Peter Fischli & David Weiss - Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Fischli & Weiss had their first solo exhibition in 1981 at the Galerie Balkon in Geneva. After showing "Suddenly This Overview" at the Galerie Stähli in 1981, they became regulars on the international art scene. Their first solo exhibition in the United States was shown at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York in 1986. In more than 25 years of activity, the pair exhibited in some of the most important institutions and museums worldwide including Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2000); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam (2003); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City (2005); and the Rencontres d'Arles festival, France. A U.S. retrospective of their work was organised by the Walker Art Center in 1996 and subsequently traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Another retrospective of their work was held at Tate Modern, London in 2006, and traveled to the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Kunsthaus Zürich and the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. In 1995 they represented Switzerland in the Venice Biennale and in 2003 were included in the "Utopia Station" exhibition of the Venice Biennale curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija for which they were awarded the leone' d'oro for best work in the main exhibition and also participated in the Swiss Pavilion at the Seville Expo '92. Their work also appeared in documenta 8 and 10 (1987 and 1997). In 2008 the Nicola Trussardi Foundation presented Altri fiori e altre domande, their first retrospective in Italy, installed in the 17th century rooms of Palazzo Litta in Milan.

In 2000, the exhibition Aprendiendo menos (learning less) united Fischli & Weiss with Gabriel Orozco and Richard Wentworth. Three different perspectives through photography, where the artists are a means to portray street findings within the urban landscape, its surroundings and its objects. Curated by Patricia Martín and originally presented in Centro de la Imagen, Mexico city.

Peter Fischli and David Weiss are represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery (since 1999), New York, Sprüth Magers Berlin London and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich .