ARTIST

Biography

Ana Roldán (*1977 in Mexico D.F., Mexico) Works and lives in Zurich, Switzerland

Education

2015–present 2000–2003 1997–2000

Master of Fine Arts, Hochschule der Künste, Bern, SUI
Art studies, Hochschule der Künste, Bern, SUI
History studies, Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico City, MEX

Grants & prizes

2010 Werkbeitrag Kanton Zürich I Prize of the canton of Zurich
2009 City of Zurich prize
2009 Cahier d'artiste, Pro Helvetia
2007 Werkbeitrag Kanton Zürich I prize by the canton of Zurich
2007 Atelierstipendium der Stadt Zürich, Kunming I Residency, grant by the city of Zurich, Kunming 2006 Swiss Art Award

2005 Residency in Paris at Michael von Graffenried’s studio
2005 Swiss Art Award
2003 Preis der Corti-Aeschlimann-Stiftung I Prize of the foundation Corti-Aeschlimann

Collections

La Colección Jumex, MEX

Burger Collection, SUI

HKG Die Mobiliar, SUI
Sammlung Ricola, Laufen, SUI

Crédit Suisse, SUI

Colección Alicia Aza ESP

Colección Adan clayton Irlanda

Sammlung Swiss Re, SUI
Die Post, SUI
Zürcher Kantonalbank, SUI

Colección Cisneros, USA

VEN Sammlung Ketterer-Ertle, SUI

Colección Pilar Citoler, ESP

Art Collection Canton Zurich, SUI

Roche Art Collection, SUI

Solo Exhibitions

2016 NO, annex14, Zurich, SUI
2015 Take Position: Bodies and Plants, annex14, Zurich, SUI
2013 Drunk, High and Exhilaration, Florian Christopher a show room, Zurich, SUI

2012 Espejo Negro, Formato Cómodo, Madrid, ESP
2011 Blank Back Mirror, Kunsthaus Langenthal, SUI

Different Orders, annex14, Bern, SUI

Forms of contemplation, ideal forms in compositions, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, GER

2010 Cococompositions, Dolores, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, curated by Karin Hasselberg, Amsterdam, NED 2009 Words to be looked at, objects to be read, Kunsthalle Arbon, SUI

Picking holy words from the perfect ghost, homage an James Lee Byars Kunstmuseum Bern, SUI

As „the Myth of the hole“, annex14, Bern, SUI

2008 Observations on Modernity and Form, Statements / Kunst Zurich art fair, SUI

The Actor, Art Palace, World Trade Center Beijing, CHN

Dance steps, Garash gallery, Mexico City, MEX

2007 Comical, Magical, Musical, Black Box, Marks Blond Project, Bern, SUI

2006 Truth, annex14, Berne, SUI
Till it doesn’t move, ZWINGLISTRASSE 40, Zurich, SUI God is red, Amberg-Marti, Zurich, SUI
Fable, Espace Libre, Biel, SUI

2005 Début, Marks Blond project, Bern, SUI
Kill the beast, Yellow Submarine - Marks Blond Projekt bei Mark Divo, Häuser und wir, Zurich, SUI The mountain and the ground, Kunst in St. Peter und Paul, Bern, SUI

2004 The letter «O», Gallery Kunstkeller, Bern, SUI
Once upon a time, ENTER, museum of art, Thun, SUI

2002 All is like all, Stadtgalerie, Bern, SUI
2001 Silver gelatine, Gallery Kabinett, Bern, SUI

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2017 I was a wall, and my breasts were like fortress towers, Adams and Ollman, Portland/OR, USA

Espejo negro, elefante blanco, curated by Fabiola Iza, Cuarto de Maquinas, Mexico City, MEX

2016 End!angered Species, Wagenhalle, Stuttgart, GER
Let There Be (More) Light, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA

New Buenos Aires, curated by Damian Christinger and Dimitrina Sevova, co-curated by Silvan Kälin, Corner College, Zurich, SUI
¿Me quieres seguir? ¿En qué dirección?, with Miguel Huertas, Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, COL
Fuge 04, curated by Nicola Ruffo, die Diele, Zurich, SUI

2015 El Hombre Invisible, curated by Fernando Delmar, Carlos Palacios & Andrea Torreblanca, Casa Maauad, Mexico City, MEX

The Lulennial: A Slight Gestuary, curated by Fabiola Iza & Chris Sharp, Mexico City, MEX

Solo Projects: Focus Latin America, with Instituto de Visión, ARCO, Madrid, ESP
2014 Tell Me What I See, When I Look Into Your Eyes, BolteLang, curated by Caroline Lommaert

& Nicola Ruffo, Zurich, SUI

Blackboard – White Page, Kantonsschule Zurich Nord, curated by Ana Roldán & Maud Châtelet, SUI 2013 Alternative Histories, Christinger de Mayo Gallery, Zurich, SUI

LUPA, ArtRio, curated by Abaseh Mirvali, Rio, BRA
Last Exit to Ordalia, LJ Gallery, curated by Marco Costantini, Paris, FRA
Ask for something that doesn’t exist, duo show with Iza Tarasewicz, Labyrint, Lublin, POL

