JAN KIEFER
info@jankiefer.com

www.unionpacific.co.uk
www.kaimatsumiya.com

WORKS / CV


EXHIBITIONS

2022
solo show. Silicon Malley, Lausanne, CH, (November 2022)
Paint by Numbers, cur. by Gianni Jetzer, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH

2021
†, Oreilles Internaxionales, Basel, CH
Love in times of..., curated by Gianni Jetzer, Hotel Europe, Zurich, CH
Art en plein air, Môtiers, CH
Architektura, Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne, D

2020
Skiing Snowman, Swiss Institute New York, US (solo)

2019
Schwarz Weiss, Union Pacific, London, UK (solo)
Concrete Contemporary, Museum Haus Kontruktiv, Zurich, CH
Group show, Forde, Geneva, CH
Condo, Union Pacific, London, UK

2018
Group show, Vera Cortes Gallery, Lisbon, PRT
Nagel Draxler, (with Pedro Wirz), Cologne, D
Hidden Bar, Art Basel, CH
Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK

2017
KölnSkulptur #9, curated by Chus Martinez, Sculpture Park Cologne, D
JaJaJaJaJaNeinNeinNeinNeinNein, Kai Matsumiya, New York, US (Solo)
Honeybaked, Kunstverein SALTS, Basel, CH (Solo)
Benefit exhibition, White Columns, New York, US
Them! (with Yoan Mudry), Lokal Int, Biel (CH)
Le charme indiscret, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel, CH
Look, all this fraud, Milieu, Berne, CH
Condo, Union Pacific, London, UK

2016
Giles, Gagosian Gallery, Athens, GR
Zermatt Groove, Zabriskie Point, Geneva, CH (Solo)
Forward to History, with Robert Brambora, Kunstverein Wiesen, D
Performing Grounds, invited by SALTS, E-Werk, Freiburg, D
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
exercises in style, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest, RO
Toujours, with Max Ruf, Parkhaus Düsseldorf, D

2015
Natural Instincts, curated by Samuel Leuenberger, Espace Arlaud, Laussanne, CH
Generation Game, Union Pacific, London, UK (Solo)
Kaesten, Milieu, Bern, CH (Solo)
Kunstkredit, Kunsthalle Basel, CH
Comment please, sic!, Lucerne, CH
Slash Hoffnung, Belle Air / New Bretagne, Essen, D
Nimm's mal easy, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, CH

2014
Postcodes: Kind, Coletor, São Paulo, Brazil
Union, Union Pacific, London, UK
Salts at Kunsraum Riehen, Basel, CH
New Associations, SALTS, Basel
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
Vulgar Display of Power, Gillmeier Rech, Berlin, Germany (Solo)
mediating landscapes, curated by flip project space, Bari, Italy

2013
Guaud, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH (Solo)
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, CH
in the studio, Kunsthalle Athena, Greece
Sunset, the sunday painter, London, UK
KR curated by Elise Lammer, MJ, Geneva, CH

2012
no man is an island, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH
Monochrome, SALTS, Basel, CH
Afterimage, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
the work found me, Gallery Samy Abraham, Paris, France
off the beaten track, Gallery von Bartha Garage, Basel, CH
Cooperations (with Pedro Wirz), curated by Larkin Erdman, Zurich, CH

2011
6 Kuenstler aus Basel x2, Kunsthalle Basel, CH
Kunstraum Riehen, Regionale 12, Basel, CH
I did it again, Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg, Germany
Billy, Limbus Europae, Berlin, Germany (with Max Ruf)



AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

Artist in residence, Budapest (HUN), Landis Gyr Foundation, CH
Art award for painting, Lions Club, Basel, CH
Artist in residence, Swiss Institute New York (US), Pro Helvetia, CH
Swiss Art Award, CH
project award, Kunstkredit, Basel, CH
art award, Kunstkredit, Basel, CH
Artist in residence, IAAB, Berlin (D), Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel, CH
Travel-Award, Basler Kunstverein, Kunsthalle Basel , CH
grant of the Crintina Spoerri Foundation, Basel, CH
Kunsthalle Roveredo, Residency, invited by Elise Lammer, CH



VITA / EDUCATION

2010-2012:
MA Fine Arts
department of Fine Arts,
Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland

2002-2007:
Visual Communication,
Department of Fine Arts, University of Applied Sciences Trier

2004/2005:
Academy of Art and Design, Lucerne, Switzerland



TEACHING/ JURY

since 2021:
Art Commission Basel, CH

2017-2019:
guest lecturer at the Art Institute, Academy of Art and Design Basel (CH)

Jury:
Art awards Zurich, CH; HEAD Geneva, CH; HKB, Bern, CH; Kunstpreis Riehen, CH; etc.


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