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Michael Biberstein    (Swiss, 1948)

 Michael Biberstein - Slate Shift (Paintings) h: 170 x w: 130 cm / h: 66.9 x w: 51.2 in
Michael Biberstein
Slate Shift 2005
 
  

Biography
1948 Born in Solothurn, Switzerland
1964 Moved to the U.S.
Lives and works in Alentejo, Portugal

Exhibitions
2009 Résonance du Silence, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France (solo)
2009 Arte e Natura, Museo Villa dei Cedri, , Bellinzona, Italy
2008 Expansion – Résonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France
2008 Von der Kunst, Sträusse zu binden, Kunstmuseum Solothurn
2008 Linha de horizonte, Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brasil
2008 More Statements in the Spirit of Militant Agnosticism, Galerie Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (solo)
2008 Kunsthaus Skt. Josef, Solothurn (solo)
2007 Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto (solo)
2007 Galerie Tanit, Munich (solo)
2007 Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland
2007 Homage to Gérard Verdeijk, Centre Mitterrand, Périgueux, France
2006 categorias, Galerie Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (solo)
2006 Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona (solo)
2006 Resonance Membranes, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto (solo)
2006 Galerie Staffelbach, Aarau (Switzerland) (solo)
2006 Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (solo)
2006 La tentation de l’orient, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
2005 New Works, Galerie Tanit, Munich (solo)
2004 Homage to Peter Kneubühler – Gut zum Druck, Helmhaus, Zurich
2004 Neue Bilder, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2004 ...so what about marbles, Albert, did he play with those? Évora arte, Évora, Portugal (solo)
2004 Sala de estar, Espaço Tabora, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2004 Teoria da Unificação, Parte I, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2003 Compresores/Aceleradores, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain (solo)
2003 Exhibition with Hugo Suter. Galerie Staffelbach, Lenzburg, Switzerland (solo)
2003 Bernard Lüthi, Jean Mauboulès, Michael Biberstein, Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
2003 Comment rester Zen, Centre Culturel, Suisse, Paris
2002 Argumentos do futuro, Fundacion ICO, Madrid, C.San Fernando, Sevilla
2002 Na paisagem, Museu Serralves, Porto, Museu de Arte, Evora
2002 ...towards silence, Kunsthalle Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2002 Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)
2002 Paintings, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
2001 The Compulsive Image, Kunsthalle, Tallinn, Estonia (solo)
2001 towards silence, Galerie Rudolfinum, Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
2001 Argumentos do Futuro, Fundacion ICO, Madrid; Caja San Fernando, Sevilla
2001 Peter Kneubühler: Gut zum Druck Helmhaus Zurich
2001 Cristina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon
2000 Landschaften eines Jahrhunderts, Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
2000 Galerie Pablo Stähli, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2000 Kunsthalle, Brno, Czech Republic (solo)
1999 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
1999 Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal (solo)
1999 Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
1999 Cesar Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1999 Kunsthalle, Brno, Czech Republic (solo)
1999 Schöpfung, Diözesanmuseum Freising, Munich, Germany
1999 Landgang, Galerie Fabian Walter, Basel, Switzerland
1999 Paisagens no Singular, Museu Malhoa, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal; Museu Grão Vasco, Viseu, Portugal; Museu de Évora, Évora, Portugal
1998 Large Paintings, Pablo Stähli Gallery, Birrwil, Switzerland (solo)
1998 Works on Paper, Pablo Stähli Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1998 Neue Bilder, with José Carrilho da Graça, Galeria Luís Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1998 Longe e perto, Painters Union, Kiew, Ukraine
1998 Die Spur des Sublimen, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; Kunstmuseum Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark
1998 Expo ’98, Portuguese Pavilion, Lisbon, Portugal
1997 Voglio vedere i miei montagne, Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
1997 Die Schwerkraft der Berge, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
1997 Exhibition with Juan Muñoz, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy (solo)
1997 Fundação Julia Mann, Parati, Brasil (solo)
1997 Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (solo)
1997 Gefärbte Wasser und Horizonte, Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nurnberg, Germany (solo)
1997 Exhibition with Christoph Gossweiler, Galerie Staffelbach, Lenzburg, Switzerland (solo)
1997 Galerie Haldemann, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
