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 [citation needed]
Bibliography
Peter Fischer: Swiss Sculpture since 1945, Snoeck Book, Exhibition catalogue,
Aargauer Kunsthaus, 2021, text by Katharina Ammann, Marianne Burki, Christoph Doswald, Peter Fischer, Franz Müller, Anouchka Panchard, Peter J. Schneemann, Simone Soldini, Walter Tschopp,
ISBN978-3-86442-354-3.
Peter Friese: Thoughts on the Performative Installations by Franticek Klossner, in: Caerus and Chronos, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, NRW, Germany, 2015,
ISBN3-935420-15-3.
Christine Breyhan: Infinite Performance, Artist Talk with Franticek Klossner, in: Kunstforum International, Band 228, Köln, Germany, 2014.
Kathleen Bühler: His- and Herstory, in: The Weak Sex – How art pictures the new male, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland, 2013,
ISBN978-3-906628-94-3.
Franticek Klossner and Hans Christoph von Tavel: Curiosity successfully landed, in: Meret's Funken, Meret Oppenheim - Surrealism in contemporary art, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany, 2012,
ISBN978-3-86678-678-3.
Susanne Petersen: The Sleep of Reason, in: The Mirror of Narcissus - From Mythological Demigod to Mass Phenomenon, Exhibition catalogue, Taxispalais – Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria, 2012, Edited by Beate Ermacora, Maren Welsch, Texts (German/English) by Julia Brennacher, Lotte Dinse, Beate Ermacora, Christian Hartard, Silvia Höller, Markus Neuwirth, Susanne Petersen, Dieter Ronte, Jürgen Tabor, Peter Weiermair, Maren Welsch, Sylvia Zwettler-Otte, Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft Köln, Germany,
ISBN978-3-86442-030-6.
Christoph Vögele: Compression and Illumination in the Work of Franticek Klossner, Museum of Fine Arts Solothurn, Switzerland, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Germany, 2008,
ISBN978-3-940748-58-4.
Michaela Nolte: Franticek Klossner - What’s left when the head is melting, Gallery Mönch Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2006.
Peter Weibel: M_ARS, Art and War, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2003,
ISBN978-3-77571-312-2.
Dolores Denaro: Franticek Klossner – Mess Up Your Mind, Exhibition catalogue, Kunsthaus Grenchen, 2001, Texts (German/English) by Bernhard Bischoff, Therese Bhattacharya Stettler, Léonard Cuénoud, Dolores Denaro, Sandra Gianfreda, Norberto Gramaccini, Manfred Hochmeister, Regula J. Kopp, Gerhard Johann Lischka,
Gwendolyn Masin, Gian Paolo Minelli, Victorine Müller, Claudia Rosiny, Toni Stooss, David Streiff, Christine Szakacs, Marc Traber, Annelise Zwez,
ISBN3-90674-704-2.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2018: Eudemonia and Ataraxia, Gallery Da Mihi, Bern, Switzerland
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 [citation needed]
Bibliography
Peter Fischer: Swiss Sculpture since 1945, Snoeck Book, Exhibition catalogue,
Aargauer Kunsthaus, 2021, text by Katharina Ammann, Marianne Burki, Christoph Doswald, Peter Fischer, Franz Müller, Anouchka Panchard, Peter J. Schneemann, Simone Soldini, Walter Tschopp,
ISBN978-3-86442-354-3.
Peter Friese: Thoughts on the Performative Installations by Franticek Klossner, in: Caerus and Chronos, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, NRW, Germany, 2015,
ISBN3-935420-15-3.
Christine Breyhan: Infinite Performance, Artist Talk with Franticek Klossner, in: Kunstforum International, Band 228, Köln, Germany, 2014.
Kathleen Bühler: His- and Herstory, in: The Weak Sex – How art pictures the new male, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland, 2013,
ISBN978-3-906628-94-3.
Franticek Klossner and Hans Christoph von Tavel: Curiosity successfully landed, in: Meret's Funken, Meret Oppenheim - Surrealism in contemporary art, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany, 2012,
ISBN978-3-86678-678-3.
Susanne Petersen: The Sleep of Reason, in: The Mirror of Narcissus - From Mythological Demigod to Mass Phenomenon, Exhibition catalogue, Taxispalais – Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria, 2012, Edited by Beate Ermacora, Maren Welsch, Texts (German/English) by Julia Brennacher, Lotte Dinse, Beate Ermacora, Christian Hartard, Silvia Höller, Markus Neuwirth, Susanne Petersen, Dieter Ronte, Jürgen Tabor, Peter Weiermair, Maren Welsch, Sylvia Zwettler-Otte, Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft Köln, Germany,
ISBN978-3-86442-030-6.
Christoph Vögele: Compression and Illumination in the Work of Franticek Klossner, Museum of Fine Arts Solothurn, Switzerland, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Germany, 2008,
ISBN978-3-940748-58-4.
Michaela Nolte: Franticek Klossner - What’s left when the head is melting, Gallery Mönch Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2006.
Peter Weibel: M_ARS, Art and War, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2003,
ISBN978-3-77571-312-2.
Dolores Denaro: Franticek Klossner – Mess Up Your Mind, Exhibition catalogue, Kunsthaus Grenchen, 2001, Texts (German/English) by Bernhard Bischoff, Therese Bhattacharya Stettler, Léonard Cuénoud, Dolores Denaro, Sandra Gianfreda, Norberto Gramaccini, Manfred Hochmeister, Regula J. Kopp, Gerhard Johann Lischka,
Gwendolyn Masin, Gian Paolo Minelli, Victorine Müller, Claudia Rosiny, Toni Stooss, David Streiff, Christine Szakacs, Marc Traber, Annelise Zwez,
ISBN3-90674-704-2.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2018: Eudemonia and Ataraxia, Gallery Da Mihi, Bern, Switzerland