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Tobias Kaspar
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Tobias Kaspar

b.1984
Based in Riga, LV, Zurich, CH

토비아스 카스파는 1984년 스위스 바젤 출생으로 독일 함부르크 예술대학교와 프랑크푸르트 슈테델슐레 예술대학교를 졸업한 후, 현재 스위스 취리히와 라트비아 리가를 기반으로 활동하며 동시에 작가는 2009년 미술 잡지 PROVENCE를 창간하여 현재까지 공동 편집자로 활동하고 있습니다. 작가는 회화, 사진, 영상, 출판, 설치 등의 다양한 매체를 아우르며 인간의 욕망을 자극하는 ‘패션’에 깊은 관심을 가지고 동시대 가치가 생성되고 취향이 형성되는 과정의 매커니즘을 탐구합니다.

Born in Basel, and currently based in Zurich, Switzerland and Riga, Latvia, Tobias Kaspar studied at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg and Städelschule in Frankfurt, and since 2009, Kaspar has co-published the magazine PROVENCE. His work encompasses various media such as painting, photography, video and installation. The artist investigates mechanisms that shape the processes of value creation and taste formation with a deep interest in fashion that stimulates human desires.

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1984

born in Basel, CH

 

Now

lives and works in Riga, LV and Zurich, CH

 

 

EDUCATION

2010

Städelschule, Frankfurt, DE

 

2011

Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, DE

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

Personal Shopper, FOUNDRY SEOUL, Seoul, KR

Personal Shopper, with works by Susanne Paessler, Galerie Lars Friedrich & Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, DE

The Cherry Orchard, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, CH

Personal Shopper, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, CH

 

2021

Rented Life, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, CH

The Complete Interview Magazine, Issue 529, Winter 19/20, VI,VII, Oslo, NO

Personal Shopper (Retail Apocalypse), Froschaugasse 4, Zurich, CH

 

2020

Rented Life, VFO, Zurich, CH

Epicenter, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, CH

 

2019

Horn of Plenty, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, CN

The Estate, Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Salacgriva and Riga, LV

The Category Is, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, CH

Why Love Hurts, Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin, DE

 

2018

Epicentre, together with Oleg Frolov, Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn, EE

Independence, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern , CH

The Complete, Archiv Christoph Schifferli, Zurich, CH

 

2017

Anna K, Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga, LV

 

2016

Tobias Kaspar, Jenny’s, Los Angeles, US

New Address, Lovaas Projects, Munich, DE

Tobias Kaspar, Silberkuppe, Berlin, DE

The Street, Cinecittà Film Studios and Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, IT

Surface Apparent, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, CH

 

2015

The Bling Ring, Zurich Insurance Development Center, Zurich, CH

Two Cities, Two Lives, Frey Kalioubi, Rio de Janeiro, BR

Two Cities, Two Lives, SOLO SHOWS, Sao Paulo, BR

The Street (Est 1863), Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, IT

Toby’s Tristram Shandy Shop, Udolpho, Berlin, DE

Diffusion Line, with PROVENCE, Oracle, Berlin, DE

 

2014

The Air on the Way to the Oyster, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, CH

The Air on the Way to the Oyster, Kunsthalle Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, BR

Tobias Kaspar, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, CH

 

2013

Tobias Kaspar, Midway Contemporary Art Center, Minneapolis, US

The Bling Ring, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, CH

Hydra Life, Silberkuppe, Berlin, DE

 

2012

Life and Lies, Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR

Bodies in the Backdrop, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, CH

Bodies in the Backdrop, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, DE

 

2011

Why Sex Now, Alex Zachary Gallery, New York, US

 

2010

Living Well Is the Best Revenge, Silberkuppe, Berlin, DE

 

2009

Sentimental Style, Hermes & der Pfau and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE

Tobias Kaspar, New Jerseyy, Basel, CH

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Information (Today), Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NO

 

2021

Snapshot, Galerie Urs Meilie, Beijing, CN

Information (Today), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH

Artists’ Library: 1989-2021, Museum of Contemporary Art Rome (MACRO), Rome, IT

 

2020

Im Volksgarten, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, CH

On Adornments, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery (Tallinn) at Spike Office, Berlin, DE

 

2019

Wearable / Unwearable Art, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, FR

Longtang Collection, Synnika, Frankfurt, DE

 

2018

Fashion Drive, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, CH

Revelations, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna & Rome, IT

25 years of Kunst Raum Riehen, Kunst Raum Riehen, Riehen

Distropical Encounters, with Merlin Carpenter, TARS Gallery, Bangkok, TH

 

2017

David Bowie, Kunsthalle Schlieren, Schlieren, CH

5 Years of VI, VII, Independent Régence, Brussels, BE

 

2016

Bread and Roses – Artists And The Class Divide, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, PL

L’Etat parfait, Freymond-Guth, Basel, CH

 

2015

The Verdant, Hacienda, Zurich, CH

Friends, Lovers and Financiers, Museum MAXXI, Rome, IT

Conversation Piece, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, IT

Off Broadway, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, US

The Appropriationnist, Villa du Park, Annemasse, FR

 

2014

Blue Times, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT

In Real Life, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, AT

Augment this (Meditations on the Image), Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, US

Against the Grain, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva, CH 

Coming of Age for Ages, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Lüneburg, DE

Upstairs Downstairs, Galerie Neu, Berlin, DE

The Missing Stories within the CAFAM Biennial 2014 Invisible Hand, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, CN  

Petunia, curated by Ophélie Reynaud Dewar, PSM Gallery, Berlin, DE

Effie B, Silberkuppe, Berlin, DE 

Momentum?, PSM Gallery, Berlin, DE 

 

2013

Costumes: Written Clothing, curated by Claire Jackson, Tramway, Glasgow, UK

Frozen Lakes, Artists Space, New York, US

Prisma Pavilion, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE

Collapse, Fluxia Gallery, Milano, IT 

On ne connaît les chiffres que d’un côté du plan, art3, Valence, FR

 

2012

La Demeure Joyeuse II, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, CH 

Strange Interlude, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR 

Profonde Surface, Shanaynay, Paris, FR  

Twin Tails, Tobias Kaspar & Pennacchio Argentato, Bischoff Projects, Frankfurt, DE 

 

2011

That’s the way we do it. The Techniques and Aesthetics of Appropriation. From Ei Arakawa to Andy Warhol, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, AT

Stipendium, Galerie Karin Günther, Hamburg, DE

Based in Berlin, Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE

How to Work (More for) Less, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH

How to Work, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH

The Money Plot, with Egija Inzule and Hannes Loichinger, as part of Tristan Bera and Dominique Gonzalez Foerster Human Valley, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, CH

Copy Taste, Silberkuppe, Berlin, DE

Freaks and Geaks, Galerie Air de Paris, Paris, FR

Le bleu est à la mode cette année, Eduardo Costa, Tobias Kaspar, Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR

Test Transmission: General Idea, Patricia Dauder, Tobias Kaspar, Artspace, Auckland, NZ

 

2010

Bloodflames III, Alex Zachary, New York, US

Poésie Sonore, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, AT

PROVENCE, with Egija Inzule and Hannes Loichinger, The Artists Institute by Anthony Huberman, New York, US

PROVENCE O, with Hannes Loichinger, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, DE

 

2009

Neil Campbell / John Divola / Tobias Kaspar / Matthew Smith, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, BE

Tiblissi 6: Never on Sunday, Tiblissi, GE

Office: Tobias Kaspar, Galerie Croy Nielsen, Berlin, DE 

Richard Prince and the Revolution, Galerie ProjecSD, Barcelona, ES

PROVENCE; Issue P; John Knight, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Café Hammer, Basel, CH

Double Feature – Pretty Ambition, Cinema program with Egija Inzule, Corner College, Zurich, CH

Black and White Photography, with Loretta Fahrenholz and Hans-Christian Lotz, WCW Galerie, Hamburg, DE

Three’s Company, New York, US

 

2008

Grand Opening, New Jerseyy, Basel, CH

 

SELECTED PROJECTS

2021

Period, Longtang, Zurich, CH

With Love From, Instagram Story and contemporaryartdaily.com, Online

 

2019

Goodbye Plastic, Longtang, Zurich, CH

Hannah Villiger, PROVENCE, Basel, CH

Solo booth at June, Basel with VIVII, Oslo, NO

 

2018

Solo booth at Frieze, New York with VIVII, Oslo, NO

Runway choreography for FFIXXED STUDIOS at Shanghai Fashion week, Shanghai, CN

 

2017

Warsaw Wardrobe, performance at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, PL

Dedication, Exploitation and Haute Collaboration, curated by Tobias Kaspar for the Latvian Institute Rome at Silberkuppe, Berlin, DE

 

2015

NY 1995, Art Basel Parcours, presented by Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Basel, CH

Esoteric Fair Berlin, with Hans-Christian Lotz, presnted by Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin, DE

 

2014

Friends, Lovers & Financiers, installation and performance at Artissima Torino, presented by Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Torino, IT

 

2013

Parade, costumes for Adam Linders’ ballet Parade, Hebel Am Ufer Theater, Berlin, DE

 

2012

20122TK1JEANS, jeans launch and performance at the fashion store Andreas Murkudis, Berlin, DE

 

2011

Into the Middle of Affairs – Aesthetics of Distribution, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE

 

2009 – Now

Founder of PROVENCE