1996 Pedro Oliveira Gallery, Porto, Portugal (solo)
1996 Galerie Pablo Stähli, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1996 Galeria Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1996 Galerie Marianne Grob, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1996 Galerie Medici, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)
1996 In Un Altra Terra, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
1996 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
1996 In Un Altra Terra, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
1996 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
1995 Ernste Spiele - Die Romantik in der Deutschen Kunst, 1790 - 1990, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
1995 Wasser und Wein, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
1995 Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1995 A Difícil Travessia dos Alpes, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1995 Der erste Farbsatz und die sieben Großformate, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (solo)
1995 Paint it Black, with Fernando Calhau, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Funchal, Portugal (solo)
1995 Drawings, Galeria Porta 33, Funchal, Portugal (solo)
1995 Galerie Sander & Ebert, Darmstadt, Germany (solo)
1995 Ganzfelder, Heilbronner Kunstverein, Heilbronn, Germany (solo)
1995 Stirnwände, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (solo)
1995 Aspects of Landscape, with Ian McKeever, Al Bustan, Beirut, Lebanon (solo)
1995 Ernste Spiele - Die Romantik in der Deutschen Kunst, 1790 - 1990, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
1995 Wasser und Wein, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
1995 Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1994 Fragmentos para um museu imaginário, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
1994 Do sublime, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
1994 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
1994 Galerie Pablo Stähli, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1994 Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
1994 Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal (solo)
1994 Galerie Tanit, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1994 Galeria Medici, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)
1993 Galerie Lüpke, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
1993 Kunstverein Klingentalgraben, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
1993 Galeria Cómicos-Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1993 In Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
1993 Biberstein, Mauboulès, Stern, RAM Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1992 Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
1992 Silence into Light, Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1992 FLAD, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1992 In Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
1992 Geteilte Bilder - Das Diptychon in der Modernen Kunst, Folkwangmuseum, Essen, Germany
1992 Galerie Montenay, Paris, France (solo)
1992 Galerie Pablo Stähli, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1992 On Sitting and Flying: An overview of Landscape, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)
1992 The Great Attractor and the Big Wide, Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
1992 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
1991 Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain (solo)
1991 On Vernet, Landscape, the Sublime & Beautiful, and what Relevance they might still have to Contemporary Art, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1991 Galerie Lüpke, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
1991 Galeria Cómicos-Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1991 Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
1991 Europalia: Triptico, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
1990 Arcangelo, Biberstein, McKeever, Galerie Barbaro, Paris, France
1990 Works on Paper, Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, New York
1990 Biberstein, Lanhas, Sanches, Galeria Alda Cortez, Lisbon, Portugal
1990 Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, New York, USA (solo)
1990 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
1989 The Apotheosis of the Human Spirit through the Seeing of Landscape, Kunstverein Rheinlande-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
1988 Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
1988 Galeria Cómicos, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1988 Signaturen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
1988 Australian Biennale, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
1988 Artists books, Galerie Michelle Zeller, Bern, Switzerland; Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain; Madrid Colección, Madrid, Spain; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium.
