With a career spanning more than fifty years, John Armleder’s oeuvre is equally expansive. At various points he has been dubbed part of Fluxus, Suprematism, and Minimalism movements, and his diverse output—which transcends media and genre— continues to defy categorisation. Drawing from an array of historical moments, from Dada to Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual art, Armleder’s practice opens new aesthetic and visual horizons.
Born in Geneva where he still lives, Armleder studied at the city’s École des Beaux-Arts. In 1969, he cofounded the Ecart Group. Armleder’s work is held in museums worldwide including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark. His exhibition history is similarly international, and over the past ten years, Armleder has had solo exhibitions at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; and the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai. This year saw his solo presentation Monotypes at Kunsthalle Zürich.
