Mark Divo

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Mark Divo
Mark Divo in 2018
Born	1966 (age 57–58) Zürich, Switzerland
Nationality	Luxembourger
Known for	inhabited sculpture
Movement	conceptual art

Mark Divo (born 1966) is a Swiss-Luxembourgish

projects incorporating the work of underground artists. His work involves painting, performance, photography, sculpture and installation.

Early life

Divo was born in 1966.[1] From 1987 to 1989 he studied social sciences in Göttingen. He had his first self-organized exhibition in 1988. In 1989 he dropped out of studies and moved to Berlin.^[1]

Career

Between 1988 and 1989 Divo worked in West Berlin. After the fall of the

. Between 1990 and 1994 he organized exhibitions, performances, and murals with the Duncker group.

In 1994 he moved back to Zürich where he created a number of murals and organised a group of travelling mural painters. There he organised a number of underground art projects funded by the Swiss government, including exhibitions / events in the subways of

.

In the winter of 2002, he

Sihlpapierfabrik

.

Beginning in 2003, Divo organised an annual Dada festival. In 2004, he was awarded a one year art residency at the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York in West Broadway, New York where he invited artists to exhibit alongside him. In the summer of 2008 he established the Divo Institute, a new multi-disciplinary arts centre in the city of Kolín, near Prague. In August 2009 Divo was one of thirty artist-curators who presented work by artists from the Divo Institute at the Subvision Art Festival, Hamburg.

Since becoming an artist, Divo has exhibited in museums throughout Europe including the

, Prague. He has created three public sculptures for the city of Zürich.

Since 2002, working in collaboration with artists, performers and photographers, Divo has produced a series of large format conceptual photographs in which he satirises politics and mocks art history.

References

External links

• "Divo, Mark". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.
• DADATA.CH | archive of events organized by Mark Divo
• Kroesus Foundation, the main website showing mark Divo's recent projects
• The Real Biennale, inhabited sculpture at the Kinsky palace, Prague
• Prague Biennale
• List of artists at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich)
• List of important Swiss artists