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The artist distinguished herself particularly through her acclaimed legendary Skinnings, which explored architectural space and the body through sculpture. Bucher's work is characterized by a poetic and transformative approach to notions of private spaces and belongings, architectural fragments, feminism, domestication, and the nature of both individuals and collective experiences and memory. Heidi Bucher’s artistic legacy is concurrently a visionary and aesthetic testimonial, as well as a conceptual liberation from an antiquated and patriarchal weltanschauung.
The seminal nature of Heidi Bucher’s works lies in the fastidious attention paid to the memory of objects, drawing on forms that pre-exist in constructions, floors, and staircases. The artist explores these shapes using latex in a process she called Häutungen [Skinning], or the peeling off of the ‘skin’ of these architectural bodies, as a way to replicate their image but not their body.
At first glance, Bucher’s work may be understood as the negative image of things that surround us. However, the artist does not see the image as static, but as a moving body. The urgency that Bucher proposes in her language suggests this movement. Her works are like the fingerprints of this moving body. She refers to latex as skin; and the materiality of latex is a sensuous and pivotal expression of both a commitment to memory and the act of letting go by keeping only the pure idea of them through her radical practice.
Heidi Bucher (1926-1993) Switzerland.
Her work is included in numerous museums and private collections worldwide including MOMA Museum of Modern Art, New York / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Guggenheim Museum, New York / The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles / Centre Pompidou, Paris / The Israel Museum, Jerusalem / Kunsthaus Zürich / Kunsthaus Zug / Kunstmuseum Lucerne / Kunstmuseum Winterthur / Migrosmuseum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich.
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Educação
1942—1946 School for Applied Arts, Zurique, Taught by Johannes Itten and Max Bill, specialized class Fashion Design, Zurique, Suiça
Exposições Individuais
2021
Heidi Bucher. Metamorphoses, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2020
Memory as Architecture, Memory as Skin, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
2019
Sublime Geometry, Alma Zevi, Venice, Itália
Die Wässer und Libellenlust, The Approach Gallery, Londres, UK
The Site of Memory, Lehmann Maupin, Nova York, NY, USA
2018
Heidi Bucher, Parasol Unit, Londres, UK
2017
Floors: Heidi Bucher and Gordon-Matta Clark, Alma Zevi, Venice, Itália
Ahnenhaus, Fundaziun Not Vital, Ardez, Suíça
2016
Hommage àHeidi Bucher und Carl Bucher, Kulturort Galerie Weiertal,Winterthur, Suíça
2014
Heidi Bucher, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, Nova York, NY, USA
Heidi Bucher, Alexander Gray Associates, Nova York, NY, USA
Art Basel Feature with Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Art Basel, CH
2013
Centre Culturel Suisse de Paris, Paris, França
Rooms are skins, are surroundings, The Approach, Londres, UK
Art Basel Feature, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Art Basel, Suíça
Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurique
2007
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Alemanha
2004
Heidi Bucher - Mother of Pearl, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurique
1995
Kunsthaus / Barlach Halle K, Hamburg, Alemanha
1993
Villa Bleuler, Galerie im Weissen Haus, Winterthur, Suíça
Und ziehen das Gestern ins Heute: Die Häute aus dem Bellevue Projekt,Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Suíça
1981
Räume sind Hüllen sind Häute, Galerie Maeght, Zurique
1979
Parketthaut / Herrenzimmer / Mobili, Galerie Maeght, ZuriqueL‘Objet préféré de l‘artiste, Galerie Numaga, Auvernier, Suíça
1977
Einbalsamierungen, Borg, Galerie Maeght, Zurique
1973
Bodywrappings, Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
1972
Bodyshells, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA
1971
Soft Sculptures to wear, Museum of Contemporary Crafts*, Nova York, NY, USA
Rothmans Art Gallery of Stratford/Toronto*, Canada
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal*, Canada
*With happenings by Carl Bucher
1958
Silkcollage, World House Galleries, Nova York, NY, USA
1956
Collagen, Galerie Suzanne Feigel, Basel, Suíça
Exposições Coletivas
2021
Ellis Island, Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Sublimi Anatomie, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Itália
2018
The House of Fame, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Positionen, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf, Suíça
Don Quixote, Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Alemanha
2017
The Everywhere Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA
WOMEN HOUSE, la Monnaie de Paris, Paris, França; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA
Viva Art Viva, Arsenale, Venice Biennale, Venice, Itália
The problem with having a body / is that it always needs to be somewhere, The Approach, Londres
20 Years, The Approach, Londres, UK
No Place Like Home, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Room, Sadie Coles HQ, Londres, UK
Room, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick, UK
2016
Grand Gestures, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Basel, Suíça
Honolulu Triennale, Honolulu Art Gallery, Zurique
Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles, USAOslo 10, Basel, Suíça
Frauenpower, Art Dock, Zurique
2015
Artists and Architecture, Variable Dimensions, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, França
wow! Woven? Entering the (sub)Textiles, KM– Künstlerhaus, Halle fürKunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
Heidi Bucher & Virginia Overton, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurique
2014
Supple Expansions, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, USA
Monumental Fatigue: Heidi Bucher, Virginia Overton, Magali Reus, YorgosSapountzis, Hannah Weinberge, Freymond Guth, Zurique
Artevida: corpo [body], Fundação Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
I Know Not To Know, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Andrew Roth, Nova York, NY, USA
Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurique, CH
2013
Repertory, One Torino, Palazzo Cavour, Torino, Itália
SLIP, The Approach, Londres, UK
M Sélection. La collection du Musée Migros d‘art contemporain,Musée Rath, Geneva, Suíça
Collection on Display: Heidi Bucher, Thea Djordjadze, Berta Fischer,Loredana Sperini, Katja Strunz, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurique
Collection on Display: Monica Bonvicini, Heidi Bucher, Tom Burr, UrsFischer, Pamela Rosenkranz, Markus Schinwald, Cathy Wilkes, MigrosMuseum für gegen wartskunst, Zurique, CH
2012
My Body is a Cage, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurique
2011
Chairs, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Alemanha
2010
At Home, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Alemanha
2008
Disguised, Rotwand Gallery, Zurique
Der schone Schein, Museum Bellerive, Zurique
abc Art Berlin Contemporary, Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin, Alemanha
2007
Sculpture Park, Bad Ragaz, Suíça
2004
It‘s All an Illusion - A Sculpture Project, Migros Museum fürGegenwartskunst, Zurique
1993
Mise en Scène, Bex et Arts, Fondation Szilassy, Suíça
Das Bild hinter dem Bild. Depot der Geheimnisse, Kunstmuseum Olten, Suíça
1992
Force Sight, Internationale Kunst der Gegenwart, Schloss Preseneck, Neuenstadt, Alemanha
1990
Passagen Skulptur, Bad Ragaz, Suíça
Musée de la Peau, Bex et Arts, Fondation Szilassy, Suíça
1989
Solitude-Echos, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Alemanha
1988
Woher-Wohin, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Suíça
1986
Aufgemöbeltes / Mobili, Kunstraum Palazzo, Liestal, Suíça
Portal, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Alemanha
Fabriksaalboden, Kammgarn, Schaffhausen, Suíça
1985
Objekt Kunst ‑ in ausgewählten Beispielen von Dada bis heute, KunsthausZug, Suíça
Schloss Schlösser Luftschlösser / Herrenzimmer im Baum, Schloss Lenzburg, Suíça
Muschelobjekte, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Suíça
1983
La femme et l’Art, Trienniale Le Landeron, Suíça
Herrenzimmer / Ablosrauswegfliegling, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Suíça
1981
Hautraum Ahnenhaus, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Suíça
1980
Weich und Plastisch – Soft Art, Kunsthaus Zurich, Suíça
Türe zum Borg, Kunsthalle Waaghaus, Winterthur, Suíça
1979
Verletzlich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Suíça
L’univers d’Aimé Maeght, Maison de la Culture, Rennes, França
1978
Aktualität – Vergangenheit, 3. Biennale der Schweizer Kunst, KunstmuseumWinterthur, Suíça
Berg – Bergen – Geborgenheit, Kunstmuseum Zug, Suíça
Galerie Haus 11, Karlsruhe, Alemanha
1977
Kunstmuseum Winterthur
1975
Frauen sehen Frauen, Kunstkammer zum Strauhof, Zurich, Suíça
Terre des Hommes, Montréal, Canada1963 Galerie im Weissen Haus, Winterthur, Suíça
Coleções
Centre Pompidou
Hammer Museum
Israel Museum
Kadist Art Foundation
Kunstmuseum Winterthur
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Musée JenischMuseum of Modern Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim
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