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Felix Baudenbacher

London/UK

The Swiss artist has lived at the Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London since studying. For several years he has been working exclusively with the color Bau Pink, which he developed.

*1977 in Switzerland, lives and works in London (UK). BA in Fine Art (Malerei), Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London (UK), 1999-2002.

He received in 2002 the Kate Barton Award for Painting, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London (UK) and was second at the Hunting Art Prize, Royal College of Art, London (UK),  among the young artist’s of the year 2003.

„It is the ‘I’ I can’t escape, sometimes my friend, often my enemy, always walking right beside me.“

Felix Baudenbacher

Felix Baudenbacher on Instagram

Solo Shows (Selection)

  • 2019 Dauerrezept, DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+, Bonn (GER)
  • 2017 Fifteen Pigs, widmertheodoridis, Eschlikon (CH)  – 40, 4 1/2, St.Gallen (CH) – Spontaneous But Not Casual, The Exhibitionist Hotel South Kensington, London (UK)
  • 2016 into space, cueB Gallery, London (UK)
  • 2015 Painting measures, Galerie Van der Planken / ART + DEAL, Knokke (B) – Oetlinger Buvette Kunstcontainer, Oetlinger Buvette, Basel (CH)
  • 2014 from far away home, mitart, Basel (CH)
  • 2013 My London, cueB Gallery, London (UK) – Significant Insignificance, Galerie Lehner, Wien (AT)
  • 2012 still., cueB Gallery, London (UK) – pas de deux, mitart, Basel (CH)
  • 2011 Bones, Bras and Feathers, cueB Gallery, London (UK)
  • 2010 A Private View – Still Lifes, Galerie Lehner, Wien (AT)
  • 2007 Fixing the Tent, Found Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)

Group Shows (Selection)

  • 2018 Harder Edge, Saatchi Gallery, London (UK), curated by Dominique Beattie & Alexandra Hillman, London (UK) – TABULA RASA, frosch&portmann, New York (USA) – Out of Shape, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden (GER), curated by Thomas Keller, Basel (CH) – Die Lücke – Leerstelle zwischen Präsenz und Absenz, Hebel_121, Basel (CH), curated by Sonja Gasser, Zürich (CH) – Edition August 2018, Verein für Originalgraphik, Zürich (CH) – Die Lücke – Container als Vakuum und Möglichkeitsraum, Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg (GER), curated by Sonja Gasser, Zürich (CH) – Die Lücke – Systemfehler durch Irrtum und Defekt, Vebikus Kunsthalle, Schaffhausen (CH), curated by Sonja Gasser, Zürich (CH)
  • 2017/18 REGIONALE 18 – in the safe hands of the artist, M54, Basel (CH), curated by Ricarda Gerosa, Basel (CH) & Baharak Omidfard, Freiburg (GER)
  • 2017 Geiler Block, Corneliahaus, Trogen (CH) curated by Anita Zimmermann, St.Gallen (CH)
  • 2016/17 REGIONALE 17 – Interdependenzen, Städtische Galerie Stapflehus, Weil am Rhein (D), curated by Sonja Gasser, Zürich (CH) & Josepha Bosshart, Weil am Rhein (GER)
  • 2016 Summer Salon 2016, Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes Gallery, London (UK) – DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum, Weltraum, Basel (CH), curated by Sibylle Feucht, Bonn (GER)

Exhibitions

Past
  • goes
  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Celina Jure (Buenos Aires/ARG)
  • Christoph Bucher (Dusseldorf/CH)
  • Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS)
  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)
  • Doris Schmid (Berlin/GER)
  • Dorothee von Rechenberg (Basel/CH)
  • Eric Cruikshank (Edinburgh/UK)
  • Felix Baudenbacher (London/UK)
  • Ingrid Roscheck (Cologne/DE)
  • Katarzyna Badach (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Magdalena Gerber (Geneva/CH)
  • Maria Magdalena Z`Graggen (Basel/CH)
  • Marianne Eigenheer (Basel/CH + London/UK)
  • Marianne Halter (Zurich/CH)
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)
  • Petra Egg (Vienna/AT)
  • Rainer Barzen (Cologne / GER)
  • Selma Weber (Basel/CH)
  • Sibylle Feucht (Bonn/GER)
  • stöckerselig (Basel/CH)

DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum – during Art Basel 2017

14.06.2017 – 16.06.2017

The second collaboration between the Weltraum (Basel/CH) and the ESSZIMMER during the ART Basel.

Past
  • goes
  • Adam Knight (London/UK)
  • Alfredo Ramoz Fernandez (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Anne Hody (Basel/CH)
  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Christine de la Garenne (Berlin/GER)
  • Christoph Bucher (Dusseldorf/CH)
  • Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS)
  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)
  • Doris Schmid (Berlin/GER)
  • Dorothee von Rechenberg (Basel/CH)
  • Eric Cruikshank (Edinburgh/UK)
  • Felix Baudenbacher (London/UK)
  • Ingrid Roscheck (Cologne/DE)
  • Katarzyna Badach (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Magdalena Gerber (Geneva/CH)
  • Maria Magdalena Z`Graggen (Basel/CH)
  • Marianne Eigenheer (Basel/CH + London/UK)
  • Marianne Halter (Zurich/CH)
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)
  • Petra Egg (Vienna/AT)
  • Rainer Barzen (Cologne / GER)
  • Selma Weber (Basel/CH)
  • Sibylle Feucht (Bonn/GER)
  • stöckerselig (Basel/CH)
  • Celina Jure (Buenos Aires/ARG)

DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum – during Art Basel 2016

15.06.2016 – 17.06.2016

Gesamtkunstwerk of 49 artist’s opens up the discussion on authorship and genius.

Past
exhibition view with objects on the wall: acrylic on canvas and glass
  • goes
  • Christoph Mügge (Malmö/SE)
  • Felix Baudenbacher (London/UK)
  • Jonas Hohnke (Wuppertal/GER)
  • Sibylle Feucht (Bonn/GER)

Platforms Project, 2019

16.05.2019 – 19.05.2019

DAS ESSZIMMER goes Platform Project Greece – an international networking fair for off-spaces and artist intiatives.

Past
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  • Felix Baudenbacher (London/UK)

Dauerrezept

02.05.2019 – 13.07.2019

Solo exhibition “permanent recipe” by Felix Baudenbacher (London), in which he juxtaposes the act of self-exposure, a gesture of self-exaggeration and an image of violence.