Urs Fischer (Swiss, born )

Urs Fischer (Swiss, b.1973) is a Contemporary artist known for large-scale sculptures and installations that explore a wide range of materials from popular culture. Born in Zurich, Fischer studied photography at the Schule für Gestaltung before turning his focus on making objects borrowed from everyday life; Bread House (2004–2006) constructs a cabin from loaves of bread, and Lamp/Bear (2005–2006) bisects a monumental teddy bear with a desk lamp.

One of Fischer’s primary interests is the spontaneous process of creating and destroying materials. His installation What if the phone rings (2003) involves lighting life-size candles in the shape of nude women, creating ever-changing shapes as they burn down during the course of the exhibition. Fischer’s willingness to push boundaries to create shocking spectacles reached its peak in You, the excavation of the floor of his gallery, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2003, 2005, and 2007, and he has held solo shows at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Kunsthaus Zürich in Switzerland. Fischer lives and works in New York, and is an artist-in-residence at the Delfina Studios in London.

Timeline

1973
Born in Zurich, Switzerland
1995
Received grant from the Bundeamt für Kultur, Zurich
1997
Kiefer-Hablitzel grant
1999
Providentia Prize, YoungArt
1999
Received grant from the Bundeamt für Kultur, Zurich
Lives and works in New York, USA
Studied Photography at the Schule für Gestaltung, Zurich
Visited de atelier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Artist in residence, Delfina Studios, London, UK

Exhibitions

2016
Urs Fischer Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Small Axe, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia(solo exhibition)
Ursula, JTT, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Misunderstandings in the Quest for the Universal, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Urs Fischer - False Friends, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
In the Making, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, NY
2015
Urs Fischer Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Bruno & Yoyo, Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland(solo exhibition)
Fountains, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA(solo exhibition)
∞, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland(solo exhibition)
Big Clay #4, Seagram Plaza, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Sadie Coles HQ-in-residence, T293, Naples, Italy(solo exhibition)
Beverly Hills 20-Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, 1995 – 2015, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Skeleton: The body’s armature in contemporary sculpture, museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Netherlands
New Skin, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
The Mannequin of History: Art After Fabrications of Critique and Culture, Mata, Modena, Italy
Ametria, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Sprayed: Works from 1929 to 2015, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
Arts & Foods: Rituals since 1851, Expo Milan 2015, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
The Event Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
COOL—As a State of Mind, MAMO—Centre d’art de la Cité Radieuse, Marseille, France
Sleepless—The bed in history and contemporary art, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
Michael Chow: Voice for My Father, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, travels to Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, The Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2014
Urs Fischer Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Julian, Karma, Amagansett, NY(solo exhibition)
Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, UK(solo exhibition)
mermaid / pig / bro w/ hat, Gagosian Gallery at 104 Delancey Street, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
last supper, Gagosian Gallery at Park & 75, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Lever House Art Collection, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Je ne sais pas ce que j’ai vu, Cité du design, Saint-Etienne, France
Fierce Creativity: Artists for Peace and Justice, PACE, 32 East 57th Street, New York, NY
Horror Vacui, Gagosian Gallery, Athens, Greece
Le jardin décomposé / Decomposed Garden, Gagosian Gallery Le Bourget, Paris, France
A Very Short History of Contemporary Sculpture, Phillips, 30 Berkeley Square, London, UK
Horror Vacui, Gagosian Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Gratwanderung: Kunst zwischen Schloss und Rebhaus, landauf-bachab, Uster, Switzerland
Burning Down the House, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
ArtLovers: Histoires d’art dans la collection Pinault, Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Monaco
Joyride, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, NY
The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK
Group show curated by Urs Fischer, Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, UK
In NO Time, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
An American in Paris: Works from a Private Collection, Gagosian Gallery Le Bourget, Paris, France
Elevation 1049: Between Heaven and Hell, Gstaad, Switzerland
2013
Urs Fischer Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK(solo exhibition)
Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy(solo exhibition)
YES, Deste Foundation, Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra, Greece(solo exhibition)
Urs Fischer, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: 4/21/13 – 8/19/13(solo exhibition)
A Place in Two Dimensions: A Selection from Colección Jumex, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Somos Libres: The World of Contemporary Art through the Eyes of Mario Testino, MATE, Asociación Mario Testino, Lima, Peru
