Tobias Kaspar

B. 1984, Basel, Switzerland
Lives and works in Zurich

Tobias Kaspar was born in 1984 in Basel, Switzerland. He lives and works in Zurich. His work has been exhibited in the following institutions (selection): Kunsthalle Bern (2018), Kunsthaus Zurich (2017), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2017), Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2015), Solo Shows, São Paulo (2015), CAFAM Biennale, Beijing (2014), Kunsthalle Wien (2014), Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2014), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2013), Artists Space, New York (2013), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012), Kunsthalle Zürich (2011), Kunsthalle Basel (2011), Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2011), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2011) and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2010). In 2012 he founded his eponymous jeans line “20122TK1JEANS” and since 2009 he is co-founder of PROVENCE, an eight-issue magazine dedicated to leisure.

B. 1984, Basel, Switzerland
Lives and works in Zurich

Education

2005 – 2011	Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
2009 – 2010	Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Staedelschule, Frankfurt

Solo Exhibitions

2019	Tobias Kaspar: Horn of Plenty, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China, Nov. 2 – Jan. 5 The Estate/Summer, Kim? Off-site location, Salacgrīvas, Latvia, Aug. 3 – Sept. 15 The Category Is, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, March 8 – April 9 Why Loves Hurts, Lars Friedrich, Berlin
2018	Oleg Frolov & Tobias Kaspar: Epicentre, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Tallinn, Nov. 3 – Jan. 12 Tobias Kaspar: Independence, Kunsthalle Bern, Berne, Switzerland, Sep. 22 – Dec. 2 Tobias Kaspar: The Complete, Archiv, Zurich, Aug. 29 – Sept. 15 Tobias Kaspar, VI, VII, Oslo
2017	Tobias Kaspar, kim? Contemporary art Center, Riga, Latvia, May 20 – Jul. 9
2016	Tobias Kaspar, Jenny’s, Los Angeles, Nov. 26 – Dec. 31 Tobias Kaspar: New Address, Lovaas Projects, Munich, Oct. 27 – Dec. 10 Tobias Kaspar, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, April 15 – May 28 The Street, Cinecittà Studios, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, Mar. 11 Tobias Kaspar, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany, Feb. 5
2015	Tobias Kaspar: The Bling Ring, cur. Karin Frei, Zurich Insurance Development Center, Zurich, Two Cities, Two Lives, cur. Tobi Maier, Frey Kalioubi, Rio, Brazil, Sept. 11 – Two Cities, Two Lives, cur. Tobi Maier, Solo Shows, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sept. 3 – Oct. 3 Tobias Kaspar: The Street (Est 1863), Istituto Svizzero, Rome, June 6 – Sep. 19 Buzios Fine Arts, Sao Paulo, Brazil Toby’s Tristram Shandy Shop, Udolpho, Berlin, April 29 – June 13
2014	The Air on the Way to the Oyster, cur. Giovanni Carmine, Kunsthalle, St. Gallen, Switzerland, April 25 – July 13 The Air on the Way to the Oyster, cur. Marina Coelho, Kunsthalle, Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 5 – May 3
2013	Tobias Kaspar, Midway Contemporary Art Center, Minneapolis, Sept. 13 – Nov.9 The Bling Ring (Making-of), BAR Project / Opel Garage, Carrer de Casanova 83, Barcelona, May 10 The Bling Ring, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, April 26 – May 25 The Bling Ring, Apt. 302, Marseille, France, March 30 Hydra Life, Silberkuppe, Berlin, March 3 – April 25
2012	Life and Lies: Tobias Kaspar, Marcelle Alix, Paris, Nov. 9 – Dec. 22 Bodies in the Backdrop, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Nov. 2 – Dec. 22 Bodies in the Backdrop, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany, Feb. 18 – April 1
2011	Why Sex Now, Alex Zachary Gallery, New York, Jan. 1 – Feb. 19
2010	Living Well Is the Best Revenge, Silberkuppe, Berlin
2009	Sentimental Style, Hermes und der Pfau and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, May 23 – June 11
2008	Service Is My Business, CCS, Skopje, Macedonia
2007	Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020	Information (Today), cur. Elena Filipovic, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, May 29 – Aug. 16 Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland, cur. Judith Welter, Jun. 6 – Klöntal Triennale, Klöntal, Switzerland, cur. Alexandra Blätter, Sabine Rusterholz, Jun. 6 – Retail Apocalypse, cur. Fredi Fischli & Niels Olsen, ETH Zürich, Feb. 26 – May. 15 Uniform: Into the work / Out of the work , cur. Urs Stahel, Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy, Jan. 21 – May. 3
2019	Prix Mobilière, Artgenève, Geneva, Jan. 31 – Feb. 3
2018	Be Advisors Art Department & GoLab, Milan, Apr. 11 Fashion Drive, cur. Christoph Becker & Catherine Hug, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Apr. 20 – July 15 At Large, Reyes Projects, Birmingham, US, Mar. 23 – May. 4 New works, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Jan. 19 – Mar. 17
2017	David Bowie, cur. Peter Lynen, Ingrid Scherr, Martin Senn, Kunsthalle Schlieren, Schlieren, Switzerland, July 1 – July Museum of Modern Art, cur. Natalia Sielewicz, Warsaw, May 10 –
2016	L’Etat parfait, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland, Nov. 27 – Jan. 28 DesignPreis, cur. Alexandra Blätter, Kultur im Zentrum, Rapperwsil-Jona, Switzerland, Aug. 18 – Aug. 28 Video Room, Centre d’Art de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, Mar. 14 – May. 8 Bread and Roses, cur. Natalia Sielewicz, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 19 – May. 1
