Ceysson & Bénétière

Born in 1957, in Altdorf, Switzerland.
Lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland.

Education

1977 - 1983
Fine Arts in School of Design, Basel et Zürich, Switzerland

1983 - 1987
HdK, Berlin, Germany

1988 - 1989
Instituto Svizzero, Rome, Italy

Residencies

1985 - 1986
Cité des Arts, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France

1989
Cité des Arts, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France

1991
P.S. studio program New York, USA

1992
Cité des Arts, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France

Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
“The lines of life are various, like roads and the contours of the mountains…”, Wandhaff
September 10 - October 29, 2016


Solo shows

2016
Galerie Jochen Hempel, Berlin, Germany

2015
Federkiel, KL Kids outdoor installation, Munich, Germany
Waldburger Wouters, Brussels, Belgium
FRAC Haute-Normandie, with James Coleman, Rouen, France
Arendt & Medernach, Luxembourg

2014
Tableau, One Day, Zurich, Switzerland
Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan
La Chambre, Strasbourg, France
Maison des Cultures, Brussels, Belgium

2013
E.A.C.C., Castellón, Spain
Galerie Jochen Hempel, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg

2012
Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello-Balsamo, Italy
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United-Kingdom

2011
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany

2010
Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, Belgium
Murray Guy, New York, USA
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Berlin, Germany
Dogenhaus, Leipzig, Germany

2009
MKgalerie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Senda Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2008
Mac's, Musée des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu, France
Jordan Festival, Petra, Jordan
Baltic, Sage, Gateshead, United-Kingdom

2007
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany

2006
Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Berlin, Germany
Murray Guy, New York, USA
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, Belgium

2005
MKgalerie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
RWE Tower / Museum Folkswang, Essen, Germany

2004
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
LACE, Los Angeles, USA

2003
Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg

2002
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Centre photographique d'Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Murray Guy, New York, USA
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Galerie Christian Drantmann, Brussels, Belgium

2001
Dogenhaus, Leipzig, Germany
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Germany
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy

2000
Stedelijk Museum, with Gabriele Basilico, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italy

1999
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf and Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany
Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan
Spiral Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Al-Ma'mal Art Foundation, East Jerusalem, Israel
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1998
Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Galerie Hauser & Wirth 2, Zurich, Switzerland
Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
Yamaguchi Prefecture Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1997
Tate Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark

1996
museum in progress, Vienna, Austria
Tinglado Dos, Tarragona, Spain
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France
New York Kunsthalle, with Adrian Schiess, New York, USA

1995
Ateliers d'Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, Marseille, France
Centre d'Art Contemporain / attitudes, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hambourg, Germany
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

1994
Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Germany
Galerie Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, with Suzanne Lafont, Bremen, Germany
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany

1993
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

1992
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland

1990
Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland

Group shows (Selection)

2016
Sammlung Viehof, Deichtorhallen, Hambourg, Germany
Kunst + Nachhaltigkeit Vol. 5, Die Mobiliar, Berne, Switzerland
Summer of Photography, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
Weitsicht, Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Mit anderen Augen, Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
FACES, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain
 « Diverses sont les lignes de la vie… » Hölderlin, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Wandhaff, Luxembourg
Share Space: a New Era, Mccall Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, USA
With different Eyes, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

2015
AAA, Art in Albisrieden and Altstetten, Zurich, Switzerland
FACES, Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece ; Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium

2014
Urban Spirit, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Le Mouvement 2014, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
9th Biennale dell'imagine, Chiasso, Italy
Die beste aller Welten, Städtische Galerie, Nordhorn, Germany
Ich und die Anderen, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

2013
Stadt in Sicht, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Nenn mich nicht Stadt, Lokremise / Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Germany
Le Pont, MAC, Marseille, France
Metropolis: Reflections on the modern city, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United-Kingdom
Chapelle Vidéo 4 - Le Flâneur, Musée d'art et d'histoire, St-Denis, France

2012
Over the Rainbow, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Germany
Jewels in the Rheingold, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Durchsucht, fixiert, geordnet, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Singen, Singen, Germany
I Spy, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Sport in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Krakow, Poland

