Beat Streuli
Beat Streuli (born August 19, 1957 in Altdorf ) is a Swiss photographer and a video and installation artist .
life and work
Streuli attended the design schools in Basel and Zurich from 1977 to 1980 . From 1981 to 1986 he studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin . The central motif of the artist is people in the public space of a large city. His photos or videos depict urban, mostly young individuals who, like snapshots , he "photographed" from a crowd of passers-by. By centering the image on the upper body or face and the decrease in sharpness of the surroundings, the artist emphasizes the facial expressions of the sitter. The telephoto lens used means that the viewer can see the people photographed in close-up. In Streuli's photographs, "zooming in" is therefore a compositional and photographic means. At the same time, he removes the photographed people from their everyday and anonymous surroundings and enables an individual approach and image effect through the criterion of selection. The artist produces medium formats as well as large-format, partly composite panels. He lets his 20-minute video works run in parallel on three monitors. Six or more slide projectors are often connected in parallel for slide or digital projections.
Beat Streuli is a regular guest lecturer at the photography specialization at the Zurich University of the Arts .
Streuli lives in Zurich and Brussels .
Exhibitions
- 1995/96 Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main: Change of scene VIII, June 23, 1995 - January 14, 1996,
- 1996/97 Whitney Museum of American Art / Museum für Moderne Kunst , Views from abroad
- 1997 MACBA, Barcelona
- 1998 Sydney Biennale ; Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago)
- 1999 Museum of Modern Art , Bondy Beach / Parramatta Road, Frankfurt am Main; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- 2000 Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main: Change of scenery XVII, 4.2.-3.9.2000
- 2001 Palais de Tokyo , Paris
- 2004 CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
- 2005 Yokohama Triennial , Yokohama
- 2007 Wolfsburg Art Museum ; National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne; Museum of Fine Arts , Leipzig; Lucerne Art Museum ; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (Finland)
- 2008 MAC's, Musée des Arts Contemporains, Le Grand Hornu (Belgium)
- 2009/2010: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg , group exhibition: I doubtless
Awards and grants
- Scholarship from the Canton of Zurich (1980, 1983 and 1984)
- Federal Art Scholarship (1985, 1986 and 1988)
- Kiefer-Hablitzel scholarship (1986)
- Scholarship from the City of Zurich (1989)
- Studio grant from the Canton of Basel-Stadt in the Cité internationale des arts in Paris (1985)
- Istituto Svizzero in Rome (1988)
literature
- Martin Hentschel, Adrian Dannatt (text): USA 95 , Württembergischer Kunstverein , Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1995
- Rupert Pfab and Boris Groys (text): CITY , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kunsthalle Zürich , Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1999
- Trevor Smith (text): Bondi Beach, Parramatta Road , Sprengel Museum , Hannover 1999
- Vincent Catz (text): New York 2000-02 , Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2003
Web links
- Literature by and about Beat Streuli in the catalog of the German National Library
- Beat Streuli at Sikart
- Website of the artist
- Beat Streuli in: db artmag (Bank online magazine), 2006
Individual proof
- ^ Rolf Lauter, Painting and Reality: A group of works by Alex Katz in dialogue with photographs by Thomas Ruff and Beat Streuli , in: Museums in dialogue. Views from abroad: European perspectives on American art - The discovery of the other , Whitney Museum of American Art, October 18, 1996-January 5, 1997; Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, January 31-May 4, 1997. pp. 76, 78 ff. ISBN 9780874271010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Streuli, beat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss photo and video artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altdorf |