...is an artist living and
working primarily in Switzerland. He was born
in 1955 near Chicago in the U.S., and lived in
this city for a number of years. He has
exhibited his art work, and published writings
on art, frequently since 1980.
...ist Künstler, lebt und
arbeitet hauptsächlich in der Schweiz. Er
wurde 1955 in der Nähe von Chicago (USA)
geboren und hat mehrere Jahre in dieser Stadt
gelebt. Seit 1980 zahlreiche Ausstellungen und
verschiedene Veröffentlichungen über
Kunst.
Solo Exhibitions
(Selected)
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)
Schaufensterkunst.li, Schaan Liechtenstein
"Screen Self-Portraits
and Dr Great Art Geschichte von Schaufenster Kunst,"
Atelier62 Ursula Wolf
2020
- 2021
Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte Appenzell,
Switzerland
"App 'N' Cell Now,"curator
Roland Scotti,
Dr Great Art Painting- Installation and Performance-Lectures;
Wall-Drawing collaborative addition to wall of photos by Gabriela
Falkner.
Brewers
Bay Centre, Tortola British Virgin Islands
1992
University
of Rochester New York «1981 - 1991»
1990
Ortsmuseum,
Flawil, Switzerland (Cat.)
1988
ARC
Gallery-Rawspace, Chicago USA (Cat.)
1987
Prairie
Avenue Gallery, Chicago
1984
American
Centers, Cairo & Alexandria Egypt
1986
Lill
Street Art Center, Chicago
Collaboration with Composer Kyle Gann Sweeney
Among the Tribes,
Installation and New Music
1982
ARC
Gallery-Rawspace, Chicago (Cat.)
1981
llinois State
University Gallery, Normal USA
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
2020-2021
Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte Appenzell,
Switzerland,
"App 'N' Cell Now," curator Roland Scotti,
Dr Great Art Painting- Installation and
Performance-Lectures;
Wall-Drawing collaborative addition to wall of photos by
Gabriela Falkner.
Musée d art et d histoire,
Neuchâtel, mit Steve Litsios
2005
Cafe
Gallery, London UK
Coleman
Project Space, London UK
Castelluco di Penza, Siena
Kasko, Basel
Kunstraum
Kultur am Bahnhof, St. Gallen
2004
Kunstmuseum
Olten, Olten Switzerland
Kunst.Vorarlberg,
Dornbirn, Österreich / Austria,
"Die Grenzen meiner Sprache..."
Kunstmuseum
St. Gallen, "Heimspiel"
Laura
Martin-Transient Gallery,New York
2003
Laura
Martin-Transient Gallery, Scope Art Fair, New
York
Laura
Martin-Transient Gallery, Mi-Art Fair, Milan,
Italy
Sequenz
Kurztrickfilmfestival, St. Gallen
(Sequenz Short Animated Film Fest)
2002
Kunstmuseum
Thurgau, Switzerland
Kulturhaus,
Basel
Macelleria
d'Arte, St.Gallen
Central
Museum of Painters, Moscow Russia
Verein
für Original Graphik, Kultur am Bahnhof,
St. Gallen
Kulturschiene,
Herrliberg Switzerland
2001
Kunstmuseum
Thurgau, Switzerland
Kunsthaus
Dieticon, Dieticon Zürich
Kunsthalle
Baden-Baden, Germany
Central
Art Museum for Painting, Moscow Russia
2000
Kunstmuseum
St.Gallen
Galleria
Turchi, Montalcino, Siena, Italy
ProjectsUnited
Gallery, Zurich Art Fair
Castello
di Camigliano, Camigliano, Siena, Italy
1999
Galerie
Adrian Bleisch, Arbon Switzerland
Galleria
incontro, Zürich
Schloss
Brunnegg, Kreuzlingen Switzerland
Kunst
conTAKT 99, Waaghaus St.Gallen (Katalog)
Züst/Kemp,
Herisau
1998
Kunsthaus
Richterswil, Zurich (Cat.)
Nahbar,
St. Gallen (Cat.)
Kleines
Kunsthaus, St. Gallen
Marcus'
Raum, St. Gallen
Gewerbemuseum,
Winterthur
AnStadt,
GSMBA, St. Gallen (Cat.)
1997
Kaj
Forsblom, Helsinki Finland
1996
Kaj
Forsblom, Zürich Switzerland
Kant.
Regierungsgebäude, St.Gallen
1995
KunstRaum,
Romanshorn Switzerland (Cat.)
1994
St.Galerie
Remake, St.Gallen
1988
Hyde
Park Art Center, Chicago (Cat.)
University
of Wisconsin, Milwaukee USA
National
Art Gallery, Managua Nicaragua
1987
Field
Museum of Natural History, Chicago
1986
Robbin
Lockett Gallery, Chicago
N.A.M.E.
Gallery, Chicago
1985
Museum
of Contemporary Art, Bookstore, Chicago (Cat.)
Randolph
Street Gallery, Chicago
1984
Marianne
Deson Gallery, Chicago
MoMing
Arts Center, Chicago
1840
Show, Chicago
1982
Illinois
State University Gallery, Normal
«Eurasia»
(J. Beuys Installation, made by Brandl
at Beuys' behest/ gemacht von Brandl
für Beuys)
1980
Kathryn
Markel Gallery, New York
1979
Los
Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, L.A.
USA
Publications by Brandl (Selected)
Publikationen (Auswahl)
— DR GREAT ART AND MONGREL ART, documentation book
in sequential comic form. Dusk Publ.
<https://indyplanet.com/dr-great-art-and-mongrel-art>
— ART IN AMERICA, NY
Contributing Editor
— SHARKFORUM,
<www.sharkforum.org>, on-line e-zine,
Co-Editor
— BAD AT SPORTS,
<www.badatsports.com>, radio podcasting,
Central
European Correspondent
— BILE NOIR, Revue de Bande Dessinée, Summer
2004,
Geneva, Switzerland.
— THE ART BOOK, London Swiss Correspondent, incl.
"Issues: Re-reading Kandinsky," "Herzog
und de Meuron" and
"Jonathan Lasker
Gemälde/Paintings, Collected Essays".
— MEDIEN LESEN: DER TEXTBEGRIFF IN DER
MEDIENWISSENSCHAFT, "The Expanded Text Concept and
Central Metaphor in Painting and the Novel",
(Buch/Book) Verlag
Pestalozzianum 1999
— UMAR
IBN AL-FARID: Sufi Verse, Saintly Life, by Th.
Emil Homerin,
cover of book, 2001 Paulist Press.
— LEX BRAES: STILL Catalog
Essay.
— JOHN SEERY Catalog Essay.
— APARTMENT SHOW: KUNST IN PRIVATEN RÄUMEN, Essay;
Edition Fink 1997 (Buch/Book).
— NOISMA No.35, März 1997 , St. Gallen,
«Bildsprünge»
Publication Piece
— SAITEN, Juli 1998 Publication Piece mit/with Daniel
Ammann,
Sept. 1998 Interview with Dave Muller
— FÖN Nov/Dez., No.11 1994, St. Gallen,
«Hermann Reinfrank-
Künstlerportrait»
mit Daniel Ammann; Mai/Juni, No. 38 1999,
«Two Postmodernisms and a
Post-Postmodernism»
— THE CARIBBEAN WRITER 1994, «Dusk,
North Side of Tortola»
Poem.
— ART CRITICISM Vol.8, No.2 1993 , New York,
«Beyond 'Like'
and 'As' in Images: Metonymy and Metaphor
in Some Recent Art»
with Daniel Ammann.
— THE JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS, US, Winter 1993 Book
Review.
