Frantiček Klossner

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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 .

Frantiček Klossner, ex vivo in vitro , video installation, Kunsthalle Wil, 2014

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

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

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)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kunsthalle Wil SG ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Bodies melt heads ( Memento from January 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Kunsthalle Bremen ( Memento from November 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
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