Christoph Doswald

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Christoph Doswald (* 1961 in Baden AG ) is a Swiss publicist , curator and university lecturer. Since October 1st, 2009 he has been chairman of the working group Art in Public Spaces (AG KiöR) of the City of Zurich .

Live and act

Doswald spent childhood and youth in Wettingen and Baden. From 1981 to 1989 he studied history, art history and political science at the University of Zurich , interrupted by longer stays in Spain and Latin America .

In the mid-1980s he began his journalistic activities on topics and exhibitions of contemporary art, including for Kunstforum International , Parkett , neue bildende kunst, Artis, Eikon , SonntagsZeitung , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Weltwoche and Tages-Anzeiger . Under the pseudonym Dr. From 1991 to 2000, Kuno wrote a weekly lifestyle column for Doswald, first for the SonntagsZeitung, then for the Schweizer Illustrierte .

In 1998, together with Monica Glisenti, he designed the cross-culture magazine "cashual" for the Ringier publishing house. The monthly magazine combined artistic and journalistic strategies. B. Nan Goldin as a reportage photographer or Pipilotti Rist as a model, but was hired again after six issues. Between 2002 and 2008 Doswald was department head for social issues at the Swiss Sunday newspaper.

Together with Paolo Bianchi, Doswald ran a room for ephemeral art projects in their flat share in Baden in 1985/86 - an off space “avant la lettre”: In this informal setting, they showed artist friends and organized performances. From 1988 to 1992 Doswald was a board member of the Shedhalle Zurich , interim president, where curator Harm Lux organized an ambitious exhibition program, including projects by Jordi Colomer, Francesca Woodman , Christian Marclay , Sylvie Fleury , Christopher Williams , Pipilotti Rist , Thomas Hirschhorn and Daniele Buetti .

At the same time, Doswald has curated exhibitions since the mid-1980s, including at the Kunsthaus Graz , the Villa Arson in Nice , the Kunstmuseum Bern , the Center Pasquart Biel and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. From 2001 to 2007 he was a member of the «Comité technique», the buying committee of the Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC PACA) in Marseille, where he realized various exhibitions, among others with Ugo Rondinone and Maria Marshall.

Since October 1st, 2009 Doswald has been chairman of the working group Art in Public Space (AG KiöR) of the City of Zurich. He is responsible for the program for art in urban space and curated ART AND THE CITY (2012) and Art Altstetten Albisrieden (2015). The KiöR project zurich - transit - maritim , popularly known as the "Hafenkran", a temporary art intervention on the Limmatquai that sparked heated debates in the Zurich municipal council, in the population and in the media, received great attention . He also expresses himself on the subject of art in public space in lectures such as "Battle Zone Public Space" .

Doswald held various teaching positions and visiting professorships, including at the Zurich University of the Arts and at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , where he represented Christian Jankowski, who was curating Manifesta 11 in Zurich during this time . Doswald has been on the board of visarte.schweiz, the national professional association of visual artists in Switzerland, since 2012. There he is responsible for art and construction and art in public space and in this role he brought the Prix Visarte into being. He has been President of the Kulturweg Limmat Foundation since 2016 . In 2019 he curated the Weiertal Sculpture Biennale under the title "Paradise, lost" based on John Milton.

His partner is the German curator and art historian Dorothea Strauss . Doswald lives in and near Zurich.

Projects

  • Heinrich Gartentor: Islands in the City, curated by Christoph Doswald, Zurich 2019
  • Paradise, lost - Weiertal Sculpture Biennial, Weiertal near Winterthur 2019
  • NEW NORTH ZURICH, Zurich 2018
  • Claudia Comte, Black and White Circles in the Sky, curated by Christoph Doswald, Münsterhof, Zurich 2017
  • And Now The Good News, Museo d'Arte della Svizzera Italiana (Masi) / Edizioni Bernasconi, Lugano 2016 (with Elio Schenini)
  • Art Altstetten Albisrieden, JRP | Ringier, Zurich 2015
  • “Reading instead of climbing” - literary excursions to Press Art, The Yellow House Flims 2015
  • ART AND THE CITY, A Public Art Project, JRP | Ringier, Zurich 2012
  • Where to put the sculpture, JRP | Ringier, Zurich 2011
  • Press Art, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen / Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Stämpfli, Bern 2010
  • David Renggli, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2007 (with Dorothea Strauss)
  • Hanspeter Hofmann, Bonheur Automatique - Printed Works 1992-2007, Villa Arson, Nizza / Kunsthaus Graz, JRP | Ringier, Zurich 2007
  • Walter Pfeiffer, Night and Day, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2006 (with Dorothea Strauss)
  • Double Face: The Story About Fashion and Art - From Mohammed to Warhol, JRP | Ringier, Zurich 2006
  • Intersection: Art + Dress, Art Museum St. Gallen 2006
  • Akris - Mode from St. Gallen, JRP | Ringier, Zurich 2006
  • Rundlederwelten: Football and Art, Berlin 2005 (with Dorothea Strauss)
  • Daniele Buetti, FRAC PACA Marseille / Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2003
  • Happy: The Promise of Advertising, Museum for Communication, Bern / Chronos, Zurich 2002
  • New models (Björn Dahlem, Peter Friedl, Erik Steinbrecher, Mathilde ter Heijne, Anatolij Shuravlev), Trafò House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest 2001
  • Olaf Breuning: Ugly, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2001
  • Warhol and Beuys: opponent, Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2001 (with Paolo Bianchi)
  • Press Art, Center Pasqu'Art Biel, Werd Verlag, Zurich 2000
  • Erik Steinbrecher: Couch, Christoph Merian, Basel 2000
  • Missing Link: People - Images in Photography, Kunstmuseum Bern / Kunsthaus Dresden, Edition Stemmle, Zurich / New York 1999
  • Nonchalance, Center Pasqu'Art Biel / Akademie der Künste Berlin, Benteli, Bern 1997

Awards

  • Curator / Art Mediator Award of the Swiss Confederation, 2003
  • Most beautiful Swiss book (Nonchalance, Zilla Leutenegger, Daniele Buetti, Choucroute au Curry par Hasard, Hanspeter Hofmann)
  • Most beautiful German book (Nic Hess)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Press release from the City of Zurich, Civil Engineering and Waste Management Department, from July 27, 2009.
  2. ^ NN: Art and Public Space, website of the City of Zurich, Civil Engineering and Waste Management Department , last accessed on December 10, 2017.
  3. ↑ Interview by Urs Steiner with Christoph Doswald: "We want to bring art to the people" , Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 24, 2011.
  4. ↑ Christoph Doswald: "Paradoxically, art is often the spearhead of urban transformation processes". Globalized language meets local processes , Kunstforum International, volume 212, 2011, title: res publica 2.0, p. 136.
  5. ↑ Christoph Doswald: Accompanying measures, emotional campaigns. Observations on the work “Mae West” by Rita McBride et al. , Kunstforum International, Volume 214, 2012, Title: Percent Art, p. 110.
  6. ^ Christoph Doswald: ART AND THE CITY. On the interactions between art and the city , Kunstforum International, Volume 218, 2012, Title: Der urbane Blick , p. 48.
  7. ↑ On the situation of art criticism. Basics, surveys, in-depth knowledge. Edited by Paolo Bianchi and Christoph Doswald , Kunstforum International, Volume 221, 2013, Title: Zur Lage der Kunstkritik, p. 30.
  8. ↑ Christoph Doswald: Multifunctional cocoa sack. , Neue Zürcher Zeitung of March 28, 2001
  9. ^ NN: Christoph Doswald takes his hat on the Sunday newspaper from May 6, 2008.
  10. ^ Website Maria Marshall .
  11. ↑ Dialogue offers in urban life. Gabrielle Spiller on art in public Zurich , art newspaper from October 2017.
  12. ↑ http://www.artandthecity.info/
  13. ^ Timm Engster: Zurich plants art in the city , TagesWoche, Basel, from June 6, 2012.
  14. ^ Iwona Eberle: Art for the West. Interview with Christoph Doswald , Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich, from June 20, 2012.
  15. ↑ Jürg Rohrer: Square tubes are profound. The Zurich open-air festival Art and the City is over; it opened your eyes for a long time. , Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich, from October 1, 2012.
  16. ↑ VernissageTV: Art and the City: Public Art Festival in Zurich, Switzerland , huffpost from October 6, 2012.
  17. ↑ Urs Bühler: «Art is usually not able to win a majority». Interview with Christoph Doswald , Neue Zürcher Zeitung, December 18, 2009.
  18. ↑ Paolo Bianchi: The harbor crane or: How art burns stories into people's memories. An email conversation with Christoph Doswald, chairman of the working group Art in Public Space of the City of Zurich , Kunstforum International, Volume 226, 2014, Kunstforum Talks, p. 326.
  19. ↑ NN: The violence surprised everyone , Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich, from January 14, 2015.
  20. ↑ Urs Siegrist (moderator): Christoph Doswald - harbor crane or harbor cheese? , Radio SRF on Monday, April 14, 2014.
  21. ↑ Announcement of the lecture by the Muthesius Kunsthochschule, NN: "Combat zone public space", lecture by Christoph Doswald , Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, November 26, 2015.
  22. ↑ Christoph Doswald: Kampfzone public space , oökulturquartier, Linz, ??: November 2015.
  23. ↑ [2] , Prix Visarte, Die Jury, accessed December 8, 2017.
  24. ↑ Ursula Burgherr: Foundation President Christoph Doswald: “There is also top art on the periphery” , az Aargauer Zeitung of November 16, 2016.
  25. ↑ Information page of the Limmat Culture Trail Foundation .
  26. ↑ http://www.skulpturen-biennale.ch/
  27. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/muensterhof-in-zuerich-neuer-stadtpark-blueht-auf-fuer-kurze-zeit-ld.1503551
  28. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/kopie-von-mit-dem-biss-in-den-apfel-nahm-das-unglueck-seinen-anfang-ld.1489041
  29. ↑ http://www.neuernorden.org
  30. ↑ https://www.claudiacomte.ch/recent/
  31. ↑ https://www.nzz.ch/articleEVDXX-1.104492
personal data
SURNAME Doswald, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss publicist, curator and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden , Switzerland