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Vivian Suter

 
VIVIAN SUTER
Born 1949 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives and works in Panajachel, Guatemala
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Education
1972
Kunstgewerbeschule Basel, Switzerland
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
"Tintin, Nina & Disco", Gladstone 64, New York
"Tin tin nina disco," House of Gaga, Los Angeles
“Home,” curated by Lorenzo Giusti, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy
“A Stone in the Lake,” Secession, Vienna, Austria
2022
"Vivian Suter," Gladstone Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
“Vivian Suter,” Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland
“Worm in a Water Glass,” Vleeshal, Middleburg, Netherlands
“soft and fluffy is my soul − my tommy juices don’t worry − are sweet like a liquorice roll,” Kunstmuseum Basel Gegenwart, Basel, CH
“Frank = Panchito” Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland
2021
"Vivian Suter," Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
"Vivian Suter," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
“Vivian Suter: Wolf’s Hour,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
2020
“Vivian Suter: Tin Tin’s Sofa,” Camden Arts Centre, London
“Vivian Suter: Bonzo’s Dream,” Brücke Museum, Berlin
2019
“Vivian Suter,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“Vivian Suter” Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom
“Vivian Suter. Nisyros,” Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
“Vivian Suter,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
2018
“La Canícula,” The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
“Vivian Suter: el bosque interior,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
“Vivian Suter: Bilder 1988-2018,” Stampa Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2017
“Vivian Suter and Elisabeth Wild,” Karma International, Los Angeles
“Brotan Claveles las Solapas,” Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City
“Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings: Vivian Suter,” Jewish Museum, New York
2015
“Vivian Suter,” Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland
“Lejos,” House of Gaga, Mexico City
“Panajachel,” The Mistake Room, Los Angeles
2014
“Vivian Suter: intrépida, featuring Elisabeth Wild: Fantasías 2," Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2004
“Alrededor de mi cuarto,” Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten, Switzerland
1993
Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
1990
Galerie Susan Wyss, Zurich
1985
Fundacion Humbold y Consulado Suizo, Guatemala
1984
Galerie Regenbogen, Luzern

1983
“Vivian Suter: Bilder 1981-1983,” Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Warth, Switzerland
1982
Galerie Fabjbasaglia, Bologna, Italy
Gallery Dossi, Bergamo, Italy
1981
Galleria Diagramma, Milan, Italy
Severina Teucher, Zurich, Siwtzerland
1980
Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
1978
Gallery ABF, Hamburg, Germany

1977
Gallery Handschin, Basel, Switzerland
1976
Gallery Elisabeth Koffman, Olten, Switzerland 
1975
Galerie Rolf Preisig, Basel, Switzerland
1973
“Vivian Suter: Hirsche,” Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
1971
Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
“Stories from the Ground,” Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Ghent, Belgium
"Moments are Monuments," BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, China
"Play With Form Until It Has Impact," House of Tyres, New York, NY
2023
14th Gwangju Biennale, “Soft and weak like water,” Gwangju, South Korea
“EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT THE WEATHER,” curated by Dieter Roelstraete, Fondazione
Prada, Venice, Italy
2022
"Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“What is left unspoken: love,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
“Midnight,” Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art, Coimbra, Portugal
“Forms of Fragility,” Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2021
"Breathing one's breath," Foundation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France
"Earth Beats: Naturbild im Wandel," Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
"Painting Stone," Villa Lontana, Rome, Italy
"Desert X," Coachella Valley, California
2020
“All of Them Witches,” Deitch Projects, Los Angeles
2019
“En Plein Air,” High Line, New York
“Contemporary Art: Five Propositions,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2018
“Post Nature: A Museum as an Ecosystem,” Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
“Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires,” Ex Cervecería Munich, Buenos Aires
“Spiegelgasse,” Hauser & Wirth, London
“Mothers of Men,” House of Gaga, Mexico City
2017
“Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art, 1960 – Present,” Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California
“Documenta 14,” Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany 
2016
“Lanzarote,” Union Pacific, London
“X Bienal de Nicaragua,” Managua
“Raum 1 + 2,” Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
2015
“Blocking,” Martos Gallery LA, Los Angeles 
“Zurich & Elsewhere,” Carlos / Ishikawa, London 
2014
“31st Sao Paulo Biennial,” São Paulo, Brazil
2013
“Concepción 41,” Fundacion de arte contemporaneo, Antigua, Guatemala 
“Olinka or Where Movement is Created,” Museo Tamayo, Mexico City 
2011
“6 Künstler aus Basel x2,” Kunsthalle Basel, Basel 
2010
“Cuatro artistas de Suiza, Rut Himmelsbach, Monika Sennhauser, Vivian Suter und Elisabeth Wild,” Galeria, Panajachel, Guatemala 
2006
“Room 1 and 2,” Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
1999
Galerie Rudolf Mangisch, Zurich, Switzerland
1988
Exhibition “Collection Bankverein” 
1983
Swiss Center Gallery, New York 
ARTE e CRITICA, Pisa, Italy
1982
Gallery Nouvelles Images, The Hague, Netherlands
1981
“6 Künstler aus Basel,” Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
“Aspekte Junger Schweizer Kunst,” Gallery Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna 
“Aspekte Junger Schweizer Kunst,” Gallery Krinzinger, Innsbruck, Austria 
Gallery Eva Keppel, Dusseldorf, Germany
1980
Gallery Eva Keppel, Dusseldorf, Germany
“22 Swiss Artists,” Galeria Nazionale d’Arte Modern, Lisbon 
1979
“Europa 79,” Stuttgart, Germany
1978
“Sechs Basler Künstler,” Kunstsammlung Thun, Thun, Switzerland
1970
Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland