bxb - bachmann/banz

Caroline Bachmann / Stefan Banz

started working together in Summer 2004.

Caroline Bachmann was born in Lausanne and grew up in Cully, Switzerland. From 1983 to 1987 she studied at the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Geneva. From 1987 to 1990 she worked in the studio of internationally acknowledged Spanish graphic artist Peret in Barcelona. In 1990 she co-founded the agency V.I.T.R.I.O.L., Barcelona. From 1991 to 2002 Bachmann lived in Rome. She took part in the ORESTE Projects from 1997 until 2000, featured, among the other venues, in the Italian Pavilion of the 48th Venice Biennale, curator Harald Szeemann and participated in solo shows and group exhibitions – especially in Italy and Switzerland. She received a grant for a residence in Berlin from the Aargauer Kuratorium in Aarau, Switzerland. Since 2007 she is a Professor for Painting and Drawing at the HEAD in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2009 she co-founded the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, and in 2010 she co-organized the event Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall in Cully, Switzerland, both with Stefan Banz. Caroline Bachmann lives and works in Cully, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany.

Stefan Banz was born in Sursee and grew up in Menznau, Switzerland. From 1982 to 1991 he studied Art History, German Literature and Literary Criticism at the University of Zurich. In 1989 he co-founded the Kunsthalle Luzern and served as its artistic director until 1993. Since then he has been working as a freelance artist. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in international galleries, art institutions and museums such as Museum of Art Lucerne, Migros Museum Zurich, Würtembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, OK – Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich, Linz; MAMCO Geneva; Museum CentrePasquArt, Biel; Walker Art Center Minneapolis; Walter-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; and Kunsthaus Zurich. He has also written plays, novels, theoretical texts and critical essays about artists and personalities such as Jacques Derrida, Marcel Duchamp, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Nauman, and Frank Zappa. In 2000 he received the Manor Art prize, as well as the Recognition Award from the City of Lucerne. In 2005 he was the curator for the Swiss Pavilion at the 51st Biennale in Venice. He was also a Member of the Swiss Federal Art Committee from 2001 to 2007. In 2009 he co-founded the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, and in 2010 he co-organized the event Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall in Cully, Switzerland, both with Caroline Bachmann. Selected publications: Serendipity, Zurich 1990; Kunsthalle Luzern, Lucerne 1993; Give Me A Leonard Cohen Afterworld, Ostfildern-Stuttgart 1995; Platz der Luftbrücke (with Friedrich Kittler), Cologne 1996 and 2011; i built this garden for us, Zurich 1999; a shot away some flowers, Zurich 2000; Komplexes System Kunst, Texte und Interviews, Münster-Hamburg-London 2001; Hell, (novel), Cologne, 2001; The Muhammad Ali’s, Nuremberg 2002; Un coeur simple, Zurich 2003; SMS, Beijing 2005; Laugh. I nearly died, Nuremberg 2006; Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall, Zurich 2010; Das Wespennest ist eine Kathedrale, Ein Gespräch mit Jean-Christophe Ammann, Nuremberg 2011. Stefan Banz lives and works in Cully, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany. Website: http://www.banz.tv

Solo Exhibitions

2012 Alive Has No Sound, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany (June 2012)

             Eau de chute, U37 – Raum für Kunst, Berlin, Germany (December 2012)
2011 CocoHeal me, ABContemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
2008    Helter Skelter – Painting With The Beatles, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland (catalogue)
2007    The Red Carpet, Timezone 8, 798, Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China
2006    Ting Bu Dong, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China (catalogue)
           Laugh. I nearly died, CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland (catalogue)


Selected Group Exhibitions

2011      Paperwork, U37 – Raum für Kunst, Berlin, Switzerland

Äther, Alpineum Produzentengalerie, Lucerne, Switzerland

Schweizer Fotobücher, 1927 bis heute, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, Switzerland

Von Horizonten, Aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseum Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

             Born, Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
             Kunstbetrieb. Kunstsammlung Nr. 6 im Alpenhof, St. Anton, Switzerland
2010      I Want to Grasp Things with the Mind the Way the Penis is Grasped by the Vagina, Galerie Davel 14, Cully,
           Switzerland (catalogue)
           Let the Jangtze Flow, Hubei Institut of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China (catalogue)

             Referenz und Neigung, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne (catalogue)
2009      Parcels for the Promised Land, Kunstbüro, Berlin, Switzerland
2008      Eclairages – Regards sur les collections du musée, Musée Cantonale des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (leaflets)
           Nationale Kunstausstellung, Autofriedhof Kaufdorf, Kaufdorf, Switzerland (catalogue)
           Lasciami, Sculpture Projects, Bex, Switzerland (catalogue)
           Replay, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf, Switzerland (catalogue)
           La chute d'eau, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland (leaflet)
2007      Top of Central Switzerland, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Zentralschweiz, Kunstmuseum Luzern,
           Lucerne, Switzerland (catalogue)
           Werkbeiträge der Stadt und des Kantons Luzern, Kunstpanorama, Lucerne, Switzerland
           14, Galerie Davel 14, Cully, Switzerland (catalogue)
2006      In the Alps, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
           The Culture of Fear, Stiftung Federkiel, Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
           Reisenbahnen, Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland
           Laugh. I nearly died, CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland (catalogue)
2005      Helden heute/Héros à jamais, CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland (catalogue)
           Hier/Anderswo, Kulturpanorama, Lucerne, Switzerland
2004      Jahresausstellung, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
           Facts Are Stupid Things, Galerie staubkohler, Zurich, Switzerland

