TERESA HUBBARD and ALEXANDER BIRCHLER have been working collaboratively in video, photography and sculpture since 1990. Hubbard grew up in Australia and later attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the graduate program at Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Birchler grew up in Switzerland and attended the Basel School of Fine Arts and the University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland. They began collaborating while both in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and later completed graduate studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Canada.
Recent Hubbard / Birchler solo exhibitions include the Modern Art Museum Fort Worth; Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, K21 Dusseldorf; Goetz Collection Museum Munich; Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York; Miami Art Museum; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel; ArtPace, San Antonio; Museum Haus Lange / Haus Esters, Krefeld; Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam and the Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum.
Selected group exhibition venues include: Tate Liverpool, Liverpool International Biennial; Busan Biennial South Korea; Venice Biennial; Klee Museum Berne; Kunsthalle Hamburg; Montreal Biennial; Le Havre Biennial; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Mori Museum, Tokyo; Melbourne Biennial; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Museum der Moderne Salzburg; Kunsthaus Graz; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Kunsthaus Zürich; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid.
With No Room to Answer at the Aargauer Kunsthaus the American-Swiss collaborative artist couple Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler present key works from their oeuvre. In its scope unprecedented in Switzerland and arranged thematically rather than chronologically, the exhibition includes video installations as well as photographic works in which people and spaces mesh together to form wondrous sceneries.
The American-Swiss artist duo Teresa Hubbard (b. 1965) and Alexander Birchler (b. 1962) are internationally renowned for video and photographic works characterised by enigmatic plot lines and imagery which exerts a somnambulistic pull. Their work in film and photography revolves around the interplay of man and space, of presence and absence, of outer and inner world, of reality, dream and memory.
In the survey e...
The American-Swiss artist duo Teresa Hubbard (*1965) and Alexander Birchler (*1962) is internationally renowned for video and photographic works characterised by enigmatic plot lines and imagery which exerts a somnambulistic pull. Their work revolves around the interplay of man and space, of presence and absence, of outer and inner world, of reality, dream and memory. In their large survey No Room to Answer at the Aargauer Kunsthaus Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler present video installations and photographic works created since 1991. The artist couple’s most comprehensive exhibition to date provides viewers with fresh insights into links between their photographic and filmic works. Cinematically as well as architecturally lavishly produced, their video pieces plumb conflicts associated with desire and suppres...