2015	Artists’ Voices, cur. Véronique Bacchetta, Centre d’Edition Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 11 – Feb. 27 Vordemberge-Gildewart Stipendiumsausstellung, cur. Felicity Lunn,Centre PasquART, Biel, Switzerland, Sep. 27 – Nov. 22 The Verdant, cur. Daniel Horn, Hacienda, Zurich, Aug. 28 – Sept. 27 The Street (Chinatown), Swiss Art Awards, Bundesamt für Kultur, Basel, Switzerland, June 16 – June 21 Art Parcours, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, June 17 – June 21 Conversations Pieces, cur. Marcello Smarrelli, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Feb. 11 – April 12 L’appropriationniste (contre et avec), Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France, Jan. 17 – March 14 Off Broadway, cur. Nairy Baghramian, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, Jan. 21 – Feb. 28
2014	Blue Times, cur. Amira Gad, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Oct. 1 – Jan. 11 In Real Life, cur. Luca Lo Pinto, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria, Oct. 3 – Nov. 8 Augment this (Meditations on the Image), cur. Christopher Eamon, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles July 12 – Sept. 13 Against the Grain, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, June 6 – Aug. 3 Coming of Age for Ages, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Germany, May 17 – June 22 Noioso Borghese, with RME Lab students from HEAD and Tristan Bera, Istituto Svizzera, Rome Upstairs Downstairs, Galerie Neu, Berlin, March 23 – April 19 The Missing Stories, within the CAFAM Biennial 2014 Invisible Hand, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China, cur. Veronica Valentini, Feb. 29 – April 20 Petunia, curated by Ophélie Reynaud Dewar, PSM Berlin Effie B, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Feb. 8 – March Momentum?, PSM Gallery, Berlin, cur. Petunia, Jan. 17 – Feb. 28
2013	Macumba Palace, Palais des arts, Toulouse, France, cur. David Ancellin, Sept. 28 – Oct. 7 The Estate, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, Germany, cur. Daniel Horn, June 29 – July 20 On ne connaît les chiffres que d’un côté du plan, art3, Valence, France, cur. Francois Aubart, May 24 – July 27 Costumes: Written Clothing, Tramway, Glasgow, UK, cur. Claire Jackson, May 3 – June 16 Collapse, Fluxia Gallery, Milano, cur. Valentina Suma, March 29 – May 4 Body of Evidence, VI, VII, Oslo, cur. Mikael Brkic and Esperanza Rosales, March 16 – April 7 Gerry Bibby’s Prisma Pavillion, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Mar. 1 – 24 Frozen Lakes, Artists Space, New York, US, cur. Stefan Kalmar, Jan. 20 – March 24
2012	La Demeure Joyeuse II, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland, cur. Anne Dressen, Oct. 2 – Nov. 17 Profonde Surface, Shanaynay, Paris, France, cur. François Aubart, July 7 – Aug. 25 Strange Interlude, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, cur. Egija Inzule, June 15 – Sept. 4 Twin Tails, Tobias Kaspar & Pennacchio Argentato Bischoff Projects, Frankfurt, April 14 – June 30
2011	The Money Plot, cur. Tobias Kaspar with Egija Inzule & Hannes Loichinger, at Tristan Bera and Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Human Valley, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Nov. 12 – Jan. 15 Copy Taste, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Oct. – Nov. Freaks and Geeks, Galerie Air de Paris, Paris, cur. by Castillo/Corrales, June 30 – July 23 Le bleu est à la mode cette année, Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris, France, Sept. 10 – Nov. 5 Reisestipendium, Neue Kunst in Hamburg, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany, cur. Johan Holten Test Transmission, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand, cur. Caterina Riva, Sept. 2 – Oct. 8 How to Work (More for) Less, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, cur. Annette Amberg, Adam Szymczyk, June 12– Aug. 28 Based in Berlin, Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, June 8 – July 24 That’s the way we do it, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, cur. Yilmaz Dziewior, April 14 – July 3 Historical Structures – New Existentialism Part 2, *Kurator, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, cur. Alexandra Blättler, Jan. 29 – Apr. 3
2010	Bloodflames III, Alex Zachary, New York, cur. Nick Mauss, Oct. 9 – Nov. 6 Poésie Sonore, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Nov. 17 – Dec. 23 PROVENCE, The Artists Institute, New York, cur. Tobias Kaspar with Egija Inzule and Hannes Loichinger, Oct. 29 – Nov. 13 Into the Middle of Affairs, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany, cur. Egija Inzule, Axel Wieder, Oct. 1 – 31 Of Objects, Fields, And Mirrors, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland, cur. Daniel Baumann, Maja Wismer, May 5 – Aug. 15 PROVENCE O, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany, cur. Tobias Kaspar and Hannes Loichinger
2009	Neil Campbell / John Divola / Tobias Kaspar / Matthew Smith, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Tiblissi 6: Never on Sunday, cur. Daniel Baumann, Tiblissi, Georgia Office: Tobias Kaspar, Galerie Croy Nielsen, Berlin Richard Prince and the Revolution, cur. Jonathan Monk, Galerie ProjecSD, Barcelona PROVENCE; Issue P, cur. Tobias Kaspar and Egija Inzule, Café Hammer, Basel, Switzerland Double Feature – Pretty Ambition, Cinema program with Egija Inzule, Corner College, Zurich Black and White Photography, cur. Loretta Fahrenholz and Hans-Christian Lotz WCW Galerie, Hamburg, Three’s Company cur. Alex Gartenfeld & Piper Marshall, New York
2008	Grand Opening, New Jerseyy, Basel, Switzerland

