1955
Born in Beromunster, Switzerland
1977-1980
Studied in the Sculpture Department at the Lucerne School of Art
1980-1986
Studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorff, painting with master student Gerhard Richter
1984-1998
Lecturer of painting at the Hochschule fur Kunstund und Gestaltung, Luzern
1998-2000
Painting lecturer at the Dusseldorf Art Academy
2000-2001
Visiting Professor at Staatlichen Akademie der Künste Karlsruhe/Freiburg
2009-2014
Professor at Universität der Künste, Berlin
2014
Began teaching as a Professor at the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich
Present
Lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
1992
Kunstmusuem Luceme, Lucerne, Switzerland
1995
Gemeindegalerie Benzeholz, Meggen, Switzerland
1996
Galerie Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland
1997
Kunstverein Friburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Aagauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
Kunstverein, Amsberg, Germany
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
1998
Kunstverin Gottingen, Gottengen, Germany
Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany
1999
Galerie Nelson, Paris, France
Galerie Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Goppingen, Goppingen, Germany
LUDWIG FORUM fur international Kunst, Aachen, Germany
2000
Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lubeck, Germany
Galerie Rolf Ricke, Koln, Germany
2001
Museum Moderner Kunst, Ottendorf, Germany
The Box Associati, Torino, Italy
2002
Schiwege, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monic, CA, USA
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
CRG Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Philip Nelson, Paris, France
2003
Galerie Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland
2004
Mur Gang, CRG Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Ornithology, Distrito4Quatro, Madrid, Spain
2005
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Galerie Nelson, Paris, France
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
2006
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Distrito 4 Contemporary Art Gallery, Madrid
2007
CRG Gallery, New York
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Retrospecitve Exhibition.
2010
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany
Distrito 4 Contemporary Art Gallery, Madrid
2012
Studio Michael Royen, Vettelschoss, CRG Gallery, New York
2013
Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris
2014
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
2015
Kunstplattform AKKU, Emmenbrücke, Lucerne, Switzerland, Galerie Mai 36, Zürich, Switzerland
2016
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2017
Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018
Musée D'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris
2019
Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
25th Anniversary, Galerie Nelson, Paris; Group Show, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London; Rolf Ricke Collection a contemporary document, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Top of Central Switzerland. Contemporary Art from Central Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland; Certainly art. The art collection of the provincial insurance, Museum Flensburg, Germany
2008
Lust. The Presence of Absence, group exhibition for the opening of the Columbus Art Foundation, Leipzig; Plasticismes. Pràctiques abstractes avui, Centre de Cultura "SA NOSTRA" de Palma; Exhibition handle. Participating artists of the symposium put together with students and teachers at the Muthesius Academy of, Muthesius Academy Kiel; 2 x [(2 x 20) + (2 × 2)] + 2 = X x (desperately) trying to figure out the world, Part I, May 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2009
Drawing of the World - World of Drawing, Museum of Art, Seoul National University; Show. An Audio Tour through Berlin by Karin Sander. Soundtrack by Hans Brändli, Temporary Kunsthalle Berlin; Christoph Bucher / vs. / Pia Fries. Gallery Kamchatka, Paris; Irreversible. Double Meaning of the Sanchez Ubirìa's Collection, Paco da Cultura de Pontevedra
2010
Ambigu.Contemporary painting from abstraction and narration, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Do not Look Now. The Collection of Contemporary Art, Part 1, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; FUSION.Goya Contemporary Baltimore, Maryland; Inaugural show, CRG Gallery, New York
2011
Risk + reward, The Foster Gallery, Wisconsin, USA; The language of the flowers, CRG Gallery, New York
2012
salon of the present, Hamburg, Germany; Beautiful sadness, Gallery E105, Berlin, Berlin, Germany; New paintings from the collection, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; It's only painting but I like it, with Jo Dickreiter, Tatjana,Kunstverein Offenburg, Offenburg, Germany; Doll, Pia Fries, Steffen Lenk, Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed, Richard Allen Morris, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Stéfane Zaech la lingne passée, Gallery Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg
2013
Yes, No, Maybe, Artists Working at Crown Point Press, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Double image, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
2014
freshly painted, Brother Klaus Museum, Sachseln, Switzerland
2015
Summer Choices, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, California
2017
Unix Gallery, New York
2018
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2019
Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Basel, Hauptbau & NauBau, Basel, Switzerland
COLLECTIONS
Aargau Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
Bern Art Museum, Bern, Germany
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Auvergne FRAC, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Neues Museum - State Museum of Art and Design in Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Studio A, Otterndorf, Germany
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Stuttgart State Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland