Alex Hanimann

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Alex Hanimann (born October 30, 1955 in Mörschwil ) is a Swiss artist. He is professor for visual communication at the Zurich University of the Arts .

Life

Alex Hanimann grew up in Mörschwil. After attending the primary school teacher seminar in Rorschach, he trained as a drawing teacher at the Zurich University of the Arts from 1977 to 1981 . Since the end of this training he has been working as a freelance artist. He was a co-founder of the St. Gallen Art Gallery, created in 1987 . From 1997 to 2004 he was a member of the Federal Art Commission . Since 2003 he has been teaching at the Zurich University of the Arts.

He lives in St. Gallen and has been married to Marianne Thurnheer since 1982 and has three children with her.

Exhibitions (selection)

Vanessa, 2012. Art and the city
  • 2015: Video work about polar bears as part of the exhibition “In the Here and Now! Swiss art from the past 30 years from the Art Today Collection ”in the Bern Art Museum
  • 2014: The relationship problem in the Bern milieu
  • 2014: An Image Collector's Private Cabinet in the Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona
  • 2013: Out of space in the Bernard Jordan gallery, Zurich
  • 2013: recent works in the Skopia Gallery, Geneva
  • 2013: Constellation 5. 71 years - 71 works in the Art Museum Thurgau , Karthaus Ittingen
  • 2013: characters. Language. Photos. Writing in art since the 1960s in the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
  • 2012: Mimicry in the Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin
  • 2012: Art and the city - the festival for art in public spaces , Zurich
  • 2011: Voici un dessin suisse 1990 - 2010 at the Aargauer Kunsthaus , Aarau

Publications (selection)

  • Publisher St. Kunz: Textarbeiten 1986–2008 , Nuremberg 2009 (on the occasion of the exhibition “Conceptual Games” in the Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, January 24th to May 3rd, 2009)
  • Publisher C. Plath: Horsepark , Nuremberg 2002 (on the occasion of the exhibition "The Power of Perception and the Power of Judgment" at the Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster from April 12 to May 26, 2002)
  • Co-author of Atom in Pakistan , Nuremberg 2000
  • Editor G. Jetzer: Birdwatching , St. Gallen 2004 (on the occasion of the exhibition "Birdwatching" in the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (mamco), Geneva, October 22, 2003– January 25, 2004; Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen, 6 March - April 25, 2004)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Konrad Bitterli: Lexicon article about Alex Hanimann . Skiart.ch [1] , 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Hanimann, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Mörschwil , Switzerland