Born
1926, Winterthur, Switzerland
Deceased
1993, Brunnen, Switzerland
Education
1942 – 1946
School for Applied Arts, Zurich, teachers Johannes Itten and Max Bill,
specialised class Fashion Design, Zurich, Switzerland
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
Parasol Unit, London, UK (forthcoming)
2017
Floors: Heidi Bucher and Gordon-Matta Clark, Alma Zevi, Venice, Italy
2014
Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Alexander Gray Associates, New York, USA
Art Basel Feature with Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Art Basel, Switzerland
Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
2013
Centre Culturel Suisse de Paris, Paris, France
Rooms are skins, are surroundings, The Approach, London, UK
Art Basel Feature, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Art Basel, Switzerland
Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
Collection on Display: Monica Bonvicini, Heidi Bucher, Tom Burr, Urs Fischer, Pamela Rosenkranz, Markus Schinwald, Cathy Wilkes, Migros Museum für gegen wartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
2007
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
2004
Heidi Bucher – Mother of Pearl, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
1995
Kunsthaus / Barlach Halle K, Hamburg, Germany
1993
Villa Bleuler, Galerie im Weissen Haus, Winterthur, Switzerland
Und ziehen das Gestern ins Heute: Die Häute aus dem Bellevue Projekt, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Switzerland
1981
Räume sind Hüllen sind Häute, Galerie Maeght, Zurich, Switzerland
1979
Parketthaut / Herrenzimmer / Mobili, Galerie Maeght, Zurich, Switzerland
L‘Objet préféré de l‘artiste, Galerie Numaga, Auvernier, Switzerland
1977
Einbalsamierungen, Borg, Galerie Maeght, Zurich, Switzerland
1973
Bodywrappings, Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
1972
Bodyshells, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA
1971
Soft Sculptures to wear, Museum of Contemporary Crafts*, New York, USA
Rothmans Art Gallery of Stratford/Toronto*, Canada
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal*, Canada
*With happenings by Carl Bucher
1958
Silkcollage, World House Galleries, New York, USA
1956
Collagen, Galerie Suzanne Feigel, Basel, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions (selection):
2018
The House of Fame, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Positionen, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf, Switzerland
2017-18
The Everywhere Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
WOMENHOUSE, la Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA
2017
20 Years Show, The Approach, London
Viva Arte Viva, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The problem with having a body / is that it always needs to be somewhere, The Approach, London
No Place Like Home, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Room, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK; Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick, UK
2016
Grand Gestures, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland
Hommage à Heidi Bucher und Carl Bucher, Kulturort Galerie Weiertal, Winterthur, Switzerland
Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016, Hauser, Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles, USA
Honolulu Triennale, Honolulu Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Oslo 10, Basel, Switzerland
Frauenpower, Art Dock, Zurich, Switzerland
2015
Artists and Architecture, Variable Dimensions, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, France
wow! Woven? Entering the (sub)Textiles, KM– Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
Heidi Bucher & Virginia Overton, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
2014-15
Supple Expansions, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, USA
Monumental Fatigue: Heidi Bucher, Virginia Overton, Magali Reus, Yorgos Sapountzis, Hannah Weinberge, Freymond Guth, Zurich, Switzerland
2014
Artevida: corpo [body], Fundação Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
I Know Not To Know, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Andrew Roth, New York, USA
2013
Repertory, One Torino, Palazzo Cavour, Torino, Italy
SLIP, The Approach, London, UK
M Sélection. La collection du Musée Migros d‘art contemporain, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
Collection on Display: Heidi Bucher, Thea Djordjadze, Berta Fischer, Loredana Sperini, Katja Strunz, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Collection on Display: Monica Bonvicini, Heidi Bucher, Tom Burr, Urs Fischer, Pamela Rosenkranz, Markus Schinwald, Cathy Wilkes, Migros Museum für gegen wartskunst, Zurich, CH
