Markus and Reto huber.huber
Nominated by: Gianni Jetzer
Born: 16.1.1975 / 16.1.1975
Switzerland
Lives/works: Switzerland
Statement
I like what the Hubers do a lot. They’ve built an amazing amount of birdhouses made out of crap found on the streets here in the East Village and hanged them back on poles and facades. Actually it is the same type of improvised structure that bums use to build for a night, before the sanitation department or the cops clean it away in the morning. Huber’s birdhouses are a system of abstract signs (no birds so far) and an open comment on gentrification and hope. Most of the neighbors love the fictional potential of the story. I think they are still waiting for the birds to come and sing nice tunes in the morning hours. The twin brothers also make collages of fights between Geishas and monster ants, paint meteorites on old photographs, make drawings of hunting women found on the
internet or bleach American flags in a week-long process until they are white.
2007 Gianni Jetzer
Gianni Jetzer is Director of the Swiss Institute in New York.
Recent Exhibitions (Download full CV here)
EXHIBITIONS (selection):
2010
*Der schöne Mensch, Krankheiten und Schädlinge; Grand Palais, Bern (solo)
*Yesterday Will Be Better; Aargauer Kunsthaus
*Sperrgut; Kunst(zeug)haus, Rapperswil
*dessin suisse contemporain (1990-2010); musée Rath, Genève
*Edition 5 Erstfeld, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf CH
*Paar Kunst, Gallery Luciano Fasciati, Chur CH
*Story Telling; White Space, Zürich
*Ich Tier! (Du Mensch) Ich Mensch! (Du Tier); Perla-Mode & Dienstgebäude, Zürich
*Schweizer, Kunst aus der Schweiz; Malzfabrik, Berlin
2009
*Kantonales Kunstmuseum Lugano CH (solo)
*Katz Contemporary, "Botanische Wahnsinn", Lutz&Guggisberg, huber.huber, Claudia Wieser, Martin Walde, Zurich
*IMPRESSION 2009 - Ausstellung für Druckgrafik, Kunsthaus Grenchen CH
*Catch of the Year, Dienstgebäude, Zürich
*Vordemberge-Gildewart Grant; Aargauer Kunsthaus
*Neuerwerbungen 2008, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen CH
*The Garden of Forking Paths, curated by Latitudes, Gallery Maisterra Avalbuena, Madrid
*Shifting Identities. (Swiss) Art Now, The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius Lt
*Nightgarden; Wiedemann/Mettler, Lisa Meyer & Monique Lütolf, huber.huber, Kunsthalle Luzern
2008
*Kunsthaus Glarus CH (solo)
*Gallery Reinhard Hauff (Mark Pearson and huber.huber), Stuttgart D
*Shifting Identities - (Schweizer) Kunst heute, Kunsthaus Zurich
*artevisa, Plouec du Trieux, F
*"Comme des bêtes" Musée cantonal des beaux-arts Lausanne
*Speicher fast voll"Kunstmuseum Solothurn
2007
*suzie q project Birgid Uccia / Bob van Orsouw, Zurich (solo)
*Gallery C. G. Boerner, New York (solo)
*Substitut, Berlin 2006 (group)
*Kunstraum Baden, Baden CH (group)
2006
*Gallery Bob Gysin, Zurich (solo)
*Gallery bis heute, Bern (solo)
* Kunstraum Alte Feuerwache, Mannheim D (group)
*"homo bellicus", londonparisnewyork, New York (group)
*the White Space, Bahnwärterhaus Esslingen D (group)
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