Urs Fischer
Urs Fischer’s (b. 1973) attitude towards making art is at once humble and dramatic; characterised by a playful, almost Surrealist approach, he transforms everyday imagery into powerful works that are both unique and unexpected. Encompassing drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and large-scale installations, the artist resists formal categorisation, moving unpredictably through materials, genres and motifs, to test the limits of what it means to make, display, and view works of art.
‘The challenge in discussing Fischer’s oeuvre is how best to categorize work that appears, initially at least, to be immensely varied. Moving beyond technique, imagery, or technology, however, it is possible to think about his production in relation to types of space, both real and imagined, from which the work may have emerged or with which it may be closely associated. Three overlapping spheres can be defined: the studio, the exterior or public space of images and objects, and the realm of fantasy or the fictional. It is in part the movement between these three zones, or the treatment of something from one realm in the manner of another, that creates the friction and liminal quality in Fischer’s work, where things, images, and materials seem not to behave as we might expect them to.’
J. Morgan, Inside, Outside, and Out There in Urs Fischer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2013
Image: Twilight, 2019, aluminum composite panel, aluminum honeycomb, two-component adhesive, primer, gesso, solvent-based screen printing ink, 243.8 x 182.9 x 2.2 cm.; 247.7 x 186.7 x 5 cm. (framed). Photo: Stefan Altenburger
Selected Works
Solo Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1973
Born in Zurich, Switzerland
Studied Photography at the Schule für Gestaltung, Zurich
Visited ‘de ateliers’, Amsterdam
Artist in Residence, Delfina Studios, London
Lives and works in New York
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Brant Foundation, Greenwich
Broad Collection, Los Angeles
FRAC - Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille
Kunsthaus, Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Kunstsammlung der Stadt Zürich, Zurich
Marciano Collection, Los Angeles
Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Pinault Collection - Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Berlin
V-A-C Foundation, Moscow
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Icre Cream Truck Democracy
Gagosian, Beverly Hills
2022
Lovers
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Denominator
Gagosian, New York
PLAY
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Sadie Coles HQ, London
2021
The Intelligence of Nature
Sadie Coles HQ, London
2019
Urs Fischer's 2
K11 Musea, Hong Kong
The Lyrical and the Prosaic
Aïshti Foundation, Jal El Dib
Leo
Gagosian, Paris
ERROR
The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich
Sculpture
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
PLAY
Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
SIRENS
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Images
Gagosian, Beverly Hills
2018
Dasha
Gagosian, London
PLAY (with choreography by Madeline Hollander)
Gagosian, New York
soft
Sadie Coles HQ , London
Things
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Sotatsu
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Maybe
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2017
Bus Stop
Paradise Plaza, Miami Design District, Miami
Urs Fischer x Katy Perry: Bliss
39 Spring Street, New York
“ ”
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Rome
Big Clay #4 and 2 Tuscan Men
Piazza della Signoria, Florence
Faules Fundament (Rotten Foundation)!
Karma, New York
The Public & the Private
Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco
[Music note title]
Gagosian, Hong Kong
The Kiss
Sadie Coles HQ, London
2016
Mind Moves
Gagosian, San Francisco
Mon cher…
Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles
Battito di Ciglia
Massimo de Carlo, Milan
Untitled (Lamp/Bear)
Simmons Quad, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Small Axe
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Ursula
JTT, New York
Misunderstandings in the Quest for the Universal
Gagosian, New York
2015
Bruno & Yoyo
Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz
Fountains
Gagosian, Beverly Hills
∞
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Big Clay #4
Seagram Plaza, New York
Sadie Coles HQ-in-residence
T293, Naples
2014
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Julian
Karma, Amagansett
Sadie Coles HQ, London
mermaid / pig / bro w/ hat
Gagosian, New York
last supper
Gagosian, New York
Lever House Art Collection, New York
Untitled (Lamp/Bear)
Hamad International Airport, Doha
2013
Melodrama
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Gagosian, Rome
YES
Deste Foundation, Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2012
Tables, Heads, and Arms
Gagosian at Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths
Festival d’Automne à Paris, Cour Chimay and Chapelle des Petits Augustins, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Madame Fisscher
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
schmutz schmutz
Gagosian Gallery, Paris
Beds & Problem Paintings
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Skinny Sunrise
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2011
dngszjkdufiy bgxfjkglijkhtr kydjkhgdghjkd (with Cassandra MacLeod)
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Urs Fischer and Georg Herold
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Untitled (Lamp/Bear)
Seagram Plaza, New York
2010
Douglas Sirk
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Oscar the Grouch
The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich
2009
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
New Museum, New York
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
2008
Blurry Renoir Debussy
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2007
Agnes Martin
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
you.
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Uh…,
Sadie Coles HQ, London
large, dark & empty
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
get up girl a sun is running the world (with Ugo Rondinone)
Church San Stae, Venice Biennale, Venice
Cockatoo Island, Kaldor Art Projects and the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, Sydney
2006
Urs Fischer e Rudolf Stingel
Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan
Oh. Sad. I see.
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Mary Poppins
Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Texas
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Paris 1919
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2005
Mr. Watson—Come Here—I Want to See You
Hydra Workshop, Greece
Urs Fischer: Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Camden Arts Centre, London
Jet Set Lady
Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Istituto dei Ciechi, Milan
Fig, Nut & Pear
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
2004
Elton John?
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Feige, Nuss, und Birne
Gruppe Österreichische Guggenheim, Vienna
Kir Royal
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Not My House Not My Fire
Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2003
Portrait of a Single Raindrop
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
need no chair when walking
Sadie Coles HQ, London
2002
What should an Owl do with a Fork
Santa Monica Museum of Art, California
Mystique Mistake
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Bing Crosby
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2001
Mastering the Complaint
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich
2000
Cappillon—Urs just does it for the girls (with Amy Adler)
Delfina, London
The Membrane—and why I don’t mind bad-mooded People
Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
Tagessuppen/Soups of the Days
6 1/2 Domestic Pairs Project (with Keith Tyson)
Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus
Without a Fist—Like a Bird
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1999
Espressoqueen—Worries and other stuff you have to think about before you get ready for the big easy
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich
1997
Hammer
Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich
1996
Frs Uischer
Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Ulysses' Dream
Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles Island, France
Haunted Realities
Gagosian, London
Swiss Made. From Ferdinand Hodler to Urs Fischer
Gagosian, Gstaad
The Painter's New Tools
Namad Contemporary, New York
Repeater
Sadie Coles HQ, London
2021
Night | Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy with Urs Fischer
Nahmad Projects, London
Anti-Structure
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
Ouverture
Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris
Swiss Sculpture since 1945
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aargau
The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object and Performance
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
An Ideal Landscape
Gagosian, New York
Hong Kong Exchange
Gagosian, Hong Kong
2020
Nature of Robotics: An Expanded Field
EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne
In aller Munde – Von Pieter Bruegel bis Cindy Sherman
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (catalogue)
Bustes de Femmes
Gagosian, Paris
My Cartography: The Erling Kagge Collection
Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Arles
Superunknown / Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy with Urs Fischer
Nahmad Contemporary, New York
Crushed, Cast, Constructed. Sculpture by John Chamberlain, Urs Fischer, and Charles Ray
Gagosian Gallery, London
Amuse-bouche. The Taste of Art
Museum Tinguely, Basel
Marc Newson
Tarmak 22, Gstaad Saanen Airport, Saanen
La Rivoluzione Siamo Noi. Collezionismi Italiano Contemporaneo
XNL Piacenza Contemporanea | Galleria d’Arte Moderna Ricci Oddi, Piazcenza
American Pastoral
Gagosian Gallery, London
100 Sculptures
No Gallery, Los Angeles
To Paint Is to Love Again
Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
2019
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Third Dimension: Works from the Brant Foundation
The Brant Foundation, New York
Miss Dior Love N' Roses Exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Futures of Love
Magasins Généraux, Paris
An Exhibition for Notre-Dame
Gagosian Gallery, Paris
Visions of Self: Rembrandt and Now. In partnership with English Heritage
Gagosian Gallery, London
Flora+Fauna
Sadie Coles HQ, London
The Way We Are 1.0
Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
People
Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
2018
WILD WEST
Foundation de 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg
Urs Fischer & Rudolf Stingel
Paul Coulon Gallery, London
Black Hole, Art and Materiality from Informal to Invisible
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo
How to See [What Isn’t There]
Langen Foundation, Neuss
Mad World
The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Triennale 2018
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle
Spiegelgasse
Hauser & Wirth, London
Object: Administration
Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels
About Photography
Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco
General Rehearsal
V-A-C Foundation, Moscow
Nudes
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Dancing with Myself
Punta della Dogana, Venice
New York By Night
Hadrien de Montferrand, Beijing
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body
The Met Breuer, New York
Kiss Off
Luxembourg & Dayan, New York
Wendepunkte. Von Nolde bis Oppenheim
Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, Zurich
Close at Hand: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture
Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco
2017
Abstract / Not Abstract
The Moore Building, Miami
made on the table
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Project 06: Cindy Sherman & Urs Fischer
OV Project, Brussels
The Trick Brain
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
Darren Bader: (@mined_oud)
Museo MADRE, Naples
Home: Homage to Colin de Land
Massimo de Carlo, Milan
Wild West
Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
Fragile State
Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection
National Art School, Sydney;
Museum of Modern Art, Heide (2018);
Canberra Museum + Gallery, Canberra (2018)
Midtown
Lever House, New York
The Transported Man
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing
ProjectArt Presents: My Kid Could Do That
Red Bull Arts, New York
Bearable Lightness of Being
Grimm, Amsterdam
moving is in every direction. Environments — Installations — Narrative Spaces
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Black and White
Tripoli Gallery, Southampton, New York
Provocateur: From Picabia to Prince
Edward Ressle Gallery, New York
Body Doubles
Lokremise, St. Gallen
Printed Matters II
Gesso Artspace, Vienna
The gap between the fridge and the cooker
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2016
Franz West—ARTISTCLUB
21er Haus, Vienna
Desire
The Moore Building, Miami
Juxtapoz x Superflat
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Die Kerze
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
Dancing with Myself: Self-portrait and Self-invention, Works from the Pinault Collection
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Juxtapoz x Superflat
Vulcan’s Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle
Melodrama, Act 2: New York
Luxembourg & Dayan, New York
Capital: Debt — Territory — Utopia
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Good Dreams, Bad Dreams: American Mythologies
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
And Now the Good News: Opere dalla collezione Annette e Peter Nobel
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Lugano
Urs Fischer: False Friends, Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Sculpture on the Move
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible
The Met Breuer, New York
In the Making: Artists; Assistants, and Influence
Luxembourg & Dayan, New York
2015
Unrealism
The Moore Building, Miami
A Few Free Years: From Absalon to Zobernig: Donations by Friedrich Christian Flick to the Nationalgalerie
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Beverly Hills 20-Year Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, 1995 – 2015
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Skeleton: The body’s armature in contemporary sculpture
museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague
New Skin
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
Saar, Serra, Surls, and more: Thirty New Acquisitions in Contemporary Art
Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
The Mannequin of History: Art After Fabrications of Critique and Culture
Mata, Modena
Ametria
Benaki Museum, Athens
Sprayed: Works from 1929 to 2015
Gagosian Gallery, London
Arts & Foods: Rituals since 1851
Expo Milan 2015, Triennale di Milano, Milan
Sleepless—The bed in history and contemporary art
21er Haus, Vienna
Michael Chow: Voice for My Father
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing;
Power Station of Art, Shanghai;
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2016)
2014
The Event Sculpture
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Je ne sais pas ce que j’ai vu
Cité du design, Saint-Etienne
Fierce Creativity: Artists for Peace and Justice
PACE, New York
Horror Vacui
Gagosian Gallery, Athens
Le jardin décomposé / Decomposed Garden
Gagosian Gallery Le Bourget, Paris
A Very Short History of Contemporary Sculpture
Phillips, London
Horror Vacui
Gagosian Gallery, Geneva
Gratwanderung: Kunst zwischen Schloss und Rebhaus
landauf-bachab, Uster
Burning Down the House
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
ArtLovers: Histoires d’art dans la collection Pinault
Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
Joyride
Marlborough Broome Street, New York
The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
Group show curated by Urs Fischer
Sadie Coles HQ, London
In NO Time
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
An American in Paris: Works from a Private Collection
Gagosian Gallery Le Bourget, Paris
Elevation 1049: Between Heaven and Hell
Gstaad
2013
A Place in Two Dimensions: A Selection from Colección Jumex
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Somos Libres: The World of Contemporary Art through the Eyes of Mario Testino
MATE, Asociación Mario Testino, Lima
Island
Dairy Art Centre, London
Station to Station
Riverfront Studios, Brooklyn;
Union Station/The Pennsylvanian, Pittsburgh;
Chicago Union Station, Illinois;
St. Paul Union Depot, Minneapolis/St. Paul;
Santa Fe Farmer’s Market Pavilion, New Mexico;
La Posada Hotel, Winslow;
Skyline Drive-in Theater, Barstow;
Los Angeles Union Station, Los Angeles;
16th Street Train Station, Oakland/San Francisco
Van Gogh, Dalí, and Beyond: The World Reimagined
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Body Pressure: Sculpture Since the 1960s
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Drawing Line into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma
Crystal Maze IV – 1 + 2 + 3 = 3
Nouveau Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
The Player: Viaggio nelle passioni contemporanee
Museo Marino Marini, Florence
2012
Seuls quelques fragments de nous toucheront quelques fragments d’autrui (Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others)
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Ensemble
Galerie kreo, Paris
Westbau Pool, etc.
Löwenbräu Kunst, Zurich
Painting Now
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Riotous Baroque. From Cattelan to Zurbarán—Tributes to Precarious Vitality
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich;
Guggenheim, Bilbao (2013)
The Painting Factory: Abstraction after Warhol
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Poule!
Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec
Micro mania
Gagosian Gallery, Paris
Inside a Book a House of Gold: Artists’ Editions for Parkett
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2011
Home Alone
Sender Collection, Miami
Now: obras de La Colección Jumex
Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art
De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg;
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice;
KHOJ International Artists’ Association, New Delhi;
Mumbai Art Room, Mumbai;
Nero HQ, Rome (2012);
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2012);
SALT, Beyoğlu (2012);
The Drawing Center, New York (2012);
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro (2013);
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2013)
Artists for Haiti
David Zwirner, New York
Lustwarande 2011—Blemishes
Park De Oude Warande, Museum De Pont, Tilburg
Produced by Migros: Collection Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Sculpture Now
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
ILLUMInazioni / ILLUMInations
Venice Biennale, Venice
The World Belongs to You
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
New contemporary galleries featuring the John Kaldor Family Collection
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
L’invention de l’oeuvre: Rodin et les ambassadeurs
Musée Rodin, Paris
Sympathy for the Devil
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
Kunstsammlung im Alpenhof Nr. 6: Kunstbetrieb
Alpenhof St. Anton, St. Anton
Don’t Do It Etc.
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
dwelling
Marianne Boesky Gallery (uptown), New York
Modern British Sculpture
Royal Academy of Arts, London
8 ½
Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Stazione Leopolda, Florence
2010
Die Nase des Michelangelo / The Nose of Michelangelo
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Divine Comedy
Sotheby’s, New York
Post Monument
XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Carrara
Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
The New Décor
Hayward Gallery, London;
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Alpha Omega: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
High Ideals & Crazy Dreams
Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg
Voici un dessin suisse (1990–2010) / Here Is a Swiss Drawing
Musée Rath, Geneva;
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aargau (2011)
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection
New Museum, New York
2009
Beg Borrow and Steal
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Les enfants terribles
Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec
We Are Sun-kissed and Snow-blind
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Investigations of a Dog: Works from the FACE Collections
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Ellipse Foundation, Cascais (2010);
La maison rouge — Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris(2010);
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (2011);
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (2011)
Precarious Form I / Prekäre Skulpturen
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1)
Burger Collection, Berlin
200 Artworks—25 Years: Artists’ Editions for Parkett
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa;
Singapore Tyler Print Institute (STPI), Singapore (2010);
Seoul Arts Center (SAC), Hangaram Museum, Seoul (2010)
The living and the dead
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection
Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice
Magritte et la Lumière / Magritte and Light
Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
Remembering Henry’s Show: Selected Works, 1978–2008
The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich
A Guest + A Host = A Ghost: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
Nothingness and Being
Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Saints and Sinners
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
2008
Ombres
New Galerie de France, Paris
Open Plan Living
ART TLV 08, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Archeology of Mind
Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden;
Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa (2009)
Château de Tokyo / Palais de Fontainebleau
Château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau
An Unruly History of the Readymade
Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico
Sammlung / Collection
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Tutti Frutti
BASE / Progetti per l’arte, Florence
Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns?
