Bernhard Schobinger – Biography

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA (Upcoming)

2024

B.S. Kosmos: 50 Years of Creation, Kunsthalle Friart, Fribourg, Switzerland

Against Method, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland

2023

Gimme Danger, curated by Saim Demircan, Martina Simeti, Milan, Italy

2021

Bernhard Schobinger and Annelies Štrba, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland

2018

B – S, Studio Turi Simeti, Milan, Italy

2015

Bernhard Schobinger: The Rings of Saturn, Stedelijk Museum ‘s- Hertogenbosch, Den Bosch, Netherlands

Bernhard Schobinger: The Rings of Saturn, Gallery S O, London, UK

2014

Bernhard Schobinger: Rings of Saturn, Manchester Art Gallery, UK

2011

Bernhard Schobinger, Gallery S O, London, UK

2007

Bernhard Schobinger: Werke, Villa Bengel, Idar-Oberstein, Germany

2006

Bernhard Schobinger and Annelies Štrba, Villa Seerose, Horgen, Switzerland Villa Seerose, Horgen, Schweiz

2005

Kunsthaus Zug, Zug, Schweiz

2004

Bernhard Schobinger and Annelies Štrba, Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, Netherlands

Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, Holland

2003

Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland

2001

Museum und Galerie Baviera, Zurich, Switzerland

1999

Feuer über Wasser – Bernhard Schobinger, Postindustrielle Schmuckobjekte, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1998

The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

1996

Museum und Galerie Baviera, Zurich, Switzerland

1995

Bernhard Schobinger and Annelies Štrba, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland

Galerie Louise Smit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1992

Galerie Louise Smit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1991

Grassimuseum, Leipzig, Germany

1990

Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland

1988

Galerie Louise Smit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1987

Galerie Peter Noser, Zurich, Switzerland

1985

Galerie Peter Noser, Zurich, Switzerland

1982

Electrum Gallery, London, UK

1981

Kunsthaus, Aarau, Netherlands

1976

Galerie Seestrasse, Rapperswil, Switzerland

1975

Galerie Seestrasse, Rapperswil, Switzerland

1974

Galerie Arte Arena, Dübendorf, Switzerland

1973

Galerie Arte Arena, Dübendorf, Switzerland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Bijoux Solaires: A Survey on Arts and Jewelry in Alignment with the Winter Solstice, Suns.Works, Küsnacht, Switzerland

2022

Alles und Nichts. Japan und die moderne Kunst bis heute, Kunsthaus Zug, Zug, Switzerland

2021

Danish Jewellery Box, Contemporary Jewellery Design, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (MAKK), Keulen, Germany

Stones – The Final Cut, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany

2019

Striking Gold: Fuller at Fifty, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, USA

2018

Même Pas Peur, Martina Simeti, Milano, Italy

Bijoux en jeu: Swiss Contemporary Jewelry Design, Power Station of Art, Huangpu, Shanghai

2017

Jewellery Materials Craft Art, Landesmuseum Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Met passie verzameld, met liefde geschonken, CODA, Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Medusa, Bijoux et tabous, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

Die Sammlung Bollmann – Schmuck von 1970-2015, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau, Germany

Private Confessions, Drawings and jewelry by visual artists, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany

2014

Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, USA

2013

Neuer Schmuck für die Götter, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany

Fix Fix Fix, Gallery S O, London, UK

Chamber of Wonder: International Art Jewellery, Gallery S O, London, UK

2012

22 Bricks at a Time, Gallery S O, London, UK

2011

Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

2009

Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, Tacoma Art Museum (TAM), Tacoma, USA

2008

Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, Renwick Gallery, Washington, USA

Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, Mint Museum of Craft+Design, Charlotte, USA

2007

Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

2001

Mikromegas, American Craft Museum, New York, USA

1998

Brooching it Diplomatically: A Tribute to Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State of the United States of America, Museum Het Kruithuis, Den Bosch, Netherlands

Brooching it Diplomatically: A Tribute to Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State of the United States of America, Helen Drutt Gallery, USA

Brooching it Diplomatically: A Tribute to Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State of the United States of America, Eesti Tarbekunsti- ja Disainimuuseum, Tallinn, Estland

Brooching it Diplomatically: A Tribute to Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State of the United States of America, Designmuseo, Helsinki, Finland

Brooching it Diplomatically: A Tribute to Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State of the United States of America, American Craft Museum, New York, USA

1994

A Moveable Feast: Helen Williams Drutt Collection 1964-1993, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland

Goud Alleen, Galerie Louise Smit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

A Moveable Feast: Helen Williams Drutt Collection 1964-1993, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands

A Moveable Feast: Helen Williams Drutt Collection 1964-1993, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium

1993

Facet I, internationale sieradenbiënnale / international jewellery biennale, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Contemporary Jewelry 1964-1993, Selected Works, Helen Williams Drutt Collection, Little Rock, The Arkansas Art Center, Arkansas, USA

1992

Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland

Neoteric Jewelry, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA

Neoteric Jewelry, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, USA

1991

Neoteric Jewelry, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York, USA

1990

Triennale du Bijou, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

1989

Kammen, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Kammen, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands

1988

Tragezeichen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

1987

Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland

1982

Zwitserse Avantgarde, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, Netherlands

1976

Biennale Aurea ’76, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

1973

International Jewellery Arts, Tokyo, Japan

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Zwitserland

Bosshard Collection, Rapperswil, Zwitserland

CODA, Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Collectie Françoise van den Bosch, Netherlands

Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA

Danner-Stiftung, München, Germany

Design Museum Den Bosch, Den Bosch, Netherlands

Die Neue Sammlung, München, Germany

Galerie von Bartha Collection, Basel, Switzerland

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, Netherlands

Grassimuseum, Leipzig, Germany

Hermitage, Sint-Petersburg, Russia

Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry, Tokyo, Japan

Kunsthaus Zug, Zug, Switerland

Kunstsammlungen des Bundes, Bern, Switzerland

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA

MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland

Musée de l’Horlogerie, Genève, Switzerland

Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerand

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (MAKK), Keulen, Germany

Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, USA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA

Pinakothek der Moderne, München, Germany

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, USA

Rotasa Collection Trust, San Francisco, California, USA

Royal College of Art, London, UK

Royal College of Art Visiting Artists Collection, London, UK

Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland

Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Villars Collection, Switzerland

Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

PUBLICATIONS AND SELECTED PRESS

Johannes Reuchlin, Die Mysterien der Zeichen. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2022

Caroline Palmer, My Favourite Pieces: Designs that display the art of storytelling, Financial Times, April, 2021

Hölscher, P., Schmuck/Jewelry, Die Neue Sammlung Danner Stiftung. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2020

Danish Jewellery Box, Zeitgenössisches Schmuckdesign, Kaufen: MAKK, 2020

Chadour-Sampson, B., Rings of the 20th and 21st centuries, the Alice and Louis Koch collection. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2019

Valentina Romen, Bernhard Schobinger: punk culture and precious stones, Domus, July, 2018

Dressen, A., Heuzé, M. en Lignel, B., Medusa, Bijoux et Tabous, Paris: Paris Musées, 2017

Valentina Bin, After Nature by Bernhard Schobinger, Current Obsession, May, 2017

Important Collection of Studio Art Jewelry, Vogue, 2016

Chambers Mills, R., Drutt, H., Gopnik, B., Lignel, B., en Tigerman, B., Beyond bling, contemporary jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection, Munich: Prestel, 2016

Wyss, B. en Maurer Zilioli, E., Private Confessions: Drawing & Jewellery. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2016

Hitlers Ring und Schobingers Absage, Tages-Anzeiger, 2016

Ehrentitel mit Nazi-Vergangenheit: Künstler lehnt ab, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung FAZ, 2016

Bernhard Schobinger Named 2015 Rakow Commission Artist, Corning Museum of Glass, October, 2015

Corning Glass Museum recognises Bernhard Schobinger with 2015 Rakow Commission, Glassonline, August, 2015

Sammlung Bollmann, Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2015

Finding Diamonds in the Debris with Bernhard Schobinger, Jade Mellor, June, 2014

The Sharp End, Bernhard Schobinger’s extraordinary jewelry, Anarchy in the UK, Crafts Magazine, June 2014

Stephen Knott, This is one I made earlier, Art Jewelry Forum, July, 2014

Adamson, G., Bernhard Schobinger: The Rings of Saturn. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2014

P., Tebar, G.G. en Wild, J., Papallona: la metàfora de la vida a la joieria, 2013

Besten, L. den, On Jewellery, A Compendium of international contemporary art jewellery. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2011

Barten, S., Dormer P., Drutt, H., Schmuck unserer Zeit 1964-1993, Sammlung Helen Williams Drutt. Zürich: Museum Bellerive, 1994

Kölner Stadtanzeiger, “Lichter Schmuck” Museum für Holographie & Neue Visuelle Medien, Pulheim, Germany, 1994

Metz, T., Facet I, internationale sieradenbiënnale / international jewellery biennale, Gent: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1993

Mueller, L., Neoteric Jewelry. New York: Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1991

Borrelli-Persson, L., “Not Just a String of Pearls…” Deedie Rose on Her “Tragezeichen” Museum Schloss Morsbroich, 1986

“The Great Book of Jewels”, 1972

Contemporània. Granollers: Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers Schmuttermeier, E. en Thun-Hohenstein, C., Schmuck 1970-2015