CV

Nik Emch 

1967               
Born in Bern Switzerland
Childhood in Paris

1980                  
Intensive guitar lessons

1985                 
Preliminary course and specialist class at the Zurich School of Applied Arts (ZHdK)
Graduation: Bachelor of Graphic Design               

1990                  
start working as artist in air brush, performance, music and photographs
1. Swiss Federal Scholarship for Fine Arts, Switzerland
2. Swiss Federal Scholarship for Fine Arts, Switzerland
3. Swiss Federal Scholarship for Fine Arts, Switzerland

1990-2000 Focused on Airbrush
2001-2015 Focused on Music-Performance
2016-2023 Focused on Sculpture and Video
2024 Focused on Airbrush

2025 Live and Work in Zurich and Berlin

Selection of shows

Germany
Cyan  works in air brush - Schirn, Frankfurt, curated by Bice Curiger
Lost West  screening - Kino International Berlin, curated by Jan-Philipp Sexauer

Switzerland
Lost West  screening - Cinema Riffraff, Houdini Zürich
Off White  performance and screening, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, curated by Patrick Huber
Lost West  screening - Cinema Kosmos, Zürich
Lost West  screening - Cinema Riffraff, Zürich
Lost West  screening - Kunstraum Walchetrum, Zürich, curated by Patrick Huber
Cyan  works in air brush - Kunsthaus, Zürich, curated by Bice Curiger
Cyan  works in air brush - Galerie Art Magazine, Zürich
Cyan  works in air brush - Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Kunstszehne Zürich
Cyan  works in air brush - Kunsthalle, Zürich, Swiss Federal Scholarship
Cyan  works in air brush - Museé cantonal des beaux-arts, Lausanne, Swiss Federal Scholarship
999  music performance - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, curated by Heike Munder
999  music performance – Tanzhaus Wasserwerk, Zürich
999  music performance – Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, curated by Patrick Huber
Minimetal  music performance - Kunsthaus Aargau, Aarau, curated by Madeleine Schuppli
Minimetal  music performance - Hard-Hat, Geneva curated by Fabrice Stroun
Minimetal  music performance – Galerie Nicolas von Senger, Zürich
Minimetal  music performance – Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zürich
Minimetal  music performance – 15 Years Anniversary of Kunsthalle St. Gallen, curated by Gianni Jetzer
Minimetal  music performance – Grand Opening of Galerie Nicolas von Senger, Zürich
The Bone of the Dead  sculpures – Kupper Modern, Zürich
To Be  sculpures – Kupper Modern, Zürich

USA
Minimetal  music performance - Swiss Institute New York, curated by Annette Schindler and Peter Scherrer
Minimetal  music performance - Swiss Institute New York, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler
Minimetal  music performance - Swiss Institute New York, curated by Gianni Jetzer

Japan
Supreme Psychedelic Underground  music performance - Galery Akimizu Naruyama, Tokyo

France
Minimetal  music performance- Centre Cultural Suisse, Paris, curated by Klaus Hersche
Minimetal  music performance - Glasbox Paris
Supreme Psychedelic Underground  music performance, Fashion Weeks by Vivienne Westwood, Paris 

2024                 
Lives and work in Zürich and Berlin