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Blasted Allegories: Works from the Ringier Collection
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne
God Is Design
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Countdown
CCS Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Schweiz über alles
Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec
2007
Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century
New Museum, New York
Jubilee Exhibition
House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà
The Third Mind: Carte Blanche to Ugo Rondinone
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
00s: The history of a decade that has not yet been named
Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon
Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
Franz West: Soufflé, eine Massenausstellung
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
Traum & Trauma: Werke aus der Sammlung Dakis Joannou, Athens
MUMOK and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
The Hamsterwheel
Tese della Nuovissima, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice;
Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse;
CASM Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona;
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
Domestic Irony: A Foray into Italy’s Private Collections
Museion, Bolzano
Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture in the François Pinault Collection
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Disorder in the House
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
2006
The Studio
The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
The François Pinault Collection, a Post-Pop Selection
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Defamation of Character
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
Contrabando
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
The Vincent Award 2006
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Cinq milliards d’années(Five Billion Years)
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Prints
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Where Are We Going? Selections from the François Pinault Collection
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Collection
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Infinite Painting—Contemporary Painting and Global Realism
Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo
Day for Night
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Collection 1
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2005
Schweizer Druckgraphik 1980–2005
Helmhaus, Zurich
Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Goethe Abwärts—Deutsche Jungs Etc.: Works from the Falckenberg Collection
Helsinki Art Museum, Meilahti
Ma Non Al Sud
Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea di Siracusa, Syracuse
Closing Down
Bortolami Dayan, New York
Big Bang. Destruction and Creation in 20th Century Art
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Put It In Your Mouth / I’ll see you on the dark side of the prune
Rivington Arms, New York
Bidibidobidiboo: Works from Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Material Time / Work Time / Life Time
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
Swiss Made (The Art of Falling Apart): Works from the Hauser & Wirth Collection
Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen (Amsterdam)
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago;
Hayward Gallery, London;
Mart: Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
2004
Central Station: Collection Harald Falckenberg
La maison rouge — Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
Skulptur: Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Komik
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Memorable Memory: Migros Museum Collection
Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen
Group Show
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Monument to Now
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
L’Air du Temps—Collection Printemps/Été 2004
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
I Hate You: The Falckenberg Collection Meets Louisiana
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
2003
Silver Convention
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
Unplugged
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Inaugural Group Exhibition
GBE (Modern), New York
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer
Venice Biennale
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Spatial Emotion in Contemporary Art and Architecture
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich;
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
Breathing the Water
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Durchzug / Draft: Zwanzig Jahre Stiftung Binz39
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
2002
poT: An Exhibition of Contemporary Pottery
The Independent, Liverpool
Exile on Main Street
New International Cultural Center (NICC), Antwerp
The Object Sculpture
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