2011
Open House, Singapore Biennale 2011, Singapore, Singapore
The MOCAK Collection, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Krakow, Poland
Welt-Bilder 4, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Die Kunst der Entschleunigung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
The Eye is a Lonely Hunter: Images of Humankind, 4. Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

2010
Guia secreta de la Rambla, La Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
Realismus - Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany

2009
Look at me. Faces and Gazes in Art 1996-2009, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
Les Espaces de l'image, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, 11th edition, Montreal, Canada
Das Porträt. Photographie als Bühne, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Gefrorene Momente, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Visions of our time. 10 years of photography at Deutsche Börse, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Identity in Motion, MKgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Silence, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Chicago July 99, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland

2008
Wallonia, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Sichtbarwerden. Fotografische Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Fluid Street, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Street and Studio, An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London, United-Kingdom
Memories for Tomorrow, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Voices, Sounds, Noises, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Objectivités, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France
Street and Studio, An Urban History of Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

2007
Swiss Made 2: Präzision und Wahnsinn, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Mapping the City, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Top of Central Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, BAC, Geneva, Switzerland

2006
Being, in Brussels, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
con sens, AR/GE Kunst, Bolzano, Italy
Opening up art, Tate Modern, London, United-Kingdom
Projektion, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland

2005
Belonging, 7th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Art Circus, Yokohama 2005, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
Motor Blues, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany

2004
Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Kunst Heute, Kunstmuseum, Berne, Switzerland

2003
Outlook, International Art Exhibition Athens, Athens, Greece
Arquivo e Simulaçao, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Strangers, The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, USA

2002
Open City: Street Photography Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC - Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, USA
heute bis jetzt, Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Wallflowers, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland

2001
Restaging the Everyday: Recent Work by Beat Streuli and Fischli/Weiss, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
We Set Off in High Spirits, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Norman Foster, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany
Birmingham, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United-Kingdom
Subject Plural, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA

2000
Le Désert, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Szenenwechsel, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
The Gift of Hope, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Quotidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Moment, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, United-Kingdom
Autowerke, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

1999
People / Buchanan, Streuli, Wearing, Le Spot, Studio d'Art Contemporain, Le Havre, France
TRAFIC, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-les-Rouen, France
Mechanismus und Ausdruck, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany
Szenenwechsel, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

1998
every day, 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland ; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Remix, Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
h:min:sec, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

1997
Trade Routes: History, Geography, and Culture, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
Absolute Landscape, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Framed Area, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
in situ, Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Enghien-les-Bains, France
The 90s: A Family of Man?, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg

1996
a/drift, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
Im Kunstlicht, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Germany
Cityspace, Copenhagen, Denmark
Prospect: Photography in Contemporary Art, Frankfurter Kunstverein/Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Never Walk Alone, Photographers' Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
Propositions, Musée départemental de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 2, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

1995
SzenenwechselI, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, USA
How Is Everything?, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Beyond the Borders, 1st Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
L'Effet cinema / Collections en mouvement, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France
3. Int. Foto-Triennale, Galerie Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany
Fotofeis, Glasgow, United-Kingdom

1994
Soggetto-soggetto, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
Et passim, Kunsthalle Bern, Berne, Switzerland
The Act of Seeing (Urban Space), Fondation pour l'Architecture, Brussels, Belgium

1993
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
New Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
In their own image, P.S. 1 Museum, New York, USA
Verwandtschaften, Kunsthalle/Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1991
Kunst mit Fotografie, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, with Kirsten Mosher and Sam Samore, Paris, France
Artistes de la Collection, Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Lieux communs, figures singulières, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France

1990
Ateliers '90', FRAC Pays de la Loire, Clisson, France
Compositions, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

2014
Villa Monte, School of Kids, Lars Müller Publishers, Zürich, Switzerland

2012
New Street, Ikon Gallery Ltd, Birmingham, United-Kingdom
Public Works 1996-2011, jrp Ringier, Zürich, Switzerland

2011
Road Atlas - Street Photography from Helen Levitt to Pieter Hugo, Stiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany

2010
The Lucid Evidence - Fotografie aus der Sammlung des MMK, Nuremberg, Germany
Guia secreta de la Rambla, Barcelona, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain

2009
Gefrorene Momente, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland

2008
BXL. Beat Streuli. New Photographs, Zürich, Switzerland
Objectivités. La photographie à Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf/München, Germany
Fluid street, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Why photography matters as art as never before, London, United-Kingdom
Street & Studio, London, United-Kingdom

2007
Die 50 wichtigsten Künstler der Schweiz, Basel, Switzerland
Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

2006
Bruxelles Midi, Amherst, USA
Kraków October 2005 - Cities 2001-2006, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, Poland
consens, Bolzano, Italy
Projektion, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

2005
Yokohama 2005., International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
Belonging, Sharjah Biennial 7, Sharjah, United Arab Emirats
Motor Blues, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany
Photosuisse, Baden, Germany

2004
Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2003
New York 2000-02, Ostfildern, Germany
Strangers, First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, Göttingen, Germany
LisboaPhoto - Passagens, Lisbon, Portugal
Yet untitled - Sammlung Bernd F. Künne, Ostfildern, Germany

2001
04-23-01, Paris, France
Le Désert, Barcelona and Sevilla, Spain
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United-Kingdom
Subject Plural, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston/Texas, USA
Open City, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United-Kingdom

2000
Portraits 98 - 00, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
Urban Views, mit Gabriele Basilico, Stedelijk Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Art & Metropolis. B. St. in Japan 1998-1999, Tokyo, Japan
Autowerke, Deichtorhallen, Hambourg, Germany
The Gift of Hope, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Bleibe, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Some Parts of this World, The Finnish Photomuseum, Helsinki, Finland
XL Photography / Art Collection Neue Börse, Ostfildern, Germany
A. Braun, B. Streuli, E. Wurm; Videos und Gespräche, Nuremberg, Germany
Le Désert, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Arles, France
Quotidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy

1999
Marseille, Actes Sud, Arles, France
Bondi Beach/Parramatta Road, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
CITY, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
Mechanismus and Ausdruck. Die Sammlung Ann und Jürgen Wilde, Sprengel Museum Hanover, Munich, Germany

1998
Trafic. Manuel 1994-1998, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
Remix, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
every day, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
(ID)entiteit, 7de Zomer van de Fotografie, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Un Nouveau Paysage Humain, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Actes Sud, Arles, France

1997
Neue Kunst für neue Räume, Berne, Switzerland
Another... Act of Seeing (Urban Space), Antwerp, Belgique
Trade Routes, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council, Johannesburg, South Africa
portraits, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Vienna, Austria
Absolute Landscape. Contemporary Photography Between Illusion and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

1996
Portrait Tarragone. Copenhague 1996, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Retrats Tarragona 1996, Tarragona, Spain
Views from Abroad, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Im Kunstlicht, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
City Space. Sculptures and installations made for Copenhagen 96, Copenhagen, Denmark
Propositions, Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, France
Prospect 96, Kunstverein / Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

1995
Beat Streuli / projections, Ateliers d'Artistes, Marseille, France
USA 95, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
St. Jean / La Chancellerie (Châteauroux / Bourges 1992), Orléans, France
CAMPO, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Turin, Italy
Fotofeis, Int. Festival of Photography in Scotland, Edinburg, United-Kingdom
Beyond the Borders, Kwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea
3. Internationale Foto-Triennale Dicht am Leben/Close to Life, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Ostfildern, Germany

1994
Allen Street, Kunsthalle St. Gallen und Le Consortium, St. Gallen / Genf, Switzerland
10 Jahre European Photography Award, Bad Homburg / Stuttgart, Germany
La jeune fille dans la ville, Galerie du Jour, Paris, France
soggetto - soggetto, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
Et passim, Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland

1993
Projektionen und Fotografien NYC 91/93, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Baden, Germany
Photographie d'une collection, Caisse des Dépôts, Paris, France
European Photography Award, Bad Homburg, Germany

1991
Lieux communs, figures singulières, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Autrement dit, Caserne de la Planche, Fribourg, Germany

1990
Rom Paris Fotografien, Baden, Germany
Ateliers '90, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Clisson, France