Monica Studer (*1960 Zürich) and Christoph van den Berg (*1962 Basel)
New Media projects in collaboration since 1991, Internet projects since 1996
since 2022 member of the commission art in public space (KKiöR) of the City of Zurich (ch)
professorship at HSLU Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (ch)
(MA Fine Arts, Critical Image Practices Major)
2003 visiting professorship for New Media at the Kunsthochschule Kassel (ger)
live and work in Basel, Switzerland
| SE | solo exhibition |
| GE | group exhibition |
| AW | award, studio exchange |
| NET | Internet |
| PS | project in public space, permanent installation |
| VR | Virtual Reality |
| AR | Augmented Reality |
| (cat) | catalogue, publication |
| (coll) | collaboration |
| 2025 | |
| GE | «Entangled Protocol and the Flowing Edge» TOKAS, Tokyo (jpn) |
| GE | «Echoes of the Present. Choose your reality» Art Foundation Pax Collection, Salon Mondial, Basel (ch) |
| GE | «HALLUC» Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Art Basel Fair, Basel (ch) |
| (coll) | «UPGRADES – Strategien für den künstlerischen Umgang mit KI und Sozialen Medien» symposium, concept: Studer/van den Berg, organized by Master of Arts in Fine Arts, Critical Image Practices Major (HSLU) supported by the Creativity and Digitality Hub (HSLU – DFK), Luzern (ch) |
| 2024 | |
| GE | «Shadow Play» Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur (ch) |
| PS | «Défilé» Program MIRE, railway station Lancy-Bachet, Geneva (ch) |
| PS/AR | «be one of us extension» giveaway, ARTour Basel (ch) |
| GE | «Collection 24 - Swiss Art from the 18th century to the present» Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (ch) |
| GE | «Flowers to Art» Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (ch) |
| GE | «FRAGILE. The Post's Art Collection in Dialogue» Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur (ch) |
| 2023 | |
| GE/VR | «Éph ém ère» FMR Festival for art in digital contexts and public spaces, Linz (at) |
| GE | «Die Sammlung Anliker - 100 Werke» akku, Emmenbrücke (ch) |
| GE | «Territory as Palimpsest: The Legacy of André Corboz» Teatro dell’architettura, Mendrisio (ch) |
| 2022 | |
| GE | «The Language of Mushrooms-The Interspecies Internet» Contemporary Gallery Kunming (cn) |
| NET | «fungible giveaway» HEK Net Works, HEK House of Electronic Arts, Basel (ch) |
| GE/AR | «be one of us» ARTour «Celebrate Life» 125th aniversary of Roche, Basel (ch) |
| GE | «Hyperscapes – Virtuelle Landschaft als Sehnsuchtsort?» Kornhausforum, Bern (ch) |
| 2021 | |
| GE | «DA Z – Digital Art Zurich 2021» Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich (ch) |
| GE | «Perspectives #01. Nouvelles oeuvres de la collection» FRAC Alsace, Sélestat (f) |
| SE (cat) | «Swiss Media Art – Pax Art Awards 2020» HEK House of Electronic Arts, Basel (ch) |
| (coll) | «Augmented Authorship» Online symposium, organized by Master of Arts in Fine Arts, Critical Image Practices Major (HSLU), Lucerne, together with HEK House of Electronic Arts, Basel (ch) |
| GE | «Racines» Musée jurassien des Arts, Moutier (ch) |
| GE | «Im Masstab. Modelle für grössere Projekte» Filiale Basel (ch) |
| GE | «Loneliness II, 12 videos by 12 artists» Videocity, Basel (ch) |
| 2020 | |
| AW | Swiss Media Art – Pax Art Awards 2020 |
| GE | «Perspectives» Musée d'art de Pully (ch) |
| NET | «Hotel Vue des Alpes» redesign and mobile version of www.vuedesalpes.com, Internet art project |
| NET | «100 ways to live a minute» online project, Pushkin Museum XXI, Moscow (rus) |
| GE | «Gipfeltreffen» Helvetia Art Foyer, Basel (ch) |
| 2019 | |
| GE | «Gebändigt? Naturdarstellungen aus der Sammlung» Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen (ch) |
| GE | «Illusion Nature – Digitale Welten» Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg (ger) |
| GE (cat) | «Flight Interrupted: Eco-leaks from the Invasion Desk» Karachi Biennale (pak) |
| GE/VR | «Wenn es ein Paradies gibt, dann kommt es in Brocken» Predigerkirche, Basel (ch) |
| GE | «Through the Black Mirror Reality Turn Exhibition» Luznava Manor, Rézekne (lv) |
| 2018 | |
| GE | «20 Jahre Kunst Raum Riehen» Kunst Raum Riehen (ch) |
| GE | «20 Years of Media Art and Digital Culture in Switzerland» Installation, Talk, Migros-Kulturprozent and HEK House of Electronic Arts, Basel (ch) |
| GE/AR | «iJacking Hannover» Virtuale Switzerland and Kunsthalle Hannover (ger) |
| GE (cat) | «Tektonik-Wanderausstellung» Tektonikarena Sardona, Swiss Alps (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Blooming Signals» Kunstraum München (ger) |
| GE | «Sehnsuchtsorte» Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel (ch) |
| GE | «Open Codes» ZKM, Karlsruhe (ger), (continued, see 2017) |
| 2017 | |
| GE | «Open Codes» ZKM, Karlsruhe (ger) |
| GE | «Iteration and Blending» New Media Art Biennale, Beijing Film Academy (cn) |
| SE | «Findings» GSH Wettingen (ch) |
| GE | «Biotopia» Kunsthalle Mainz (ger) |
| GE | «Das Ringen um die Wirklichkeit» Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen (ch) |
| 2016 | |
| PS | «Sharing not Hoarding» art in public space project, NEoN in partnership with NOMAS*, Dundee City Waterfront, Dundee (uk) |
| GE | «NEoN» Digital Arts Festival, Dundee (uk) |
| SE | «Passage Park #4: A Hotspot Shack» Helvetia Art Foyer, Basel (ch) |
| GE/AR | «Virtuale Lugano» Lake Lugano (ch) |
| 2015 | |
| SE (cat) | «Sind wir schon in Echtzeit?» Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (ger) |
| GE | «Out There - Part 2» Viewmaster, projections in public space, Rotterdam (nl) |
| GE | «Teilchenparadies» Kunstraum Riehen, Riehen/Basel (ch) |
| 2014 | |
| GE | «next gen art: new horizons» Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (nl) |
| PS | «A Band of Floating Mushrooms» HEK House of Electronic Arts, Basel (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Im Hier und Jetzt!» Kunstmuseum Bern (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Alpenliebe» Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe, Grossglockner (aut) |
| GE | «Hitzewelle» Kunstmuseum Solothurn (ch) |
| GE | «going places» Basement, Münchenstein/Basel (ch) |
| SE | «Transit 504» Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel (ch) |
| 2013 | |
| GE (cat) | «Chambre de luxe» Kunstmuseum Thun (ch) |
| SE | «Studer / van den Berg» Julius Bär Art Collection, Art Abu Dhabi (uae) |
| GE (cat) | «Reality is not enough» MMOMA Moscow (rus) |
| GE | «Self-Discipline & Speculation» New Media Art Triennial, Beijing Film Academy (cn) |
| GE | «Behaglich ist anderswo» Kunstzeughaus Rapperswil (ch) |
| GE | «Helio Gravures» Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée, La Louvière (b) |
| AW | iaab studio exchange program (Atelier Mondial), Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo (jpn) |
| GE | «Ernte 2013 expansiv» Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal (ch) |
| NET | «Transit 504» www.transit504.ch, Internet art project (work in progress) |
| 2012 | |
| SE | «Primordial Matter» Kunstforum Baloise, Basel (ch) |
| GE | «Hidden/Obvious» HEK House of Electronic Arts, Basel (ch) |
| GE | «Constellations» Espace Multimédia Ganter, Belfort (f) |
