Annelies Strba's work is concerned with notions of time and history. Subjects which she expresses in a metaphorical and highly personal way. In the past Strba has approached a wide range of subjects - from the earthquake-stricken city of Kobe or the gloom of Auschwitz to wild flowers on the Bronte Moor. Her attention is most often turned towards her family and their home at Melide, Switzerland, a place with an unmistakable aura. Her working process is only concluded when the images are exhibited. Often a number of variants of the same story emerge and connections are made visible. Making pictures is part of the Annelies Strba's everyday life. It is her way of engaging with and making sense of her world.
Strba's work was the subject of a large-scale retrospective at Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague in 2005. She has been included in recent group exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago; Tate Gallery, Liverpool and the European Museum of Photography, Paris. In 2003, she had a major exhibition at the Helmhaus, Zurich, which included a comprehensive catalogue of her
work to date. She has also been included in many group exhibitions at public institutions including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conneticut; Whitechapel
Art Gallery, London.
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BIOGRAPHY
Born 1947 in Zug (Switzerland)
1971-73 1984-85 1991 1994 1995 1996 1997 Lives in Richterswil and
Melide SOLO
EXHIBITIONS 2007 2006 2005 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 ©
2007 Frith Street Gallery
Federal Grant for Applied Art
Trip to Poland
Visiting Artist in El Cabrito La Gomera
Trip to Japan
Trip to Eastwood and Haworth
Visiting artist in London, Landis & Gyr
Trip through England and Scotland
Visiting artist in Paris (Cite des Arts)
James McCoy Gallery, New York
'Wonder', Kunstverein Ulm
Galerie Anton Meier, Geneva
Galerie reckermann, Koln
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
'Frances and the Elves', Frith Street Gallery, London
'Frances und die Elfen', Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich
'France und die Elfen', Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Helmhaus Zurich
'Nyima', Zürcher Museum Bellerive, Zurich
Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin
'Les cathedrales de monnaie', Fabian & Claude Walter Gallery, Basel
Nadine Gandi, Prague
Galerie Anton Meier, Geneva, Switzerland
Autostadt, Wolfsburg, Germany
'Annelies Strba: An 1-An11', Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
Centre pour l'image comtemporaine, St Gervais, Geneve (C)
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Frith Street Gallery, London
Gandy Gallery, Prague
Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna
Gallery Bill Maynes, New York
Ecoles des Beaux Arts, Nantes
Hubert Winter Galerie, Vienna
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Tate Gallery, Liverpool
Gallery Karyn Lovegrove, Los Angeles
"Lost Garden", semina rerum - Ars Futura Irene Preiswerk, Zurich
Galerie EIGEN+ART, Leipzig Gimpel Fils, London
European Museum of Photography, Paris FRAC,
Basse-Normandie, Caen Bill Maynes Gallery, New York
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin The Photographer's Gallery, London
Thread Waxing Space, New York
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin Galerie Ars Futura,
Zurich
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (C)
Galerie semina rerum- Irene Preiswerk, Zurich
Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin Kunstverein Dusseldorf Kunstverein Weimar
"Photographien", Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle Kunsthaus Glarus (with
Bernhard Schobinger) Galerie Bob van Orsuow, Zurich Museum Moritzburg
Albers Museum, Bottrop Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
"Mythos Leben" (with Jorg Herold), Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg
(C)
Galerie Meile, Luzern (C)
Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin
Galerie Bob van Orsow, Zurich Galerie Susanna Kulli, St. Gallen
Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig Bananenhalle
El Gabrito la Gomera, Canaric Islands
Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin
Galerie EIGEN +
ART, Berlin (C)
Galerie van Krimpen, Rotterdam
Friedrichshof, Zurndorf near Vienna Centre d'art contemporain, Martigny
Kunsthalle Zurich, "Aschewiese" (C)
'Fairy Tale - Contemporary Art and Enchantment', The New Art Gallery Walsall; Chapter, Cardiff; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
'In the Face of History', Barbican Art Gallery, London
'Landscape', Galerie Eigen + Art, Berlin
Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University
The Kingston Turnpike Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (C)
'Forest Dreaming', Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World
Art Confer Nyion with Adrian Schiess Galerie Semina Rerum, Zurich with Simone Kappeler
Instituto Svizzero di Roma, Photo Suisse
Saint-Gervais, Geneve, 11th Biennial of Moving Images
La actualidadrevisada La Trabacalera, San Sebastian
VIPER Basel / Image Forum Tokyo: Park Tower Hall - Tokyo, Goethe-Institute Kyoto - Kyoto, City Public Library - Fukuoka, Aichi Arts Center - Nagoya, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary
Art, Kanzawa - Kanazawa, Yokohama Museum of Art - Yokohama
"Portrait", Galerie EIGEN +ART Leipzig/Berlin, Berlin
Kunst Berlin, Hampden Gallery Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Massachusettes
'Together - 10 years of kid?s wear', Gallery for Fashion Photography, Berlin then toured to Gallery for Fashion Photography, Hamburg
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Doublebind: Kunst, Kinder, Karriere, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen
'Rose C'est la Vie', Tel Aviv Musem of Art
Frequencies, Frith Street Gallery, London:
Press release
'Neighbourhoods', Fotographie - Malerei - Video, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Basel
Kuentslerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
56th Locarno International Film Festival
'overtime', Rhodes+Mann Gallery, London
'Claude Monet...bis zum digitalen Impressionismus', Fondation Beyeler, Basel - Riehen (K)
'Sommer bei EIGEN+ART', Galerie EIGEN+ART Leipzig
'Zeitgenossische Fotokunst Schweiz', Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Museum Bochum, Kunstverein Halle, Stadtische Galerie
Villingen-Schwenningen
'Stadt', Kunsthaus Zug (K)
Lindig in Paludetto, Zeitgenossische Kunst Milchhof, Nurnberg
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
'En pleine terre', Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel, with Gerhard Richter, Thomas Struth, Gilbert & George, Jeff Wall and others
Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
'Schaulager', Fabian & Claude Walter, Basel
Wald - Explosionen, Helmhaus, Zurich
Summer Show, Frith Street Gallery, London
Museum der Stadt Gladbeck, Gladbeck
Real Places?, Westfaelischer Kunstverein,
Muenster
Little Angels Houlsdworth Fine Art, London (C)
The Idea of North, Leeds City Art Gallery Centre national de la photographie
'Real Places', Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Muenster
Centre National de la Photographie, Paris
'Summer Exhibition', Frith Street Gallery, London
'Home', Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
'Diary', Cornerhouse, Manchester
Scalo Publishers, Armory Show, New York
'Fleur', Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
Home Art Gallery of Western Australia (C)
Art Forum, New York
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (C)
"Shades of time", Galerie Fabian Walter, Basel (C)
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
"The Nude", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield, Conneticut
"Missing Link", Kunstmuseum Bern, Kurator: Christoph Doswald
"Women", Galerie Tanja Grunert und Clemens Gasser
"Underexposed", Stockholm, Sweden (C) Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne Fotomuseum
Antwerp (C)
"Mutter", ACC Galerie, Weimar Le printemps de Cahors (C) Le triangle, Rennes
L'imaginerie, Lannion Swiss Contemporary Art Exhibition, Seoul, Korea (C)
"Antechamber", Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
"Fotografie als Geste", Staatliches Museum Schwerin
"group show", Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin Kunsthaus Zurich,
"Zurich- ein Fotoportrait", Zurich (C) Staatliches Museum Schwerin
"Fotographie als Geste" (C) Bonner Kunstverein mit Cary S. Leibowitz und Iris
Haussler, "Vertrauenssuche" (C) "Aspekt: Landschaft", Engelberger Talmuseum,
(C)
"Transit, Fotografia degli anni 90", Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, (C) Aargauer
Kunsthaus, Aarau
"voglio vedere le mie montagne"(C) Kunsthalle Krems
"Die Schwerkraft der Berge", (C) Palazzo Liestal
"Der verlorene Garten" (C) Helmhaus Zurich
"am Anfang, dreizehn fotographische Anfange", Carte Blanche by Hans Danuser
(C)
"Prospekt 96" (Photographie), Frankfurter Kunstverein / Frankfurt/Main (C)
"Mauvais Genre", Reims Kunstverein Bonn The Swiss Institute, New York,
"The Eye of the Beholder" (C) Kunsthaus Zurich,
"Im Kunstlicht" (C) Mai de Reims, Reims
"Sourroundings", Museum Fridericianum, Kassel,
" Die Sammlung Schweizer Fotografie", Galleria Gottardo Lugano, (C)
"The Epic + the Everyday. Contemporary Photographic Art", Hayward Gallery,
London
"Bad zur Sonne - Steirischer Herbst", Graz
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
"Another Continent" Galerie EIGEN + ART, London
Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam
Galerie EIGEN + ART, New York Raume der Technischen Sammlung, Dresden
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Galerie im Kabinett, Berlin
Museum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund (C)
Stadtische Galerie, Erlangen (C)
Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin (C)
Biennale Sydney (C)
EIGEN + ART bei Kunst - Werke Berlin
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