1987 Galería Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain (solo)
1987 Algumas Imagens de Sintra Moirisca (Photography), Palácio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra, Portugal (solo)
1987 Offenes Ende - Junge Schweizer Kunst, Nurnberg, Germany
1987 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York, USA
1986 Galeria Valentim de Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal
1986 Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
1983 Galerie Peter Noser, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1983 Galerie Lydia Megert, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1983 Das Prinzip Hoffnung, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1982 Biberstein, Lüthi, Mauboulès, Kunstverein Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
1982 Aspekte Junger Schweizer Kunst, Städtische Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
1982 Galerie Wittenbrink, Regensburg, Germany (solo)
1981 Arta, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1981 Centro de Artes Plásticas, Coimbra, Portugal (solo)
1981 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
1980 Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
1980 Biberstein, Renz, Stäuble, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
1980 22 Artistas Suíços, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
1980 Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboulès, Galerie Buchmann, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1979 Baak’scher Kunstraum, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1979 Galeria Módulo, Porto & Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1979 Pozarek, Nyffenegger, Mattes, Ingold, Frenzel, Brand, Biberstein, Berger, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1979 Europa '79, Hetzler, Müller, Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany
1979 Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboulès, Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten, Switzerland
1979 Lis '79, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
1978 Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
1978 Galerie Erika & Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
1976 Aspekte aus neueren Solothurner Sammlungen, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
1974 Galerie Medici, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo)

Literature
2003 Arte dos Artistas ; Culturgest, Lisbon. Portugal
2003 SCHIERZ, Kai Uwe, OPITZ, Silke, Unaussprechlich schön. Das mystische Paradoxon in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts ; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
2002 NEDOMA, P., NEUMAIER, O., Towards Silence, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2002 Towards Silence, Helmhaus Zurique, Switzerland
2001 Mysli si Krajinu Do ticha / Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2000 LICHTIN, Christoph; SCHILD, Roswitha, Gegenwartskunst in Solothurn, Austellungen – Projekte – Protagonisten, Edition Fink, Zürich, Switzerland
2000 Schöpfung, Diozösanmuseum Freising, Munich, Germany
2000 Paisagens no Singular, Museu Malhoa,Caldas da Rainha ; Museu Grão Vasco , Viseu; Museu de Évora, Évora, Portugal
1998 Die Spur des Sublimen, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, Kunstmuseum Esbjerg,Denmark
1997 Voglio vedere i miei montagne, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland.Die Schwerkraft der Berge, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
1996 'Michael Biberstein' Galeria Marianne Grob, Berlim
1996 'Ganzfelder und Stirnwände' Kunstvereine Heilbronn und Freiburg i.B.
1996 'In un Altra Terra' Galeria Continua, San Giminiano
1996 Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboulès, Kunstverein Olten, Olten, Switzerland
1995 Paint it Black (mit Fernando Calhau), Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Funchal, Portugal
1995 Wasser und Wein, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
1995 Offene Natur, in NOËMA-art journal n.39 Interview with Celia Montolió
1995 'A Difícil Travessia dos Alpes' Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisboa
1995 'Incidentes' Casa da Parra, Santiago de Compostela
1995 'Der erste Farbsatz und die sieben Grossformate' Kunsthalle Winterthur
1995 'Ernste Spiele - die Romantik in der Deutschen Kunst 1790-1990' Haus der Kunst, Munique
1994 Pernes, Fernando 'fragmentos para um museu imaginário' Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal
1994 I.Carlos 'Do sublime' Museu do Chiado, Lisboa
1994 C. Montolío 'El paisaje como forma de expresión permanente' in Lapiz, Madrid (Nr.107,Dec.)
1994 Biberstein 'Über Vernet, Landschaft und Utopie' C.Montolío, Landschafte des Möglichen; Biberstein, O.Neumaier, A.Pühringer, Das Grosse Anziehende und die Unendliche Weite (discussion), all in Medusa , Noëma Press, Salzburg (Nr.1,Winter 94/95)
1994 CARLOS, Isabel, Do sublime, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
1994 PINTO DE ALMEIDA, Bernardo, Pintura Portuguesa no século XX, Lello & Irmão, Porto, Portugal
