Leander
Schwazer

Leander Schwazer is a painter working with a broad range of Media. He understands painting, in a neo-conceptual sense, like a black box. «30 most Famous People of All Time», «Bikini» and «The Alphabet I got dry with» are just a few titles of shows Leander Schwazer has lately produced. Each title refers to the hidden logic Leander Schwazer seeks to discover in everyday materials. In his work something begins to speak—something pre– or perhaps something post–human.
 

Exhibitions

Among the main solo shows we remember: 2023, Yes, duo show with Yaron G. Santos, Galleria Gefängnis Le Carceri, Caldaro (I); 2021, Forza Maggiore, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I); 2019 Extasis, KdeWe, Esslingen (D); 2017, Webergasse 13, Esslingen am Neckar (D); 2016, Ich kann keine Bank erkennen, Arbeiten 2008-2016, Forum Cassa Rurale, Bressanone (I); 2015, 30 Most Famous People of All Time, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I); 2014, Bikini, Museion for contemporary Art, Bolzano (I); 2013, Cross Spikes Club, D300 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (US); 2012, The Rape of Europe, ar/ge Kunst / Galerie Museum, Bolzano (I); The Alphabet I got dry with (1989–2010), Kunstraum B, Kiel (D); A Symbol of Freedom, Placentia Arte, Piacenza (I); 2011, Leander Schwazer: Das Kapital, Alumix, Transart Festival, Bolzano (I); 2010, Characters, Galleria Goethe2, Bolzano (I); Aither, with Garret Nelson, Van Horbourg Art in Space, Basel (CH); 2007, Besitzen, Goldbarren Zürich (CH).
 
He has also taken part in numerous goup exhibitions, including: 2023, SpecularƏ, Eck Museum of Art brunico (I); 2021, The Poetry of Translation, Merano Arte (I); TECHNO, Museion, Bolzano (I); Museum auf Probe, Villa Merkel, Esslingen (D); 2020, unlearning categories, Museion, Bolzano (I); Senza di voi non funziona nulla, Galleria Civica Bressanone (I); 2019, In zwei- oder dreihundert Jahren wird das Leben auf der Erde unvorstellbar schön sein, ESPACE NALON, Esslingen (D); Das Kapital, Landesmuseum Stuttgart (D) [Performance]; Cleaning a Collectors House, Fondazione Dalle Nogare Bolzano (I) [Performance]; 2017, Kapitalströmung, Kunsthalle Tübingen (D); Paradox Conference, Kunsthalle Tübingen (D); 2016, Our mind into a Brezel, Kunstverein Neuhausen (D); Hayward & Tamayo von Darius Mikšys, Kunstverein München (D); Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano (I); 2015, Drawings I Fridges, Greene Exhibitions Los Angeles (US); Attack Sustain Decay Release, Âme Nue Hamburg (D); 2014, From&to, Villa Arson, Nice (F), 2013, Echo, Brother McNally Gallery, Singapore (SGP); Prawnegg&Wolf, Brunico (I); 2012, Austrian Graphic Awards, Public Gallery Klagenfurt (A); Panorama 4, Fortezza (I); Austrian Graphic Awards, Waltherhaus, Bolzano (I); 2011, Austrian Graphic Awards, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (A); ReKords, Stadtgalerie Kiel (D); Neue Stofflichkeit, Hofburg Museum, Bressanone (I); 2010, COCOCO, Spazio Natta, Como (I); Ginger and the Hood, Merano Art Festival (I); 2009, Thunders of Epiphanias, Public Gallery Lanserhaus, Appiano (I); Read to burn, Prisma Gallery, Bolzano (I); 2008, Alptraum, AR/GE Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano (I); Der Muff von 175 Jahren, University of Zurich (CH); Start, Prisma Gallery, Bolzano (I); Lodz-Berlin, Book Museum, Lodz (PL); 2007, Der Rosengarten wird überschätzt, Temporary Space Werkform, Bolzano (I); VeraIcon, Bad Gallery, Zurich (CH); 2004, basecamp, Kunsthaus, Merano (I); 2003, transfer, Prisma Gallery, Bolzano (I).

Awards
2014, Fondanzione Raiffeisen, Bolzano (I); 2013, California Institute of the Arts grant (US); Residency: Singapore Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore (SGP); Travel Grant Autonomous Province of Alto Adige / Trentino (I); 2012, California Institute of the Arts grant (US); 2011, Austrian Graphic Award (Price of lower Austria) (A); Untitled, Special Award by Museion, Südtiroler Künstlerbund & Transart (I); Travel Grant by the Autonomous Province of Alto Adige / Trentino (I); 2009, Glocal Rookie of the Year, Special Award by Fondazione Cassa Risparmio di Bolzano (I).

Public collections
Museion, Museum for contemporary and modern art, Bolzano (I); Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (A).
 

Biography

Leander Schwazer (Vipiteno, Italy, 1982) studied art in Zurich, Beijing and Los Angeles.