JAN KIEFER
info@jankiefer.com

ANIMALS - THEN AND NOW (Personal blog)

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www.kaimatsumiya.com

WORKS / CV


EXHIBITIONS

2024
Lieber Lachen, Museum of Fine Arts Chur, CH (Solo)
No Problemo, Good Weather Gallery, Little Rock, US (Solo)
Wieder Weinen, HARMONY100, Basel CH (Solo)
How language invents the world, Museum of Fine Arts Chur, CH

2023
group show, Good Weather Gallery, Chicago, US
Graustufen, NFS, Basel, CH (solo)

2022
Kontraste. Silicon Malley, Lausanne, CH, (solo)
Paint by Numbers, cur. by Gianni Jetzer, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
group show, Oreilles Internaxionales, Basel, CH
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Swiss Embassy, New York City, US (Solo)

2021
Missing target, Kai Matsumiya, New York, US
†, Oreilles Internaxionales, Basel, CH (solo)
Art en plein air, Môtiers, CH
Love in times of..., curated by Gianni Jetzer, Hotel Europe, Zurich, CH
Architektura, Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne, D

2020
Skiing Snowman, Swiss Institute New York, US (solo)
Group show, Union Pacific, London, UK

2019
Schwarz - Weiss, Union Pacific, London, UK (Solo)
Concrete Contemporary, Museum Haus Kontruktiv, Zurich, CH
Group show, Forde, Geneva, CH
Condo, Union Pacific, London, UK

2018
Nagel Draxler Gallery, project space, Cologne, D (Solo)
Group show, cur. by Samuel Leuenberger, Vera Cortes Gallery, Lisbon, PRT
Hidden Bar, Art Basel, Basel, CH
Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Group show, Kai Matsumiya, New York, US

2017
KölnSkulptur #9, curated by Chus Martinez, Sculpture Park Cologne, D
JaJaJaJaJaNeinNeinNeinNeinNein, Kai Matsumiya, New York, US (Solo)
Honeybaked, Kunstverein Salts, Basel, CH (Solo)
Benefit exhibition, White Columns, New York US
Le charme indiscret, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel CH
Them! (with Yoan Mudry), Lokal Int, Biel, CH
Look, all this is fraud, Milieu, Bern, CH
Condo, Union Pacific, London, UK

2016
Giles, Gagosian Gallery, Athens, GR
Zermatt Groove, Zabriskie Point, Geneva, CH (Solo)
Forward to History, with Robert Brambora, Kunstverein Wiesen, D
Performing Ground, invited by SALTS, E-Werk, Freiburg, D
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
exercises in style, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest, RO
Toujours, with Max Ruf, Parkhaus Düsseldorf, D

2015
Natural Instinct, cur. by Samuel Leuenberger, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, CH
Kästen, Milieu, Bern, CH (Solo)
Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Kunsthalle Basel, CH
Generation Game, Union Pacific, London, UK (Solo)
Comment please, sic!, Lucerne, CH
Slash Hoffnung, Belle Air / New Bretagne, Essen, D
Nimm’s mal easy, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, CH

2014
Postcodes: Kind, Coletor, São Paulo, BR
Union, Union Pacific, London, UK
Salts at Kunstraum Riehen, Basel, CH
New Associations, SALTS, Basel, CH
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
Vulgar Display of Power, Gillmeier Rech, Berlin, D (Solo)
mediating landscapes, curated by flip project space, Bari, IT

2013
Guaud, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH (Solo)
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
in the studio, Kunsthalle Athena, GR
Sunset, the sunday painter, London, UK
KR, curated by Elise Lammer, MJ, Geneva, CH

2012
no man is an island, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH
Monochrome, SALTS, Basel, CH
Afterimage, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT
the work found me, Gallery Samy Abraham, Paris, FR
off the beaten track, Gallery von Bartha Garage, Basel, CH
Cooperations (with Pedro Wirz), curated by Larkin Erdman, Zürich, CH

2011
6 Kuenstler aus Basel x2, Kunsthalle Basel, CH
Kunstraum Riehen, Regionale 12, Basel, CH
I did it again, Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg, Germany
Billy, Limbus Europae, Berlin, Germany (with Max Ruf)



AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

2023 Artist in residence, Budapest (HUN), Landis Gyr Foundation, CH
2021 Art award for painting, Lions Club, Basel, CH
2019 Artist in residence, Swiss Institute New York (US), Pro Helvetia, CH
2016 Swiss Art Award, CH
2015 project award, Kunstkredit, Basel, CH
2014 art award, Kunstkredit, Basel, CH
2013 Artist in residence, IAAB, Berlin (D), Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel, CH
2012 Travel-Award, Basler Kunstverein, Kunsthalle Basel , CH
2012 grant of the Crintina Spoerri Foundation, Basel, CH


VITA / EDUCATION

2010-2012:
MA Fine Arts
department of Fine Arts,
Academy of Art and Design, Basel, CH

2002-2007:
Visual Communication,
Department of Fine Arts, University Trier, D

2004/2005:
Academy of Art and Design, Lucerne, CH



TEACHING/ JURY

since 2021:
Art Commission Basel, CH

2017-2019:
guest teacher, Art Institute, Academy of Art and Design Basel, CH

2016-2022
Jury: HKB Bern, HEAD Geneve, HSLU Lucerne Design & Art,
Art Commission Zurich, CH, etc


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