Beat Streuli

Overview Work Biography

Beat Streuli's photos, slide projections and videos made in cities all over the globe, are seducing the viewer with their light which is projected on the faces of the passers-by. He catches the people with his camera while they are hurrying to their destination or just lingering in the streets. He captures their expressions. The composition of the light and shadow in the images together with the colours of the faces and the clothes in their surrounding is reflecting our behaviour in daily life.

Born 1957 in Switzerland
Lives and works in Zurich, Switserland

Solo shows (selection since 2004)

2009
MKgalerie

2008
Mac's, Musée des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu, catalog
Potocka Gallery, Krakow, cat. (until November 14)
Baltic, Sage, Gateshead (until further notice)
Jordan Festival, billboard installation, Petra / Jordan

2007
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig

2006
Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, cat.
Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Berlin
Murray Guy, New York
University of Massachusetts, University Gallery, Amherst
Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels

2005
MKgalerie.nl, Rotterdam
RWE Tower / Museum Folkswang, Essen, cat.

2004
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
LACE, Los Angeles

Group shows (selection since 2004)

2008
Palais des Beaux-Arts, 'Wallonia', Brussels, catalog
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, 'Sichtbarwerden. Fotografische Werke aus der
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof', Berlin, cat.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, 'Fluid Street', Helsinki, cat.
Tate Modern, 'An Urban History of Photography', London, cat.
Shanghai Art Museum, 'Memories for Tomorrow', Shanghai, cat.
Townhouse Gallery, 'Voices, Sounds, Noises', Cairo
ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 'Objectivités', Paris, cat. (October 2 - January 4)
Museum Folkwang, 'An Urban History of Photography', Essen (October 11 - January 11)

2007
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 'Swiss Made', Wolfsburg, cat.
Stedelijk Museum, 'Mapping the City', Amsterdam
National Gallery of Victoria, 'Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now – New York-Venice-Bilbao-Berlin', Melbourne, cat.
Kunstmuseum Luzern, 'Top of Central Switzerland', Lucerne, cat.
BAC, 'Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement', Geneva

2006
Argos, 'Being, in Brussels', Brussels, cat.
AR/GE Kunst / Galerie Museum, 'consens', Bolzano, cat.
Tate Modern, 'Opening up art', London
Kunstmuseum Luzern, 'Projektion', Lucerne, cat.

2005
Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah / United Arab Emirates, cat.
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, cat.
Museum der bildenden Künste, 'Motor Blues', Leipzig, cat.

2004
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, 'Compostela', Santiago de Compostela, cat.
Kunstmuseum, 'Kunst Heute', Bern