| GE (cat) | «Präparat Bergsturz» Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur (ch) |
| GE | «Springende Lachse» Kunstzeughaus Rapperswil (ch) |
| GE | «Winter Worlds» Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (ch) |
| 2011 | |
| GE (cat) | «Media Perspective» Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing (cn) |
| PS | «A Band of Floating Mushrooms» HEK House of Electronic Arts, Basel (ch) |
| NET | «A Band of Floating Mushrooms» online generative music of the band, www.transit504.ch/bofm, work in progress |
| GE | «The Art of a Placebo» Open Space & AGGV, Victoria BC (ca) |
| GE | «Solothurn meets Zug Höhepunkte zweier Sammlungen» Kunsthaus Zug (ch) |
| GE | «Blütenlese» Kunstmuseum Olten (ch) |
| PS | «Wasserfall» permanent installation, UBS Gartenstrasse, Basel |
| SE | «Spells and Mushrooms» Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel (ch) |
| 2010 | |
| SE | «Monica Studer / Christoph van den Berg» Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel (ch) |
| GE | «For Real» Viewmaster, 30 utopian projections in public space, Maastricht (nl) |
| GE (cat) | «Triennale de l'art imprimé contemporain» Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle (ch) |
| GE | «Beam me up» plug.in, Basel (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Schweiz ohne Schweiz» Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Pittoresk - Neue Perspektiven auf das Landschaftsbild» Museum MARTa, Herford (ger), in cooperation with S.M.A.K. Gent (b) |
| PS | «Gehege» permanent installation, veterinary clinic, Zürich (ch) |
| 2009 | |
| GE (cat) | «Beyond the Picturesque» S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent (b) |
| GE (cat) | «Holbein bis Tillmans, Prominete Gäste aus dem Kunstmuseum Basel» Schaulager, Münchenstein/Basel (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Vermessen. Strategie zur Erfassung von Raum» Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Schnee» Voralberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz (aut) |
| GE | «Three leap seconds later» Kunsthaus Grenchen (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Wanderziel Kunst: Ein- und Aussichten» Wildstrubelhütte (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Landschaft 2.0» Eine Ausstellung zu Realität und Künstlichkeit von Landschaft, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg (ger) |
| GE | «Interieurs. Gesammelte Einsichten» Aaragauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (ch) |
| NET (coll) | «beam me up» www.beam-me.net, curated by Reinhard Storz, conceptual collaboration |
| NET | «T.R.I.P.» www.beam-me.net/art/fowdib, Internet art project |
| 2008 | |
| GE (cat) | «Broadcast Yourself» AV Festival 08, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, and Cornerhouse, Manchester (uk) |
| GE (cat) | «Enigma Helvetia» Museo Cantonale d’Arte and Museo d’Arte Moderna, Lugano (ch) |
| GE | «Beiz / Bistro» Kunstmuseum Olten (ch) |
| GE | «Helio» Photoforum PasquArt, Biel (ch) |
| NET | «Add-Art» curated by Sara Cook |
| PS | «Felswand, Ufer, Brocken» permanent installation, Roche Diagnostics, Rotkreuz (ch) |
| 2007 | |
| GE | «All that on paper!» Villa Merkel, Esslingen/Neckar (ger) |
| GE (cat) | «Swiss MadeII» Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (ger) |
| GE | «Nature revisited» Substitut, Berlin (ger) |
| GE (cat) | «Etant donné: Die Sammlung» Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (ch) |
| SE | «Monica Studer / Christoph van den Berg» Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel (ch) |
| 2006 | |
| SE | «Vue des Alpes» FRAC Alsace, Sélestat (f) |
| GE (cat) | «In den Alpen» Kunsthaus Zürich (ch) |
