
Resonance Membranes, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto (solo)
2006
Galerie Staffelbach, Aarau (Switzerland) (solo)
2006
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (solo)
2006
La tentation de l’orient, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
2005
New Works, Galerie Tanit, Munich (solo)
2004
Homage to Peter Kneubühler – Gut zum Druck, Helmhaus, Zurich
2004
Neue Bilder, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2004
...so what about marbles, Albert, did he play with those? Évora arte, Évora, Portugal (solo)
2004
Sala de estar, Espaço Tabora, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2004
Teoria da Unificação, Parte I, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2003
Compresores/Aceleradores, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain (solo)
2003
Exhibition with Hugo Suter. Galerie Staffelbach, Lenzburg, Switzerland (solo)
2003
Bernard Lüthi, Jean Mauboulès, Michael Biberstein, Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
2003
Comment rester Zen, Centre Culturel, Suisse, Paris
2002
Argumentos do futuro, Fundacion ICO, Madrid, C.San Fernando, Sevilla
2002
Na paisagem, Museu Serralves, Porto, Museu de Arte, Evora
2002
...towards silence, Kunsthalle Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2002
Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)
2002
Paintings, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2001
The Compulsive Image, Kunsthalle, Tallinn, Estonia (solo)
2001
towards silence, Galerie Rudolfinum, Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
2001
Argumentos do Futuro, Fundacion ICO, Madrid; Caja San Fernando, Sevilla
2001
Peter Kneubühler: Gut zum Druck Helmhaus Zurich
2001
Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon
2000
Landschaften eines Jahrhunderts, Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
2000
Galerie Pablo Stähli, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2000
Kunsthalle, Brno, Czech Republic (solo)
1999
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
1999
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal (solo)
1999
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
1999
Cesar Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1999
Kunsthalle, Brno, Czech Republic (solo)
1999
Schöpfung, Diözesanmuseum Freising, Munich, Germany
1999
Landgang, Galerie Fabian Walter, Basel, Switzerland
1999
Paisagens no Singular, Museu Malhoa, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal; Museu Grão Vasco, Viseu, Portugal; Museu de Évora, Évora, Portugal
1998
Large Paintings, Pablo Stähli Gallery, Birrwil, Switzerland (solo)
1998
Works on Paper, Pablo Stähli Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1998
Neue Bilder, with José Carrilho da Graça, Galeria Luís Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1998
Longe e perto, Painters Union, Kiew, Ukraine
1998
Die Spur des Sublimen, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; Kunstmuseum Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark
1998
Expo ’98, Portuguese Pavilion, Lisbon, Portugal
1997
Voglio vedere i miei montagne, Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
1997
Die Schwerkraft der Berge, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
1997
Exhibition with Juan Muñoz, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (solo)
1997
Fundação Julia Mann, Parati, Brasil (solo)
1997
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
1997
Gefärbte Wasser und Horizonte, Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nurnberg, Germany (solo)
1997
Exhibition with Christoph Gossweiler, Galerie Staffelbach, Lenzburg, Switzerland (solo)
1997
Galerie Haldemann, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
1996
Pedro Oliveira Gallery, Porto, Portugal (solo)
1996
Galerie Pablo Stähli, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1996
Galeria Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1996
Galerie Marianne Grob, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1996
Galerie Medici, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)
1996
In Un Altra Terra, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
1996
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
1996
In Un Altra Terra, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
1996
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
1995
Ernste Spiele - Die Romantik in der Deutschen Kunst, 1790 - 1990, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
1995
Wasser und Wein, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
1995
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1995
A Difícil Travessia dos Alpes, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1995
Der erste Farbsatz und die sieben Großformate, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (solo)
1995
Paint it Black, with Fernando Calhau, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Funchal, Portugal (solo)
1995
Drawings, Galeria Porta 33, Funchal, Portugal (solo)
1995
Galerie Sander & Ebert, Darmstadt, Germany (solo)
1995
Ganzfelder, Heilbronner Kunstverein, Heilbronn, Germany (solo)
1995
Stirnwände, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (solo)
1995
Aspects of Landscape, with Ian McKeever, Al Bustan, Beirut, Lebanon (solo)
1995
Ernste Spiele - Die Romantik in der Deutschen Kunst, 1790 - 1990, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
1995
Wasser und Wein, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
1995
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1994
Fragmentos para um museu imaginário, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
1994
Do sublime, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
1994
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
1994
Galerie Pablo Stähli, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1994
Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
1994
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal (solo)
1994
Galerie Tanit, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1994
Galeria Medici, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)
1993
Galerie Lüpke, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
1993
Kunstverein Klingentalgraben, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
1993
Galeria Cómicos-Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1993
In Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
1993
Biberstein, Mauboulès, Stern, RAM Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1992
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
1992
Silence into Light, Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1992
FLAD, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1992
In Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
1992
Geteilte Bilder - Das Diptychon in der Modernen Kunst, Folkwangmuseum, Essen, Germany
1992
Galerie Montenay, Paris, France (solo)
1992
Galerie Pablo Stähli, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1992
On Sitting and Flying: An overview of Landscape, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)
1992
The Great Attractor and the Big Wide, Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
1992
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
1991
Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain (solo)
1991
On Vernet, Landscape, the Sublime & Beautiful, and what Relevance they might still have to Contemporary Art, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1991
Galerie Lüpke, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
1991
Galeria Cómicos-Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1991
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
1991
Europalia: Triptico, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
1990
Arcangelo, Biberstein, McKeever, Galerie Barbaro, Paris, France
1990
Works on Paper, Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, New York
1990
Biberstein, Lanhas, Sanches, Galeria Alda Cortez, Lisbon, Portugal
1990
Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, New York, USA (solo)
1990
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
1989
The Apotheosis of the Human Spirit through the Seeing of Landscape, Kunstverein Rheinlande-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
1988
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
1988
Galeria Cómicos, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1988
Signaturen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
1988
Australian Biennale, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
1988
Artists books, Galerie Michelle Zeller, Bern, Switzerland; Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain; Madrid Colección, Madrid, Spain; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium.
