Nicolas Vionnet

Swiss. Born 1976, lives and works in the Zurich area.

Nicolas Vionnet is fascinated by irritations. A multi-disciplinary artist, Vionnet is creator of thought-provoking, jarring and sometimes playful interventions between objects, conceptual paintings and installations which provoke a dialogue with their environment. Like an electrician wiring a circuit, Vionnet interconnects objects together. However, instead of closing the circuit and creating functionality through the correct interconnection, Vionnet's work may appear functional for a split second then impossible on second glance.

Vionnet graduated from the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel. He graduated in 2009 from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with a Master of Fine Arts degree after studying on the university’s Public Art and New Artistic Strategies programme. Vionnet has participated in various exhibitions at home and abroad since 1999, including 5th Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art (UKR), 4th Aarhus Biennial Exhibition Sculpture by the Sea (DEN), III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (RUS), The Wilson - Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum (GBR), Städtische Galerie Kubus Hannover (GER), Alpines Museum der Schweiz Bern (CHE).

ART FAIRS

2023 Art Market Budapest - Art Fair, BBA Gallery, Hungary.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

  • To be honest, I never wanted to become an electrician anyway, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

2016

  • Silence, Galerie widmertheodoridis, Eschlikon, Switzerland.

2013

  • Warum Denken traurig macht, akku Kunstkiste Space, Stadtpark Uster, Switzerland.

2011

  • Silence, Galerie widmertheodoridis, Zurich, Switzerland.

2008

  • Rasen betreten verboten, BStU, Erfurt, Germany.

2007

  • Unwetter, Galerie hippopotamus contemporary, Basel, Switzerland.

2006

  • Nicolas Vionnet – Malerei, Messeturm Basel, Switzerland.

2004

  • Nicolas Vionnet - Paintings, Parterre, Kaserne Basel, Switzerland.

  • Nicolas Vionnet - Malerei, Ausstellungsraum Etage, Obere Fabrik Sissach, Switzerland.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025​

  • Können wir verzeihen?, Haus zur Glocke, Steckborn, Switzerland.

  • BBA Prizes 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany.

  • Terra Incognita (Unknown Land), Al-Tiba9 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.

  • Booth 09, online exhibition, Alfa Gallery, Miami / New York, USA.

2024

  • ​Artlab, Galerie Benjamin Eck, Munich, Germany.

  • Gegenwart, 9th Swiss Triennial of Sculpture, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland.

  • Mondeslicht mit Netzen fangen, Villa Grunholzer, Uster, Switzerland.

​2023

  • More is Never Enough, Field Projects Gallery, New York, USA.

  • Art Matters 7, online exhibition, Galerie Biesenbach, Köln, Germany.

  • Kulturwochen Ebenrain, Sissach, Switzerland.

  • ARTMUC Kunstmesse, BBA Gallery, Germany.

  • The Power of Infinity, online exhibition, Alfa Gallery, Miami / New York, USA.

  • About Face, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, USA.

2022

  • Foundation JetztKunst, No.13, Gartenbad Eglisee, Basel, Switzerland.

  • Flow, online exhibition, Alfa Gallery, Miami / New York, USA.

  • Emerging Artists 2022, online exhibition, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA.

  • Untitled Miami, online exhibition, Alfa Gallery, Miami, USA.

2021

  • Interior, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland.

  • Garage, Community Exhibition Project, Missoula, USA.

  • Back to Athens 8, International Arts Festival, Galerie widmertheodoridis, Athens, Greece.

  • Orbit - 13 Art Stations, Eschlikon, Switzerland.

  • Twingi Land Art, Landschaftspark Binntal, Switzerland.

2020

  • Viewing Rooms, online exhibition, Alfa Gallery, Miami, USA.

  • Ars Electronica, .ART Gallery, online exhibition, Linz, Austria.

  • EXH 03, online exhibition, Floorr Magazine, London, UK.

  • Booth 07, online exhibition, Alfa Gallery, Miami, USA.

  • BBA 2020, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

  • Alles im grünen Bereich?, Kulturort Galerie Weiertal, Winterthur, Switzerland.

2019

  • Gasträume - Public Art in Zurich, in collaboration with widmertheodoridis gallery, Tessinerplatz Zurich, Switzerland.

  • OG Kush, Alfa Gallery, Miami, USA.

  • Half A Pound Of Art, størpunkt, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Munich, Germany.

  • Room 105, Galerie widmertheodoridis, Eschlikon, Switzerland.

  • Fashion, størpunkt, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Munich, Switzerland.

  • YICCA, International Contest for Contemporary Art, final exhibition, HDLU (Hrvatsko društvo likovnih umjetnika), Prsten Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia.

2018​

  • Onyx, Alfa Gallery, Miami, USA.

  • Transformation, Gallery MC, New York, USA.

  • Juried Exhibition, ATHICA, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, USA.

  • Boys Will Be Boys, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, USA.

  • Emerging Artists Vol. 3, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

  • Material, Alfa Gallery, Miami, USA.

