1971 born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, lives and works in Berlin   Biography (211 KB) Awards/Grants/Scholarships/Shortlists Athens Photo Festival, shortlist, Athens 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 Georg Koppmann Preis für Hamburger Stadtfotografie, shortlist, Hamburg 2022, 2021, 2019 Urbanautica Institute Awards 2020, Castelfranco Veneto 2021 UBS Culture Foundation, promotion grant Visual Arts, Zurich 2020 International Photography Grant, Nominee Award, 2018 Encontros da Imagem, Discovery Award, Braga 2017 Belfast Photo Festival, shortlist Photo-book, Belfast 2017 Swiss Photo Award – the selection 2016, shortlist, Zurich 2017 Scholarship for Photography, Canton of Berne, 2012, 2005 PhotoIreland Festival, shortlist Portfolio 12, Dublin 2012 26th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, New York 2011 Photo Prize 2011 Canton of Berne, Berne 2011 Travel scholarship, Canton of Berne, 2006 Brussels residency, City of Biel, 2005 Acquisitions Art collection Migros Aare, Berne, 2016 Art collection Canton of Berne, 2008, 2005, 2004 Art collection City of Biel, 2004 Private collections Solo shows peripher, Fotografien 2005 – 2013, Atelier für Photographie, Berlin 2015 Andreas Tschersich: peripher 2005 – 2008, glossmattfix, Independents Biennial, Liverpool 2008 Charleroi, 20/11/2005, Marks Blond Project R.f.z.K., Berne 2006; Lokal int., Biel 2006 Fotografien 2004 – 2005, White Space, Space for Contemporary Art, Zurich 2005 This Land is my Land, Alte Krone, Biel 2004 Group shows (Selection) Civilization: The Way We Live Now, curated by William Alexander Ewing, Holly Roussell Perret-Gentil and Bartomeu Marí, Kunsthalle Munich, Munich 2025, Jut Art Museum (JAM), Taipei 2024, Saatchi Gallery, London 2023, Musei San Domenico, Forlì 2022, Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), Marseille 2021, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2020, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing 2019, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul 2018 No use-by date. Gift and Loans of the Sammlung Migros Aare, Kunstmuseum Berne, Berne 2019 Shutter Hub OPEN 2018, 5&33 Gallery, Amsterdam 2018; Old Truman Brewery, London 2018 6th Singapore International Photography Festival, Photobook Showcase, National Design Centre, Singapore 2018 Month of Photography Los Angeles, Photo Book Exhibition, Venice Arts, Venice 2018 Encontros da Imagem, Discovery Awards, Edifício do Castelo, Braga 2017 Athens Photo Festival, Photobook Exhibition, Benaki Museum / Pireos 138, Athens 2017 Swiss Photo Award – the selection 2016, Photobastei, Zurich 2017 Zeitgenössische regionale Kunst in der Welle7, permanent exhibition, Migros Aare, Berne 2016 Mon art à moi, collection exhibition, Art Centre Pasquart, Biel 2016 Light Sensitive – Photo Art from the Collection, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 2012 photo12, Showcase for Swiss Photography, Zurich 2012 26th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, Agora Gallery, New York 2011 Photo Prize Canton of Bern, Photoforum Pasquart, Biel 2011, 2006; Kornhausforum, Berne 2009 Louise Aeschlimann & Margareta Corti Scholarship, Art Society Berne, Kunsthaus, Langenthal 2010; Art Centre Pasquart, Biel 2008; Kunstmuseum Berne, Berne 2005 Advent unter dem Hammer, Gallery mehrzweck-halle, Zurich 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 Heimatpäckli für Adam Tellmeister, Substitut, Space for Contemporary Swiss Art, Berlin 2008 Xmas exhibition, Art Society Biel, Art Centre Pasquart, Biel 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004 ...then we take Berlin. Part 2, Substitut, Space for Contemporary Swiss Art, Berlin 2008 Scènes secondaires, Versammelte Werke zur Natur des Raumes, Alte Krone, Biel 2007 Selected by... Ankäufe 2003 – 2006 der Kunstsammlung der Stadt Biel, Art Centre Pasquart, Biel 2007 10th Festival Voies Off, projection evenings, Arles 2005 Regards croisés: Acquisitions récentes des cantons de Berne et du Jura, Musée jurassien des Arts, Moutier 2005 Edition Heimatschutz: Fotografinnen und Fotografen blicken auf die Schweiz der Gegenwart, Kornhausforum, Berne 2005 Curatorial work Scènes secondaires, Versammelte Werke zur Natur des Raumes, Alte Krone, Biel 2007, with Peter McCaughey, Sari Lievonen (Glasgow), Joerg Lohse (New York City), Samuel Buckman (Dunkerque), Gregor Wyder (Zurich), Ric Sonderegger (Thun), Markus Furrer (Biel) and Andreas Tschersich (Berlin) Bibliography (Selection) Urbanautica Awards Catalog 2020, Castelfranco Veneto 2022 (Anthology) Civilization: The Way We Live Now (Cat.), Thames & Hudson / Mucem, Marseille 2021, Zhejiang Photographic Press, Hangzhou 2019, Thames & Hudson, London / New York; Knesebeck, Munich; Giulio Einaudi editore, Torino 2018 (Anthology) Photonews, N° 4/21, book review by Christoph Schaden, Hamburg 2021 Berner Almanach Fotografie, Band 7, Edition Atelier, Berne 2018 (Anthology) No use-by date. Gift and Loans of the Sammlung Migros Aare (Cat.), Berne 2019 (Anthology) Landscape Stories, N° 26, Habitare, 2017 peripher, Andreas Tschersich, Edition Patrick Frey, N° 207, Zurich 2016 Intervalles, Revue culturelle du Jura bernois et de Bienne, N° 96, Prêles 2013 (Anthology) Hochparterre, Architecture and Design Publisher, N° 10–12, 6/7–12, 5–11, 3–10, Zurich 2012, 2011, 2010 photo12 (Cat.), Showcase for Swiss Photography, Zurich 2012 (Anthology) Charleroi, 20/11/2005, edition fästing plockare, Biel 2006 Fotografien – Andreas Tschersich, self-published, Berlin 2006 Edition Heimatschutz: Fotografinnen und Fotografen blicken auf die Schweiz der Gegenwart (Cat.), Swiss Heritage Society, Zurich 2005 (Anthology) Fotografien 2004 – 2005, self-published, Berlin 2005 Lectures/Artist Talks/Interviews How Photographers Work: Challenges and Responses, panel chaired by Holly Roussell Perret-Gentil, introduction by Luke Kemp, Cambridge University, Musei San Domenico, Forlì 2022 Andreas Tschersich. Being familiar to places you have never been before, interview by Steve Bisson, Urbanautica, Castelfranco Veneto 2021 Book presentation peripher, Book Days, European Month of Photography Berlin, C/O Berlin, 2016 Artist talk with Bianca Dugaro, Thomas Seelig, curator, Fotomuseum Winterthur and Thomas Schmutz, curator/deputy director, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 2012 Werner Brück: Peripher. Gespräch mit Andreas Tschersich, 25.05.2009, recenseo, Berne 2009 Bern – Berlin. Bern? Berlin?, Tacheles XLV, visarte Berne, Berne 2009 Jonathan Harris in conversation with Andreas Tschersich, University of Liverpool, Liverpool 2008 Andreas Tschersich – peripher, Glasgow School of Arts, Glasgow 2007