My head is on fire but my heart is full of love
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
The House of Fiction
Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise St. Gallen
Lowland Lullaby: Ugo Rondinone with John Giorno and Urs Fischer
Swiss Institute, New York
Tomorrow’s Fish and Chips
Autocenter, Berlin
2001
walcheturm 00/07: mind-sediments
Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich
Squatters
Museu Serralves, Porto
Ziviler Ungehorsam—Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Falckenberg
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover
Enduring Love
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York
2000
Let’s Be Friends
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Borderline Syndrome. Energies of Defence
Manifesta 3, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Sammlung 1. The Oldest Possible Memory
Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise, St. Gallen
1999
Drawings
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
PEACE
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Eidgenössische Preise für Freie Kunst
Kunsthalle, Zürich
Pizzeria Sehnsucht
Ateliers du FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire
Collection
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
999
Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino
Le repubbliche dell’arte
Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna
Collection: Holding Court
Entwistle Gallery, London
1998
Morning Glory. De Ateliers 1993–1997
De Ateliers, Amsterdam
Ironisch/Ironic
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
1997
été 97
Centre d’édition contemporaine (formerly Centre Genevois de Gravure Contemporain), Geneva
Guarene arte 97
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Dokumentation
Hotel, Zurich
1995
Die Grosse Zürcher Ausstellung
Kunsthaus Örlikon, Zurich
Calypso
Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam
Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger des Eidgenössischen Wettbewerbs für freie Kunst
Kunsthaus, Glarus
Karaoke 444&222 too
South London Gallery, London
Assistent
Stiftung Binz39, Zurich
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Vito Schnabel Gallery / Kiito-San (Eds.): Bruno & Yoyo, St. Moritz / New York, 2017
Kiito-San (Ed.): Phantom Paintings, New York, 2017
Fondation Vincent Van Gogh (Ed.): Mon cher…, Arles, 2017
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art (Ed.): Urs Fischer: False Friends, Geneva, 2016
Kiito-San (Ed.): Yes, New York, 2015
Karma (Ed.): Julian, New York, 2015
Kiito-San (Ed.): The Making of Yes, New York, 2013
Kiito-San (Ed.): Urs Fischer, New York, 2013
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art (Ed.): 2000 Words: Urs Fischer, Athens, 2013
Gagosian Gallery (Ed.): Beds & Problem Paintings, Beverly Hills, 2012
Kiito-San (Ed.): Madame Fisscher, New York, 2012
The Brant Foundation / Kiito-San (Eds.): Oscar the Grouch, Greenwich / New York, 2012
Kiito-San (Ed.): Skinny Sunrise, New York, 2012
Kiito-San (Ed.): Necrophonia, New York, 2012
Fischer, Urs (Ed.): dngszjkdufiy bgxfjkglijkhtr kydjkhgdghjkd, 2011
Christie’s (Ed.): Untitled (Lamp / Bear), New York, 2011
Fischer, Urs and Bader, Darren (Eds.): The Bearded Island / The Artist’s Lament, 2010
New Museum (Ed.): Shovel in a Hole, New York, 2009
Sadie Coles HQ (Ed.): Urs Fischer: Helmar Lerski, London, 2008
Fischer, Urs and Lerski, Helmar (Eds.): Self-published artist’s book, 2008
Fischer, Urs (Ed.): Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns?, 2008
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art (Ed.): Urs Fischer. Fractured Figure, Vol.1, Athens, 2008
Galleria Massimo de Carlo (Ed.): Urs Fischer / Rudolf Stingel, Milan, 2007
JRP|Ringier Kunstverlag (Ed.): Album—on and around Urs Fischer, Yves Netzhammer, Ugo Rondinone, and Christine Streuli, participating at the 52nd Venice Biennale, Zurich, 2007
Kaldor Public Art Projects (Ed.): Urs Fischer: Cockatoo Island, Sydney, 2007
JRP|Ringier Kunstverlag (Ed.): Paris 1919, Zurich, 2006
Blaffer Gallery (Ed.): Urs Fischer: Mary Poppins, Houston, 2006
Hydra Workshop (Ed.): Mr. Watson—Come Here—I Want to See You, Hydra, 2005
Hamburger Bahnhof (Ed.): Urs Fischer: Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2005
JRP Editions (Ed.): Good Smell Make-up Tree, Geneva, 2004
JRP|Ringier Kunstverlag (Ed.): Kir Royal, Zurich, 2004
Centre Georges Pompidou (Ed.): Urs Fischer, Paris, 2004
Kunsthaus Glarus (Ed.): Time Waste. Radio-Cookie und kaum Zeit, Glarus, 2000
M. Gowing and G. O’Callaghan, Making Art Public, Sydney: Kaldor Public Art Projects, 2020
Publications
Urs Fischer: Sirens
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2020
With an essay by Gregor Jansen
€ 45.00
Urs Fischer, SIRENS
Exhibition Poster
Created by the artist
2019
Edition of 100
€ 20.00
Selected Press
Spike Magazine Summer 2021
Neue Zürcher Zeitung June 2021
The Architects Newspaper May 2019
Architectural Digest November 2018
Garage Magazine December 2017
Post Magazine April 2017
Artflyer 2016
Alain Elkann Interview 2015
Art in America January 2010