Island, Dairy Art Centre, London, UK
Station to Station, Riverfront Studios, Brooklyn, New York - Union Station/The Pennsylvanian, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Chicago Union Station, Chicago, Illinois - St. Paul Union Depot, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota - Santa Fe Farmer’s Market Pavilion, New Mexico - La Posada Hotel, Winslow, Arizona - Skyline Drive-in Theater, Barstow, California - Los Angeles Union Station, Los Angeles, California - 16th Street Train Station, Oakland/San Francisco, California
Van Gogh, Dalí, and Beyond: The World Reimagined, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Body Pressure: Sculpture Since the 1960s, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Drawing Line into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
Crystal Maze IV – 1 + 2 + 3 = 3, Nouveau Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2012
Urs Fischer Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Tables, Heads, and Arms, Gagosian Gallery at Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths(solo exhibition)
Urs Fischer, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Cour Chimay and Chapelle des Petits Augustins, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France(solo exhibition)
Madame Fisscher, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy(solo exhibition)
schmutz schmutz, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France(solo exhibition)
Beds & Problem Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California(solo exhibition)
Skinny Sunrise, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria(solo exhibition)
Seuls quelques fragments de nous toucheront quelques fragments d’autrui (Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Ensemble, Galerie kreo, Paris, France
Westbau Pool, etc., Löwenbräu Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Painting Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Riotous Baroque. From Cattelan to Zurbarán—Tributes to Precarious Vitality (Zurich, Switzerland) - traveled to Guggenheim Bilbao as Barroco Exuberente: de Cattelan a Zurbarán, Bilbao, Spain
The Painting Factory: Abstraction after Warhol, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Poule! Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico
Micro mania, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
Inside a Book a House of Gold: Artists’ Editions for Parkett, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2011
Urs Fischer Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
dngszjkdufiy bgxfjkglijkhtr kydjkhgdghjkd (with Cassandra MacLeod), Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Urs Fischer and Georg Herold, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland(solo exhibition)
Untitled (Lamp/Bear), Seagram Plaza, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Home Alone, Sender Collection, Miami, FL
Now: obras de La Colección Jumex, Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands - traveled to Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy - KHOJ International Artists’ Association, New Delhi, India- Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai, India - Nero HQ, Rome, Italy - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, SALT Beyoğlu - The Drawing Center, New York, NY- Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina - Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Artists for Haiti, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Lustwarande 2011—Blemishes, Park De Oude Warande, Museum De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Produced by Migros: Collection Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Sculpture Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
ILLUMInazioni / ILLUMInations, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
New contemporary galleries featuring the John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, South Wales, Australia
L’invention de l’oeuvre: Rodin et les ambassadeurs, Musée Rodin, Paris, France
Sympathy for the Devil, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Kunstsammlung im Alpenhof Nr. 6: Kunstbetrieb, Alpenhof St. Anton, Zurich, Switzerland
Don’t Do It Etc., Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery (uptown), New York, NY
Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
8 1/2, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy
2010
Urs Fischer Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Douglas Sirk, Sadie Coles HQ, 4 New Burlington Place, London, UK(solo exhibition)
Oscar the Grouch, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut(solo exhibition)
Die Nase des Michelangelo / The Nose of Michelangelo, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Marktgasse 4, Zurich, Switzerland
Divine Comedy, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
Post Monument: XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Carrara, Italy
Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London: 6/19/10 – 9/5/10 (traveled to Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Alpha Omega: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
High Ideals & Crazy Dreams, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
Voici un dessin suisse (1990–2010) / Here Is a Swiss Drawing, Musée Rath (Geneva, Austria) - traveled to Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York, NY
2009
Urs Fischer Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty, New Museum, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Dear _________! We _____ on ________, hysterically. It has to be _____ that _____. No? It is now ______ and the whole _______ has changed ______. all the _____, ______ (with Mark Handforth and Georg Herold), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NY(solo exhibition)
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Les enfants terribles, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico
We Are Sun-kissed and Snow-blind, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
Investigations of a Dog: Works from the FACE Collections, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy - traveled to Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal - La maison rouge — Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France - Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden - Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Precarious Form I / Prekäre Skulpturen, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1), Burger Collection, Zimmerstrasse 90–91, Berlin, Germany
200 Artworks—25 Years: Artists’ Editions for Parkett, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan - traveled to Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore - Seoul Arts Center (SAC), Hangaram Museum, Seoul, Korea
The living and the dead, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Magritte et la Lumière / Magritte and Light, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Remembering Henry’s Show: Selected Works, 1978–2008, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut
A Guest + A Host = A Ghost: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Nothingness and Being, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Saints and Sinners, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
2008
Urs Fischer Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Blurry Renoir Debussy, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland(solo exhibition)
Ombres, New Galerie de France (Paris, France)
Open Plan Living, ART TLV 08, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Archeology of Mind, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden - traveled to Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
Château de Tokyo / Palais de Fontainebleau, Château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France
An Unruly History of the Readymade, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico
Sammlung / Collection, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Tutti Frutti, BASE / Progetti per l’arte, Florence, Italy
Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns? Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Blasted Allegories: Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Zurich, Switzerland
God Is Design, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Countdown, CCS Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY
Schweiz über alles, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico
2007
Urs Fischer Selected Exhibitions in 2007:
Agnes Martin, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA(solo exhibition)
you, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
Uh…, Sadie Coles HQ, London, CA(solo exhibition)
large, dark & empty, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland(solo exhibition)
get up girl a sun is running the world (with Ugo Rondinone), Church San Stae, Venice Biennale(solo exhibition)
Cockatoo Island, Kaldor Art Projects and the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, Sydney, Australia(solo exhibition)
Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York, NY
Jubilee Exhibition, House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, Switzerland
The Third Mind: Carte Blanche to Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
00s: The history of a decade that has not yet been named, Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Franz West: Soufflé, eine Massenausstellung, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Traum & Trauma: Werke aus der Sammlung Dakis Joannou, Athen, MUMOK and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Hamsterwheel, Tese della Nuovissima, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice: 6/7/07 – 9/2/07, traveled to Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France, - CASM Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain - Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
Domestic Irony: A Foray into Italy’s Private Collections, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture in the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
2006
Urs Fischer Selected Exhibitions in 2006:
Urs Fischer e Rudolf Stingel, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy(solo exhibition)
Oh. Sad. I see., The Modern Institute (Glasgow, Scotland(solo exhibition)
Mary Poppins, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, Texas(solo exhibition)
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland(solo exhibition)
Paris 1919, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands(solo exhibition)
The Studio, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
The François Pinault Collection, a Post-Pop Selection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Defamation of Character, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Contrabando, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
The Vincent Award 2006, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cinq milliards d’années (Five Billion Years), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Prints, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Where Are We Going? Selections from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Collection, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Infinite Painting—Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy
Day for Night, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Collection 1, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam: 1/06 – 12/08
2005
Fig, Nut & Pear, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York (solo)
2005
Jet Set Lady, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (solo)
2005
Camden Arts Center, London (solo)
2005
Hamburger Bahnhof, Flick Collection, Berlin (solo)
2005
Mr. Watson --- Come Here --- I Want to See You, Hydra Workshops, Hydra, Greece (solo)
2005
Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen (Amsterdam)
2005
Schweizer Druckgraphik 1980 - 2005, Helmhaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
2005
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York/NY, USA
2005
Goethe Abwärts – Deutsche Jungs etc. - Meilahti Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2005
Ma Non Al Sud, Gallerie Civica d’Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Siracusa, Italy
2005
Closing Down, Bortolami, New York/NY, USA
2005
Sammlung Hauser & Wirth (Swiss Made) The Art of Falling Apart, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2005
Put It In Your Mouth / I’ll see you on the dark side of the prune, Rivington Arms, New York/NY, USA
2005
Closing Down, Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York/NY, USA
2005
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago/IL, USA
2005
Urs Fischer, Modern Institute Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
2004
Central Station, Collection Harald Falckenberg, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2004
Skulptur: Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Realismus, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2004
Die Künstlereditionen des Kunstmuseums Luzern, Kunstmuseum Luzerne, Luzerne, Switzerland
2004
MEMORABLE MEMORY, Collection Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Kunst Halle St. Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
2004
Group Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles/CA, USA
2004
Monument to Now, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
2004
L’Air du Temps – Collection Printemps/Été 2004, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
2004
Urs Fischer / Koo Jeong-A, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
2004
Elton John?, Sadie Coles HQ, London, Great Britain (solo)
2004
315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
2004
Kir Royal, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2004
Feige, Nuss und Birne, Gruppe Oesterreichische Guggenheim, Wien, Austria (solo)
2003
Portrait of a single raindrop, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York/NY, USA (solo)
2003
Need no chair when walking, Sadie Coles HQ, London, Great Britain (solo)
2003
Invite - silver convention, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
2003
Unplugged, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
2003
Game over, Galerie Grimm & Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
2003
Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
2003
Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
2003
50. Biennale di Venezia, Dreams and Conflicts: The Viewer’s Dictatorship, Venice, Italy
2003
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2003
Durchzug-Draft, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
2002
What should an Owl do with a Fork, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Project Room, Santa Monica/CA, USA (solo)
2002
Mystique Mistake, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
2002
Bing Crosby, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2002
Exile on Main Street, NICC, Antwerp, Belgium
2002
The Object Sculpture, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, Great Britain
2002
My head is on fire but my heart is full of Love, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002
Lowland Lullaby (with Ugo Rondinone John Giorno), Swiss Institute, New York/NY, USA
2001
walcheturm 00.07: mind-sediments, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
2001
Squatters, Ocupacoes, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2001
Ziviler Ungehorsam, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2001
Enduring Love, Klemes Gasser & Tanja Grunert, New York/NY, USA
2001
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Mastering the Complaint, Zurich (solo)
2000
Drawings, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2000
Manifesta 3, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2000
Sammlung Hauser und Wirth (1). The Oldest Possible Memory, Lokremise, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2000
Delfina, Capillon – Urs just does it for the girls, (with Amy Adler), London, Great Britain (solo)
2000
Tagessuppen/Soups of the Days and Domestic Pairs Project, (with Keith Tyson), Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (solo)
2000
The Membrane – Why I don’t mind bad-mooded People, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
2000
Without a Fist - Like a Bird, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, Great Britain (solo)
1999
Eidgenössische Preise für Freie Kunst, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
1999
999, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland
1999
Le repubbliche dell’arte, Palazzo delle Pappesse, Siena, Italy
1999
Holding Court, Entwistle Gallery, London, Great Britain
1999
Peace; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
1999
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Espressoqueen – Worries and other stuff you have to to think (solo)
1998
ironisch/ironic, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
1998
de ateliers, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997
Dokumentation, Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland
1997
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Torino, Italy
1997
Été 97, Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1997
Hammer, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1996
Urs Fischer, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1995–1996
Calypso (with Antonietta Peeters and Avery Preesman), Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995
Assistent (with Maurus Gmür), Binz 39, Zurich, Switzerland
1995
Karaoke 444&222 too, South London Gallery, London, Great Britain
1995
Bundesstipendianten, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
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