Frantiček Klossner
Frantiček Klossner (born February 28, 1960 in Grosshöchstetten ) is a Swiss artist . He works across all disciplines in the fields of video art , installation , photography , drawing and public art .
Life
Frantiček Klossner completed his artistic training from 1985 to 1989 at the F + F School for Art and Media Design in Zurich . He completed further training in performance / theater until 1992. He spent 1990/1991 in New York City on a scholarship from the City of Bern. From 1992 to 1995 he continued his education in film, video art and media design. In 1994 he took on a teaching position at the F + F School for Art and Media Design , which he held until 2000. From 1996 to 1998 he was a fellow at the Swiss Institute in Rome, Istituto Svizzero di Roma . From 2001 to 2003 Klossner had a teaching position at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland in Aarau.
Since 2006 he has been teaching performance at the Bern University of the Arts . Klossner also works as a curator . In 2007 he was co-curator of the exhibition Les rêves du château in the Musée historique et des porcelaines de Nyon and in 1995 curator of the exhibition Always Online in the Stadtgalerie Bern. In 1992 he founded the video festival Peep Art in Bern , which he directed until 1996. From 2006 to 2009 he curated the “Valiart cultural space for media art” in Bern. In 2012 he curated the performance meeting of the ECAV École cantonale d'art du Valais on the summit of Mont Fort in Valais as well as the exhibition Wild at Heart in collaboration with the Hamburg Reinking Collection in the Zone Contemporaine in Bern with works by Baldur Burwitz, Fabian Chiquet , Wim Delvoye , Andreas Egli, Manon , Victorine Müller, Ferhat Özgür and Antal Thoma. Klossner lives and works in Bern.
Works
Works in collections
Klossner's works can be found in public collections, including the Kunsthaus Zürich , the Swiss National Museum , the Kunstmuseum Bern , the Kunstmuseum Solothurn , the Kunsthaus Center PasquArt Bienne, the Federal Art Collection of the Swiss Confederation, the art collections of the Canton of Bern and the City of Bern , and the Graphische Collection of the Swiss National Library , in the video collection of the German National Library (Leipzig), in the Ursula Blickle video archive Austrian Gallery Belvedere in Vienna, in the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , in the Carola and Günther Ketterer-Ertle collection and in the Reinking collection in Hamburg.
Works in public space
- 2014: Klepsydra , Performative Installation , Jegenstorf Church
- 2011: Bathing in questions , visual poetry , facade design on glass, Weyermannshaus Bern swimming pool
- 2011: Old love doesn't rust , visual poetry, permanent installation, House of the University of Bern
- 2010: Five senses plus 1 , text installation, Christian Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul (Bern) , Bern
- 2007: Certains vivent pour la première fois , Urban-Art , Philosophical road marking , Môtiers , NE, Val de Travers
- 2005: Thumb and toe cinema , urban art , ephemeral prints on asphalt, Inselspital , Bern
- 1998: Interrupted notes , visual poetry , facade design on glass, Swiss Institute in Rome, Istituto Svizzero di Roma
- 1996: Exercise table for social angles of inclination , performative sculpture , compensation office of the Canton of Bern
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 2018: Eudaimonia and Ataraxis , Da Mihi Contemporary Art, Bern, CH
- 2015: Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen , curated by Peter Friese
- 2014: Kunsthalle Wil
- 2013: Kunsthaus Interlaken
- 2012: Edition Multiple Bern
- 2008: Kunstmuseum Solothurn (with the performance artist Victorine Müller)
- 2007: Centro de Expresiones Contemporáneas , CEC, Rosario (Santa Fe) , Argentina
- 2006: SIC Projects, Mönch Gallery, Berlin
- 2005: Centro de Arte Universal, Santiago de Cuba
- 2004: Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires , MAMBA, Argentina
- 2003: Galerie Donzé van Saanen, Lausanne
- 2003: Görlitz Cultural History Museum
- 2002: Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona ,
- 2001: Kunsthaus Grenchen , Switzerland
Group exhibitions (selection)
- 2018: Living in Art , Mobiliar Art Collection, Bern, CH
- 2018: Mosaik , Galerie Steiner, Mayhaus Erlach, CH
- 2018: Fields of Disappearance II , Binz Foundation, Zurich, CH
- 2017: Plakartive - art in public space , Bielefeld, NRW, D
- 2017: The self-image in the digital age , Kunsthaus Zofingen , CH
- 2017: In Visible Limits , Kunstzeughaus Rapperswil, CH
- 2017: Erotica - from the 17th century to the present , Mayhaus Erlach, CH
- 2016: Lumière d'hiver , Fondation Von Rütte, Biel, CH
- 2016: Vis-à-vis , Kunsthalle Luzern , CH
- 2016: Dance of Death - Danse Macabre , Museum for Communication, Bern, CH
- 2016: In Visible Limits , Kunsthaus Interlaken , CH
- 2016: In Visible Limits , Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, D
- 2016: In Visible Limits , Kunstverein Konstanz, D
- 2015: Hold the Line , Galerie Mönch Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
- 2015: L'immagine di sè , Museo d'arte contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova, IT
- 2015: Fragile , Contemporary Art Galerie C, Neuchâtel NE , CH
- 2014: Existential Imagery , Reinking Collection , Weserburg Museum for Modern Art , Bremen , D
- 2014: Unique - Artist's books , Graphic Collection of the Swiss National Library , CH
- 2014: Performative Video Art , Galerija G12HUB, Belgrade , SRB
- 2014: Des hommes et la forêt , Musée historique et des porcelaines, Château de Nyon, CH
- 2013: The weak sex - New images of men in art , Kunstmuseum Bern , CH
- 2013: The Way We Where , Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul, TRK
- 2013: Feu Sacré , 200 years anniversary of the Bernese Art Society, Kunstmuseum Bern , CH
- 2012: The Mirror of Narcissus , Taxispalais, Galerie des Landes Tirol, Innsbruck , A
- 2012: The pictured self , Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc , Barcelona , E
- 2012: Swiss Video Art , Espacio Trapézio, Madrid , E
- 2011: Bodies - The Body in Contemporary Art , Kunsthalle Osnabrück , Reinking Collection , D
- 2010: Afterpiece - Performance Art on Video , Galerie Claudia Groeflin, Zurich, CH
- 2007: Collection Carola & Günther Ketterer-Ertle , Art Museum Appenzell , formerly Museum Liner, Appenzell, CH
- 2006: Villa Jelmini - The complex of respect , Harald Szeemann memorial exhibition , Kunsthalle Bern , CH
- 2005: The upper half - the bust since Auguste Rodin , Städtische Museen Heilbronn and Kunsthalle in Emden , D
- 2004: As things are , Hartware Medienkunstverein , Dortmund , D
- 2003: M_ARS Art and War , Neue Galerie Graz , A
- 2002: Change of scenery , Solothurn Art Museum , CH
- 2001: Innovation and Tradition , Swiss Furniture Collection , Bern Art Museum , CH
- 2000: comm.gr2000az , Styrian State Exhibition , Graz , A
- 2000: Ice Age , contemporary art from Bern collections, Kunstmuseum Bern , CH
- 1999: Art Prize of Böttcherstrasse , Kunsthalle Bremen , D
- 1999: Solothurn Film Festival , Solothurn, CH
- 1999: Biennale Internationale du film sur l'art , Center Georges-Pompidou , Paris, F
- 1998: Voi siete qui , Villa Maraini, Swiss Institute in Rome, IT
- 1997: Out on the Screen , The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival , Los Angeles, California, USA
- 1997: The 19th Tokyo Video Festival , Tokyo, J
- 1996: Video Art in Europe , Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen, DK
- 1994: Video art - Swiss scene , Kunsthaus Langenthal , CH
- 1993: Aeschlimann Corti Art Prize , Center PasquArt, Biel, CH
- 1992: Art and Cold , Kunstraum der Neckarwerke Stuttgart , D
- 1990: Young Art in Europe , Hanover Exhibition Center , D
- 1989: The running picture , Kunsthalle Bern , CH
- 1988: Artist from Bern , Shedhalle, Rote Fabrik , Zurich, CH
Awards (selection)
- 2009: Valiart Award Art Position
- 2007: Contribution to the cultural fund / Federal Office for Culture FOC
- 1999: Nomination for the Art Prize of Böttcherstraße , Bremen
- 1997: Video art award from the states of Thuringia and Rhineland-Palatinate
- 1996: Member of the Istituto Svizzero di Roma
- 1992: Art Prize of the Bern Art Society / Aeschlimann-Corti Foundation
- 1990: New York scholarship from the city of Bern
Bibliography (selection)
- Christine Breyhan: Franticek Klossner - Infinite Performance , in: Kunstforum International , Volume 228, Aug – Sept 2014.
- Gabrielle Obrist: Human aggregate states , in: Laboratorium - Franticek Klossner , Kunsthalle Wil SG , 2014.
- Gabrielle Obrist: Liquid Identity , in: Underground , Kontur Kunstverein Stuttgart eV, 2014; Editor Raimund Menges.
- Alice Henkes: Intervall vital , in: Feu sacré - On the 200th anniversary of the Bernese Art Society , Kunstmuseum Bern , 2013; ISBN 978-3-86859-254-2 .
- Kathleen Bühler: His- & Herstory , in: The weak sex - New male images in art , Kunstmuseum Bern, 2013; ISBN 978-3-906628-94-3 .
- Susanne Petersen: Sleep of Reason , in: Der Spiegel des Narziss , Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck, Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft Cologne, 2012; ISBN 978-3-86442-030-6 .
- Michaela Nolte : Der Kunstflüsterer , Berner Almanach, Volume 6 Performance, Edition Atelier Bern, 2012; ISBN 978-3-9523742-7-6 .
- Hans Christoph von Tavel, Franticek Klossner: Curiosity landed successfully , on the work of Meret Oppenheim , in: Merets Funken , Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-86678-678-3 .
- Mechthild Zawadynski: Art on your own body , Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche Osnabrück in cooperation with Rik Reinking , Hamburg, 2011 ISBN 978-3-89946-162-6 .
- Christoph Vögele: Franticek Klossner / silhouette and projection , Kunstmuseum Solothurn , publishing house for modern art , Nuremberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940748-58-4 .
- Michaela Nolte: Franticek Klossner / What's left when the head is melting , Galerie Mönch, Berlin 2006.
- Gerhard J. Lischka: ART CLIPS , ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology , Karlsruhe 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1899-0 .
- Städtische Museen Heilbronn : The upper half / The bust since Auguste Rodin , Edition Braus in the Wachter Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-89904-177-4 .
- Hartware Medienkunstverein , Dortmund: The way things are , Revolver Archive for Current Art Frankfurt, 2004, ISBN 978-3-937577-63-0 .
- Neue Galerie Graz , Universalmuseum Joanneum : M_ARS Art and War , Peter Weibel and G. Holler-Schuster. Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2003; ISBN 978-3-77571-312-2 .
- Dolores Denaro: Franticek Klossner / MESS UP YOUR MIND , Kunsthaus Grenchen, 2001, ISBN 3-90674-704-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Frantiček Klossner in the catalog of the Swiss National Library, Helveticat
- Literature by and about Frantiček Klossner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Magdalena Schindler: Klossner, Franticek. In: Sikart
- Kunstforum International, Volume 228, Christine Breyhan, artist talk with Franticek Klossner, 2014
- Frantiček Klossner's website
Individual evidence
- ^ Kunsthalle Wil SG ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bodies melt heads ( Memento from January 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Kunsthalle Bremen ( Memento from November 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Klossner, Frantiček |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klossner, Franz |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss multimedia artist and art lecturer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Grosshöchstetten , Switzerland |