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Michael Biberstein

(Swiss, 1948–2013)

Michael Biberstein

Chromatic Glider, 2004

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Michael Biberstein

Prospect - / Refuge - / Image, 1991

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Michael Biberstein

Prospect - / Refuge - / Image 2, 1991

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Michael Biberstein

Prospect - Orientation, 1991

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Michael Biberstein

Prospect - Orientation 2, 1991

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Biography

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)
: Arte e Natura, Museo Villa dei Cedri, , Bellinzona, Italy
2008: Expansion – Résonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France
: Von der Kunst, Sträusse zu binden, Kunstmuseum Solothurn
: Linha de horizonte, Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brasil
: More Statements in the Spirit of Militant Agnosticism, Galerie Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (solo)
: Kunsthaus Skt. Josef, Solothurn (solo)
: Homage to Gérard Verdeijk, Centre Mitterrand, Périgueux, France
: Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland
2007: Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto (solo)
: Galerie Tanit, Munich (solo)
2006: categorias, Galerie Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (solo)
: Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona (solo)
: Resonance Membranes, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto (solo)
: Galerie Staffelbach, Aarau (Switzerland) (solo)
: Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (solo)
: La tentation de l’orient, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
2005: New Works, Galerie Tanit, Munich (solo)
: Teoria da Unificação, Parte I, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: Sala de estar, Espaço Tabora, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2004: Homage to Peter Kneubühler – Gut zum Druck, Helmhaus, Zurich
: Neue Bilder, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
: ...so what about marbles, Albert, did he play with those? Évora arte, Évora, Portugal (solo)
2003: Compresores/Aceleradores, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain (solo)
: Exhibition with Hugo Suter. Galerie Staffelbach, Lenzburg, Switzerland (solo)
: Bernard Lüthi, Jean Mauboulès, Michael Biberstein, Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
: Comment rester Zen, Centre Culturel, Suisse, Paris
: Paintings, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)
: ...towards silence, Kunsthalle Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2002: Argumentos do futuro, Fundacion ICO, Madrid, C.San Fernando, Sevilla
: Na paisagem, Museu Serralves, Porto, Museu de Arte, Evora
: Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon
2001: The Compulsive Image, Kunsthalle, Tallinn, Estonia (solo)
: towards silence, Galerie Rudolfinum, Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
: Argumentos do Futuro, Fundacion ICO, Madrid; Caja San Fernando, Sevilla
: Peter Kneubühler: Gut zum Druck Helmhaus Zurich
: Kunsthalle, Brno, Czech Republic (solo)
: Galerie Pablo Stähli, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2000: Landschaften eines Jahrhunderts, Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
: Landgang, Galerie Fabian Walter, Basel, Switzerland
: Schöpfung, Diözesanmuseum Freising, Munich, Germany
: Kunsthalle, Brno, Czech Republic (solo)
: Paisagens no Singular, Museu Malhoa, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal; Museu Grão Vasco, Viseu, Portugal; Museu de Évora, Évora, Portugal
: Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
: Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal (solo)
1999: Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Cesar Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1998: Large Paintings, Pablo Stähli Gallery, Birrwil, Switzerland (solo)
: Works on Paper, Pablo Stähli Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
: Neue Bilder, with José Carrilho da Graça, Galeria Luís Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: Longe e perto, Painters Union, Kiew, Ukraine
: Die Spur des Sublimen, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; Kunstmuseum Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark
: Expo ’98, Portuguese Pavilion, Lisbon, Portugal
: Exhibition with Christoph Gossweiler, Galerie Staffelbach, Lenzburg, Switzerland (solo)
: Galerie Haldemann, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
: Gefärbte Wasser und Horizonte, Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nurnberg, Germany (solo)
: Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
: Exhibition with Juan Muñoz, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (solo)
: Die Schwerkraft der Berge, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
1997: Voglio vedere i miei montagne, Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
: Fundação Julia Mann, Parati, Brasil (solo)
: In Un Altra Terra, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
1996: Pedro Oliveira Gallery, Porto, Portugal (solo)
: Galerie Pablo Stähli, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
: Galeria Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: Galerie Marianne Grob, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: Galerie Medici, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)
: Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
: In Un Altra Terra, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
: Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
: Stirnwände, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (solo)
: Aspects of Landscape, with Ian McKeever, Al Bustan, Beirut, Lebanon (solo)
: Ganzfelder, Heilbronner Kunstverein, Heilbronn, Germany (solo)
: Wasser und Wein, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
: Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, New York, USA
: Ernste Spiele - Die Romantik in der Deutschen Kunst, 1790 - 1990, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
: Galerie Sander & Ebert, Darmstadt, Germany (solo)
: Paint it Black, with Fernando Calhau, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Funchal, Portugal (solo)
: Drawings, Galeria Porta 33, Funchal, Portugal (solo)
: Der erste Farbsatz und die sieben Großformate, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (solo)
: A Difícil Travessia dos Alpes, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, New York, USA
: Wasser und Wein, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
1995: Ernste Spiele - Die Romantik in der Deutschen Kunst, 1790 - 1990, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
1994: Fragmentos para um museu imaginário, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
: Do sublime, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
: Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Galerie Pablo Stähli, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
: Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
: Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal (solo)
: Galerie Tanit, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Galeria Medici, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)
: In Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
: Galeria Cómicos-Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: Biberstein, Mauboulès, Stern, RAM Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1993: Galerie Lüpke, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
: Kunstverein Klingentalgraben, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
: Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
: On Sitting and Flying: An overview of Landscape, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)
: Galerie Pablo Stähli, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
: Galerie Montenay, Paris, France (solo)
: The Great Attractor and the Big Wide, Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
: In Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
: FLAD, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
: Silence into Light, Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1992: Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
: Geteilte Bilder - Das Diptychon in der Modernen Kunst, Folkwangmuseum, Essen, Germany
1991: Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: On Vernet, Landscape, the Sublime & Beautiful, and what Relevance they might still have to Contemporary Art, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: Galerie Lüpke, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
: Galeria Cómicos-Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: Europalia: Triptico, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
: Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, New York, USA (solo)
: Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Biberstein, Lanhas, Sanches, Galeria Alda Cortez, Lisbon, Portugal
: Works on Paper, Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, New York
1990: Arcangelo, Biberstein, McKeever, Galerie Barbaro, Paris, France
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)
: Galeria Cómicos, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: Signaturen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
: Australian Biennale, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
: Artists books, Galerie Michelle Zeller, Bern, Switzerland; Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain; Madrid Colección, Madrid, Spain; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium.
: Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York, USA
: Offenes Ende - Junge Schweizer Kunst, Nurnberg, Germany
: Algumas Imagens de Sintra Moirisca (Photography), Palácio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra, Portugal (solo)
1987: Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain (solo)
1986: Galeria Valentim de Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal
: Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
1983: Galerie Peter Noser, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
: Galerie Lydia Megert, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
: Das Prinzip Hoffnung, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
: Galerie Wittenbrink, Regensburg, Germany (solo)
1982: Biberstein, Lüthi, Mauboulès, Kunstverein Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
: Aspekte Junger Schweizer Kunst, Städtische Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
1981: Arta, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: Centro de Artes Plásticas, Coimbra, Portugal (solo)
: Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
1980: Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
: Biberstein, Renz, Stäuble, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
: 22 Artistas Suíços, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
: Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboulès, Galerie Buchmann, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1979: Baak’scher Kunstraum, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Galeria Módulo, Porto & Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: Pozarek, Nyffenegger, Mattes, Ingold, Frenzel, Brand, Biberstein, Berger, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
: Europa '79, Hetzler, Müller, Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany
: Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboulès, Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten, Switzerland
: Lis '79, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
