Florian Graf (artist)

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Florian Graf, Ural Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2017

Florian Graf (* 1980 in Basel ) is a German-Swiss sculptor, draftsman, action / concept artist and architect.

Life

Florian Graf studied architecture at the ETH Zurich from 1999 to 2005, where he was co-founder of the ETH House of Science anniversary project in Afghanistan as a student.Instead of an ephemeral pavilion in Zurich, a university in Bamiyan was built with the competition budget. After working with artist and director Robert Wilson in New York, he completed a Masters at Edinburgh College of Art , followed by a scholarship at the Royal Drawing School in London and a Fulbright Fellowship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago . In 2011 he lived in Berlin as an iaab scholarship holder, from 2012 to 2013 at the Instituto Svizzero in Rome and after stays in Athens in 2015 at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Florian Graf became internationally known through exhibitions and art projects and was awarded numerous prizes for his work. He has taught at various art schools, in the form of workshops among others at HEAD Geneva or HKB Bern and from 2016 to 2017 as a lecturer for art and architecture at ETH Zurich .

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In his work, Florian Graf moves on the threshold between art and architecture, combining sculpture, installation, drawing, photography and short films. He is interested in the psychological and emotional effects of spaces on their users, in relation to living and identity issues in a mobile and transient society. In the interplay between imagination, facts, dreams and fears, he combines visionary power with conceptual logic, critical understanding, joy in storytelling and humor. Drawing, modeling in pictures or on objects and, above all, sculpture projects are at the center of Graf's artistic activity. In specific situations he creates places of poetic condensation or works in public space. U (r) Agency (2009), for example, as a fictional real estate agency, addresses the architectural utopias of the 20th century. For his exhibition Well, Come (2011) he transformed the Abbatiale de Bellelay cathedral into his apartment and studio and built a 14 m high sculpture in the nave. Ghost Light Light House (2012), on the other hand, consisted of a lighthouse-like sculpture, which instead of being firmly anchored to provide orientation, wandered around on Lake Constance as a will-o'-the-wisp. For the exhibition Chamber Music (2015) in the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen he created several sculptures that thematized public space, intimate living space and natural space. His photographic works and drawings reflect spatial creation and are permeated with the power of imagination and playful poetry. He works systematically on his drawing books, which have their origins in his childhood. Most of his works result from them. The art critic and theoretician Michael Newman wrote of Florian Graf: “His art is utopian, not in the sense that it projects a future that is opposite to the present, but by opposing the present to itself.”

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2019: Florian Graf , Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, CH
  • 2018: Out & About , Hofgut Mapprach, Zeglingen / Basel, CH
  • 2016: Stultitia II - Floating Folly , sculptural performance on the Rhine, from Basel to Rotterdam in collaboration with HMB Basel and CBK Rotterdam, CH / NL
  • 2015: Chamber Music , Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, CH
  • 2015: Dwell Time , Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, CH
  • 2015: Housewarming , Villa Wenkenhof , Basel, CH
  • 2014: Acting Stolby , Krasnoyarsk Museum Center , Krasnoyarsk, RU
  • 2013: Temple of Tugend , Wettsteinplatz Basel (during Art Basel), CH
  • 2012: Ghost Light Light House , Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, DE
  • 2012: Scene One, Take You , La rada, Locarno (during the Locarno Film Festival), CH
  • 2011: Well, Come , Abbatiale de Bellelay, CH
  • 2010: Waltzing Walls , Art Chicago, Special Exhibitions, Chicago, US
  • 2009: Anticipation , Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, UK

Group exhibitions

  • 2020: Höhenrausch 2020, As in Paradise, Upper Austria Kulturquartier, Linz, AT *
  • 2019 Shaping the Future , Arp Museum, Bahnhof Rolandseck, DE *
  • 2018: Heimspiel , Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH
  • 2018: The Collection for the Poor Collector , Sperling, Munich, DE
  • 2018: Water Yump , Museum Tinguely , Basel, CH
  • 2018: 20 years of Kunst Raum Riehen - the anniversary exhibition , Kunstraum Riehen, CH
  • 2018: Performance Process, New Swiss Performance Now , Kunsthalle Basel
  • 2017: Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989-2017 , Kunsthalle Wien
  • 2017: 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art , Yekaterinburg
  • 2017: Voyage, Voyage! About traveling in art , Olten Art Museum
  • 2016: Royal Drawing School Exhibition , Christie's New York
  • 2015: Heimspiel , Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
  • 2014: Émergences , Bex & Arts, Triennale de Sculpture
  • 2014: Le Jeu du Champ , Exhibition Hall, Krasnoyarsk Book Fair, Krasnoyarsk
  • 2013: Swiss Art Awards , Art Basel
  • 2012: We are all astronauts , Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
  • 2011: Les Urbaines , Lausanne
  • 2010: Kamasutra Spoon , Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
  • 2010: Chasing Dreams , Kunstraum Riehen, Basel
  • 2010: Effervescent Condition , Xuzhou Museum, China
  • 2009: Camera Infinita , Art Institute Shibukawa, Japan
  • 2008: CloseUp , Edinburgh Art Festival
  • 2008: Oslo Kino UFO , Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
  • 2008: We, Gatherers , Caledonian Hall in Collaboration with Inverleith House
  • 2007: Wall Painting with Franz Graf , National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
  • 2006: [arhitektura | 2006] , Zagrebacki_Salon, Zagreb
  • 2005: 150th anniversary of ETH Zurich , Platzspitz National Museum, Zurich

Awards (selection)

  • 2019: Residency Schwarz Foundation
  • 2018: Scholarship Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral
  • 2017: Prix Visarte, sponsorship award from the UBS Cultural Foundation, contribution to the Ausserrhodische Kulturstiftung
  • 2015: Culture Prize of the Alexander Clavel Foundation, Atelier Mondial, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
  • 2014: Art grant Basel art credit
  • 2013: Swiss Art Award and Patronage Fund, Kunsthalle Basel
  • 2012: Fellow Summer Academy at Zentrum Paul Klee, DAM International Architectural Book Award / Membro ISR, Rome
  • 2011: Scholarship from the ZF Art Foundation and IAAB scholarship Berlin
  • 2010: Collection Cahiers d'Artistes, Series X
  • 2009: Fulbright Fellowship / Diploma with Distinction University of Edinburgh
  • 2008: DAAD Scholarship
  • 2007: Scholarship Ikea Foundation
  • 2006: Rewarded in "The 100 Most Important Swiss", Schweizer Illustrierte
  • 2005: ETH Medal & Willi-Studer-Prize for the best Degree in Architecture
  • 2004: First Prize Holcim Next Generation Award for Sustainable Construction, First Prize Competition “Castle in the Air” 150 jubilation from ETH

Literature (selection)

  • Florian Graf, Out & About with texts by Ines Goldbach, Markus Krajewski and Daniela Settelen-Trees; Christoph Merian Verlag 2018; ISBN 978-3-85616-877-3
  • Duet with artist. Participation as an artistic principle ; Modern Art Publishing House, Nuremberg 2017; ISBN 9783903153349
  • FG Artist Service Group, Florian Graf ; Kodoji Press 2016; ISBN 978-3-03747-076-3
  • Mechtild Widrich and Markus Krajewski: Florian Graf, Ghost Light Light House ; Friedrichshafen 2012; ISBN 978-3-86136-174-9
  • Florian Graf Well, Come , Exhibition Catalog Abbatiale de Bellelay; Texts by Tenzing Barshee, Caroline Nicod and Reto Thüring; Edition Clandestin 2011; ISBN 978-3-905297-36-2
  • Michael Newman and Reto Geiser: Florian Graf , Collection Cahiers d'Artistes 2011; Edizioni Periferia 2011; ISBN 978-3-907474-90-7
  • Ivica Brnić, Florian Graf, Wolfgang Rossbauer, Christina Lenart (eds.): Venturing Permanence , The ETH House of Science in Bamiyan; gta Verlag 2012; ISBN 978-3-85676-210-0
  • Perpetually transient ; Ambivalence Revisited in a Constellational Assembly of Works by Anahita Razmi, Basim Magdy, Florian Graf, Bernd Behr; Schwabe Verlag 2015; ISBN 978-3-7965-3409-6
  • Power. Delusion. Vision. The tower in the sculpture ; Exhibition catalog Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck; Kerber Verlag 2013; ISBN 978-3-86678-908-1
  • Joseph Kosuth, Dan Peterman , Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Alan Johnston, Sanna Marander, Tim Ingold, Eelco Hooftman, Florian Graf, Erin Gleason, Naomi Hennig, Ronald Boer, Jacob Bee, Melissa MacRobert, Martin Parker, Julia Martin, Christine Wylie: Fieldwork ; ASN Mutual Press, Edinburgh 2009; ISBN 978-1-904443-34-6
  • Nele Dechmann, Nicola Ruffo (ed.): Architecture in the stranglehold of art. gta Verlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85676-318-3 .
  • Boesner GmbH holding + innovations (ed.) With articles by Stefan Koldehoff and Noemi Smolik: Kunstwelten. Witten 2012. ISBN 978-3-928003-01-8 , pp. 168-173.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Catalog of the Raiffeisen Benefiz Art Auction p. 14
  2. ^ "Conversation Piece: Florian Graf's Roles" (topic of conversation: Florian Graf's role play) (German p. 2, English p. 4) in: Florian Graf, Collection Cahiers d'Artistes 2011; Edizioni Periferia 2011.
  3. ↑ https://www.pasquart.ch/en/event/florian-graf/
  4. ↑ EXHIBITIONS Florian Graf “Chamber Music” at Kunst Halle St. Gallen. Accessed on February 22, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Count, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss sculptor, draftsman, action artist and architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel