Das Türkise Zustandsgrab, 2010
Ink, watercolour, pencil, pen on textile, ca 420 x 420 x 230 cm. 
Regionale – The Village Cry, Kunsthalle Basel

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detail of Das Türkise Zustandsgrab, 2010

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Aerophone 412.22, 2008
courtesy of the artist and Balice Hertling, Paris

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Die Gruppenhöhle, 2011
Textile, wood, mixed materials, ca 380 x 335 x 270 cm
Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma

Ausdrucksmoment im Blauen Zimmer, 2009-2011
Pastel on paper, textile, metal, mixed material, ca 380 x 330 x 250 cm
Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma

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Instrumente, 2008/2009
Pencil on wood, metal, textile, guitar strings, organic material
ZR Der Exhibitionistische Bartpinguin, 2009
Textile from mattress cover, zipper, 278 x 234 cm. „modernmodern“, Chelsea Art Museum, New York

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Schrank und dessen Leben,
exhibition invitation at Balice Hertling, Paris (2012)

ZR Autswaus O, 2008
Textile, zipper, pastel on paper, plant, ca 270 x 250 cm

ZR Silberesel, 2010
Textile, zipper, ca 600 x 600 cm
“Fruits, Flowers, and Clouds 2011” MAK, Vienna

ZR Der Exhibitionistische Bartpinguin, 2009
Stoff, 310 x 200 cm

ZR Blechschubladen, 2009-2011
Ink on textile, wood, tincan, plexi, Raku-ceramic, material, variable dimensions
„Tableaux“ Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble 2011

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ZR Garten des Erschöpften, 2011
Textile, zipper, variable dimensions
Installation in the garden of Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome

all images courtesy of the artist

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Ten things you need to know about RETO PULFER:

1. He was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1981
2. He now lives and works in Berlin
3. His body of work is a mix of sculpture, performance, installation and sound
4. Before taking on a specific form, his installations originate from stories that have been invented where the characters’ roles are defined by the language or by simple image associations and can, as a game of structures, change exactly as it happens with moods
5. Flexibility is inherent to his choice of materials – paper, fabrics, textiles equipped with zippers, among others – while fluidity is evoked by recurring aquatic colours like blue and turquoise
6. He speaks about his own work in terms of a game, which is reflected in his use of materials, the system in which some elements reappear and change, the made-up words and puns in the titles of his works: Quite some titles of works give technical information: if a work has ZR in its title it means it is made with zippers and parts of it can be detached and attached in several ways. Such as the following mostly textile works: ZR Boot, ZR Der Exhibitionistische Eulenpinguin, ZR Autswaus O, ZR Potzwaus, ZR Innenzelt, ZR Der Exhibitionistische Bartpinguin, ZR Fliegzeug, ZR Spotwaus
7. In 2011, he was artist in residence at Swiss Institute in Rome
8. Der Themenkatalog is his first monographic catalogue published in 2010 by Archive Books
9. His solo exhibitions include  “Die Kammern des Zustands”, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome (2011), “Die Vertretung des Erschöpfen”, Istituto Svizzero di Milano, Milan (2011). His group exhibitions include “Wunder”, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2011), “Tableaux”, CNAC Le Magasin, Grenoble (2011), “Animism”, Kunsthalle Bern, Extra City Kunsthal and M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerpen (2010), “The Object of the Attack”, David Roberts Art Foundation, London (2009), “modernmodern”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York (2009)
10. The parisian gallery, Balice Hertling will present RETO PULFER at the upcoming edition of Art Basel Statements in June 2012