RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co)

Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza / Daniel Hauser.
based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza and Daniel Hauser work together since 1983. They use all media they can find. The group became known with statements such as thinking alone is criminal (1991), artists are no flags (1993), I am a woman, why are you not ? (1995) and you pay but you don't agree with the price (1994 - 2005).  Since 1997 RELAX resolutely rename all the public spheres as 'economic spaces'.

Solo shows a.o.: Shedhalle Zurich/ch (1990), Kunsthalle Basel/ch (1992), Capp Street Project San Francisco/usa (1994); Kartause Ittingen Kunstmuseum Thurgau and Kunsthaus Glarus/ch (1994); Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken/de (1995); Dartmouth College and Hood Museum of Art Hanover, New Hampshire/usa (1999); Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin/de (2003); Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt Biel-Bienne/ch (2005); Museum Folkwang Essen/de (2008); Cornerhouse Manchester/uk (2010).

Group shows and projects a.o.: Kunsthalle Bern/ch (1999); Swiss Institute New York/usa (1999); Architecture Biennial, Swiss Pavilion Venice/it (2000); Fondazione Michelangelo Pistoletto Biella/it (2002); Dunkers Culture Center Helsingborg/s (2003); Ortstermine, City of Munich/de (2006); Shedhalle Zurich/ch (2004-2008); Steirischer Herbst Graz/at (1991/2007); Kunsthalle Fri-Art Fribourg/ch (2007); Kunsthaus Zurich/ch (2008); Kunsthaus Langenthal/ch (2008); Kunsthaus L6 Freiburg i.Br/de (2009); Passengers-Festival, Warsaw/p (2009); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw/p (2009); Dislocation, Museo de Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile/cl (2010).

Projects for art in public space / public art since 1993, a.o.: INLAY, Switzerlands accession gift to the UN for the UN Headquarters in New York (2004, in collaboration with :mlzd architects Biel and Buchner Bründler architects Basel); YOYO caprices des dieux, new sports stadium Letzigrund, Zurich/ch (2007); VELOLOVE, Mühleholz II, Vaduz/li (2008); TOUS LES CORPS SONT PERMIS, Neubau Sporthalle, Biel-Bienne/ch (2009); hospital of the canton Zug, Baar/ch (2010-2011).

Prizes & grants a.o.: Prix Meret Oppenheim, Swiss Federal Office for Culture FOC, Berne/ch (2002); London-residency, studio grant by Landis & Gyr foundation, Zug/ch (2008-2009).

Monograph: Irene Müller, Ilka und Andreas Ruby, Emanuel Tschumi, Susann Wintsch (Eds.)
RELAX (chiarenza & hauser & co) - we save what you give
Texts by Irene Müller, Ilka and Andreas Ruby, Katharina Schlieben and Soenke Gau, Philip Ursprung, Susann Wintsch (german / english / french). Book (2 vol's) with DVD, a project of edition fink in Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg/de, 2006. ISBN-10:3-939921-56-6 / ISBN-13:978-3-938821-56-5