Michael Biberstein

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Born: Solothurn, Switzerland in 1948
Lives: and Works in Portugal since 1978

Solo Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection)

2009 Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France.

2008 More statements in the Spirit of Militant Agnosticism, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.
Kunsthaus Skt. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland.

2007 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany.
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal.

2006 categorias, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.
Galerie Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain.
Resonance Membranes, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Lisbon.
Galerie Staffelbach, Aarau, Switzerland.
Funda��o Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal.

2005 New Works, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany.

2004 Neue Bilder, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland.
...so what about marbles, Albert, did he play with those? �vora arte, �vora, Portugal.
Sala de estar, Espa�o Tabora, Lisbon, Portugal.
Teoria da Unifica��o, Parte I, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.

2003 Compresores/Aceleradores, Museo Extreme�o e Iberoamericano de Arte Contempor�neo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain.
Exhibition with Hugo Suter. Galerie Staffelbach, Lenzburg, Switzerland.

2002 ...towards silence, Kunsthalle Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland.
Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland.
Paintings, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.

2001 The Compulsive Image, Kunsthalle, Tallinn, Estonia.
...towards silence, Galerie Rudolfinum, Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic.

2000 Galerie Pablo St�hli, Zurich, Switzerland.
Kunsthalle, Brno, Czech Republic.

1999 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany.
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal.
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
Cesar Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal.
Kunsthalle, Brno, Czech Republic.

1998 Large Paintings, Pablo St�hli Gallery, Birrwil, Switzerland.
Works on Paper, Pablo St�hli Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
Neue Bilder, with Jos� Carrilho da Gra�a, Galeria Lu�s Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal.

1997 Exhibition with Juan Mu�oz, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
Funda��o Julia Mann, Parati, Brasil.
Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
Gef�rbte Wasser und Horizonte, Institut f�r Moderne Kunst, Nurnberg, Germany.
Exhibition with Christoph Gossweiler, Galerie Staffelbach, Lenzburg, Switzerland.
Galerie Haldemann, Bern, Switzerland.

1996 Pedro Oliveira Gallery, Porto, Portugal.
Galerie Pablo St�hli, Zurich, Switzerland.
Galeria Ass�rio & Alvim, Lisbon, Portugal.
Galerie Marianne Grob, Berlin, Germany.
Galerie Medici, Solothurn, Switzerland.

1995 A Dif�cil Travessia dos Alpes, Centro de Arte Moderna, Funda��o Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal.
Der erste Farbsatz und die sieben Gro�formate, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Paint it Black, with Fernando Calhau, Museu de Arte Contempor�nea, Funchal, Portugal.
Drawings, Galeria Porta 33, Funchal, Portugal.
Galerie Sander & Ebert, Darmstadt, Germany.
Ganzfelder, Heilbronner Kunstverein, Heilbronn, Germany.
Stirnw�nde, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Aspects of Landscape, with Ian McKeever, Al Bustan, Beirut, Lebanon.

1994 Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany.
Galerie Pablo St�hli, Zurich, Switzerland.
Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland.
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal.
Galerie Tanit, Cologne, Germany.
Galeria Medici, Solothurn, Switzerland.

1993 Galerie L�pke, Frankfurt, Germany.
Kunstverein Klingentalgraben, Basel, Switzerland.
Galeria C�micos-Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal.

1992 Galerie Montenay, Paris, France.
Galerie Pablo St�hli, Zurich, Switzerland.
On Sitting and Flying: An overview of Landscape, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland.
The Great Attractor and the Big Wide, Kunstverein Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany.

1991 Galer�a Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain.
On Vernet, Landscape, the Sublime & Beautiful, and what Relevance they might still have to Contemporary Art, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal.
Galerie L�pke, Frankfurt, Germany.
Galeria C�micos-Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium.

1990 Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, New York, USA.
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany.

1989 The Apotheosis of the Human Spirit through the Seeing of Landscape, Kunstverein Rheinlande-Westfalen, D�sseldorf, Germany.

1988 Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium.
Galeria C�micos, Lisbon, Portugal.

1987 Galer�a Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain.
Algumas Imagens de Sintra Moirisca (Photography), Pal�cio Nacional de Sintra, Sintra, Portugal.

1986 Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland.

1983 Galerie Peter Noser, Zurich, Switzerland.
Galerie Lydia Megert, Zurich, Switzerland.

1982 Galerie Wittenbrink, Regensburg, Germany.

1981 Arta, Lisbon, Portugal.
Centro de Artes Pl�sticas, Coimbra, Portugal.
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany.

1980 Galerie Erika + Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland.

1979 Baak'scher Kunstraum, Cologne, Germany.
Galeria M�dulo, Porto & Lisbon, Portugal.

1978 Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland.
Galerie Erika & Otto Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland.

1974 Galerie Medici, Solothurn, Switzerland.

Group Exhibitions
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection)

2009 Arte e Natura, Museo Villa dei Cedri, , Bellinzona, Italy.

2008 Expansion - R�sonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France.
Von der Kunst, Str�u�e zu binden, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland.
Linha de horizonte, Museo de Arte Moderna, S�o Paolo, Brasil.

2007 Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland.
Homage to G�rard Verdeijk, Centre Mitterrand, P�rigueux, France.

2006 La tentation de l'orient, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France.

2004 Homage to Peter Kneub�hler - Gut zum Druck, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland.

2003. Comment Rester Zen, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France.
Bernard L�thi, Jean Mauboul�s, Michael Biberstein, Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland.

2002 Na paisagem, Funda��o Serralves, Museu de �vora, �vora, Portugal.
Argumentos do Futuro, Fundaci�n ICO, Madrid; Caja San Fernando, Sevilla, Spain.

2000 Landschaften eines Jahrhunderts, Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany.

1999 Sch�pfung, Di�zesanmuseum Freising, Munich, Germany.
Landgang, Galerie Fabian Walter, Basel, Switzerland.
Paisagens no Singular, Museu Malhoa, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal; Museu Gr�o Vasco, Viseu, Portugal; Museu de �vora, �vora, Portugal.

1998 Longe e perto, Painters Union, Kiew, Ukraine.
Die Spur des Sublimen, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; Kunstmuseum Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark.
Expo '98, Portuguese Pavilion, Lisbon, Portugal.

1997 Voglio vedere i miei montagne, Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland.
Die Schwerkraft der Berge, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria.

1996 In Un Altra Terra, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany.

1995 Ernste Spiele - Die Romantik in der Deutschen Kunst, 1790 - 1990, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.
Wasser und Wein, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria.
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, New York, USA.

1994 Fragmentos para um museu imagin�rio, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal.
Do sublime, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal.

1993 In Nebel aufgel�ste Wasser des Stromes, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
Biberstein, Mauboul�s, Stern, RAM Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

1992 Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany.
Silence into Light, Watari-Um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.
FLAD, Funda��o Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal.
In Nebel aufgel�ste Wasser des Stromes, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany. Geteilte Bilder - Das Diptychon in der Modernen Kunst, Folkwangmuseum, Essen, Germany.

1991 Europalia: Triptico, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium.

1990 Arcangelo, Biberstein, McKeever, Galerie Barbaro, Paris, France.
Works on Paper, Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, New York.
Biberstein, Lanhas, Sanches, Galeria Alda Cortez, Lisbon, Portugal.

1988 Signaturen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium.
Australian Biennale, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.
Artists books, Galerie Michelle Zeller, Bern, Switzerland; Galer�a Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain; Madrid Colecci�n, Madrid, Spain; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium.

1987 Offenes Ende - Junge Schweizer Kunst, Nurnberg, Germany.
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York, USA.

1986 Galeria Valentim de Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal.

1983 Das Prinzip Hoffnung, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany.

1982 Biberstein, L�thi, Mauboul�s, Kunstverein Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland.

1981 Aspekte Junger Schweizer Kunst, St�dtische Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

1980 Biberstein, Renz, St�uble, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
22 Artistas Su��os, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal.
Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboul�s, Galerie Buchmann, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

1979 Pozarek, Nyffenegger, Mattes, Ingold, Frenzel, Brand, Biberstein, Berger, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Europa '79, Hetzler, M�ller, Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany.
Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboul�s, Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten, Switzerland.
Lis '79, Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal.

1976 Aspekte aus neueren Solothurner Sammlungen, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland.


Bibliography
RECENT

2003 Arte dos Artistas, Culturgest, Lisbon. Portugal.
SCHIERZ, Kai Uwe; OPITZ, Silke, Unaussprechlich sch�n. Das mystische Paradoxon in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany.

2002 NEDOMA, Petr; NEUMAIER, Otto, Towards Silence, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic .
Towards Silence, Helmhaus Zurique, Switzerland.

2001 Mysli si Krajinu Do ticha / Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic .
Michael Biberstein - Marie Fulkov� - Lenka Kitzbergerov� - Johanka Ovcackov�

2000 LICHTIN, Christoph; SCHILD, Roswitha, Gegenwartskunst in Solothurn, Austellungen - Projekte - Protagonisten, Edition Fink, Z�rich, Switzerland.
Sch�pfung, Dioz�sanmuseum Freising, Munich, Germany.
Paisagens no Singular, Museu Malhoa,Caldas da Rainha ; Museu Gr�o Vasco , Viseu; Museu
de �vora, �vora, Portugal.

1998 Die Spur des Sublimen, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, Kunstmuseum Esbjerg,Denmark.

1997 Voglio vedere i miei montagne, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland.Die Schwerkraft der Berge, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria.

1996 Michael Biberstein, Galeria Marianne Grob, Berlin, Germany.
Ganzfelder und Stirnw�nde, Kunstvereine Heilbronn und Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany. In un Altra Terra, Galeria Continua, San Giminiano, Italy.
Biberstein, Frenzel, Mauboul�s, Kunstverein Olten, Olten, Switzerland.

1995 A Dif�cil Travessia dos Alpes, Centro de Arte Moderna, Funda��o Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal.
Incidentes, Casa da Parra, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Der erste Farbsatz und die sieben Grossformate, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland.
Ernste Spiele - die Romantik in der Deutschen Kunst 1790-1990, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.
Paint it Black (mit Fernando Calhau), Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Funchal, Portugal.
Wasser und Wein, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria.
Offene Natur, in NO�MA-art journal n.39 Interview with Celia Montoli�.

1994 PERNES, Fernando, Fragmentos para um museu imagin�rio, Funda��o Serralves, Porto, Portugal.
CARLOS, Isabel, Do sublime, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal.
MONTOLI�, C., El paisaje como forma de expresi�n permanente, in Lapiz, Madrid (Nr.107) Biberstein, �ber Vernet, Landschaft und Utopie; C.Montol�o, Landschaften des M�glichen; BIBERSTEIN,M; NEUMAIER, O.;P�HRINGER, A. , Das Grosse Anziehende und die Unendliche Weite (discussion), in Medusa , No�ma Press, Salzburg, Austria. (Nr.1)
PINTO DE ALMEIDA, Bernardo, Pintura Portuguesa no s�culo XX, Lello & Irm�o, Porto, Portugal.