CHRISTIAN GONZENBACH Born 1975 in Geneva. Lives and works in Geneva.
Education 1994 1999 2005
Biology department, Science Faculty, University of Geneva BA, Haute école d’art et design, Geneva (HEAD) Master of Art (Fine Art), Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
Solo Exhibitions (Selected) 2016
Serut Plucs, RIBOT gallery, Milan, Italy * Giraffe’s Chapel, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
2015
Morphosis, Gallery SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland
2014
Salmigondis, Gallery Vincent Sator, Paris, France
2013
Icons Idols, Gallery SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland Appareil Reproducteur, Toshiba House, Besançon, Switzerland A Contrario, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
2012
Occam’s Razor, Ferme-Asile, Sion, Switzerland Yocto Yotta, Château Voltaire, Ferney Voltaire, France
2011
Oligoneoptera, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland * Les Echelles du Levant, Palais Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France Holometabolic, Galerie SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland Zoonomia, La Condition Publique, Roubaix, France *
2010
Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France Die Wüste lebt, ProjektLinks, Bern, Switzerland
2009
Domestic Wildlife Collection, Gallery SO, London, UK Abbatiale de Bellelay, Switzerland *
2008
Hval, La Maréchalerie, Centre d’art contemporain, Versailles, France * La fabuleuse Hypothèse, Théâtre de l’Agora, Evry, France Une formidable supercherie, Centre culturel St Exupéry, Reims, France
2007
Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions (Selected) 2016
KNOCK ON WOOD, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France
2015
A Posteriori, La Maréchalerie, Versailles, France Un chasseur sachant chasser, Château de Kerjean, Finistère
Group Show, Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada 2014
A Posteriori, La Maréchalerie, Versailles, France * Hunters & Gatherers, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany *
2013
Blow Flies, Photoforum Centre Pasquart, Bienne, Switzerland Gonzenbach, Jongkind, Barde, Château de Nyon, Switzerland Bulbfiction, Centre d’art contemporain, Yverdon, Switzerland Fire It Up!, Dienstgebäude, Zürich, Switzerland Ulysses, Château de Tarascon, France * Experimenta 13, Basel, Switzerland Délices d’artistes, Alimentarium, Vevey, Switzerland *
2012
La Jeunesse est un art, Aargauerkunsthaus, Aargau, Switzerland * Arte Video Night, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Think Art Act Science, Salt Lake City, USA Spotlights, Essl Museum, Wien, Austria * Lauréats Prix Reymond, Musée de Pully, Pully, Switzerland 100 sculptures animales, Musée des Années Trente, Paris, France *
2011
Think Art Act Science, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA * Bêtes Off, La Conciergerie, Paris, France * Nowheresville, Hardware Contemporary, Toronto, Canada Un Monde sans mesures, Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France * Helvètes Vulcains, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland * Art Môtiers 2011, Môtiers, Switzerland * Helvetica, Musée Royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium * Think Art Act Science, Kunsthalle, Luzern, Switzerland
2010
C'est la vie! Vanités de Caravage à Damien Hirst, Musée Maillol, Paris, France * Rehab, Fondation EDF, Paris, France * Think Art Act Science, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain *
2009
Crystal Palace, Centre d’Art en l’Ile, Switzerland Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland I am by birth a Genevese, Vegas Gallery, London & Forde, Geneva, Switzerland Drawing Hand, Galerie 18, Shanghai, China Vanités, ESF, Lausanne, Switzerland
2008
Waoohhh!, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France * La main qui dessinait toute seule, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France Biennale de céramique contemporaine, Vallauris, France * Parcours St Germain, Chapelle des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France * La Grande Friche, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, France Hold the line, Ferenbalm-Gurbu Station, Karlsruhe, Germany Bourses des Fonds Berthoud et Lissignol, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
*a catalog has followed the exhibition
Grants, Awards and Residencies 2012 2010-2012 2009 2009 2005 2004 2003
Winner Chevrolet Centennial Artwork contest Studio at Grütli, Maison des Arts Genève Swiss Artists in Lab grant, residency at CERN Prize Foundation Irène Reymond Lissignol Award, City of Geneva Bourse d’aide à la creation, City of Geneva Ikea Foundation grant Arcodis grant for a residency in Cuba
2001-2003 2000
Studio at l’Usine, City of Geneva Berthoud Award, City of Geneva
Teaching and Lectures Since 2001
teacher at University of Art and Design (HEAD), Geneva, Switzerland
Invited speaker
Royal College of Art, London, UK Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan Villa Arson, Nice, France Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture, Versailles, France SF Art Institute, San Francisco, USA Hochschule für Geschtalltung, Zürich, Switzerland Guelph University, Toronto, Canada
Public and Private Collections Essl Museum, Wien, Austria Fonds Cantonal d'art contemporain (FCAC), Geneva, Switzerland Fonds d'art contemporain de la Ville de Genève (FMAC), Switzerland mudac – musée de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland Musée Royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium Fondation de l'Abbatiale de Bellelay, Bern, Switzerland Musée de Carouge, Carouge, Switzerland Collection du Château de Nyon, Nyon, Switzerland Collection Pictet & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland Collection Julius Baer, Zurich, Switzerland Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Bibliography (Selected) 2016 2013 2012 2011
2010 2009 2008
Christian Gonzenbach. Serut Plucs, RIBOT gallery, Milan (monograph) Délices d’artistes, Alimentarium, Vevey 100 sculptures animales, Musée des Années Trente, Paris Oligoneoptera, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano (monograph) Un Monde sans mesures, Palais Fesch, Ajaccio Zoonomia, Condition Publique, Roubaix (monograph) Bêtes Off, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Paris Artistes à Genève, de 1400 à nos jours, Karine Tissot (dir.), Editions Notari C'est la vie! Vanités de Caravage à Damien Hirst, Musée Maillol, Paris Rehab, Fondation EDF & Editions Gallimard, Paris Christian Gonzenbach, Abbatiale de Bellelay (monograph) Book of Hval, Edition de La Maréchalerie, Versailles (monograph)