About
Benjamin Füglister is an artist and cultural entrepreneur born in Switzerland in 1978. Since his studies at the University of Arts Basel in Switzerland and the University of Arts Utrecht in the Netherlands, he lived in Berlin, Germany until 2023. In his artistic practice, he questions social conventions and explores their visual transformations. He is particularly interested in photography as a medium for visualising changes in the human image.
Qualifications
2003, BA Degree in Interaction management at the University of Applied Sciences of Basel [FHNW], Diploma programme HyperWerk, Switzerland
2005, MA Arts in Arts and Media management in a European context at the school of arts of Utrecht NL [HKU], validated by the open university of London.
Projects
I am just a Souvenir
Posebook
CAP Prize for Contemporary African Photography
IAF Basel - Festival for Contemporary Art
Benjamin Füglister’s journalistic photographic work can be found at www.benontheroad.com.
Teaching
2019
CAP Academy Workshop: Editing & Sequencing for Photographers. Sana Sanaa, Brush Tu, Nairobi, Kenya
CAP Academy Workshop: Project Management for Photographers. Sana Sanaa, Brush Tu, Nairobi, Kenya
CAP Academy Workshop: Marketing for Photogrpahers. Sana Sanaa, Brush Tu, Nairobi, Kenya
CAP Academy Workshop: Threading Story Narratives. UPPA, Kampala, Uganda
2018
CAP Academy Workshop: Get your work out there! (But how?). UPPA, Kampala, Uganda
2016
CAP Academy Workshop: Sequencing and Editing for the International Market. UPPA, Kampala, Uganda
2015
CAP Academy Workshop: Understanding Colors on Color Management at Lagos Open Range in collaboration with Artificial Image Berlin. Lagos, Nigeria
2012
Kultureller Inkubator: Projektmanagement. Bundesakademie für Kulturelle Bildung, Wolfenbüttel, Germany
Involvements
Benjamin Füglister is co-director of the IAF Basel - Festival of Contemporary Art. He has been a member of the editorial board of the magazine European Photography since 2006. He is the founding director of the CAP Prize, the prize for contemporary African photography, which was awarded for the first time in 2012. Füglister is a nominator for the prestigious Prix Pictet, the Joop Swarts Master Class, Plat(t)from, and sits on the artistic advisory board of Photo Basel. He regularly acts as a reviewer at international photo festivals.
Contact
Contact details
Benjamin Füglister
Eulerstrasse 8
4051 Basel
Switzerland
Telephone: +41 76 542 03 75
email: contact [at] benjaminfueglister.com
Exhibitions (excerpt)
2017
Penetration at Heuberg 24, Basel, Switzerland
2012
EXPAT at PhotoIreland festival, Dublin, Ireland
2011
天神 Tenjin at pep+noname gallery, Basel, Switzerland
天神 Tenjin at Café Warschau, Berlin, Germany
EXPAT at pep+noname gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2010
脚 at pep+noname gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2009
Penetration and Remember at piclet.org / PopUp / #1 / Berlin / Seduction, Berlin , Germany
2008
Remember at Oarhouse gallery, Manila, Philippines*
Penetration at pep+noname gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Marina at Galerie Waschhaus, Berlin, Germany
2007
Body/Mind at pep+noname gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Remember at 2. Foto Festival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, Germany
2006
Pick-up/Hideaway at Galerie Automatique, Art Basel, Switzerland
2005
Marina at pep+noname gallery, Basel, Switzerland
* Exhibition was cancelled by the gallery due to the fact that Remember was too provocative to the audience.
Publications (excerpt)
2018
Interview. something we Africans got #3. Paris, France: something we Africans got, 2018.
2017
Interview. Leica Fotografie international, English Edition, 5.2017, July. Hamburg, Germany: LFI Photographie GmbH, 2017
2016
Interview. Wir, wir selbst sind de Methode. Basel, Switzerland: Institut Hyperwerk for Postindustrial Design, 2016. ISBN: 978-3-905693-59-1
2012
On Migration, catalog, PhotoIreland, www.photoireland.org
2011
Rising Beauty, Weltkunst #12/11, www.weltkunst.de
H1N1 - Prêt à Porter, Das Magazin 9/11, www.dasmagazin.de
H1N1 - Prêt à Porter, monograph, www.nehopro.com
EXPAT, monograph, www.nehopro.com
2010
Penetration, monograph, popular edition. Berlin, Germany: New Horizon Productions, 2010. ISBN: 978-3000310829
脚/Legs, monograph, popular edition. Berlin, Germany: New Horizon Productions, 2010. ISBN: 978-3000310812
2009
Catalogue, piclet.org / PopUp / #1 / Berlin, Germany: piclet.org, 2009. ISBN: 978-3-00-029163-0
2008
Penetration, monograph, Berlin, Germany: New Horizon Productions, 2008
2007
Review, Body/Mind. Basel, Switzerland: NEWS, 20.12.2007
Catalogue, Reality Crossings, European Photography issue 82. Berlin, Germany: European Photography, 2007
2006
Rising Beauty. European Photography issue 79/80. Berlin, Germany: European Photography, 2006
2005
Review, Marina. Basler Zeitung, 15.12.2005. Basel, Switzerland: Basler Zeitung Medien, 2005
2003
Approaches to Interactivity. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2013. ISBN: 978-3764300890