Stefan Banz

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Stefan Banz (born September 11, 1961 in Sursee ; † May 16, 2021 ) was a Swiss artist and curator .

Life

Banz grew up in Menznau , studied art history at the University of Zurich and dealt with the philosophy of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) in relation to the visual arts in his master's thesis « Serendipity », 1990 . In 1989 he co-founded the Kunsthalle Luzern and was its artistic director until 1993. In 2005 he curated the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale under the title “Shadows Collide With People” . He died of a heart attack in mid-May 2021 at the age of 59.

Exhibitions

The biotope of art and the question of the creation of the work of art are key points of the collaboration with Jacques Derrida, Wada Jossen, Theo Kneubühler and Harald Szeemann in the exhibition “The Museum Extension”, 1992. The project organized in the Kunsthalle Luzern is for Development of the artist Stefan Banz decisive.

His first solo exhibitions as an artist followed in 1993 at the Kubinski Gallery, New York and at the Urs Meile Gallery, Lucerne. 1994 in the Ars Futura Gallery, Zurich and in the Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam. 1995 "Give me a Leonard Cohen Afterworld" at the Lucerne Art Museum. In 1996, with the installation “Dive”, he flooded the exhibition space of the OK, Center for Contemporary Art Linz (first, smaller version in 1993 in the Kubinski Gallery New York). In 1997, with the installation "Hitzfeld" in the Galerie Meile Luzern, he showed his affinity for sport for the first time by means of well-known artist names and their works on soccer jerseys, which manifested itself several times in larger exhibitions in the following years. With the exhibition “A Shot Away Some Flowers” ​​at the MAMCO, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, in 1999 he showed his “Baby Bacons”, the repainted catalog of works by Francis Bacon and in 2000 he was at a survey exhibition of his works at Migros Museum for Contemporary Art , Zurich, as a guest. In the same year he received the recognition award from the city of Lucerne . The exhibition The Muhammad Ali ’s followed in 2001 at the Kunstmuseum Luzern (award of the Manor Art Prize Luzern 2000 to the artist). He showed his painterly work in 2003 in the overview exhibition “Un coeur simple” in the Museum in Bellpark, Kriens. His largest exhibition was probably the installation “Study For A Painting Of A Lonely Heart” at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart , 2004, where he planted a lawn on an exhibition area of ​​1,300 m² and showed an Indian rhinoceros modeled after a living animal, which was shown in the video “Door to Door »(Where the artist is beaten up by his neighbor) watched. The artist showed another important solo exhibition from January 22 to March 19, 2006 under the title "Laugh I nearly died" at the Musée CentrePasquArt in Biel , where a publication of the same name on the installations of the last 15 years was published at the same time. Stefan Banz's work was also represented in important group exhibitions, including in “Nonchalance”, Center PasquArt Biel, 1997, and Akademie der Künste Berlin, 1998; " Unobstructed view of the Mediterranean", Kunsthaus Zürich and Schirnkunsthalle, Frankfurt, 1998; "The Squared Circle," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2003; Echigo Tsumari Triennial Japan, 2003; Prague Biennale, 2003; "Rundlederwelten", Martin Gropius-Bau Berlin, 2005.

analysis

Stefan Banz's work manifests itself mainly in the genres of installation, photography, video and painting. He worked as an artist and as a curator. Intermediality is the driving force behind this art and at the same time the basis for the works of Stefan Banz. From the 1990s he made a name for himself in photography, installation, video and painting.

With his photographic work he established the theme of "family" in contemporary art. The concern of this work is not the authentic image, but rather the principle of referentiality. Each image is integrated into an iconographic program that Banz generates in the image reservoir of the media and high culture. In conceptual painting, he dared to quote directly by copying models. His series of images - such as Baby Bacons - can be seen as "cover versions" of well-known templates. In doing so, he consciously violated the convention of new creation, as it is still required in art. Finally, with his installations he questioned the limits of art institutions. Whereby the isolation of the white cube breaks up through the introduction of elements from nature. The work grows and produces itself, as in the installation “Gulliver”, 2000, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zurich, and “Study For A Painting Of A Lonely Heart”, 2004, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, or the work is fragile and generated by Reflection and refraction of the images, as in «Dive», 1996, OK - Center for Contemporary Art Linz. With almost all of his works, he challenged art and its institutions and at the same time questioned them, like his large solo exhibition “Laugh. I nearly died »at the Musée Center PasquArt in Biel, 2006, where, for example, he sawed through a trailer completely filled with his works. His work was created after 2004 in collaboration with the artist Caroline Bachmann .

Public collections

Publications

  • 1991 Serendipity. Helmhaus, Zurich, ISBN 3-906396-08-8 .
  • 1993 Lucerne Art Gallery. Lucerne, ISBN 3-906655-13-X .
  • 1995 Give me a Leonard Cohen Afterworld. Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern / Stuttgart.
  • 1996 Dive. Give the people what they want. Open House of Culture, Linz.
  • 1996 Platz der Luftbrücke, a conversation with Friedrich Kittler . Edited by Iwan Wirth, Octagon Cologne, ISBN 3-89611-021-7 .
  • 1997 Stefan Banz & Iwan Wirth (eds.): Francis Picabia, Fleurs de chair, fleurs dâme. Cologne, ISBN 3-89611-031-4 .
  • 1999 i built this garden for us. Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich, ISBN 3-905509-23-7 .
  • 1999 a shot away from some flowers. Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich, ISBN 3-905509-28-8 .
  • 2000 Echoes, Exhibitions, Projects, 1992-2000. Odermatt Edition, Dallenwil.
  • 2001 Hell. Roman, Salon Verlag, Cologne (German and English version), ISBN 3-89770-117-0 / ISBN 3-89770-118-9 .
  • 2001 Complex System Art. Edited by Hermann Korte, Lit Verlag, Münster-Hamburg-London, ISBN 3-8258-5254-7 .
  • 2002 The Muhammad Ali's. Modern art publishing house, Nuremberg, ISBN 3-933096-80-4 .
  • 2003 Un coeur simple. Edition Fink, Zurich, ISBN 3-906086-52-6 .
  • 2004 Tokyo Bites. Triton Verlag, Vienna, ISBN 3-85486-192-3 .
  • 2005 SMS ,, Timezone 8, Hong Kong, ISBN 988-98086-2-5 .
  • 2005 Stefan Banz (Ed.): Shadows Collide With People. Venice Biennale, Swiss Pavilion, Edition Fink, Zurich, ISBN 3-906086-79-8 .
  • 2006 Laugh. I nearly died. Installations 1992–2006. Modern art publishing house, Nuremberg, ISBN 3-938821-29-9 .
  • 2006 Bachmann / Banz: Ting Bu Dong, Paintings and Installations. Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Luzern, ISBN 3-9523222-2-9 , ISBN 978-3-9523222-2-2 .
  • 2007 Bachmann / Banz: Helter Skelter - Painting With The Beatles. Gallery Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne.
  • 2009 Caroline Bachmann / Stefan Banz: What Duchamp Abandoned for the Waterfall. Scheidegger & Spiess Verlag, Zurich, ISBN 978-3-85881-261-2 .
  • 2010 Stefan Banz (ed.): Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall. JRP | Ringier, Zurich, ISBN 978-3-03764-156-9 .
  • 2011 Caroline Bachmann / Stefan Banz: Tenderness and Temperature. KMD - Marcel Duchamp Art Gallery, Cully, Switzerland / Modern Art Publishing House, Nuremberg, English, ISBN 978-3-86984-241-7 .
  • 2011 Jean-Christophe Ammann : The Wasp's Nest is a cathedral. A conversation with Stefan Banz. VKMD - Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Modern Art Publishing House Nuremberg, ISBN 978-3-86984-240-0 .
  • 2011 Friedrich Kittler: Platz der Luftbrücke. A conversation with Stefan Banz. (Revised and expanded republication), Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, ISBN 978-3-86984-294-3 .
  • 2012 Stefan Banz, Marcel Duchamp: 1 ° La chute d'eau. KMD - Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Publishing House for Modern Art Nuremberg, German / English / French, ISBN 978-3-86984-328-5 .
  • 2012 Stefan Banz, Aldo Walker: logotype. With Marcel Duchamp and William Copley in mind. KMD - Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, German, ISBN 978-3-86984-356-8 .
  • 2013 Caroline Bachmann, Stefan Banz, Ralf Beil (eds.): La Broyeuse de chocolat: Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp at Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, KMD - Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Publishing House for Modern Art Nuremberg, German / English, ISBN 978-3 -86984-416-9 .
  • 2013 Stefan Banz, Marcel Duchamp: Pharmacy. KMD - Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Publishing House for Modern Art Nuremberg, German / English, ISBN 978-3-86984-465-7 .
  • 2014 Caroline Bachmann / Stefan Banz: The silence of the bachelors. Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany / Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, ISBN 978-3-86984-061-1 .
  • 2014 Stefan Banz, Jeff Wall: With the eye of the mind. KMD - Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Verlag für modern art Nuremberg, ISBN 978-3-86984-078-9 .
  • 2015 Stefan Banz: Louis Michel Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters. KMD - Marcel Duchamp Art Gallery | The Forestay Museum of Art, Cully, Switzerland / JRP | Ringier Kunstverlag, Zurich, English, ISBN 978-3-03764-435-5 .
  • 2016 Stefan Banz: Louis Michel Eilshemius and his influence on Marcel Duchamp. KMD - Marcel Duchamp Art Gallery | The Forestay Museum of Art / Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna. ISBN 978-3-903131-12-5 .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Tagblatt.ch of May 20, 2021: Obituary. Stefan Banz is dead: The Lucerne man's art smelled of the gasoline of life, by Daniele Muscionico , accessed on May 20, 2021
personal data
SURNAME Banz, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist and curator
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Sursee
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 2021