— ART/WRITE Summer 1988, Chicago, «What
Representation
Represents»
— IN THE DARK May-June 1988, Chicago, Catalogue Essay
— WHITEWALLS Summer 1986, Chicago, Publication Piece
— NEW ART EXAMINER Frequent Contributions 1979-1986
Artikel
und Besprechungen über Brandl (Auswahl) Articles and Reviews on Brandl
(Selected)
—COVERING BRANDL, von Daniel Ammann, <https://tredition.de/autoren/daniel-ammann-yb6840/covering-brandl-56896/>
Buch, Magoria Verlag.
—See NEWEST PAGE here for various TV recent TV and newspaper
appearance. —BAD AT SPORTS radio podcast, 30. November,
2008; Interview with Brandl. <http://badatsports.com/2008/episode-170-mark-staff-brandl/>
—TV PROGRAM, University of Illinois, Champaign
November/December 2008
<http://www.sharkforum.org/2008/12/out-of-sequence-krannert-art-m-1.html>
—SIDETRACK, WILL-AM Radio, Champaign Illinois, 2.
November 2008
—MY ART SPACE, e-zine, 25 June, 2008; Interview with
Brandl.
<http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2008/06/art-space-talk-mark-staff-brandl.html> —DER
TOSSTHALER 12. Juni 2006
—KUNST-BULLETIN Mai 2006, von Ursula Badrutt-Schoch. —ART IN
AMERICA June/July 2005, by Judith Trepp.
—TOXIC FM Radio, St. Gallen, 1 Juli 2004, Interview auf
Deutsch
mit Stefan Tobler.
—PAPERMAG, New York, 3 April 2003, “Scope Art Fair”, by
Carol Lee.
—ARTNET Magazine, 10 March. 2003, “Weekend Update, Scope
Art
Fair”, by Walter Robinson. —SEQUENZ
Feb. 2003, “Here Comes the Impuritan”, von Daniel Ammann.
—APPENZELLER MAGAZIN Jan. 2003, “Eine gemalte
Annäherungen”,
von Ursula
Badrutt-Schoch.
—SWISS NEWS December 2002.
—MALEREI? MALEREI!; Kunstmuseum Thurgau, 2001/2002.
—THE ART BOOK, London, March 2001, vol. 8, issue 2,
painting as cover image
—ST. GALLER TAGBLATT 21 Nov. 1991/14 Juni 1990/2. Juli
1994/
16 April 1997/
5 Aug. 1998/ 11.
Dez. 1998/ 24 Juni 2004, usw.
"Comics, Cage und die Beatles" von Gerhard Mack, 30.
Aug. 2000
"Fast eine Liebesgeschichte" von Ursula Badrutt-Schoch, 18. Jan. 03
"Netznixe trifft Wirbelwind" von Ursula Badrutt-Schoch,
9. MaI 2006
—CRITICAL REVIEW, internet, New York, July 1999. —MARK STAFF
BRANDL, Website: begun June 1999, http://www.markstaffbrandl.com/ —THURGAUER
ZEITUNG 23. März 1999. —AKZENT 4. April
1999.
—SÜDKURIER 22. März 1999
"Tradition kontrastiert mit dem
Angebot der
Massenkultur"
von Alexia Sailer,
14 Jan. 2003. —CASH 27 Feb.
1998.
—ZÜRICHSEE-ZEITUNG 29. Jan. 1998. —SCHWEIZER
ILLUSTRIERTE 9. Feb. 1998. —SAITEN Juli
1997/März 1998/ Mai 1998/ Aug. 1998/ Dez. 1998/ Okt. 1999/ Juni 2001.
"Panels, Covers, Viewers: ein Künstler
Revolverheld"
von Kaspar Surber, Jan. 2003. —BASELER
ZEITUNG 14. Juni 1995 von Stefy Plattner. —DIE
OSTSCHWEIZ 14. Juni 1990/22. April 1996. —OSTSCHWEIZER
AZ 23. Juni 1995.
—PEKIN TIMES US June 1995/ 28 April 1997/30 Jan. 1998.
—PEORIA JOURNAL STAR US June 1995, 8 May 1997, 22 Dec.
