Markus Bürgi

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Markus Bürgi (born November 6, 1961 in Zug ) is a Swiss painter , draftsman , object artist and art teacher .

Life

After attending school in Goldau and Oberarth , Bürgi completed the Rickenbach cantonal teachers' seminar from 1978 to 1983 . He then spent three years as a primary school teacher in Wilen . He then graduated from the Cantonal School of Design in Lucerne from 1987 to 1991 , where he graduated as a drawing teacher. From 1992 to 1993 he worked in a saddlery. Bürgi has been teaching art at the Obwalden Cantonal School in Sarnen since 1994 . He has been designing the stage sets for the Kollegitheater's productions since 2009 as the successor to Adrian Hossli .

Bürgi completed a postgraduate course in digital media, which he completed in 2004 with a master's in advanced studies. From 1993 to 2010 he was a lecturer at the Farbmühle design school in Lucerne.

Works and exhibitions

Bürgi has been creating works as a visual artist since 1990. His place of life and work is Sarnen , his studio is in the Bitzighofen district .

Bürgi works in the border area between painting and sculpture. Painted cotton cloths form the “raw material” for further processing steps. Further transformations are made by cutting, folding and sewing. He uses the "picture fabric" as the basic material of a traditional handicraft and uses it to make clothes, bags and shoes, for example.

  • Juried annual exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Luzern between 1992 and 2002
  • Swiss Federal Competition for Free Art, Basel 1995/1998/2001
  • Show Case by women for shopping, Zurich 1996, solo exhibition
  • Young Art, Kunsthalle Bern 1996
  • Musee d'art et d'histoire Geneva 1996
  • Engelberg Valley Museum out-look-in-sight 2002
  • Stans has it again , a project for the Stanser Musiktage 2003
  • Galerie Hofmatt Sarnen 1998/2009 , solo exhibitions
  • Galerie apropos Luzern 1999, solo exhibition
  • 2011 NOW 11 , Schiffshalle Rütenen, Beckenried
  • 2011 Vias d'art Pontresina
  • 2012 NOW 12 , Giswil turbine
  • 2012/13 Kunsthalle Luzern: faites comme chez vous
  • 2013/14 Art in Buildings Cantonal Hospital Obwalden, Sarnen; Execution together with Hubert Baumgartner and Beat Stalder
  • 2016 art scene Schwyz, Ital Reding Hofstatt
  • 2018, NOW 18 Stans, Nidwalden Museum, Winkelriedhaus

Awards

  • 1996: 1st place in the project competition Art in Architecture, GIBZ Zug,
  • 1997/1998: Execution of the EULE project at the commercial-industrial vocational school
  • 1997: Unterwaldner Prize for Fine Arts
  • 2013: Design of the annual edition of the Kunst Treff 13
  • 2013: Studio grant for a four-month stay in Berlin : November 2013 to February 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Bürgi Markus on the Kulturfenster.ch website
  2. ↑ Markus Bürgi is looking forward to Kunststadt , article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from November 6, 2013
  3. ↑ Honor for Markus Bürgi (PDF; 565 kB), article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from June 17, 2013
  4. ↑ Studio grants for artists from Central Switzerland in Berlin (PDF; 41 kB) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Media information from the canton of Nidwalden from December 12, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nw.ch
personal data
SURNAME Bürgi, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH train