Linus Bill + Adrien Horni
In a time of previously unforeseen plurality, visibility and distribution, the value of the image has been elevated in its usefulness as a tool and simultaneously annihilated by its ease of multiplication and impossibility of ownership. Linus Bill + Adrien Horni seize this moment to reestablish the foundations and hierarchy of the image. Creating individual artworks on a greater than human scale when most images are imagined and exist only on a screen, the Swiss artist duo have us reconsider image genesis, its chronology and geography, followed by its likely conclusion.
Eschewing the art world’s conscientious formula for creation / documentation / distribution, the artists approach their own process more like mail-order shopping. As if commissioned by themselves to efficiently reproduce their own piece, the artists optimise their own labour, using mechanical tools such as serigraphy with a strict and planned execution. Curator Gianni Jetzer notes, “The fact that the source images were not created to be blown up [means] the artworks oscillate between the real thing and representation ...resulting in ‘paintings’ of irritating beauty.”
Through the process of reviewing scale and resolution, abstracting time and re-arranging order, Linus Bill + Adrien Horni employ the reproduced image and reconfigure and destabilise the values and schematics of the image. “Usually a book ends something, brings something to a conclusion. When for us it is just the starting point and opens up so many possibilities. Our books do not look to the past, but to the future”
LINUS BILL
Born in 1982 in Jegenstorf, Switzerland
2008
Fotoklasse, ZHdK, Zurich
ADRIEN HORNI
Born in 1982 in Geneva, Switzerland
1998
Académie Maximilien de Meuron, Neuchâtel
2003
Ecole Cantonale d'Arts Visuels, Bienne, Switzerland
The artists live and work in Bienne, Switzerland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Gifs, Galerie Allen, Paris, France
2019
Formering, 18 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Katalog, Wilde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2018
Das Glied, ACRUSH, Zurich, Switzerland
Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, La Salle de Bains, Lyon, France
Heredity Paintings, Kunsthaus Centre d'art Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2017
Heredity Paintings, Galerie Allen, Paris, France
Gemälde Linus + Adrien, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016
Gemälde, CAC Passerelle, Brest, France
2015
Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, Dolores at Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gemälde 2015, Galerie Allen, Paris, France
2014
Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, USA
Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, Printed Matter, New York, USA
Gemälde, MJ Gallery, Genève, Switzerland
2013
Mixed Media, Alabama Sir, Leipzig, Germany
Fundamentals Hardstyle (feat. Lorenzo Senni), Istituto Svizzero, Milano, Italy
2012
Fundamentals, Lokal-Int., Biel, Switzerland
Painting and Jugs (with Aubry/Broquard), Swiss Institute, New York, USA
2011
La Deuxième Chance, Dufourstrasse 31, Zürich, Switzerland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
La fine ligne, Kunsthalle Saint Gallen, Saint Gallen, Switzerland
Un été indien, FRAC Normandie-Caen, Caen, France
2019
Cantonale Berne Jura, La Nef, Le Noirmont, Switzerland
Under Consruction, Wilde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Aeschlimann-Corti-Stipendium, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
Works on Paper, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017
ART-O-RAMA, Galerie Allen, Marseille, France
MEMENTOS Artist souvenirs, Artefact and Other Curiosities, Cur. Jens Hoffman and Piper Marshall, Brussels, Belguim
2015
Material, Florence Loewy, Paris, France
A House Without Rooms, TORRI, Paris, France
;-), V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Concrete Utopias, Realismus Club, Berlin, Germany
