Marcus EGLI – Biography

Marcus Egli was born in Zürich in 1957 – † 2016 – Ponts-de-Martel – Switzerland

Marcus Egli doesn’t call himself a sculptor, but a metalworker. His encounter with aluminum came about in the 1980s, when he and his wife bought a small hardware manufacturing business. There he cultivated the skills needed to handle this capricious metal, whose liquidity, lightness, soft color with a discreet bluish sheen, and conductivity allow him to feel the heat and energy of those who touch it….

These works are often variations on the motif of the “Hominium”, a small figure with a stiff posture and a polished face that reflects the image of the beholder and the world around him. He plays on the contrast of materials; the rough and rugged aspect of the body combined with the smooth. Marcus Egli stages his “Hominium”, bringing them together and conditioning them. He creates loose or dense crowds, blocks, galleries of portraits.

In this way, Marcus Egli questions our relationship with the world, our relationship with history. His stagings, which often resemble installations, tackle the themes of the absurd, anonymity, multitude and solitude. They reflect to us the image of our own existence. The temporality froze in metal and moved in its image. His mirror games are also role-playing games in which everyone can find themselves or lose themselves.

Exhibitions and fairs:

2025
Group show – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
Moderne Art Fair – Galerie Artima – Paris – F

2024
Rétrospective – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
Moderne Art Fair – Galerie Artima – Paris – F

2023
Group show – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
Moderne Art Fair – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
Porträt Marcus Egli – Gewoelbe Galerie – Bienne – CH

2022
Noir & Blanc – Group show – Galerie Artima – Paris
Summer show – Galerie Artima – Paris – F

2021
Rétrospective, Sculptures & Installations – Gewoelbe Galerie – Bienne – CH
Galerie Artima – Group show – Paris – F

2020
Cosmos – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
Summer show – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
Waltman Ortega Fine Arts – Miami – USA

2019
Context Miami – Galerie Artima- F
Design – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
Waltman Ortega Fine Arts – Miami – USA
Art Central Hong Kong – Galerie Olivier Waltman – HGK

2018
Galerie Artima – Paris – F
The Art & Antiques Fair – London – GB

2017
Black & White – Group show – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
Waltman Ortega Fine Arts – Miami – USA

2016
Collection Particulière – Group show – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
Remix – Group show – Galerie Olivier Waltman – Paris – F
Art Paris – Galerie Oliver Waltman – Paris – F
AAF Brussels – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
Galerie Artima – London – GB

2015
Galerie Artima – Group show – Paris – F
Galerie d’(A) – Lausanne – CH
Regards croisés – Paris/Liège – Galerie Dany Liehrmann – Liège – B
Gewoelbe Galerie – Bienne – CH
Art Paris – Galerie Oliver Waltman – Paris

2014
Galerie Artima – Paris
Group show with Kurt Bratschi – Gewoelbe Galerie – Bienne – CH
Art Paris – Galerie Olivier Waltman – Paris

2013
Lumières Métalliques – Group show – Galerie Artima – Paris
G’Art – Galerie Grard – Neuchâtel – CH
Atelier-Galerie Hofstetter – Group show – Fribourg – CH
Lille Art Fair – Galerie LBL – F
(D)eux – Galerie d’(A) – Lausanne – CH

2012
Aluminium – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
St-art – Strasbourg – Galerie Artima – F
Art O’clock – Paris – Galerie Artima – F
Art en Paysage – Assens – outdoor group show – CH
Uno, nessuno e centomila – Galerie OltreDimore – Bologne – IT

2011
Art Elysées – Galerie Artima – Paris – F
Woolff Gallery – London – GB
Aux yeux de tous – Visarte.VD – Lausanne – outdoor group show – CH
Le manque – Galerie Grard – Fenin – group show – CH
Art en plein air – Môtiers – outdoor group show – CH
Visarte.NE – Neuchâtel – group show – CH

2010
Culture en pots – Visarte Neuchâtel – CH
AAF New York – Woolff Gallery London – GB
Aluminium 3.710 – L’Espinoa – Baignes – F
Gewölbe Galerie – Bienne – duo with Kurt Bratschi – CH

2009
Galerie MMB – Avignon – F
Galerie Nelly l’Eplattenier – duo with Jeanne-Odette – Lausanne – CH
Ex-voto La Nef – Le Noirmont – CH
Skulptura 09 – outdoor group show – Glarus – CH
TIAF Toronto – Woolff Gallery London – GB

2008
Biennale SAMBA – La Chaux-de-Fonds – CH
London Art Fair – Woolff Gallery London – GB
Jetzt Kunst 08 – outdoor group show – Schüpfen – CH
AAF Amsterdam – Woolff Gallery London – GB
Frontières–Grenze–Frontiere – Visarte Neuchâtel – CH