Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler
Currently live and work in Austin, USA
Teresa Hubbard, (Swiss / Irish / American) born 1965 in Dublin, Ireland
1990-92 M.F.A., Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
1987 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1988 Yale University School of Art, MFA Sculpture Program, New Haven, Connecticut
1985-88 B.F.A., University of Texas at Austin
2000-present Professor, Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas at Austin
2004-present Core Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York
Alexander Birchler, (Swiss) born 1962 in Baden, Switzerland
1990-92 M.F.A., Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
1985 University of Art and Design, Helsinki
1983-87 Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
1993-94 Lecturer, University of Zürich
2004-present Core Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
• «Hubbard / Birchler». Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
• «Hubbard / Birchler». Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
2010
• «Grand Paris Texas at The Paramount Theater» Film Screening.
In association with Lora Reynolds Gallery, Arthouse at the Jones Center and Austin Film
Society
2009
• «No Room to Answer». Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
• «No Room to Answer - Projections». Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
• «Grand Paris Texas». Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
2008
• «No Room to Answer». Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth
• «Hello Darkness». K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
2006
• «House with Pool». Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
• «House with Pool». Miami Art Museum, Miami
2005
• «Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler». Museum Sammlung Goetz, Munich
• «Little Pictures at Mrs. Owens House». Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
• «Troop». Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich
• «Editing the Dark». Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
• «Single Wide». Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld
• «New Spaces». Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
• «Single Wide». Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
2004
• «Single Wide». Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York
• «House with Pool». Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
• «House with Pool». Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel
2003
• «Eight». Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
• «Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler» Vera Munro Gallery, Hamburg
• «County Line Road». Gallery Barbara Thumm, Berlin
2002
• ArtPace Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio
• Kunsthalle zu Kiel
• Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
• Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2001
• Museum Haus Lange and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld
• Huis Marseille. Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
• Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich
2000
• «Arsenal». Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
• «Werk Raum 1». National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin (with Sophie Calle and Remy Markowitsch)
1999
• «Motion pictures». Gallery Barbara Thumm, Berlin
• National Gallery, Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Prague
• «Gregor's Room». Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich
1998
• Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
• «Stripping». Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1997
• «Slow Place». Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel
• Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich
• Kunsthalle zu Kiel
• Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
• Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
• «The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image». Organized by the Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, curated by Kerry Brougher and Kelly Gordon, CaixaForum,
Barcelona
• «Videonale 13». Kunstmuseum Bonn
2010
• «The Night Pleases Us». 51st Edition October International Salon, Belgrade
• «Grand Paris Texas». Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
• «Berger + Berger, A Prefabricated Movie Theater». Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza
Collection, Venice Biennial, 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
• «Unsichtbare Schatten/Invisible Shadows». Museum Marta Herford
• «Projections». Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
• «Everyday Ideologies - Zeitläufe, Lebenswege». Kunstmusem Magdeburg
2009
• «Anabasis: Rituals of Homecoming». Villa Grohman, Festival of Dialogue of Four Cultures, Lodz
• «Götenborg International Biennial». Götenborg
• «Parades & Processions. Here comes everybody». Parasol Unit, Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
• «Filmes e vídeos da Coleção Goetz». Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo
• «Three leap seconds later, 1998 ... 2008. Ankäufe aus der Bundeskunstsammlung». Kunsthaus Grenchen
• «Dialog der Generationen». Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal
• «Held Together with Water: Art from the Sammlung Verbund'». Modern Art Museum Istanbul
2008
• «Interior / Exterior». Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
• «Expenditures». Busan Biennial, Busan
• «Made Up». Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool
• «The Morning After». Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
• «Atelier 2008». Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
• «Index: Fotographie. DZ BANK Sammlung im Städel Museum». Frankfurt am Main
• «The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image». Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
2007
• «Big Picture». Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
• «12th Biennial of Moving Images». Center for Contemporary Images, Geneva
• «Unidentified Emotions». Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong.
• «Seduction - A Theory-Fiction between the Real and the Possible». Borderline - Moving
Images, Beijing Centre for Creativity, Beijing.
• «Novella (not yet another story)». Halle für Kunst Lüneburg.
• «The Narrativity of the Image». Le Mois de la photo 2007, VOX Centre de l'image
contemporaine, Montreal
• «Dialogues and Attitudes». Works from the DZ Bank Collection, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Budapest.
• «Kunst aus der Sammlung Verbund». MAK, Museum für angewandte
Kunst/Gegenwartskunst, Vienna.
• «L'oeil écran ou la nouvelle image / The Screen Eye or The New Image». Casino
Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
• «Une Question de Génération». Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
• «Raised by Wolves». Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
• «Imagination Becomes Reality». Werke aus der Sammlung Goetz. ZKM, Museum für Neue
Kunst, Karlsruhe
2006
• «Gefrorene Augenblicke. Von Vallotton bis Hubbard /Birchler». Kunsthaus Zürich
• «Touch my Shadows. New Media Works from the Goetz Collection». The Centre for
Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
• «Auflösung III - Entgrenzung». NGBK Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin
• «Upsetting the Balance - Irritation des Gleichgewichts». Paul Klee Museum, Bern
• «La Vie, La Ville». La Bienniale du Havre
• «No Peak No View». Viper International Festival for Video and Media Art, Kunsthalle Basel
• «Kunst Lebt!». Landesmuseen Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart
• «Melancholy». Nationalgalerie Berlin
2005
• «Contenance». Württemburgischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
• «Vertiges». Les Abbatoirs Museum, Toulouse
• «Johnny». ArtUnlimited, Basel. Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich
• «Esprit es-tu lá?». Fondation Claude Verdan, Musée de la Main, Lausanne
• «Geschichtenerzähler». Kunsthalle Hamburg
• «The World is a Stage». Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
• «Vanishing Point». Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
• «Roaming Memories». Ludwig Forum, Aachen
• «Me Myself I». Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
• «Swiss Experimental Film». Image Forum, Tokyo
2004
• «3': Condensed Information». Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
• «Take 5 jaar Huis Marseille» Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
• «Video dreams: between the cinematic and theatrical». Kunsthaus Graz
• «The Cobweb» Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
• «Einleuchten- Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation».
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
• «StadtRäume». Kunstforum Baloise, Basel
• «Reordering Reality: Collecting Contemporary Art». Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
• «Eight». Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
• «Sammlung Plum». Museum Kurhaus Kleve
• «So Wie Die Dinge Liegen ». Hartware Medien Kunst verein, Phoenixhalle Dortmund
2003
• «Fast Forward- Works from the Goetz Collection». ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und
Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
• «Eight» Hordaland Art Center, Bergen
• «10th Biennial of Moving Images». Centre for Contemporary Images, Geneva
• «Child in Time». Gemeente Museum, the Hague
• «Brightness - Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation».
Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik
• «Looking in - Looking out, Positions in Contemporary Photography». Oeffentliche
Kunstsammlung Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel
• «Adolescence». Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
• «Suiza en ARCO». La Casa Encendida, Madrid
• «Neuerwerbungen». Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
• «Single Wide». ArtUnlimited, Basel. Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich and Vera Munro
Gallery, Hamburg
• «Yet Untitled: Works from the Bernd F. Künne Collection» Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg /
Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen / Kunsthalle Nürnberg
2002
• «The Starting Line». Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
• «On Stage». Kunstverein Hannover / Villa Merkel Esslingen
• «Wallflowers, Grosse Fotografien». Kunsthaus Zürich
• «Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the Architectural Uncanny». Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
• «Eight». ArtUnlimited, Basel. Gallery Bob van Orsouw, Zürich
• «Im Sucher. Zeitgenoessiche Fotografie in Solothurner Sammlungen». Kunstmuseum
Solothurn
• «22 to Watch. New Art in Austin», Austin Museum of Art
• «Say Hello to Peace and Tranquility». Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam / Nikolaj
Contemporary Art Museum, Copenhagen
2001
• «New Work». Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
• «I Like Theater & Theater Likes Me». Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg
• «Dialogues & Stories». Museum Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg
• «Das Versprechen der Fotografie». Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
• «Prospek! Zu einer Sammlung für Gegenwartskunst». Kunsthaus Aarau
• «Photography from the KPN». Huis Marseille. Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam
• «Missing Link». Kunst Haus Dresden / Ujazdowski Castle, Center for Contemporary Arts,
Warsaw
• «Crossover Theater & Art». Offenes Kulturhaus Center for Contemporary Art, Linz
• «9th Biennial of Moving Images». Centre for Contemporary Images, Geneva
• «6 Artists - 6 positions». Museum Sammlung Goetz, Munich
2000
• «Scène de la Vie Conjugale». Villa Arson, Nice
• «Anti-Memory». Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
• «U.T. Faculty». Blanton Art Museum, Austin
• «Every Time». La Biennale de Montréal
• «No Vacancies». Angelika Richter / Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
• «Solitude im Museum». Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart / Musèe d`Art Moderne de St. Etienne
• «Mnemosyne, Encontros de Fotografia 2000». Coimbra / Lisbon
• «Imago». Center for Photography, University of Salamanca
• «Staged». Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
• «Nachbilder, Neue Fotografien in der Sammlung», Kunsthaus Zürich
1999
• «dAPERTutto». 48th Venice Biennial, Venice
• «Tomorrow For Ever». Museum Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg / Kunsthalle Krems
• «Signs of Life». Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne
• «Solitude in Budapest». Kunsthalle Budapest
• «Skulpturen Biennale». Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Munster
• «DACH». Gallery Krinzinger, Vienna
• «Dislocation». hARTware Projekte, Dortmund
• «40 Jahre Schweizer Kunst». Kunsthaus Aarau
• «Missing Link». Kunstmuseum Bern Galerie Christine König, Vienna
• «Le Sommeil». Musèe cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
• «Eidgenössischer Preis für Freie Kunst». Kunsthalle Zürich
• «NB». Centre d'Art Neuchâtel
1998
• Ausstellungsraum Mezzanin, Vienna
• «L ́Art du Monde 98». Passage de Retz, Paris
• «Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer». Kunsthaus Zürich / Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M.
• «Photography as Concept». Triennale der Fotografie, Villa Merkel, Esslingen
• «Nonchalance revisited». Akademie der Künste, Berlin
• «Anticipation». Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva
• «Im Kontext». Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
• «Positionen der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Künne». Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg
1997
• «Alice hinter den Spiegeln». Kunstverein Baselland, Sissach
• «Extended Objects». Art Gallery, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax
• «Eidgenössischer Preis für Freie Kunst». Musèe cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
• «P.O. Box». Museum of Contemporary Art Basel, Portikus Frankfurt, Kunstmuseum Bonn,
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent
• «Nonchalance». Centre Pasquart, Biel
• «Check in!» Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel
1996
• «Young Art». Kunsthalle Bern. Museé d'art et d'histoire, Geneva
• «Cabines de Bain». Projekt Attitudes, Fribourg
1995
• Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal
• «East». Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
1994
• «Körper, Fragment, Wirklichkeit. Schweizer Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts». Kunstmuseum
Solothurn
• «Small Histories». Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
1993
• «Speicher, Versuche zur Darstellbarkeit von Geschichte/n». Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz
• «Exchange 2». Shedhalle, Zürich
Selected Awards and Residencies
2010-2011
• Alturas Foundation, Artists in Residence Fellows, United States
2006
• Landis + Gyr Foundation, Zug, Studio Residency Grant in London, Great Britain
2003
• Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt Commission Award, Basel, Switzerland
1999
• National Prize for Fine Arts, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Switzerland
1998
• Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Residency Fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien,
Berlin, Germany
• Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Artist Stipend, Switzerland
1997
• National Prize for Fine Arts, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Switzerland
• Residency Fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
1996
• Manor Art Prize, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland
1995
• Alexander Clavel Foundation Prize, Riehen, Switzerland
• Yukon Arts Centre Residency Grant, Whitehorse, Canada
• Basler Kunstverein Travel Prize, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
1994
• Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Artist Stipend, Basel, Switzerland
1990-92
• Fellowship, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
1988
• Fellowship, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
Selected Public Collections
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
American Friends of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Centre for Photography, University of Salamanca, Spain
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C, USA
Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands
International Centre for Photography, New York, USA
Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Depositum Kanton Luzern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, USA
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain
Museum Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, USA
Staedel Museum Frankfurt, Germany
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Bern, Switzerland
Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas, USA
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan