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Urs August Steiner (CH)
Born 1980, lives in Zürich, Switzerland
Education
2009/11
Master in Fine Arts, ECAL, University of Art and Design Lausanne
2007
Fine Arts, CCA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2005/08
Bachelor Scenography, ZHdK, Zurich University of the Arts, Zürich
Solo exhibitions
2021
- S01E08 Exposure, Untitled Basel, Basel
2019
- Swiss Pavilion - S01E03 Pavilion, Bombay Beach Biennale, California
- S01E02 Defreeze, Nextex, St.Gallen
2017
- Super Cool X-1000, Fokus Preis, Kunsthaus Glarus
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Old Dogs - New Tricks, With Walter Pfeiffer, Dienstgebäude, Zürich
2015
- Buster Six, Des Pacio, San José, Costa Rica, CRI
- Orbit 2046, MoCA Pavilion, Museum for Contemporary Art, Shanghai, CHN
2014
- Twin Peaks, Grand Palais, Bern
- Buster II, Lokal-int, Biel
2013
- Some Scream and Some Don‘t, Splatterpool, New York, USA
Group exhibitions (selection)
2021
- Trovate Ortensia, Fondazione ICA Milano, Milano
2020
- Werk- und Auslandatelier-Stipendien 2020, Helmhaus, Zürich
2019
- The Big Rip, Bounce, Chill or Crunch?, Last Tango, Zürich
2018
- Heimspiel, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen
2017
- Previous, Blossom, Zürich
- Farrago, L‘OV, Centre d‘art Neuchâtel
2016
- Eleven Flags, Sitterwerk, St. Gallen
2015
- New Glarus, Kunsthaus Glarus
- F?!, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, USA
2014
- Kunstschaffen Glarus und Linthgebiet, Kunsthaus Glarus
- Catch of the Year, Dienstgebäude, Zürich
- The Rest is Noise, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Awards / Residencies
2019
- Artist residency, Roma Calling, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, ITA
- Bursary award, UBS
2018
- Bursary award, canton St. Gallen
- Research bursary, Pro Helvetia 2016
2016
- Bursary award, canton St. Gallen
2015
- Artist residency, Pro Helvetia, Shanghai, CHN
2014
- Fokus-Prize, Kunsthaus Glarus
2012
- Artist residency, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
Collection
2019
- Canton St.Gallen
Web-Development
Another Code Project
Karen Czock, Fabian Wohlfart
Installation, 2017
Fokus Price, solo exhibition, Kunsthaus Glarus
Every two years the Glarner Kunstverein awards one position with the Fokus-Preis. The prize winner receives the opportunity to show his/her work in a solo presentation in the following year. The new installation Super Cool X-1000 by the award winner Urs August Steiner, created specifically for the Schneelisaal at the Kunsthaus Glarus, is part of a collection of expansive works, based on pop culture references from film and television.
The walk-in and room-filling architecture revolves around themes of futurology and visions from mainstream science fiction films, and theatrically stages the promise of eternal life. Steiner's installation references equally to the blockbuster Vanilla Sky (2001) from Cameron Crow and the painting from Lucas Cranach the Elder from the year 1546. Super Cool X-1000 is an eclectic stage, where visions of the future such as cryonics – the conservation of human life through deep-freezing – meet with the mediaeval idea of the Fountain of Youth.
Curation: Judith Welter
Image 01
Super Cool X-1000, installation, wood, acrylic paint 12.5 x 8.3 m, 5 circles, epoxy resin, fuse on chrome steel, Ø 80 cm
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Super Cool X-1000, installation, wood, acrylic paint 12.5 x 8.3 m, 5 circles, epoxy resin, fuse on chrome steel, Ø 80 cm
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Super Cool X-1000, installation detail, wood, acrylic paint 12.5 x 8.3 m, 5 circles, epoxy resin, fuse on chrome steel, Ø 80 cm
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Super Cool X-1000, installation detail, wood, acrylic paint 12.5 x 8.3 m, 5 circles, epoxy resin, fuse on chrome steel, Ø 80 cm
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Super Cool X-1000, installation detail, wood, acrylic paint 12.5 x 8.3 m, 5 circles, epoxy resin, fuse on chrome steel, Ø 80 cm
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Super Cool X-1000, installation detail, wood, acrylic paint 12.5 x 8.3 m, 5 circles, epoxy resin, fuse on chrome steel, Ø 80 cm
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Super Cool X-1000, wall work, untitlet, epoxy resin, fuse on chrome steel, Ø 80 cm