BIOGRAPHY

 

Born 1988 in Delémont (Switzerland) – Swiss and Costa Rican

Bachelor of Arts + Master of Arts – University of Neuchâtel

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2022

Derrière la couleur, Musée jurassien des arts, Moutier (Switzerland) – cat.

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2018

Retour à la couleur, Fondation Anne et Robert Bloch, Delémont (Switzerland) – cat.

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2016

Niklaus Manuel Güdel – Lebenstanz, da Mihi Gallery, Bern (Switzerland)

Trees Remember Too, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José (Costa Rica) – cat.

Comme un blanc, Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris (France)

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2015

Le Silence de la guerre, Musée jurassien d'art et d'histoire, Delémont (Switzerland) – cat.

Le Silence de la guerre, Artsenal espace d'art contemporain, Delémont (Switzerland) – cat.

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2013

Oeuvres récentes, Galerie Rosa Turetsky, Geneva (Switzerland)

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2012

Le Cycle de la mémoire, SELZ art contemporain, Perrefitte (Switzerland) – cat.

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2027

La Mission de l'artiste, Fondation Brodbeck, Catania (Italy) – cat.

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2026

100 oeuvres de la Collection jurassienne des beaux-arts, Musée jurassien des arts, Moutier (Switzerland) – cat.

La Mission de l'artiste, Abbaye de Caunes Minervois, Carcassonne (France) – cat.

La Mission de l'artiste, L'Atelier, Fribourg (Switzerland) – cat.

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2025

Room for a View, Bahay contemporary, Zermatt (Switzerland)

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2024

Entangled Forests, Zeughausareal, Uster (Switzerland) – cat.

Entangled Forests, Forum de l'Hôtel de Ville, Lausanne (Switzerland) – cat.

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2023

Gardiens du silence, Musée Jenisch Vevey (Switzerland) – cat.

Cantonale Berne Jura, Franz Gertsch Museum, Burgdorf (Switzerland)

Entangled Forests, Kornhausforum, Bern (Switzerland) – cat.

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2022

Le Monde clair des bienheureux.s.e.x.s, Quartier Général, La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland)

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2021

La Mémoire du bois, Musée de Charmey (Switzerland)

Résonances. Collection : dons et acquisitions, Musée jurassien des arts, Moutier (Switzerland)

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2020

Cantonale Berne Jura, Kunsthaus Steffisburg (Switzerland)

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2019

(A+D)*25=Ag. Historiografía MADC, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José (Costa Rica) – cat.

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2018

Cantonale Berne Jura, Centre PasquArt, Bienne (Switzerland)

Cantonale Berne Jura, Musée jurassien des arts, Moutier (Switzerland)

Trees Remember Too, B#S Art Space, Treviso (Italy)

Forms and matter of the wait, Czech Center, Prague (Czech Republic)

Intime, Galerie C, Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

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2017

La Petite Collection III, Galerie Bertrand Grimont, Paris (France)

Forms and matter of the wait, AreaCreativa42, Torino (Italy) – cat.

Premio Combat 2017, Museo Civico Giovanni Fattore, Livorno (Italy) – cat.

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2016

MdM. Du rêve à l'utopie, Galerie C, Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Figuration 2.0, Centre d'art contemporain Bouvet Ladubay, Saumur (France)

The Solo Project (Galerie Valérie Delaunay), Basel (Switzerland) – cat.

Art Paris Art Fair (Galerie Valérie Delaunay), Paris (France) – cat.

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2015

Cantonale Berne Jura, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Interlaken (Switzerland)

10 Jahre Jungkunst, Containermuseum, Jungkunt, Winterthur (Switzerland) – cat.

 

2014

Cantonale Berne Jura, Musée jurassien des arts, Moutier (Switzerland)

Allégorie, Villa Dutoit, Geneva (Switzerland)

XVI CALL, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia (Spain)

Végétalus, Galerie C, Neuchâtel (Switzerland)

Artgenève (Galerie Rosa Turetsky), Geneva (Switzerland) – cat.

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2013

71e Biennale d'art contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland) – cat.

Cantonale Berne Jura, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Interlaken (Switzerland)

Cantonale Berne Jura, La Nef, Le Noirmont (Switzerland)

Jungkunst, Halle 52, Winterthur (Switzerland) – cat.

Artgenève (Galerie Rosa Turetsky), Geneva (Switzerland) – cat.​

 

COLLECTIONS

 

Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José (Costa Rica)

Luis Adelantado Collection, Valencia/Mexico (Spain/Mexico)

Collection jurassienne des beaux-arts (Switzerland)

Musée jurassien des arts, Moutier (Switzerland)

Musée jurassien d'art et d'histoire, Delémont (Switzerland)

Municipalité de Delémont (Switzerland)

Private collections (Switzerland, France, Germany, Netherlands)

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MONOGRAPHS

 

Niklaus Manuel Güdel. Derrière la couleur,

edited by Valentine Reymond, texts by Emmanuel Coquery, Isabelle Depoorter-Lecomte, Julie Enckell-Julliard,

Pauline Goetschmann, Yves Guignard, Anne-Sophie Poirot, Valentine Reymond, Aude Robert-Tissot and Marion Zilio,

Lausanne, art&fiction, 2022.

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Trees Remember Too. Niklaus Manuel Güdel,

texts by Fiorella Resenterra, Adriana Collado Chaves, Niklaus Manuel Güdel and Sophie Vantieghem,

San José, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, 2016.

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Niklaus Manuel Güdel. The Memory of Silence,

texts by Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Nathalie Fleury, Yves Guignard, Diane Antille, Léa Bismuth, Sophie Vantieghem, Karine Tissot and an interview by Chus Martinez, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2015.

 

Niklaus Manuel Güdel. Mémoire – Souvenir – Histoire,

texts by Pierre Péju, Yves Guignard and Diane Antille, photographs by Augustin Rebetez, Geneva, Notari, 2012.

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DOCUMENTARY FILM

 

Janus. Niklaus Manuel Güdel artiste et historien de l'art,

directed by Claude Stadelmann, music by Nathan Stornetta, Signe Productions, 2023 (72 min).

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