Stefan Banz

Stefan Banz is an artist, who was born in 1961 in Sursee and grew up inMenznau, Switzerland. In 1989 he co-founded the Kunsthalle Luzern and servedas its artistic director until 1993. From 1994 to 1997 he was an artisticadviser for the Hauser & Wirth Gallery in Zurich, where he organisedExhibitions with Gerhard Richter, Francis Picabia, Bruce Nauman and others.He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in internationalgalleries, art institutions and museums, such as WürttembergischerKunstverein, Stuttgart; Migros Museum, Zurich; Kunstmuseum Lucerne,Kunsthaus Zurich, Walker Art Center Minneapolis. He has also written plays,novels, theoretical texts and critical essays about artists andpersonalities such as Jacques Derrida, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Nauman, FrankZappa and Marcel Duchamp. In 2000 he received the Manor Art prize, as wellas the Recognition Award from the City of Lucerne, Switzerland. In 2005 hewas the curator for the Swiss Pavilion at the 51st Biennale in Venice. Hewas also a Member of the Swiss Federal Art Committee from 2001 to 2007.Since 2004 he works together with Caroline Bachmann under the name ofBachmann/Banz, Website: http://www.bxb.ch.

In 2007 Bachmann/Banz got the „Werkbeitrag“-Award from the City and theCanton of Lucerne. They are represented by Galerie Urs MeileBeijing-Lucerne, Website: http://www.galerieursmeile.com. Stefan Banz livesand works in Switzerland. Website: http://www.banz.tv

Public Collections

*Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
*Kunsthaus Zürich
*Kunstmuseum Luzern
*Museum CentrePasquArt, Biel
*Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein

References

*1991 Serendipity, Helmhaus, Zurich, ISBN 3-906396-08-8
*1993 Kunsthalle Lucerne, 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, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz
*1996 Platz der Luftbrücke, Ein Gespräch mit Friedrich Kittler, Edited by Iwan Wirth, Oktagon Cologne, ISBN 3-89611-021-7
*1997 Stefan Banz & Iwan Wirth (Ed.), Francis Picabia «Fleurs de chair, fleurs d’àme», Oktagon Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 3-89611-031-4
*1998 Echos, 01/3, Edited by Manuel Bonik, Berlin
*1999 i built this garden for us, Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich, ISBN 3-905509-23-7
*1999 a shot away some flowers, Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich, ISBN 3-905509-28-8
*2000 Echoes, Exhibitions, Projects, 1992-2000, Odermatt Edition, Dallenwil, Switzerland
*2001 Hell, Novel, Salon Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 3-89770-118-9
*2001 Komplexes System Kunst, Edited by Hermann Korte, Lit Verlag, Münster-Hamburg-London, ISBN 3-8258-5254-7
*2002 The Muhammad Ali’s, Verlag für moderne Kunst, 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, Timzone 8, Beijing, ISBN 988-98086-2-5
*2005 Stefan Banz (Hrsg.), Shadows Collide With People, Venice Biennale, Swiss Pavilion, Edition Fink, Zurich, ISBN 3-906086-79-8
*2006 Laugh. I nearly died, Installations 1992-2006, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, ISBN 3-938821-29-9
*2006 Bachmann/Banz, Ting Bu Dong, Paintings and Installations, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, ISBN-10: 3-9523222-2-9; ISBN-13: 978-3-9523222-2-2
*2007 Bachmann/Banz, Helter Skelter – Painting With The Beatles, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne

External links

* [http://www.banz.tv http://www.banz.tv]
* [http://www.bxb.ch http://www.bxb.ch]
* [http://www.pasquart.ch http://www.pasquart.ch]
* [http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch]

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