BIOGRAPHY NOT VITAL

BORN
1948
Sent, Engadine, Switzerland.
Lives and works in New York, Lucca, Italy, Sent, Switzerland and Agadez, Niger.


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
“Suicides“, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK.
“Places in the World“, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France.

2009
“NOT WHY“, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China.

2008
“Tongue“, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China.
“Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom“, Currents – Art and Music, Beijing, China.
“10 Austrians + more“, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria.

2007
“Punts“, Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland.
“Not Vital: Lotus, Coffee and Stone Pine, Portraits, Snow and Boyfriend“, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
“Not Vital“, Ca Pesaro, Venice, Italy.

2006
“Not Vital”, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, IL, USA.
“Not Vital”, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland.

2005
”Not Vital: Agadez, Afrika”, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, (catalogue).
"Not Vital”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France.
“Not Vital: Agadez”, Albion, London, UK.
“Not Vital: Drawings and Sculptures”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria.

2004
Caratsch de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland.
“Not Vital“, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA, (catalogue).
“Not Vital, Milla Larmas Id Ün Chamel“, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany.
“Not Vital, 300 Camels“, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia.
Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
New Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

2003
“Not Vital“, Chasa Jaura, Valchava, Switzerland.
“Not Vital“, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland.
Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland, (catalogue).

2002
“Not Vital: FAT ES FAT“ (Druckgrafik und Multiples 1986-2002), Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany.
Museum zum Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, (catalogue).
“Not Vital, Mias muntogna”, Edith Wahlandt Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany.
“Vital”, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland, (catalogue).
“Not Vital“, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland.

2002/2001
“Not Vital“, Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan, Italy, (catalogue).
“Not Vital, New Sculpture”, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland.

2001
"Not Vital", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria.
"Not Vital", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France.
"Not Vital", Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy.

2001/2000
"Not Vital", Galeri Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2000
"Meine Schafe", Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland. 
"Not Vital", Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark.

1999
"Snowballs", Baron / Boisanté, New York, NY, USA; Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA, (catalogue).

1998
"Skulpturer Och Teckningar", Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden.
"Nototo", Milleventi, Milan, Italy.

1998/1997
"Not Vital", Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden, (catalogue).

1997
"Not Vital New Sculpture", Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA.
"Large Works on Paper", Baron/Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.
"Totem und Tabu", Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.

1996
"Schoppa", Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland.
"Preschentaziun dal Nuov Cudesch", Galleria d'Art Center Augustin, Scuol, Switzerland.

1995
Galerie Lehmann, (Conference de NV Chez Sotheby's Genève), Lausanne, Switzerland.
"Sculpture", Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA, (catalogue).
Galleria Milleventi, Milan, Italy, (catalogue).
Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy, (catalogue).
"Private View", Berggruen & Zevi Limited, London, UK.

1994
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
"Curtis Anderson, Not Vital", Baron/Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.
"Not Vital, skulpturen, zeichnungen, druckgraphik", Galerie Edith Wahlandt, Stuttgart, Germany.
Berggruen & Zevi Limited, London, UK.
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, (catalogue).

1993
Galerie Lehmann, Lausanne, Switzerland.
"Not Vital: Cow Dung, New Bronze Works", Wooster Gardens, New York, NY, USA.
"Adam, One Afternoon", Baron/Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.
"Not Vital, Disegns/Squitschs in Lain, Zeichnungen/Holzschnitte", Galleria d'Art Center Augustin Scuol, Scuol, Switzerland.
Galerie Niels Ewerbeck, Vienna, Austria.

1992
"Not Vital, sculture recenti", Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy.
"Cacche Di Mucca", Galleria Via Farini, Milan, Italy.
"18 Buatschas", Kunsthandlung Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland.
"Not Vital, Bronzen", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria.

1991
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria.
"Not Vital, The Complete Prints and Multiples", Baron/Boisanté, New York, NY, USA, (catalogue).
"Not Vital, Druck-Graphik & Multiples", Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland, (catalogue).

1990
Baron / Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.
PS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, (catalogue).
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany.
"Prix BCG '90", Museé Rath, Geneva, Switzerland, (catalogue). 

1989
"Not Vital at Akhnaton", Centre of Arts, Akhnaton Hall, Zamalek, Cairo, (catalogue).
"Sculptures and works on paper", The Greenberg Gallery Annex, St. Louis, MO, USA.
"Not Vital, Dessins et sculptures", Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France.
Galerie Montenay, Paris, France.

1988
"Bilder und Skulpturen", Binz 39, Scuol, Switzerland.
"Salvatore Scarpitta, Not Vital", Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy.
"Not Vital, Plastiken und Zeichnungen", Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland, (catalogue).
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany.
Baron / Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.
"Not Vital, Works on Paper", Swiss Institute, New York, NY, USA, (catalogue).

1987
"Not Vital, Skulpturen", Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany.
Gallery Nature Morte, Forum Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland.

1986
"Not Vital, Sculpture + Drawings", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Gallery Nature Morte, April, New York, NY, USA.
Galleria Pinta, Genoa, Italy.

1985
"Not Vital, Drawings and Sculpture", Willard Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"Not Vital, Sculpturen en Tekeningen", Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Holland.

1984
"Not Vital at", Nature Morte, February, New York, NY, USA.
"Recent Sculptures and Drawings", Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
"Not Vital, Plastiken und Zeichnungen", Galerie Hartmann, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

1983
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

1982
Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland.
"Not Vital, Zeichnungen und Objekte", Gimpel-Hanover and Andre Emmerich Galerien, Zurich, Switzerland.

1981
Alstadt-Gallerie, Chur, Switzerland.
"Not Vital, Recent Drawings", Albert White Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

1980
Gimpel-Hanover and Andre Emmerich Galerien, Zurich, Switzerland.
Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

1979
Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Chur, Switzerland, (catalogue).

1976
Galerie Peter Noser, Zurich, Switzerland.

1974
Dritte Galerie, Zofingen, Switzerland.

1973
Galleria LP 220, Torino, Italy.

1972
Galleria Diagramma, Milan, Italy.

1971
Galerie d'art moderne, Chur, Switzerland. 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
"25 Jahre Galerie Tschudi", Galerie Tschudi, Zurich, Switzerland.

2007
"25 Jahre Galerie Crone", Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany.
"Exposures, the contemporary self-portrait", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria.
"Von Tag zu Tag“, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Chur, Switzerland.
"Contemporary Art on Paper", Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
"Collective One", Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland.

2006
"zeichnungen", NAIRS – Art e Cultura in Engadina, Scuol, Switzerland.
"Gunnar A. Kaldewey: Artist Books for a Global World; Four Collaborations in Dept, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art – MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA.
"Summer Exhibition", Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"Visioni del Paradiso", Instituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, Italy.
"Mountains", Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland.

2005
"Artists of the gallery", Galerie Tschudi, Glarus, Switzerland.

2004
"Portraits", Esso Gallery and Books, New York, NY, USA.
"La Mort devant sol", Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland.
"WYSIWYG – What you see is what you get", Kunstverein KISS im Schloss Untergröningen e.V., Abtsgmünd-Untergröningen, Germany.
„Weisse Wunderware Schnee“, Bündner Kustmuseum, Chur, Switzerland.
„Home, Sweet Home“, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy.
„Needful Things“, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA.

2003
"Perpetual Bliss“, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France.
"Sculpture03", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria.
"Hot Summer in the City", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"No Canvas", Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy.

2002
"Visionni della montagna da Segantini a Weinberger", kunst Meran, Meran, Italy.
"Schöne Aussicht – Der Blick auf die Berge von Segantini bis Weinberger", kunst Meran, Meran, Italy.
„Der Berg“, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany.

2002/2001
“Accrochage”, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland.

2001
“49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia“, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
“Exposition Collective“, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland.
“Heart of Glass“, Queens Musseum of Art, Queens, NY, USA.
“Malstücke, Farbrhythmen, Artefakte“, Edith Wahlandt Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany.
„Paradies“, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
„Accrochage“, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland.
"Plateau of Humanity", La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Harald Szeeman, Venice, Italy, (catalogue).

