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BIOGRAPHY AND EXHIBITIONS

:: 1944-1970 :: 1970-1980 :: 1980-1990 :: 1990-2000 :: 2000-2010

 

1980 - 1990

 

1980
Solo exhibition: Portraits, Centre d’art contemporain, Genf
Group exhibition: Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

1982
Returns to Switzerland, lives for a year in La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Solo exhibition: Der Arm, Galerie Toni Gerber, Bern
Group exhibition: Mise en Scène, Kunsthalle Bern

1983
Moves to Berne.
First trip to Japan.
Eidgenössisches Kunststipendium (Federal Art Grant).
Erster Japanaufenthalt. Eidgenössisches Kunststipendium.
Solo exhibition: Fotowerke, Kunsthalle, Basel

1984
Solo exhibitions: Balthasar Burkhard - Niele Toroni, Musée Rath, Genf;
Le coin du miroir, Dijon
Group exhibition: Internationale Bauausstellung, Berlin; Idee-Prozess-Ergebnis, Reparatur und Rekonstruktion der Stadt, IBA, Berlin

1985
Production and nstallation of a ohotogran fir rge Vikjsvad St. Galklen, oresebted by tge Verein Kunsthalle, St. Gallen.
Solo exhibition: Volksbad, Verein Kunsthalle, St. Gallen
Group exhibitions: Atelier 5. 25 ausgewählte Bauten. Photographiert von Balthasar Burkhard, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern; La Ricostruzione della Città, Triennale di Milano, Mailand

1986
Intervention, Installation together with Niele Toroni for Atelier 5, Staatliches Lehrerseminar Thun.
Exhibition in the Chapelle de la Salpêtrière, Paris, in line with the exhibition „Mois de la photographie“ where Burkhard designs an architecturally site-specific photo installation entitled „Surfaces sensibles“.

1987
Three-month residency in Japan, followed by participation in th eexhibition „Swiss Artits in Residence in Japan“, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo. .
Solo exhibitions: Galerie E. & O. Friedrich, Bern; Nouvelles Scènes, Espace FRAC, Dijon
Group exhibitions: Blow-up Zeitgeschichte, Württembergischer Kunstverein; Stuttgart; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Kunstmuseum, Luzern; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek; Drapeaux d’Artistes, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Genf

1988
First large exhibition in the Kunsthalle Bern. Burkhard designs the exhibition according to the architectural circumstances of the newly renovated exhibition spaces. The exhibition is taken over by Kunsthalle St. Gallen and the Musée municipal de La-Roche-sur-Yon.
Installation: Schweizerische Rückversicherung, Zürich
Group exhibition: Zeitlos, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

1989
Moves to Boisset-et-Gaujac, France.
Awarded with the Prix de la Banque hypothéquaire du canton de Genève. On this occation the Musée Rath in Geneva dedicates an exhibtion to him.
Solo exhibitions: Kunsthalle, St. Gallen; Musée municipal de La Roche-sur-Yon; Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel; Musée Rath, Genève
Group exhibition: Miroir 89, Musée de Carouge et Centre d’art contemporain, Genf

 


 


Geisha Japan 1987

Kunst am Bau 1986

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