Peter Fischli & David Weiss
(Fischli b. 1952, Weiss 1946–2012)
Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss were born in Zürich in 1952 and 1946, respectively. Fischli graduated from the Academia di Belle Arti, Bologna in 1977 and Weiss from the Kunstgewerbeschule, Zürich in 1964. The artists established a collaborative partnership in the late 1970s. Their humorous and playful works, in a wide variety of mediums such as photography, sculpture, installation and video, challenge traditional notions of the art object and the artist himself. Throughout their oeuvre, everyday objects and experiences are removed from their traditional contexts and transformed into something new, becoming involved in alternative narratives that emphasize the subjective nature of art and the art object. In their work, irony and contradiction are often present and things are not always what they seem. Fischli and Weiss are best known for the film The Way Things Go (1987), in which everyday household and art studio objects interact with each other in implausible, humorous scenarios.
Peter Fischli and David Weiss have exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions of their work have been held in institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2016, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan in 2010, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and Palacio de Cristal in Madrid in 2009 and Deichtorhallen in Hamburg in 2008. They have also participated in group exhibitions in major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo and the Tate Modern in London. They have participated in multiple Venice Biennales and their work has been featured in multiple publications. In 2006 Phaidon published the first monograph devoted exclusively to the work of both artists. Peter Fischli currently lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland. David Weiss died in Zürich in April of 2012.
EDUCATION
Peter Fischli
Academia di Belle Arti, Bologna, 1976-77
Academia di Belle Arti, Urbino, 1975-76
David Weiss
Kunstgewerbeschule, Basel, (sculpture class), 1964-65
Vorkurs, Kunstgewerbeschule, Zürich, 1963-64
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Should I Paint a Pirate Ship on My Car With an Armed Figure on it Holding a Decapitated Head by the Hair?, Sprüth Magers, London
2019
Haus, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Fischli Weiss - Les Fleurs Du Mal, Halle 9, Kirowwerk, Leipzig, Germany
2017
Snowman, The Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York
Wade Guyton Peter Fischli David Weiss, Aspen Art Museum, CO
Visible World, LUMA Arles, France
Is seven a lot?, Art Projects Ibiza, Spain
The Way Things Go, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; El Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain
2016
Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Calder & Fischli/Weiss, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
2015
Small Questions Big Questions: 3 Films by Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Der Lauf Der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1987, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2014
Polyurethane Objects, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
2013
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
Rock on Top of Another Rock, Serpentine Gallery, London
Glenstone, Potomac, MD
2012
Shifts, Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Walls, Corners, Tubes, Sprüth Magers, London
The Way Things Go, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
2011
In The Spirit of Robert Walser, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Questions, the Sausage Photographs, and a Quiet Afternoon, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2010
Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea
Airports, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway
Peter Fischli David Weiss, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Peter Fischli David Weiss, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
2011
Peter Fischli David Weiss: Questions, the Sausage Photographs, and a Quiet Afternoon, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2010
Peter Fischli David Weiss, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
2009
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
Peter Fischli/David Weiss. Are Animals People?, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain
Objects on Pedestals, Sprüth Magers, London
Parts of a Film with a Rat and a Bear, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi at Teatro Arsenale, Milan, Italy
Fotografias, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
2008
Peter Fischli and David Weiss: Questions & Flowers a Retrospective, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Peter Fischli and David Weiss: Altri Fiori e Altre Domande, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
2007
Peter Fischli David Weiss, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Equilibres, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Equilibres, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
2006
Fischli & Weiss: Flowers & Questions. A Retrospective, Tate Modern, London; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Kunsthaus Zürich; and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
2005
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
Peter Fischli David Weiss, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2004
Fischli/Weiss: Unsettled Work, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2003
Hunde (Dogs), Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Unsettled Work, Sprüth Magers Lee, London
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Sprüth Magers, Cologne, Germany
2002
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Fragen Projektion, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2001
Fischli & Weiss. Mundo Visive (Visible World)l, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Peter Fischli David Weiss: Airports, Monika Sprüth/Philomene Magers, Munich
Büsi (Kitty), Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, (organized by Creative Time), Times Square, New York
2000
Sichtbare Welt, Plötzlich diese Übersicht, Grosse Fragen – Kleine Fragen (Visible World, Suddenly This Overview, Large Questions – Small Questions), Grosse Fragen-Kleine Fragen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
El mon visible, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Bacelona, Spain
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1999
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Peter Fischli David Weiss, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1998
Peter Fischli David Weiss, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany
White Cube, London
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
Peter Fischli David Weiss, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1997
Center for Contemporary Images, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland
1996
In a Restless World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Serpentine Gallery, London
Arbeiten im Dunkeln, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
1995
Venice Biennale, Swiss Pavillion, Venice, Italy
Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany
1994
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1993
Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
1992
Galerie Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland
Galleria Locus Solus, Genoa, Italy
Galerie Francesca Pia, Berne, Switzerland
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1991
Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Achenbach, Frankfurt, Germany
Galleria Bonomo, Rome, Italy
1990
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
Galerie Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain
1989
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany
Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy
Galerie Susan Wyss, Zürich, Switzerland
Galerie Akhnaton, Cairo, Egypt
1988
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Third Eye Center, Glasgow, Scotland
Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble, France
Interim Art, London
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
1987
Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Institute for Art and Urban Resources, MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Le Case d’Art, Milan, Italy
1986
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
The Corridor, Reykajvik, Iceland
1985
Stiller Nachmittag, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1984
Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France
1983
Fieber, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany
1982
St. Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1981
Plötzlich diese Übersicht, Galerie Stähli, Zürich, Switzerland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Useless: Machines for Dreaming, Thinking, and Seeing, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Europa Endlos, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Denmark
Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
At Large, Argo Factory, Tehran
Museum, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
The Sonnabend Collection, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
Contemporary Art: Five Propositions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Water, Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia
2018
La Complainte du progrès, Musée régional d'art contemporain, Sérignan, France
The Sonnabend Collection: Half a Century of American and European Art, Part II, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
People, Deitch Projects, New York
Fences and Windows, Stuart Shave Modern Art, London
Topologies, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX
Modern and Contemporary Works from the Permanent Collection, Middlebury College Museum of Art, VT
One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Way Things Run: Part III, PS120, Berlin, Germany
Feast for the Eyes, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017
Zeitgeist, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
moving is in every direction: Environments - Installations - Narrative Spaces, Hamburger Bahnhof: Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Infinite Garden: From Giverny to Amazonia, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris, France
NEVER ENOUGH, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany
The Art of Rube Goldberg, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
Slides: The History of Projected Photography, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Generation Loss: 10 Years of the Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
Never Ending Stories, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
The Long Run, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Gravity: Imagining the Universe after Einstein, Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
2016
Sculpture on the Move: 1946-2016, Museum für Gegenwartzkunst at the Kunstmuseum Basel
Agir, Contempler, Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France
Urs Fischer - False Friends, Museum of Art History, Geneva, Switzerland
Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
The Candle, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Ding Ding: Object Art from the Collection, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Okayama Art Summit, Okayama Orient Museum, Japan
Why the Performance?, Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum
A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Image As Virus: Better Badges in the Punk Era, 80WSE Gallery, New York University, New York
2015
Future Present, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland
Risk, Turner Contemporary, Kent, UK
A Perfect Match, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Carnal Desire, Kunsthalle Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany
Transcending Material: ICA Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
White Fire, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Visitors, Art Center at Governors Island, New York
Europe: The Future of History, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Testigo del Siglo, Museo de Arte Zapopan, Mexico
Into Dust: Traces of the Fragile in Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Schlaflos - Das Bett in Geschichte und Gegenwartskunst (Sleepless - The Bed in History and Contemporary Art), 21er Haus, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Stories We Tell Ourselves, Aspen Art Museum, CO
Slip of the Tongue, Punta della Dogana, Venice
2014
Cast From Life, Skarstedt, New York
No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984–1989, David Zwirner, New York
A World of Its Own: Photography Practices in the Studio, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Room Service, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Beneath the Ground, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
In the Here and Now! Swiss Art of the Last 30 Years from the Kunst Heute Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Germany
2013
Yes Naturally, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Benzine: Le energie della tua mente, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy. Traveled to La Triennale, Milan, Italy
Light Show, Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, London
The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
A Sunday in the Mountains, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York
Everyday Epiphanies: Photography and Daily Life Since 1969, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The World Turned Upside Down, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick, United Kingdom
Flowers and Mushrooms, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2012
The Dwelling Life of Man: Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection,Foto Colectania Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
TRACK, a contemporary city conversation,Ghent, Belgium
Looking back for the future, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
13th International Architecture Exhibition: Common Ground, Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
Searched, Fixed, Organized. Contemporary Photography in the Rheingold Collection, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
La Voce Delle Immagini, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Tales of the City: Art Fund International and the GoMA Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Forum 69: Natural History, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Ghosts in the Machine, New Museum, New York
2011
8 1/2: A selection of works from the exhibitions organized by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy
Things Are Queer: Highlights of UniCredit Art Collection, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Electric Nights: Art and Pyrotechnic, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gigón, Spain
Green White Red: A Perfume of Italy into the Collection of Frac Aquitaine, Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Tate St. Ives Summer Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, United Kingdom
Absentee Landlord, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Screaming from the Mountain: Landscapes and Viewpoints, SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
The Unknown Collection: Classics from the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
No Substitute, Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, Maryland
DogCatMouse, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Contemporary Collections (From 1960 to Present), Centre Pompidou, Paris
The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
MMK 1991-2011: 20 Years of Presence, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Through The Looking Brain, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Traveled to Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Ha Ha Road, Quad Gallery, Derby, England. Traveled to Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
Architektonika, Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Young Art, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Example: Switzerland. Unbounding and Crossing Over as Art, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
Atlas: How to Carry the World on One's Back? Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Never Odd or Even-A Text-Spaced Exhibition, Grimmusem, Berlin. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
Partenaires Particuliers, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2010
Radical Conceptual, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside-Out, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Kunsthaus Zürich
10,000 Lives, Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea
Analysis of Flight Data: Art of the 80s: A Düsseldorf Perspective, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Investigations of a Dog: Works from the FACE Collection, la maison rouge, Paris
The Unknown Collection Classics from Bielefeld: Arp, Beckmann, Jawlensky, Kirchner, Warhol…, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH, Bonn, Germany
Catch Me! Grasping Speed, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Fabulous Fate of Everyday Life,Grand Hornu, Hornu, Belgium
Global Design, Museum of Design Zürich
Täuchend Echt—Illusion und Wirklichkeit in der Kunst, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
Les Rencontres d’Arles 2010, Les Rencontres D’Arles Photographie, Arles, France
Neugierig, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH, Bonn, Germany
10 Years: Carolina Nitsch Editions, 2000-2010, Carolina Nitsch, New York
2009
Your Gold Teeth II, Marianne Boesky, New York
Heart in Heart, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Mapping the Studio: Artists from the Francois Pinault Collection, Punta Della Dogana/Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Waiting for Video: Works from the 1960s to Today, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
A Certain State of the World? Highlights from the François Pinault Foundation Collection,Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Mo. Traveled to Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
2008
Life on Mars, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Revolutions – Forms That Turn, Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
Kavalierstart 1978 – 1982: Aufbruch in die Kunst der 80er,Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Artist's Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2007
Fortunate Objects: An Exploration of the Everyday in Art, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida
Words Fail Me, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan
The Lab, Into Position, Vienna, Austria
Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Experimenta Playground: International Biennial of Media Arts, BlackBox, Arts Centre, Melbourne
The Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Conceptual Photography: 1964–1989, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
The 59th Minute Retrospective: Selections from 7 Years of Video Art, Creative Time, Times Square, New York
Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, Katonah Museum of Art, White Plains, New York
Deep Comedy, The Ballroom, Marfa, Texas
2006
All Hawaii Entrées/Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
"The Painter's Garden: Design, Inspiration, Delight, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
More Than the World: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Small Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2005
Beyond: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
New Art Birmingham: The Artist with Two Brains, Birmingham, United Kingdom
An Aside: Selected by Tacita Dean, (organized by the Hayward Gallery in collaboration with the Camden Arts Centre, London, For Arts Council England), Camden Arts Centre, London. Traveled to The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales (catalogue)
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Contemporary Art and the Garden: Deceits and Fantasies, (organized by American Federation of Art). Traveled to the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina; Tacoma Art Museum, Washington; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York; and the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
SlideShow, Baltimore Museum of Art. Traveled to the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, and the Brooklyn Museum
2004
Proof: The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
Animal Instincts, The Montalvo Gallery, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California
Hard Light, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
Spaces of Landscape and Memory, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Monument to Now, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Triennale Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany
Artists' Favourites Act II, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
Memory and Landscape, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Before the End, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Big and Small Questions: Works from the Goetz Collection, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway. Traveled to Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
2003
Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (catalogue)
Stacked, D’Amelio Terras, New York
Unreal Estate Opportunities, pkm gallery, Seoul, Korea
Multiple!/Multiple!, Contemporary Collectors Gallery, Roslyn Harbor, New York
Extra: How Many Extra Layers Can We Graft on to Reality Before it Collapses?, Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art, New York
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Sculpture: Darren Almond, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Ugo Rondinone, Tony Smith, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2002
Living Room, Jablonka Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Subreel, MAC, Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, Marseille, France
Wallflowers, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Moving Pictures,Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
It’s a Wild Party and We’re Having a Great Time, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
From Pop to Now, Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, Tang Teaching
Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
The House of Fiction, Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2001
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Analogue Dialogue, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
The Dark, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Szenenwechsel XX, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Bildarchive, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Collaborations with Parkett 1984 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Ein gut plazierter Helm ist wie ein beruhigender Blick, Kunsthalle, Nurnberg, Germany
Ohne Zögern-Without Hesitation. Blicke in die Sammlung Olbricht, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Vom Eindruck zum Ausdruck Grässlin Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
The Vision Art Exhibitions,Malmo, Sweden
Makeshift, University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton (catalogue)
Restaging the Everyday: Recent Work by Beat Streuli and Fischli/Weiss, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Work: Shaker Design and Recent Art, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
2000
Minding, Le Garage, Geneva, Switzerland
Fest der Flüsse, Wienfluss U4 Stadtpark, Vienna, Austria
Europeans, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
Pero mira como, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; Traveled to El Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico (catalogue)
Sammlung Goetz, Munich (catalogue)
Inventional,Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
As it is, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Eiszeit, Kunstmuseum Bern
La Prima Idea. Aktuelle Malerei auf Papier, Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zürich
Voilà – le monde dans la tête, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Staged, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
Fleurs, Museum zu Allerheiligen / Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen; Traveled to Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (catalogue) "Unnatural Science, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (catalogue)
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Orbis Terrarum - Ways of Worldmaking, Kartographie und Zeitgenössische Kunst, Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp (catalogue)
Un Chant d’Etoiles, Opéra National Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium
Some Parts of This World, Helsinki Photography Festival 2000, Finnish
Museum of Photography Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
Moment, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
Staged. Constructions of Reality in Contemporary Photography, Bankadar
Jancou Gallery, New York
Das Haus in der Kunst, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (catalogue)
1999
Trailer, Galerie Kampl im Kunstforum, Munich, Germany
Contemporary Swiss Art, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Real Stories II, Friedrich Petzel Gallery/Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Looselipssinkships, Projections vidéos, Galerie Erna Hécey, Luxembourg
h:min:sec. Eine Ausstellung zur Zeit, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Un musée en appartement. Une exposition de toutes les gravures, multiples et photographies, publiés par Parkett, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Maverick: Jean-Marc Bustamante, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Roni Horn, Thomas Schütte, Andreas Slominski, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1998
Mai 98, Kunsthalle Koln Kunsthalle Zürich Sydney Biennal, Sydney, Australia
Kunstausstellung Holderbank, Holderbank, Switzerland Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan (catalogue)
Maverick: Jean-Marc Bustamante, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Roni Horn, Thomas Schutte, Andreas Slominski, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Alpenblick. Die zeigenössische Kunst und das Alpine, Kunsthalle Vienna
I Shop Therefore I Am, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
1997
Skulpturen Projekte 97, Munster, Germany Documenta X, Kassel (catalogue)
Transit. Fotografia degli anni `90, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland Airport, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Von den Dingen. Gegenstände in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Museum Allerheiligen, Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
1996
Non! Pas comme ça!, Centre d’Art, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Now Here, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
(Landschaft) mit dem Blick der 90er Jahre, Burgk/Saale Ehemaliges
Umspannwerk Singen, Fast nichts. Almost invisible, Museum Schloss Burgk, Singen/Hohentwiel
1995
Zeichen und Wunder, Kunsthaus, Zürich (catalogue) Mai de la Photo, Reims, France
Micromegas, American Center, Paris, France
1994
Cloaca Maxima, Museum der Stadtentwässerung, Zürich, Switzerland
1993
Double Take, Hayward Gallery, London; Traveled to Kunsthalle Vienna; and Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (catalogue) Post Human, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (catalogue) Equilibre, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Switzerland Passing Through, Galerie Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland
1992
Post Human, Asher Edelman Foundation (FAE), Museé d’art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne; Traveled to Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (catalogue) Platzverführung, KulturRegion, Stuttgart, Germany Expo 1992, Swiss Pavillion, Sevilla, Spain
Oh cet echo, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris Sonderfall Schweiz, Schweizer Landesmuseum, Zürich Projekt Schweiz, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland (catalogue)
1991
Galerie Walcheturm, Zürich Chamer Räume, Kunst an Ort, Cham, Germany (catalogue) Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin Schwerelos, Grosse Orangerie, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
1990
Villa Arson, Nice Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia (catalogue)
1989
Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1988
Venice Biennale, Aperto, Venice Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1987
Skulptur Projekt in Münster 1987, Munster, Germany
Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (catalogue)
Offenes Ende, Junge Schweizer Kunst, Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London The Sonnabend Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Stiller Nachmittag, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (catalogue)
1986
Auf dem Rücken des Tigers, Shedhalle, Zürich (catalogue) Swiss Pralines, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria Sonsbeek 86, Park Sonsbeek, Arnheim, The Netherlands (catalogue) Swiss Selection, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
1985
Cross Currents in Swiss Art, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom (catalogue)
Nouvelle Biennale de Paris, Grand Halle du Parc de la Villette, Paris, France
1984
Zwischen Plastik und Malerei, Kunstverein Hannover Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
1983
Aktuell 83, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
1982
Neue Skulptur,Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
1981
30 Künstler aus der Schweiz, Innsbruck/Vienna/Frankfurt, Germany
1980
Saus und Braus, Städtische Galerie zum Strauhof, Zürich, Switzerland
