Biography
History, memory, identity and gender, the connections between violence, religion and sexuality and migration are major themes in Marc Bauer’s work that consists for a major part of black and white drawings, but extends to animation film, ceramics, oil painting and sculpture.
On the basis of a intensive research, often in collaboration with outside specialists (musicians, philosophers, authors, scientists), Bauer develops work that range from intimate sets of drawings, to large-scale, space-filling installations that can include many media like wall drawing, work on paper, animation, sound.
Neither the research nor the selection of the images have any claim to completeness, general validity or methodical accuracy, but follow exclusively the subjective perspective of the artist. He assembles collected materials into pictorial narratives in which historical and fictional elements and events from different contexts and times can mix.
Marc lives and works in Zurich and Berlin. He studied at the Ecole Supérieure d’Arts Visuels Genève (now HEAD) and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
His works have been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Berlinische Galerie (2020-2021); Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2021); Istituto Svizzero, Milan (2020); Drawing Room, London (2019); Migros Museum, Zurich (2019); Museum Folkwang, Essen (2014); Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2013); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2011); MAMCO, Geneva (2010); Kunsthaus Zurich (2019); S.M.A.K., Ghent (2015); Albertina Museum, Vienna (2015).
Bauer was included in the 2018 Biennale of Sydney and the 2014 Liverpool Biennial.
He is the laureate of the Prix Meret Oppenheim / the Swiss Grand Award for Art 2020 and the winner of the GASAG Kunstpreis in 2020, was awarded the Prix culturel Manor, Geneva in 2009, and the Swiss Art Award in 2001, 2005 and 2006
Publication
PUBLICATIONS
White Violence, on domination, displacement and populism
Monographic catalogue/artist book, 2021
Editor: Marc Bauer and Jean-Charles Vergne, published by FRAC Auvergne
ISBN 978-2-907672-31-3
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The Blow-Up Regime
Monographic catalogue/artist book, 2020
Editor: Marc Bauer and Berlinische Galerie, published by Distanz Verlag
ISBN 978-3-95476-363-4
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The Architect
Artist book, 2014
Published by FRAC Auvergne
ISBN 978-2-907672-17-7
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The Collector
Artist book, 2013
Published by Centre Culturel Suisse Paris and Les presses du réel
ISBN : 978-2-90923-013-9
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MARC BAUER
Monographic catalogue, 2011
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Roland Wäspe, published by Kehrer Verlag, Berlin
ISBN 978-3-86828-160-6
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STEEL
Artist book, 2009
Published by FRAC Auvergne
ISBN 978-2-907672-07-8
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History of masculinity
Artist book, 2007
Published by Attitudes, Geneva
Documents, Marc Bauer: Tautology
Artist book, 2005
Published by Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
Happier Healthier
Artist book, 2004
in cooperation with Vincent van der Marck and Store Gallery, London
Across the Great Channel
Artist book, 2000
Published by Memory Cage editions, Zurich
CATALOGUES (selection)
United by AIDS - An Anthology on Art in Response to HIV / AIDS
Migros Museum, 2019
ISBN 978-3-85881-839-3
Now-Tomorrow-Flux - An Anthology on the Museum of Contemporary Art
JPR Ringier, 2017
ISBN 978-3-03764-367-9
The Bottom Line
S.M.A.K. Ghent, 2015
ISBN 978-0-30022-009-4
Drawing Now
Albertina, Vienna, 2015
ISBN 978-3-77742-434-7
Meisterzeichnungen, 100 Jahre Grafische Sammlung
Kunsthaus Zurich, 2015
ISBN 978-3-85881-450-0
Sacré 101 - An Exhibition Based on the Rite of Spring
Migros Museum, 2014
ISBN 978-3-03764-368-6
VITAMIN D2 - New perspectives in drawing
Phaidon, London - New York, 2013
ISBN 978-0-7148-6528-7
Overthrowing the king in his own mind
Kunstmuseum Solothurn and Revolver Editions, 2005
ISBN 978-3-865880-59-8