About
Wassili Widmer
Artist Statement
CV
Selected exhibitions and performances
2026- Upcoming solo exhibitionArtspace Passat, Zürich
- Performance series “I han es Zündhölzli azündt”Kunstraum Klause, St. Gallen
2025- Soilstrings, duo-exhibition with Peter KradolferAttempt Studio, Zürich
- Pandora’s Box, DVD collection box release performanceKino RiffRaff, Zürich
- Tangential uncitizen, solo performanceNo Nation Art Lab, Chicago
2024- Going Goes By, book launchArt spaces Material, Zürich and AUTO, St. Gallen
- Backslash Festival, performance spaceGessnerallee, Zürich
- Spalt im Asphalt, video screeningZentralwäscherei, Zürich, hosted by the association Funk
- WWW – Die Sicht dahinter, group showConstruction site of the auction house Widmer
- loud, 3-part radio performance seriesKunsthaus Biel
2023- Performance & Art Resort, performance festivalHotel Tiger, Zürich
- POV, solo exhibition345 OFF.SPACE, Zürich
- Gedächtnispalast, exhibition with collect. Streunender HundShed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld
- We met in the stairway, solo performance for Open HouseLöwenbräukunst, Zürich
2022- Migma PerformancefestivalKunstpavillon, Luzern
- Melting of the iron body, solo show with Laura McGlincheyShed Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld
- Bang Bang – Translocal Performance Histories, group showMuseum Tinguely, Basel
2021- Dust in Translation, group showAccess Gallery, Cairo
- Glasgow International, biennaleCivic Room, SWG 3, Glasgow
2020- Am nächsten Tag ging die Sonne auf, group showHelmhaus, Zürich
- App N’ Cell Now!, group showKunsthalle Ziegelhütte, Appenzell
- My Room, group showKunstraum Reaktor, Zürich
- Bloody Morrow, Lavender Sunrise, solo exhibition with Martina MorgerNextex, St. Gallen
- Sweet Little 16, group showKunsthaus Aussersihl, Zürich
- Quarantine group showSpace52, Athens
2019- Die längste Nacht, performance festivalKunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich
- Grosse Regionale, group showKunstzeughaus Rapperswil
- SourSOP, performance festivalEmbassy Gallery, Edinburgh
- To Smooth the Furrowed Brow, group showB32 art-space, Maastricht
- Hybrid Reality Human Ressource, performanceISO Design, Glasgow
- Hairy Death Spiral, performance with Martina MorgerCentre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
- Art in Dataspace, performance with Martina Morger58th Venice Biennale, Museo Correr, Venice
- Art Fair SuomiGalleria Lapinlahti / Cable Factory, Helsinki
2018- Heimspiel, group showKunstmuseum Appenzell
- Last Transi, group showSpieglerey space, Zürich
- Performance-Reihe Neu-Oerlikon, performance festivalOerlikerpark, Zürich
- Performance Open Air St. Gallen, performance festivalFrauenpavillon, St. Gallen
- Triennale Visarte, group showNational Art Museum Vaduz
- Performance photography, group showListe Art Fair, PANCH, Basel
- Diploma exhibitionUniversity of the Arts, Zürich
- Battlefield #133, performance by Jérôme LeubaKunsthaus Zug
- Karneval der Tiere, performance with Irina LorezKunstmuseum Luzern
- Aller Retour, performance with Martina MorgerGalleria Lapinlahti, Helsinki
2016- 5 3 N S 3 N () ‡ VOL. 999, performance festivalNo Nation Art Gallery, Chicago
- Cabaret der Künstler, performanceZunfthaus Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
Curated projects
2026- Kulturlandsgemeinde, Contemporary Art FestivalAppenzell Ausserrhoden
- Vorgarten Domino, Contemporary Art FestivalDigital, international
2024- Summer Camp 2024, workshops, exhibitions, talksRote Fabrik, Zürich
2023- Summer Camp 2023, workshops, exhibitions, talksRote Fabrik, Zürich
2021- Hidden Flowers bloom most beautifully, group showBühler (AR) and Lerwick (Shetland), curated for the collective Streunender Hund
2018- Willkommen in der S22, group showWartesaal Appenzeller Bahn, St. Gallen
2017–19- Offspace Offspace 1–3, solo showsUrban spaces in Zurich, Glasgow
- Stereoskop 1–9, performance festival seriesZürich, Vienna, Glasgow, co-curated with Martina Morger
2017- DeArrivalHalle Lattich, St. Gallen, co-curated with Spieglerey
- Ufo & Between Deaths, group showDosendealer Zürich, co-curated with Cristiana Stella
2014- Reclaim the Walls, group showUniversity of the Arts, Zürich, co-curated with Naum Hirsl
Publications
Published
2024/25- Going goes by, art bookVexer Verlag
Featured
2023- Hox Magazin ExtinctionHox Collective
2022- Horizonte MagazinBauhaus Weimar University
2021- Zürich Moves! MagazinMagazin presented by Marc Streit, invited by Esther Eppstein
2020- ObachtCulture Department, Appenzell Ausserrhoden
2019- Art in Dataspace58th Venice Biennale
2018- Zunfthaus der KünsteManifesta 11, Cabaret Voltaire
2017- BlickwinkelSaiten magazine