2001/2000
"Kunst, die wir lieben", Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland,

2000
"and away we go," Baron Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.
"Cosmologies", Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA.
"Art Unlimited", Art 32 Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

1999
"Präsentation Zeitgenössischer Kunst", Bayerische Versicherungsbank AG, Unterföhring, Germany.
"Head to Toe: Impressing the Body", University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.
"Magisches Rätisches Dreieck, Drei Künstler - Drei Positionen", Schloss Landeck, Austria, (catalogue).
"Konnex Kairo", Kunst Museum Thun, Switzerland, (catalogue).

1998
"Paper +: Works on Dieu Donné Paper", The Gallery at Dieu Donné Papermill,
New York, NY, USA.
"The Erotic Sublime, (Slave to the Rhythm)", Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria, (catalogue).
"Zeitgenössische Skulptur, Europa-Afrika", 7th Triennale der Kleinplastik 1998, SüdwestLB Forum Stuttgart, Germany, (catalogue).

1998/1997
"Objectivity: International Objects of Subjectivity", Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, USA, (brochure).

1997
"Animeaux et animeaux, Zeitgenöss. Kunst u. Zoologie", Museum zu Allerheiligen,
Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, (catalogue).
"Animals", Baron Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.
"Schweizer Kunst", Auktionshaus Sotheby's, Zurich, Switzerland, (catalogue).
"Anselmo, Boetti, Laib, Merz, Nauman, Paolini, Pistoletto, Vital, Zorio", Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA.

1996
"The Material Imagination, Untitled", Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, NY, USA.
"Projects, 3 New + 3 Old", Baron / Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.
"Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980 - 95", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA , (catalogue).
"Dissimilar & Unrelated Sculptures", Baron / Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.
"Übergänge - Kunst aus Graubünden 1936-1996", Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland, (catalogue).

1995
"(W)HO(W) Are You?", Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland.
"Sculpture", Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA.
"Selected Projects of '81 - '95", Baron / Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.
"Schrift im Bild", Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur, Switzerland.
"Beyond Switzerland - Works by Contemporary Swiss Artists", Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China, (catalogue).

1995/1994
"Drawing in Black and White: A Selection of Contemporary Works from the Collection", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
"A Century of Artists Books", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, (catalogue).

1994
"Art Cologne", Galerie Edith Wahlandt, Cologne, Germany.
"The Body Human", Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"Curtis Anderson, Not Vital", Baron / Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.
"Projekt Schweiz II, Natur - Kultur", Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, (catalogue).

1993
"Self-Evidence, Self-Portraits in Prints & Photographs", New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA.
"Across The River and Into The Trees, a Sculpture Show", The Rushmore Festival, Rushmore, New York, NY, USA.
"Works on Paper", Baron / Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.

1994-1992
"Drawn in the Nineties", Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, NY, USA; traveling: Fine Art Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, MA, USA; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, USA; Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, MA, USA; University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA, (catalogue).

1992
"Not Vital und Florio Puenter", Pinta Galleria, Geneva, Switzerland.
"Skulpturen und Arbeiten Auf Papier", Galerie Nova Fredi Büchel, Pontresina, Switzerland.
"Donald Baechler, Michael Byron, Not Vital", Baron / Boisante, New York, NY, USA.
"Works on Paper", Baron / Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.

1991
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria.
"Druckgraphik & Multiples", Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland, (catalogue).
"Corsin Fontana, Gaspare O. Melcher, Matisa Spescha, Not Vital", Galerie Nova, Pontresina, Switzerland.

1990
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland, (catalogue).
"The First Five Years", The Kaldeway Press at Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA, (catalogue).

1989
"La Suisse Romanche Vue Par Iso Camartin", Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France.
"Reflets Contemporains d'une Collection", Musée Pulliérane, Pully, Switzerland, (catalogue); Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ville de Locle, Switzerland.
"Object of Thought, A Collection of Objects and Small Sculptures", Anders Tornberg Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"Monochrome", Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, USA.
"Projects and Portfolios: The 25th National Print Exhibition", The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA, (catalogue).
"Selected Multiples," Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY, USA.
"The New Poverty II", Meyers Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA.
"The 1980's: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith", National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA, (catalogue).
Galerie Faust, Geneva, Switzerland.
"Gemälde und Skulpturen", Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland (catalogue).

