David Siepert

Born 1983, Bad Saeckingen, Germany; lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. 

 

Siepert studied Visual Communication at the University of Basel. He then studied Fine Arts with a focus on New Media Art at the University of Aarau and at the Master of Fine Arts Department at Parsons in New York, where he focused mainly on photography. His body of work covers a wide range of disciplines from photography to interactive installations and performance art. In addition to following his own artistic goals, Siepert is also very active in cultural youth work.

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011

IRBIS – 11°, group exhibition, Kunstverein Kunstruiert, Samedan, Switzerland

Desires, Nightmares & Dreams II, group exhibition, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon

The Camp West, Solo exhibition, Kunstétage Zürich, Switzerland 

Same Same, But Different, solo exhibition, Kunstraum Aarau, Switzerland

Together in Electric Dreams, group exhibition, Museum for Electronic Arts Basel, Switzerland

Going Places, group exhibition, IAAB Project Space, Basel, Switzerland

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Born 1983, Bad Saeckingen, Germany; lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. 

 

Siepert studied Visual Communication at the University of Basel. He then studied Fine Arts with a focus on New Media Art at the University of Aarau and at the Master of Fine Arts Department at Parsons in New York, where he focused mainly on photography. His body of work covers a wide range of disciplines from photography to interactive installations and performance art. In addition to following his own artistic goals, Siepert is also very active in cultural youth work.

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011

IRBIS – 11°, group exhibition, Kunstverein Kunstruiert, Samedan, Switzerland

Desires, Nightmares & Dreams II, group exhibition, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon

The Camp West, Solo exhibition, Kunstétage Zürich, Switzerland 

Same Same, But Different, solo exhibition, Kunstraum Aarau, Switzerland

Together in Electric Dreams, group exhibition, Museum for Electronic Arts Basel, Switzerland

Going Places, group exhibition, IAAB Project Space, Basel, Switzerland


2010

Stage Photography, solo exhibiton at Albareh Art Gallery, Al Manamah, Bahrain

KLANG! Neue Musik, site-specific art work for Hamburg, Germany

Kunst, Kultur und andere Würste, Performance, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland

2009

LAB30, exhibition for New Media Art, Augsburg, Germany

Gegenwart, exhibition for contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland

Inside and Outside, Festival for New Media Art, Zurich, Switzerland

Photographs by SIEPERT, Kunstverein Tiengen, Germany

2008

Butter Fly, solo show, Studio 3 Art Gallery, New York, USA

Group show, Museum für Kommunikation, Bern, Switzerland

Shift Festival, Festival for New Media Art, Basel, Switzerland

Eletric Rendez-Vous at plugIn / Museum for Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland

2007

Shift Festival, Festival for New Media Art, Basel, Switzerland

 

Siepert received various grants for this work and did artist residencies in Stuttgart, Hamburg, Cairo, and Manama. His work is in the Collection of the Christoph Merian Foundation, Basel; The Museum for Communication, Bern; The House of Electronic Arts Basel; the Collection of the city of Waldshut, Germany, and other private collections. Siepert also did a commissioned Installation for the city of Hamburg, Germany.