FELIX BAUDENBACHER
Felix Baudenbacher Biography
born 1977, Switzerland
London based artist Felix Baudenbacher was born in Switzerland and studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in galleries and art spaces throughout Europe and the US. D2 Art is proud to represent a selected range of his recent and earlier abstract paintings and pencil drawings.
EDUCATION
2002 BA Fine Art (Painting) Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design London, UK
SOLO AND 2-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016 Licht und Farbe im Onkel, Zum Onkel, Basel, Switzerland
2016 into space, cueB Gallery, London, UK
2015 Anna & Argyle, Loyalkaspar, New York City, USA
2015 Felix Baudenbacher – Painting Measures, Galerie Van der Planken / ART + DEAL Knokke, Belgium
2015 Oetlinger Buvette Art Container, Oetlinger Buvette, Basel, Switzerland
2014 UND SOWIESO, 1733 – Weinlokal St.Gallen, Switzerland
2014 From Far Away Home, mitart, Basel, Switzerland (with Regula Baudenbacher)
2013 My London, cueB Gallery, London, UK
2013 Significant Insignificance, Galerie Lehner, Vienna, Austria
2012 still., cueB Gallery, London, UK
2012 pas de deux, mitart, Basel, Switzerland (with Rahel Knöll)
2011 Bones, Bras and Feathers, cueB Gallery, London, UK
2010 A Private View – Still Lifes, Galerie Lehner, Vienna, Austria
2007 Fixing the Tent, Found Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2003 constantbaudenbacher (with Hervé Constant, Gallery 5A, London, UK
2000 New Paintings and Drawings, Furneaux Stewart, London, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum, Weltraum, Basel, Switzerland
2016 taking shape , cueB Gallery, London, UK
2016 Open cueB 2016, cueB Gallery, London, UK
2016 Art Karlsruhe, Germany (with Galerie Van Der Planken, Antwerp, Belgium)
2015 Licht und Schatten zwischen Verkörperung und Auflösung (Regionale 16), M54 visarte Satellit Kunstraum Florenz, Basel, Switzerland
2015 Art Toronto 2015, Canada (with Galerie Van Der Planken, Antwerp, Belgium)
2015 Let them eat steak, Cock ‘n’ bull Gallery Mark Hix’ Tramshed, London, UK
2015 Wir erben – wir Erben Appenzell Ausserrhoden Kulturlandsgemeinde Heiden, Switzerland
(with, among others, Ueli Alder, HR Fricker, Hans Schweizer, Karin Karinna Bühler, Christian Hörler & Martin Benz)
2015 First Open/LDN, Christie’s South Kensington, London, UK
2015 Open cueB 2015, cueB Gallery, London, UK
2015 winter notabene, mitart, Basel, Switzerland
2014 Open cueB 2014, cueB Gallery, London, UK
2013 Discerning Eye 2013, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2013 Open cueB 2013, cueB Gallery, London, UK
2013 Lynn Painter- Stainers Prize 2013, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2013 might be love, mitart, Basel, Switzerland
2012 Open cueB 2012, cueB Gallery, London, UK
2011 Affordable Art Fair Autumn Collection, cueB Gallery, London, UK
2011 Entrée des Artistes, visarte Basel, Switzerland
2011 Open cueB 2011, cueB Gallery, London, UK
2010 Venti Stelle, mitart, Basel, Switzerland
2010 Composing Lines, mitart, Basel, Switzerland (with Matthias Aeberli, Lydia Wilhelm & Alexander Krause)
2007 Barn exhibition, NGP & Associates, Los Angeles, USA
2004 Picturethisproductions, London, UK
2004 Mad, Painterly & Broke, Escape Art, London, UK
2003 Gilchrist-Fisher Prize for Landscape Painting, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
2003 Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2003 Studio Artists, Oils Studios, London, UK
2002 Degree Show,Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design London, UK
PUBLIC ART
2015 Oetlinger Buvette Kunstconatiner, Basel, Switzerland – a repurposed shipping container was transformed into an oversized painting-sculpture on view during ART Basel
PRIZES & AWARDS
2016 taking shape, cueB Gallery, London, UK – finalist
2013 Discerning Eye 2013, Mall Galleries, London, UK, selected for exhibition
2013 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2013, Mall Galleries, London, UK, selected for exhibition
2003 Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Young Artist of The Year, Runner-up
2001 Gilchrist-Fisher Prize for Landscape Painting, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK, Finalist
2002 Kate Barton Award for Painting, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK
Cecil Collins Drawing Prize, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK – Honourable Mention
WORKING COLLECTIONS / SIGNIFICANT ACQUISITIONS
Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
London, UK / Kantonsschule Trogen, Switzerland / Kantonales Spital Heiden, Switzerland
PUBLICATIONS
Felix Baudenbacher – Painting Measures (exh. catalogue) – Galerie Van der Planken / ART + DEAL, Knokke, Belgium 2015
Bigna Bornhauser, Oetlinger-Buvette: Ein Kunstwerk als Gegenpol zur Art, Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, Basel, Switzerland,16 June 2015. 21
2015 Annette Hoffmann, Sozialer Selbstmord und winterliches Flirren, exhibition review, Basler Zeitung, Basel, Switzerland, January 28, 2015. 21
2011 Bones, Bras and Feathers – New Paintings by Felix Baudenbacher (exh. catalogue), cueB Gallery, London, UK
2010 A Private View – Still Lifes (exh. catalogue), Galerie Lehner, Vienna, Austria
2009 Diane Dorrans Saeks: Art as Poetry of the Everyday, THE STYLE SALONISTE (online art & design blog),
published: Oct 20, 2009, available at:
http://www.thestylesaloniste.com/search?q=felix+baudenbacher