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Guest artists
Hélène Binet
Balthasar Burkhard
Thomas Flechtner
Pierre Bergounioux
Michel Butor
Jacques Réda
The sites
Château d'Oex
Le col de la Croix
Leysin
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Balthasar Burkhard
Born in 1944 on Christmas Eve, this child of the Bern countryside
discovered his vocation very early on when his father offered him his
first camera. Once he finished his apprenticeship, he was hired by Kurt
Blum who taught him the precision of printing and the mastering of gradated
shading. This job put him in contact with many of the artistes of the
1960s scene of which he became a privileged witness. He took part in his
first collective exhibit at the Kunstmuseum of Luzern. In 1974, he moved
to Chicago where he successfully tried out teaching and mounted his first
personnel exhibit. Six years later, back in Switzerland, Balthasar Burkhard
started a series of collaborations with other artists and has exhibited
in the most prestigious museums, from Geneva to Tokyo, via Paris and Milan.
1997 was the year of his consecration with a first retrospective of his
work, Eloge de l’Ombre, at the Rath Museum of Geneva.
As a hyperrealist dreamer, admirer of Courbet, Balthasar
Burkhard shows us the universal poetry. His photographs pick up the most
intimate details or embrace the immensity of the world. Thanks to these
monumental formats, he bluntly underlines the essentiality which escapes
us whilst affirming the place of image in spaces and its role as moral
agitator. It is impossible to measure his landscapes; the size of the
subjects matters little, all that counts if their power to stir up images.
Finally, by his subtle use of black and white, Balthasar Burkhard places
his work in the tradition of Tanizaki Junichiro, controversial and admired
Japanese artist, by paying homage to this shade that exists solely through
light, thus translating the truth of life itself, is both generous and
fleeting.
Personal exhibit :
2004
- Balthasar Burkhard, The Fruitmaker Gallery,
Edinburgh
- Balthasar Burkhard, Héliogravures 1991-2003 et autres travaux
photographiques, Cabinet des estampes, MAMCO
2003
- House of Art, CZ-Ceské
Budejovice
- Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz
(avec Not Vital)
- Standpunkt 1, Kirchner Museum, Davos
2002
- Kunstraum Medici, Solothurn
- Galerie Tschudi, Glarus
- Galleria Salvatore & Caroline,
Milano
- Vues d’architectures. Photographies des XIXe et XXe siècles,
Muée de Grenoble
2001
- Galerie Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert,
Paris
- Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
- Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Bruxelles
- Ciudad, Centre culturel suisse, Milan
- Helmhaus, Zürich
- Balthasar Burkhard – Voyage, Kunstmuseum,
Thun
- Chlönthal , Galerie Blancpain Stepczynski, Genève
2000
- L’invitation à la ville, Centre
Bruxelles 2000
1999
- Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi
- Ciudad, MAMCO, Genève
- Galerie Blancpain Stepcynski Bouvier,
Genève
- Musée de Grenoble (avec
Jean Moral)
1998
- Galerie Rigassi, Berne
- Ville, Galerie Liliane et Michel Durant-Dessert,
Paris
- A L’arrêt, Schweizerische Mobiliar,
Berne
- Espace d’art contemporain,
Porrentruy
- 1. Triennale des Photographie Hamburg,
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, USM, Hamburg
1997
- Eloge de l’Ombre, Musée Rath, Genève
- Galerie Blancpain Stepczynski, Genève
- On your mark !, Galerie Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris
1996
- Héliogravures, Kunstraum Kabinett, Berne
- La Box, Bourges
- Museum Baviera, Zurich (avec Thomas Kovachevich)
1995
1994
1993
- Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Bruxelles
(avec Franz West)
- Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
- Galerie Catherine Maurer, Berne
1991
- Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Bruxelles
1990
1989
- Musée Rath, Genève
- Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel
- Musée municipal, La
Roche-sur-Yon
- Kunsthalle, Saint-Gall
1988
1987
- Espace FRAC, Dijon
- Galerie E.&O. Friedrich, Berne
1985
- Verein Kunsthalle, Saint
Gall
1984
- Le Coin du Miroir, Dijon
- Balthasar Burkhard – Niele Toroni,
Musée Rath, Genève
1983
- Fotowerke, Kunsthalle, Basel
1982
- Der Arm, Galerie Toni Gerber, Berne
1980
- Portraits, Centre d’art contemporain, Genève
1979
- A Portfolio, Swiss Center Gallery, New-York
1977
- Photocanvases, Zolla Liebermann Gallery, Chicago
Collective exhibit :
2004
- Montagna. Arte scienza mito. Da Dürurer a Warhol,
Mart, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
- En Résonance, Lycée Saint
Charles, Marseille
2003
- L’immagine ritrovata, pittura et forografia dagli anni ottanta
a oggi, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano
- Mémoire du visible, Musée
du Louvre, Paris
2002
- L’herbier et le nuage, Musée
des arts contemporains, Hornu
2001
- Franz West. Obsorge, Kunsthaus, Zug
- Black and White is Beautiful, Studio la
Città, Verona
- Le siècle du corps. Photographies 1900-2000,
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
- Trade. Waren, Wege und Werte im Welthandel heute,
Fotomuseum, Winterthur
- Frontside, Littman, Kulturprojekte,
Basel
- El Desert, Centre cultural de la Fundacio
" La Caixa ", Barcelona
- Desert & Transit, Kunsthalle Kiel /
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
2000
- Architecture without shadow, Centre de
Cultura Contemporania de Bacelona
- La Arquitectura sin Sombra, Monasterio
de la Cartuja de Santa Maria de la Cuevas, Sevilla
- XL Photography, Art Collection Neue Börse,
Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt am Main
- Desert & Transit, Kunsthalle, Kiel
- Le Désert, Fondation Cartier, Paris
- Dedales, polyphonie du labyrinthe, Maison
de la culture, Amiens
- Animaux d’art et d’histoire,
Musée d’art et d’histoire, Genève
- Collection 2, FRAC, Alsace
1999
- Galerie Fabian Walter, Basel
- New Natural History, National Museum of
Photography, Film & Television, Bradford
- USM, Chicago
- Take away, Kunsträume, Zermatt
- Missing Link, Kunstmuseum, Bern
- Invitation, MAMCO, Genève
1998
- Dijon / le consortium, coll, tout contre l’art contemporain,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1997
- Animaux et animaux, Museum zu Allerheiligen,
Schaffhausen
- Wege zur Kunst. Wege Zur SaMMlung. Sammlung
Migros-Museum in der Kunsthalle, Berne
1996
- Condamnés à la liberté, Espace
de l’Art concret, Mouans-Sartoux
- Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden
Künste, Vienne
- Im Kunstlicht, Kunsthaus, Zurich
- Comme un oiseau, Fondation Cartier pour l’art
contemporain, Paris
1995
- Photographies, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Bruxelles
- Le Consortium, Dijon
- Musée d’art moderne et contemporain,
Genève
1994
- La Collezione di Fotografia svizzere della Banca del Gottardo,
Galerie Gottardo, Lugano ; Galerie Matasci, Tenero ; Centro
d’Arte contamporanea, Bellinzona
- Zeitgenossen, Kunstmuseum, Berne
1993
- GAS, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain,
Bordeaux
- Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Bruxelles
- Les 7 jours de l’Art à l’Université,
Dijon
1992
- Photographies, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Bruxelles
- Pour un Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain
- Tribute to …, Kunsthalle, Basel
- L’architecture de Herzog & de Meuron,
Fribourg ; Museum, Wiesbaden, 1993
- Faux mouvement, FRAC Lorraine, Metz
- Pavillon suisse, Exposition universelle, Séville
1991
- 5e Biennale d’architecture, Pavillon suisse,
Venise
- Le Consortium collectionne, Château d’Oiron,
Oiron
- Autrement dit, les artistes utilisent la photographie,
Ancienne Caserne de la Planche, Fribourg
1990
- Fotografie in der Schweiz, Museum für Gestaltung,
Zurich
- Schweizer Kunst, 1900-1990, Kunsthaus, Zoug
1989
- Miroir 89, Musée de Carouge et Centre d’art
contemporain, Genève
1988
- Zeitlos, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
1987
- Swiss Artists in Residence in Japan, Meguro Museum
of Art, Tokyo
- Drapeaux d’artistes
- Blow-up Zeitgeschichte, Württembergischer
Kunstverein,
- Stuttgart ; Haus
am Waldsee, Berlin ; Kunstmuseum, Luzern
- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
1986
- Mois de la photographie, Chapelle de la Salpêtrière,
Paris
1985
- La Ricostruzione della Città, Triennale
di Milano, Milan
1984
- Internationale Bauaustellung, Berlin
1982
- Mise en scène, Kunsthalle, Berne
1980
- Hyde Park Center, Chicago
1971
- 7e Biennale de Paris
- Parc Floral, Bois
de Vincennes, Paris
1970
- Visualisierte Denkprozesse, Kunstmuseum, Luzern
- Creative Photography, Galerie Impact, Lausanne
Publications :
2004
- Balthasar Burkhard. Omnia, Ed. Scalo, Zürich
– Berlin – New-York
2000
- Eloge de l’Ombre, Ed. Lars Müller,
Baden
1997
- A l’Arrêt (texte
de Rainer Michael Mason), Galerie Blancpain Stepczynski, Genève
1994
- Balthasar Burkhard (texte de Matthias Haldemann),
Kunsthaus, Zoug
1993
- Balthasar Burkhard – Laurent Busine,
Editions Rodolphe Janssen, Bruxelles
1991
- Helix aspersa, Editions Imschoot, Gand
1988
- Balthasar Burkhard – Kunsthalle Bern
(textes de René Denizot et Ulrich Loock, Kunsthalle, Berne
1987
- Balthasar Burkhard, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
1986
- Atelier 5 : 26 Œuvres choisies photographiées par
Balthasar Burkhard, Ammann Verlag
1984
- Balthasar Burkhar – Niele Toroni,
Musée Rath, Genève
1983
- Ausstellung Balthasar Burkhard (textes de Rémy
Zaugg et Jean-Christophe Ammann), Kunsthalle, Basel
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