Not Vital
Biography

1948 born in Sent, Engadin, Switzerland
lives and works in Beijing (China), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Sent (Switzerland)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020

Not Vital. IR, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

Not Vital. SCARCH, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, United Kingdom

 

2019
Che fasch?, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Not Vital. Bun di Basel, Wilde, Basel, Switzerland

 

2018
NOT VITAL, Saudade, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brasil
NOT VITAL, Keramik, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland
NOT VITAL, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
NOT VITAL, Galerie Kornfeld, Berne, Switzerland

 

2017
NOT VITAL, Stalla Madulain, Madulain, Switzerland
Not Vital: Poles, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
Not Vital, Galerie Forsblom, Stockholm, Sweden
NOT VITAL. NAIV, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Bronzes, 107, S-chanf, Switzerland
David and Goliath, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
NOT VITAL. Univers privat, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Chur, Switzerland

2016
12+2+1, Art Bärtschi & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland
Vital Sculptures, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland NOT VITAL, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kindom
Muntognas, Ordovas, London, UK

 

2015
NOT VITAL. ESCULTURAS & DESENHOS, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
NOT VITAL, Centro Cultural Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Not Vital: Bellaval, Kloster Schoenthal, Langenbruck, Switzerland
NOT VITAL: 700 SNOWBALLS, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, St. Moritz, Switzerland


2014
Tanter, Cabinet d’Arts Graphiques, Musées d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Not Vital, Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile
ALLENDE by NOT VITAL, Ejercicios Mosqueto, Santiago, Chile
HEADS, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
The Drawing Show: Not Vital “Snow”, Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York City, USA
NOT VITAL: Skulptur 1986 – 2013, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, St. Moritz, Switzerland
NOT VITAL: PIZ, Galleria Sperone, Sent, Switzerland
NOT VITAL: Everton, Sperone Westwater, New York City, USA
NOT VITAL: Il pavimento della cucina di mia nonna, Museo d’Arte di Mendrisio, Mendrisio, Switzerland

 

2013
guarda 忑, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
Not Vital: Landscapes, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China
Not Vital: 700 Snowballs, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy

 

2012
Not Vital: Werke 1989 Bis 2011, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria
Not Vital: Œuvres sur papier, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland
Not Vital: 鋮賟, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
5 Spaniards & Nothing, Ivorypress Space, Madrid, Spain

 

2011
Sculptures: Diao Su, Galerie Thaddaeus 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
Art & Architecture Projekt 2011: No Problem Sculpture, Art Forum Ute Barth, Zürich, Switzerland
Not Vital: Opere Grafiche, Villa Garbald, Castasegna, Switzerland

 

2010
Not Vital: Suicides, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
Modell für Schlafendes Haus, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Places in the World, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Not Vital, La Punt, Switzerland

 

2009
NOT VITAL: NOT WHY, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
Schlafendes Haus, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Pelvis, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland

 

2008
Tongue, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, Currents – Art and Music, Beijing, China
Not Vital: 10 Austrians and 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
Hearts, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Editions, Salzburg, Austria
300 palle di neve, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland

 

2006
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA
(bap, mamma, eu) mit Alberto Sorbelli, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland
Nietzsches Schnauz, Zeichnungen, Nietzsche Haus, Sils Maria, Switzerland

 

2005
Not Vital: New Sculpture, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Not Vital: Agadez, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Not Vital: Agadez, Albion Gallery, London, UK
Not Vital: New Sculpture, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

 

2004
Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Milla larmas id ün chamel, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
300 Camels, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Caratsch de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich, Switzerland

 

2003
FAT ES FAT, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
Chasa Jaura, Valchava, Switzerland

 

2002
Not Vital: 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
Skulpturen, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Scultures récentes, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan, Italy
Not Vital: New Sculpture, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
Voglio vedere le mie montagne, Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan, Italy

 

2000
Not Vital - Meine Schafe, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland
Nils Stark Galerie, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

1999
Snowballs, Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA
Sperone Westwater, New York, USA

 

1998
Skulpturer Och Teckningar, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
Nototo, 1000 Eventi, 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
Not Vital, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

