Awareness Post - Urs Fischer
- lilybdavies
- Oct 19, 2025
- 2 min read
Urs Fischer is a Swiss sculptor and painter, currently working in New York. His work includes a wide variety of materials and themes. Fischer's art is typically characterized by its unpredictable, humorous, and dreamlike appearances, often referencing historical art movements like Pop, Surrealism, and Dadaism. He often blurs the line between reality and the surreal, to "disorient and bewilder" the viewer.
Education: Fischer studied at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich, Switzerland where he enrolled in the school's photography department after his first year.
Shows:
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025: “After Nature,” Gagosian, Rome, "Dance,” Villa Medici–French Academy, Rome, “Shucks & Aww,” Salon 94, New York, “Skinny Sunrise,” Globus Public Art Project with Fondation Beyeler, Basel, “Easy Solutions & Problems,” Gagosian Gstaad, Switzerland
2024: In collaboration with Awol Erizku, Living Room, Los Angeles, “Scratch & Sniff,” Sadie Coles, Kingly St, London, “Feelings,” Jason Haam, East Building, Seoul, “Vignettes,” The Modern Institute, 3 Aird’s Lane, Glasgow, “Beauty,” Gagosian Paris, Castiglione
2023: Fontainebleau Las Vegas, December 13, 2023 – present (permanent installation), “Flea Circus,” Sadie Coles Bury Street, London, “Denominator,” Gagosian 433 N Camden Dr, Los Angeles, “Ice Cream Truck Democracy,” Gagosian Beverly Hills
2022: “Urs Fischer/UF,” Jeffrey Deitch, Grand Street, “Denominator,” Gagosian 24th Street, New York, “Pink Motor,” Jason Haam Gallery, Seoul, “CHAOS #1-#500,” Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, “Urs Fischer,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel: 7/17/22 – 10/17/22“Your Deaths, Your Births,” Sadie Coles HQ, London, Bury Street, “Urs Fischer: Lovers,” Museo Jumex, Mexico City, “L’Arc,” Station F, Paris: 2/15/22 – present
2021: “Night,” Nahmad Projects, London, “CHAOS #20-31,” Pace Gallery, “The Intelligence of Nature,” Sadie Coles HQ, London 62 Kingly Street
2019: “Urs Fischer’s 2,” K11 Musea, Hong Kong, “Urs Fischer,” Gagosian, Geneva, “The Lyrical and the Prosaic,” Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon, “Leo,” Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris, “ERROR,” The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut , “PLAY,” (with choreography by Madeline Hollander), Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, “Urs Fischer Sculpture,” National Gallery Australia, Canberra: “SIRENS,” Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Bleibtreustraße 45, Goethestraße 2/3, “Images,” Gagosian, Beverly Hills, California
rest of shows and information: https://ursfischer.com/pages/biography
I really like Fischer's use of juxtaposition as a way to place emphasis on the components of each piece, because the stark contrast between the different subjects of the first two images contributes to the effectiveness of the work. Looking at Fischer's work, I also appreciate the variation in theme and media he uses while still maintaining some continuity between bodies of work. The three images above are all quite different, but still all have only two real subjects overlapping with each other and fine details that bring everything to life.
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