1987
Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain (solo)
1987
Algumas Imagens de Sintra Moirisca (Photography), Palácio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra, Portugal (solo)
1987
Offenes Ende - Junge Schweizer Kunst, Nurnberg, Germany
1987
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1986
Galeria Valentim de Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal
1986
Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
1983
Galerie Peter Noser, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1983
Galerie Lydia Megert, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1983
Das Prinzip Hoffnung, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1982
Biberstein, Lüthi, Mauboulès, Kunstverein Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
1982
Aspekte Junger Schweizer Kunst, Städtische Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
1982
Galerie Wittenbrink, Regensburg, Germany (solo)
1981
Arta, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1981
Centro de Artes Plásticas, Coimbra, Portugal (solo)
1981
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
1980
Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
1980
Biberstein, Renz, Stäuble, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
1980
22 Artistas Suíços, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
1980
Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboulès, Galerie Buchmann, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1979
Baak’scher Kunstraum, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1979
Galeria Módulo, Porto & Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1979
Pozarek, Nyffenegger, Mattes, Ingold, Frenzel, Brand, Biberstein, Berger, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1979
Europa '79, Hetzler, Müller, Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany
1979
Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboulès, Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten, Switzerland
1979
Lis '79, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
1978
Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
1978
Galerie Erika & Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
1976
Aspekte aus neueren Solothurner Sammlungen, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
1974
Galerie Medici, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)

Literature

2003
Arte dos Artistas ; Culturgest, Lisbon. Portugal
2003
SCHIERZ, Kai Uwe, OPITZ, Silke, Unaussprechlich schön. Das mystische Paradoxon in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts ; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
2002
NEDOMA, P., NEUMAIER, O., Towards Silence, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2002
Towards Silence, Helmhaus Zurique, Switzerland
2001
Mysli si Krajinu Do ticha / Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2000
LICHTIN, Christoph; SCHILD, Roswitha, Gegenwartskunst in Solothurn, Austellungen – Projekte – Protagonisten, Edition Fink, Zürich, Switzerland
2000
Schöpfung, Diozösanmuseum Freising, Munich, Germany
2000
Paisagens no Singular, Museu Malhoa,Caldas da Rainha ; Museu Grão Vasco , Viseu; Museu de Évora, Évora, Portugal
1998
Die Spur des Sublimen, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, Kunstmuseum Esbjerg,Denmark
1997
Voglio vedere i miei montagne, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland.Die Schwerkraft der Berge, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
1996
'Michael Biberstein' Galeria Marianne Grob, Berlim
1996
'Ganzfelder und Stirnwände' Kunstvereine Heilbronn und Freiburg i.B.
1996
'In un Altra Terra' Galeria Continua, San Giminiano
1996
Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboulès, Kunstverein Olten, Olten, Switzerland
1995
Paint it Black (mit Fernando Calhau), Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Funchal, Portugal
1995
Wasser und Wein, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
1995
Offene Natur, in NOËMA-art journal n.39 Interview with Celia Montolió
1995
'A Difícil Travessia dos Alpes' Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisboa
1995
'Incidentes' Casa da Parra, Santiago de Compostela
1995
'Der erste Farbsatz und die sieben Grossformate' Kunsthalle Winterthur
1995
'Ernste Spiele - die Romantik in der Deutschen Kunst 1790-1990' Haus der Kunst, Munique
1994
Pernes, Fernando 'fragmentos para um museu imaginário' Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
