Bob Gramsma is a Swiss/Dutch artist who lives and works in Zurich. Since the beginning of the 1990s the artist has been concerned with creating spaces and their inextricable connections to people and environment. His sculptural and installation works raise the question of how space is conceived and how this has an effect on our consciousness.

Bob Gramsma documents spaces that once were, and that no longer are. He engages with space and how we move through it to imagine alternate histories. He often uses the labor of building and construction to make striking traces of the landscape - spaces without architecture. He is interested in creating works that riff off the materials of the sites and the conditions they inhabit, creating sedimentary traces of production and artistic action that enable an opening between the present and the past.

Gallery Representation
Lullin + Ferrari
Limmatstrasse 214
CH-8005 Zürich

For over 30 years Gramsma has exhibited extensively, including at Gallerie LULLIN+FERRARI, Zürich; Kunstmuseum St.Gallen;  MoMA/PS1, New York; Swiss Institute, New York; Kunstmuseum, Bern; MAC Lyon; FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon; The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, Palestine; Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt, Biel; Kunstverein Ulm; Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen; CAC Vilnius; ​​​​Kunsthalle 8000, Wädenswil; Kunstmuseum Olten;​​​ Kunsthalle Arbon; Kunst(Zeug)haus, Rapperswil; Helmhaus Zurich

Gramsma has presented major projects as part of ArteSOAZZA 2025, Grison; PASSAGEN 2025 Gemmipass;  Art Safiental 2018, Grison; Arte Albigna 2017, Grison: Kochi Biennale 2016; Art public Chur 2016; Gasträume 2016, Art in Public Space Zurich; Môtiers 2015, Art en plein air; Môtiers 2007 - Art en plein air

ART AND PUBLIC DOMAIN 
2025 Regierungsbebäude Frauenfeld, commission Kantonales Hochbauamt Thurgau; 2024 LUBW, Landesamt für Umweld Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe, commission Vermögen und Bau Baden-Württemberg; 2022 Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau, commission FIBL Arts, Frick; 2018 Land Art Monument 100th anniversary of the Zuiderzee-Act, commission Province of Flevoland, NL (1st Prize); 2018 ABZ-Siedlung Toblerstrasse, Zürich, commission Allgemeine Baugenossenschaft Zürich; 2018 Schulhaus Halden, Opfikon, commission City of Opfikon; 2016 Markus Roth-Platz, Lenzburg, commission City of Lenzburg; 2005 Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, commission Hochbauamt des Kantons Zürich and Kulturstiftung Winterthur; 2004 Stadtspital Waid, Zürich, commission Amt für Hochbauten der Stadt Zürich; 2003 Swiss Federal Office of Sports (BASPO), Magglingen, commission Swiss Federal Office of Culture (BAK), Bern

COLLECTIONS 
Land Art Flevoland
The Netherlands
The Palestinian Museum
Birzeit, Palestine
Musée d'Art contemporain, MAC LYON
Lyon, France 
FRAC Alsace
Sélestat, France
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Olten
Olten, Switzerland
Swiss Federal Art Collection, Bundesamt für Kultur
Bern, Switzerland
FIBL Art Collection
Frick, Switzerland
Julius Bär Art Collection
Zürich, Switzerland
Credit Suisse Art Collection
Zürich, Switzerland
Zürcher Kantonalbank, Art Collection
Zürich, Switzerland
Kunstsammlung der Stadt Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
Kunstsammlung des Kanton Zürich
Zürich, Switzerland
Kunstsammlung Uster
Uster, Switzerland
ChemicalMoonBABY, Katrin Bechtler
Zürich, Switzerland
NYEHAUS Collection
New York, USA
HP. und E. Bosshard Stiftung
Jona, Switzerland
Privat Collections
CH, NL, DE, I, F, USA, IN

PRIZES, AWARDS, GRANTS
2022 Covid-Arbeitsstipendium, Stadt Zürich 
2021 LANDIS & GYR Stiftung, Werkstipendium
2021 Covid-Arbeitsstipendium, Stadt Zürich 
2012 Werkbeitrag, Kanton Zürich
2012 UBS Art Award, UBS Kulturstiftung
2009 Prix Meuly, SAC
2008 Basisbeurs, Dutch Mondriaan Fund
2007 Werkbeitrag, Kanton Zürich 
2003 PS1/MoMA, International Studio Program
         Swiss Federal Office of Culture
2002 Werkbeitrag, Kanton Zürich
2002 Basisbeurs, Dutch Mondriaan Fund
2002 Werkstipendium bildende Kunst der Stadt Zürich
2002 Werkbeurs, Dutch Mondriaan Fund
2001 Swiss Art Award, Swiss Federal Office of Culture
2001 Artist in Residence, Grand Central Art Center, LA
2000 Werkstipendium bildende Kunst der Stadt Zürich
1999 Werkbeurs, Dutch Mondriaan Fund
1998 Werkstipendium bildende Kunst der Stadt Zürich
1997 Basisbeurs, Dutch Mondriaan Fund
1997 Werkbeurs, Dutch Mondriaan Fund
1996 Swiss Art Award, Swiss Federal Office of Culture
1996 Startstipendium, Dutch Mondriaan Fund
1995 Swiss Art Award, Swiss Federal Office of Culture
1994 Startstipendium, Dutch Mondriaan Fund
1994 Touche prijs, Kunststichting Touche