Frantiček Klossner

Frantiček Klossner trained as an artist at the F+F School for Art and Media Design Zurich (1985–1989), among whose teachers were the artists Hansjörg Mattmüller, Hermann Bohmert, Norbert Klassen, Vollrad Kutscher, Valie Export, Peter Weibel, and the philosopher Gerhard J. Lischka, and among whose guest lecturers were Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio, and Vilém Flusser. On graduating, he won a City of Bern art scholarship, thanks to which he was able to move into a studio in the East Village in New York City and there focus on video art, performance, and installations. He won a scholarship to the Swiss Institute in Rome in 1995 and after two years at that institution decided to settle in Rome, where he remained active as an artist until 2000. On returning to Switzerland, he headed the exhibition project Identité mobile at the Murten arteplage of the Swiss National Exhibition, Expo.02.

Works and groups of works by Frantiček Klossner now feature in numerous collections, among them those of the Swiss National Museum, Kunsthaus Zurich, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Kunstsammlung des Kantons Bern, Kunstsammlung der Stadt Zofingen, Graphische Sammlung der Schweizerischen Nationalbibliothek, Kunstsammlung der Schweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft, Collection Banque Bonhôte Neuchâtel, Collection Ketterer-Ertle, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Collection Ursula Blickle, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Vienna, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires MAMBA Argentina, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe ZKM, Collection Reinking Hamburg

• Peter Friese: Thoughts on the Performative Installations by Franticek Klossner, in: Caerus and Chronos, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, NRW, Germany, 2015, ISBN 3-935420-15-3.
• Christine Breyhan: Infinite Performance, Artist Talk with Franticek Klossner, in: Kunstforum International, Band 228, Köln, Germany, 2014.
• Kathleen Bühler: His- & Herstory, in: The Weak Sex – How art pictures the new male, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland, 2013, ISBN 978-3-906628-94-3.
• Franticek Klossner and Hans Christoph von Tavel: Curiosity successfully landed, in: Meret's Funken, Meret Oppenheim - Surrealism in contemporary art, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86678-678-3.
• Susanne Petersen: The Sleep of Reason, in: The Mirror of Narcissus, Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck, Austria, Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft Köln, Germany, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86442-030-6.
• Christoph Vögele: Compression and Illumination in the Work of Franticek Klossner, Museum of Fine Arts Solothurn, Switzerland, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Germany, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940748-58-4.
• Michaela Nolte: Franticek Klossner - What’s left when the head is melting, Gallery Mönch Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2006.
• Gerhard J. Lischka: Video Art Austria Germany Switzerland, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1899-0.
• Peter Weibel: M_ARS, Art and War, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Austria, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2003, ISBN 978-3-77571-312-2.
• Dolores Denaro: Franticek Klossner – Mess Up Your Mind, Kunsthaus Grenchen, Switzerland, 2001, ISBN 3-90674-704-2.

• Literature in the catalogue of the Swiss National Library
• Literature in the catalogue of the German National Library
• Lexicon on Art in Switzerland, SIKART, The Swiss Institute for Art Research
• Web page Frantiček Klossner