Therese Bolliger


Current / Recent



REGIONALE
Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland
December 1, 2024 - January 19, 2025

Thérèse Bolliger, Anja Braun, ara abd Noa Castro Lema,
Pia Rosa, Dobrovitz, Dorota Gaweda and Egle Kulbokaitė,
Charlotte Horn, Simon, Krebs, Tim Kummer, Céline Lchkar,
Lena Laguna Diel, Maude, Léonard-Contant,
Manuela Libertad Morales Délano, Lisa Mazenauer,
Jorge Morocho, Katrin Niedermeier, Ulrich Okujeni,
Lou Anne Pomé,Margherita Raso, Marion Ritzmann,
Lionne Saluz, Moa Sjösted, Julia Steiner, Vital z’Brun





Rewilding
Kunsthaus Baselland
April 13 - August 18, 2024


Monira Al Qadiri, El Anatsui, Thérèse Bolliger,
Andrea Bowers, Renate Buser, Tony Cokes,
Anne-Lise Coste, Rochelle Feinstein,
Simone Forti, Gabrielle Goliath, Joan Jonas,
Daniela Keiser, Anna Maria Maiolino,
Laura Mietrup, Alexandra Navratil, Jacob Ott,
Marine Pagès, Pipilotti Rist, Leonor Serrano Rivas,
Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger, Tatiana Trouvé,
Naama Tsabar, Anna Winteler




Inhabiting Language draws attention to the interactive quality of words, interactive in the sense that they can come to live through an intense awareness of their power to shape our consciousness, our sense of being, our cognitive abilities. Language remains a central aspect of our identities, of any kind of knowledge structure, bridging every discipline and linking scientific research, philosophy, ideology, religion, culture and the arts. With this work I would like to present the notion that we intensify our awareness that language is a rich resource available to us which we can continue to develop  as a creative act, with insight, deepened knowledge, responsibility and a striving for the acknowledgement of sentient and human qualities in a cautionary assertion of the developing field of artificial intelligence.





Thingness in Doubt (2023)

In the process of restructuring my library during the COVID pandemic, I documented a seemingly exessive number of objects, documents, publications, found items within my familiar environment.

This ritualized, daily gesture continued over a period of 636 consecutive days, resulting in an accumulation approaching one thousand elements.

Natural lighting conditions, visible in each recording, made the passage of time perceptible as a unique temporal condition with each image.

The subtitle “Object lessons for things” frames a construct encompassing both - definitions of things in a philosophical context - as well as conceptual and psychoanalytic models of objects. An accompanying publication pairs a large number of forms, invoking a sense of doubt and an ongoing search to articulate new meaning through a reconsidered frame of reference.











100 propositions (2019)




Exhibitions

Individual (select)

Simultaneities
Christie Contemporary, Toronto
March 29 – May 4, 2019

Hybrids: One Work with Footnote
Christie Contemporary, Toronto.
April 28 - June 3, 2017



Group (select)

Surface Tension, Christie Contemporary
(February 24 - March 16, 2024)
Therese Bolliger, Sarah Elise Hall, David Merritt, 
Nick Ostoff, Jessica Thalmann, Erin Vincent,
Douglas Walker

textos 8, Mexico City (2023)
curators Yam Lau and Julian Haladyn
Maxwell Hyett

Voices: Artists on Art
A project by Yvonne Lammerich and
Ian Carr-Harris

Zayed University, Dubai, UAE (2019)
Al Faroun Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE (2019)

Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB, (2018)

Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, (2017)

Again, but not repeated
Christie Contemporary, (2018)
Therese Bolliger, Nick Ostoff, Luce Meunier

Inaugural Exhibition
Christie Contemporary
Therese Bolliger, Marla Hlady, David Merritt,
Samuel de Lange (2016)

The Green of Her
Oakville Galleries, ON (2016)
Valerie Blass, Therese Bolliger,  Wendy Coburn,
Angela Grauerholz, Isabelle Hayeur, Deidre Logue,
Liz Magor, Luanne Martineau, Naoko Matsubara,
Trisha Middleton, Paulette Phillips

Ueberzeichnen. Von Basel Aus
Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland, (2015)
Silvia Baechli, Therese Bolliger, Lena Erikson,
Robert Esterman, Eric Hattan, Cecile Hummel,
Bruno Jakob, Claudia & Julia Mueller, Bruce Nauman,
Karim Noureldin, Boris Rebetez, Maja Rieder,
Fred Sandback, Juerg Staeuble, Anselm Stalder,
Miriam Sturzenegger, Anna B. Wiesendanger

Mohawk College Art Collection
McMaster Innovation Park, McMaster University, 
Hamilton, ON  (2014)