Not Vital (Swiss, born )

Timeline

1948
Born in Sent, Engadine, Switzerland
Lives and works in Sent (Switzerland), New York (USA), and Agadez (Niger)

Exhibitions

2013
Not Vital: Landscapes, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong (solo)
2013
700 Snowballs, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy (solo)
2012
5 Spaniards & Nothing, Ivorypress Art+Books Space, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2012
Not Vital: Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Germany (solo)
2012
Not Vital: 十 五, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA (solo)
2012
Not Vital. Oeuvres sur papier,Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2012
Not Vital. Werke 1989 bis 2011, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany (solo)
2011
Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2011
Not Vital: Art & Architecture Projekt 2011: No Problem Sculpture, Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2011
Not Vital: Haare, Hirsch & Mao, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2011
Not Vital: Plasters, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2011
Not Vital: Sculptures, Diao Su, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
2011
Full On, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (solo)
2010
Suicides, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK (solo)
2009
NOT WHY, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China (solo)
2009
Schlafendes Haus, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2009
Pelvis, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland (solo)
2008
Tongue, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China (solo)
2008
Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, Currents - Art and Music, Beijing, China (solo)
2008
10 Austrians + more, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
2007
25 Jahre Galerie Crone, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
2007
Exposures, the contemporary self-portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2007
Von Tag zu Tag, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Chur, Switzerland
2007
Contemporary Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2007
Collective One, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland
2007
Lotus, Coffee and Stone Pine, Portraits, Snow and Boyfriend, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
2007
Ca Pesaro, Venice, Italy (solo)
2007
Punts, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland (solo)
2006
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, IL, USA (solo)
2006
Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2006
Zeichnungen, NAIRS – Art e Cultura in Engadina, Scuol, Switzerland
2006
Gunnar A. Kaldewey: Artist Books for a Global World; Four Collaborations in Dept, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art – MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA
2005
Agadez, Afrika, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (catalogue) (solo)
2005
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2005
Agadez, Albion, London, UK (solo)
2005
Drawings and Sculptures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
2004
Caratsch de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2004
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (catalogue) (solo)
2004
Milla larmas id 1 chamel, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2004
Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia (solo)
2003
Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)
2003
Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland (cat.) (solo)
2003
Chasa Jaura, Valchava, Switzerland (solo)
2002
FAT ES FAT (Druckgrafik und Multiples 1986-2002), Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany (solo)
2002
Vital, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland (catalogue) (solo)
2002
Fat es Fat, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland (cat.) (solo)
2002
Vital, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva (cat.) (solo)
2002
Mias muntognas, Edith Wahlandt Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
2002
Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland (cat.) (solo)
2001–2002
de Pury & Luxembourgh, Zurich, Switzerland, also 2001-02 (solo)
2001
49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (cat.) (solo)
2001
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2001
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2001
Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan, Italy (catalogue)
2000
Galeri Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
2000
Meine Schafe, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland (solo)
1999
Snowballs, Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA (solo)
1999
Sperone Westwater Gallery, NY, USA, also 1995, 1997 (solo)
1998
Skulpturer Och Teckningar, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
1998
Nototo, Milleventi, Milan, Italy (solo)
1997
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden (cat:) (solo)
1997
Large Works on Paper, Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA (solo)
1997
New Sculpture, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA (solo)
1997
Totem und Tabu, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
1996
The Material Imagination, Untitled, Guggenheim Museum Soho, NY
1995
Galleria Sperone, Rome
1995
Private View, Berggruen & Zevi Limited, London, UK (solo)
1995
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy (cat.)
1995
Drawing in Black and White: A Selection of Contemporary Works, Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA (solo)
1994
Projekt Schweiz II, Natur-Kultur Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1993
Cow Dung, New Bronze Works, Wooster Gardens, NY (solo)
1993
Galerie Lehmann, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo)
1993
Adam, One Afternoon, Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA (solo)
1993
Galerie Niels Ewerbeck, Vienna, Austria (solo)
1993
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA (solo)
1993
Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik", Galerie Edith Wahlandt, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
1993
Berggruen & Zevi Limited, London, UK (solo)
1993
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
1992
sculture recenti, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy (solo)
1992
Cacche di Mucca, Galleria Via Farini, Milan, Italy (solo)
1992
18 Buatschas, Kunsthandlung Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland (solo)
1992
Bronzen, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
1991
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
1991
The Complete Prints and Multiples, Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA (cat.) (solo)
1991
Druck-Graphik & Multiples, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland (cat.) (solo)
1990
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
1990
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1990
PS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) (solo)
1990
Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA (solo)
1990
Musee Rath, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
1989
Projects & Portfolios Brooklyn Museum, NY
1989
Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
1989
Not Vital, Dessins et Sculptures, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
1989
Sculptures And Works on Paper, The Greenberg Gallery Annex, St. Louis, USA
1989
Not Vital at Akhnaton, Centre of Arts, Akhnaton Hall, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt (cat.)
1988
Baron/Boisante, NY (solo)
1988
Kunstmuseum Luzern, CH (solo)
1988
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
1988
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1988
Works on Paper, Swiss Institute NY, USA (solo)
1987
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne (solo)
1987
Gallery Nature Morte, Forum Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1987
Drawings Since 1940, Museum of Modern Art, NY (solo)
1986
Gallery Nature Morte, New York, USA (solo)
1986
Galleria Pinta, Genova, Italy (solo)
1986
Margo Leavin Gallery, NY (solo)
1985
Large Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1985
Drawings and Sculpture, Willard Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1985
Sculpturen en Tekeningen, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
1984
Gallery Nature Morte, New York, USA (solo)
1984
Plastiken und Zeichnungen, Galerie Hartmann, St. Gallen, Switzerland (solo)
1983
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA (solo)
1982
Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (solo)
1982
Gimpel-Hanover and André Emmerich Galerien, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1981
Altstadt-Galerie, Chur, Switzerland (solo)
1981
Recent Drawings, Albert White Gallery Toronto, Canada (solo)
1980
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA (solo)
1980
Gimpel-Hanover and André Emmerich Galerien, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1979
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland (cat.) (solo)
1976
Galerie Peter Noser, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1974
Dritte Galerie, Zofingen, Switzerland (solo)
1973
Galleria LP 220, Turin, Italy (solo)
1972
Galleria Diagramma, Milan, Italy (solo)
1971
Galerie d'art moderne, Chur, Switzerland (solo)

