John Armleder

(Swiss, born 1948)

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John Armleder

White River, 2021

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John Armleder

Golden Shiner, 2020

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John Armleder

Kleen Kanteen, 2019

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John Armleder

Pyramides, 2018

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John Armleder

Côté est, 2018

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Biography

Timeline

1948
Born in Geneva, Switzerland
1966 - 1967
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Geneva
1969
Foundation of the Ecart Group with Patrick Lucchini and Claude Rychner, Geneva
1973 - 1983
Galerie Ecart, Geneva, 1973-ECART Editions & Publications, Geneva
1992 - 2000
Member of the Swiss Federal Comission for the Fine-Arts, Bern
1994
Professor at the Braunschweig Art Academy, Germany, and the Lausanne Arts School, Switzerland
Lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland

Exhibitions

2014
John M Armleder: Ring the Bell Twice, Galerie l'elac, Renens, Switzerland (solo)
Artists’ Artists, CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
Lumineux! Dynamique!, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Collection on Display: John Armleder, Stefan Burger, Valentin Carron, Edward Krasinski, Manfred Pernice, Migrosmuseum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland.
John M Armleder - Quicksand, Dairy Art Centre, London, UK (solo)
STEVEN PARRINO. Armleder, Barré, Buren, Hantaï, Mosset, Parmentier, Toroni, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
John Armleder. 1987-2012, Carlson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Overload, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
John Armleder. 2013, Carlson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
When Now is Minimal. Die unbekannte Seite der Sammlung Goetz, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany.

Public Collections

Arthothéque de Caen, Caen, France
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris, France
FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, France
FRAC - Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France
FRAC - Pays de Loire, Carquefou, France
Espace de l'art concret, Mouans Sartoux, France
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Ies Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, US

Literature

2013
Furniture Sculptures 1979-2015, Lionel Bovier et al., catalogue raisonné of the Furniture-Sculptures, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland (in preparation)
Wallpaintings & Wallpieces, 1996-2015, cataloue raisonné des peintures murales et autres pièces murales. Lionel Bovier, (texts by Hubert Besacier, Yves Aupetitalot, Christophe Cherix, Parker Williams etc.) ed. by Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland (in preparation)
Rainer Michael Mason/Christophe Cherix et al., L’œuvre multiplié, Catalogue raisonné des estampes et multiples édités à fin 2015“, (with additional texts by various authors and complete bio-bibliographical data by Lionel Bovier). Cabinet des estampes du Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland (in preparation)
2012
Le néon dans l’art des années 1940 à nos jours, exh. cat. La Maison rouge, Paris, Paris 2012
Holzwege. Sentieri erranti. Arte svizzera dalla collezione della Mobiliare, Museo cantonale d’arte, Lugano
2011
Prix Meret Oppenheim 2011: interviews: John M Armleder, Silvia Gmür, Patrick Devanthéry & Inès Lamunière, Ingeborg Lüscher, Guido Nussbaum, ed. by Bundesamt für Kultur, Berne, Switzerland
Sandro Rumney (ed.), „Away“, exh. cat. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 6.4.-9.5.2011, Venice, Italy
Jean-Paul Felley/Olivier Kaeser, Echoes, exh. cat. Centre culturel suisse, Paris, France
2010
Malerei: Prozess und Expansion. Von den 1950er-Jahren bis heute, cat. Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Edition 5 Erstfeld, exh. cat. Haus für Kunst, Altdorf, Switzerland