2017

  • Transform, Alfa Gallery, Miami, USA.

  • Turbulence Area, Main Project, 5th Odessa Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ukraine.

  • Alles muss rein!, Griesbad Gallery, Ulm, Germany.

  • Summer Exhibition, The Concept Space - Bermondsey, London, UK.

  • Contemporary Landscape, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), Gimpo-si, South Korea.
    Half-Truth, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

2016

  • Regionale 17, Accélérateur de particules à AEDAEN, Strasbourg, France.

  • Regionale 17, Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Switzerland.

  • The Others Art Fair, Galerie widmertheodoridis, Torino, Italy.

  • Les jours des éphémères, Alpines Museum der Schweiz, Bern, Switzerland.

  • Concept, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), Gimpo-si, South Korea.

  • Taboo Art Prize, Celeste Network, Galleria Poggiali & Forconi, Florence, Italy.

 2015

  • 31. Solothurner Jahresausstellung, Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland.

  • Sculpture by the sea, 4th Biennial Aarhus Exhibition, Aarhus, Denmark.

  • The open west, The Wilson – Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, UK.

  • There is a reality that we must squarely face, Sihlquai55, Zurich, Switzerland.

  • Pop Living, Schwartz Gallery, London, UK.

  • Incognito, Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, Videbæk, Denmark.

2014

  • Frisch, Kabinett visarte, Zurich, Switzerland.

  • Trovato, non veduto, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland.

  • Aus gutem Grund, Galerie widmertheodoridis, Eschlikon, Switzerland.

  • Keine Systeme, BlackBox Gastausstellung, Forum Schlossplatz Aarau / Kunstraum Aarau, Switzerland.

  • Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA.

  • Top 40, Juried Competition Winners Exhibit. LACDA, Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, USA.

  • Yesterday-Tomorrow, Kulturort Galerie Weiertal, Winterthur, Switzerland.

  • Meet! Aus der Luft gegriffen, Städtische Galerie KUBUS, Hannover, Germany.

2013

  • 21IN5, Galerie marke.6, Neues Museum Weimar, Germany.

  • Shape the Scape - Landschaft in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Eine Erkundung. WIDMER+THEODORIDIS contemporary, Zurich. International exhibition series in collaboration with Kit Schulte Contemporary Art (Berlin), Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst (Cologne), Galerie Gilla Lörcher (Berlin) und Galerie Ulrich Mueller (Cologne), Switzerland and Germany.

  • Trial & Error, Shedhalle, Forum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Tübingen, Germany.

  • Kunst für Alle! Projektreihe Partizipative Kunst. Teil 1: Wir sind die Stadt, Ulm, Germany.

2012

  • Auf- und Abklären: Kunst in der Kläranlage. Abwasserreinigungsanlage ARA, Uster, Switzerland.

  • Under A Tinsel Sun, Main Project, III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. 

  • Central House of Artists, National Center for contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

  • Kollisonen. Galerie marke.6, Neues Museum Weimar, Germnany.

  • Kunst in der Zwicky, jurierte Ausstellung und Skulpturenpfad, Fällanden, Switzerland.

  • Men at work, WIDMER+THEODORIDIS contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland.

  • Grafik 12, Youngart.ch, Zurich, Switzerland.

2011

  • Begehungen No.8, Kunst- und Kulturfestival, Chemnitz, Germany.

2010

  • Anonymous Drawings, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany.

  • Jahresausstellung Künstlervereinigung Zürich, Kunstdach, Uster, Switzerland.

  • Hochformat, Villa am Aabach, Uster, Switzerland.

  • Mobilmachen. Ein Zeughaus wird zum aktiven Kunstraum, Zeughaus Gelterkinden, Switzerland.

2009

  • VierARTstättersee, 2. Skulpturenausstellung Viznau, Luzern, Switzerland.

  • We Care A Lot (About Art in Public Space), Medium Gallery, Sign+ Gallery, Groningen, Netherlands.

  • Abfahrt 29:01 – Ankunft 15:02, Kunst für den öffentlichen Raum von Leipzig, Germany.

2008

  • Anonymous Drawings, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.

  • Regionale 9, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland.

  • Künstler erklärt Euch solidarisch mit der Kunst, Galerie marke.6, Neues Museum Weimar, Germany.

  • Es gibt Häppchen! E105, Halle für Kunst und Design, Bonn, Germany.

  • Kunstraum 2008, Ausstellungsraum raum.fabrik, Untere Fabrik, Sissach, Switzerland.

  • Wanderlust, 13 temporäre Interventionen im öffentlichen Raum von Weimar, Germany.

2007

  • Kunstrapport, Cheddite-Areal, Liestal, Germany.

2005

  • Positions - 3 x Malerei, Ausstellungsraum raum.fabrik, Untere Fabrik Sissach, Switzerland.

2004

  • Regionale 5, Kunst Raum Riehen, Switzerland.

2002

  • Diplom 02, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel. Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland.

  • Project Supermarket, LISTE 02, The Young Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland.

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