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born 1976 lives and works in St. Gallen (CH)
Education
Hochschule für Gestaltung, Zürich (CH)
Schule für Gestaltung St. Gallen, St. Gallen (CH)
2003 Austauschsemester der Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw (PL)
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (DE)
Galerie Paul Hafner, (mit Hadrien Dussoix), St. Gallen (CH)
o.T., Raum für Aktuelle Kunst (mit Sara Masüger), Luzern (CH)
2011
Beni Bischof / Georg Gatsas, Trash Bar, Katharinen, St.Gallen (CH)
Ghettofaust, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich (CH)
Architektur im Würgegriff der Kunst, Wäscherei Kunstverein Zürich, Zürich (CH)
No Longer Pie in the Sky, Fumetto Festival, Luzern (CH)
ego ego denner colgate denner ego shell shell agip mars rider dash, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris (FR)
2010
Euphorie kann man nicht essen, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (D)
Dumm schauen und Kekse fressen, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen (CH)
Liste 15 (with Paul McDevitt), Basel (CH) Dark Splendour, Milieu Artspace / Galerie, Bern (CH)
2009
MURO, Geneva (CH)
2007
Kunstraum "SCHALTER", Basel (CH)
Group Exhibitions
2012 Schranz Contemporary, Hinterhof Artspace, Basel (CH)
La jeunesse est un art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH)
Bickelmuseum, Walenstadt (CH)
2011
Meine Füsse gehen lieber aus der Zeit, curated by Lisa Frei, K3 Project Space, Zürich (CH)
Purismus und Opulenz, curated by Natalia Huser, AKKU, Emmen (CH)
Ghettofaust II, The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (with Cabaret Voltaire), Moskau (RU)
RAL 7021 eine magniifique Reportage!, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zürich (CH)
Space Oddity, curated by Friederike Nymphius, CCA Andratx Art Foundation, Mallorca (ES) Micro Salon, L'Inlassable Gallery, Paris (FR)
MDFA Union- Quite Black on the Western Front but the Sun is still at the Horizon and worries about the Foam, SALTS, Basel (CH)
Wäscherei Kunstverein, Zürich (CH)
2010
Wallpower, Claudia Groeflin Galerie, Zürich (CH)
Zeichnen, Milieu Galerie/Artspace, Bern (CH)
Wir Manager, Alles im Griff? Die Ausstellung zum Phänomen, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon (CH)
Vor Gott Ist Alle Kunst Scheisse, Oktober, Düsseldorf (DE)
Monochrome, Galerie Lange + Pult, Zürich (CH)
Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (D)
Eidgenössischer Wettbewerb für Kunst, Basel (CH)
Ich Tier (Du Mensch), Perla Mode & Dienstgebäude, Zürich (CH)
Retour Vers Le Futur, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux (F)
Paper! Awesome!, Bear Ridgeway Exhibitions, San Francisco (USA)
2009 Zine Sezession, Perla Mode (CH)
small talk, Galerie Paul Hafner, St. Gallen (CH)
Paper Moon, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin (D)
Printed Matter / Photo Museum Winterthur (CH)
Swiss Art Awards / exhibition at Art Basel, Basel (CH)
Cabaret Voltaire / Deconstructing Tahiti Flimmer / The Flow of Dunes and the Green Shimmer Of The Oases at the Horizon, Zürich (CH)
Kunstgriff, Art Books Store, Zürich, Wallinstallation, Zines & painted books (CH)
2008 Le Lieu in Palais Bleu / Basics Camp (CH)
2005 Emerging works of the canton of St. Gallen (CH)
Awards / Residencies
2009 Swiss Art Awards, Basel (CH)
Emerging works of the city of St.Gallen (CH)
Swiss_Caps_at_Award (CH)
2008 Swiss Art Awards, Basel
– Emerging works of the canton of St. Gallen
(CH)
2006
Studio-residency of the canton of St. Gallen (CH)
2005
Werkbeitrag des Kantons St.Gallen (CH), 2005
Bibliography
2011
Meltzer, Burkhard ; Beni Bischof, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich, FRIEZE d/e, Issue 03, Winter 2011/12 Hannwacker, Michael; Artists / Focus: Der grosse Augenblick, Artinvestor, April 2011
Morgenthaler, Daniel; Fokus: Beni Bischof – "Meine Arbeiten sind auch meine Freunde", Kunstbulletin, No. 4/2011
Woellner, Marcus; Eröffnungssport, Sounds Like Me (www.sounds-like-me.com), 14 January
2010
Meltzer, Burkhard; Beni Bischof, Kunstbulletin, October
Badrutt Schoch, Ursula; Mit Unsinn gegen Unsinn, artline Kunstmagazine, September, p.14
Zellweger, Nicole; Kunsthalle St. Gallen: „Dumm schauen und Kekse fressen“, news.ch, August
Badrutt Schoch, Ursula; Darmwindung statt Drama, St. Galler Tagblatt, 24 August
Irre Kunstausstellung, St. Galler Nachrichten, 19 August
Badrutt Schoch, Ursula; Beni Bischofs grosser Auftritt, Der Rheintaler, 18 August
Beni Bischof in der Kunsthalle, St. Galler Tagblatt, 17 August
Küng, Max; Jungmeister des Absurden, Das Magazin, No 32, 20 July, pp. 20-23
Meet Beni Bischof, Qompendium (online portal), 23 May
2009
Lowe, Jack; feature Beni Bischof, HUH Magzine, 30 December
publishing his own art works in his own magazin/zine series – KINKI magazine
Kunst aus dem Karton: Beni Bischof (interview), kinkimag.com
Ritter, Florence, No face, no problem: Beni Bischof, KINKI Magazine, Nr. 13, April/ Mai, pp. 22–33
Obacht Kultur, Sonderausgabe, Ausserrhodische Kulturstiftung, Appenzell
2008
Zine Sezession ( Perla mode ) / Zürich
Zine "Shelters and Flowers", Nieves Books, Zürich
New York Art Book Fair / NY
2005
founding of the fanzine "Laser Magazin"
published in | Publications
Capricious Magazine, New York, 2010
Saiten – Ostschweizer Kulturmagazin, 2007-2011
Lowdown Magazine, Berlin, 2010
Lowdown Magazine, Value-Edition, Berlin, 2010
November Magazine, 2010
Clark Magazin, Paris, 2010
Pie Magazine, New Zealand, 2010
Human, Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2010
Tri Publication, St.Gallen, 2010
Das Magazin, Zürich, 2010
Fuego Fanzine, Barcelona
book project / photography for ArtDirectorsClub-Buch, 2010
> Laser Magazin > www.lasermagazin.ch
Editions-P, Marseille
drawings, collages and image manipulations for Burgtheater Wien (publications 2009, 2010)
exhibition of LaserMagazine at A.M.P. Works/Gallery, Athen, 2010
D21, Kunstraum Leipzig, Open Call for Zines? (exhibition of Laser Zines, 2010)
works for Theater am Neumarkt, Zürich, 2010
Fotomuseum Winterthur (LaserZines, "Printed Matter", September 2009)
2. Zürich Zine Sezession, Perla Mode (exhibition of Laser-Zines and original artist books December 2009)
One Day Self Publishing Fair, Motto Distribution, Berlin, (exhibition of Laser-Zines, 2009)
Tokyo Art Book Fair (exhibition of Laser-Zines, 2009)
Pipifax, Zines and wall installation, Zürich (April, 2009)
CafeRoyal, publication, Liverpool (June, 2009)
drawings, image manipulations and collages for Burgtheater Wien & Junge Burg (publications, May 2009)
drawing installation at KKL, "Geld & Magie", Kanton und Kulturstiftung Appenzell Ausserrhoden (May 2009)
New York Art Book Fair, exhibition of original artist books and Laser-Zines in the sector Friendly Fire (October 2009)
Zine "Shelters & Flowers" for Nieves Books, Zürich (September 2008)
Laser-Zines at Printed Matter (NYC) and Desert Island Bookstore (Brooklyn)
1. Zürich Zine Sezession, Perla Mode (exhibition of Laser-Zines und original artist books, December 2008)
Les Complices, exhibition of drawings in connection with Sonntagsfreuden-publication, December 2008 (www.sonntagsfreuden.ch)
"start" of Laser–Magazin (collages, drawings, photographs and texts in own production; produced in own publishing company, 2005)
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