Video Statement about STOA 169
 

The vertigo of modern life
20 years of the DA2 Collection and Coca-Cola Foundation Collection

Curated by Paco Barragán

On the occasion of the significant celebration of the 20th anniversary of the DA2 (Domus Artium 2002) in Salamanca, we present the ambitious project El vértigo de la vida moderna (The Vertigo of Modern Life). Curated by Paco Barragán from the DA2 Collection and the Coca-Cola Foundation Collection, the exhibition establishes a fascinating comparison between the avant-garde of the early 20th century and the contemporary art of the early 21st century. The curator reflects that the vertiginous atmosphere we live in at the beginning of the 21st century reminds us a lot of the no less agitated atmosphere of the beginning of the 20th century.
 
 

now available: Roland Fischer „Written in an Image“
Hardcover, 152 Pages, 102 illustrations (including a poster)
Kerber Verlag

 
Presse: Roland Fischer in TRIERISCHER VOLKSFREUND 2022
 

Roland Fischer: „WRITTEN IN AN IMAGE“, Solo Exhibition, Museum Haus Beda, Bitburg, Germany 2022
 

Roland Fischer’s „Nikko“ (180 x 125cm) from the series „Façades“ together with Sol LeWitt (on the floor) at:
 
THE IMPERMANENT COLLECTION #3.0, GAMeC
Galleria D’arte Moderna e Contemporanea Di Bergamo
11 Mar, 2022 – 08 Jan, 2023 
The exhibition constitutes a fluid display which, on the one hand, aims to explore themes that have characterized art history over the last thirty years, starting with works from the Collection organized in a series of thematic displays, with the intention of creating new connections and revealing unexpected contrasts and resonances; while on the other hand, it intends to emphasize impermanence, understood as an opening to new possibilities and future perspectives.
 
artists:
Cory Arcangel, Carlo Benvenuto, Maurizio Cattelan, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Roland Fischer, Sol LeWitt, Eva e Franco Mattes, Yan Pei-Ming, Ettore Spalletti, Chen Zhen and more
 
 

Outdoor Sculpture „Kubus im See“ for Munich Re Art Collection (Office Building at „Am Münchner Tor“ 2021 (12,7m x 4,4m x 3,6m)

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„Column for the 21st Century“: New installation by Roland Fischer in the Gilching Süd Industrial Park.

Gilching, November 12th, 2021 – Inspired by the STOA169 in Polling, the “Column for the 21st Century” by artist Roland Fischer has been created in the [working.living HOUSE], a homage to the columned hall. The Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv served as a template for the installation, the geometric shapes of which can be now found in the office building in Gilching on a scale of about 1:30.

„Säule für das 21. Jahrhundert“ Neuinstallation von Roland Fischer im Gewerbegebiet Gilching Süd.

Gilching, 12.11.2021 – Inspiriert vom STOA169 in Polling ist im [working.living HOUSE] die „Säule für das 21. Jahrhundert“ des Künstlers Roland Fischer entstanden, eine Hommage an die Säulenhalle. Als Vorlage für die Installation diente das Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv, dessen geometrische Formen sich nun im Bürogebäude in Gilching im Maßstab von etwa 1:30 wiederfinden.
 
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Video about the „Column for the 21st Century“
 

„Silencio y Mirada 2“, MAS Museo de Arte Moderno, Santander, Spain, 01 Sep 2021 – 08 Oct 2021
 
Artists: Gabriele Basilico, Roland Fischer, Juan Uslé, Santiago Sierra, Hannah Collins and more
 
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„Eine Säule für Gilching“: Roland Fischer in Süddeutsche Zeitung
 
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Roland Fischer, Richard Long in: „Caminos I“ @ CAGC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, until 26 September 2021
 
Artists: Richard Long, David NaSiah Armajani, Gabriel Díaz, Roland Fischer, Hamish Fulton, Christian García Bello, Per Kirkeby, Manolo Paz, Rubén Ramos Balsa, Humberto Rivas, Ulrich Rückriem, Beat Streuli, Jesús Madriñán, Roman Signer, Montserrat Soto, Guido van der Werve, Sophie Whettnall, Peter Wüthrich

 
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„Notes from the Lockdown“ Roland Fischer in Süddeutsche Zeitung
 
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New video on Roland Fischer’s series „FAÇADES“, produced by the Spanish museum BOMBAS GENS in Valençia
 

 
 
Roland Fischer Interview, re-published in 2030 MAGAZIN
 

 

Roland Fischer’s column, entitled

„No Man is an Island“

is now installed at STOA 169
 
STOA 169, THE ARTIST COLUMNED HALL IN POLLING

OVER 100 ARTISTS FROM ALL CONTINENTS DESIGN COLUMNS FOR STOA169

A hall of art in the middle of nature, supported by over 100 individually designed columns, created by internationally renowned artists from all over the world: the artist Bernd Zimmer has been pursuing this idea and its realisation for almost 30 years.

On a part of an agricultural meadow near the village of Polling, on the banks of the river Ammer, in the middle of Pfaffenwinkel, an open columned hall is being built: the STOA169. Artists from all continents were selected to design one column each, which together, as an archive of today’s art, would carry the common roof of the STOA169.

curators:
Walter Grasskamp (art historian and critic), Franziska Leuthäußer (Städel Museum, Frankfurt), Corinna Thierolf (Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich), Ulrich Wilmes (Haus der Kunst, Munich) and Bernd Zimmer (initiator and founder)
 
artists:
Willie Cole, Enzo Cucchi, Hannsjörg Voth, Sun Xun, Gregor Hildebrandt, Katharina Sieverding, Roman Signer, Sean Scully, Roland Fischer, Daniel Spoerri, Alicja Kwade, Tony Cragg, Lawrence Weiner, Peter Halley, Liam Gillick, Alfredo Jarr, Subodh Gupta, Franz Ackermann, Joana Vasconcelos, Santiago Sierra, Karin Kneffel, Jürgen Klauke, Erwin Wurm, Rebecca Horn, Beat Zoderer, Bernd Zimmer, and many more…

Artist Statement about STOA169 english, german

 

Roland Fischer @ Pinakothek der Moderne „Feelings“ Nov 8, 2019 – Oct 4, 2020

 
Roland Fischer @ Pinakothek der Moderne „Feelings“ Nov 8, 2019 – Oct 4, 2020

„The exhibition FEELINGS seeks to encourage this direct dialogue between artwork and viewer in order to stimulate an intense emotional engagement. The works exhibited are characterized by enigmatic motifs and atmospheric visual spaces. Joy, excitement, anger, revulsion, sadness, and numerous other emotional reactions may ensue upon viewing the works.“
 
curators: Bernhart Schwenk und Nicola Graef
 
artists: Jan Albers, Gregory Crewdson, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Elmgreen & Dragset, Tracey Emin, Roland Fischer, Gotthard Graubner, Wade Guyton, Mike Kelley und Paul McCarthy, Olaf Metzel, Robert Morris, Catherine Opie, Laura Owens, Beate Passow, Richard Prince, Wilhelm Sasnal, Cindy Sherman, Sam Taylor Johnson, Rosemarie Trockel, Gillian Wearing… complete artist list

 

Roland Fischer’s Playlist, created for the Museum Bombas Gens, Valencia, Spain

 

Roland Fischer talking about his series „Nuns and Monks“, video produced by Fondazione MAST, Bologna
 

Fondazione MAST, Bologna: „Uniform“, Jan 21, 2020 – Sep 20, 2020
 
UNIFORM: INTO THE WORK / OUT OF THE WORK is the new exhibition project of Fondazione MAST. Curated by Urs Stahel, it is dedicated to work uniforms and it shows, through over 600 pictures by great international photographers, the many types of clothing worn by workers in different historical, social and professional contexts. Designed to distinguish those who wear them, on the one hand uniforms signal membership of a category, an order or a corps, without distinction of class or background, on the other hand they can also highlight the wearer’s separation from the community. The word „uniform“ simultaneously reveals inclusion and exclusion.

