San Keller was born in 1971 in Bern, Switzerland, and currently lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. He is well known for his participatory performances and ephemeral actions that frequently approximate social experiments. The overall tone of Keller’s oeuvre is critical, conceptual and playful and reflects on the relationship between art and life.
His investigation of art as a service ultimately gives the audience the opportunity to question out-dated paradigms and experience them in a new way, while also placing them under critical scrutiny.
His actions start off with contractual arrangements that set up the rules for his works, but since they rely on the participation of others, the course they take and their ultimate outcome is unpredictable.
Recent exhibitions include: Deleted Scenes, Galerie Brigitte Weiss, Zurich (2015); Invent The Future With Elements of the Past, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (2015); Twisting C (r) ash, Le Commun, Geneva (2015); Disteli – Keller – Warhol, Art Museum Olten, Switzerland (2013).
http://www.museumsankeller.ch
28.10.2017
2017 / 201710 / Symposium
trans-local Sympodium
What’s Wrong with Performance Art?
Camille Aleña, Madeleine Amsler, Donatella Bernardi, Linda Cassens Stoian, Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, Voin de Voin, Mo Diener, Heike Fiedler, Gilles Furtwängler, Lia GarcÃa, San Keller, Elise Lammer, Milenko Lazic, Valerian Maly, Federica Martini, Angela Marzullo, Lou Masduraud, Muda Mathis, Irene Müller, Sibylle Omlin, Denis Pernet, Guillaume Pilet, Nathalie Rebholz, Chris Regn, Dorothea Rust, Andrea Saemann, Pascal Schwaighofer, Dorothea Schürch, Bernadett Settele, Dimitrina Sevova, Axelle Stiefel, Kamen Stoyanov, Katharina Swoboda, Martina-Sofie Wildberger
08.02.2017
2017 / 201702 / Performance
Blaumachen
San Keller
20.01.2017 -
18.02.2017
2017 / 201701 / 201702 / Ausstellung
Theorem 4. Aesthetic Agency and the Practices of Autonomy
Part I: Critique de l’économie politique de l’atelier d'artiste
Lisa Biedlingmaier, San Keller, Vadim Levin, Maria Pomiansky
21.06.2016
2016 / 201606 / Konzert
Four Freddies
A Concert With or Without You
(performance, experimental, creative music)
Fabian Gisler, Michael Jaeger, San Keller
16.04.2016
2016 / 201604 / Artist Talk
No-where? Now-here!
The Molecular Books of Life – Colleges of Unreason
Performances, Artist Talks Session 3, and Finissage
San Keller, Petra Elena Köhle, Riikka Tauriainen, Alexander Tuchaček, Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin, Martina-Sofie Wildberger, Sophie Yerly
16.03.2016 -
16.04.2016
2016 / 201603 / 201604 / Ausstellung
No-where? Now-here!
The Molecular Books of Life – Colleges of Unreason
An idea-driven group exhibition about the practices of writing and the book on one page.
Denise Bertschi, Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, Jonas Etter, Henrik Hentschel, San Keller, Petra Elena Köhle, Julie Sas, Triin Tamm, Riikka Tauriainen, Alexander Tuchaček, Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin, Anne Käthi Wehrli, Martina-Sofie Wildberger, Sophie Yerly
10.12.2014
Konzert
A Concert With or Without You
Fabian Gisler, Michael Jaeger, San Keller