JAN VORISEK

b. 1987, Basel, CH
Lives and works in Zurich, CH

SELECTED SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS

2023
Edge, Hour, Substance, 13th Manor Art Prize of the Canton of Zurich, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH

2022
Music for shipping containers, Arcadia Missa, London, UK

2021
No Sun, Swiss Institute, New York, US

2020
Song For Dead Time, Galerie Bernhard, Zürich, CH
Collapse Poem, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, CH

2018
Crisis Instrument, Observation Society presentd by Bottom Space, Guangzhou, CN
Frontal Possession, Liste Art Fair, Basel, CH

2017
Burst City, TG, Nottingham
Total Fragmented Darkness, Hard Hat, Geneva, CH

2016
Fear Organ, Schwarzes Café, Luma Foundation, Zürich, CH

2015
Rented Bodies, Galerie Bernhard, Zürich, CH
Whip Top Drone, Forde, Geneva, CH

2014
Personality Mask, Grossbeerenstr. 56c, Berlin, DE
Scratching in the Shallow Crust, Tai Projects, Kunming, CN

2013
Theres No Line Online, New Jerseyy, Basel, CH
Curved Up, MUDA MURA MARI, Zürich, CH
Nothings Left, HHDM, Vienna, AT

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Fallen Angels, City SALTS, Birsfelden, CH
Greetings, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, FR
Don’t Worry, This Will All Be Over Soon, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Milan, IT

2022
Crowd Control, High Art Arles, Arles, FR

2021
Techno, Museion, Bolzano, IT

2020
Nanjing Video Art Fair, Gallery Hua, CN
Platin B E++, Vienna, AT

2019
dgtl fmnsm, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, DE
Blind Date, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH
Its Urgent, Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Luma Westbau, Zürich, CH
Klang Moor Schöpfe, Festival im Hochmoor von Gais, Appenzell, CH
Swiss Art Award, Messehalle 3, Basel, CH
Towards a Philosophy of Jet Lag, Auto Italia South East, London, UK
Gallery Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris, FR

2018
Readymades Belong to Everyone, Swiss Institute New York, New York, US
Voyage, Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain, Berlin, DE
MASS X, The Performance Agency, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE

2017
In Awe, Curated by Melanie Ohnemus. Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT
Klub Fiesta, Plato Ostrava, Ostrava, CZ
Umwelt Mode, Clarastrasse 13, Basel, CH
Apparat, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE

2016
Cos only Difference can return my Friend, 83 Pitt Street, New York, US
Unmittelbare Konsequenzen,together with Anina Troesch, Kunsthalle St.Gallen, CH
Les Urbaines Festival, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, CH
The World no longer exists, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil, CH
The 7th Guest, Galerie Tobias Naehring Leipzig, Leipzig, DE
Unruly Relations, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, CH
STEITSEK, with Stefan Tcherpnin, Veit Laurent Kurz, Kunsthalle Glarus, Glarus, CH

2015
Playing Pool with Eggs, Galerie Bernhard, Zürich, CH
R.A.T. (as Jan Vorisek) with TCF, Amnesia Scanner, Kablam, HeK, Basel, CH
Theater der Überforderung, Kunsthalle Zürich, CH
A Form is a social Gatherer, Plymouth Rock, Zürich, CH

2014
Metarave, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal, CH

2013
Draftman’s Fest #2, Istituto Svizzero, Milano, IT

2012
Different Strokes, Hard Hat, Geneva, CH
TCCA, NEW THEATER 2012-2013, APN Research, autoslides #1-3, shindisi home videos, the deleted scene, a fanzine as a museum /a museum as a fanzine, cut-out bin/apnegative, sci-fi sounds from the alienated kitchen, SOOO &&& LLL, hc r 1, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH

2011
Crepe de Chine, Ooga Booga, Los Angeles, US
Corso Multisala, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2019
The Day Whose End Will Not Be an Evening, Spike Magazine at Liste Art Fair, Basel, CH
Screaming Compost with Matthew Lutz Kinoy, Francesca Pia, Zürich, CH

2018
Whip Top Drone, Liste Performance Program, Basel, CH
Field Recordings of the Sun, Tropez, Sommerbad Humboldthain, Berlin, DE

2016
Music for a Script – a Primer, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong, CN
Follow into Terror and Healing, with Timothée Calame, Cave12, Geneva, CH
STEITSEK, with Stefan Tcherpnin, Veit Laurent Kurz, Kunsthalle Glarus, CH

2015
Dreams and Buildings, TG, Nottingham, UK
Agent Spasm, with Timothée Calame, Hacienda, Zürich, CH

2013
DIM SUM MIX, mit Flavio Merlo und Emanuel Rossetti, Kunsthalle Zürich, CH

2012
RSONel‘ revisited, with Stefan Tcherepnin, New Jerseyy, Basel, CH

SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2023
13th Manor Art Prize of the Canton of Zurich
Prix Mobiliére 2023

2021
Werkbeitrag Stadt Zürich, Helmhaus

2018
Stipendium der Stadt Basel
Bottomspace Artist Residency Guangzhou, China

2015
Werkbeiträge Kanton Zürich

2013
Atelierstipendium der Stadt Zürich (Kunming)