1993 CASTRO-CALDAS, M. ; GUSMÃO A., et al., Silence into Light, Watari-Um, Tokyo, Japan
1993 REUST, H. R., Michael Biberstein, in Artforum, New York (May)
1993 DURAND, R., Michael Biberstein, Art Press, Paris (Nr.176, January)
1993 in Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Alte Pinakothek, Munique, Germany
1993 CALHAU, Fernando; SARDO, Delfim; VEIGA, Margarida; Cerco / Bienal Internacional de Óbidos, Portugal
1992 HOET, J., et al., Documenta IX, Kassel, Kassel, Germany
1992 Documenta IX view by Christian VOGT, Basler Magazin der Basler Zeitung (19.9)
1992 KAMBER, A., MOGIL, L., BIBERSTEIN,M.; The Great Attractor and the Big Wide, Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria and Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
1992 SARDO, D., Blinder, O Romantismo de Michael Biberstein, in Artes & Leilões, Lisbon, Portugal (Nr. 16)
1992 MELO, A., There is a Minute of a Fleeting World, Casa Serralves, Porto, Portugal
1992 Finkh, Geteilte Bilder - das Diptychon in der Modernen Kunst, Folkwangmuseum, Essen, Germany
1992 CASTRO CALDAS, M., FLAD, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1992 Vom Sitzen und vom Fliegen - eine Landschaftsübersicht, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
1992 Das Grosse Anziehende und die Unendliche Weite, Kunstverein Salzburg, Austria
1992 Silence into Light, Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1992 in Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Museum Moisbach, Leverkusen, Germany
1991 PORFÍRIO, José Luís; BIBERSTEIN, M., On Vernet, Landscape, the Sublime, the Beautiful and what relevance they might still have to Contemporary Art, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal
1991 SVESTKA, J., MELO, A., CASTRO CALDAS, M. , HOET, J. et al., Triptico, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
1991 GUALDONI, Arcangelo, Biberstein, Näher, Editione Mazzochi, Parma, Italy
1991 T. Kneubühler, B. Wismer, M. Biberstein, et al., In Nebel aufgelöste Wasser des Stromes, Hommage à Caspar Wolf, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
1991 CAUQUELIN A., Le paysage tracé de la mémoire, Edition Barbaro, Paris, France
1990 NEUFERT A., Munich, in Contemporanea, Torino + New York (September)
1990 AVGIKOS J., Michael Biberstein, in Artforum, New York, USA (December)
1989 STAHEL, U., Aber man darf Malen, in Kunst-Bulletin, Zürich, Switzerland (January)
1989 GUSMÃO, A.; PINHARANDA, J.; STAHEL U. ; SVESTKA, J., Michael Biberstein / On the Apotheosis of the Human Spirit through the Seeing of Landscape, Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
1989 MELO, A., Michael Biberstein, in Artforum, New York, USA (June)
1989 CERVEIRA PINTO, A., Michael Biberstein: Between Abstraction and Meaning, em Balcon 3, Madrid, Spain
1989 COMI, E., GUSMÃO, A., RATATAZZI, C., Michael Biberstein, em Spazio Humano, (January), Milan, Italy
1989 Arcangelo, Biberstein, McKeever, Galerie Barbaro, Paris, France
1989 Biberstein, Lanhas, Sanches, Galeria Alda Cortez, Lisbon , Portugal
1988 HOET, J.; VAN DAMME, C., Signaturen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium. M. Biberstein, N. Waterlow, et al., The Biennale of Sydney and The Australian Broadcasting Company, Sydney, Australia
1987 STAHEL, U., Offenes Ende - Junge Schweizer Kunst, Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, Germany
1987 M. Biberstein, Prospect- / Refuge - Images, Duero Productions, Madrid, Spain
1983 CAPC, 54 exposições, Círculo de Artes Plásticas, Coimbra, Portugal
1983 SPIELMANN, P; SVETSKA, J., Das Prinzip Hoffnung, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1982 KILLER, P. , Biberstein, Lüthi, Mauboulès, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
1981 AMMANN, J.C.; LOERS, V. Aspekte junger schweizer Kunst, Städtische Galeria, Regensburg Fri Art, Fribourg, Germany
1981 FUCHS, R. et al. Lis '81., Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
1981 Centro de Artes Plásticas, Coimbra, Portugal
1980 W. Holms, Biberstein, Renz, Stäuble, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
1980 22 Artistas Suiços, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
1979 A. Baak; M.Biberstein, et al. Künstlerische Raumprogramme, Baak'scher Kunstraum, Cologne, Germany
1979 J. Gachnang, M. Biberstein, et al., Pozarek, Nyffenegger, Mattes, Ingold, Frenzel, Brand, J. Gachnang, Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboulès, Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland. Lis '79, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
1979 Europa '79. Kunstforum International, Nr.35, Cologne, Germany
1979 Europa '79, Galerien Hetzler, Müller, Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany
1978 Michael Biberstein, Galeria Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland
1978 Biberstein, Gossweiler, Immoos, Mattes, Stäuble, Zäch, Galeria Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland
1976 Aspekte aus Neueren Solothurner Sammlungen, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
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