Selected Performances

2014

Friends, Lovers & Financiers, Nov. 7, Per4m at Artissima, Turin

AW14/15 – New City, New Life, Trying Hard to Fit In, April 4th, Fitting rehearsal and presentation of the new AW14/15 collection with rebranded garments from the closet of Tobi Maier, Sessão 7, Apartamento 3A, São Paulo

Con, A 5-act play, Gente Store Roma, February 24th, 25th, 26th, with Olver Bulas, Thomas Oswald, Fabio de Felice, Julia Sippel and Daniele Milvo and OKNO Studio

2013

Holiday, Sept. 8th, Fitting rehearsal with friends and board members of Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis

Room-mate Education, Opening lecture as visiting professor at HEAD, Geneva, performed by Alexander

Hempel after a script by Tobias Kaspar

20122TK1JEANS, May 26th, Fitting rehearsal with friends and models at Andreas Murkudis Store, Berlin

2012

Hydra Life, Marlene Dietrich Suite, Grand Hotel Hyatt Berlin, December 12th 2012, with Inka Meissner, Thomas Oswald and Jutta Zimmermann

Screenings, Broadcasts, Lectures And Talks

2013	Parade, concept Adam Linder, choreography Delphine Gaaborit, Adam Linder, Kotomi Hishiwaki, costumes Tobias Kaspar&Iva Wili Hau Hebbel au Ufer, Berlin HEAD Geneva UCLA Los Angeles
2012	ICA London Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
2011	Kino, Kunsthalle Basel HGB, Hochschule für Buchdruck und Kunst, Leipzig
2010	MGK, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel The Artists Institute, New York
2009	Kunsthalle Basel

Special Projects & Editions

2020	The Estate/Winter, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland, Jan. 11 – Feb.
2019	The Estate/Autumn, Kim? Riga, Latvia, Aug. 3 – Sept. 15
2017	DediKascation, exploitation & haute collaboration, Silberkuppe, Berlin, cur.Latvian Institute Rome, Tobias par
2013	Holiday Jeans Edition with Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Edition Grand Hotel Europa Place, Sorrento, May 30th – June 1^st Bewar of a Holy Whore (1971), Location Check for The Apt302 Edition Portfolio, invited through Michael Clark & Stefan Kalmar, Kiosk NY, Provence, Berlin, Nice Lumpy Blue Sweater, Artists Space, New York
2012	20122TK1JEANS, Edition, Little and Large Editions/Andreas Murkudis Store, Berlin
2011	The Provence City Guide: Nice, Publication with Hannes Lochinger, Paraguay Press
2010	Leon d’Oro, Douglas Gordon & Jonathan Monk, edited and graphic design by Tobias Kaspar, Mousse, Milan
2009	Studio Visit, Jonathan Monk, designed and edited by Tobias Kaspar, Christopher Keller Editions, JRP \| Ringier, Zurich since 2009 co-publisher of PROVENCE, Editorial project with Hannes Loichinger

Prizes, Residences

2013 – 2014	Instituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome
2013 – 2015	Visiting professor at Workmaster HEAD, Geneva, Switzerland 2013 Centre International d’Art et du Paysage, Vassivières, France
2013	BAR Project, Barcelona
2013	Swiss Art Award
2011	Travel Grant, Verein Neue Kunst in Hamburg Los Angeles
2011	UBS Kulturstiftung
2010	Swiss Art Award
2010	IAAB,Travel Grant, US
2010	Reisestipendium, Verein Neue Kunst in Hamburg
2009	Förderpreis, HFBK Hamburg

Bibliography – Monographs, Books And (Exhibition) Catalogues

2019	Tobias Kaspar, Valerie Knoll, Hannes Loichinger, Anke Dyes, Kunsthalle Bern, Walther König Verlag (upcoming)
2018	Tobias Kaspar: The Street Cards, Hans-Christian Dany, Walther König Verlag, Cologne Fashion Drive. Extreme Mode in der Kunst, Cathérine Hug, Christoph Becker, et al., Kunsthaus Zurich, Kerber Verlag Bielefeld/ Berlin, p. 300 Contemporary Art Collection, Mirabaud, Mirabaud, 2018
2017	Tobias Kaspar: New Address, texts by Mikael Brkic, Daniel Horn, Nero, Rome
2015	Tobias Kaspar: THE STREET Times, Nero, Rome (Newspaper) Conversation Piece, Part 1, Marcello Smarrelli, Fondazione Memmo Arte Contemporanea, Rome, pp. 41-44, 74-75, ex.cat.
2013	Tobias Kaspar: Lumpy Blue Sweater, Artists Space, New York
2012	Tobias Kaspar: Bodies in the Backdrop, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Walther König Verlag, Cologne
2011	That’s the way we do it, Kunsthaus, Bregenz Based in Berlin, Walther König Verlag, Cologne Reisestipendium, Verein für Neue Kunst, Hamburg
2010	Living Well Is The Best Revenge, Leporello, Tobias Kaspar, Silberkuppe, Berlin Swiss Art Award, Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern
2008	Drums and Impressions, Tobias Kaspar, Materialverlag, Hamburg Program, Tobias Kaspar, contribution for the catalogue Columbus Art Foundation, Revolver, Berlin

Bibliography – Selected Reviews And Articles

2019	An Interview with Tobias Kaspar, Carter Mull and Laura Dennis, The Seen, Chicago, April 18 Tobias Kaspar, Jörg Scheller, Frieze, London, Issue 201, March Situational Awareness/Softcore Insurrection, Karl Rittenbach, Texte zur Kunst, Berlin, March
2018	Tobias Kaspar – Kunsthalle Bern, Burkhard Meltzer, Artforum, Picks, Nov. Tobias Kaspar: Scene of a scene, Julia Moritz, FlashArt, Milan, Issue 322, Oct.
2017	Anke Dyes über Tobias Kaspar bei kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga – Therapy?, Anke Dyes, Texte zur Kunst, Sept. 19
2016	Tobias kaspar – The Street, Flash Art Milan, No. 309, Vol. 49, June – Aug., pp. 65-72 Tobias Kaspar at Silberkuppe, Alexander Scrimgeour, ArtForum, New York, May
2014	Almost an interview, Daniel Horn, Bomb Magazine, New York, June 17 Performance in Turin, Eva Clausen, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich, No. 260, Nov. 8, p. 53 Kunst in Bewegung. , Eva Clausen, Handelsblatt, Düsseldorf, Nov. 7 Tobias Kaspar by Daniel Horn. An almost interview, BOMB Magazine, New York, June 23 Tobias Kaspar, text by Marina Coelho, Tobi Maier, Profile, Kunsthalle, Sao Paolo, Issue 3 APT. 302, South as a state of Mind Magazine, Athen, spring/summer 2014, pp. 60 – 63 Tobias Kaspar at Midway Contemporary Art, Sam Pulitzer, Artforum, New York, Jan., p. 218
2013	Participation, Penetration, and Phoniness, Andreas Legiehn, May, Paris, No. 11, Oct. 2013, pp. 229 – 232 Zwischen Experimentierfreude und Diskretion – Galerieszene Zürich, Nicole Büsing & Heiko Klaas, ARTmAPP, Hamburg, July – Oct. Der Künstler als Paparazzo und Editor, Annette Hoffmann, Artline, Freiburg, July/August The Look and the Now, Daniel Horn, Frieze d/e, Berlin, June/August Tobias Kaspar, Barbara Buchmaier, artforum.com, critic’s picks, April Visit: Tobias Kaspar, James Schaeffer, Kaleidoscope Blog, March 22 Insert (Feldmann Pictures), NERO Magazine, Rome, Issue 31, Winter Frozen Lakes, Anne Doran, Time Out website, Feb. 25 Art in Review: Frozen Lakes, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, Feb. 22, C26 Frozen Lakes, at Artists Space, Andrew Russeth, Gallerist NY website, Jan. 29 Zurich Expose Tobias, Denis Pernet, Edelweiss, Geneva, Jan.
2012	Spurensuche, Patricia Bianchi, artensuite, Bern, Dec. Tobias Kaspar, Dominique von Burg, Kunstbulletin, Zurich, Dec. Liminal Choices, Mariuccia Casadio, Vogue Italia, Milano, No. 743, Aug. Fotograf stellt Bilder von kunstinteressierten Teenager aus, Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg, Feb. 19 Kunst über Kunst über Kunst, Lüneburger Zeitung, Lüneburg, Feb. 25
2011	Empty Inside, Adam Kleinman, Texte zur Kunst, Berlin, Feb. 3 Sentimental Style, Axel Wieder, Mousse, Milano, No. 28, April Future Greats, Stefan Kalmar, Art Review, New York, March Über „Poésie sonore in der Galerie Andreas Huber, Wien Sven Beckstette, Texte zur Kunst, Berlin, No. 81, March How to Work – Kunsthalle Basel, Aoife Rosenmeyer, MAP, Glasgow, No. 25, Summer
2010	Hedonismus konstruiert: Tobias Kaspar in Berlin, Beatrix Ruf, Du-Magazin, Zürich, Nov. Tobias Kaspar, Geir Haraldseth, ACNE Magazine, Stockholm, Winter POÉSIE SONORE, Severin Dünser, Spike, Vienna, Winter Körper, Sprache, Text: POÉSIE SONORE, Christo Benzer, Der Standard, Vienna, Nov. 25 Brightest in Show, Quinn Latimer, Art in America, New York, June 18 Basel & Zurich, Quinn Latimer and Daniel Binswanger, Frieze, No. 132, June–August Drinnen ist wie Draussen nur Drinnen, Barbara Buchmeier, Texte zur Kunst, Berlin
2009	PROVENCE, John Knight and Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Valérie Knoll, Artforum, New York, Oct. PROVENCE: An Eight-Issue Magazine Dedicated to Hobbies, New Jerseyy, Artforum, Nov. Richard Prince and the Revolution, Marek Bartelik, Artforum Online, June 8 Three’s Company, Karen Archey, Art Fag City, New York

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