Publications

2011      Tenderness and Temperature, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg / Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully

2010      Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall, JRP Ringier, Zurich
2009      What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich
2007      Helter Skelter – Painting with the Beatles, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne
2006      Ting Bu Dong, Paintings and Installations, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne

             Laugh. I nearly died, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg

Award

2007      Werkbeitrag from the City and the Canton of Lucerne

Selected Bibliography

2011      Marie Fabienne Aymon, „Davel 14“, laboratoire du livre d‘artiste, in Le livre libre, Les Cahiers dessinés, Paris, pp. 363-364.
2009      Dieter Roeschmann, What Duchamp Abandoned fort he Waterfall, in Artline, Kunstmagazin 10/2009, p. 25.

What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall, in Moorsmagazine, http://www.moorsmagazine.com/fotografie/

             bachmannbanz.html, September 15.
           Gerhard Mack, Der See von dem Marcel Duchamp sich abkehrte, in NZZ am Sonntag, July 12, p. 47.
           Josef J. Zihlmann, Der Genfersee im Rücken, in Willisauer Bote, June 19, p. 7.
           Oliver Kaiser, Back to Léman, in Business Guide 4/09, pp. 54-55.
           Luc Debraine, Champ, contrechamp, Duchamp. A Poetic Volte-Faced Homage, in Caroline Bachmann/Stefan Banz,

           What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, pp. 4-5.
2008      Isabell Teuwsen, Stefan Banz und Caroline Bachmann, Liebeslaube, Künstlerklause, in Sonntagsblick Magazin, pp. 40-43
           Samuel Schellenberg, Collection, vue d’artistes, in Le Courrier, August 29.
           Françoise Jaunin Regards sur les collections invisibles de Rumine, in 24 heures, July 19-20, p. 28.

Philippe Mathonnet, Une collection, révélée en son absence, in Le Temps, July 18, p. 29.

Laurence Chauvy, La collection au gré du temps qu’il fait, in Le Temps Sortir, 17 au 23 juillet, p. 14.

Philippe Mathonnet, La forêt hantée où reposent nos vanités, in Le Temps, July 15, p. 26.

Urs Bugmann, Wenn die Kunst um den Ball kämpft, in Neue Luzerner Zeitung, June 7, p. 11.

Judith Borowski, Kunststück! Was haben Sie sich dabei gedacht, Frau Bachmann, Herr Banz?, in Financial Times Deutschland,

June 6, p. 8.

Luc Debraine, L‘instant-clé où Duchamp a tourné le dos au lac Léman, in Le Temps, March 15, pp. 46-47

Isabell Teuwsen, Los ins neue Leben. Erst Paar, dann Künstlerduo, in Schweizer Illustrierte, No. 5, pp. 59-60.

Urs Bugmann, Die Welt mit Bildern bauen, in Neue Luzerner Zeitung, January 23, p. 35.

Urs Bugmann, Die Beatles im Atelier, in Neue Luzerner Zeitung, Apéro, January 18, p. 17.

Maria Vogel, Beatles in Bildern, in Das Kulturmagazin. Monatszeitschrift für Luzern und die Zentralschweiz, 1, p. 19.

Willi Bürgi, Bilder erzählen Geschichten. Bachmann/Banz – Die beiden Schöpfer unseres Kunstblattes, in Willisauer Bote;

Wiggertaler Bote, 102, p. 2.
2007 Maria Vogel, Ausgewählte Spitzenkunst, in Wilisauer Bote, December 21, p. 7.

Kurt Beck, Luzerner Kunstschaffen zeigt Qualitäten, in Neue Luzerner Zeitung, November 24, p. 11.

Isabelle Vuong, C’est reparti comme en quatorze, in 24 Heures, September 15, p. 23.

Karl Wüst, Pipilotti Rist wäre hoch willkommen, in Neue Zuger Zeitung, March 28; Schaffhauser Nachrichten, March 29, p. 14;

Zürcher Landzeitung, April 10, p. 25; Bündner Tagblatt, April 14, p. 19; Aargauer Zeitung, April 16, p. 28.

Stacey Duff, Programmed to deceive, Swiss artists Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz examine the way we look, in Time out,

Beijing, January, p. 45.

Karin Seiz, Li Shuangzhi, Bachmann/Banz – Ting Bu Dong. Paintings and Installations, in Art Today, 1, pp. 184-188.
2006 Allen, Smithee, Ting Bu Dong, On the Works of Caroline Bachmann and Stefan Banz, in Bachmann/Banz – Ting Bu Dong,

catalogue Galerie Urs Meile, pp. 79-83.

Nataline Colonnello, Suddenly an Image – Other Points of Fascination, in Bachmann/Banz – Ting Bu Dong,

Catalogue Galerie Urs Meile, pp. 85-93.

Josef J. Zihlmann, Stefan Banz in China, in Willisauer Bote, 98, p. 7.

Anneliese Zwez, Stefan Banz im CenrePasquArt, in: Kunst-Bulletin, 2, p. 52.

Anonym, Mythischer Wagen mit Anhänger, in Der Bund, January 30, p. 13.

Anneliese Zwez, Wer brachte die Illusion um, in Bieler Tagblatt, January 26, p. 24.

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