Beat Streuli

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Beat Streuli
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Streuli in 2015
Born1957
Altdorf, Uri, Switzerland
Nationality Swiss
Website www.beatstreuli.com

Beat Streuli (born 1957) [1] is a Swiss visual artist who works with photo and video based media.

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His photographs, videos and window installations have been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. Permanent installations of his work include those at the Lufthansa Aviation Center, Frankfurt Airport, Germany, the ETH University, Zurich, Switzerland, the Style Company Building, Osaka, Japan, and the immigration hall of Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Texas, USA.

Life

Streuli was born in 1957 in Altdorf UR. [1] From 1977 to 1983, he attended the Schools of Design in Basel and Zurich and the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin where he lived until 1987. Studio grants followed at Cité des Arts and Fondation Cartier in Paris (1985/1986, 1989 and 1992), at Istituto Svizzero in Rome (1988/1989), in London (1997), and at P.S. 1 in New York City (1993).
Since then Streuli has spent time and worked in cities such as Birmingham, Brussels, Cape Town, New York City and São Paulo, [2] Sydney and Düsseldorf.

Work

Guangzhou, Cairo, Sao Paulo 08, 2008 wallpaper installation at Mac's Musee d'Art Contemporain, Grand-Hornu, Belgium 2008 2008grandhornu10.jpg
Guangzhou, Cairo, São Paulo 08, 2008 wallpaper installation at Mac's Musée d'Art Contemporain, Grand-Hornu, Belgium 2008
Porte de Flandre / Bruxelles 05, 2006 video screens installations at 'Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, 2006 2006krakow03.jpg
Porte de Flandre / Bruxelles 05, 2006 video screens installations at 'Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, 2006

Streuli is known for his street portraiture, which has documented the anonymous urban citizen in various cities all over the world, [2] from Sydney and Tokyo to Athens and New York. Streuli's photographs focus systematically on ordinary street dwellers, and the contemporary ‘flaneurs’ going about their daily business. The heterogeneity of the crowd, as the central component of the cultural dynamism of modernity, and the position of the individual in the crowd, lie at the core of Streuli's practice. He works with a variety of presentation media, from large-format colour photographs, and installations of slide and video projections, to billboards and large-scale window installations on the facades of public buildings.

His camera freezes or distills the flow of everyday life, the movement of people in the city, reflecting on daily reality from an entirely anthropocentric perspective. Photographing with the use of a telephoto lens, Streuli captures his subjects in an unguarded state, bringing them in close proximity to the viewer, lending them an iconic aura which transcends the ordinariness of the scene portrayed. Although they remain anonymous, equal under the lens of the camera, a sense of individual lives and diversity emerges. The viewers are implicated through the shared experience of negotiating public space, the natural state of watching and being scrutinized, of moving and paying attention.

Publications

Publications by Streuli

Publications with contributions by Streuli

Solo exhibitions

Strangers window installation at International Center of Photography, New York City, 2003 2003newyork03.jpg
Strangers window installation at International Center of Photography, New York City, 2003

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References

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