2012 Donde el lenguaje es el material, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, MEX Surplus Authors, Witte de With, with Falke Pisano, Rotterdam, NED Moments suspended in time, annex14, Bern, SUI
La jeunesse est un art, Kunsthaus Aarau, Manor Price anniversary, SUI Primer Acto, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MEX

La hora y los sitios, MACO, curated by Oliver Martinez Kandt, Oaxaca, MEX
Popo de Paris, Sultana, curated by Beatriz López, Paris, FRA
Silver, Gold & Bronze, Artespace Lessing, curated by Stephan Meylan, Zurich, SUI Diez Letras, La Central, duo show with Felipe Arturo, Bogotá, COL

Microclimas, Kunsthalle Zurich, curated by Pablo León de la Barra, SUI 2011 Môtiers Art en Plain Air, Môtiers, SUI

Merz World, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, SUI

Colours. Coleurs. Colori, Die Mobiliar Collection, Bern, SUI 2010 Distant Memory, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, SUI

Formal reiterations and the end of the world, Garash, with Athene Galiciadis, Mexico City, MEX 2009 Made In China, Kunstmuseum Bern, SUI

INBETWEENOUT, Arsenic, Lausanne, SUI
ABOUT NOW, Perla mode, Zurich, curated by Veronika Spierenburg, SUI
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out, curated by Nicoykatiushka, 798 Beijing Biennale, CHN Conspiracy, Kunsthalle Bern, SUI
Gipfeltreffen, KIT (Kunst im Tunnel), Düsseldorf, GER

2008 Acting Joe, George and Mr. Seek, Wartesaal, Zurich, SUI AURUM, Centre PasquArt, Biel, SUI
Revolution Industrial, MUCA Roma, Mexico City, MEX Stopover, SESC Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, BRA

2007 Into it, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim, GER
Expo77, Galerie Au virage, Séprais, SUI
Indian summer, annex14, Bern, SUI
Reinterpretation of „Museum Portrait”, Allan Kaprow exhibition, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, SUI Exhibition of the city of Zurich, Helmhaus, Zurich, SUI

Môtiers Art en Plain Air, Môtiers, SUI
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, SUI
Corti-Aeschlimann foundation exhibition, Kunstmuseum Thun, SUI

Bibliography

Contemporary Art Mexico, edited by Hossein Amirsadeghi, 2015.
AAA. Art Altstetten Albisrieden, catalogue of the exhibition AAA, Stadt Zürich, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum,

Zürich, 2015.

Interview (in German) by Rahel Beyerle with Ana Roldán, 26 December 2014, SIK-ISEA, www.sik-isea.ch/Port als/0/Content/Kunstarchiv/Interviews/Interview%20mit%20Ana%20Rold%C3%A1n.pdf?ver=2015-11-19-095821- 200 (page visited 22 March 2016), 2014.

Blackboard – White Page, catalogue of the exhibition Blackboard – White Page, edited by Ana Roldán & Maud Châtelet, Zurich, 2014.

Ana Roldán. Different Orders, catalogue of the exhibition Blank Black Mirror at Kunsthaus Langenthal, texts by Eveline Suter & Michael Pfister, Langenthal, 2011.

Distant Memory, edited by Kunstverein Solothurn, texts by Fabienne Bideaud, Hélène Joye-Cagnard, Catherine Kohler, Sylvia Mutti, Marina Porobic & Roswitha Schild, Solothurn, 2010.

Ana Roldán. Collection Cahiers d'Artistes 2009, with an essay by Burkhard Meltzer, Pro Helvetia / Edizioni Periferia, Lucerne/Poschiavo, 2009.

Ana Roldán (*1977 Mexico DF) lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. After studying history at ENAH, Mexico, she studied fine arts at HKB Bern from 1999-2003. In the same year, she began showing her work in well-known institutions such as Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunstmuseum Bern and Kunstmuseum Solothurn. In 2005, Roldán was awarded a grant from the swiss federal office of culture, as well as a residency in Paris. 2006 and 2007 she won two prizes and exhibited in France, Germany, England, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain and China. In 2008, Roldán spent one year working in Kunming, China, invited by the cities of Zurich and Kunming. Two further prizes were awarded to Roldán in 2009 and 2010.
Important exhibitions include soloshows at Badischer Kunstverein and at Kunsthaus Langenthal in 2011 as well as groupshows at Witte de With in Rotterdam 2012 and the participation at Lulennial in Mexico in 2015.
Her work is inspired by cultural phenomena: Historical events, philosophical ideas, language, systems, reflections on aesthetics; theoretical concepts in general. Roldán is interested in how the spectators can be stimulated physically as well intellectually through the opposition or displacement of the mentioned systems.
Ana Roldán works in diverse medias such as performance, sculpture, installations, video and collage. She often employs natural materials such as coconuts, bamboo, wood, semi-precious stones or leather that reflect the origin and usage of the material in the investigated cultures.

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