The lone person in the big city crowd has been a central theme of modern art since Poe and Baudelaire. For more than a decade the eye of Beat Streuli’s camera has been diving into the streams of passers-by in western metropolises. Streuli photographs from the distance with a telephoto lens. But his portraits of contemporaries, picked out from the anonymous streams of pedestrians, have nothing surreptitious or voyeuristic about them. The people are highlighted, but not laid bare, for the distance is reciprocal. The photographer’s distance and discretion match to the strange dreamy alertness with which pedestrians in big cities walk past one another. They size one another up fleetingly, but the short duration of the glances, however intense they may be, permits no indiscretion. As in Streuli’s works, everyone is very briefly skimmed over many times by the glances of many people, but nobody feels or behaves as if he or she is under scrutiny.
Beat Streulis works are part of different national and international Collections, for e.g. of the Fotomuseum Winthertur; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Folkwang Museum, Essen; Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich und dem Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, to name a few.
Education
M.F.A., Hochschule der Künste in Berlin
- Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014
Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan La Chambre, Strasbourg, France Maison des Cultures, Brussels, Belgium
2013
E.A.C.C., Castellón, Spain Galerie Jochen Hempel, Berlin, Germany Galerie Nosbaum & Reding, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
2012
Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello-Balsamo/Milan, Italy Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
2011
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010
Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, Belgium Murray Guy, New York, USA
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Berlin, Germany Dogenhaus, Leipzig, Germany
2009
MKgalerie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Senda Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2008
Mac's, Musée des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu, Belgium Jordan Festival, Petra, Jordan Baltic, Sage, Gateshead, England
2007
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany
2006
Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Berlin, Germany
Murray Guy, New York, USA University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, Belgium
2005
MKgalerie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands RWE Tower / Museum Folkswang, Essen, Germany
2004
Jablonka Galerie, Köln, Germany Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
LACE, Los Angeles, USA
2003
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg, Luxemburg
2002
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
Centre photographique d'Ile-de-France, Paris/Pontault-Combault, France
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Murray Guy, New York, USA Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Galerie Christian Drantmann, Brussels, Belgium
2001
Dogenhaus, Leipzig, Germany
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Germany
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
2000
Stedelijk Museum, with Gabriele Basilico, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
1999
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf and Kunsthalle, Zürich, Switzerland Galerie Meyer Kainer, Wien, Austria Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan Spiral Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Al-Ma'mal Art Foundation, East Jerusalem, Israel Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
1998
Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Galerie Hauser & Wirth 2, Zürich, Switzerland
Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
Yamaguchi Prefecture Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Jablonka Galerie, Köln, Germany
1997
Tate Gallery, London, England Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Kopenhagen, Denmark
1996
Museum in progress, Wien, Austria Tinglado Dos, Tarragona, Spain
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France
New York Kunsthalle, with Adrian Schiess, New York, USA
1995
Ateliers d'Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, Marseille, France
Centre d'Art Contemporain / attitudes, Genf, Switzerland
Galerie Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Le Consortium, Dijon, France Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
1994
Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Galerie Monica de Cardenas, Mailand, Italy Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, with Suzanne Lafont, Bremen, Germany
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln, Germany
1993
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
1992
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany Galerie Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland
1990
Helmhaus, Zürich, Switzerland
- Selected Group Exhibitions
2014
Urban Spirit, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Le Mouvement 2014, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
9th Biennale dell'imagine, Chiasso, Switzerland
Die besten Jahre, Städtische Galerie, Nordhorn, Germany
Ich und die Anderen, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2013
Stadt in Sicht, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Nenn mich nicht Stadt, Lokremise / Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Le Pont, MAC, Marseille, France Metropolis: Reflections on the modern city, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England
Chapelle Vidéo 4 - Le Flâneur, Musée d'art et d'histoire, St-Denis, France
2012
Kunstmuseum, Over the Rainbow, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Jewels in the Rheingold, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Durchsucht, fixiert, geordnet, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Singen, Singen, Germany
I Spy, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
Sport in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Krakau, Poland
2011
Open House, Singapore Biennale 2011, Singapore
The MOCAK Collection, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Krakau, Poland
Welt-Bilder 4, Helmhaus, Zürich, Switzerland Die Kunst der Entschleunigung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
The Eye is a Lonely Hunter: Images of Humankind, 4. Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
2010
Guia secreta de la Rambla, La Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
Realismus - Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
2009
Look at me. Faces and Gazes in Art 1996-2009, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
Les Espaces de l’image, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, 11th edition, Montreal, Canada
Das Porträt. Photographie als Bühne, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria
Gefrorene Momente, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland
Visions of our time. 10 years of photography at Deutsche Börse, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Identity in Motion, MKgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Silence, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland Chicago July 99, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
2008
Wallonia, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Sichtbarwerden. Fotografische Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Fluid Street, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finnland
Street and Studio, An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London, England
Memories for Tomorrow, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Voices, Sounds, Noises, Townhouse Gallery, Kairo, Egypt
Objectivités, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France
Street and Studio, An Urban History of Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Egypt
2007
Swiss Made 2: Präzision und Wahnsinn, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Egypt Mapping the City, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Netherlands Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Kunstmuseum Luzern, 'Top of Central Switzerland', Luzern, Switzerland
Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, BAC, Genf, Switzerland
2006
Being, in Brussels, Argos, Brüssels, Belgium
con sens, AR/GE Kunst, Bolzano, Italy Opening up art, Tate Modern, London, England
Projektion, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
2005
Belonging, 7th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Art Circus, Yokohama 2005, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
Motor Blues, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany
2004
Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Kunst Heute, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
2003
Outlook, International Art Exhibition Athens, Athen, Greece Arquivo e Simulaçao, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lissabon, Portugal
Strangers, The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2002
Open City: Street Photography Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC/Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
heute bis jetzt, Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany Wallflowers, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zürich, Schweiz
2001
Restaging the Everyday: Recent Work by Beat Streuli and Fischli/Weiss, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
We Set Off in High Spirits, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Norman Foster, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Köln Birmingham, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Subject Plural, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
2000
Le Désert, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France Szenenwechsel, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
The Gift of Hope, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Quotidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scottland Autowerke, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
1999
People / Buchanan, Streuli, Wearing, Le Spot, Studio d'Art Contemporain, Le Havre, France
TRAFIC, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-les-Rouen, France
Mechanismus und Ausdruck, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Szenenwechsel, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
1998
Every day, 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany Remix, Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France h:min:sec, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany
1997
Trade Routes: History, Geography and Culture, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg,South Africa Absolute Landscape, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Framed Area, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
in situ, Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Enghien-les-Bains, France
The 90s: A Family of Man?, Casino Luxembourg/Forum d'art contemporain, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
1996
a/drift, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Im Kunstlicht, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Cityspace, Copenhagen, cat.Prospect: Photography in Contemporary Art, Frankfurter Kunstverein/Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Never Walk Alone, Photographers' Gallery, London, England
Propositions, Musée départemental de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, cat.Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 2, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1995
SzenenwechselI, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
How Is Everything?, Wiener Secession, Wien, Austria
beyond the Borders, 1st Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea L'Effet cinema / Collections en mouvement, Musée du Luxembourg
Paris, France 3. Int. Foto-Triennale, Galerie Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany
Fotofeis, Glasgow, Scottland
1994
Soggetto-soggetto, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy Et passim, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
The Act of Seeing (Urban Space), Fondation pour l’Architecture, Brüssels, Belgium
1993
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA New Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
In their own image, P.S. 1 Museum, New York , USA
Verwandtschaften, Kunsthalle/Rotterdamse Kunststichting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1991
Kunst mit Fotografie, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, with Kirsten Mosher and Sam Samore, Paris, France
Artistes de la Collection, Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France Lieux communs, figures singulières, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France
