Stefan Banz (11 September 1961 – 16 May 2021) was an artist and curator. Banz was born in

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, and grew up in

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. In 1989, he co-founded the Kunsthalle Luzern and served as its artistic director until 1993. From 1994 to 1997 he was an artistic advisor for the Hauser & Wirth Gallery in

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, where he organised exhibitions with

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and others. In 2005, he was the curator for the Swiss Pavilion at the 51st Biennale in

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. He was also a member of the Swiss Federal Art Committee from 2001 to 2007. As an artist, he participated in solo and group exhibitions in international galleries, art institutions and museums, such as Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; Kunstmuseum Lucerne,

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, Walker Art Center Minneapolis. In 2000, he received the Manor Art prize, as well as the Recognition Award from the City of Lucerne, Switzerland. Since 2004, he worked together with Caroline Bachmann under the name of Bachmann/Banz. In 2007, Bachmann/Banz won the 'Werkbeitrag' Award. Banz also wrote plays, novels, theoretical texts and critical essays about artists and personalities such as

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and

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Public collections

*Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst *

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*Kunstmuseum Lucerne *Museum CentrePasquArt, Biel *

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Publications

*1991 Serendipity, Helmhaus, Zurich, *1993 Kunsthalle Lucerne, Lucerne, *1995 Give me a Leonard Cohen Afterworld, Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern/Stuttgart, *1996 Dive. Give the people what they want, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, *1996

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, Das Wespennest ist eine Kathedrale, Ein Gespräch mit Stefan Banz, VKMD – Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Verlag für moderne Kunst Nuremberg, German, *2011 Friedrich Kittler, Platz der Luftbrücke. Ein Gespräch mit Stefan Banz (new revised and expanded edition), Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, German, *2012 Stefan Banz, Marcel Duchamp: 1° La chute d’eau, KMD – Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Verlag für moderne Kunst Nuremberg, English/German/French, *2012 Stefan Banz, Aldo Walker: Logotyp. Mit Marcel Duchamp und William Copley im Hinterkopf, KMD – Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Verlag für moderne Kunst Nuremberg, German, *2013 Caroline Bachmann, Stefan Banz, Ralf Beil (eds.), La Broyeuse de chocolat: Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp at Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, KMD – Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Verlag für moderne Kunst Nuremberg, English/German, *2013 Stefan Banz, Marcel Duchamp: Pharmacie, KMD – Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Verlag für moderne Kunst Nuremberg, *2014 Caroline Bachmann/Stefan Banz, Das Schweigen der Junggesellen, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany / Verlag für moderne Kunst Nuremberg, German, *2014 Stefan Banz, Jeff Wall: With the Eye of the Mind, KMD – Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland / Verlag für moderne Kunst Nuremberg, *2015 Stefan Banz, Eilshemius: Peer of Poet-Painters, KMD – Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp , The Forestay Museum of Art, Cully, Switzerland / JRP, Ringier Kunstverlag, Zurich, *2016 Stefan Banz, Louis Michel Eilshemius und sein Einfluss auf Marcel Duchamp, KMD - Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp , The Forestay Museum of Art / Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna,

References

External links

http://www.banz.tv

http://www.bxb.ch

http://www.pasquart.ch

http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch
{{DEFAULTSORT:Banz, Stefan 1961 births 2021 deaths Swiss contemporary artists Swiss curators Swiss photographers 20th-century Swiss painters Swiss male painters 21st-century Swiss painters 21st-century Swiss male artists Swiss installation artists 20th-century Swiss sculptors 20th-century Swiss male artists Swiss art curators People from Sursee District