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Uwe Wittwer

 
Uwe Wittwer
Familie
2006

Oil on canvas
195 x 170 cm

HV15930
© Uwe Wittwer 2007
 
 
 

Uwe Wittwer

1954 born in Zurich, Switzerland

Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland

Grants

2007 London Studio Grant, Kulturstiftung Landis & Gyr
2004 Studio Grant Schloss Wiepersdorf by the Bundeskulturstiftung Berlin
2000 Prize of the International Print Triennial, Grenchen, Switzerland
1997 Prize of the Foundation for Graphic Art in Switzerland
1994 Studio Grant by the City of Zurich at the Cité International des Arts, Paris
Prize of the Bern Biennial by the Commission for Visual Arts, Canton Bern
Federal Prize for Visual Arts, Switzerland
1992 Grant by the Canton Zurich
1991 Grant by the Canton Zurich
Louise Aeschlimann Grant by the Bernische Kunstgesellschaft
1989 London Studio Grant by the Stiftung Binz 39, Zurich
1988 Scholarship of the City of Burgdorf
1986 Grant by the Canton Zurich

Solo Exhibitions

2009 Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Nolan Judin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Haunch of Venison, London, UK
2008 Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswill, Zurich, Switzerland
Cohan & Leslie Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Haunch of Venison, Zurich, Switzerland
2005 Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
Ludwigforum Aachen, Germany
Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2004 Galerie Anton Meier Genf, Switzerland
Musée des Beaux Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
2003 Galerie Ulrike Buschlinger, Wiesbaden, Germany
2002 Galerie Knapp, Genf, Switzerland
Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2001 Galerie Margit Haldemann, Bern, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland
2000 University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA
Galerie Ulrike Buschlinger, Wiesbaden, Germany
Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Universität Witten / Herdecke, Germany
1999 Galerie Ulrike Buschlinger, Wiesbaden, Germany
Houldsworth Fine Art, London, UK
1998 Helmhaus Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Margit Haldemann, Bern, Switzerland
1997 Galerie Ulrike Buschlinger, Wiesbaden, Germany
Galerie Silvia Steiner, Biel, Switzerland
Museum Schloss Morsbroich / Kunstverein Leverkusen, Germany
1995 Galerie Margit Haldemann, Bern, Switzerland
Centre PasquART, Biel, Switzerland

Group Exhibitions

2009 Mythologies, Haunch of Venison at the Royal Academy, UK
2008 Glückliche Tage? Kinder in der Schweizer Kunst vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart,
Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

2007 Fade Away and Radiate, Cohan and Leslie Gallery, New York, USA
2006 Judy Millar / Sophia Schama / Uwe Wittwer, Spielhaus Morrison Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Reprocessing Reality, P.S.1 MoMA, New York, USA
2005 Blumenmythos / Flower Myth, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel, Switzerland
2002 In Between, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland
Balsam, Helmhaus Zurich, Switzerland
Inauguration, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
L'immagine ritrovata, Museo cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
Frozen Flowers, Galerie Margit Haldemann, Bern, Switzerland
Big is beautiful, Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Neuchâte, Switzerland l
Neighbourhoods, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2001 Die Kunst der Mobiliar, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
2000 Schafft Land!, Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Germany
15. Internationale Triennale fuer Originalgrafik, Grenchen, Switzerland
1999 Landgang, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
1998 Die Schärfe der Unschärfe, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
Swiss Contemporary Art, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1997 Sammlung Bosshard, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
1996 Snuff-Tatort London, Galerie Christa Schubbe, Düsseldorf, Germany
1995 Landschaft Heute, Galerie Silvia Steiner, Biel; with Marc-Antoine Fehr and Albrecht Schnider
1994 Biennale Bern, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland
Preistraeger des Eidgenoessischen Stipendiums, Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Neuchâtel,
Switzerland
1992 Ueberschlag, Kulturamt Prenzlauer Berg, Pfefferberg, Berlin, Germany
1991 17. Berner Kunstausstellung, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

Collections

Banca del Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland
Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, The Netherlands
Bosshard Collection, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Caldic Collection, The Netherlands
Centre PasquART Biel, Switzerland
Collection City of Bern, Switzerland
Collection City of Burgdorf, Switzerland
Collection City of Geneva, Switzerland
Collection City of Zurich, Switzerland
Collection Canton of Bern, Switzerland
Collection Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
Collection of the Swiss Confederation, Bern, Switzerland
Credit Suisse, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
MFC Consulting, Verbier, Switzerland
Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Museum für Kommunikation Bern, Switzerland
Mobiliar Versicherung, Bern, Switzerland
National Versicherung, Basel, Switzerland
Richemont Art Foundation
Roche Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
SRG (Swiss Public Radio and TV), Zurich, Switzerland
Syngenta. Basel, Switzerland
UBS Art Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
ZKB; Collection Zürcher Kantonalbank, Zurich, Switzerland

Bibliography

Monographs and Catalogues

Uwe Wittwer: Verwehung, limited edition book published by Nolan Judin Berlin

Glückliche Tage? Kinder in der Schweizer Kunst vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart
Museum zu Allerheiligen, Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008

Uwe Wittwer. Hail and Snow, published by Haunch of Venison (text: Sarah Kent)

Uwe Wittwer - Geblendet / Dazzled, Kehrer Verlag 2005. Publishers: Kunstmuseum Solothurn und Ludwig
Forum Aachen. German and English (texts by Christoph Vögele, Harald Kunde, Konrad Tobler, Adrian
LeBlanc, Klaus Merz)

Blumenmythos / Flower Myth - Vincent van Gogh to Jeff Koons, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen und Edition
Minerva, Wolfratshausen, 2005 (Texts: Ernst Beyeler, Christoph Vitali, Robert Kopp, Philippe Büttner, Ulf
Küster)

Geschäftsbericht 2002, National-Versicherungs-Gesellschaft, Basel (text: Markus Stegmann), 2003

Musterbuch II, Galerie Fabian & Claude Walter, Basel and Zurich (text: Konrad Tobler), 2002

L'Imagine ritrovata, Museo cantonale d'Arte, Lugano (text: Marco Franciolli), 2002

In Between, Kunsthaus Langenthal (text: Marianne Burki und Katrin Steffen), 2002

Kunst.Welt.Stadt.Zürich. Zürcher Gegenwartskunst bei ZKB Private Banking, (text: Jochen Hesse), 2001

Die Kunstsammlung der Mobiliar, (text: Franziska Martin) Bern, 2001

Musterbuch, Galerie Fabian & Claude Walter, Basel (text: Ronald Schenkel), 2000

Landschaften, Huberte Goote Gallery, Zug (text: M. Bockemühl), 2000

Schafft Land!, Stadtmuseum Siegburg, (text: Gundula Caspary), 2000

Uwe Wittwer, Helmhaus, Zurich (text: Marie-Louise Lienhard), 1998

Lokaltermin Atelier II, Bernische Kunstgesellschaft (text: Fred Zaugg, Photos Alexander Egger), 1998

Why make prints, Pro Helvetia (text: Annemarie Bucher) Zurich, 1998



gravure, vous avez dit gravure?, Musée Jurassienne des Arts, Moutier (text: Valentine Reymond), 1998

Biografisches Lexikon der Schweizer Kunst, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Zurich und
Lausanne, Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung (text: Martin Kraft), 1998

Die Schärfe der Unschärfe, Kunstmuseum Solothurn (text: Christoph Vögele), 1998

Verein für Originalgraphik 1948 - 1998, Verein für Originalgraphik (text Hans Eggenberger et al.), Zurich
1998

Uwe Wittwer. Am Fluss, Kunstverein Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen (text: Harald Kunde), 1997

Snuff. Tatort London, Galerie Christa Schübbe, Düsseldorf (text: Malcolm Quinn), 1996

Uwe Wittwer, The Huberte Goote Gallery, Zug (text: Michael Bockemühl), 1996

Uwe Wittwer. Ölmalerei und Aquarelle, Edition Franz Mäder, Basel (text: Hans Rudolf Reust), 1996

Uwe Wittwer. Druckgrafik 1982-1996, Edition Franz Mäder, Basel (text: Andreas Meier, Paul Tanner, Urs
Richle), 1996

Berner Biennale 1994, Kunsthaus Langenthal (text: Peter Killer), 1994

"Ueberschlag", Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin (text: Susanne Bieri), 1992

Uwe Wittwer, Kunsthalle Bern (texte: Ulrich Loock and Mariuccia Sprenger), 1991

La Lupa e l'Orso, Magazzini Generali, Rom. Artist exchange Rome-Bern, (text: Susanne Bieri), 1987

Spectrum Zürich, Mercer Union, Toronto (text: Martin Kraft), 1986

Hier und Jetzt, Hallen für neue Kunst, Wil (text: Markus Landert), 1986


Artist's Books

Uwe Wittwer Monsun I-III, text by Markus Stegmann, Édition Idéal, Zurich, 2005

Uwe Wittwer Relative Stille/Relatively Still, Édition Idéal, Zürich 1999


DVDs

Museum, Kevin Mueller and Uwe Wittwer, with Aziza Sadikova, Klaus Merz, Andreas Ryser and Arne
Nannestad,
The Institute of Contemporary Urban Encounters, 2005.
Weblink: www.urbanfields.net/museum

To the Stadium, Kevin Mueller and Uwe Wittwer, with Andreas Ryser (filewile.com) und Amy Lawrence,
The Institute of Contemporary Urban Encounters, 2001.
Weblink: www.urbanfields.net/stadium


VHS Video

Relatively Still, remix of the book (text: Kevin Mueller, Musik: Andreas Ryser (filewile.com), Kevin Mueller,
Editing: Lopetz Gianfreda, H. Widmer - Buro Destruct, Bern), The Institute of Contemporary Urban
Encounters, 2000
Weblink: www.urbanfields.net/workshop

 
 
 

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