Florian Graf
1980 geboren in Basel
lebt wo er arbeitet und umgekehrt (meist in Basel, London, Berlin)
Ausbildung
2009–10 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Fulbright Fellow)
2007–09 Edinburgh College of Art, ASN (MFA with Distinction)
2008–09 The Prince’s Drawing School, London (Postgraduate Programme)
1999–05 ETH Zürich (M. Sc. Architecture ETH, Awarded Degree)
Symposia
2008 Curating Workshop with Marianne Eigenheer, Vitrey, France
2007 Watermill Center, New York, International Summer Arts Program
HGKZ University of Applied Arts and Science, design2context, Zurich
2006 University of Basel, International Summerschool of eikones
2005 International Summer Academy of Art, Salzburg
Evening Courses at HGKZ in Zurich and SfG in Basel
2003 Chelsea College of Art and Design, Summer School, London
2002 Ecoles des Beaux-Arts, Painting Workshop, Paris
2001 Summer Academy Hohenaschau
Stipendien & Preise
2012 Stipendium der ZF Kunststiftung
2011 Residency IAAB Berlin
Honorable Jury Mention, LIsFE
2010 Collection Cahiers d’Artistes, Serie X
First Prize Competition Abbatiale de Bellelay
2009 Fulbright Fellowship
Diploma with Distinction, University of Edinburgh
Grant Swiss American Society
2008 DAAD Scholarship
2007 Grants Edinburgh College of Art
Scholarship Ikea Foundation
Erich Degen Travel Scholarship
2006 Travel Scholarship of the Ernst Schindler Foundation
Rewarded in "Die 100 wichtigsten Schweizer", Schweizer Illustrierte
2005 ETH Medal for the Diploma «polynational» in Architecture
Willi-Studer-Prize for the best Degree in Architecture
2004 First Prize Holcim Next Generation Award for Sustainable Construction
First Prize Competition «Luftschloss» 150 Jubelee of ETH
Ausstellungen
2012 Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen (solo, vernissage 27. September)*
Intimità, i2a Vico Morcote (mit MPH Architectes, vernissage 28. März)
Wir sind alle Astronauten, Universum Buckminster Fuller im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Kunst
Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
2011 Week end Wait, Curtat Tunnel, Lausanne (solo)
Les Urbaines, Lausanne
Well, Come, Abbatiale de Bellelay (solo)*
Unterholz, Galleria Edizioni Periferia, Luzern (solo)
Anonyme Zeichner, Sihlquai 55, Zürich
Collection Cahiers d’Artistes, Art 42 Basel *
Die grosse Kunstausstellung, Kunstkasten Herisau*
2010 Kamasutra Spoon, Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art*
Chasing Dreams, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel
Effervescent Condition, Xuzhou Museum, China*
Effervescent Condition, Gallery X SAIC, Chicago*
The Folly of De-Fence, Binningen Garten 2010, Basel
Waltzing Walls Lost, Art Chicago, Chicago (solo)*
2009 Camera Infinita, Art Institute Shibukawa, Japan
Camera Infinita, a Distance between the World and Home, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh Art Festival*
Cumernauld Hit, Shopping Center, Cumbernauld
Vorfreude, Goethe Institut, Glasgow (with Olga Schulz)
Degree Show, TENT Gallery & ASN Studio Space eca, Edinburgh
Degree Show, Princes Foundation, London
2008 CloseUp, Edinburgh Art Festival 2008*
Oslo Kino UFO, Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art *
RSA Student Exhbition, Royal Scottish Academy*
We, Gatherers, Caledonian Hall (in Collaboration with Inverleith House)
A Publication, Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh (with Christian Flamm)*
2007 Ferry Loupers, Pier Arts Centre
Wall Painting with Franz Graf, National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2006 Weihnachtsausstellung, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel
[arhitektura|2006], Zagrebacki_Salon, Zagreb*
Neue Akzente für den öffentlichen Raum, Ortsmuseum, Zollikon
2005 Jubiläum 150 Jahre ETH Zürich, Platzspitz Landesmuseum, Zürich*
Jubiläum 150 Jahre ETH Zürich, Hauptgebäude ETH Zentrum, Zürich*
International Summer Academy, Hohe Festung, Salzburg
«Luftschloss», ETH Zentrum Haupthalle, Zürich*
Raum-Installation zum Jubiläum der ETH, Polyterrasse, Zürich*
Begegnungszentrum in Bamyian, Afghanistan-Museum, Bubendorf
Science City ETH Zürich, Gallery Aedes, Berlin*
Ästhetische Prozesse, HXE Hönggerberg, Zürich
2004 ARchENA ETH Hönggerberg, Zürich
Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction, Hauptgebäude ETH, Zürich
* mit Katalog
Filmvorführungen
2011 Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse
Kunsthalle Luzern, Stadtkino, Kunst Hoch 17, Luzern
CHFF, FiveMyles Gallery, New York
