PROFIL

Rudolf Steiner is a self-taught contemporary Artist and Photographer who lives and works in Biel, Rondchâtel and Warsaw. He has received many Awards, Grants, Prizes and Residencies and his work was shown internationally.

EXPERIENCE

︎ARTIST LABEL AND PUBLISHING HOUSE „HAUS AM GERN“ – 1998-ONGOING
Steiner has run the Artist Label „Haus am Gern“ and the publishing house „Edition Haus am Gern“ in collaboration with Barbara Meyer Cesta since 1998
︎KONSULAT PRÄTTIGAU – 2013-ONGOING
He is also an administrator at the artist run space & residency „Konsulat Prättigau“ in Warsaw.
︎TEACHER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO
Steiner has been teacher for photography and video at the School of Design Bern and at the School for Photography CEPV, Vevey, since 2004. Workshops in Warsaw 2017/18
︎MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE BORAD, PHOTOFORUM PASQUART, BIEL
Steiner has been vice president of the Photoforum Pasquart Biel - an institution dedicated to the promotion of contemporary photography - since 2003.

AWARDS, PRIZES, SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES

2019 Art Award, City of Biel/Bienne (Haus am Gern)
2017 Grant for the realization of an artist book (Werkbuch/oeuvre d’art)
2017 Grant from the City of Biel/Bienne and the Canton of Bern (Ricochet)
2011 Artist in Residence, CulturScapes, Mamuta, Jerusalem, Israel
2011 Interformat Symposium, Art Colony Nida, Lithuania
2010 Art and Politics, International Visitor Leadership Program, USA
2009 Grant for a Monograph, Canton of Bern (Haus am Gern)
2009 Artist in Residence, CCA Ujazodwski Castle, Warsaw
2008 Travel grant from the Canton of Bern
2003 Prize of the Art Commission of the City of Bern (Haus am Gern)
2003 Residency at the Cité des Arts, Paris
2002 Anderfuhren-Grant, City of Biel
2002 Kuratorium Canton of Aargau, Residency in Prag
1999 Photoforum Photography Prize, Biel/Bienne
1998 Aeschlimann-Corti-Grant (main), Canton of Bern
1997 Swiss Art Award, Photography 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2020 Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
2020 Reflector Gallery, Progr, Bern
2020 Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, (KlHaus)
2019 Espace Diaphanes, Berlin
2018 Galerie Duflon-Racz, Bern
2016 Kunsthalle Luzern
2016 Abbatiale de Bellelay
2015 Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
2014 Lokal-int, Biel/Bienne
2012 Galerie Duflon-Racz, Bern
2012 Mamuta Art Center, Jerusalem, Israel
2011 Kunstverein Leipzig, Germany
2010 Substitut, Berlin, Germany
2008 Les Halles, Porrentruy
2007 Galerie Display, Prag, Czech Republic
2006 Kunsthalle Bern 2002 Kunstraum Kreuzlingen
2001 Fotoforum St. Gallen
1999 Nowa Galeria Ratusz, Otwock, PL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2020 Kunsthaus Interlaken
2019 Format, Mont Soleil, St. Imier
2018 Biel Photo Days, Biel/Bienne
2017 Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
2017 Art en plein air, Môtiers
2015 Centre Pompidou @ Paris Photo, Paris
2016 Kunsthaus Palazzo, Liestal
2016 Kunsthalle Bern
2015 Künstlerhaus Solothurn
2015 Art en plein air, Môtiers
2011 Kunstraum Baden
2014 Apex Art, New York
2013 Kunsthaus Langenthal
2013 Israel Photofestival, Tel Aviv
2013 Musée d’Elysée, Lausanne
2012 Tirana ArtLab, Tirana, Albania
2011 Photographers Gallery, London
2011 C/O Berlin
2011 Deutsches Photomuseum Braunschweig
2010 Les Rencontres d’Arles, Photofestival
2010 Art en plein Air, Môtiers
2008 f-stop, Int. Fotofestival Leipzig
2008 Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau
2007 Haus für Kunst, Uri
2007 Museum Liner, Appenzell
2007 Deutsches Hygienemuseum, Dresden
2007 Galerie Henze & Ketterer, Videokunst
2006 Palais im grossen Garten, Dresden
2004 Kunstmuseum Bern
2001 Kunstmuseum Thun

KUNST AM BAU

2021 Wohnsiedlung Hornbach, Zürich
2021 Kongresshausparking, Biel/Bienne
2018 Volksschule Wankdorf, Bern
2015 SCAN, Malvilliers, NE
2013 Raiffeisenkasse Herzogenbuchsee
2012 Volksschulhaus Laubegg, Bern

COLLECTIONS

Kunstsammlung des Kantons Bern
Kunstsammlung der Stadt Biel/Bienne 
Fotostiftung Schweiz
Kunstsammlung des Bundes
Kunstmuseum Thun
Valiant Bank
Mobiliar Versicherung
div. private Sammlungen