NOT VITAL

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


Selected Solo Exhibitions


2012 
“Not Vital - Werke 1989 bis 2011“, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
“Lasst 100 Blumen blühen”, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria“
Not Vital: 十五”, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA

2011  
“Sculptures: Diao Su”, GalerieThaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
"Plasters", Akira Ikeda, Tokyo, Japan
“Full On”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China
"Haare, Hirsch & Mao", Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
“Hanging & Waiting” Galerie Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium 

2010  
“Suicides”, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
“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
“Schlafendes Haus”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
“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

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

2005  
“New Sculpture”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
“Agadez”, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
“Agadez” Albion, London, UK
“New Sculpture”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

2004  
Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
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
“Fat es Fat”, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany
Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland

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

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

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
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

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
“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
“Druck-Graphik & Multiples”, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland

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

1989  
“Not Vital at Akhnaton”, Centre of Arts, Akhnaton Hall, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt
“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
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany
Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA
“Works on Paper”, Swiss Institute, New York, USA

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

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