Video- und Kurzfilmfest “Facing the Artwork”, Halle
LIsFE, International Short Film Festival, Leiden
2010 SCOPE Subject Basel
Crown Heights Film Festival, New York
2009 25th Warsaw International Film Festival
Interfilm – 25th International Short Film Festival, Berlin
shnit 09 – international shortfilmfestival, Bern
International Short Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela
Clermont-Ferrand – Short Film Market
Vorlesungen & Lehrtätigkeit
2012 Artist Talk, EPFL, Lausanne (13. März)
2011 How to look at it, Museum für Gegenwartskunst/ Elaine Basel
ANZA, Workshop with students from Ardhi University, Dar es Salam
Fachsimpeln, Basement, iaab Project Room, Basel
My Home is my Castle in the Air, Wäscherei Kunstverein Zürich
Artist Talk mit Caroline Nicod, Collection Cahiers d’Artistes, Art 42 Basel
2010 The Folly of De-Fence, Kunstverein Binningen
Castle in the Air, Trying to Land, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
ETH House of Science, FHNW, Basel
2009 TA Studio Research Class, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Guest critic for landscape architecture, Purdue University
2007 Three Projects, Edinburgh College of Art
Guest critic Orientate the City, SAM, Basel
Guest critic for landscape architecture, HSR Rapperswil
2006 Santa Maria presso san Satiro, Architecture as Image, University of Basel
2005 ETH House of Science, Gymnasium Oberwil
ETH House of Science, Afghanistan Institut, Bubendorf
2004 ETH House of Science, American University, Beirut
Haut und Architektur, ETH Zurich
Projekte
2011 ANZA, Magazin für Architektur und Kultur mit Camenzind
2009 – 2011 Graphenheim, Kurzfilm Trilogie: Subversive, Air and End Slate
Drehbuch und Co-regie mit Fabrizio Fracassi
2008 Edinburgh CloseUp, Edinburgh Art Festival
Kuratiert mit Naomi Hennig und Caitlin Comrie
2007 Bühnenbilder für Monteverdi Zyklus für La Scala in Mailland
Orfeo, L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Ulisse für Robert Wilson
2004 – 2007 ETH House of Science, Bamiyan, Afghanistan 150 Jahre ETH Zürich
mit Ivica Brnic and Wolfgang Rossbauer
2003 Wohnen am Stausee, projekt für Basel mit Georg Schmid
Studio Basel mit Jacques Herzog and Pierre De Meuron
2002 Bühnenbild Assistenz für Leonce und Lena
Burgtheater Wien für Sven-Eric Bechtolf
1980 geboren in Basel
lebt wo er arbeitet und umgekehrt (meist in Basel, London, Berlin)
Ausbildung
2009–10 School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Fulbright Fellow)
2007–09 Edinburgh College of Art, ASN (MFA with Distinction)
2008–09 The Prince’s Drawing School, London (Postgraduate Programme)
1999–05 ETH Zürich (M. Sc. Architecture ETH, Awarded Degree)
Symposia
2008 Curating Workshop with Marianne Eigenheer, Vitrey, France
2007 Watermill Center, New York, International Summer Arts Program
HGKZ University of Applied Arts and Science, design2context, Zurich
2006 University of Basel, International Summerschool of eikones
2005 International Summer Academy of Art, Salzburg
Evening Courses at HGKZ in Zurich and SfG in Basel
2003 Chelsea College of Art and Design, Summer School, London
2002 Ecoles des Beaux-Arts, Painting Workshop, Paris
2001 Summer Academy Hohenaschau
Stipendien & Preise
2012 Stipendium der ZF Kunststiftung
2011 Residency IAAB Berlin
Honorable Jury Mention, LIsFE
2010 Collection Cahiers d’Artistes, Serie X
First Prize Competition Abbatiale de Bellelay
2009 Fulbright Fellowship
Diploma with Distinction, University of Edinburgh
Grant Swiss American Society
2008 DAAD Scholarship
2007 Grants Edinburgh College of Art
Scholarship Ikea Foundation
Erich Degen Travel Scholarship
2006 Travel Scholarship of the Ernst Schindler Foundation
Rewarded in "Die 100 wichtigsten Schweizer", Schweizer Illustrierte
2005 ETH Medal for the Diploma «polynational» in Architecture
Willi-Studer-Prize for the best Degree in Architecture
2004 First Prize Holcim Next Generation Award for Sustainable Construction
First Prize Competition «Luftschloss» 150 Jubelee of ETH
Ausstellungen
2012 Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen (solo, vernissage 27. September)*
Intimità, i2a Vico Morcote (mit MPH Architectes, vernissage 28. März)
Wir sind alle Astronauten, Universum Buckminster Fuller im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Kunst
Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
2011 Week end Wait, Curtat Tunnel, Lausanne (solo)
Les Urbaines, Lausanne
Well, Come, Abbatiale de Bellelay (solo)*
Unterholz, Galleria Edizioni Periferia, Luzern (solo)
Anonyme Zeichner, Sihlquai 55, Zürich
Collection Cahiers d’Artistes, Art 42 Basel *
Die grosse Kunstausstellung, Kunstkasten Herisau*
2010 Kamasutra Spoon, Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art*
Chasing Dreams, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel
Effervescent Condition, Xuzhou Museum, China*
Effervescent Condition, Gallery X SAIC, Chicago*
The Folly of De-Fence, Binningen Garten 2010, Basel
Waltzing Walls Lost, Art Chicago, Chicago (solo)*
2009 Camera Infinita, Art Institute Shibukawa, Japan
Camera Infinita, a Distance between the World and Home, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh Art Festival*
Cumernauld Hit, Shopping Center, Cumbernauld
Vorfreude, Goethe Institut, Glasgow (with Olga Schulz)
Degree Show, TENT Gallery & ASN Studio Space eca, Edinburgh
Degree Show, Princes Foundation, London
2008 CloseUp, Edinburgh Art Festival 2008*
Oslo Kino UFO, Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art *
RSA Student Exhbition, Royal Scottish Academy*
We, Gatherers, Caledonian Hall (in Collaboration with Inverleith House)
A Publication, Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh (with Christian Flamm)*
2007 Ferry Loupers, Pier Arts Centre
Wall Painting with Franz Graf, National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2006 Weihnachtsausstellung, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel
[arhitektura|2006], Zagrebacki_Salon, Zagreb*
Neue Akzente für den öffentlichen Raum, Ortsmuseum, Zollikon
2005 Jubiläum 150 Jahre ETH Zürich, Platzspitz Landesmuseum, Zürich*
Jubiläum 150 Jahre ETH Zürich, Hauptgebäude ETH Zentrum, Zürich*
International Summer Academy, Hohe Festung, Salzburg
«Luftschloss», ETH Zentrum Haupthalle, Zürich*
Raum-Installation zum Jubiläum der ETH, Polyterrasse, Zürich*
Begegnungszentrum in Bamyian, Afghanistan-Museum, Bubendorf
Science City ETH Zürich, Gallery Aedes, Berlin*
Ästhetische Prozesse, HXE Hönggerberg, Zürich
2004 ARchENA ETH Hönggerberg, Zürich
Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction, Hauptgebäude ETH, Zürich
* mit Katalog
Filmvorführungen
2011 Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse
Kunsthalle Luzern, Stadtkino, Kunst Hoch 17, Luzern
CHFF, FiveMyles Gallery, New York
Video- und Kurzfilmfest “Facing the Artwork”, Halle
LIsFE, International Short Film Festival, Leiden
2010 SCOPE Subject Basel
Crown Heights Film Festival, New York
2009 25th Warsaw International Film Festival
Interfilm – 25th International Short Film Festival, Berlin
shnit 09 – international shortfilmfestival, Bern
International Short Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela
Clermont-Ferrand – Short Film Market
Vorlesungen & Lehrtätigkeit
2012 Artist Talk, EPFL, Lausanne (13. März)
2011 How to look at it, Museum für Gegenwartskunst/ Elaine Basel
ANZA, Workshop with students from Ardhi University, Dar es Salam
Fachsimpeln, Basement, iaab Project Room, Basel
My Home is my Castle in the Air, Wäscherei Kunstverein Zürich
Artist Talk mit Caroline Nicod, Collection Cahiers d’Artistes, Art 42 Basel
2010 The Folly of De-Fence, Kunstverein Binningen
Castle in the Air, Trying to Land, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
ETH House of Science, FHNW, Basel
2009 TA Studio Research Class, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Guest critic for landscape architecture, Purdue University
2007 Three Projects, Edinburgh College of Art
Guest critic Orientate the City, SAM, Basel
Guest critic for landscape architecture, HSR Rapperswil
2006 Santa Maria presso san Satiro, Architecture as Image, University of Basel
2005 ETH House of Science, Gymnasium Oberwil
ETH House of Science, Afghanistan Institut, Bubendorf
2004 ETH House of Science, American University, Beirut
Haut und Architektur, ETH Zurich
Projekte
2011 ANZA, Magazin für Architektur und Kultur mit Camenzind
2009 – 2011 Graphenheim, Kurzfilm Trilogie: Subversive, Air and End Slate
Drehbuch und Co-regie mit Fabrizio Fracassi
2008 Edinburgh CloseUp, Edinburgh Art Festival
Kuratiert mit Naomi Hennig und Caitlin Comrie
2007 Bühnenbilder für Monteverdi Zyklus für La Scala in Mailland
Orfeo, L’Incoronazione di Poppea, Ulisse für Robert Wilson
2004 – 2007 ETH House of Science, Bamiyan, Afghanistan 150 Jahre ETH Zürich
mit Ivica Brnic and Wolfgang Rossbauer
2003 Wohnen am Stausee, projekt für Basel mit Georg Schmid
Studio Basel mit Jacques Herzog and Pierre De Meuron
2002 Bühnenbild Assistenz für Leonce und Lena
Burgtheater Wien für Sven-Eric Bechtolf