Literature

2006
Stoeber, Michael, Not Vital, Being and Building, Sculpture Magazine, pp. 38-43
2005
Not Vital: Agadez, Exhibition Catalogue, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
2005
Not Vital, Exhibition Catalogue, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2004
Spiegler, Marc, Not Vital, Art + Auction, pp. 34-38
2004
Bradley, Kimberly, Quiet Vitality, Artnet (http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews)
2004
Not Vital, Exhibition catalogue, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA
2002
Vital, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Exhibition catalogue
2002
Fat Es Fat, Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Exhibition Catalogue
2001
Not Vital, Galleria Cardi & Co., Exhibition catalogue
2001
La Biennale di Venezia, XLVII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Plateau of Humanity, exhibition catalogue by Harald Szeemann, Electa, 1997
2000
Straub, Carol, Not Vital - Notizen aus Sent, Palace Review: The Tower, pp.22-25
2000
Gian Enzo Sperone; Torino Roma, New York; 35 Anni di Mostra tra Europa e America, p. 448-449, 484
1999
Szeemann, Harald, Anderland Verlag, München, Germany
1999
Not Vital, Exhibition Catalogue, Sperone Westwater, NY, USA
1998
Jones, Alan, New York a Milano: Not Vital, Tema Celeste, no. 69-70, p. 820
1998
The Erotic Sublime, (Slave to the Rhythm), Exhibition catalogue, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
English (US)

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