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Urs August Steiner (CH)
Born 1980, lives in Zürich, Switzerland
Education
2009/11
Master in Fine Arts, ECAL, University of Art and Design Lausanne
2007
Fine Arts, CCA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2005/08
Bachelor Scenography, ZHdK, Zurich University of the Arts, Zürich
Solo exhibitions
2021
- S01E08 Exposure, Untitled Basel, Basel
2019
- Swiss Pavilion - S01E03 Pavilion, Bombay Beach Biennale, California
- S01E02 Defreeze, Nextex, St.Gallen
2017
- Super Cool X-1000, Fokus Preis, Kunsthaus Glarus
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Old Dogs - New Tricks, With Walter Pfeiffer, Dienstgebäude, Zürich
2015
- Buster Six, Des Pacio, San José, Costa Rica, CRI
- Orbit 2046, MoCA Pavilion, Museum for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, CHN
2014
- Twin Peaks, Grand Palais, Bern
- Buster II, Lokal-int, Biel
2013
- Some Scream and Some Don‘t, Splatterpool, New York, USA
Group exhibitions (selection)
2021
- Trovate Ortensia, Fondazione ICA Milano, Milano
2020
- Werk- und Auslandatelier-Stipendien 2020, Helmhaus, Zürich
2019
- The Big Rip, Bounce, Chill or Crunch?, Last Tango, Zürich
2018
- Heimspiel, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen
2017
- Previous, Blossom, Zürich
- Farrago, L‘OV, Centre d‘art Neuchâtel
2016
- Eleven Flags, Sitterwerk, St. Gallen
2015
- New Glarus, Kunsthaus Glarus
- F?!, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, USA
2014
- Kunstschaffen Glarus und Linthgebiet, Kunsthaus Glarus
- Catch of the Year, Dienstgebäude, Zürich
- The Rest is Noise, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Awards / Residencies
2019
- Artist residency, Roma Calling, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, ITA
- Bursary award, UBS
2018
- Bursary award, canton St. Gallen
- Research bursary, Pro Helvetia 2016
2016
- Bursary award, canton St. Gallen
2015
- Artist residency, Pro Helvetia, Shanghai, CHN
2014
- Fokus-Prize, Kunsthaus Glarus
2012
- Artist residency, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
Collection
2019
- Canton St.Gallen
Web-Development
Another Code Project
Karen Czock, Fabian Wohlfart
Photo series, 2020
Publication, Artist Residency, Istituto Svizzero
Every year, Istituto Svizzero invites six artists and six researchers to a unique residency experience, Roma Calling. Over the course of ten months, a multidisciplinary community forms, looking beyond each resident’s own field of expertise in the midst of an international network of academies, art institutes and universities.
Last March, life inside the villa and its garden was put on a long halt due to the arrival of the virus. The final event, which marks the end of the residency, has therefore been transformed this year, into a publication, which proposes an imaginative journey through the residents’ garden, intended as a physical and metaphorical space to share thoughts, studies and artistic research.
ORTO is the result of a collaborative zeal between art and science and highlights the common desire to cross barriers and overcome distances, albeit symbolically. Conceived in singular circumstances—swift e-mail exchanges and long video calls— the book contains heterogeneous materials able to reproduce the fellows’ experience.
A publication by Roma Calling’ 2019/2020 Fellows in collaboration with Saul Marcadent
Contributions by: Armando Bramanti, Dominique Laleg, Anaïs Wenger, Charlotte Matter, Pauline Julier, Real Madrid, Nastasia Meyrat, Urs August Steiner, Francesco Dendena, Kiri Santer, Johanna Bruckner, Romeo Dell’Era
Photography: Tommaso Cassinis
Image 01
ORTO, photo series for publication, S01E06 Fornever Forget
Image 02
ORTO, photo series for publication, S01E06 Fornever Forget, 3d SLA print, 12 x 6 cm
Image 03
ORTO, photo series for publication, S01E06 Fornever Forget, 3d SLA print, 12 x 6 cm
Image 04
ORTO, photo series for publication, S01E06 Fornever Forget, inprint on skin
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ORTO, publication Roma Calling 19/20, format: 17 x 24 cm, pages: 144, language: EN
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ORTO, publication Roma Calling 19/20, format: 17 x 24 cm, pages: 144, language: EN, Sticker: 12 x 6 cm