Jürgen Beck

New Deal by Leila Peacock
Thresholding by Wendy Gilmartin
Experience Reframed: Detachment and Meaning in Jürgen Beck’s New Deal
by David Misteli
Escape Architecture by David Misteli
Now Playing by Dorothee Elmiger

Jürgen Beck lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. He graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, Germany.

Exhibitions/Publications

Sun Breakers, book launch, Last Tango, Zurich, 2023
Empathy When, Tropez, Berlin, 2023
Sun Breakers, launch, New Toni, Berlin, 2023
Typ und Reihe, Werkbundsiedlung Neubühl, Zurich, 2022
Close Friends, Galerie b2, Leipzig, 2020
Local people compare it to breathing champagne, Material, Zurich, 2019
New Deal at Book Lovers’ Shelf, Camera Austria, Graz, 2019
Traversées du Marais, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2019
New Deal, UC Books & Archiv Schifferli, Zurich, 2018
Werk- und Atelierstipendien der Stadt Zürich, Helmhaus, 2018
Die Versammlung, Shedhalle, Zurich, 2017
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, 2017
New Deal, Ditch Projects, USA, 2017
Relatively Speaking, Galerie b2, Leipzig, 2017
Sidelights, Reto ZHdK, Zurich, 2016
Escape Architecture, Kunsthalle Luzern, 2016
Lasso No. 7, Cosmic, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, 2015
Werkschau Kanton Zürich, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich 2015
Down the Rabbit Hole, Englaenderbau, Liechtenstein, 2014
Bouquet, Kulturbuero Zurich, 2014
Werk- und Atelierstipendien der Stadt Zürich, Helmhaus, 2014
Viaggio in Italia, Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt a. M., 2013 and Werkschauhalle, Leipzig, Germany, 2012
Nuova, Mzin, Leipzig, 2012 and Studio 2o46, Berlin, 2012
Schichtwechsel, Kunstverein Liechtenstein, 2011
W Sunset And Hyperion, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, 2010
Those Days of Dancing (Are Gone), DoMus, Schaan, Liechtenstein, 2010
Squeeze, Hinterconti, Hamburg, 2008
Even Clean Hands Can Cause Damage and Leave Traces, Westwerk, Hamburg, 2008
Die Läufer, Laden für Nichts, Leipzig, 2007
Kalte Herzen, Villa Bosch, Kunstverein Radolfzell; Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig, 2007

Awards

Atelierstipendium Berlin, Kanton Zürich, 2024
Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council, Werkbeitrag, 2022
Volkart Foundation, Erna & Curt Burgauer Foundation, project grant, 2021
Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, work grant, 2021
Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council, research grant, 2021
SWB Neubühl, artist in residence, Zürich, 2021
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, artist in residence, Kanton Zürich, 2019-20
Erna and Curt Burgauer Foundation, publication grant, 2018
IFA, Stuttgart, project grant USA, 2017
Coast Time, artist in residence, USA, 2017
Kartause Ittingen, artist in residence, Switzerland, 2016
Studio Genova, artist in residence, city of Zürich, Italy, 2015
Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Nuova, project grant, Leipzig, 2012

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