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Not Vital
(
Swiss
, born 1948)
Not Vital
Qi,
2013
Price on Request
Biography
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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)
700 Snowballs, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy (solo)
2012
5 Spaniards & Nothing, Ivorypress Art+Books Space, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Not Vital: Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Germany (solo)
Not Vital: 十 五, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA (solo)
Not Vital. Oeuvres sur papier,Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
Not Vital. Werke 1989 bis 2011, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany (solo)
2011
Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Not Vital: Art & Architecture Projekt 2011: No Problem Sculpture, Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Not Vital: Haare, Hirsch & Mao, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Not Vital: Plasters, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Not Vital: Sculptures, Diao Su, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
Full On, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (solo)
2010
Suicides, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK (solo)
Pelvis, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland (solo)
2009
NOT WHY, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China (solo)
Schlafendes Haus, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2008
Tongue, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China (solo)
Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, Currents - Art and Music, Beijing, China (solo)
10 Austrians + more, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
Punts, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland (solo)
2007
25 Jahre Galerie Crone, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
Exposures, the contemporary self-portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Von Tag zu Tag, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Chur, Switzerland
Contemporary Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Collective One, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland
Lotus, Coffee and Stone Pine, Portraits, Snow and Boyfriend, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
Ca Pesaro, Venice, Italy (solo)
Gunnar A. Kaldewey: Artist Books for a Global World; Four Collaborations in Dept, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art – MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA
Zeichnungen, NAIRS – Art e Cultura in Engadina, Scuol, Switzerland
2006
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, IL, USA (solo)
Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
2005
Agadez, Afrika, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (catalogue) (solo)
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Agadez, Albion, London, UK (solo)
Drawings and Sculptures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
2004
Caratsch de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (catalogue) (solo)
Milla larmas id 1 chamel, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia (solo)
2003
Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)
Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland (cat.) (solo)
Chasa Jaura, Valchava, Switzerland (solo)
Fat es Fat, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland (cat.) (solo)
Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland (cat.) (solo)
Mias muntognas, Edith Wahlandt Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
Vital, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland (catalogue) (solo)
2002
FAT ES FAT (Druckgrafik und Multiples 1986-2002), Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany (solo)
Vital, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva (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)
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan, Italy (catalogue)
2000
Galeri Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
Meine Schafe, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland (solo)
1999
Snowballs, Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA (solo)
Sperone Westwater Gallery, NY, USA, also 1995, 1997 (solo)
1998
Skulpturer Och Teckningar, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
Nototo, Milleventi, Milan, Italy (solo)
Totem und Tabu, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
New Sculpture, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA (solo)
Large Works on Paper, Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA (solo)
1997
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden (cat:) (solo)
1996
The Material Imagination, Untitled, Guggenheim Museum Soho, NY
1995
Galleria Sperone, Rome
Private View, Berggruen & Zevi Limited, London, UK (solo)
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy (cat.)
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
Berggruen & Zevi Limited, London, UK (solo)
Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik", Galerie Edith Wahlandt, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA (solo)
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Adam, One Afternoon, Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA (solo)
Galerie Lehmann, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo)
1993
Cow Dung, New Bronze Works, Wooster Gardens, NY (solo)
Galerie Niels Ewerbeck, Vienna, Austria (solo)
1992
sculture recenti, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy (solo)
Cacche di Mucca, Galleria Via Farini, Milan, Italy (solo)
18 Buatschas, Kunsthandlung Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland (solo)
Bronzen, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
Druck-Graphik & Multiples, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland (cat.) (solo)
1991
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
The Complete Prints and Multiples, Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA (cat.) (solo)
1990
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
PS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) (solo)
Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA (solo)
Musee Rath, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
Not Vital at Akhnaton, Centre of Arts, Akhnaton Hall, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt (cat.)
Not Vital, Dessins et Sculptures, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
Sculptures And Works on Paper, The Greenberg Gallery Annex, St. Louis, USA
1989
Projects & Portfolios Brooklyn Museum, NY
Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
1988
Baron/Boisante, NY (solo)
Kunstmuseum Luzern, CH (solo)
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Works on Paper, Swiss Institute NY, USA (solo)
1987
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne (solo)
Gallery Nature Morte, Forum Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Drawings Since 1940, Museum of Modern Art, NY (solo)
1986
Gallery Nature Morte, New York, USA (solo)
Galleria Pinta, Genova, Italy (solo)
Margo Leavin Gallery, NY (solo)
Sculpturen en Tekeningen, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
Drawings and Sculpture, Willard Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1985
Large Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1984
Gallery Nature Morte, New York, USA (solo)
Plastiken und Zeichnungen, Galerie Hartmann, St. Gallen, Switzerland (solo)
1983
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA (solo)
1982
Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland (solo)
Gimpel-Hanover and André Emmerich Galerien, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1981
Altstadt-Galerie, Chur, Switzerland (solo)
Recent Drawings, Albert White Gallery Toronto, Canada (solo)
1980
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA (solo)
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)
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Literature
2006
Stoeber, Michael, Not Vital, Being and Building, Sculpture Magazine, pp. 38-43
2005
Not Vital: Agadez, Exhibition Catalogue, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Not Vital, Exhibition Catalogue, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2004
Spiegler, Marc, Not Vital, Art + Auction, pp. 34-38
Bradley, Kimberly, Quiet Vitality, Artnet (http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews)
Not Vital, Exhibition catalogue, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA
2002
Vital, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Exhibition catalogue
Fat Es Fat, Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Exhibition Catalogue
2001
Not Vital, Galleria Cardi & Co., Exhibition catalogue
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
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
Not Vital, Exhibition Catalogue, Sperone Westwater, NY, USA
1998
Jones, Alan, New York a Milano: Not Vital, Tema Celeste, no. 69-70, p. 820
The Erotic Sublime, (Slave to the Rhythm), Exhibition catalogue, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
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