PETER FISCHLI DAVID WEISS
Peter Fischli
Born: Zürich, 1952
Education: Academia di Belle Arti, Bologna, 1976-77
Academia di Belle Arti, Urbino, 1975-76
Group Exhibition, Academia, Bologna, 1978
Begins collaboration with David Weiss, 1979
Currently lives and works in Zürich.
David Weiss
Born: Zürich, 1946
Education: Kunstgewerbeschule, Basel, (sculpture class), 1964-65
Vorkurs, Kunstgewerbeschule, Zürich, 1963-64
Died: Zürich, 2012
Sketches, Berne, (with Urs Lüthi, Text: Jean-Christophe Ammann), Edition Toni Gerber, Berne, 1970
Drei Geschichten (Three Stories), Edition Stähli, Zürich, 1974
Up and Down Town, Edition Stähli, Zürich, 1975
The Desert is Across the Street, Galerie Stähli, Zürich/de Appel, Amsterdam, 1975
Galerie Stähli, Zürich, 1976
Galerie Gugu Ernesto, Cologne, 1979
Galerie Venster, Rotterdam, 1979
Begins collaboration with Peter Fischli, 1979
Selected One-Person Exhibitions:
2013
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Rock on Top of Another Rock, Serpentine Gallery, London
2012
Peter Fischli/David Weiss: Shifts, Kunsthalle Budapest
Peter Fischli David Weiss: Walls, Corners, Tubes, Sprüth Magers, London
2011
Peter Fischli David Weiss: Questions, the Sausage Photographs, and a Quiet Afternoon, The Art Institute of Chicago
2010
Peter Fischli David Weiss, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Sammlung Goetz, Munich
2009
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich
Peter Fischli/David Weiss. Are Animals People?, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Palacio de Cristal, Madrid
Objects on Pedestals, Sprüth Magers London
Fotografias, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
2008
Peter Fischli and David Weiss: Altri Fiori e Altre Domande, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Peter Fischli and David Weiss: Questions & Flowers a Retrospective, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2007
Peter Fischli David Weiss, Kunsthaus Zürich
Peter Fischli and David Weiss: Books, Editions and the like, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York
Equilibres, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich
2006
Fischli & Weiss: Flowers & Questions. A Retrospective, Tate Modern, London. Traveled to the Musée de l'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Kunsthaus Zürich; and Deichtorhallen Hamburg (catalogue)
2005
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich
Peter Fischli David Weiss, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
2003
Hunde (Dogs), Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Sprüth, Magers & Lee, London
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Galerie Sprüth & Magers, Cologne
2002
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Fragen Projektion (Questions Projection), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (catalogue)
2001
Fischli & Weiss: Mundo visível (Fischli & Weiss: Visible World), Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Peter Fischli David Weiss: Airports, Monika Sprüth/Philomene Magers, Munich
Büsi (Kitty), Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, (organized by Creative Time), Times Square, New York
2000
Sichtbare Welt, Plötzlich diese Übersicht, Grosse Fragen - Kleine Fragen (Visible World, Suddenly This Overview, Large Questions - Small Questions), Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (catalogue)
El mon visible (Visible World), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
1999
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (catalogue)
1998
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1997
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Center for Contemporary Images, Saint-Gervais, Geneva
1996
In a Restless World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Traveled to Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (catalogue)
Arbeiten im Dunkeln (Work in the Dark), Kunsthaus Zürich. Traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
1995
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Swiss Pavilion, Venice Biennale (catalogue)
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne
1994
Pour la vie: Film 'Le cours des choses' (For Life: Film 'The Way Things Go'), CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
1993
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Kunsthalle Zürich
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Le Case d'Arte, Milan
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva
1992
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Le Case d'Arte, Milan
1991
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
1990
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Kunstverein München, Munich
1989
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, University of South Florida, Tampa
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Le Case d’Arte, Milan
1988
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Musée de peinture et de sculpture, Grenoble, France (catalogue)
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Concentrations, Dallas Museum of Art
1987
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Monumental Presence, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, College of Fine Art, Pittsburgh
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Le Case d’Arte, Milan
1985
Stiller Nachmittag (Quiet Afternoon), Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Kunsthalle Basel
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Centre culturel suisse, Paris
