NOT VITAL

1948
born in Sent, Engadine, Switzerland
currently lives and works in Sent, New York, Beijing and Agadez (Niger)


Selected Solo Exhibitions


2011  
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Full On", Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
"Haare, Hirsch & Mao", Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
"Hanging and Waiting", Galerie Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium

2010    
“Suicides”, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK (catalogue)
“Models for 'Schlafendes Haus'”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
“Places in the World”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2009
“NOT WHY”, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China (catalogue)
“Schlafendes Haus”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austri
“Pelvis”, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland

2008
"Tongue", Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China
"Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom", Currents – Art and Music, Beijing, China
"10 Austrians + more", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

2007
"Punts", Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland
"Lotus, Coffee and Stone Pine, Portraits, Snow and Boyfriend", Sperone Westwater, New York, USA (catalogue)

2006
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA (catalogue)
Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland

2005
"New Sculpture", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (catalogue)
"Agadez", Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (catalogue)
"Agadez" Albion, London, UK
"New Sculpture", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

2004
Sperone Westwater, New York, USA (catalogue)
Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
"Milla larmas id 1 chamel", Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
"300 Camels", Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

2003   
Chasa Jaura, Valchava, Switzerland
Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland

2002
"Mias muntognas", Edith Wahlandt Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
"Vital", Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva (catalogue)
"Fat es Fat", Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland (catalogue)
Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany (catalogue)
Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland (catalogue)

2001
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan, Italy (catalogue)
"New Sculpture", de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
“49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia“, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (catalogue)

2000
"Meine Schafe", Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland
Galeri Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999
"Snowballs", Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA
Sperone Westwater, New York, USA (catalogue)

1998
"Skulpturer Och Teckningar", Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
"Nototo", Milleventi, Milan, Italy

1997
"New Sculpture", Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
"Large Works on Paper", Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA
"Totem und Tabu", Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (catalogue)
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden (catalogue)

1996
"Schoppa", Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland

1995
Galerie Lehmann, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Sculpture", Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Galleria Milleventi, Turin, Italy
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy (catalogue)
"Private View", Berggruen & Zevi Limited, London, UK

1993
Galerie Lehmann, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Cow Dung, New Bronze Works", Wooster Gardens, New York, USA
"Adam, One Afternoon", Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA
Galerie Niels Ewerbeck, Vienna, Austria
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA
"Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik", Galerie Edith Wahlandt, Stuttgart, Germany
Berggruen & Zevi Limited, London, UK
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

1992
"sculture recenti", Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
"Cacche di Mucca", Galleria Via Farini, Milan, Italy
"18 Buatschas", Kunsthandlung Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland
"Bronzen", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

1991
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
"The Complete Prints and Multiples", Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA (catalogue)
"Druck-Graphik & Multiples", Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland (catalogue)

1990
Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA
PS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany
Museé Rath, Geneva, Switzerland (catalogue)

1989
"Not Vital at Akhnaton", Centre of Arts, Akhnaton Hall, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt (catalogue)
"Sculptures And Works on Paper", The Greenberg Gallery Annex, St. Louis, USA
"Not Vital, Dessins et Sculptures", Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
Galerie Montenay, Paris, France

1988
"Plastiken und Zeichnungen", Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (catalogue)
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany
Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA
"Works on Paper", Swiss Institute, New York, USA (catalogue)

1987
"Skulpturen", Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
Gallery Nature Morte, Forum Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland

1986
"Sculpture + Drawings", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Gallery Nature Morte, New York, USA
Galleria Pinta, Genova, Italy

1985
"Drawings and Sculpture", Willard Gallery, New York, USA
"Sculpturen en Tekeningen", Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1984
Gallery Nature Morte, New York, USA
"Plastiken und Zeichnungen", Galerie Hartmann, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1983
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA

1982
Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
Gimpel-Hanover and André Emmerich Galerien, Zurich, Switzerland

1981
Altstadt-Galerie, Chur, Switzerland
"Recent Drawings", Albert White Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1980
Gimpel-Hanover and André Emmerich Galerien, Zurich
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA

1979
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland (catalogue)

1976
Galerie Peter Noser, Zurich, Switzerland

1974
Dritte Galerie, Zofingen, Switzerland

1973
Galleria LP 220, Turin, Italy

1972
Galleria Diagramma, Milan, Italy

1971
Galerie d'art moderne, Chur, Switzerland