2012
My Body is a Cage, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
2011
Chairs, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
2010
At Home, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
2008
Disguised, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Der schone Schein, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
abc Art Berlin Contemporary, Galerie Giti Nourbaksch, Berlin, Germany
2007
Sculpture Park, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
2004
It‘s All an Illusion – A Sculpture Project, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
1993
Mise en Scène, Bex et Arts, Fondation Szilassy, Switzerland
Das Bild hinter dem Bild, Depot der Geheimnisse, Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland
1992
Force Sight, Internationale Kunst der Gegenwart, Schloss Preseneck, Neuenstadt, Germany
1990
Passagen Skulptur, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Musée de la Peau, Bex et Arts, Fondation Szilassy, Switzerland
1989
Solitude-Echos, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany
1988
Woher-Wohin, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
1986
Aufgemöbeltes / Mobili, Kunstraum Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
Portal, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Fabriksaalboden, Kammgarn, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
1985
Objekt Kunst ‑ in ausgewählten Beispielen von Dada bis heute, Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
Schloss Schlösser Luftschlösser / Herrenzimmer im Baum, Schloss Lenzburg, Switzerland
Muschelobjekte, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
1983
La femme et l’Art, Trienniale Le Landeron, Switzerland
Herrenzimmer / Ablosrauswegfliegling, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
1981
Hautraum Ahnenhaus, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
1980
Weich und Plastisch – Soft Art, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Türe zum Borg, Kunsthalle Waaghaus, Winterthur, Switzerland
1979
Verletzlich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
L’univers d’Aimé Maeght, Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France
1978
Aktualität – Vergangenheit, 3. Biennale der Schweizer Kunst, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Berg – Bergen – Geborgenheit, Kunstmuseum Zug, Switzerland
Galerie Haus 11, Karlsruhe, Germany
1977
Kunstmuseum Winterthur
1975
Frauen sehen Frauen, Kunstkammer zum Strauhof, Zurich, Switzerland
Terre des Hommes, Montréal, Canada
1963
Galerie im Weissen Haus, Winterthur, Switzerland
Bibliography (selection)
2013
Heidi Bucher, Centre Culturel Suisse de Paris, Paris, France
2008
Sammlung / Collection. Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zurich, 1978–2008, ed. Heike Munder, Zurich & JRP/Ringier
2007
Kunsthaus Zurich, Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zurich,
Kunstgesellschaft, Hatje Cantz Verlag
2006
Affentranger-Kirchrath, Angelika, Skulptur auf Expansionskurs, Neue Züricher Zeitung
2005
Lunn, Felicity, Heidi Bucher, Artforum International, March
2004
Heidi Bucher, ed. Heike Munder, texts by Heike Munder, Philip Ursprung, Mayo and Indigo Bucher, ed. Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich & JRP/Ringier
Bucher, Mayo, Heidi Bucher, Cinematic Biography, Art Adventures, Zurich, Switzerland (DVD)
Bänziger, Kathrin, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum in Winterthur, Stiftung Edition Winterthur, Switzerland
Affentranger-Kirchrath, Angelika, Der Libelle abgeschaut, Neue Züricher Zeitung
1993
Mise en scène. Bex & Arts, text by Nicolas Raboud, photography by Magali Koenig
Heidi Bucher, published by Markus Landert, Kunstmuseum des Kantons
Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland
1989
Unikat und Edition, Künstlerbücher in der Schweiz, Helmhaus Zurich, concept: Marie-Louise Lienhard and Stephan Kunz, text by Marie-Louise Lienhard
Künstlergruppe Winterthur 1989, texts by Rudolf Koella and Adrian Mebold, Winterthur, Switzerland
1985
Moderne Kunst – unsere Gegenwart. Ein Brückenschlag zur Schweizer Kunst seit 1939, Fritz Billeter, Peter Killer, Willy Rotzler, Pfäffikon
1983
Hauträume, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
1977
Heidi Bucher, ed. Galerie Maeght, Zurich, Switzerland
1972
Landings. Carl & Heidi Bucher, County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
1971
Carl & Heidi Bucher, Musée d‘Art Contemporain Montréal, Canada
Public Collections
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France and San Francisco, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Musée Jenisch Vevey, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
