Christine Streuli

  • Christine Streuli
  • Work

Falling apart (permanent version), Exhibition view, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, 2023Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, 2023


Christine Streuli (b. 1975, Switzerland) lives and works in Berlin. She completed her studies at the University of Design in Zurich and at the University of the Arts in Berlin, where she now teaches as a professor. In the spring of 2017, the artist was awarded the Fred-Thieler Prize of the Berlinische Galerie. Her works have been exhibited in the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin, the Kunsthalle Zürich, the Kunstmuseum Luzern and other renowned institutions in the past few years. In 2007, she represented the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.


Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2020Lange Arme, kurze Beine, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
2017Zu Gast in der Sammlung. Christine Streuli, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Nachtschattengewächse, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
CHRISTINE STREULI - FRED-THIELER-PREIS 2017, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Zu Gast in der Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen
2014collar size / Kragenweite: 36, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2013Nonstoppainting, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
2012One Piece Jump In, Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, Switzerland 
2010Leftovers / too much / too little / too fast / too slow, Artforum Berlin, Germany
2008Stinkeblume, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Monica de Cardenas, Milano, Italy
Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland 
2007Venice Biennal, Swiss Pavilion (with Yves Netzhammer), Venice, Italy,
Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, Switzerland
Kunsthaus Langenthal (with Bruno Jakob), Langenthal, Switzerland
Galerie Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy
2005Bekanntmachungen/ Bilderstreit, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
double it, Galerie Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy
ensemble ensemble, curated by Roman Kurzmeyer, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
dicht dran, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 
2004nedma eksam, curated by Roman Kurzmeyer, Amden, Switzerland
Tollkirschen, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany
Kunstmuseum Thun, Projektraum „Enter“, Thun, Switzerland
2003longing/ belonging, Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, Switzerland
homeland, Galerie Mashrabeja Cairo, Egypt 
2002something in common, (2 person show), Galerie Massimo Audiello, New York, USA
Hunter, Showroom, Hunter College for Fine Arts, New York, USA 

Selected Group Exhibitions
2022(UN)CERTAIN GROUND, Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
Davor · Darin · Danach - Die Sammlung im Wandel, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland
Grenzenlos, Kunsthaus Zofingen, Switzerland
2020Wo die Zitronen blühen..., Sfeir Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2019Frozen Gesture. Gesten in der Malerei, Kunst Museum Winterthur. Beim Stadthaus, Winterthur, Switzerland
2018Pattern and Decoration. Ornament as a promise, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany
2017Unpainting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2016Vitales Echo, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
My abstract world, me-collection, Berlin
2015salondergegenwart, Hamburg, Germany
Gallery 3010, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut
2014You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Sydney Biennial, Australia 
Off the wall, Kunsthalle Nürnberg
2013Revolution: John Chamberlain, Ida Ekblad, Christine Streuli, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland 
2010Philip Taaffe – Christine Streuli – Timo Nasseri, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon 
2009Swiss Made, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Boden und Wand, Wand und Fenster, Zeit, Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland 
2007Christine Streuli, Bruno Jakob, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland 
2006Swiss Art Awards, 2006, ART Basel, Switzerland
2005Devil’s Punchbowl, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (curated by Katharina Grosse)
rainbow, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Libanon
aufgedeckt, Galerie Mark Müller, (with Katharina Grosse and Jessica Stockholder), Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Art Awards 2005, ART Basel, Switzerland
Dorothea von Stetten- Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany<
2004Forme Originarie, Galerie Galica, Milano, Italy
Reanimation, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
Malerei, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
Bilder der Malerei, Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, Switzerland
Swiss Art Awards 2004, ART Basel, Switzerland
dalla pagina allo spazio, Museo Cantonale d’Arte Lugano, Switzerland
2003Neue Räume, Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland
Fragmente des Paradieses, Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Switzerland 
2002Spieglein Spieglein an der Wand..., Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, Switzerland 

Awards
2005Eidgenössischer Preis für Kunst, Bundesamt für Kultur, Switzerland
Kiefer- Hablitzel Preis, Kiefer-Hablitzel-Stiftung, Switzerland
San Francisco scholarship, Zurich, Switzerland
2004Eidgenössischer Preis für Kunst, Bundesamt für Kultur, Switzerland

Public Collections
 Kunsthaus Aarau, Kunsthaus Zürich, Sammlung der Stadt Zürich, Kunstsammlung Kanton Zürich, UBS Art Collection, Sammlung Bank Bär, Zürich


Education

2009-10Artist in Residence in London, Landis & Gyr Foundation, Switzerland
2006Artist in Residence in San Francisco, Headlands Center for the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
2003Artist in Residence in Cairo, Egypt
Pro Helvetia - scholarship, Zurich, Switzerland
2002Yvonne Lang-Chardonnens – scholarship, Zurich, Switzerland
2001Hochschule der Künste Berlin HdK, Berlin, Germany, with Prof. Bernd Koberling
International Studio and Curatorial Program New York, USA
1997Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm, Germany
Kunst Zürich HGKZ, Zurich, Switzerland