2002. —BVI BEACON
10 June 1993 —WIE EIN
NEANDERTHALER FALSCH BELICHTET / LIKE A NEANDERTHAL IN A
BAD LIGHT: MARK STAFF BRANDL
von/by
Daniel Ammann; Dusk Verlag 1990
(Buch/Book) —DER VOLKSFREUND 12 Juni 1990 /
7 Juni 1990.
—CHICAGO TRIBUNE June 1988 / 9 Oct. 1987
—CHICAGO SUN-TIMES 19 Dec.1986 / 28 Feb. 1986
—NEW ART EXAMINER Aug. 88/Dec. 87/May 83/Dec. 82/
Feb.
80/ Feb.79
—WFMT RADIO CHICAGO «Art and Artists» Harry
Bouras 24 Oct. 1982
—THE COMPOSER Nr. 10/11 1980, New York.
—THE READER 20 Feb. 1986 / 27 May 1983 / 11 March 1982,
Chicago.
—RAWSPACE 1981-1983, Chicago.
Prizes and Grants
Preise und Stipendien
2013
Kulturpreis,
Trogen Switzerland
2010
Casa Zia Lina, Working Residency, Elba,
Italy
2006
Pro Helvetia, Zurich
College Art Association, NYC
2003
Kulturdirektion Appenzeller A.Rh.
2001
Appt. Court Painter to Count of Fyn, Denmark
1997
Werkzeitbeitrag der Stadt St.Gallen
1997
Stiftung für Ostschweizer Kunstschaffen,
St.Gallen
1992
University of Rochester N.Y., Aus. Beitrag
1990
Genossenschaft Migros St.Gallen, Kat. Beitrag
1990
Kant. Amt für Kulturpflege, St.Gallen, Kat.
Beitrag
1986
New Music Chicago (IAC, Chic. Coun. on Fine Art)
1984
American Center, USIA
1980
Friends of the Arts, Bloomington USA
1979
Friends of the Arts, Bloomington USA
1978
Atius-Sachem, Champaign USA
1978
Mary C. McLellan Scholarship, 2nd.
Sammlungen /
Collections /
Kunst am Bau / Public Collections
Museum
of Modern Art New York
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Whitney Museum of American Art New York
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Graphische Sammlung E.T.H. Zürich
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
Kunstmuseum Thurgau
Krannert Art Museum Champaign Illinois US
International Museum of Cartoon Art Boca
Raton Florida, US
Lakeview Museum Peoria Illinois, US
Swiss Institute New York
Oberstufenzentrum Grünau, Wittenbach
Switzerland
Gemeinde (City of) Goldach, Switzerland
Kanton (Canton of) Appenzell AR, Switzerland
SUVA St. Gallen
Stadt (City of) St. Gallen
Kanton (Canton of) St. Gallen
Gehörlosenzentrum Trogen
Joseph and Eva Beuys, Düsseldorf
Germany
Dirksen Congressional Center, Pekin US
Barbara Jordan, Rochester NY US
S. Gulbenkian, Lisbon Portugal
Education
Ausbildung
1973 - 1978 University of Illinois
Champaign
USA
Bachelor
of Fine Arts (with Honors)
1978 - 1980 Illinois State University
Bloomington USA
Graduate
Study in Art History
1990 - 92/94 Handels- und Dolmetscherschule
St.Gallen
Switzerland
German
(Certificate and Diploma)
1995 - 2000 Columbia Pac.
University
Novato, California, USA
Master of Arts in Literature,
Art History and Theory
2005-2007 ISME / Universität
Zürich
Latein Diplom
2002-2008 Universität
Zürich
Zürich Switzerland
Doktorandenstudium in Literaturtheorie, Komparatistik
PhD Studies in Literature and Theory
2008-2011 Universität
Zürich
„Dr. phil.“ (PhD)
Kunstgeschichte, Art History, „magna cum laude“
Doktorarbeit (Dissertation): Metaphor(m): zur Theorie
der Kernmetapher in der
Kunst Metaphor(m): Engaging a
Theory of Central Trope in Art