Biography
Born Peter Fischli: 1952, Zurich, Switzerland / David Weiss: 1946–2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Live Zurich, Switzerland
Exhibitions/projections
Solo: Fischli/Weiss: Snowman, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (2017); Visible World, Fondation LUMA Arles, Arles (2017); Is Seven a Lot?, Art Projects Ibiza, Ibiza (2017); Fischli and Weiss: Der Lauf Der Dinge (The Way Things Go), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2017); The Way Things Go / Der Lauf Der Dinge, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga (2017); Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2016); Small Questions Big Questions, Benaki Museum, Athens (2015).
Group: Modern and Contemporary Works from the Permanent Collection, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury (2019); Topologies, The Warehouse, Dallas (2018); La Complainte du progrès, Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sérignan (2018); If Everything Is Sculpture Why Make Sculpture?, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2018); The Sonnabend Collection. Half a Century of American and European Art. Part II, Serralves Museum, Porto (2018); Gravity. Imagining the Universe after Einstein, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2017); The Long Run, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2017); Diapositive. Histoire de la photographie projetée, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (2017); Wade Guyton Peter Fischli David Weiss, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2017).
Represented by Matthew Marks Gallery (Los Angeles, New York)
Exhibition
MOMENTA x VOX. The Life of Things
2019.09.05 – 10.13
Curated by María Wills Londoño in collaboration with Audrey Genois and Maude Johnson, MOMENTA 2019 proposes a piercing look at the life of things, bringing into dialogue their consumerist and symbolic dimensions. Presented simultaneously at two locations—VOX and the Galerie de l’UQAM—the thematic exhibition generates a conversation fueled by the works of twenty-two artists and meshes four components…
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