Manuel Burgener
Installation view Manuel Burgener, group show ‘Visible Invisible’ (2021), Barbé Urbain gallery, Gent, BE
Bio | selected works
Manuel Burgener's (CH, 1978) work is characterised by a subversive manipulation of the viewer's perception. The elaborate craftmanship of materials and forms allows for an ironic distortion of expectations, often reshaping the perceived boundaries. It is Burgener's artistic interest in the relationship between the three-dimensional shape, the human body and the surrounding space
MANUEL BURGENER
Born 1978, Switzerland / Lives in Bern, Switzerland
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Untitled, Secret Space, Biel (upcoming)
2019 Disbelief, Espace d’Art Contemporain, Porrentruy, Switzerland Interlude, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
2018 Pasquart Centre D`Art, Biel, Switzerland
2017 Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 Manuel Burgener, Kunsthalle Sao Paolo, Brazil
2014 Untitled (blue), Galerie Luis Campana, Berlin, Germany Manuel Burgener, Galerie Krethlow, Bern, Switzerland
2013 Manuel Burgener, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium Ich laufe nicht auf einem Bein,S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium
2011 Studio # 1, Galerie Van der Mieden, Antwerp, Belgium
2010 Oscar Tuazon und Manuel Burgener, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2008 Formsachen, kuratiert von Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Bern, Switzerland M/C/Y, Cité internationale des arts de Paris, Paris, France
2007 Ab ovo, die Innenwelt der Aussenwelt der Innenwelt, mit Fabian Marti, Marks blond, Bern, Switzerland
2006 Gesehen die Dinge, sie hat sie schon gesehen, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland Erstens: Grenze der Suppe, Marks blond, Bern, Switzerland
2005 stelzen (ohne Sicht), Offspace Laden, Düsseldorf, Germany Beyond, Marks blond, Bern, Switzerland
2004 Bern / Berlin, Manuel Burgener, Benjamin Dodel, Neues Problem, Berlin, Germany Ecke Freiestrasse / Muesmattstrasse: Innere Nähe, Marks blond, Bern, Switzerland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Visible invisible, curated by Domenico de Chirico, Barbé-Urban Gallery, Gent Belgium
2020 Kunsthaus Centre D’Art Pasquart, für kurze Zeit zu Gast im Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland Kasten, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland
2019 Cantonale, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland Euphoria, Galerie Tick Tack, Antwerp, Belgium Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Germany
2018 Fragmensts, Site 131, Dallas, USA
Die Zelle, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2017 Interiors, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
Fenster zur Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
What`s wrong - young Swiss and Danish Art, Kunsthal Nord, Aalborg, Denmark
Alluring Shapes, Tempting Spaces, Curator: Domenico de Chirico, Galerie Eva Meyer, Paris, France
2016 Der Tag der doppelten Morgendämmerung, Fugitif, Leipzig, Germany
2015 White noise, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
Tunguska, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland
2014 Unikat- Unicum, Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Bern, Switzerland Swiss Art Awards 2014, Basel, Switzerland
Credit to the Edit, Morepublishers, Cneai, Paris, France
2013 Invitation by Seb Koberstädt, Mintropstrasse 6 (inner courtyard), Düsseldorf, Germany Marti Collection, Fabian Marti, Centre Paquart, Biel, Switzerland
2012 Manuel Burgener, Lorna Macintyre & Freek Wambacq, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
La jeunesse est un art, Jubiläum Manor Kunstpreis, Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland
Donner lieu à l`inattendu, Galerie Annex 14, Bern, Switzerland Minimallinie Bern-Basel, Palazzo Liestal, Switzerland En cascade, Espace Piano Nobile, Geneva, Switzerland
Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
2011 Exhibiton by MOREpublishers, Galerie Antwerp, Belgium Art en plein air, Motiers, Switzerland Swiss Art Awards 2011, Basel, Switzerland
2010 Manuel Burgener, Annina Matter, Jon Merz, Urs Zahn, Fluck / Paulus, Fribourg, Switzerland Gruppenausstellung, Kunsthaus Grenchen, Switzerland
Step in switch over, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009 Weihnachtsausstellung, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium 2009, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
2008 Hofstettenstrasse 2008, Weihnachtsausstellung Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
2007 Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium 2007, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
2006 Happy End, Offspace Laden, Düsseldorf, Germany Fotopreis Kanton Bern, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
2005 Foto kann alles, Weihnachtsausstellung Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2018 Manor Kunstpreis, Switzerland 2011 Swiss Art Awards
Residence, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil 2009 Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium
2007/2008 Auslandstip. Kanton Bern, Switzerland Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France