 

1996
Galleria d’Art Center Augustin, Scuol
Not Vital - Schoppa, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland

 

1995
Galerie Lehmann, Lausanne, Switzerland
Sculpture, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Not Vital, 1000 Eventi, Turin, Italy
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy

 

1994
Not Vital: Skulpturen Zeichnungen Druckgraphik, Galerie Edith Wahlandt, Stuttgart, Germany
Berggruen & Zevi Limited, London, UK
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA

 

1993
Galerie Lehmann, Lausanne, Switzerland
Cow Dung, New Bronze Works, Wooster Gardens, New York, USA
Adam, One Afternoon, Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA
Disegns/Squitschs in Lain, Zeichnungen/Holzschnitte, Galleria d’Art Center Augustin, Scuol, Switzerland
Galerie Niels Ewerbeck, Vienna, Austria

 

1992
sculture recenti, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Cacche di Mucca, Galleria Via Farini, Milan, Italy
18 buatschas, 1000 Bronze – Kuhfladen für ein Kinderspital in Nepal, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland
Bronzen (1000 Kacken für ein Kinderspital in Katmandu), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

 

1991
Not Vital – Photographs by Florio Puenter, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland
Auf Mist wachsen Blumen, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
The Complete Prints and Multiples, Baron/Boisanté, New York, USA
The Complete Prints and Multiples, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland

 

1990
El Maktoub Maktoub, Baron / Boisanté Gallery, New York City, USA
PS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany
Prix BCG ‘90, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland

 

1989
Akhnaton, Centre of Arts – Akhnaton Gallery, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt 
Not Vital: Sculptures and works on paper, Greenberg Gallery, 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
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Not Vital, 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
Not Vital: Skulpturen, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
Gallery Nature Morte, Forum Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland

 

1986
Sculpture and drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Gallery Nature Morte, New York, USA
Galleria Pinta, Genova, Italy

 

1985
Sculptures and drawings, Willard Gallery, New York City, USA
Sculpturen en Tekeningen, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

1984
Ref. 84, Palud N° 1, Lausanne, Switzerland
Gallery Nature Morte, New York, USA
Plastiken und Zeichnungen, Galerie Hartmann, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Recent sculptures and drawings, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA

 

1983
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA
Galerie Nature Morte, New York City, USA

 

1982
Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
Not Vital, Zeichnungen und Objekte, Gimpel-Hanover + André Emmerich Galleries, Zürich,
Switzerland

 

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

 

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

 

1979
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Schoener Wohnen Haus, Galerie Iselin, Zurich, Switzerland

 

1977
Städtische Galerie „Zum Strauhof“, Zürich, Switzerland

 

1976
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Galerie Peter Noser, Zurich, Switzerland
Dritte Galerie, Zofingen, Switzerland

 

1973
Galleria LP 220, Turin, Italy

 

1972
Galleria Diagramma, Milan, Italy

 

1971
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020    

Shifting, Pop-up Parcours, Galerie Urs Meile, Ardez, Switzerland

Edition März. Tief- und Flachdruck: Arbeiten auf Papier, Edition VFO, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2019

Absolutely Tschudi, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland

Der grosse Schnee, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland
Passion. Bilder von der Jagd, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Chur, Switzerland
Begegnungen, Ein Kunstprojekt beim Rosenhuegel Chur, Chur, Switzerland

LA LUCE ALPINA, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

 

2018
Annual exhibition of artists fom Graubünden 2018, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Surrealismus Schweiz, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
COUNTERPOINT: Selections from The Peter Marino Collection, Southampton Arts Center,
Southampton, USA
REFLECTION, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
IT COMES IN WAVES, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
Basel Short Stories. From Erasmus to Iris von Roten. The Wanderer and his Shadow. Nietzsche in Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

2017
Zeichnungen und Wandarbeiten, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland
En Marche: faire un pas, c’est faire un choix, Le Pénitencier, Sion, Switzerland
Art of the Treasure Hunt, Castello di Brolio, Gaiole in Chianti, Italy

2016
SPLIT: Mirror, Light.Reflection, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany
La collezione. Nuove consonanze, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
presently, curated by Tobias Rehberger, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany la ville au loin, FRAC Centre, Orléans, France ILLUMINATION, Louisiana Museum of  Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark La collezione. Nuove consonanze, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
NOT VITAL, Yorkshire Sculpture Park Wakefield United Kingdom

 

2015
Signs/Words, Sperone Westwater, New York, U.S.A.
Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Biennale Skulpturen Symposium, Winterthur, Switzerland
AFRICA. ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Not Vital e Laura Bott, Chasa Jaura Museum, Val Müstair, Switzerland
Muster, Modelle, Parodien. Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Gerhard Richter, Not Vital, Nietzsche-Haus, Sils Maria, Switzerland
Space Age, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France


2014
M Home: Living in Space, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Elevation 1049: Between Heaven and Hell, Gstaad Biennial, Gstaad, Switzerland
Des Hommes et La Forêt, Château de Nyon, Nyon, Switzerland
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Platform, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
ALPENLIEBE, Kaiser Franz Josefs Höhe Centre, Carinthia & East Tyrol, Austria
Bloodflames Revisited, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
Unterirdisch - Das Spektakel des Unsichtbaren, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland Inhabiting the World, Busan Biennale 2014, Busan, South Korea

 

2013
Blickachsen 9 – Contemporary Sculpture in Bad Homburg and Frankfurt/Rhein – Main,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Uninhabitable Objects – Dwellings between Imagination and Reality, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland 
Moving: Norman Foster on Art, Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France

 

2012
Marble Sculpture from 350 B.C. to last week, Sperone Westwater, New York City, U.S.A.
Printin’, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, U.S.A.
Carpe Diem, Toyota Municipal Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Art et Nature, Jardin du Havel, Saint Hymer, France
White: Marble and Paint, From Antiquity to Now,
Robilant + Voena, London, U.K.
Formungen, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland
10 Years in the Engadin, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland

 

2011
The Unknown Collection from Bielefeld, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

 

2010
25 Jahre Galerie Tschudi, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Director’s Choice, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Idea and Object, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

 

2009
Fuentes (Artists and Their Inspirations), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Fuentes (Non-European Influences on Contemporary Artists), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, U.S.A.
Kunst zum Mittag – Bildbetrachtungen für den leichten Hunger, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
In der Nacht, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland

 

2008
Blood on Paper, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Am Nabel der Welt, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Exposures, the Contemporary Self – Portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Agadez: Richard Long and Not Vital, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
25 Jahre Galerie Crone, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
Contemporary Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA

 

2007
Collective One, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland
Von Tag zu Tag, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Exposures, the Contemporary Self – Portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Agadez: Richard Long and Not Vital, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
25 Jahre Galerie Crone, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
Contemporary Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

 

2006
Mountains, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Visioni del Paradiso, 100 Buatschas, Swiss Institute, Rome, Italy
Menga Dolf, Corsin Fontana, Franziska Furter, Michael Günzberger, Nic Hess, Max Matter, Claudia und Julia Müller, Loredana Sperini, Not Vital, NAIRS, Kulturzentrum Scuol, Scuol, Switzerland

 

2005
BALTHASAR BURKHARD, HAMISH FULTON, BETHAN HUWS, CALLUM INNES, RICHARD LONG, ULRICH RÜCKRIEM, NOT VITAL, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland

 

2004
What You See Is What You Get, KISS, Kunst im Schloss Untergröningen, Abtsgmünd, Germany
La Mort Devant Soi, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland
Sculpture in Nature, Nature in Sculpture, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Kunstmarkt Unterengadin, NAIRS Centre for Contemporary Art, Scuol

 

2003
Ci Siamo, zeitgenössisches Kunstschaffen Engadin und Südtiroler, Sils im Engadin, Switzerland
Balthasar Burkhard, Not Vital, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
La Montagna Ricreata, Valle d’AostArte, Aosta, Italy
Skulptur 03, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Mario Merz, Balthasar Burkhard, Hamish Fulton, Callum Innes, Martina Klein, Richard Long, Ulrich Rückriem, Not Vital, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland

 

2001
Heart of Glass, Queens Museum of Art, New York City, U.S.A.
Plateau of Humanity, 49th Biennale, Venice, Italy

 

2000
Cosmologies: Boetti, Fontana, Halley, Laib, Tuttle, Vital, Sperone Westwater, New York City, U.S.A. Kunst, die wir lieben, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
ÜberSicht, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland

 

1999
Konnex Kairo, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
Magisches Rätisches Dreieck, Drei Künstler – Drei Positionen, Schlossmuseum Landeck, Landeck, Austria
Head to Toe: Impressing The Body, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University Of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Präsentation Zeitgenössischer Kunst, Bayerische Versicherungsbank AG, Unterföhring, Germany

 

1998
Galleria Maria Cilena, Milan, Italy

 

1997
Totem and Tabu, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Richard Kaselowsky Haus, Bielefeld, Germany
Animaux et animaux, Zeitgenössische Kunst und Zoologie, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland (Catalogue)
Objectivity, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, U.S.A.
Anselmo, Boetti, Laib, Merz, Nauman, Paolini, Pistoletto, Vital, Zorio, Sperone Westwater, New York City, USA
Animals, Baron / Boisanté Gallery, New York City, USA

 

1996
Thinking Print, Books to Billboards, 1980 – 1995,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, U.S.A. Übergänge – Kunst aus Graubünden 1936 – 1996, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Dissimilar & Unrelated Sculptures, Baron / Boisanté, New York City, U.S.A.
The Material Imagination, Untitled, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, U.S.A.
Projects, 3 New + 3 Old, Baron / Boisanté, New York City, U.S.A.

 

1995
Beyond Switzerland – Works by Contemporary Swiss Artists, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China (Catalogue)
Schrift Im Bild, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland
Selected Projects of ’81 – ’95, Baron / Boisanté, New York City, U.S.A.
Show Of Sculpture, Sperone Westwater, New York City, U.S.A.
(W) H O (W) ARE YOU?, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland

 

1994
The Body Human, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
A Century of Artists Books, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, U.S.A.
Curtis Anderson and Not Vital, Baron / Boisanté, New York City, U.S.A.
Projekt Schweiz II, Natur – Kultur, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Catalogue)

 

1993
Floor Show. Sculptures & Objects, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
Elliott Puckette, Nicolas Rule, Not Vital, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, USA
Künstler gegen die Folter, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Across The River and Into The Trees, a Sculpture Show, The Rushmore Festival, New York City, U.S.A.
Self – Evidence, Self – Portraits in Prints and Photographs, New York Public Library, New York City, U.S.A.

 

1992
Drawn in the 90’s, The Katonah Museum of Art, Bedford Drawn in the 90’s, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, U.S.A.
Drawn in the 90’s, Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Alberta, Calgary, Canada
Drawn in the 90’s, Huntsville Museum of Art, Hunstville; also Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, U.S.A.; University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, U.S.A. and Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, U.S.A.
Donald Baechler, Michael Byron, Not Vital, Baron / Boisanté, New York City, U.S.A.
Not Vital und Florio Puenter, Pinta Galleria, Genoa, Italy
Skulpturen und arbeiten auf papier, Galerie Nova, Fredi Büchel, Pontresina, Switzerland
Works On Paper, Baron / Boisanté, New York City, U.S.A.

 

1991
AUSSENSKULPTUREN, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Sol Lewitt (Wall Drawing), Not Vital (Druckgrafik & Multiples), Barnett Newman (18 Cantos), Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Corsin Fontana, Gaspare O. Melcher, Matisa Spescha, Not Vital, Galerie Nova, Fredi Büchel,
Pontresina, Switzerland
Skulpturen – Bilder – Grafiken, Galerie Nova, Pontresina, Switzerland, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

 

1990
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland (Catalogue)
The First Five Years, The Kaldewey Press At Harvard University, Boston, U.S.A. (Catalogue)

 

