Stefan Banz
Stefan Banz ( born September 11, 1961 in Sursee, Switzerland ) is a Swiss artist and curator.
Life
He grew up in Menznau, Switzerland, where he studied at the University of Zurich art science and wrote his master's thesis " Serendipity ", 1990, with the philosophy of Jacques Derrida ( 1930-2004 ) in relation to the visual arts. In 1989 he co-founded the Kunsthalle Luzern and its artistic director until 1993. In 2005 he curated under the title "Shadows Collide With People," the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Exhibitions
The biotope of art and the question of the origin of the artwork are core areas of cooperation with Jacques Derrida, Wada Jossen, Theo Kneubuehler and Harald Szeemann in the exhibition " The cultivation of the Museum", 1992. The organizing at the Kunsthalle Luzern project is for the development of the artist Stefan Banz prevail.
This is followed first solo exhibitions as an artist in 1993 in the Kubinskoye Gallery, New York and Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne. 1994 in Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich and in the Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam. 1995 " Give me a Leonard Cohen Afterworld " at the Kunstmuseum Luzern. In 1996 he is with the installation " Dive" the exhibition space of the OK Center for Contemporary Art Linz, under water (first, smaller version in 1993 in the Kubinskoye Gallery New York ). 1997 with the installation " Hitzfeld " at Galerie mile Lucerne, he shows by well-known artist names and their works on Fussballtricots for the first time his affinity for the sport, which is manifested in the following years several times in larger exhibitions. With the exhibition " A Shot Away Some Flowers" in MAMCO, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, he shows in 1999 his "Baby Bacon ," the nachgemalten catalog raisonné of the paintings of Francis Bacon and 2000, he is a survey exhibition of his works in Migros Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, as a guest. In the same year he received the award from the city of Lucerne. 2001 follows the exhibition The Muhammad Ali at the Kunstmuseum Luzern ( Lucerne award of the Manor Art Prize 2000 to the artist). His paintings he shows in 2003 in the survey exhibition "Un coeur simple" in the museum in Bell Park, Kriens. His largest ever exhibition was the installation " Study For A Painting Of A Lonely Heart " in the Württemberg Kunstverein Stuttgart, in 2004, where he planted a lawn on 1300 m² of exhibition space and a replicated by a living animal rhinoceros showed that the video " Door to Door " ( where the artist is beaten up by his neighbor) was watching. Another important solo exhibition the artist showed from 22 January to 19 March 2006 under the title " Laugh I nearly died" at the Musée CentrePasquArt in Biel, where at the same time appeared a publication of the same to the installations of the last 15 years. Stefan Banz is represented with his work in important group exhibitions such as, inter alia, in " nonchalance ", Centre PasquArt Biel, 1997, and the Academy of Arts in Berlin, 1998; " A clear view of the Mediterranean Sea ", Kunsthaus Zurich and Schirnkunsthalle, Frankfurt, 1998; " The Squared Circle", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2003; Echigo- Tsumari Triennial Japan, 2003; Prague Biennale, 2003; " Rundlederwelten ", Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2005.
Analysis
The work of Stefan Banz manifests itself mainly in the genres of installation, photography, video and painting. He works as an artist and as a curator. Intermediality is driving this art and, as a basis for the work of Stefan Banz. Since the nineties, he has made a name both in photography, installation, video as well as in painting.
With his photographic work, he established the theme of " family " in contemporary art. The purpose of this paper is not the authentic image, but rather the principle of referentiality. Each image is part of a iconographic program that Banz generated in the reservoir of images of the media and high culture. In conceptual painting he ventures through the redraw of role models, the direct quote. His series of images - such as the Baby Bacon - can be seen on known templates as a " cover versions ". He thus deliberately contrary to the convention of the new creation, as called for in the art the same. With his installations, he finally asked the boundaries of art institutions. The seclusion of the White Cube breaks through the introduction of elements of nature. The plant grows and produces itself, as in the installation " Gulliver ", 2000, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art Zurich, and " Study For A Painting Of A Lonely Heart ", 2004 Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, or the work is fragile and generated by Reflection and refraction of the images, as with " Dive", 1996, OK - Center for Contemporary Art Linz. So he asks with almost all of his works of art and their institutions out and questioned at the same time as his major solo exhibition " Laugh. I nearly died " at the Musée Centre PasquArt in Biel, Switzerland, in 2006, where he. , For example, a trailer, completely filled with his works, by sawing in the middle His latest works are created since 2004 in collaboration with the artist Caroline Bachmann.
Public collections
- Migros Museum of Contemporary Art
- Kunsthaus Zurich
- Museum of Art Lucerne
- Museum CentrePasquArt, Biel
- Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
- N.b.k. Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin