Florian Graf

 


 

Florian Graf (b.1980 in Basel, Switzerland) studied architecture at the ETH in Zurich and fine art at the Edinburgh College of Art. He was a postgraduate scholar at the Royal Drawing School in London and Fulbright Fellow at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a student, he was a co-founder of the ETH House of Science in Afghanistan. The project was the result of the Jubilee competition within which he and two of his fellow students suggested they build a university in Bamiyan instead of an ephemeral pavilion in Zurich. After its completion in 2016, he worked with Robert Wilson in New York, has lived in Berlin during an IAAB-residency, in Rome as a member of the Istituto Svizzero and, after some time in Athens, as a scholar at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. He has received a number of awards, including the Swiss Art Award, the DAAD scholarship, the fellowship of the Sommerakademie of the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern or the Prix Visarte.

 

His work was shown internationally in solo and group shows including Aargauer Kunsthaus; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck; Kunsthalle Basel; Kunsthalle Wien; Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich; Mu.ZEE, Ostend; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen; Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg; Städtisches Museum Heilbronn; Edinburgh Art Festival; Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen; Grieder Contemporary Zürich; Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel; Abbatiale de Bellelay; Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen; Christie’s New York; TENT Gallery, Rotterdam; Bâtiment d‘Art Contemporain, Genève; Krasnoyarsk Museum Center; Art Chicago, Goethe Institut, Glasgow;  Tinguely Museum, Basel; Helmhaus Zürich; Bex & Arts, Triennale de Sculpture; Kunsthalle Vogelmann; Art Basel Hong Kong; Les Urbaines, Lausanne; Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Xuzhou Museum; Inverleith House, Edinburgh; Pier Arts Centre, Stromness and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

 

Amongst exhibitions in galleries, Florian Graf engaged in a number of art projects in public space such as Ticket Pagoda for the new football stadium in Lausanne, Künstler verschenkt 25’000.- for the City of Bern, Stultitia II on the river Rhein from Basel to Rotterdam in collaboration with CBK Rotterdam and the Basel Historical Museum, Light Shower for the City of Zug, Columnity between Kunstraum Riehen and Fondation Beyeler, Tugendtempel on Wettsteinplatz during Art Basel 2013 or Ghost Light Light House on Lake Constance in collaboration with ZF Kunststiftung.