1994
I.Carlos 'Do sublime' Museu do Chiado, Lisboa
1994
C. Montolío 'El paisaje como forma de expresión permanente' in Lapiz, Madrid (Nr.107,Dec.)
1994
Biberstein 'Über Vernet, Landschaft und Utopie' C.Montolío, Landschafte des Möglichen; Biberstein, O.Neumaier, A.Pühringer, Das Grosse Anziehende und die Unendliche Weite (discussion), all in Medusa , Noëma Press, Salzburg (Nr.1,Winter 94/95)
1994
CARLOS, Isabel, Do sublime, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
1994
PINTO DE ALMEIDA, Bernardo, Pintura Portuguesa no século XX, Lello & Irmão, Porto, Portugal
1993
CASTRO-CALDAS, M. ; GUSMÃO A., et al., Silence into Light, Watari-Um, Tokyo, Japan
1993
REUST, H. R., Michael Biberstein, in Artforum, New York (May)
1993
DURAND, R., Michael Biberstein, Art Press, Paris (Nr.176, January)
1993
in Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Alte Pinakothek, Munique, Germany
1993
CALHAU, Fernando; SARDO, Delfim; VEIGA, Margarida; Cerco / Bienal Internacional de Óbidos, Portugal
1992
HOET, J., et al., Documenta IX, Kassel, Kassel, Germany
1992
Documenta IX view by Christian VOGT, Basler Magazin der Basler Zeitung (19.9)
1992
KAMBER, A., MOGIL, L., BIBERSTEIN,M.; The Great Attractor and the Big Wide, Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria and Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
1992
SARDO, D., Blinder, O Romantismo de Michael Biberstein, in Artes & Leilões, Lisbon, Portugal (Nr. 16)
1992
MELO, A., There is a Minute of a Fleeting World, Casa Serralves, Porto, Portugal
1992
Finkh, Geteilte Bilder - das Diptychon in der Modernen Kunst, Folkwangmuseum, Essen, Germany
1992
CASTRO CALDAS, M., FLAD, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1992
Vom Sitzen und vom Fliegen - eine Landschaftsübersicht, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
1992
Das Grosse Anziehende und die Unendliche Weite, Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria
1992
Silence into Light, Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1992
in Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Museum Moisbach, Leverkusen, Germany
1991
PORFÍRIO, José Luís; BIBERSTEIN, M., On Vernet, Landscape, the Sublime, the Beautiful and what relevance they might still have to Contemporary Art, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal
1991
SVESTKA, J., MELO, A., CASTRO CALDAS, M. , HOET, J. et al., Triptico, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
1991
GUALDONI, Arcangelo, Biberstein, Näher, Editione Mazzochi, Parma, Italy
1991
T. Kneubühler, B. Wismer, M. Biberstein, et al., In Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Hommage à Caspar Wolf, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
1991
CAUQUELIN A., Le paysage tracé de la mémoire, Edition Barbaro, Paris, France
1990
NEUFERT A., Munich, in Contemporanea, Torino + New York (September)
1990
AVGIKOS J., Michael Biberstein, in Artforum, New York, USA (December)
1989
STAHEL, U., Aber man darf Malen, in Kunst-Bulletin, Zürich, Switzerland (January)
1989
GUSMÃO, A.; PINHARANDA, J.; STAHEL U. ; SVESTKA, J., Michael Biberstein / On the Apotheosis of the Human Spirit through the Seeing of Landscape, Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
1989
MELO, A., Michael Biberstein, in Artforum, New York, USA (June)
1989
CERVEIRA PINTO, A., Michael Biberstein: Between Abstraction and Meaning, em Balcon 3, Madrid, Spain
1989
COMI, E., GUSMÃO, A., RATATAZZI, C., Michael Biberstein, em Spazio Humano, (January), Milan, Italy
1989
Arcangelo, Biberstein, McKeever, Galerie Barbaro, Paris, France
1989
Biberstein, Lanhas, Sanches, Galeria Alda Cortez, Lisbon , Portugal
1988
HOET, J.; VAN DAMME, C., Signaturen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium. M. Biberstein, N. Waterlow, et al., The Biennale of Sydney and The Australian Broadcasting Company, Sydney, Australia
1987
STAHEL, U., Offenes Ende - Junge Schweizer Kunst, Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, Germany
1987
M. Biberstein, Prospect- / Refuge - Images, Duero Productions, Madrid, Spain
1983
CAPC, 54 exposições, Círculo de Artes Plásticas, Coimbra, Portugal
1983
SPIELMANN, P; SVETSKA, J., Das Prinzip Hoffnung, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1982
KILLER, P. , Biberstein, Lüthi, Mauboulès, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
1981
AMMANN, J.C.; LOERS, V. Aspekte junger schweizer Kunst, Städtische Galeria, Regensburg Fri Art, Fribourg, Germany
1981
FUCHS, R. et al. Lis '81., Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
1981
Centro de Artes Plásticas, Coimbra, Portugal
1980
W. Holms, Biberstein, Renz, Stäuble, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
1980
22 Artistas Suiços, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
1979
A. Baak; M.Biberstein, et al. Künstlerische Raumprogramme, Baak'scher Kunstraum, Cologne, Germany
1979
J. Gachnang, M. Biberstein, et al., Pozarek, Nyffenegger, Mattes, Ingold, Frenzel, Brand, J. Gachnang, Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboulès, Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland. Lis '79, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
1979
Europa '79. Kunstforum International, Nr.35, Cologne, Germany
1979
Europa '79, Galerien Hetzler, Müller, Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany
1978
Michael Biberstein, Galeria Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland
1978
Biberstein, Gossweiler, Immoos, Mattes, Stäuble, Zäch, Galeria Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland
1976
Aspekte aus Neueren Solothurner Sammlungen, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
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