b. 1987
Swiss artist Jan Vorisek (b. 1987) was born in Basel, and now lives and works in Zürich. In 2018, he completed his Master’s degree in Fine Art at the ZHdK in Zürich. Vorisek’s practice spans sculpture, installation, performance and sound. He draws inspiration from experimental music and incorporates found objects, industrial materials, and site-specific elements into his works in an effort to interrogate commodity fetishism and examine hierarchies of power. His work blurs the lines between what is made, found, copied, and sampled, emphasising the dynamic nature of identity in a continuously changing world. He was awarded the Manor Art Prize in 2023.
His recent solo shows include Collapse Poem at Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus (2020); Crisis Instrument at Observation Society presented by Bottom Space, Guangzhou (2018); and Total Fragmented Darkness at Hard Hat, Geneva (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Crowd Control, High Art with Arcadia Missa, Arles (2022); Techno, Museion, Bolzano (2021); Blind Date, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2019); and Its Urgent, Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Luma Westbau, Zürich (2019).
