Niklaus Manuel Güdel

Biography

Niklaus Manuel Güdel
was born in 1988 in Delémont, Switzerland,
and holds duel Swiss and Costa Rican citizenship.
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
2016 – Niklaus Manuel Güdel – Lebenstanz, da Mihi Gallery, Bern – Switzerland
2016 – Trees Remember Too, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José – Costa Rica*
2016 – Comme un blanc, Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris – France
2015 – Le Silence de la guerre, Musée jurassien d'art et d'histoire, Delémont – Switzerland*
2015 – Le Silence de la guerre, Artsenal espace d'art contemporain, Delémont – Switzerland*
2013 – Oeuvres récentes, Galerie Rosa Turetsky, Geneva – Switzerland
2012 – Le Cycle de la mémoire, SELZ art contemporain, Perrefitte – Switzerland*
2006 – Dialogues, Fondation Anne et Robert Bloch, Delémont – Switzerland
2005 – Die Aareschlucht, Galerie Arcane, Neuchâtel – Switzerland
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 – Premio Combat 2017, Museo Civico Giovanni Fattore, Livorno – Italy*
2016 – MdM. Du rêve à l'utopie, Galerie C, Neuchâtel – Switzerland
2016 – Figuration 2.0, Centre d'art contemporain Bouvet Ladubay, Saumur – France
2015 – Cantonale Berne Jura, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Interlaken – Switzerland
2015 – 10 Jahre Jungkunst, Containermuseum, Jungkunt, Winterthur – Switzerland*
2014 – Cantonale Berne Jura, Musée jurassien des arts, Moutier – Switzerland
2014 – Allégorie, Villa Dutoit, Geneva – Switzerland
2014 – XVI CALL, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia – Spain
2014 – Végétalus, Galerie C, Neuchâtel – Switzerland
2013 – 71e Biennale d'art contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds – Switzerland*
2013 – Cantonale Berne Jura, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Interlaken – Switzerland
2013 – Cantonale Berne Jura, La Nef, Le Noirmont – Switzerland
2013 – Jungkunst, Halle 52, Winterthur – Switzerland*
2010 – Exposition de Noël des artistes jurassiens, Musée jurassien des arts, Moutier – Switzerland
 
ART FAIRS
 
2016 – The Solo Project (Galerie Valérie Delaunay), Basel – Switzerland*
2016 – Art Paris Art Fair (Galerie Valérie Delaunay), Paris – France*
2014 – Artgenève (Galerie Rosa Turetsky), Geneva – Switzerland*
2013 – Artgenève (Galerie Rosa Turetsky), Geneva – Switzerland*
 
COLLECTIONS
 
Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José – Costa Rica
Luis Adelantado Collection, Valencia-Mexico – Spain-Mexico
Collection cantonale des beaux-arts, République et Canton du Jura, Porrentruy – Switzerland
Musée jurassien d'art et d'histoire, Delémont – Switzerland
Municipalité de Delémont – Switzerland
International private collections
 
AWARDS
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2017 – Combat Prize, Museo Civico Giovanni Fattore, Livorno (Italy), finalist*
2015 – Combat Prize, Museo Civico Giovanni Fattore, Livorno (Italy), shortlisted*
2014 – Premio Franc Vila, Valencia (Spain), special mention
2014 – Prix du Conseil Consultatif des Jurassiens de l'extérieur (Switzerland), finalist*
 
MONOGRAPHS
 
Trees Remember Too. Niklaus Manuel Güdel, with contributions by Fiorella Resenterra, Adriana Collado Chaves, Niklaus Manuel Güdel and Sophie Vantieghem, San José, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, 2016.
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Niklaus Manuel Güdel. The Memory of Silence, with contributions by Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Nathalie Fleury, Yves Guignard, Diane Antille, Léa Bismuth, Sophie Vantieghem, Karine Tissot and an interview by Chus Martinez, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2015.
 
Niklaus Manuel Güdel. Mémoire – Souvenir – Histoire, with contributions by Pierre Péju, Yves Guignard and Diane Antille, photographs by Augustin Rebetez, Geneva, Editions Notari, 2012.

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* exhibitions/awards with catalogue/publication.