Andreas Heusser

Andreas Heusser (* 1976 in Zurich ) is a Swiss conceptual artist and curator . He lives and works in Zurich and Johannesburg .

Andreas Heusser in the mobile exhibition room of the No Show Museum, 2015

education

Andreas Heusser completed the basic course in psychology at the University of Zurich from 1996 to 1998 . He then joined the main compartment and graduated in philosophy and German literature in 2013 with the licentiate from. From 2011 to 2013 he studied again and completed a master's degree in Contemporary Arts Practice (Fine Arts) at the Bern University of the Arts.

Exploration of nothing

Since 2013 Andreas Heusser has been researching nothing in art , philosophy and science . Dealing with the topic led to the founding of the No Show Museum , the first museum that is dedicated to nothing and its diverse manifestations in the history of art. In July 2015, the No Show Museum started its world tour to spread nothing. The first stage led through 20 countries in Central and Northern Europe and included around 30 exhibitions in galleries and museums, in public spaces and in remote locations. The tour ended in October 2015 in Venice, where the No Show Museum, as the official participant of the 56th Venice Biennale, played at the Lido and the Salon Suisse. In the summer of 2016, the mobile museum was shipped to New York for a second exhibition tour lasting several months. The North American tour led through 20 states in the USA and Canada to the west coast of the USA and as far as Mexico. The third stage started in November 2017 in Baja California, Mexico and led through the countries of Central America to Colombia.

Political art projects

Between 2009 and 2011 Andreas Heusser developed a series of politically committed works at the interface between art and activism ( KEH , OLAF , CHASOS ). With the fictional “Organization to Solve the Foreigners Question” (OLAF) and the fictional character Alois Stocher, he carried out several weeks of counter-propaganda in 2010, which aimed to undermine the SVP's xenophobic campaign to automatically deport criminal foreigners using satire and subversive affirmation . The campaigns were spread on the one hand through posts and videos in social media , and on the other hand through regular reporting in print and online media, what u. a. with controversial actions and happenings, staged false reports and interventions at press conferences. Another example is the campaign launched in 2011 with the “Christian Humanitarian Asylum Self-Help Organization Switzerland” (CHASOS) with the fictional character Pastor Wilfried Stocher (the brother of Alois B. Stocher): As a satirical reaction to the threatening image circulated by many media and politicians In the wake of the “refugee tsunami” that would break through Switzerland as a result of the Arab Spring, the false priest installed a kind of anti-human refugee camp at Art Basel to protect the local population from the threatening waves of refugees.

Curatorial work

Andreas Heusser is the founder and director of the Openair Literature Festival Zurich , an international literature festival that takes place annually for one week in the Old Botanical Garden in Zurich . He is also a founding member and co-director of Das Institut , a project space for performative and transdisciplinary arts in Zurich. From 2011 to 2013 he was the program manager of the Kaufleuten, responsible for the cultural events (concerts, readings, cabarets, podiums).

In 2001, Andreas Heusser and Marc Rychener founded the interdisciplinary artist collective index , with which he organized several festivals ( Festival der Künste 2002, Lyrik am Fluss 2002–2005) and series of events ( Mikro 2006–2011, Kino im Atelier 2005–2010, Makro 2008) and carried out.

Solo exhibitions

• La station - Gare des Mines / Garage MU in Paris, France, 11/2018
• Espacio Naranjo in Madrid, Spain, 11/2018
• Espacio Oculto in Madrid, Spain, 11/2018
• Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, Portugal, 11/2018
• MUTUO Centro de Arte en Barcelona, ​​Spain, 10/2018
• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogota, Colombia, 1/2018
• Galería Antítesis, Panama City, Panama, 1/2018
• Galería Despacio, San José, Costa Rica, 12/2017
• Galería Códice, Managua, Nicaragua, 12/2017
• Museo para la Identidad Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
• Museo de Arte de El Salvador (MARTE), San Salvador, El Salvador, 12/2017
• Galería El Sótano, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 11/2017
• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Oaxaca, Mexico, 11/2017
• Galería Ladrón, Mexico City, Mexico, 11/2017
• Museum of Emptiness (MOE), St. Gallen, Switzerland, 9/2017
• Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, USA, 10/2016
• CULT | Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco, USA, 10/2016
• CCA Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, USA, 10/2016
• Ice Cube Gallery, Denver, USA, 09/2016
• Fort Gondo, St. Louis, USA, 09/2016
• Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, USA, 09/2016
• Spread Arts Gallery, Detroit, USA, 09/2016
• Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 09/2016
• Enriched Bread Artists, Ottawa, Canada, 08/2016
• Die Diele, Zurich, Switzerland, 08/2016 - 9/2016
• Fresh Window Gallery, New York, USA, 08/2016
• 56th Biennale di Venezia , Salon Suisse / Palazzo Trevisan and Lido , Venice, Italy, 10/2015
• Lauba Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia, 10/2015
• Chimera-Project Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, 10/2015
• Umelka Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, 09/2015
• Vienna Contemporary, International Art Fair, Vienna, Austria, 09/2015
• #Poligon Art Space, Warsaw, Poland, 09/2015
• Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia, 09/2015
• Luda Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia, 09/2015
• Kiasma , Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, 08/2015
• Tenthaus, Project Space, Oslo, Norway, 08/2015
• Sixtyeight, Project Space, Copenhagen, Denmark, 08/2015
• Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany, 08/2015
• Iceland, Project Space, Hamburg, Germany, 08/2015
• Wolfart Project Space, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 08/2015
• Museum Strauhof, Zurich, Switzerland, 07/2015
• The Institute, Zurich, Switzerland, 05/2015

Group exhibitions

• Art scholarships from the City of Zurich, Helmhaus Zurich, 2019
• Ours Is Not The Only Planet Earth Has Been , Ballroom Projects, Chicago, USA, 10/2016
• divo Institute, Kolin, Czech Republic, 09/2015
• Survival K (n) it Festival 7, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia, 09/2015
• Kling Festival, Mansbach, Germany, 08/2015
• Showcase 05 , Die Diele, Zurich, Switzerland, 12/2015
• Cabinet of Visionaries, Chur, Switzerland, 06/2015
• Doing Nothing Festival, Dock 18, Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland, 5/2015
• Showcase 04 , Die Diele, Zurich, Switzerland, 12/2014
• Showcase 03 , Die Diele, Zurich, Switzerland, 12/2013
• Show Me Show Me Show Me , CentrePasqArt, Biel, Switzerland, 6/2013
• Swiss Art Awards, Art Basel, Switzerland, 6/2011
• Work Prize Canton Zurich, F + F School, Zurich, Switzerland, 10/2011

Honourings and prices

• 2019 Work grant for No Show Museum - From Dada to Nada, City of Zurich, 2019
• 2012 Award for cultural mediation, Popkredit, City of Zurich
• 2011 Swiss Art Award: Nomination, Federal Art Competition
• 2011 Work Prize Canton Zurich: Nomination
• 2005 1st prize at the short story competition of the Solothurn Literature Days
• 2002 grant from the Vontobel Foundation

Web links

Commons : Andreas Heusser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website from Andreas Heusser
• No Show Museum website
• Website of the Openair Literature Festival Zurich
• Institute website
• Website of the author collective index
• Merchants website
• CHASOS videos
• OLAF videos

Individual evidence

1. ↑ " Nothing is the horizon of all of us ". Tages-Anzeiger (May 27, 2015)
2. ↑ Steiner, Juri; Doubt, Stefan. " Pro Helvetia's platform to present the Swiss contributions to the Venice Biennials ". www.biennials.ch
3. ↑ Yale University Radio WYBCX: The Art World Demystified, Hosted by Brainard Carey .
4. ↑ Beatrix Dargel: Nothing to see! In: Culture & Technology. Deutsches Museum, January 2018, accessed January 2018 . 
5. ↑ See:
   • " Mark foreigners, collect them, get rid of them ". Tages-Anzeiger (November 4, 2010)
   • " Satire figure fools media and politicians ". 20 minutes (November 16, 2010)
   • " TV report about CHASOS at ART BASEL ". SWR television (August 15, 2011)
   • " In the container - and away ". The Federal Government (November 8, 2010)
   • " The complete works of Alois B. Stocher, KEH and OLAF ". Philip Preding online
6. ↑ see:
   • " ARD-Tagesthemen über OLAF ", ARD (15 August 2011).
   • " Biting irony: How satirists react to populist campaigns ". SF 1 (December 1, 2010)
7. ↑ " Provocation spreads on the Internet "
8. ^ " Collection day for foreigners, Bundesplatz Bern ". olafschweiz (November 26, 2010).
9. ↑ " SVP now knows where the shoe pinches " Blick (November 9, 2010)
10. ↑ " ARD daily news via CHASOS (August 15, 2011)" ARD
11. ↑ " The Institute | Official Website ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ", Www. theinstitute.ch 
12. ↑ See: "Pop and Philosophy". Neue Zürcher Zeitung from 13./14. September 2008.
13. ↑ " Prehistory 2005 - 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ". theinstitute.ch. 
14. ^ Art grants from the City of Zurich. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .