Frantiček Klossner

Frantiček Klossner (born 28 February 1960) is a Swiss artist based in Bern, known for creating video art, installations, performance, drawings and visual poetry.

Biography
Frantiček Klossner trained as an artist at the F+F School for Art and Media Design Zurich (1985–1989), among whose teachers were the artists Hansjörg Mattmüller, Hermann Bohmert, Norbert Klassen, Vollrad Kutscher, Valie Export, Peter Weibel, and the philosopher Gerhard J. Lischka, and among whose guest lecturers were Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, and Vilém Flusser. On graduating, he won a City of Bern art scholarship, thanks to which he was able to move into a studio in the East Village in New York City and there focus on video art, performance, and installations. He won a scholarship to the Swiss Institute in Rome in 1995 and after two years at that institution decided to settle in Rome, where he remained active as an artist until 2000. On returning to Switzerland, he headed the exhibition project Identité mobile at the Murten arteplage of the Swiss National Exhibition, Expo.02.

Works
Works and groups of works by Frantiček Klossner now feature in numerous collections, among them those of the Swiss National Museum, Kunsthaus Zurich, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Kunstsammlung des Kantons Bern, Kunstsammlung der Stadt Zofingen, Graphische Sammlung der Schweizerischen Nationalbibliothek, Kunstsammlung der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft, Collection Banque Bonhôte Neuchâtel, Collection Ketterer-Ertle, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Collection Ursula Blickle, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Vienna, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires MAMBA Argentina, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe ZKM, Collection Reinking Hamburg

Solo exhibitions (selection)

 * 2018: Eudemonia and Ataraxia, Gallery Da Mihi, Bern, Switzerland
 * 2015: Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW, Germany
 * 2014: Centre for Contemporary Art, Wil/St. Gallen, Switzerland
 * 2013: Center for the Arts, Interlaken, Switzerland
 * 2012: Edition Multiple, Berne, Switzerland
 * 2008: Museum of Fine Arts Solothurn, Switzerland
 * 2007: Centro de Expresiones Contemporaneas, Rosario, Argentina
 * 2006: Gallery Mönch Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
 * 2005: Centro de Arte, Santiago de Cuba
 * 2004: Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, Argentina
 * 2003: Museum of Cultural History, Görlitz, Germany
 * 2002: Centre for Contemporary Art, Bellinzona, Switzerland
 * 2001: Centre for Contemporary Art, Grenchen, Switzerland

Collective exhibitions (selection)

 * 2018: Art and sustainability, Mobiliar Art Center, Bern, Switzerland
 * 2018: Mosaic, Gallery Mayhaus, Erlach, Switzerland
 * 2018: Fields of Disappearance, Foundation BINZ, Zurich, Switzerland
 * 2017: Writing Pictures, Biennial Plakartive 17, Bielefeld, Germany
 * 2017: Erotika, Gallery Mayhaus, Erlach, Switzerland
 * 2017: Self-Perception in the Digital Age, Centre for Contemporary Art, Zofingen, Switzerland
 * 2017: In Visible Limits, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
 * 2016: Lumière d’hiver, Foundation Von Rütte, Biel, Switzerland
 * 2016: In Visible Limits, Centre for the Arts, Interlaken, Switzerland
 * 2016: In Visible Limits, Centre for Contemporary Art, Aschaffenburg, Germany
 * 2016: Vis-À-Vis, Contemporary Arts Center Bourbaki, Lucerne, Switzerland
 * 2016: Danse Macabre, Museum of Communication, Berne, Switzerland
 * 2016: In Visible Limits, Centre for Contemporary Art, Constance, Allemagne
 * 2015: Hold the Line, Gallery Mönch Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
 * 2015: L'immagine di sé, Villa Croce, Museum of Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy
 * 2015: Fragile, Contemporary Art Gallery C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
 * 2014: Existential Visual Worlds, Museum of Modern Art Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
 * 2014: Artists’ Books, Prints and Drawings Department, Swiss National Library
 * 2014: Performative Video Art, Galerija G12HUB, Belgrade, Serbia
 * 2014: Des hommes et la forêt, Museum Château de Nyon, Switzerland
 * 2013: Art Pictures the New Male, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland
 * 2013: The Way We Where, Gallery Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey
 * 2013: Feu Sacré, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland
 * 2012: The Mirror of Narcissus, Contemporary Arts Center Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
 * 2012: The pictured self, Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc, Barcelone, Spain
 * 2012: Swiss Video Art, Espacio Trapézio, Madrid, Spain
 * 2011: Bodies, Collection Reinking, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Germany
 * 2010: Afterpiece, Performance Art on Video, Gallery Claudia Groeflin, Zurich, Switzerland
 * 2007: Collection Ketterer-Ertle, Museum of Fine Arts Appenzell, Switzerland
 * 2006: Villa Jelmini, Memorial Exhibition for Harald Szeemann, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
 * 2005: The Bust since Auguste Rodin, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany
 * 2004: Just as Things Are, Hartware Medienkunstverien, Dortmund, Germany
 * 2003: Art and War, M_ARS, Neue Galerie Graz, Joanneum, Austria
 * 2002: Change of Scene, Museum of Fine Arts Solothurn, Switzerland
 * 2001: Innovation and Tradition, The Swiss Mobiliar Art Collection, Berne, Switzerland
 * 2000: Styria Expo, Graz, Austria
 * 2000: Ice Age, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland
 * 1999: Art Award Böttcherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
 * 1999: Solothurn Film Festival, Switzerland
 * 1999: Biennale Internationale du film sur l’art, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France
 * 1998: Voi siete qui, Villa Maraini, Swiss Institute in Rome, Italy
 * 1997: Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, California, USA
 * 1997: The 19th Tokyo Video Festival, Tokyo, Japan
 * 1996: Video Art in Europe, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
 * 1994: Swiss Video Art, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland
 * 1993: Aeschlimann Corti Award, Arts Centre Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
 * 1990: Young European Artists, Hannover Messe, Germany