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Marco Poloni lives and works in Berlin and in Chicago.
| Solo exhibitions | |
| 2008 | Il mare mi ha rifiutato, Centro d’arte contemporanea La Rada, Locarno |
| Persian Gulf Incubator, Fotohof, Salzburg | |
| Displacement Island, Museum fu.r Photographie, Braunschweig | |
| 2006 | I work with merchandise, concrete things. They understand me straight away, Galerie Christian Roellin, St. Gallen |
| Displacement Island, Centre de la photographie, Genève | |
| Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Planet 22, Genève | |
| 2005 | AKA (Also Known As), Project Room, Centre culturel suisse, Paris |
| The Desert Room, plug·in, Basel | |
| 2003 | Passengers, Kunstverein Freiburg |
| The Wrong Room, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Genève | |
| 2002 | Sleepers, Raum fu.r aktuelle Kunst, Luzern |
| Blind Walk, Galerie des Grands Bains Douches, Marseille | |
| 2001 | Shuttle, Galerie du Dourven, Trédrez-Locquémeau, Bretagne |
| Straderumorincontri, with M. Balduzzi, c/o Care of, Cusano-Milanino, Milano | |
| 2000 | Vis-à-vis, apartment show, org. Vidéochroniques, Marseille |
| ... with some Ordinary Extras, with C. Dupaquier, La BF15, Lyon | |
| 1999 | Changes, Project Room, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), Mexico-City |
| Marco Poloni, La BF15, Monterrey | |
| 1998 | Down There, Palais de l’Athénée, Genève |
| Group exhibitions (Selection) | |
| 2007 | Art en plein air, Môtiers 2007, Môtiers |
| Landschaft (Entfernung), Wu.rttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart | |
| 2006 | Eclipses du réel, Fri-Art Centre d’art contemporain / Kunsthalle, Fribourg |
| knowing you, knowing me – On complicity with images, Camera Austria, Graz | |
| Reale Fantasien, Neue Fotografie aus der Schweiz / Real Fantasies | |
| New Photography from Switzerland, Fotomuseum Winterthur | |
| 2005 | Shadows Collide with People, Padiglione Svizzero, 51. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Venezia |
| Me Myself I, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen | |
| Chasm, Busan Biennale 2004, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan | |
| 2004 | So wie die Dinge liegen, PhoenixHalle, Dortmund |
| Forbidden, The Third Photo Festival, Gana Art Center, Seoul | |
| 2003 | Truffes de Chine, attitudes, espace d’arts contemporains, Genève |
| Not Neutral: Contemporary Swiss Photography, Grey Gallery, New York University, New York | |
| Nosotros y el Mundo que nos Rodea, ARCO 2003, Madrid | |
| 2002 | Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus der Schweiz, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Hallescher Kunstverein, Museum Bochum, Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen |
| 2001 | General Document: artcontemporain, e, Palais de l’Athénée, Genève |
| 2000 | Version_2000, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Genève |
| Fuori Sede, Swiss Institute, Roma | |
| Awards | |
| 2001 | Swiss Art Award |
| 2000 | Swiss Art Award |
| 1997 | Swiss Art Award |
| Shortlists | |
| 2006 | Albert Renger-Patzsch Award, Museum Folkwang, Essen |
| Grants | |
| 2003 | Atelier Schönhauser, Berlin |
| 2000 | Swiss Institute, Roma |
| Collections |
| UBS Art Collection |
| Schweizerische Nationalbank Kunstsammlung |
| Museum fu.r Kommunikation, Bern |
| Helvetia Art Collection |
| Kunstmuseum St. Gallen |
| Schweizer Bundeskunstsammlung, Bern |
| Stiftung fu.r Fotografie, Film und Video, Kunstmuseum Bern |
| Fonds municipal d’art contemporain, Genève |
| Media Library, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Genève |
| Publications (Selection) |
| Boris Magrini, L’insostenibile probabilità degli eventi, in: Kunstbulletin 7-8/2008 |
| Joerg Bader, Tom Holert, Marco Poloni, Displacement Island, Kodoji Press: Baden 2008 (forthcoming) |
| Uta Grosenick, Thomas Seelig, Photo Art, Fotografie im 21. Jahrhundert, DuMont Buchverlag: Köln 2007 / Photo Art, Photography in the 21st Century, aperture: New York 2008 / Photo Art, The New World of Photography, |
| Thames & Hudson: London 2008 |
| Jean-Christophe Royoux, Constellations – Manières de faire des mondes, in: Day after Day, Kunsthalle |
| Fribourg, Fri-Art, 2003 - 2007, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fri-Art: Fribourg 2007 |
| Day after Day, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fri-Art, 2003 - 2007, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fri-Art: Fribourg 2007 |
| Jean-Christophe Royoux, Le récit après sa fin: allégories, constellations, dispositifs / Beyond the End of Narrative: |
| Allegories, Constellations, Dispositifs, in: Explorations narratives / Replaying Narrative, Le mois de la photo à Montréal 2007, dirigé par / edited by Marie Fraser, Montréal 2007 |
| Art en plein air, Môtiers 2007, Môtiers, Môtiers 2007 – Art en plein air, June 2007 |
| Pierre-André Lienhard, Marco Poloni et la chambre des disparitions, in: Kunstbulletin #5, Sept/Oct 2006 |
| Miriam Rosen: Marco Poloni, review in: Artforum International, Summer 2006, New York 2006 |
| Pierre-André Lienhard: Marco Poloni et la photographie cinématographe. Notes pour un suivi d’enquête, in: Passengers, Verlag fu.r moderne Kunst Nu.rnberg, Nu.rnberg 2006 |
| Ed. Urs Stahel, Thomas Seelig, Reale Fantasien, Neue Fotogradie aus der Schweiz / Real Fantasies, |
| New Photography from Switzerland, Christoph Merian Verlag: Basel, 2006 |
| Iris Dressler, Marco Poloni, If You See Something, Say Something, in: Camera Austria International 91, 2005 |
| Michael Newman, Evident Hypotheses: Marco Poloni’s Photographic “Scripts for Short Films,” in: |
| Stefan Banz a.o., Shadows Collide with People, Edition Fink: Zu.rich 2005 |
| Pierre-André Lienhard, Edouard Monnet, Marco Poloni, never mind the gap, Verlag fu.r moderne Kunst Nu.rnberg: |
| Nu.rnberg 2004 |
| Busan Biennale 2004, The Busan Biennale Organizing Committee, Busan 2004 |
| Iris Dressler, Hans D. Christ, Katrin Mundt, Silke Albrecht a.o., So wie die Dinge liegen, PhoenixHalle Dortmund, |
| Revolver Verlag: Frankfurt am Main 2004 |
| Self-Portrait, in: tema celeste contemporaryart n° 99, Sept/Oct 2003 |
| Fonds d’art contemporain de la ville de Genève, Collection 1991-2003 |
| Forbidden, The Third Photo Festival, Gana Art Center, Seoul 2003 |
| Urs Stahel, Zeitgenössische Fotokunst aus der Schweiz, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag: Tu.bingen 2002 |
| Eugen Radescu & Razvan Ion, Photography and Video in Swiss Contemporary Art, in: Artphoto #2 Contemporary |
| Art Magazine, Bucharest 2002 |
| Sarah Zu.rcher, WONDER RED NOW, EDITION 01, Swiss Federal Office of Culture 2002 |
| Massimo Canevacci & Viviana Gravano, Fuori sede, Swiss Institute, Roma 2000 |
| Claire Peillod, Marco Poloni, La BF15, Monterrey 1999 |
| Bertrand Bacqué, Marco Poloni, Palais de l’Athénée, Cahiers de la Classe des Beaux-Arts n° 120, 1998 |
