Michael Meier & Christoph Franz

Alumni

1980/1982

Zürich

Artist Statement

Michael Meier & Christoph Franz work as an artist duo in Zurich. Places and their social, historical and political influences are the starting point of their artistic practice. In careful, research-based processes the artists appropriate these locations and refer to them with conceptual works. Their thematic focus is on the city both as a concrete field of interaction and as a space for thought. Michael Meier & Christoph Franz deal with the processes of change in our built environment. In specific approaches they negotiate the sediments of the urban, questioning the way it has become and setting it in motion.

Ausbildung
Michael Meier
2008 – 2011
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), Zürich
Master in Fine Arts
2003 – 2007
Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz
Bachelor in Space & Designstrategies
Christoph Franz
2009 – 2012
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), Zürich
Master in Fine Arts
2003 – 2007
Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz
Bachelor in Space & Designstrategies
2020
Werkbeitrag Kanton Zürich
2018
Die schönsten Schweizer Bücher
2013
Helvetia Kunstpreis
2012
Kiefer Hablitzel Preis
2012
Werkbeitrag Kanton Zürich