1989
Not Vital, Ange Leccia, Dennis Adams, Galerie Faust, Geneva, Switzerland
Gemälde und Skulpturen, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland (Catalogue)
Monochrome, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
Object of Thought, A Collection of Objects and Small Sculptures, Anders Tornberg Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
Projects and Portfolios, Brooklyn Museum, New York City, U.S.A.
Selected Multiples, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, U.S.A.
The 1980s, Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
Matias Spescha - Not Vital, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
The New Poverty II, Meyers Bloom Gallery, St. Monica, USA
Reflets contemporains d’une collection: gravures de l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale Zurich, Maison Pulliérane, Pully, Switzerland
Reflets contemporains d’une collection: gravures de l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale Zurich, Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle, Switzerland

 

1988
Works on Paper, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Konfrontationen von Kauffmann bis Miriam Cahn, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland 
Blow Up, Kunstmuseum Luzern
Donald Baechler, Michael Byron, Not Vital, Baron /Boisanté, New York City, U.S.A.
Kaldeway Press, Thomas E. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, U.S.A.
Not Vital, Ange Leccia, Dennis Adams, Galerie Faust, Geneva, Switzerland
Not Vital, Salvatore Scarpitta, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Off White, Diane Brown Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art (Dep. Of Prints and Illustrated Books), New York City, U.S.A.
Works on Paper, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.

 

1987
16 Schweizer Künstlerdruckgraphik der 80er Jahre, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland Drawing Since 1940, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, U.S.A.
Similia / Dissimilia, Wallach Art Gallery, Leo Castelli Gallery, Sonnabend Gallery, New York City, U.S.A. (Catalogue)
Bronze, Plaster & Polyester. A selection of cast sculpture, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Südwärts Nordwärts, Italienische und Schweizer Kunstler, Studio 10, Chur, Switzerland
The Antique Future, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
The New Poverty, John Gibson Gallery, New York City, U.S.A. (Catalogue)
Walls and Spaces. Three Swiss Artists: Rosemarie Koczy, Oliver Mosset, Not Vital, The Swiss Institute, New York City, USA

 

1986
Brooklyn Museum, New York City, U.S.A.
Invitational Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
Time After Time, Diane Brown Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
Willard Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
Verso Sud e Verso Nord - Artisti italiani e svizzeri, Palazzo Vagnotti, Cortona, Italy

 

1985
Large Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, U.S.A.
American Paintings 1975 – 1985, The Aron and Phyllis Katz Collection, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, U.S.A.
Cult and Decorum, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
Gallery Nature Morte, New York City, U.S.A.
Graffiti and East Village Artists, Librizzi Gallery, New York City, USA
Objects of Comfort, City Without Walls, Newark, USA
Male Sexuality, Art City, New York City, USA

 

1984
Aspekte Aktueller Bündner Kunst, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Eccentric Image(s), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Ref. 84, Palud N° 1, Lausanne (Catalogue) Selected Drawings by Eleven Artists, Willard Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
Wedge Benefit, Gallery Nature Morte, New York City, U.S.A.
Selected Drawings by Eleven Artists, Willard Gallery, New York City, USA

 

1983
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Gimpel – Hanover Gallery, London, U.K.
Joseph Nechvatal, Not Vital, Robin Weglinski, Gallery Nature Morte, New York City, U.S.A.
New Expressions, Leonarda di Mauro Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
Niveau Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.
Not Vital, Corsin Fontana, Das Auslöschen Der Bilder durch die Zeit, Galerie Claudia Knapp, Chur, Switzerland
Not Vital, Steve Staso, Julian L. Mosca, Schweizerhof, Vulpera, Switzerland
Twelve Swiss Artists, Gimpel-Hanover + André Emmerich Galleries, Zürich, Switzerland

 

1982
Yulla Lipchitz & Not Vital, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Animals and Archetypes, P. S. 122, New York City, U.S.A.
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland

 

1980
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland

 

1979
Sommeraustellung, Galerie im Schöner-Wohnen-Haus, Zurich and Locarno, Switzerland
Weihnachtsausstellung der Bündner Künstler, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland (Catalogue)

 

1976
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland