jay rechsteiner
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artist statement & curriculum vitaeI was born in 1971 in Basel, Switzerland, and educated in Switzerland, Japan, and the UK. Now living and working in Margate, UK, my work spans various media, including painting, drawing, film, sound, and performance. My focus is on two series: Bad Painting and All About You. Bad Painting features faux-naïf style artworks addressing real human atrocities, with text sourced from various headlines. Each piece combines bold brushstrokes with descriptive text to capture contemporary societal shifts. All About You examines the complexities of the modern mind in the age of social media, touching on themes like spiritual healing and affirmations. Using materials like printing paper and masking tape, it highlights the temporary nature of material things versus the enduring power of ideas. Including self-portraits adds a personal layer, showing the human connection between the art and the artist. My goal is to create thought-provoking works that resonate on both intellectual and emotional levels.
AwardsWinner of The Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize 2024 Anthology 2017 finalists, Charlie Smith Gallery, London, UK, http://charliesmithlondon.com/anthology-2017-2/ shortlisted for 34. Fukuoka-City Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka-City, Japan, 2000
Exhibitions & projectsSolo shows 2012 JAY GUN - The Most Dangerous Man on the Planet, WW Gallery 2004 Glatzen leben, Schmaler Wurf, Basel, Switzerland 2003 Sushi concenpt speaks Portuguese in kunstschlachthalle Jay Rechsteiner, the contemporay art gallery Ben Rubin Sharif (Arté Wallhof), Switzerland 2003 Autobahn Kreuzkopf, Retirement Home Johanniter, Basel-city, Switzerland 2002 COM I.C.-BOX 102: Kings, Hookers and a Parasite, restaurant Parterre, Basel-City, Switzerland 2000 Jay Rechsteiner Exhibition: Polymorphic Mud, Saibu Gas Gallery (Canal City), Fukuoka-City 2000 Jay Rechsteiner Exhibition: Polymorphic Masturbation, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka-City, Japan 2000 Jay Rechsteiner Exhibition: Polymorphic Decay in Culture, Do Plan Gallery, Fukuoka-City, Japan 1999 Rechsteiner Jay Exhbition: Tohuwabohu - The Big Mess, Solo Show, Charlie's Art Market, Fukuoka-City, Japan
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Group shows 7. - 22 April 2023 DIKTAT : DAS BÖSE curated by Peter Schlangenbader Atelierhof Kreuzberg / Verein Kunst in Kreuzberg e.V., Schleiermacher Str. 31-37, 10961 Berlin, Germany 24 Sep - 16 Oct 2022 Aktionale IV 2022: Das nackte Sein, Haus der Künstler, Verein Berliner Künstler, Schöneberger Ufer 57, 10785 Berlin Tiergarten-Mitte, Germany, https://aktionale.wordpress.com/kunstlerinnen-der-aktionale-iv/ 23 Sep - 2 Oct 2022 A Perfect Day, NDSM, The Netherlands https://aperfectday.amsterdam/ 23 Oc 2021 - 20 Feb 2022 Turner Contemporary Open at Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK 5 September - 10 October 2020, extended until 19 December 2020 Unleashed Speed Unleashed Speech(MISFITS) curated by Stefan Brüggemann, inlcuding: Oriol Vilanova, Jay Rechsteiner, Gardar Eide Einarsson, and Stefan Brüggemann at Kotaro Nukaga Gallery, Tokyo more info: https://www.kotaronukaga.com/en/projects/unleashed-speed-unleashed-speechmisfits-en/ 1 - 15 December 2020 Global Conversations round 2, The United Nations' UN75, F.99 and IKONOSPACE return with a new partner Google Arts & Culture.Works selected by Gilléad-Gaari Mziray, Curated by Deirdre Darden, https://www.f-99.org/globalconversation 15 - 30 September 2020 Global Conversation, virtuall collaborative exhibition curated by Gilléad-Gaari Mziray and Ikono Space, United Nations, UN75. (https://www.f-99.org/ and https://un75.online/ 22 May - 22 Aug 2020 I Might Be Staring at Infinity (or the backs of my own eyelids) at Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Bayil District (National Flag Square), Baku, Azerbaijan, AZ1003- virtual ARTIM Project Space located on a spaceship that crosses the universe click HERE for exhibition info 9 January 2020 Civil Disobedience: residente o visitante at Romantso Gallery, Athens. - more INFO Sep 2019 - Jan 2020 A conversation in my head while examining the very existence of house plants: A radio play installation at 101 Social Club & Turner Contemporary, Margate UK, part of Margate Now- more INFO 30 Nov - 21 Dec 2019 Christmas Exhibition at Galerie Wolfsen, Titheladen 6, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark http://galeriewolfsen.dk/juleudstilling-2019.aspx 21 - 31 March 2019, Bad Video Art Festival III,
Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow,
строение 4, Novoryazanskaya Ulitsa, 29 строение 4, Moscow, Russia, 105066 14 September - 31 October 2018, Rechsteiner and Reynolds & Rose curated by Alsyon Hunter, Eaton Hill Gallery, 6 Eaton Hill Margate, UK 2018 Crate conversations August, responding to 'Mapping Margate' exhibition at Crate, Thursday 30 August 2018, 6pm - 9pm, Crate Project space, Margate, Uk 2018 The Sex Show, Thu, 12 July - 15 July 2015 atThe Viking Gallery, Cliftonville Avenue, CT9 2AH Margate, UK 2018 Domino -Crate converstion, Monday 23 July, 6pm - 9pm, Crate Project space, Margate, Uk 2018 Pass it on - A Crate conversationst, Sunday, 24 June 2018, 6pm - 9pm, Crate Project space, Margate: Jo Murray, Dipesh Pandya, Jay Rechsteiner, Heather Tait, Sara Trillo 2018 At the Violet Hour, curated by Chiara Contemporary Art & Shaun Stamp, Nayland Rock Hotel, Margate, UK info: http://www.chiarawilliams.com/at-the-violet-hour.html 2017 Performance of Dada poetry with Tracey Thompson, Emile Sercombe, Dan Thompson & Jay Rechsteiner 2017 Homopromo, 5 December 2017, organized & curated by ARTIQ & James Kemp, Herman Miller's central London offices, UK 2017 Piece@thePie14 - 20 September 2017, Pie Factory, Margate, UK -> IT'S JUST NICE TO BE EXHIBITED. 2017 The ships are always there, Chiara Williams Contemporary Art, Crate Space, Margate, UK http://www.chiarawilliams.com/ships.html 2017 Anthology 2017 finalists, Charlie Smith Gallery, London, UK, http://charliesmithlondon.com/anthology-2017-2/ 2017 Littoral Light II 28 July 9pm - 10:30pm, Article 10, organized & curated by Sue Fletcher & Aidan Gray, Ramsgate, UK: http://jayrechsteiner.com/its_my_art_now.htm#littorallight http://jayrechsteiner.com/the_blue_room.html http://ramsgatefestival.org/event/littoral-light-ii/ 2017 Afternoon Tea 8 - 16 July 2017, Chiara Williams Contemporary Art, part of Margate Festival 2017, Margate, UK, http://www.chiarawilliams.com/afternoon-tea.html 2017 Bad Video Art Festival from March 23 to April 2, 201, A3 Gallery, Moscow, Russia, http://www.badvideoart.com 2016 Let's make the world a better place, curated by Infinity Bunce & Sarah Jeffries, Cello Factory, London 2015 Oli Bennett Secret Cards, Westminster School, London, UK 2015 FIGUR|E|ATION., GalleryEll 2014 Werke sind Wesen - Les hirondelles sont le Printemps, Villa Renata, Basel, Switzerland 2013 Together, Occupy My Time Gallery, London 2012 Spare Parts 2012, The Rag Factory, London 2012 How to Make a Monster, High Voltage Lab, Markthalle, Basel, Switzerland 2012 Grand Cru High Voltage Gallery, Markthalle, Viaduktstrasse 10, 4051 Basel, Switzerland 2012 BYOP London at Moving Image- an art fair of Contemporary Video Art, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, UK 2011 Islington Exhibits, London, UK 2006 Now or Neverland, the Residence Gallery, London , UK 2004 Tennis Club St. George, Surry, Weybridge, UK 2004 Switch-London 50/500, organised by switch-london.com 2004 Leonards EC1, organised by mesto.co.uk, London, UK 2004 Arundell Trust, St. Ethelsburga's, London, UK 2003 Regionale 2013 Projectraum 54, Basel-City, Switzerland 2003 Art Lounge, Nordstern, Basel-City, Switzerland 2000 participation at Tang Da Wu - My Life Project, Art project at the Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka-City, Japan 2000 Culture Crash I, II & III, Group exhibition in three different galleries: Arcos, Amikasu Gallery & Saibu Gas Gallery, Fukuoka-City 2000 34. Fukuoka-City Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka-City, Japan 1999 Artistic X'mas, Group show at Charlie's Art Market, Fukuoka-City, Japan
ProjectsThe Red Van joint research project with Chiara Williams Contemporary Art 02 April 2016: The Red Van London Pit Stop, WW Contemporary Art HQ, London 17 March 2016: in front of Roxy Bar, Castellammare del Golfo TP, Sicily 10 August 2015: The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière in Lyon 09 August 2015: very short pop-up show in the car parks of MAM St Etienne 05 August 2015: St Angel, Haute Corrèze
A series of interactive work that engages with social media The Washroom Projects 2005 - 2006: various site-specifi projetcts 2006: Whitechapel Gallery 2006: Whitechapel Gallery 2005: the Foundry 2005: the Foundry 2005: the Foundry 2005: Paddington Station 2005: Paddington Station 2005: Notting Hill Arts Club 2005: Liverpool Street Station 2005: Kings Cross 2005: Hackney Town Hall Square (as part of Hackney Empire's Spice Festival) 2005: Hackney Empire 2005: Gallery 291 2005: Filthy McNasty's 2005: Angel Station
[zeiTraum] joint project with Eunji Kim 2007 Saatchi & Saatchi, London, UK, organised by CULT-GEIST www.cultgeist.com 2006 Whitechapel Gallery 2006 Whitechapel Gallery . The Washroom Talks more info: http://www.zeitraum.co.uk/zeitraum/storage.htm
2007 Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 2007 Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 2007 gallery:space in Finsbury Park, London, UK 2007 Hackney Empire Theatre, London, UK 2007 Hackney Empire Theatre's Marie Lloyd Bar, London, UK
Sardine & Tobleroni (group & solo shows) joint project with Victor 'Torpedo' Sliveira
2015 We Love 77, Laboratório das Artes, Largo do Toural, Edifício do Café Milenário, 4810 Guimarães, Portugal 2015 We Love 77, Edificio Montepio,Porto, Portual part of Keep it simple, keep it fast) 2014 We Love 77, Museu Bernardo, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal 2013 We Love 77, Rabiscuits Arte Experimental: 02 Aug 2013 2012 Espelho Meu, Mercado Negro, Aveira, Portugal 2011 We Love 77 incl. series of Punk concerts at States Club, Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, Portugal 2011 Summer Kamp - online project 2011 Regional 12, FABRIKculture, 60, rue de Bâle, 68220 Hégenheim, France 2011 CrossBreeding - Solo Show, organized by Cameleon, Casa das Artes, Coimbra, Portugal 2011 Sensations - online project 2011 Afternoon Tea, WW Gallery, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy 2011 London Art Fair, WW Gallery 2010 Pot Shots, WW Gallery, London 2010 We Love 77, WW Gallery's pop-up venue at the Merchant's Hall, London 2010 Hackney Wicked: Solo Show, London 2010 Grandola, Biblioteca, Portugal 2010 Drink & Dial, WW Gallery 2009 Travelling Light, 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy 2009 Travelling Light , WW Gallery 2009 Parental Guidance, WW Gallery, London 2009 Espelho Meu, Academico Gil Vicente & Salão Brasil, Coimbra, Portugal 2008 The Charity Shop, Gallery 5, Notting Hill, London, UK 2008 Red Meat, the Others, London, UK 2008 Espelho Meu, Santiago Alquimista, Lisbon, Portugal 2008 Espelho Meu, Plano B , Porto, Portugal 2008 Espelho Meu, Braço de Prata Factory, Lisbon, Portugal 2007 Dorian Gray II Happy Days, John Jones, London, UK
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