2014
Aeschlimann Corti-Stipendium, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland
Copié Copié Copié, Villa Bernasconi, Grand-Lancy, Switzerland
2013
Les Urbaines, Lausanne, Switzerland
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland
Werk- und Atelierstipendien, Helmhaus, Zürich, Switzerland
2012
Cantonale, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Prix Anderfuhren, Centre Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
Werkbeiträge Kanton Zürich, F+F, Zürich, Switzerland
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2015
Cultural Prize awarded by the City of Bienne
2014
Redhouse Residency, New York City, awarded by the Canton of Berne
2013
Swiss Art Award
2012
Werkbeitrag Kanton Zürich
Prix Anderfuhren
COLLECTIONS
Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) - DFNAC, France
City of Bienne, Switzerland
City of Zurich, Switzerland
FRAC Bretagne, France
FRAC Normandie Caen
Museum Voorlinden, Netherlands
PUBLIC WORKS
2016
Kunst am Bau project, Lyss, Switzerland
SPECIFIC PROJECTS
2015
Collaboration with Etudes Studio, Collection SS16
SELECTED PRESS
2019
Jean-Philippe Bretin, Antoine Stevenot, “Linus Bill + Adrien Horni & Joseph Allen Shea” Colletion revue 6, novembre 2019
2018
David Clark, "Urban 'TARDIS' : Two Wall Huse", ARCHITECHTUREAU, 24 April 2018
2017
Jessica Saxby, "Five Shows to See in Paris", ELEPHANT,20 November 2017
Art Bruseels,"A place of discovery",The Week,20 April 2017
2016
"Linus Bill+Adrien Horni'Gemalde'",MousseMagazine,14 December2016
"Brest Passerelle LB+AH:Gemalde",Mousse diary,October-November2016
Laëtitia Toulout, "Peindre l'algorithme: Linus Bill et Adrien Horni s'exposent à Brest", THE STEIDZ, October 2016
"Le Prix de la culture 2015 de la Ville de Bienne et décerné aux artistes Linus Bill et Adrien Horni", Journal du Jura, 20 February 2016
2015
"Le Prix de la culture 2015 de la Ville de Bienne et décerné aux artistes Linus Bill et Adrien Horni", Le Journal, December 2015
"Zwei Bieler malen Bilder, wie sie im Buche stehen", Bieler Tagblatt, 15 December 2015
Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, The Drawer, October 2015
Jade Moyano,"Linus Bill and Andrien Horni's Larger Than Life Collaboration",Trendland, 2 July 2015
Jannifer Weil, "Etudes Studio Men's RTM Spring 2016",WWD Subscribe Now, 28 June 2015
R-Bit, "Gemälde2015 linus bill + adrien horni", Lodown Magazine, 25 June 2015
"Linus Bill and Adrien Horni installation at Printed Matter", Manystuff, June 2015
"Gemälde2015 linus bill + adrien horni", Manystuff, June 2015
AlexHawkins,"From paper to iPhone to canvas Linus Bill and Adrien Horni's paintings", It's Nice That, 26 May 2015
"ArtBrusselsFair review", seeyouthere, 4 May 2015
ARTSY EDITORIAL, "How Swiss Duo Linus Bill and Adrien Horni Are Reversing the Analog-to Digital Process" Arts, January 2015
Nacho Alegre, "Linus Bill lives in a bakery", Apartamento15, 2015
2014
Laurence Chauvy,"La copie, ce geste fondamental de la création ", Le Temps, 13 June 2014
2012
Bernerzeitung,"Von Interlaken bis zum Mond", Kultur, 20 December 2012
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2019
Heredity Painting, Linus Bill + Adrien Horni
Heredity Ersatz, Linus Bill + Adrien Horni
Katalog, Published by Wilde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2017
Kunst am Bau, Publshed by HPS Lyss, Switzerland
2015
Gemälde 2013-2017, Turbo Magazine, Biel, Switzerland
A House without rooms, Yundler Brondino Verlag
2014
Linus Bill + Adrien Horni, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, USA
M J , Gemälde, Geneva, Switzerland
Copié Copié Copié, Ville de Lancy, Bernasconi
2013
Mixed Media, Turbo Magazine, Switzerland
2012
Sculptures, Bronze Age Editions, London, UK
Fundamentals, Turbo Magazine, Biel, Switzerland
Painting and Jugs, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
2011
La Deuxième Chance, Turbo Magazine, Biel, Switzerland
Linus Bill Topmotiviert, Rollo Rress