Tobias Kaspar
Biography
1984 born in Basel, Switzerland
lives and works in Riga, Latvia and Zurich, Switzerland
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Solo Exhibitions
2022
Shoplifters United, Foundry Seoul, Seoul, Korea
The Cherry Orchard, MAMCO, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Personal Shopper, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
2021
Rented Life, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
The Complete Interview Magazine, Issue 529, Winter 19, VIVII, Oslo, Norway
2020
Rented Life, VFO, Verein für Originalgraphik, Zurich, Switzerland
2019
Horn of Plenty, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
The Category Is, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
Why Love Hurts, Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin, Germany
Estate, Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga, Latvia
2018
Epicentre, Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn, Estonia
Independence, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Tobias Kaspar: The Complete, Archiv Christoph Schifferli, Zürich
2017
Anna K, kim?, Contemporary Art Center, Riga, Latvia
2016
Tobias Kaspar, Jenny's, Los Angeles, US
New Address, Lovaas, Munich, Germany
Tobias Kaspar, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany
The Street, Cinecittà Film Studios, Rome, Italy
Surface Apparent, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
2015
Two Cities - Two Lives, Solo Shows, Sao Paulo and Frey Kalioubi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Street (Est 1863), Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, Italy
Toby’s Tristram Shandy Shop, Udolpho, Berlin, Germany
Diffusion Line, with PROVENCE, Oracle, Berlin, Germany
2014
The Air on the Way to the Oyster, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
The Air on the Way to the Oyster, Kunsthalle Sao Poalo, Brazil
Holiday, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
2013
Tobias Kaspar, Midway Contemporary Art Center, Minneapolis, US
The Bling Ring, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
Hydra Life, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany
2012
Life and Lies, Marcelle Alix, Paris, France
Bodies in the Backdrop, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
Bodies in the Backdrop, Halle Fuer Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
2011
Why Sex Now, Alex Zachary Gallery, New York, US
2010
Living Well Is the Best Revenge, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany
2009
Sentimental Style, Hermes und der Pfau and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
2008
Service Is My Business, CCS, Skopje, Macedonia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Pattern Library, Galerie Lars Friedrich & Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
INFORMATION (Today), Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
2021
Artists’ Library: 1989-2021, MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy
Information (Today), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2020
On Adornments, Spike Berlin, Germany
Im Volksgarten, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
Uniform: Into the work/Out of the work, Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy
2018
Fashion Drive, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
At Large, Reyes Projects, Birmingham, US
2017
David Bowie, Kunsthalle Schlieren, Schlieren, Germany
5 Years of VI, VII, Independent Régence, Brussels, Belgium
2016
Video Room, Centre d’Art de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
2015
Artists’ Voices, Centre d’Edition Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Vordemberge-Gildewart Stipendiumsausstellung, Centre PasquART, Biel, Switzerland
The Verdant, Hacienda, Zurich, Switzerland
Conversations Pieces, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy
L’appropriationniste (contre et avec), Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
Off Broadway, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, US
2014
Blue Times, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
In Real Life, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Augment this (Meditations on the Image), Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, US
Against the Grain, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, Switzerland
Coming of Age for Ages, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
The Missing Stories, CAFAM Biennial 2014, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2013
Macumba Palace, Palais des arts, Toulouse, France
The Estate, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, Germany
Costumes: Written Clothing, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
Gerry Bibby’s Prisma Pavillion, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Frozen Lakes, Artists Space, New York, US
2012
La Demeure Joyeuse II, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland
Strange Interlude, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2011
The Money Plot, Tristan Bera and Dominique Gonzalez Foerster ‘Human Valley’, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Test Transmission, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
How to Work (More for) Less, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Based in Berlin, Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
That’s the way we do it., Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
2010
PROVENCE, The Artists Institute, New York, US
Into the Middle of Affairs, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
Of Objects, Fields, And Mirrors, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
2009
Neil Campbell / John Divola / Tobias Kaspar / Matthew Smith, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Tiblissi 6: Never on Sunday, Tiblissi, Georgia
Double Feature – Pretty Ambition, Corner College, Zurich, Switzerland
Selected Projects
2018
Runway choreography for FFIXXED STUDIOS at Shanghai Fashion week
2017
Warsaw Wardrobe, performance at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
2015
NY 1995, Art Basel Parcours
2013
Parade, costumes for Adam Linders’ ballet Parade, Hebel Am Ufer Theater, Berlin
2012
20122TK1JEANS, jeans launch and performance at the fashion store Andreas Murkudis, Berlin
2011
Into the Middle of Affairs – Aesthetics of Distribution, curated with Egija Inzule and Axel Wieder, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
Awards
UBS Kulturstiftung
Swiss Art Award
Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt
Reisestipendium, Verein Neue Kunst in Hamburg
Förderpreis, HFBK Hamburg
Residencies
Beijing, China, Galerie Urs Meile
Instituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, Italy
Centre International d’Art et du Paysage, Vassivières, France
BAR Project, Barcelona, Spain