1988
"Blow Up", Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland.
"Not Vital, Salvatore Scarpitta", Studio Guenzani, February, Milan, Italy.
"Works on Paper", Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"Off White", Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"Not Vital, Ange Leccia, Dennis Adams", Galerie Faust, Geneva, Switzerland.
"Recent Acquisitions", Tatyana Grossman Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
"Kaldeway Press", Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA.
"Konfrontationen von Angelika Kauffman bis Miriam Cahn", Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland.
"Donald Baechler, Michael Byron, Not Vital", Baron/Boisanté, New York, NY, USA.

1987
"The Antique Future", Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"Drawing Since 1940", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
"Sudwarts Nordwarts, Italienische und Schweizer Kunstler", Studio 10, Chur, Switzerland, (catalogue).
"Walls and Spaces, Three Swiss Artists, Rosemary Koczy, Olivier Mosset, Not Vital", New York, NY, USA.
"16 Schweizer Künstler mit: Druckgraphik der 80er Jahre", Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland (catalogue).
"Simila/Dissimilia, Modes of Abstractions in Painting, Sculpture and Photography Today", Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany, (catalogue); Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, USA; Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA, (catalogue); Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"The New Poverty", John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY, USA, (catalogue).

1986
"Time after Time", Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA.
Willard Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"Invitational Exhibition", Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"Verso Sud e Verso Nord, Artisti Italiani e Svizzeri", Palazzo Vagnotti,
Cortona, Italy, (catalogue). 

1985
"Male Sexuality", Art City, New York, NY, USA.
"James Brown, Richard Milani, Scott Richter, Not Vital", Gallery Nature Morte, January, New York, NY, USA
"Graffiti and East Village Artists", Librizzi Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"Objects of Comfort", City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, USA.
"American Paintings 1975 - 1985, Selections from the Collection of Aaron and Phyllis Katz", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA, (catalogue).
"Large Drawings", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland.
"Cult and Decorum", Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

1984
"Ref. 84", Palud No.1, Lausanne, Switzerland, (catalogue).
"Aspekte Aktueller Bündner Kunst: Corsin Fontana, Gaudenz Signorell, Not Vital, Hannes Vogel", Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland, (catalogue).
"Selected Drawings by Eleven Artists", Willard Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"Eccentric Image(s)", Margo Levin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
"Jim Colarusso, Michael Hafftka, Christoph Hertzog, Not Vital", Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
"Wedge Benefit", Gallery Nature Morte, New York, NY, USA.

1983
"New Expressions", Leonarda di Mauro Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Niveau Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
"Joseph Nechvatal, Not Vital, Robin Weglinski", Gallery Nature Morte, May, New York, NY, USA.
"Twelve Swiss Artists", Gimpel Fils, London, UK.
"Not Vital, Steve Staso, Julian L. Mosca", Schweizerhof, Vulpera, Switzerland.
"Ruckblick - Ausblick", Gimpel-Hanover and André Emmerich Galleries, Hamburg, Germany.
"Corsin Fontana, Das Auslöschen der Bilder Durch Die Zeit", Galerie Claudia Knapp, Chur, Switzerland.
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland.

1982
"Animals and Archetypes", P.S. 122, New York, NY, USA.
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland.
"Yulla Lipchitz and Not Vital", Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

1980
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland.

1979
"Sommerausstellung", Galerie Schöner-Wohnen-Haus, Zurich und Locarno, Switzerland.
"Weihnachtsausstellung der Bündner Künstler", Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland, (catalogue).

1977
Städtische Galerie Zum Strauhof, Zurich, Switzerland.

1976
Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland.


FILMOGRAPHY

1999
"Not Vital, Half Man - Half Animal", Directed by Herkli Bundi, produced by Television Rumantscha, Fama Film AG, Galerie Luciano Fasciati and Bundner Kunstverein.