| GE | «Son et Lumière» Kunstmuseum Solothurn (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Alpine Air» Bunkamura Museum, Tokyo (jpn), in cooperation with Aargauer Kunstmuseum |
| GE | «Reisen mit der Kunst» Stiftung Kunst heute, Bern (ch) |
| GE | «No peak no view» Viper Festival, Basel (ch) |
| SE (cat) | «Somewhere Else is the Same Place» Kunstmuseum Solothurn (ch) |
| 2005 | |
| SE | «Rocks, Flowers and a Touch of Dizziness» Kunstforum Baloise, Basel (ch) |
| SE | «Package Holiday» BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (uk) |
| GE (cat) | «Alpine Air» Matsumoto City Museum, Nagano, and Shimane Art Museum, Matsue (jpn), in cooperation with Aargauer Kunstmuseum and Bunkamura Museum, Tokyo |
| GE | «Swiss videolandscape today - looped sensations» Viper in cooperation with Image Forum Tokyo, Goethe Institute, Kyoto, City Public Library, Fukuoka, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Yokohama Museum of Art, Chiba City Museum of Art (jpn) |
| GE (cat) | «Quand les latitudes deviennent suisses» FRAC Lorraine, Metz (f) |
| GE (cat) | «Montagne, je te hais. Montagne, je t'adore» Musée des beaux-arts Sion (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Pathetischer Betrug» Art Frankfurt (ger) |
| GE | «Office World» Espace Culturel de la Tour OFS, Neuchâtel (ch) |
| NET | «Travelogue» www.56k-bastard.tv, Internet art project |
| PS (coll)(cat) | «Der Berg» (Yama), world exposition 2005, Aichi (jpn), Swiss Pavillon. Form and surface of the mountain Studer / van den Berg, pavillon concept and architecture in collaboration with the authoring group panorama 2000 |
| 2004 | |
| GE (cat) | «Die Sehnsucht des Kartografen» Kunstverein Hannover (ger) |
| GE (cat) | «Swiss Media Art Today» presented by plug.in, Basel, for Jiff Mind Festival, Jeonju (kor) |
| GE | «Glück» Luitpold Lounge, München, ACC Galerie, Weimar (ger) |
| GE | Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel (ch) |
| GE | «Illusion at first sight» exhibition space Klingental, Basel (ch) |
| GE | «Sensations Suisses» Centre Culturel Suisse, Place Vendôme, Paris (f) |
| AW | artist residency award Landis & Gyr Foundation, London (uk) |
| NET (coll) | «56k TV Bastard Channel» www.56k-bastard.tv, Internet art project, curated by Reinhard Storz, conceptual collaboration |
| 2003 | |
| SE | «www.vuedesalpes.com» Wolfsberg Centre, Ermatingen (ch) |
| GE | «Statements» Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach (us) |
| GE (cat) | «Neue Räume» Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (ch) |
| GE | «Media Space Suiza - Contemporary Swiss Media Art» Centro Conde Duque, Madrid (esp) |
| GE | «Mursollaici» Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (f) |
| GE | «Diplomatic suitcase» travelling art project of the Swiss Foreign Department, Bern (ch), New York (us), Sydney (au), Beijing (cn), Genova (it), Stockholm (se) |
| PS | «Zu Gast in Appenzell» 50th anniversary of Raiffeisen Bank, Appenzell (ch) |
| PS | «Gleissenhorn Livecam» permanent installation, Stiftung Pro Helvetia, Zürich (ch) |
| 2002 | |
| SE | «Gleissenhorn» Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel (ch) |
| SE (cat) | «a Walk, a Ride, a Lift» Villa Merkel, Esslingen/Neckar (ger) |
| GE (cat) | «Schöne Aussicht» KunstMeran, Merano (it) |
| GE (cat) | «Backlight 02+17» Museum Centre Vaprikki, Tampere (fin) |
| GE (cat) | «Kopfreisen» Kunstmuseum Bern (ch), and Schloss Trautenfels, Joanneum Graz (aut) |
| GE (cat) | «Not only Chocolate» Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv (ukr) |
| GE (cat) | «Bollywood» Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich (ch) |
| GE | «Tapetenwechsel» Kunstmuseum Solothurn (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Mo(u)numental» Tyroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (aut) |
| GE (cat) | «Im Sucher» Kunstmuseum Solothurn (ch) |
| PS (coll) | Panorama «Schweiz Version 2.1» Monolith, Arteplage Murten, «expo.02» Swiss National Exposition (ch), concept in collaboration with the authoring group «panorama 2000» |
| 2001 | |
| SE (cat) | «Templates» Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Panorama» Kunstmuseum Thun (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Collection Cahiers d'Artistes edition 1997-1999» Centre PasquArt, Biel (ch) |
| NET (coll) | «shrink to fit» collaborative net project, concept and organisation in collaboration with Reinhard Storz, Barbara Basting, Hans-Rudolf Reust, www.xcult.org |
| PS (cat) | «Revier» permanent installation, Merian Park botanical gardens, Brüglingen/Basel (ch) |
| 2000 | |
| GE (cat) | «A quoi tu joues?» attitudes, Geneva (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Etat des lieux #4» Fri-Art, Fribourg (ch) |
| NET | «Hotel Vue des Alpes» work in progress (ongoing), www.vuedesalpes.com |
| AW | Swiss Art Awards |
| 1999 | |
| SE (cat) | «Au-delà du réel» Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Publi(c)Domain» 3. Austrian Photography Triennale, Graz (aut) |
| GE (cat) | «ailleurs 3» Glassbox, Paris (f) |
| GE (cat) | «Heartbreak Hotel» Hotel Beau Rivage, Thun (ch) |
| GE (cat) | «Young - New Photography in Swiss Art» Fotomuseum Winterthur (ch) |
| NET (coll) | «The RAM Show» collaborative net project, concept and organisation in collaboration with Reinhard Storz, www.ramshow.com |
| 1998 | |
| AW | iaab studio exchange program (Atelier Mondial), Tapiola Guest Studios, Helsinki (fin) |
| NET | «Still Life Take Away» net art project, www.xcult.org |
| NET | «Vieport Helsinki» net art project, www.xcult.org |
| 1997 | |
| SE (cat) | «Wie man eine Seele baut» Muséen Jurassien des Arts, Moutier (ch) |
| AW | Artist Residency Award Kunstkredit Basel–Stadt, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (f) |
| AW | Artist Award, Kunstkredit Basel–Stadt(ch) |
| GE (cat) | «2000 minus 3 - ArtSpace plus Interface» Steirischer Herbst, Graz (aut) |
| GE (cat) | «P.O.Box» travelling project, Art Museum Bonn (ger), Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel (ch) |
| 1996 | |
| SE (cat) | «Stadt C - verschwundene Bauten» Kleines Helmhaus, Zürich (ch) |
| PS (coll) | «Filiale Erben» collaborative exhibition curating programme, Filiale, Basel (ch) |
| NET | various net art projects, www.xcult.org (since 1996) |
| 1995 | |
| SE (cat) | «solid memory places» Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (ch) |
| SE | «solid memory places» Filiale, Basel (ch) |
| GE | «nebenher gehen» Wenken Park, Riehen/Basel (ch) |
| AW | Artist Award of the Alexander Clavel Foundation, Riehen/Basel (ch) |
| 1994 | |
| PS | «Legende» permanent installation, UBS Training Centre, Basel (ch) |
| GE | «Fragment» Kunstkredit Basel–Stadt (ch) |
| 1993 | |
| GE | «Mutationen» Filiale, Basel (ch) |
| GE | «Voyeur» Sammlung Hornberg, Filiale, Basel (ch) |
| SE | «Über Sehen» Kunst am Arbeitsplatz, Kunstkredit Basel–Stadt (ch) |
| AW | Artist Award (Werkjahr), Kanton Luzern (ch) |
| AW | Artist Award, Kunstkredit Basel–Stadt(ch) |
| 1992 | |
| SE | «Sprachlich-formales System» Filiale, Basel (ch) |
| GE | «Bitland» SORTIMENT, Basel (ch) |
| 1991 | |
| GE (cat) | «Installation, Objekte, Skulpturen, Malerei» Schloss Ebenrain, Sissach, (ch) |