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DIETER ROTH (SWITZERLAND)

Swiss poet, graphic designer and intermedia action and object artist of German descent. Born in Hannover, youth in Switzerland. Apprenticeship as graphic designer at Friedrich Wüthrich in Berne. Considered as representative of concrete poetry. Created organic art objects which were subject to a process of gradual change and decay. Produced works of Eat-Art with Daniel Spoerri and André Thomkins. Close friendship and common artistic producing with Richard Hamilton. Was rewarded with the Berliner Kunstpreis for Bildende Kunst in 1994 and received the Cologne Fine Art price in 1998.

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2016 Dieter Roth: Schöne Scheiße. Dilettantische Meisterwerke, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
2014 Dieter Roth. Balle Balle Knalle, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
2013 Dieter Roth, Paffrath und die siebziger Jahre. Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
2012 Dieter Roth – Selbste., Museum der Moderne Salzburg
2011 Dieter Roth – Selbste., Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
2010 Multiples, Werke von Joseph Beuys und Dieter Roth, Schloss Gottorf
2010 Dieter Roth – Das Tränenmeer, Kunsthalle Lucerne
2009 Dieter Roth – Originale-Multiples-Objekte. Anton Meier, Geneva
2007 Arnulf Rainer / Dieter Roth: Misch- und Trennkunst. Gemeinschaftsarbeiten und Einzelwerke, 1968 – 2005. Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2006 Martin Kippenberger / Dieter Roth. Hauser und Wirth, London
2004 Roth-Zeit – Eine Dieter Roth Retrospektive. Museum Ludwig, Köln
2003 Roth-Zeit – Eine Dieter Roth Retrospektive. Schaulager, Basel
2001 Dieter Roth. Die Haut der Welt + einige andere Dinge, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
1984 Von hier aus – Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf

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