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