Helmut Federle

Born in 1944 in Solothurn, Switzerland.
Lives and works in Vienna.

EDUCATION

1964, School of Applied Art Basel

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021
Basics on Composition, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, US

2020
Basics on Composition / Informal Multitudes, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain

2019
Basics on Composition 1992 & 2019 Horizont der sieben Seen, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria

2017
2017 Abstract Matter [Paintings and Ceramics], Calouste Gulbelkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

2016
Dark Night Tree, M-ARCO, Marseille, France

2013
The Ferner Paintings, Peter Blum Gallery, New York

2012
American Songline, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland, Hatje Cantz, Ostifildern, Germany

2010
Helmut Federle, Galerie nächst St. Stepahn Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria

2009
ÉchafaudagesFRAC Picardie, Nogent-sur-Oise, France
Scratching Away at the Surface, Peter Blum, New York, US

2005
Zeichnungen 1975 bis 1997 aus Schweizer Museumsbesitz, Rudolf Steiner Archiv/Haus Duldeck, Dornach, Switzerland

2002
Helmut Federle, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France

1999
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

2010
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Micky Schubert, Berlin

1997
XLVII Biennale Venice

1995
Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

1994
Peter Blum, New York

1993
Galerie nächst St. Stephan

1992
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich,Switzerland
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

1989
Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

1985
Museum of contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland

1979
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

1977
Museum der Stadt Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2019
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

2018
Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

2017
Stiftung für konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
Fonds M-Arco Le BOX, Marseille, France
Kunsthalle, Krems, Krems, Austria
Centro Cultural Bancaja, Valencia, Spain

2016
MAMCO Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

2015
Museum of Contemporary Art, A Coruña, Spain
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

2014
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

2013
Neues Museum Nürnberg,
Sammlung Goetz, Munich

2012
Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria

2011
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
IVAM (Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

2010
MUMOK (Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

2009

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

2008
Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2007
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

2006
FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France

2005
Die Graphische Sammlung der ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
Museum for Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland
Centre d’art contemporain Genève, Switzerland
CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bourdeaux, France
MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

2004
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany,
Kunstmuseum Solothrun, Switzerland
Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

2003
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

2002
Espace de l’art concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2001
State University Museum of Fine ARts, Tallahassee, Florida
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2000
MAMCO, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

1999
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
Espace de l’art concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France

1998
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

1997
Musée d’Art moderne, Saint-Ètienne, France
Centre d’art contemporain/Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland
Kunsthaus Bregen, Gologne, Germany
FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Calais, France

1996
Sammlung Goetze, Munich, Germany

1995
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

1994
Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

1993
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
FRAC, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bolzano, Italy
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland

1991
Musée d’Art moderne, Saint-Étienne, France

1988
Museum of contemporary Art, Los Angeles, EEUU
Kunsthaus and Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany

1986
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, EEUU

1981
Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland

1976
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia

1974
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland

1972
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

ARCHITECTURE PROJECTS

2017
The Enormous Room, Auditorium Swiss Re Next, Zürich, Switzerland

2005
Novartis Campus-Forum 3, Vienna, Austria

2000
Pavillon für Fische, Orléans

1988
Pilotengasse, Vienna – Collaboration with Herzong & de Meuron, Basel, Switzerland

PUBLICATIONS

2021
Rhodes, David, Helmut Federle: Basics on CompositionThe Brooklyn Rain

2020
Franz, Erich and John Yau, Helmut Federle: Basics on Composition, Hatje cantz, Germany
Helfenstein, Josef; Gottfried Boehm and Maja Wismer, Helmut Federle: 19 E. 21 St: Six Large Paintings, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Austria

2019
Misteli, David, Helmut Federle: Kunstmuseum Basel, Artforum, October 2019
Mack, Gerhard, The quiet provocateur, NZZamSonntag, July, 2019

2018
Schiller Renate, Gerade und Krumme: Vom Formenzeichnen, Verlag Freies Geistesleben & Urachhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
Mikos, Liz, Mudam presents upcoming progamme, Luxembourg Times, July 4

2014
Frankel, David, Helmut Federle. Peter Blum, Artforum, Feruary
Schwendener, Martha, Helmut Federle: The Ferner Paintings, The New York Time, January

2013
Franz, Erich, The Ferner Paintings, New York, Peter Blum Edition
Dillon, Noah, Helmut Federle, The Ferner Paintings, The Brooklyn Rail, December
Meier, Philipp, Longing and Ascetism, NZZ Am Sonntag, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, November

2012
Fanni Fetzer; Joseph Masheck; Robert Storr and John Yau, American Songline, Berlin, Hatje Cantz

2010
Frankel, David, Helmut Federle. Peter Blum, Artforum, March
Bourland, Ian, Helmut Federle: Scratching Away at the Surface, Time Out, December
Fyfe, Joe, Helmut Federle: Scratching Away at the Surface at Peter Blum Soho, Artcritical.com, December
Martin, Crhsit and John Yau, Helmut Federle in conversation with Chris Martin and John Yau, The Brooklyn Rail, December
Welish, Marjorie, Form, a Series, The New York Observer, November
Federle, Helmut, Acceptance Speech Prix Aurelie-Nemours, 2008, Paris, The Brooklyn Rail, September

2005
Martin, Chris, Buddhism, Landscape, and the Absolute Truth About Abstract Painting, The Brooklyn Rail, April
Janhsen, Angeli, Helmut Federle: Zeichnungen 1975 bis 1997 aus Schweizer Museumsbesitz im Rudolf Steiner Archiv, Dornach, Schwabe

2004
Peter André Bloch and Jan Thorn PRikker, Helmut Federle-Nietzche-Haus Sils-Maria
Talasnik, Stephen,Helmut Federle at Peter Blum, Art in America, January

2003
Kuspit, Donald, Helmut Federle at Peter Blum, Art in America, November
Glueck, Grace, Helmut Federle:Works on Paper, The New York Times, July

2002
Naves, Mario,Happy Release of Drawing Exposes Artist’s Lighter Side, New York Observer, June
Tosatto, Guy (ed.); Federle, Helmut, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes

1998
Jonas-Edel, Justus and Johannes Gachnang, Helmut Federle: Black Series I + II und Nachbarschaft der Farben, Müller

1994
Rubinstein, Rafael, Helmut Federle at Peter BlumArt in America, October
Kuspit, Donald, Helmut Federle – Peter Blum Gallery, Art Forum, September

1990
Badura Triska, Eva, Erich Franz, Dieter Koepplin, Donald Kuspit, Friedrich Meschede, Theodora Vischer and Peter Blum,Helmut Federle 5 + 1, New York, Peter Blum Edition

1987
Smith, Roberta, Art: Sigmar Polke’s Witty Disappearing Act, The New York Times, November

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Tate Modern, London, UK
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Colby College Museum of Art, ME, US
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Fondation Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Gemeentemuseum, The hague, Netherlands
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich
Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau
Kusntmuseum St. Gallen, Swietzerland
Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Genève, Switzerland
MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, SwitzerlandSammlung/Collection Mondstudio, Germany
Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg
Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
Sammlung Goetz, München, Germany
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Hilti Art foundation, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
M-ARCO, Marseille
Musée d’Art Moderne, St.Etienne, France
Musée de Peinture et Sculpture, Grenoble, France
Espace de l’art concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, Spain
IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
MARe/Muzeul de Artă Recentă, Bucharest, Romania
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia