BIOGRAFIA
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| MAI-THU PERRET | |
| 1976 | Born in Geneva, Switzerland |
| Lives and works in Geneva and New York | |
| Education | |
| BA (Hons) in English, Cambridge University, UK | |
| Whitney Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA | |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2011 | Love Letters in Ancient Brick, Joyce SoHo, New York |
| Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| Mai-Thu Perret: The Adding Machine, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland; travelling to Le Magasin, Grenoble, France | |
| Mai-Thu Perret – An Ideal for Living, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Love Letters in Ancient Brick, Theatre de L'Usine, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 2010 | An Ideal for Living, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA |
| Parade, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2009 | Alphabet, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Aluminium Cities on a Lead Planet II, Art Unlimited, Timothy Taylor Gallery, Art Basel 40, Basel, Switzerland | |
| THE CRACK-UP, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France | |
| 2013, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA | |
| New Work, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA | |
| 2008 | Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
| Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany | |
| Crab Nebula, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland | |
| An Evening of the Book and Other Stories, The Kitchen, New York, USA | |
| 2007 | Crab Nebula, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Das Kunstwerk und sein Ort, Amden, Switzerland | |
| Land of Crystal, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Switzerland | |
| 2006 | An Evening of the Book, Hard Hat, Geneva, Switzerland |
| And Every Woman Will Be a Walking Synthesis of the Universe, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA | |
| Apocalypse Ballet, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany | |
| Solid Objects, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2005 | Heroine of the People, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France |
| Solid Objects, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 2004 | Statements, Galerie Francesca Pia, ArtBasel 35, Basel, Switzerland |
| Centre d'édition contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 2003 | Pure self-expression x25, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Germany |
| 2002 | The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| We close our eyes in order to see, Glassbox, Paris, France | |
| 2001 | Land of Crystal, Le Studio, CAN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
| Group Exhibitions | |
| 2012 | Changing states of matter, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy |
| Pure Perception, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy | |
| the devil's fidelity, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France | |
| Danser sa vie, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| 10,000 Stunden. Über Handwerk, Meisterschaft und Scheitern in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Thurgau, Switzerland | |
| Tell the Children, La Salle de Bains, Lyon, France | |
| Kunst und Mode, Mumok, Vienna, Austria | |
| Néon- who's afraid of red, yellow and blue?, La maison rouge, Paris, France | |
| New Sculpture, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland | |
| Shake & Bake, Praz Delavallade, Paris, France | |
| 2011 | The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, Bridgehampton, USA |
| ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy | |
| Abstract Possible, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Carte blanche à John M Armleder- All of the above, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France | |
| Helvètes vulcains, Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| Danser sa vie, Danse et arts viseuls au XXe et XXle siècles, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| BEISPIEL SCHWEIZ. Entgrenzungen und Passagen als Kunst, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein | |
| 2010 | Chartreuse jeune: An intervention by Olaf Nicolai at the Casa Taberelli contribution to Critical Complicity, Bolzano, Italy |
| Abstract Possible, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden | |
| Chile Bodies Get Mirrored, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Golden Times, Mai-Thu Perret, Steven Claydon, Diango Hernandez, Sung Hwan Kim, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany | |
| Go West, Salt Lake Art Center, Utah, USA | |
| Born Under a Bad Sign, Power House Art Center, Memphis Tennessee, USA | |
| Charles Fourier ou l'Attraction Passionée, Musée des Beaux- Arts d'Archeologie, Besançon, France | |
| 2009 | Utopics, 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland |
| Regift, Swiss Institute, New York, USA | |
| Living Together, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kuturunea, Montehermoso, Spain: traveling to Fundación MARCO, Vigo, Spain | |
| Anabasis. Rituals of Homecoming, Ludwik Grohman Villa, Lodz, Poland | |
| Top 10 Allegories, Zürich, Switzerland | |
| HEAVEN, 2nd Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece | |
| Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Born to Be Wild, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland | |
| Beginnings, Middles, And Ends, Christine Köning Galerie, Vienna, Austria | |
| Shifting Identities (Swiss) Art Now, CAC Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania | |
| Fax, The Drawing Center, New York, USA | |
| Prose pour des Esseintes, Karma International, Zürich, Switzerland | |
| Ventriloquist, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, United Kingdom | |
| Regift, Swiss Institute, New York, USA | |
| A Spoken Word Exhibition, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom | |
| 2008 | The Line is a Lonely Hunter - Drawings in New Jerseyy, New Jerseyy, Basel, Switzerland |
| Standort Alltag – Everyday Ideologies, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Magdeeburg, Germany | |
| Le Spectarium (les fantômes dans la machine), Cité le Corbusier, Pavillon Suisse, Cité internationale universitaire, Paris, France | |
| Aurum, L'or dans l'art contemporain, Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland | |
| There is No Story to Tell, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China | |
| Abstraction Extension, Fondation pour l'art contemporain Claudine et Jean- Marc Salomon, Alex, France | |
| The Saints and Music and Films, Sketch Gallery, London, UK | |
| Shifting Identities–(Swiss) Art Today, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Black Noise. A Tribute to Steven Parrino, Cneai, Chatou, France | |
| Abstraction étendue. Une scène romande et ses connexions, Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France | |
| A Spoken Word, Prague, Czech Republic | |
| Champion Zero, Champion Fine Arts at Rental Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Standort Alltag – Everyday Ideologies, Kunstmuseum Madgeburg, Madgeburg, Germany | |
| Mémoires d'objets, Galerie Lionel Latham, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| Art and Entrepreneurship, Art Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA, E-Werk, Berlin Germany; Center for contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; Philips de Pury & Company, London, United Kingdom | |
| Backstrom, Jutta Koether, Amy O'Neill, Angel Turner, Emily Sundblad & Stefan Tcherepnin, London, United Kingdom | |
| Dadadandy Boutique, Artprojx Space, London United Kingdom | |
| 2007 | Eurocentric, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA |
| Ballet Mécanique, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK | |
| A Spoken Word Exhibition, Performa, Swis Institute, New York, USA | |
| Black Noise Show, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang, South Korea | |
| Les artistes de la collection Cahiers d'artistes série VI + VII, Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland | |
| Tomorrow, Sonjeart Center and Kimho Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea | |
| An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Fundation, Lisbon, Portugal | |
| 00 – L'histoire d'une décennie qui nʼest pas encore nommée, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France | |
| Radiant City, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Introvert, Extrovert, Makes No Difference, Galerie Catherine Issert, St Paul de Vence, France | |
| Motiers 2007, Art en plein air, Motiers, Val de Travers, Neuchâtel, Switzerland | |
| Pure Self-Expression, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany | |
| Bastard Creatures, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France | |
| In the poem about love you don't write the word love, Midway, Minneapolis, USA | |
| At Home in the Universe, Mongin Art Center, Séoul, South Korea | |
| Tension; Sex; Despair - Who/So – What, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria | |
| Worker Drone Queen, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France | |
| Etats (Faites le vous-même), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France | |
| Moitié Carré moitié fou, Villa Arson, Nice, France | |
| Open and Shut, Skestos Gabrielle Gallery, Chicago, USA | |
| 2006 | Piani Sospetti : Mark Manders, Carsten Nicolai, Mai-Thu Perret, Federico Pietrella, Marcello Simeone, ViaNuova arte contemporanea, Florence, Italy |
| Tbilisi 3 : Let's stay alive till monday, Children National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia | |
| In the poem about love you don't write the word love, Artists Space, New York, USA | |
| Interstellar Low Ways, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA | |
| The Gold Standard, P.S.1, New York, USA | |
| Madame la baronne était plutôt manièrée, assez roccoco et complètement baroque – Volume 3, Centre d'art Mira Phalaina / Maison Populaire, Montreuil* Shiny, Wexner Art Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA | |
| Goshka Macuga: Sleep of Ulro, A-Foundation, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK | |
| Unter 30 IV Kiefer Hablitzel, Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland | |
| Modus, Neue Kunsthalle, St Gallen, Switzerland | |
| Bring the War Home, Gallery Elizabeth Dee, New York, et QUED, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Conversation Pieces, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| Lovely Shanghai Music, Team 404, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China | |
| Visioni del paradiso, Institut Suisse, Rome, Italy | |
| The Endless Summer, West London Projects, London, UK | |
| Objets d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France | |
| Again For Tomorrow, Royal College of Art, London, UK | |
| Hradacany, La Générale, Paris, France | |
| Sublime Part II, Atelier 3ème étage, Usine, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| Madame la baronne était plutôt manièrée, assez roccoco et complètement baroque – Acte 1, Centre d'art Mira Phalaina / Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France | |
| Eine Person allein in einem Raum mit Coca-Cola-farbenen Wänden, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria | |
| Nouvelles Collections: Edition 5, Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland | |
| DADADANDY presents SPACE IS THE PLACE, Ritter/Zamet, Vedovamazzei, London, United Kingdom | |
| 2005 | Genève, artistes et créateurs d'aujourd'hui, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva |
| Wednesday calls the Future, National Art Center, Tbilisi, Georgia | |
| In the poem about love you don't write the word love, CCA, Glasgow* | |
| Paralleles Leben, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| NY Twice, Air de Paris, Paris, France | |
| Model Modernisms, Artists Space, New York, USA | |
| Situational Prosthetics, New Langton Arts Center, San Francisco, USA | |
| 2004 | None of the above, Swiss Institute, New York, USA |
| YellowPages, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (Mamco), Geneva, Switzerland | |
| Tuesday is gone, Tbilisi, Georgia | |
| Fürchte Dich, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Leviathan under moon's influence, Champion Fine Arts, Brooklyn, New York, USA | |
| Archives generation upon generation, Year, Brooklyn, New York, USA | |
| The Age of Optimisim, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| 2003 | Form/Kontext/Troja, Secession, Vienna, Austria |
| Socialism–A love letter, Fia Backström Productions, Brooklyn, New York, USA | |
| Fink Forward the collection/collection, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland | |
| YellowPages, Turm Gallery Helmstedt, Germany, and Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Switzerland | |
| The return of the creature, Künstlerhaus Thurn + Taxis, Bregenz, Austria | |
| 2001 | Rock Paper Scissors, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Germany |
| Get Angry – Perspectives romandes 3, Espace Arlaud, Musée des Beaux-Art de Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| Wahrscheinlich (vraisemblablement), Alimentation Générale Art Contemporain, Luxembourg | |
| The New Domestic Landscape, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2000 | Dr Wings, Air de Paris, Paris, France |
| Why can't monsters get along with other monsters, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern | |
| Etat des lieux #2 , Préfiguration du Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, USA; Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland | |
