Jan van Oordt

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Jan van Oordt
1980 Né à Zurich
2004-2005 Vorkurs SfG Basel
2005-2008 BA Institut Kunst HGK/FHNW Basel
2016-2019 MA Fine Arts HGK/ FHNW Basel
2018 – Direction Artspace and Residency La Dépendance, St.Imier
Lives and works in Saint-Imier, Switzerland

Exhibitions

Solo
2023
_Esquemas, SACO Biennale, Antofagasta; Chile
2022
_ … said the shrub to the mound; SIS 123, La Chaux de Fonds
_Steinchen; Espace Libre, Biel/Bienne
_Canopy Launch Pad; Mât Artspace, Neuchatel
2021
_ What really happens to Swallows in the Winter?; Artachment Artspace, Basel
2020
_ I think I heard the Sun;, Sic! Luzern

Groupshow
2026
_Portheads and Riverbeds, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel
_Pervenche Pavillon, Art Môtieres, Môtiers – Val-de-Travers
_Der Park, Heime; Häuser, Brutstätten, MOM Artspace / Hinterconti, Hamburg
_Fingerbeeren; Space 25 Basel
_ Gabelung, avec Mathis Pfäffli, Le Fond de l‘Air, KBCB Biel/Bienne
2025
_Dinge/Things MOM Artspace, Hamburg
_76 Biennale, Musee de Beaux Arts La Chaux-de-Fonds
2024
_ Clockworks; Campsite Reception, Seyðisfjörður; Iceland
_ Neuhofstrasse; Rehmann Museum, Laufenburg
_ Drawings for la Dépendance # 14, La Rada , Locarno
_ La Dépendance TV; Section Critique ,Exhibition, Publishing; Swiss Art Awards
_ Pepinière; L’Effet de Serre (le Déluge) Abbatiale Bellelay
2023
_ Geschichten; Kunsthalle Bern, Cantonale Bern Jura
_ Gestern; Kunsthaus Langental, Cantonale Bern Jura
_ Past Deep Future; EAC les Halles; Porrentruy
_ Bezüge (Wettstein Edition) Flora; Wett; Basel
_ Urban Sprawl (Drone Exercise); Indice Ultraviolet, OUT, CAN Neuchâtel
2022
_ Days, Cantonale Berne Jura; Stadtgalerie, Bern
_Free Associations; Radical Sources; Krone/ Couronne, Biel/Bienne
_Premises; Austellungsraum Klingental, Basel
_Wasser im Wasser; The Hawhum Panel ; Sae Greenhouse Lab/Teti Group, Zürich
_Antropomorph; Milieu Bern
2021
_ Kairos; Regionale 22 Kunstraum Riehen
_ Ekawasleep(Breathturn); Kunsthaus Langenthal Cantonale Bern Jura
_ Garten der Wege; Fake Quotes and Sitting Ducks, MalMal; Bern
_ Tinges; Indice Ultraviolet, CAN, Neuchâtel
_ Dogs don‘t see Rainbows; Vera Vessels, Zürich
2020
_ Spoiled, Regionale 21, Kunsthaus Baselland
_ Swiss Art Awards, Nominiert (Ausgefallen)
_ Wasser im Wasser; Kunstkredit Basel Stadt, Kunsthalle Basel
_ Tuanaki, Online Screening, Corona Cinema, Institut Kunst, Basel
2019
_ Kairos, Cantonale Berne /Jura Kunsthaus Langenthal
_Drawings for la Dépendance 7/8 #; Fotonico Studio, Milano
_ Peony, Now This, WURM, Summe, Basel
_Dogs Dont See Rainbows, I Hood, Diplomaustellung MA, Kunsthaus Baselland
_Drawings for la Dépendance 6 #; I Never Read, Artbookfair, Basel
2018
_ Peony; Myco TV; Live stream by Mycological Twist, Athis Mons, Paris
_ “I am not your Guru” Group Show, Drawings for la Dépendance;
Studio Omstand, Arnhem, Netherlands, Curated by Robert Hamelijnck
_Drawings for la Dépendance 5 #; Book Editions, Volumes, Artbookfair,
Kunsthalle Zürich
_Ghost Camp Remnants, Gruppenaustellung , La Dépendance, St.Imier
_Drawings for la Dépendance 4 #; Book Editions, I Never Read,
Artbookfair, Basel
2017
_Drawings for la Dépendance 1 #; Austellung und Verkauf der Sammlung,
Kaskadenkondensator, Basel
2016
_Themepark : Homerecordings,Video Live Set, Brasserie du Pont, St.Imier
2014
_Rooftop Readings : Hidden Poems / Bibliothek des Kunstvereins, Basel
2012
_ Themepark /Konzert/ Performance, Restaurat Hirscheneck Basel
_ Kapitel3 : Der Raum, Notizen (Panorama), Kasko Basel
2011
_ The Travelling Artist, Basel, Wien, Budapest
_ Kunst vor Ort, Gruppenausstellung ,Pfingstweidstrasse, Zürich
_ UNDERWORLD by Galerie Utopia / The Forgotten Bar Project,Zürich
2010
_A Slight Discomfort / Performance, Cargo Bar, Basel
_ Soaking Homes, Kunstraum Ruedi Tobler, Basel, mit Aggregat Maus.
_ ParsProToto BBS/Kunstprojekt Berlin-Basel-Saarnen
2009
_Der südwestliche Teil einer Position, Artachment, Basel
_Am180, The End of the Mayan Calendar, Prag
_Merry go round and round, Start Point, Klatovy, Tschechische Republik
_ Borderline, Landschaftsskulptur;Skulpturenweg 4 Jahreszeiten, Lausen
_Dialog der Generationen, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal

Publications

_ Contribution Maritime Poetics (TETI Press) 2026
_ 3 Höhrstationen (Neuhausstrasse) Rehmann Museum 2024
_ Contribution Mobile Soils (TETI Press) 2021
_ The Hawhum Panel; Publication CAN 2021
_SAA Katalog Text by Sadie Plant 2020
_ Magnifique Usine, Edition Fästing Plockare 2020
_Ego Zines, Material, Zürich 2019
_FGA # 38 What life could be/ the ambivalence of success
Nienke Terpsma Rob Hamelijnck, Edition Fink, 2018
Public Talks
_La Dépendance: Territory, Surroundings, Constructionsite;
Zhdk; TETIgroup; Baustelle Botanik & School of Commons 2019
_ Sae Greenhouse Lab/Teti Group; Wasser im Wasser, Public Reading, Zürich 2022
_Podium «Nairs umnutzen», Bündner Architekturtage, Nairs
_ DDA_Documents d’artistes Genève; Table Ronde, Créer, travailler, habiter :
espaces et conditions de la pratique artistique, 2026
_ CAT Talk HKB, Bern 2026

Residencies

_ Inland Campoadentro; Summerschool; Spain 2019
_ ISLA Residency; Antofagasta Chile 2023 (3 Month)
_ LungAschool Residency/Teaching; Seyðisfjörður, Iceland 2024 (3 Month)

Awards

_ Nominated Swiss Art Awards 2024
_ Nominated Swiss Art Awards 2020
_ Werkbeitrag Kanton Basel Stadt 2019

Collections

_ Sammlung Kunstkredit Baselland
_ Collection du Canton Jura
_ Sammlung Kunstkredit Basel Stadt
_ Sammlungn Canton Berne
_ Christoph Merian Stiftung
_ Fondation Hermine Maurer

Jury

_Dogo Residenz 2019
_Cantonale Berne Jura 2021
_Bachelor Re/Production HEAD Genf 2022

Curatorial Projects (2021-2026)

2026
_Le Fond de l‘Air, (Cooperation with Mathis Pfäffli) KBCB, Biel/Bienne
_TIMING; Chantal Kaufmann; readings by Stefan Burger and Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff, La Dépendance
St.Imier
_FRAMES, With: Ethan Assouline, Brigham Baker, Karin Borer, Paula Herrmann, Cyril Hübscher, Gilles Jacot, Chantal Kaufmann, Daniel Kurth, Matthias Liechti, Selina Lutz, Matheline Marmy, Vinzenz Meyner, Dominic Michel, Ivan Mitrovic, Fabrice Schneider, Manuel Schneider, Mathis Pfäffli, Valentina, Stieger, Cassidy Toner, Ilaria Vinci, Arnaud Wohlhause, Gerta Xhaferaj, Jiajia Zhang, InfoSpace, Basel
_Orbit Screenings III, Fields; Compiled by Clara Chavan and Selma Meuli,
MUMOK, Vienna / Infospace, Basel
_ Orbit Screenings IV, Adaptations; Compiled by Marc Jauss, InfoSpace, Basel
2025
_Lionne Saluz, Flower Power, Lokal Int Biel/Bienne
_Orbit Screenings I, People doing things together (des gens qui font des choses ensemble)
Compiled by Ethan Assouline,InfoSpace, Basel
_Orbit Screenings II, Sans Screen; Compiled by Nicoleta Apperti, InfoSpace, Basel
2024
_ Drawings for La Dépendance #13, Format Carte Postale, Centre de Culture & de Loisirs, St.Imier
_ Drawings for La Dépendance #14, La Rada, Locarno
_ Ethan Assouline, Autonomie, SIS 123, (Cooperation with Fabrice Schneider)
La Chaux-de-Fonds
_ Poussière de Seum, Zine launch and reading by Ethan Assouline, La Dépendance, St.Imier.
_Raisa Bosich, String Figures, book presentation, ludic practice, La Dépendance, St.Imier.
_ PIGS HAVE WINGS, Costanza Candeloro, Lokal-Int Biel/Bienne
_Costanza Candeloro, University of Rebbibia,24- hour reading, La Dépendance, St.Imier.
2023
_ Youth work and film-making, double screening organised by Leonie Nagel and Tiphanie Kim Mall,
La Dépendance, St.Imier
_ History and present of libertarian music, Presentation and discussion by Florian Eitel,
La Dépendance, St.Imier
_ Past Deep Future; EAC les Halles; Porrentruy
_ Wet Wood, Live Performance, Yanik Soland, La Dépendance, St.Imier
_Accoustic Ecology Workgroup, Listening Session La Dépendance, St.Imier
_Staggered Part III,Gilles Jacot, with an insert by Faltpavillon Lokal-Int Biel/Bienne
_ Drawings for la Dépendance #11 Volumes Artbookfair; Zentralwäscherei Zürich
_ Ex Libris – The New York Public Library by Frederick Wiseman; Cooperation with la Bibliothèque
Régionale de St.Imier:
_ Drawings for la Dépendance #12, Galerie Coopérative Espace Noir; St.Imier
2022
_ Gritli Faulhaber und Lulu Obermayer; Work Presentation at Lokal Int Biel/Bienne
_Anything is Mirror; Brigham Baker at Lokal Int, Biel/Bienne
_Premises; With With contributions by Geraldine Tedder, Mathis Pfäffli, Sadie Plant, Fabrice Schneider, Daniela Brugger, Riverside (Andreas Kalbermatter, Dominic Michel, Mia Sanchez), vorstellen.network (Axelle Stiefel, Phillip Klein, Elisa Storelli), Arnaud Wohlhauser, TETI Group (Anne-Laure Franchette & Gabriel Gee), Vivian Wang, Manuel Schneider, Ludwig Berger, Julie Semoroz, Florian Eitel, Austellungsraum Klingental, Basel
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2021
_ OPEN LIBRARY CAMP, with Martina Henzi, La Dépendance, St.Imier
_ Chorus, Performance by Reto Pulfer, La Dépendance; St. Imier
_ Rock, rock my Baby – Filme von Helke Sander, Organized by Riverside & La Dépendance, St.Imier
_ Climbing Camp, (Cooperation avec Fabrice Schneider) With the participation and contributions of : Vincent Barras; Donatella Bernardi; Hrefna Hörn Leifsdóttir; Stan Iordanov; Nina Kennel; Vera König; Sarah Makina; Philip Poppek; Leifur Orn Svavarsson; Hayahisa Tomiyasu; Martina-Sofie Wildberger. La Dépendance, St.Imier.
_ Eremitage; Anna Bak, Lokal-Int Biel/Bienne
_ Animated Matter, (Cooperation with Mathis Pfäffli) With Lisa Lurati, Manuel Schneider, Anna Bak, Matheline Marmy, Micha Zweifel, Hammer Band (Raphael Stucky/Res Thierstein)