Not Vital

Not Vital was born 1948 in Sent. He currently lives and works in Beijing (China), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Sent (Switzerland). Not Vital has exhibited extensively around the world since the 1970s. Recently he has had solo exhibitions among others at Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (2020, 2010), Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur (2018), Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2016), Kloster Schoenthal Foundation (2015), Kunsthalle Wien (2009), The Arts Club of Chicago; Currents – Art and Music, Beijing (both 2008), Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2005), and New Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow (2004). In 2001 he participated in the 49th Venice Biennial. His recent group exhibitions include AFRICA. ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE AND IDENTITY, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (2015), Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur (2010), Victoria and Albert Museum; MoMA, New York (both 2008), Philadelphia Museum of Art (2007), Fondation Beyeler (2006), and Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2005). Vital's work is represented in numerous prestigious public collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Philadelphia Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, the Kunstmuseum Bern, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.