MARC BAUER
*1975 Geneva, CH
Lives in Berlin and Zurich
Education
2002-2004 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, NL
1995-1999 Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel Geneva, CH
Solo Shows (selection)
2015 FRAC Paca, Marseille, FR
2014
Le Quartier, Quimper, FR
FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, FR
FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
2013 The Astronaut, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, CH
Le collectionneur, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, FR
2012 La Station, Nice, FR
Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH
Musée de Pully, with Sara Masueger, Lausanne, CH
Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, CH
2010-11 Totstell-Reflexe, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH
2009 E la neve, e il trionfo, Car Projects, Bologna, IT
Premier conte sur le pouvoir, MAMCO, Geneva, CH
Ambassade, Praz - Delavallade, Paris, FR
LAQUE, Frac Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
2008 Panorama Todtnauberg, Art Statements, Art 39 Basel, CH
2007 Gegen mein Gehirn, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich, CH
History of Masculinity Epilogue, attitudes, espace d’arts contemporains, Geneva, CH
2006 History of Masculinity IV, Abendland, Praz - Delavallade, Paris, FR
Geschichte der Männlichkeit, o.T. Raum fuer aktuelle Kunst, Luzern, CH
2005 Eine kleine Geschichte der Infamie, Nicolas Krupp, contemporary art gallery, Basel, CH
2004 Happier Healthier, Store Gallery London, UK
Tautology, SMBA (Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam), Amsterdam, NL
Group Shows (selection)
2014
Liverpool Biennial
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau. Docking Station
Freymond-Guth Fine Arts Ltd., Zurich. Le Salon Particulier
Migros Museum, Zurich. Sacré 101 – An Exhibition Based on The Rite of Spring. Curated by Raphael Gygax
2013 Guerlain Donation, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Frieze London, with Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, London, GB
Parcours, ‘The Architect‘, ciné-concert with the band Kafka, Art Basel, CH
La Révolte et L‘Ennui, cur. by Marc Bauer, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
Artists against Aids, cur. Heike Munder, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland, Bonn, DE
2012
FIAC, with Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Paris, FR
LISTE 17, with Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Basel, CH
Contemporary Drawing Prize of the Daniel & Florence Guerlain Foundation,
Salon du Dessin, Palais de la Bourse, Paris, FR
Relay, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, CH
FRAC Auvergne/ Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Reality Manifestos, or Can Dialecticts Break Bricks?, cur. Dimitrina Sevova,
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, AT
2011 Reality is inadmissible in fact it doesn‘t exist, with Darren Almond, Phillippe Cogné, Eberhard Havekost, Jim Jarmusch, cur. Jean-Charles Vergne, Centre d‘Art du
Hangar à Bananas, Nantes, FR
The Secret Garden, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, CH
The Beirut Experience, Beirut Art Center, RL
ReMap3, Athens, GR
Recent Acquisitions, dpt. for graphic art, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
RAL 7021, eine magnifique Reportage!, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zürich, CH
Back to the Future, Neuerwerbungen der Gesellschaft der Freunde bildender Kunst und des Kunstvereins, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH
In erster Linie, Kunstmuseums Solothurn, CH
‘Bild für Bild - Film und zeitgenössische Kunst Aus der Sammlung des Centre
Pompidou’, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, DE
Voici un dessin suisse (1990-2010), Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH
2010 Where cuckoos nest in autumn, with Armen Eloyan and Sara Masüger, SAL, Basel, CH
Voici un dessin suisse (1990-2010), Musée Rath, Geneva, CH
Célébration, Frac Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
Made in China, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, CH
Documents, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, FR
Shifting Identities, CAC Vilnius, Vilnius, LT
2009 Pugilato, Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, IT
2008 THREE COLORS - RED, XV. Rohkunstbau, Potsdam, DE
Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Zürich, CH
Gegen den Strich, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, DE
Intro, Kunsthaus Zürich, CH
2007 Gegen Den Strich, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
Drôles de je, FRAC Alsace, Selestat, FR
Body as spectacle, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art - MMSU, Rijeka, CZ
2006 Glaskultur, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián, ES
2005 Buenos Días Santiago - an exhibition as expedition, MAC - Museum of contempora- ry art, Santiago de Chile, CL
Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Overthrowing the King in his Own Mind, with Shahryar Nashat and Alexia Walther Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, CH
A show without works, Spazio Lima, Milano, IT
Swiss Art Awards, Messe Basel, CH
2004 A Molecular History of Everything*, ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Melbourne, AU
Summer Pursuits, Store Galery, London, UK
Swiss Awards, Messe Basel, CH
Fuerchte Dich, Helmhaus, Zurich, CH
2003 Lautloses irren, ways of worldmaking, too, Postbahnhof am Ostbahnhof, Berlin, DE
Little triggers, Cohan Leslie & Brown Gallery, New York, USA
20 Jahre Binz Stiftung, Kunsthalle Zuerich, CH
Awards
2009 Prix culturel Manor, Geneva, CH
2006 Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
2005 Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
2001 Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
Residencies
2006 GegenwART_ Museum Bern, resident artists at Ai Weiwei studio, Beijing, CN
2005-2006 Swiss Institute Rome, IT
Screenings
2007 ‚Anteferno II, cur. by Renske Janssen and Nicolaus Schafhausen for the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Depiction part III, Witte de With Museum, Rotterdam, NL
‚Anteferno I, II, III‘ and ‚Tautology‘, Da Sodoma a Hollywood - Turin Gay and
Lesbian Film Festival, Voice Over section, Turin, IT
Artist‘s books and Catalogues
2011 Reality is inadmissible in fact it doesn‘t exist / Le réel est inadmissible, d’ailleurs il n’existe pas, publ. ESBA, Nantes, FR
‘MARC BAUER’ monographic catalogue for the exhibition ‘Totstell-Reflexe‘, publ. by
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and Kehrer Verlag, DE
2010 ‘Bild für Bild’ catalogue for the groupshow in the Museum Ostwall in Dortmund, DE
2009 ’ STEEL’, artist book, texts Jean-Charles Vergne, design Vincent van der Marck, FRAC Auvergne, FR
2007 ‘History of masculinity’, artist’s book in cooperation with Vincent van der Marck, attitudes, Geneva, CH
‘Buenos dias Santiago’, Exhibit. Cat., Attitudes, Geneva, CH
2005 ‘Documents, Marc Bauer: Tautology’, writings, publ. by Rijks Akademie van
Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
‘Overthrowing the king in his own mind’, Exhibit. Cat., publ. by Kunstmuseum
Solothurn and Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt/Main, DE
2004 ‚Happier Healthier‘, artist‘s book in ccoperation with Vincent van der Mark and Store Gallery, London, UK
‘Fürchte dich’, Exhibit. Cat., Helmhaus Zürich, CH
2003 ‘Durchzug/DRAFT, 20 Jahre Stiftung BINZ 39’, Kunsthalle Zürich, Stiftung BINZ39, CH
2000 ‘Across the Great Channel’, artist’s book, Memory Cage editions, Zurich, CH