Curator: Urs Stahel

Artists:

Walead Beshty, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Song Chao, Clegg & Guttmann, Rineke Dijkstra, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Walker Evans, Roland Fischer, André Gelpke, Liu Heung Shing, Graciela Iturbide, Tobias Kaspar, Hiroji Kubota, Danny Lyon, Doug Menuez, Paolo Pellegrin, Irving Penn, Andri Pol, Timm Rautert, Herbert Ritts, Judith Joy Ross, Sebastião Salgado, August Sander and more…

 

Beatriz Milhazes, Roland Fischer, James Nares in Color & Complexity, Allentown Art Museum
 

Bombas Gens Centre D’art, „HYPERSPACES“, València, Spain, 13.02.2020 – 24.01.2021
 

Roland Fischer @ Bombas Gens Centre D’art, „HYPERSPACES“, València, Spain, 13.02.2020 – 24.01.2021
 
“Hyperspace”: This exhibition raises how the reflection on architecture is at the origin of numerous works of art that build spaces, based on perceptive, mental and affective imaginary. In visual arts, architecture, far from being an abstract space, becomes an envelope, a membrane, the skin of our life. The architectural space, which stimulates our mental projections and physical and psychic introjections (memories, actions), has not lost in art its original power to protect the body.

Curator: Julia Castelló, Nuria Enguita and Vicent Todolí

Artists: Carlos Bunga, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Roland Fischer, Ángela de la Cruz, Patricia Gómez and Maria Jesús González, Heimo Zobernig, Fernanda Fragateiro, Teresa Lanceta, Barbara Kasten, Inma Femenía, Nicolás Ortigosa, David Reed, Irma Blank

 

Roland Fischer: L34 (Brian), 1993,14 1 x 162cm (from the series: „Los Angeles Portraits“)
Frac Bretagne, Sans Réserve Rennes, France, 30.11.2019 – 26.4.2020
 

Spanish Photo Art Magazine EXIT „20 YEARS“: Your Favorite Photograph (nov.2019)
 
Guest Exhibition: Roland Fischer at Christian Liaigre Munich (nov.2019)
 
Guest Exhibition: Roland Fischer and Julian Opie at Casa do Passadiço, Lisbon 2019

 
„We Refugees“, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain / 28.6.2019 – 13.10.2019
(left wall: Roland Fischer „Refugees“, from „Collective Portraits“)
 
Although in recent years television news and journalism have catapulted the flow of refugees as a problem to the front page, the history of the 20th century is riddled with dramatic conflicts and millions of people displaced, exiled, expatriated and living as refugees. The story of humanity itself is built on forced displacement, flight and asylum. This project recaptures the title of a well-known essay by Hannah Arendt published in 1943 in Menorah Journal, a prestigious New York-based Jewish magazine, with the aim of identifying and emphasising the universal nature of exile and the construction of democratic societies based on the protection of the right to asylum.
 
artists: Peggy Ahwesh, Carole Alfarah, Eugenio Ampudia, Francisco De Goya, Suso Fandiño, Ângela Ferreira, Roland Fischer, Marcos Ávila Forero, Regina José Galindo, Mariam Ghani, Elnaz Javanirogelio, López Cuenca, Antoni Muntadas, Adrian Paci, El Perro, Alexandra Ranner, Wael Shawky, Elo Vega, Claudio Zulian
 

Roland Fischer talking about the Collective Portrait „Refugees“, video produced by CGAC in 2019
 
New Essay: „Transhistorical Places“
 

Roland Fischer „Transhistorical Places“ @ walter storms gallery, Munich

 

„Fiction and Fabrication“, MAAT Lisbon 2019 (Andreas Gursky, Roland Fischer)
curators: Pedro Gadanho, Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues
 
artists: Doug Aitken, Olivier Boberg, Isabel Brison, Rita Sobral Campos, James Casabere, André Cepeda, David Claerbout, Celine Condorelli, Mafalda Marques Correia, Gregory Crewdson, Hans Op de Beeck, Mónica de Miranda, Thomas Demand, Filip Dujardin, Roland Fischer, Carlos Garaicoa, Dionisio Gonzalez, Nicolas Grospierre, Andreas Gursky, Beate Gütschow, Patrick Hamilton, Sabine Hornig, Veronika Kellndorfer, Lucia Koch, Aglaia Konrad, Jonathan Lewis, Inês Lombardi, Tatiana Macedo, Edgar Martins, Antoni Muntadas, Anja Niemi, Rodrigo Oliveira, Bas Princen, Olivier Ratsi, Teresa Braula Reis, Nick Relph, Martha Rossler, Thomas Ruff, Philip Schaerer, Evandro Soares, Hanna Starkey, Gerold Tagwerker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Pedro Tudela, Jeff Wall, James Welling
 
Curators: Lisa Baldelli, Marie-Noëlle Farcy
 
artists: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Valérie Belin, Sophie Calle, Roland Fischer, Nan Goldin, Shirin Neshat, Martin Parr, Pasha Rafiy, Mitra Tabrizian, Wolfgang Tillmans, Kyoichi Tsuzuki
 

Roland Fischer Solo Exhibition: „Open Sessions“ at Order of Physicians, South Regional Council, Lisbon (Solo Exhibition)
 

„Transhistorical Places“ (Rio), 2018
Benefit Auction for Museum Pinakothek der Moderne, Lot 12

 

Solo Exhibition „Portraits and Places“ @ Munich Re Art Gallery, Munich
curator: Susanne Ehrenfried

 

Summer Open House at Durham Press (sculpture by Roland Fischer)
Durham, Pennsylvania
opening: SATURDAY, July 13, 2019
curators: Jean Paul Russel, Ann Marshall
 
artists: Hurvin Anderson, Polly Apfelbaum, Roland Fischer, Chitra Ganesh, John Giorno, Jacob Hashimoto, Michael Heizer, Emil Lukas, Beatriz Milhazes, James Nares, Mickalene Thomas
 
 
Roland Fischer: NIGHT AND DAY | 2018 Portfolio of Twelve Woodblock Prints, Durham Press
 


New Series: „Transhistorical Places“ (Lima), 2018, 204 x 162cm (80,3 x 63,7 inches)    (click for more)

 

Elmhurst Art Museum „The Human Touch“ 2017-05.14. -2017-08.27.
 
artists: Vik Muniz, Robert Longo, Alec Soth, Kehinde Wiley, Elizabeth Peyton, Roland Fischer, Ann Hamilton, Hung Liu, JR, Till Freiwald and more
 
Roland Fischer and Gregor Hildebrandt: „Swimming Lessons“, 2018           (click for more)
 

„New Architectures“ (Click for more)
 

ongoing Exhibition: Lichtempfindlich 2, Schauwerk Sindelfingen     Eldorado, Brasilia, 2006, 180 x 125 cm      click for more

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Interview in LUST AUF GUT-Magazin Nr.113, 2018
Interview in English

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ZONAMACO, Mexico City 2018, Galeria Pelaires

ZONAMACO, Mexico City 2018, Galeria Pelaires

18.11.2017
Benefit Auction for Museum Pinakothek der Moderne, Lot 14

Chinese pool portraits
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Roland Fischer @ Galeria Pelaires, Palma, Spain

Installation – Project for „Façades“

Façades
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Roland Fischer „New Architectures“,  Kunstverein Rosenheim
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Roland Fischer „Refugees Collective Portrait“, Kunstverein Rosenheim
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Nuns and monks
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Björn Vedder, Moshe Zuckermann, Dan Shaham, Michael Brenner, Roland Fischer im Schafhof Freising
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Roland Fischer „Israeli Collective Portrait“
Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, Public Space Installation
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Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon
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Blogs about „Façades“:

Spiegel Online
Slate
Fast Company
Archilovers
Design Taxi
AD (Italy)
DETAILdaily
Il Post (Italy)

ROLAND FISCHER, FAÇADES
Ed. Petra Giloy-Hirtz
Graphic Design by Philippe Loup
Essays by Sheryl Conkelton, Petra Giloy-Hirtz und Lyle Rexer
English-German edition
224 pages, 101 colour illustrations
25 x 31,5 cm, hardcover with dust jacket
Published by Hirmer

Series „Nuns and Monks“ (1984-1986) at Galerie ABTART, Stuttgart
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April 21, 2015: Artist Talk „Façades – Hybrid Images“,
with curator and publisher Dr. Petra Giloy-Hirtz at Walter Storms Gallery Munich

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Galeria Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
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Museo Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca
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Museo Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca
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 „Die Kathedrale“
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
Roland Fischer (left), (mit Roy Lichtenstein (right), Andreas Gursky, Andy Warhol u.a.), (rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/Marion Mennicken)

„5 Jahre Schellingstr. 48“
walter storms gallery, Munich
Sean Scully (left), Roland Fischer (right)
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The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Oregon

Retrospektive „Roland Fischer – New Photography 1984-2012“
Saarland.Museum, Saarbrücken 2012

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1989

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich 2003