Yves Netzhammer
Yves Netzhammer | |
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| Born | 1 August 1970 Affoltern am Albis, Switzerland |
| Known for | Drawing, animation, video, installation, object art |
Yves Netzhammer (born 1 August 1970) is a Swiss artist working in drawing, animation, video, installation and object art. He represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and also took part in a related programme around documenta 12 that year. In 2026, he received the Film Prize of the Basel region for his first feature-length film, Reise der Schatten.
Biography
[edit]Yves Netzhammer was born on 1 August 1970 in Affoltern am Albis.[1][2] He grew up in Trüllikon, Diessenhofen and Schaffhausen.[1] From 1987 to 1990 he trained as an architectural draughtsman, and from 1991 to 1995 studied visual design at the Höhere Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich.[1]
Netzhammer received the Manor Art Prize Schaffhausen in 1999 and a fine art grant from the City of Zurich in 2000.[1] He was awarded the Swiss federal prize for fine art in 2000, 2002 and 2006.[1] Between 1999 and 2005, his drawings were regularly published in the Tages-Anzeiger and Das Magazin.[1][2]
In 2001, Netzhammer co-designed a special-edition postage stamp made to look and smell like chocolate.[1] In 2007, he represented Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennale, presenting work in the Swiss pavilion alongside Christine Streuli.[1][2]
Work
[edit]Netzhammer works in drawing, animation, video, installation and object art.[1][2] His work uses drawing and animation to explore the interaction between the individual and the surrounding world.[1][2] The imagery features simplified, gender-neutral figures together with animals and familiar objects.[1][3]
A pared-down visual style and continuously changing forms are recurring features of Netzhammer’s work.[4] In his installations, projected imagery is combined with objects and spatial structures to connect the digital work with the exhibition space.[3][4] His work explores boundaries between self and other, including bodily vulnerability and the individual’s relationship with nature.[5]
Netzhammer began creating installations incorporating film and objects in 1999.[1] At exhibitions at the Helmhaus in Zurich and the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart in 2003, he used several coordinated large-scale projections.[1] In 2007, Netzhammer also participated in the accompanying programme of documenta 12.[1] In 2008, he had a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[1] In 2010, Kunstmuseum Bern presented his first major solo exhibition at a Swiss art museum.[5] By that year, his installations were making greater use of staging, reflections and interventions in the exhibition space to involve the viewer more directly.[5]
Netzhammer created Das gemeinsame Ziel vorbeiziehender Formen (2010) for the Aargauer Kunsthaus exhibition Voici un dessin suisse. 1990–2010.[6] The installation extended drawing beyond the framed page into three-dimensional space, using cord, structural elements and objects as part of the composition.[6]
In Das Kind der Säge ist das Brett, Netzhammer brought together three-channel video, freestanding black-and-white structures, selected works from the museum collection and black geometric wall paintings.[3] The installation drew on Constructivist and Concrete art, with references that included Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square.[3] Netzhammer introduced kinetic objects into his practice for a Schaffhausen exhibition in 2018.[1]
In 2025, Kunsthaus Zurich paired his work with that of Wilhelm Lehmbruck in an exhibition centred on human vulnerability.[7] In 2026, Netzhammer received the Film Prize of the Basel region for Reise der Schatten, his first feature-length film, an experimental animation examining what it means to be human in a technological age.[8]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Keller, Deborah (2018). "Yves Netzhammer". SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz. Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Yves Netzhammer". Kunstsammlung der Mobiliar (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 Schröder, Britta. "Yves Netzhammer". Museum Haus Konstruktiv. Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- 1 2 Näff, Astrid (2022). "Indirektes Sprechen vor weggedrehten Bäumen". Aargauer Kunsthaus (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Yves Netzhammer". Kunstmuseum Bern (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- 1 2 Weilenmann, Katrin (2010). "Das gemeinsame Ziel vorbeiziehender Formen". Aargauer Kunsthaus (in German). Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- ↑ "Klassische Moderne trifft im Kunsthaus Zürich auf Gegenwartskunst". SWI swissinfo (in German). 23 October 2025. Retrieved 10 September 2026.
- ↑ "Yves Netzhammer gewinnt den Filmpreis der Region Basel". SWI swissinfo (in German). 17 May 2026. Retrieved 10 September 2026.
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