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
1983
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Fieber (Fever), Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne
1975-78
Peter Fischli, Accademia di Belle Arti Urbino and Bologna
1963-65
David Weiss, Vorkurs Kunstgewerbeschule, Zürich and Bildhauerfachklasse, Basel
Group Exhibitions:
2013
Yes Naturally, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague
Benzine: Le energie della tua mente, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna. Will travel to La Triennale, Milan
Light Show, Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre, London
2012
Ghosts in the Machine, New Museum, New York
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Traveled to New Orleans Museum of Art. Will travel to Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Forum 69: Natural History, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
The Dwelling Life of Man: Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Foto Colectania Foundation, Barcelona
TRACK, a contemporary city conversation, The City of Ghent, Belgium
Looking back for the future, Kunsthalle Zürich
13th International Architecture Exhibition: Common Ground, Architecture Biennale, Venice
Searched, Fixed, Organized. Contemporary Photography in the Rheingold Collection, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
La Voce Delle Immagini, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Tales of the City: Art Fund International and the GoMA Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2011
8 1/2: A selection of works from the exhibitions organized by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Stazione Leopolda, Florence
Electric Nights: Art and Pyrotechnic, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
Green White Red: A Perfume of Italy into the Collection of Frac Aquitaine, Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Tate St. Ives Summer Exhibition 2011, Tate St. Ives
Absentee Landlord, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Screaming from the Mountain: Landscapes and Viewpoints, SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
The Unknown Collection: Classics from the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
No Substitute, Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, MD
DogCatMouse, Kunsthaus Zürich
Contemporary Collections (From 1960 to Present), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale
MMK 1991-2011: 20 Years of Presence, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Architektonika, Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Young Art, Kunsthalle Zürich
Through the Looking Brain, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany. Traveled to Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
Never Odd or Even-A Text-Spaced Exhibition, Grimmuseum, Berlin. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
The Sculpture Show, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2010
Radical Conceptual, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside-Out, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Kunsthaus Zürich
10,000 Lives, Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea
Analysis of Flight Data: Art of the 80s: A Düsseldorf Perspective, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Investigations of a Dog: Works from the FACE Collection, la maison rouge, Paris
The Unknown Collection Classics from Bielefeld: Arp, Beckmann, Jawlensky, Kirchner, Warhol…, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH, Bonn, Germany
Catch Me! Grasping Speed, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Global Design, Museum of Design Zürich
2009
Heart in Heart, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Waiting for Video: Works from the 1960s to Today, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
A Certain State of the World? Highlights from the François Pinault Foundation Collection, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool
2008
Life on Mars, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Revolutions - Forms That Turn, 2008 Biennale of Sydney
Kavalierstart 1978 - 1982: Aufbruch in die Kunst der 80er, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Artist's Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2007
Words Fail Me, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, Katonah Museum of Art, White Plains, NY
The 59th Minute Retrospective: Selections from 7 Years of Video Art, Creative Time, Times Square, New York
Deep Comedy, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
2006
All Hawaii Entrées/Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The Painter's Garden: Design, Inspiration, Delight, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
More Than the World: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Small Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2005
Beyond: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
An Aside: Selected by Tacita Dean, (organized by the Hayward Gallery in collaboration with the Camden Arts Centre, London, For Arts Council England), Camden Arts Centre, London. Traveled to The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, United Kingdom (catalogue)
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Contemporary Art and the Garden: Deceits and Fantasies, (organized by American Federation of Art). Traveled to The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
SlideShow, Baltimore Museum of Art. Traveled to the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and Brooklyn Museum
2004
Hard Light, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Artists' Favourites Act II, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Big and Small Questions: Works from the Goetz Collection, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway. Traveled to Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
2003
natürlich gebaut (Naturally Built), Helmhaus, Zürich (catalogue)
Traveling: Towards the Border, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
fast forward: Media Art from the Goetz Collection, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany
Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Delays and Revolutions, 50th Venice Biennale. Traveled to Palazzo Belmonte Riso, Palermo (catalogue)
Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale
Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (catalogue)
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Traveled to UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zürich; and Miami Art Central (catalogue)
Sculpture: Darren Almond, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Ugo Rondinone, Tony Smith, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Edén: La Colección Jumex en el Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (Eden: The Jumex Collection in the Old School of San Ildefonso), Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City
The Straight or Crooked Way, Royal College of Art Galleries, London
Purloined Nature, Kawamura Memorial Museum, Chiba, Japan
The 20th Anniversary Show, Galerie Monika Sprüth / Philomene Magers, Cologne
Looking in - Looking out: Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst, Kunstmuseum Basel
Grotesk! 130 Jahre der Frechheit (Grotesque! 130 Years of Insolence), Haus der Kunst, Münich. Traveled to Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Baustellen der Subversion (Building Sites of Subversion), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2002
Wallflowers, Kunsthaus Zürich
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
From Pop to Now, Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
La Colección MACBA (The MACBA Collection), El Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Something, Anything, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2001
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Analogue Dialogue, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
The Dark, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Szenenwechsel XX (Scene Change XX), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Bildarchive (Picture Archives), Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Collaborations with Parkett 1984 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Ein gut plazierter Helm ist wie ein beruhigender Blick (A well-placed helmet is like a reassuring view), Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremburg, Germany
One Zögern: Blicke in die Sammlung Olbricht (Without Hesitation: A View Into the Olbricht Collection), Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Makeshift, University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton, England (catalogue)
Restaging the Everyday: Recent Work by Beat Streuli and Fischli/Weiss, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Work: Shaker Design and Recent Art, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Vom Eindruck zum Ausdruck Grässlin Collection (From the Impression to the Expression Grässlin Collection), Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2000
Fest der Flüsse (Festival of the Rivers), Wienfluss U4 Stadtpark, Vienna
Pero mira como (See How), Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City. Traveled to El Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico (catalogue)
Eiszeit (Ice Age), Kunstmuseum Bern
Voilà: le monde dans la tête (Here: The World in the Head), Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Fleurs (Flowers), Museum zu Allerheiligen / Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Traveled to Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (catalogue)
Unnatural Science, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (catalogue)
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Tate Modern, London
Orbis Terrarum - Ways of Worldmaking. Kartographie und Zeitgenössische Kunst (Cartography and Contemporary Art), Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp (catalogue)
Un Chant d'etoiles (A Star Song), Opéra National Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels
Some Parts of This World: Helsinki Photography Festival 2000, Finnish Museum of Photography Cable Factory, Helsinki
Apprendiendo menos / Learning less. Gabriel Orozco, Fischli & Weiss, Richard Wentworth, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City. Traveled to Museo de las Artes, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
1999
Contemporary Swiss Art, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Maisons/Häuser (Houses): Carsten Höller. Rosemarie Trockel. Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Un musée en appartement. Une exposition de toutes les gravures, multiples et photographies, publiés par Parkett (A museum in an apartment: An exhibition of all the engravings, multiples and photographs published by Parkett), Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva
Maverick: Jean-Marc Bustamante, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Roni Horn, Thomas Schütte, Andreas Slominski, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
8e biennale de l'image en mouvement (8th Biennial of Moving Images), Center for Contemporary Images, Saint-Gervais, Geneva (catalogue)
1998
Mai 98 (May 98), Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Kunsthalle Zürich
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Sydney Biennal
Kunstausstellung Holderbank (Art Exhibition Holderbank), Holderbank, Switzerland
Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer (Free View of the Mediterranean), Kunsthaus Zürich
Eight People from Europe, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan (catalogue)
Alpenblick: Die zeitgenössische Kunst und das Alpine (Alpine View: Contemporary Art and the Alps), Kunsthalle Vienna
I Shop Therefore I Am, Kunstverein Hamburg
Auf der Spur - Kunst der 90er Jahre im Spiegel von Schweizer Sammlungen (On the Trace: Art of the 90s in the Mirror of Swiss Collections), Kunsthalle Zürich
1997
Documenta X, Kassel (catalogue)
Von den Dingen: Gegenstände in der zeitgenössischen Kunst (Of Things: Topics in Contemporary Art), Museum zu Allerheiligen, Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Timeframes, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA (catalogue)
Airport, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
1996
Now Here, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
(Landschaft) mit dem Blick der 90er Jahre [(Landscape) with a View of the 90s], Museum Schloss Burgk, Burgk/Saale, Germany
Handmade Readymades, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College of the City University of New York
1995
Zeichen und Wunder (Signs and Miracles), Kunsthaus Zürich (catalogue)
1994
Cloaca Maxima, Museum der Stadtentwässerung, Zürich
Another Continent, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (catalogue)
1993
Equilibre, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne
Konstruktion Ziat: Kollektive Bilder in der Fotografie (Constructive Ziat: Collective Paintings in Photography), Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
1992
Post Human, Asher Edelman Foundation (FAE), Museé d'art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland. Traveled to Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; and Deichtorhallen Hamburg (catalogue)
Double Take, Hayward Gallery, London. Traveled to Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna and Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (catalogue)
Expo 1992, Swiss Pavillion, Seville
Oh cet echo (On this echo), Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Sonderfall Schweiz (Special Case Switzerland), Schweizer Landesmuseum, Zürich
Projekt Schweiz (Project Switzerland), Kunsthalle Basel (catalogue)
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne
1991
Baldessari, Bernard, Fischli /Weiss, Perlman, Hanne Darboven, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne
Sguardo di Medusa (Regarding Medusa), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (catalogue)
Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
1990
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Sydney Biennale (catalogue)
Team Spirit, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY. Traveled to Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; Vancouver Art Gallery; The Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami; Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC; Davenport Art Museum, Davenport, IA; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
Image in Transition: Photographic Representation in the Eighties, The Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1989
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, São Paulo Biennale
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden
Psychological Abstraction, House of Cyprus, Athens
1988
Aperto, Venice Biennale
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh
The Logic of Display, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Video Installations, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Collection Sonnabend, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. Traveled to Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendi, Japan; Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima; and National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1987
Skulptur Projekt 1987 (Sculpture Project 1987), Münster, Germany
Documenta 8, Kassel (catalogue)
Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
The Sonnabend Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Stiller Nachmittag (A Quiet Afternoon), Kunsthaus Zürich (catalogue)
1986
Swiss Pralines, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Sonsbeek 86, Park Sonsbeek, Arnheim, The Netherlands (catalogue)
1985
Nouvelle Biennale de Paris, Grand Halle du Parc de la Villette, Paris
Cross Currents in Swiss Art, Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue)
1984
Zwischen Plastik und Malerei (Between Plastic and Painting), Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
1983
Aktuell 83, Lenbachhaus, Münich
1981
30 Künstler aus der Schweiz (30 Artists from Switzerland), Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck, Austria. Traveled to Galerie Nächst St. Stefan, Vienna; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; and Kunstmuseum Zug, Zürich
1980
Saus und Braus (Lap of Luxury), Städtische Galerie zum Strauhof, Zürich
1975
Peter Fischli/David Weiss, David Weiss
Awards
2007
Roswitha Haftmann Prize
2003
Leone d'Oro, 50th Venice Biennale