Roman Blumenthal CV
Roman Blumenthal, born in 1980 in Chur (Switzerland), graduated with a Master in Fine Arts from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Several time winner of the art grant from the city of Zurich, Blumenthal's bold, reduced forms, inhabit his canvases, recounting everyday storylines. His idiosyncratic, truncated personages, objects and shapes are at once pop and poetic, humorous and daring. The viewer is invited to play with their own interpretations, a sort of mind game of rebellious associations, timeless, devoid of any particular cultural reference or movement yet reminiscent of a mix of all of them. Roman works slowly and meticulously with oil, charcoal and collage mostly on cotton, ranging from explosions of vivid block colour to sharp confident lines, pressed on the material with thick oil stick. Roman lives and works in Zurich.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2020 Zwischen Null und Zero, Antichambre, Bern
2018 The slow company, B1, Kunming, China
2012 Vorzimmer, Dienstgebäude OG9, Zürich
2010 Conforama, Message Salon, Zürich
2010 Nagerstall Shorty, Artachment, Basel
2009 Galerie Haas & Fischer, Zürich
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2021 Jahresausstellung der Bündner Künstler/innen, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur
2020 EAC Peep Show, Studio Stalder, Zürich
2020 Bonus track 04: Hungry eyes, Kunsthaus Aussersihl, Zürich
2020 The Chedi Hotel, Andermatt
2019 Werk- und Atelierstipendien der Stadt Zürich, Helmhaus, Zürich
2017 Kleine Sonntagsschau - ein schönes Stück, Zürich
2017 Werk- und Atelierstipendien der Stadt Zürich, Helmhaus, Zürich
2014 Neue Linie, Binz39, Zürich
2012 Werkschau Kanton Zürich
2012 Master of fine arts degree show, Zürich
2012 Death can dance, curated by Lori Hersberger, Zürich
2012 False Bottom, Hermann Germann Contemporary, Zürich
2012 Grösser als Zürich, Helmhaus, Zürich
2011 Kunsthof Zürich
2010 Werk- und Atelierstipendien der Stadt Zürich, Helmhaus, Zürich
2010 Backyard, Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne
2008 Das Jenseits als Kuratorium, Kulturpalast Wedding, Berlin
Nominations and Awards:
2019 Werkstipendium der Stadt Zürich
2017 Atelierstipendium der Stadt Zürich in Kunming
2013 Atelierstipendium der Stadt Chur in Genua
2010 Werkstipendium der Stadt Zürich