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Andreas Züst’s period of artistic production began in the 1970s and ended with his early death in the year 2000. This thirty-year period was characterized by diverse photographic and painterly involvements, as Züst engaged with themes as varied as our society’s design mania (whether in graphic or architectural production), nature’s often incomprehensible beauty, and humanity’s stunning diversity.

As different as these topics appear to be, they were united in their treatment by Züst, who approached them in a way fundamentally true to himself. One consistent and distinguishing quality of his oeuvre is the extensive, seemingly comprehensive series, often composed of over one hundred individual images. This preoccupation with the image cycle, the series, meant that Züst’s estate includes 1,200 photographs of celestial phenomena; 500 photographs of ice formations; 560 photographs of colors and structures found in nature; 2,300 photographs of gyros; and some 2,000 images that fall under the broad rubric of “People, Animals, Adventures.” There exist 1,600 rolls of negatives, each one including thirty-six pictures, each image an attempt to document the happenings of the seventies, to capture bar scenes and exhibition openings, people and their stories. And the artist did all of this using, primarily, a small, hand-held camera.

In turn, Züst’s oeuvre of paintings, which long accompanied his photographs, included some 300 works on wood and canvas, as well as countless works on paper. The artist created these painted images using natural dyes made from sources including logwood and mushrooms. To make his photographic exposures, he typically used silver nitrate.

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Collection Andreas Züst:

2009	Memorizer. The collector Andreas Züst, Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2011/12	“Expanding Universe”, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich
2011	“Nacht – Eine Diaschau”, Agathe Nisple Station, Appenzell
2007/08	“Mers de brouillard fluorescentes”, Galerie Anton Meier, Geneva
2007	“Aus der Tiefe des Raumes”, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich
2003	Erdrand, Weweler, Belgium
2001	Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich
1998	Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich Ljósmyndakompan, Akureyri, Island Siemens Schweiz AG, Zurich Ein gewisser Hang, Kleines Helmhaus, Zurich
1995	Galerie A121, Thalwil Foto Forum, St. Gallen
1993	Galerie Brandstetter und Wyss, Zurich / Solothurn
1992	Raum 77A, Dusseldorf
1991	Galerie Brandstetter und Wyss, Zurich
1990	IJK-Lager, Cologne
1989	Galerie Ha. Jo. Müller, Cologne
1988	Galerie Baviera, Zurich
1987	“Coprinus comatus, Sambucus nigra und Juglans regia”, Galerie Baviera, Zurich
1986	Atelier Olivia Etter, Zurich
1983	David Weiss / Stephan Wittwer, Zurich
1982	Galerie Baviera, Zurich

 

Group Exhibitions:

2011/12	“Von Horizonten”, Set 8 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseum Winterthur
2011	“Verkehrszeiten”, Bildkultur, Stuttgart
2009	Sigmar Polke “Wir Kleinbürger! Zeitgenossen und Zeitgenossinnen”, Hamburger Kunsthalle (mit Fotografien von Andreas Züst)
2008	“PLACES«, Galerie Moeller, Bonn
2006	“Faces, moments and places”, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich “Geniale Dilettanten”, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens
2005	“Wolkenbilder. Von John Constable bis Gerhard Richter”, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau ART ist’s, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich
2003	“zyklus 03: Das Meer kommt in die Berge”, Rietsteinparkplatz, Wattwil, und andere Orte “Eins nach dem Anderen”, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich
2002/03	“Eins nach dem Anderen”, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich
2001	“Up in the sky – Der Himmel in der Kunst der 90er Jahre”, Kunsthaus Grenchen Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich, am art forum berlin “It looks familiar – part IV”, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich
2000	“Boesner Universalkasten”, Edition Howeg zu Gast bei Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin “Boesner Universalkasten”, Edition Howeg zu Gast bei Galerie Renate Kammer, Hamburg “Hommage à Achim Dukow”, Galerie Klein, Bad Münstereifel-Mutscheid “von Wind und Wolken”, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal Museum Baviera, Zurich “It looks familiar – part IV”, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich
1999	“Hommage à Dieter Roth”, Nord / LB Art, Braunschweig “Im Spiegel der Zeit. Portrait & Selbstportrait”, Kunstverein Schloss Plön “It looks familiar – part III”, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich
1998	“Edition Marlene Frei 1985-1998”, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich “It looks familiar”, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich “Fotografie des Unsichtbaren”, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur “It looks familiar – part II”, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich “Hommage à Dieter Roth”, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne
1997	“Die Durchtunnelung der Normalität – Museum Baviera”, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich “Edition Marlene Frei”, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich,am art forum berlin
1996	“Die Durchtunnelung der Normalität – Museum Baviera”, Helmhaus, Zurich
1995	“10 Jahre Galerie Art Magazin”, Galerie Art Magazin, Zurich “Graphik eines 20. Jahrhunderts”, Museum Baviera, Zurich
1994	“UFO”, Galerie A16, Zurich “Zürcher Künstler, ach was – Museum Baviera”, Museum Baviera, Zurich
1993	“More Pricks Than Kicks”, Zurich
1992	“Outbacks”, Art Projekt, Hinwil “Oriental Spirit in Contemporary Zürich Flats”, Zurich
1991	“5 Kontinente”, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich “Selbstportrait”, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich
1990	“Querschnitt durch die Sammlung I – Das kleine Museum Baviera zeigt Zürich”, Museum Baviera, Zurich “Feige”, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich “Zürcher Künstler, was nun – Das kleine Museum Baviera Zürich zeigt Zürich”, Museum Baviera, Zurich Galerie Susan Wyss, Zurich
1989	“Walk don’t walk”, Antiquariat / Buchhandlung Musikhochschule, Cologne
1988	“Rückblende”, Galerie zum Strauhof, Zurich “Hautzeichnungen, Museum der Seele”, Galerie Art Magazin, Zurich “Quasar”, Galerie Ha. Jo. Müller, Cologne
1987	“Citadella – Mappe, Museum Baviera”, Galerie Baviera, Zurich
1986	“Ohne Macht kein Feind, Sammlung Museum Baviera”, Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten “Macht & Ohnmacht der Beziehungen – Sammlung Baviera”, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Zwirner Lager, Cologne
1985	RZA Galerie, Dusseldorf NGBK, Berlin Galerie Susan Wyss, Zurich
1984	Institut für Kunst, Hanover
1983	“Ein Querschnitt”, Galerie Baviera, Zurich Institut für Kunst, Frankfurt
1981	Galerie Silvio Baviera, Zurich “Zum Thema Erotik – Der Wiederholungsfall”, Galerie Baviera, Zurich “Strauhof zeigt Museum”, Strauhof, Zurich Galerie Otto Liesch, Chur
1980	“Saus und Braus”, Galerie zum Strauhof, Zurich
1979	“Foto”, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich