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.
To create their raw material, they incorporate tools both analogue and digital – paper, scissors, glue, Xerox, scanner, iPhones, iPad and powerbooks, consumer printers, architectural printers and hi-end inkjet alike. Even if beginning on paper, these sketches soon become jpegs. Ping-ponged between the two collaborators. 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 professional tools such as rollers, stencils and silkscreening supplies, with a strict execution to the plans dictated in the bound copy. 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
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
2019                                                                                                     

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 PRESSE

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                                                                                                                

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