1978: Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
: 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
: 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
: 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
: Schöpfung, Diozösanmuseum Freising, Munich, Germany
: 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
: 'Ganzfelder und Stirnwände' Kunstvereine Heilbronn und Freiburg i.B.
: 'In un Altra Terra' Galeria Continua, San Giminiano
: Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboulès, Kunstverein Olten, Olten, Switzerland
: 'Ernste Spiele - die Romantik in der Deutschen Kunst 1790-1990' Haus der Kunst, Munique
: 'Der erste Farbsatz und die sieben Grossformate' Kunsthalle Winterthur
: 'A Difícil Travessia dos Alpes' Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisboa
: 'Incidentes' Casa da Parra, Santiago de Compostela
: Wasser und Wein, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
1995: Paint it Black (mit Fernando Calhau), Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Funchal, Portugal
: Offene Natur, in NOËMA-art journal n.39 Interview with Celia Montolió
1994: Pernes, Fernando 'fragmentos para um museu imaginário' Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
: I.Carlos 'Do sublime' Museu do Chiado, Lisboa
: C. Montolío 'El paisaje como forma de expresión permanente' in Lapiz, Madrid (Nr.107,Dec.)
: 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)
: CARLOS, Isabel, Do sublime, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
: 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
: REUST, H. R., Michael Biberstein, in Artforum, New York (May)
: DURAND, R., Michael Biberstein, Art Press, Paris (Nr.176, January)
: in Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Alte Pinakothek, Munique, Germany
: CALHAU, Fernando; SARDO, Delfim; VEIGA, Margarida; Cerco / Bienal Internacional de Óbidos, Portugal
: Das Grosse Anziehende und die Unendliche Weite, Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria
: Vom Sitzen und vom Fliegen - eine Landschaftsübersicht, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
: in Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Museum Moisbach, Leverkusen, Germany
: Silence into Light, Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
: CASTRO CALDAS, M., FLAD, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
: Finkh, Geteilte Bilder - das Diptychon in der Modernen Kunst, Folkwangmuseum, Essen, Germany
: MELO, A., There is a Minute of a Fleeting World, Casa Serralves, Porto, Portugal
: SARDO, D., Blinder, O Romantismo de Michael Biberstein, in Artes & Leilões, Lisbon, Portugal (Nr. 16)
: KAMBER, A., MOGIL, L., BIBERSTEIN,M.; The Great Attractor and the Big Wide, Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria and Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
: Documenta IX view by Christian VOGT, Basler Magazin der Basler Zeitung (19.9)
1992: HOET, J., et al., Documenta IX, Kassel, Kassel, 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
: SVESTKA, J., MELO, A., CASTRO CALDAS, M. , HOET, J. et al., Triptico, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
: GUALDONI, Arcangelo, Biberstein, Näher, Editione Mazzochi, Parma, Italy
: T. Kneubühler, B. Wismer, M. Biberstein, et al., In Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Hommage à Caspar Wolf, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
: CAUQUELIN A., Le paysage tracé de la mémoire, Edition Barbaro, Paris, France
1990: NEUFERT A., Munich, in Contemporanea, Torino + New York (September)
: AVGIKOS J., Michael Biberstein, in Artforum, New York, USA (December)
: Arcangelo, Biberstein, McKeever, Galerie Barbaro, Paris, France
: COMI, E., GUSMÃO, A., RATATAZZI, C., Michael Biberstein, em Spazio Humano, (January), Milan, Italy
: CERVEIRA PINTO, A., Michael Biberstein: Between Abstraction and Meaning, em Balcon 3, Madrid, Spain
: Biberstein, Lanhas, Sanches, Galeria Alda Cortez, Lisbon , Portugal
: 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: STAHEL, U., Aber man darf Malen, in Kunst-Bulletin, Zürich, Switzerland (January)
: MELO, A., Michael Biberstein, in Artforum, New York, USA (June)
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
: M. Biberstein, Prospect- / Refuge - Images, Duero Productions, Madrid, Spain
1983: CAPC, 54 exposições, Círculo de Artes Plásticas, Coimbra, Portugal
: SPIELMANN, P; SVETSKA, J., Das Prinzip Hoffnung, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1982: KILLER, P. , Biberstein, Lüthi, Mauboulès, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
: Centro de Artes Plásticas, Coimbra, Portugal
: FUCHS, R. et al. Lis '81., Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
1981: AMMANN, J.C.; LOERS, V. Aspekte junger schweizer Kunst, Städtische Galeria, Regensburg Fri Art, Fribourg, Germany
1980: W. Holms, Biberstein, Renz, Stäuble, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
: 22 Artistas Suiços, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
1979: A. Baak; M.Biberstein, et al. Künstlerische Raumprogramme, Baak'scher Kunstraum, Cologne, Germany
: 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
: Europa '79. Kunstforum International, Nr.35, Cologne, Germany
: Europa '79, Galerien Hetzler, Müller, Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany
: Biberstein, Gossweiler, Immoos, Mattes, Stäuble, Zäch, Galeria Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland
1978: Michael Biberstein, Galeria Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland
1976: Aspekte aus Neueren Solothurner Sammlungen, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland

Michael Biberstein

(Swiss, 1948–2013)

Michael Biberstein

Michael Biberstein

Michael Biberstein

Michael Biberstein

Michael Biberstein

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