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Michael Biberstein
Michael Biberstein, a swiss-american artist, was born in Solothurn in 1948 and died in Portugal in 2013, where he had lived since 1978.
Before devoting himself entirely to painting, he studied art history at Swarthmore College (University of Pennsylvania) with David Sylvester.
He exhibited at institutions such as the Gulbenkian Foundation's Modern Art Centre, the Serralves Foundation, the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art and Culturgest. He also participated in the Sydney Biennale (1988) and Documenta IX (1992).
His work is part of prestigious collections, including the Reina Sofía Museum, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Serralves Foundation, the Kunstmuseum Solothurn and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work explores light, immateriality and the perception of space. Among his most emblematic projects is the intervention on the ceiling of the Church of Santa Isabel in Lisbon.
What's important is not the work itself, not the painting, but what happens in your head when you look at something, when we put ourselves in a certain position to do what we do when we look at art.
Michael Biberstein in interview with Delfim Sardo
