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Seline Baumgartner (born 1980 in Zurich, CH) is a talented story teller who uses body movement, dance and performance as her language. Her stories deal with personal relationships - from intimacy to experiences of collectiveness. The question of individual behavior opposed to but also as a part of group dynamics is crucial to Baumgartner's work. The idea that the body is more than a medium to express oneself and beyond that capable of saving memories plays a central role also in her latest work Apart From Us.

Biography // Education

2014

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Residency, Maine USA

2013-2014

Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts, New York

2000-2005

Zurich University of the Arts/ Fine Arts Diploma

Biography // Solo Exhibitions

2019

Next to the Sink, Scenic Design for Vicky Shick, Danspace Project, NYC, USA

2018

Video Window, Bruno Z'Graggen, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, CH

2017

Let it Linger, Scenic Design for Vicky Shick, The Kitchen, NYC, USA

2016

Nothing Else, Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, DE

2015

As Everything Fades, 83 Pitt St, Lower East Side, New York, USA
Time to Lose, Art Cube, Artist Studios, Jerusalem, IL
Before the Future, Walcheturm, Zurich, CH

2011

One and Others“ Art Fair, Kunst 11 Zurich, CH

2010

Not Yet, Gallery SCHAU ORT. Christiane Büntgen, Zurich, CH
Trial, Final Fish ,Videotank, Zurich, CH

2008

Shake Hands with the Devil, kleiner Wartesaal, Perla-Mode Zurich, CH
It depends…, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, PL

2007

Now no Longer, Room 202, Kunsthalle Luzern, CH

2004

Voici/ Parc-là, Alter Botanischer Garten, Zurich, CH

Biography // Group Exhibitions

2022

The Mouth is for Speaking, WE ARE AIA, Zurich, CH

2020

HOMEGROWN, Online Exhibition, Hauser & Wirth Gallery
Before the Future, Online Screening, curated by Mirjam Varadinis, Kunsthaus Zurich, CH
Urban Stories, Video Window, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, CH

2019

Youth Before Age 코리아나미술관 Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
Two Channel Video Festival, Skowhegan, NYC, USA

2018

Why We Dance, la cápsula, Folium Shilcity, Zurich, CH
Corpora in Tractus, NYU Gallatin Galleries, NYC, USA
Beauty and Rooms, Jean-Paul Felley, Palp Festival, Sion, CH

2017

NurtureArt Benefit, Elisabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA
Sundays on Broadway, with Lisa Nelson and Jennifer Monson, WeisAcres, New York, USA
Say The Same Thing, OnCurating, Zurich, CH

2016

Werk-und Atelierstipendien der Stadt Zürich”, Helmhaus, Zurich, CH
Bodenlos II Kunsthaus, Zofingen, CH
Refine all Pores, Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart, DE

2015

Dance Movie Commissions, EMPAC Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, NY, USA
The Impossible, Skowhegan Video screening, Chelsea New York, USA
Art Auction Benefit, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, CARA Gallery, New York, USA
CENTRE PARTING, Kaskadenkondensator Basel, CH

2014

Swiss Art Awards, Art Basel, CH
Open Studio, LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) New York, USA
Fearfulawesome, Temp Gallery, New York, USA
Blackboard, Kantonsschule Zurich Nord, CH
Werk-und Atelierstipendien der Stadt Zürich, Helmhaus Zurich, CH

2013

Transformationen: Mythos Alter“ Museum Haus für Kunst Uri, CH
The Movement, KOLUMBA, Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Cologne, DE
Alternativa, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, PL
Ich bin dein Nachbar!, Bromer Art Collection, BAC, CH
What Happened 2081, Goethe Institut, New Delhi, IN
Videos, Cows & Poetry, 1 Shanthiroad, Bangalore, IN
ON AIR, ikonoTV Festival, Berlin, DE Art Rotterdam, NL

2012

La jeunesse est l’art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, CH
Social body, Palazzo Ducale, Genua, IT
Werk-und Atelierstipendien der Stadt Zürich, Helmhaus Zurich, CH
Artissima, Artfair, Torino, IT
La terra vista dalla Luna, Galerie Zimmermannhaus, Brugg, CH

2011

Halbzeit, Vögele Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, CH
Kompositionen des Zufalls, Project Madonna and Edgar Frei, privat gallery, CH
Immersive Surfaces, public video projection during Dumbo Arts Festival, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn, USA
Werkschau 2011, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, F+F, Zurich, CH
Swiss Art Awards 2011, Art Basel, CH
Get up and run away with it. About love and the impossible, Palais Bleu Trogen, CH
Art Brussels 29 contemporary art fair, Gallery SCHAU ORT., CH
komm tanz mit mir, Benzeholz, Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, CH

2010

Lust und Laster. Die sieben Todsünden von Dürer bis Naumann, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, CH
In Between, USEGO-Gebäude , Olten, CH
Circle, Benzeholz, Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Luzern, CH
Swiss Art Awards, 2010 Art Basel, CH
K10, Oxyd Winthertur, CH
Grant Exhibiton, Helmhaus Zürich, CH

2009

Sixtoe, Red House Gallery, New York, USA
unter 30 VII, Museum of Fine Arts Thun, CH
Swiss Art Awards 2009, Art Basel, CH
Walk on the light side, Zurich, CH
Neid, Gunststiftung, Habsburg, Zurich, CH

2008

Occupy, Hauser& Wirth, Zurich, CH
Average, Museum of Fine Arts, Langenthal, CH
Swiss Art Awards, Art Basel, CH
Helmhaus Grants, Zurich, CH
5th International DADA festival, D.I.V.O Insititut, Kolin, CZ
Art Bingo, Leimbach, Zurich, CH
Mini Super Art, Atelier Friesenbergstrasse, Zurich, CH
Autyzm / Artyzm. Modelarnia / Fundacja Wyspa Progress, Gdansk, PL

2007

MID_E 07, Arteleku & KM Kulturunea, San Sebastian, ES
Basement ARI, Fiskars, FIN
4. International One Minute Film & Video Festival, Aarau, CH
Voyeur artist, Smith Street Gallery, (AU)
Minimal, Whitespace, Zurich, CH

Biography // Awards & Grants

2019

Philaneo. a fund for art, CH

2015

Art Cube Artists' Studio International Residency Program Jerusalem, IL
Publication Grant, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

2014

Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation Prize, CH
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Residency, Maine USA
LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Workspace Residency, NY, USA
Dance Movie Commission, EMPAC Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, NY, USA

2013

Residency India, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

2010

Grant, City of Zurich, CH
Foundation Gegenwart, Scholarship of the Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, CH

2009

Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation Prize
New York Studio Residency and Grant , City of Zurich, USA

2007

Residency Gdansk PL, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

Biography // Collections

8000

Collection Goetz, Munich, DE
Kunsthaus Zürich, CH
Aargauer Kunsthaus, CH
Collection Kanton Zürich, CH
Collection Bosshard, CH

Biography // Bibliography

9000

AGE, Youth Before Age, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
TIME TO LOSE, Artist Book, Art Cube Artists' Studio Jerusalem, IL
Before the Future, Nothing Else, If It Is As If It, Artist Book, Edizioni Periferia, Switzerland and Centre culturel suisse, Paris, supported by Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation
La jeunesse est l’art, Jubiläum Manor Kunstpreis, Aargauer Kunsthaus
Lust und Laster. Die sieben Todsünden von Dürer bis Naumann 2010, Kunstmuseum Bern / Zentrum Paul Klee Bern
Kantonale 10, Visarte, 2010
unter 30, Kunstmuseum Thun, 2009
Swiss Art Award, Bundesamt für Kultur, Kunst-­Bulltin, Bern, Switzerland, 2009
Average, Museum of Fine Art Langenthal, 2008
Unwichtige Wichtigkeiten Zürich 2007
Ohne Titel, Diplom Publikation, 2005, Züricher Hochschule der Künste, Edition Fink