Contact

Gen Atem
Baumgartenstrasse 335
CH-4715 Herbetswil
Switzerland
gen@genatem.com

Publications
edition.bossardwettstein.com

Life and career
wikipedia.org

Solo exhibitions (selection)
2021: Truth and Shadows, Galerie Loiegruebe, Solothurn, Switzerland
2019: Truth, Corydor Artspace, Wallisellen, Zurich, Switzerland
2018: Retrospective, Galerie Roman Hofer Am Fluss, Ennetbaden, Switzerland
2018: Duality, Hongakuji Bok-Koku School of Calligraphy, Tokyo, Japan
2017: Form is Emptiness, MoE – Museum of Emptiness, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2017: Meditated Vandalism, Galerie Philipp Brogli Artstuebli, Basel, Switzerland
2017: Now is Gone, Galerie Fahrradbüro, Art Adventures Sascha Serfözö, Berlin, Germany
2016: Meditated Vandalism: Retrospective of the Function, Kolly Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2016: Resurrection, Round K Gallery, New York City, USA
2014: Rock/Stars, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria
2014: Meditated Vandalism, Kolly Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2011: The Aerosol Experience, Galerie Ziegler SA, Zurich, Switzerland
2011: Executions, Milk Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2010: Meditated Vandalism, Galerie Parzelle, Basel, Switzerland
2009: Pages, BlamBlamBlam Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1991: Strategy of the Unreadable, Kunstraum SRO, Zurich, Switzerland
1989: Echoes of Wild Style, Kunsthaus Oerlikon, Zurich, Switzerland
1989: Style Mentalities, Galerie Artagogo, Zurich, Switzerland
1984: Bubble Styles, Casablanca Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

Performances (selection)
2024: Always Rigth, UrbanArt Biennale, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Völklingen Ironworks, Germany
2021: Pictures at an Exhibition, Multimedia Opera, Solothurn, Switzerland
2020: Cycle, for Hochparterre, Magazine for architecture, Zurich, Switzerland
2017: Duality, Hongakuji Bok-Koku School of Calligraphy, Tokyo, Japan
2017: Meditated Vandalism, Blue Balls Festival, Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre, Lucern, Switzerland
2017: La Perle, IOIC – Institute of Incoherent Cinématography, Misterioso Jazz Club, Zurich, Switzerland
2017: Meditated Vandalism, Galerie Philipp Brogli Artstübli, Basel, Switzerland
2016: Meditated Vandalism, Kolly Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2016: Hommage to Dieter Roth, Biennale Wangen, Wangen an der Aare, Switzerland
2015: The End of Language, Grafik 15 Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland
2014: Dearly Beloved, Pointless Act, Réunion Off Space, Zurich, Switzerland
2014: Now is Gone, Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz, Austria
2013: Kenryo Hara vs Gen Atem, Otori Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan
2013: Die Grenzwelt, Zukunft Club, Zurich, Switzerland
2012: Hurt, Museum Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
2012: In The Name of…, Annasatoko Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2012: Die Grenzwelt, Exil Club, Zurich, Switzerland
2012: Blank City Calling: Container, Spunk Culture Club, Zurich, Switzerland
2011: The Aerosol Experience, Galerie Ziegler SA, Zurich, Switzerland
2011: Atem vs Chrétien, Il Rivellino Art Gallery, Locarno, Switzerland
2011: Executions, Milk Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2010: The Twelve Links, Galerie Parzelle, Basel, Switzerland
2009: Going Over, BlamBlamBlam Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2009: Give and Take, Museum of Design, Zurich, Switzerland
1996: Moods, Das T.E.A.M., Zurich, Switzerland
1996: Kunstraum Walcheturm, Das T.E.A.M., Zurich, Switzerland
1993: Rammellzee vs Gen U One, Eigen+Art Gallery, New York City, USA
1993: A Voices Ceremony, Kunstraum SRO, Zurich, Switzerland
1990: The Gargoylian Books of Stock: Rammellzee vs Gen U One, Gallery Yaki Kornblit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1989: Echoes of Wild Style, Kunsthaus Oerlikon, Zurich, Switzerland
1989: Retrospective of the Equation: Rammellzee vs Gen U One, MSS Gallery, New York City, USA
1989: While I Kiss the Sky, University of Applied Sciences, Rapperswil, Switzerland

Group exhibitions and exhibition participations (selection)
2024: Cantonal Annual Exhibition of Solothurn Artists, Solothurn Museum of Art, Switzerland 
2024: UrbanArt Biennale, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Völklingen Ironworks, Germany
2023: Cantonal Annual Exhibition of Solothurn Artists, Olten Museum of Art, Switzerland
2023: Retrospective A23, MUVA, Museum of Urban and Vandalism Art, Solothurn, Switzerland
2022: Bang Bang, Translocal Hi:stories of Performance Art, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
2021: Beyond The Street, Carbon Gallery, Curated by Fumihiko Tsukamoto, Fukuoka City, Japan
2021: Archive, Galerie Philipp Brogli Artstuebli, Basel, Switzerland
2018: Rammellzee: Racing for Thunder, Red Bull Arts New York, New York, NY, USA
2019: Graffiti Pioneers, Galerie Philipp Brogli Artstuebli, Basel, Switzerland
2017: Roule Petit Ougandais, Kolly Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2015: 1/12, Egli Space, Zurich, Switzerland
2015: Fifty Fifty, Kolly Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2015: Past & Future, Kolly Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2014: Union, Pointless Act, Réunion Off Space, Zurich, Switzerland
2014: No Title, Kolly Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2013: Pimp My Painting, Message Salon Esther Eppstein, Zurich, Switzerland
2013: Friends, Twoseven Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
2013: Jet Age, so+ba Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013: No title, Galerie Grizot, Paris, France
2012: Organic Structures, Annasatoko Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2012: Neo Vandalism, Stroke, Urban Art Fair, Neo Vandalism Art Gallery, Munich, Germany
2012: Similitudes, Galerie Ziegler SA, Zurich, Switzerland
2012: The Aerosol Experience, Galerie Ziegler SA, Zurich, Switzerland
2011: 5/1, Il Rivellino Art Gallery, Locarno, Switzerland
2011: Uberpush, Pfauen Offspace, Zurich, Switzerland
2010: Delete, Starkart Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2009: Starkart, Starkart Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2001: Video Art, Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
1995: Anarchy and Aerosol, Historic Museum Baden, Baden, Switzerland
1992: Kunstszene Zurich, Galerie Susi Brunner, Zurich, Switzerland
1992: La Table de Nuit, Gallery 210, Zurich, Switzerland
1991: Rammellzee, Retrospective of The Equation, The Battle Station Satellite, New York, NY, USA

Art in public space (selection)
2024: Always Rigth, UrbanArt Biennale, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Völklingen Ironworks, Germany
2023: MUVA (The Monolith), Museum of Urban and Vandalism Art, Solothurn, Switzerland
2022: Flora Magica, mandate for a mural, Rapperswil-Jona, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2017: Christoph Blocher, mandate for a mural, Campus Attisholz, Solothurn, Switzerland
2017: Meditated Vandalism, mandate for a painting, KKL, Blueballs Festival, Lucern, Switzerland
2016: Hommage to Dieter Roth, paintings and installation, Biennale Wangen, Wangen an der Aare, Switzerland
2015: Time Frame, mandate for paintings/sculptures, Art collection of the Canton of Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2015: The End of Language, mandate for a sculpture/painting, Grafik15, Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland
2013: The Answer My Friend, drawing/performance, Louvre, Paris, France
2012: Hurt, painting/performance/installation, Bahnhof Tiefenbrunnen, Zurich, Switzerland
1993: Time Train, mandate for paintings/sculptures, Art collection of the Canton of Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland
1990: Graffiti is Dead, mandate for a mural, State of Zurich, Head Office of Civil Defence Departement, Zurich, Switzerland
1990: Wild Styles, mandate for six murals, City of Zurich, The Civil Engineering Office, Zurich, Switzerland
1988: Whirl, mandate for a mural, City of Zurich, Departement of Culture, Hechtplatz Theater, Zurich, Switzerland
1986: Wild Writers, mandate for 3 murals, City of Zurich, VBZ Public Transport Authority, Zurich, Switzerland
1982: Graffiti and Urban Art projects in New York City, Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich, and other cities (1982 to 1994)

Music
2023: I Can See You, Studio Single, with Paradox Six
2022: Lost Tracks, Studio Solo Album
2020: Truth, Studio Solo Album
2014: Not Here, Studio Solo Album
1992: The Subway Monk, Studio Solo Album (released in 2017)

Teaching activities (selection)
2022 – 2024: Lecturer in color theory and visual design at Higher College of Arts and Design, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1999 – 2009: Lecturer in Buddhist philosophy and meditation at several high schools of the canton of Zurich and at The Four Seasons Center for Mindfulness and Meditation, Zurich, Switzerland
1997 – 1999: Apprentice Instructor for graphic designers at Bost Productions, Maur, Switzerland
1986 – 1994: Mentor for Style Writing, Type Design, and Typography at AVC, Zurich, Switzerland

–