Walter Pfeiffer

♂ *1946 / Switzerland

Works

Solo exhibitions

In Good Company

Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino (IT)
30 Apr 2026 – 13 Sep 2026
Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom

MCA Museum Contemp Art, Chicago (US)
3 May 2025 – 31 Aug 2025
Walter Pfeiffer

Galerie Sultana, Paris (FR)
27 Jun 2025 – 14 Jul 2025
Sincerly

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern (CH)
8 Jul 2023 – 22 Oct 2023
Polaroids 1972–2021 (Part II)

Gregor Staiger, Zürich (CH)
8 Sep 2021 – 30 Oct 2021
Polaroids 1972–2021 (Part I)

Gregor Staiger, Zürich (CH)
29 May 2021 – 17 Jul 2021
Send me no flowers.

Galerie Baumet Sultana, Paris (FR)
16 Sep 2016 – 12 Nov 2016
In Love with Beauty

Starmach Gallery, Krakow (PL)
18 May 2013 – 21 Jun 2013
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Galerie Sabine Knust, München (DE)
21 Oct 2011 – 24 Nov 2011
In Love with Beauty

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
29 Nov 2008 – 15 Feb 2009
Tom Burr / Walter Pfeiffer

Swiss Institute - Contemporary Art, New York (US)
14 Nov 2008 – 19 Jan 2009
Zürich, Berlin

Galerie Baumet Sultana, Paris (FR)
15 Nov 2008 – 20 Dec 2008
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Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (FR)
1 May 2004 – 11 Jul 2004

Group

FRAGILE BEAUTY

Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection

Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
12 Jun 2026 – 27 Sep 2026

with Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, Horst P. Horst, Peter Hujar, William Klein, An-My Le, Herman Leonard, Herbert List, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe …
Suddenly there was nothing

Photos on Fridges

Harkawik, New York (US)
8 Nov 2025 – 10 Jan 2026

with Amy Adler, Farah Al Qasimi, Merry Alpern, Laurie Anderson, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Olivia Arthur, Michel Auder, Michael Bailey-Gates, Nikolay Bakharev, Lewis Baltz, Jared Bark …
ON VIEW

Begegnungen mit dem Fotografischen

Pinakothek der Moderne, München (DE)
4 Jul 2025 – 12 Oct 2025

with Ilit Azoulay, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Aenne Biermann, Viktoria Binschtok, Karl Blossfeldt, Joachim Brohm, Thomas Demand, Juan Pablo Echeverri, Alfred Ehrhardt …
Paare / Couples

Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur (CH)
1 Jun 2024 – 26 Jan 2025

with Jane Evelyn Atwood, Edouard Boubat, Rosellina Burri-Bischof, Kurt Caviezel, Larry Clark, Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Louis Faurer, Burt Glinn, Rob Gnant, Nan Goldin, Harry Gruyaert …
THIS IS ME, THIS IS YOU

The Eva Felten Photoraphy Collection

Museum Brandhorst, München (DE)
19 Oct 2023 – 7 Apr 2024

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Victor Burgin, Harry Callahan, Larry Clark, Bruce Davidson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, William Eggleston, Robert Frank, LaToya Ruby Frazier …
Walking in the Wild

By Bob van Orsouw and Christophe Guye

Christophe Guye Galerie, Zürich (CH)
13 Dec 2023 – 2 Mar 2024

with Jun Ahn, Haluk Akakçe, Miles Aldridge, Nobuyoshi Araki, Mike Brodie, Cortis & Sonderegger, Robert Frank, Stephen Gill, Fabrice Gygi, REN Hang, Kosuke, Pierre Molinier …
SYMMETRICAL SPACE POPS

Gregor Staiger, Zürich (CH)
26 Jan 2024 – 24 Feb 2024

with Raphaela Vogel
Queerness in Photography

C/O Berlin, Berlin (DE)
17 Sep 2022 – 18 Jan 2023

with Casa Susanna, Zackary Drucker, Lynn Hershman, Jamal Nxedlana, Elle Perez, Sally Potter, Viviane Sassen, Collier Schorr, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mickalene Thomas, Carmen Winant
ORLANDO

Nach einem Roman von / BASED ON A NOVEL BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
26 Feb 2022 – 29 May 2022

with Zackary Drucker, Lynn Hershman, Jamal Nxedlana, Elle Perez, Sally Potter, Viviane Sassen, Collier Schorr, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mickalene Thomas, Carmen Winant
Walter Pfeiffer / Hannah Villiger

Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen (CH)
23 Oct 2020 – 3 Jan 2021

with Hannah Villiger
Orlando

upon the themes of Virginia Woolf’s seminal novel

The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (MFA), San Francisco (US)
7 Feb 2020 – 2 May 2020

with Zackary Drucker, Lynn Hershman, Jamal Nxedlana, Elle Perez, Sally Potter, Viviane Sassen, Collier Schorr, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mickalene Thomas, Carmen Winant
The New Photography / Die Neue Fotografie

Upheaval and new beginnings / Umbruch und Aufbruch 1970 - 1990

Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (CH)
15 Nov 2019 – 9 Feb 2020

with Annelies Strba, Balthasar Burkhard, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Candida Hoefer, John Hilliard, David Hockney, Felix Stephan Huber, Alexis Hunter, Simone Kappeler, Urs Luethi, Dieter Meier …
Die neue Fotografie

Umbruch und Aufbruch, 1970–1990

Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (CH)
15 Nov 2019 – 9 Feb 2020

with Balthasar Burkhard, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Candida Hoefer, David Hockney, Dieter Meier
ORLANDO

Inspiriert von Virginia Woolf

Literaturhaus München, München (DE)
8 Nov 2019 – 12 Jan 2020

with Zackary Drucker, Lynn Hershman, Jamal Nxedlana, Elle Perez, Sally Potter, Viviane Sassen, Collier Schorr, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mickalene Thomas, Carmen Winant
OSMOSCOSMOS

Eros & Cosmos

Centre Photographie Geneve, Genève (CH)
19 Jun 2019 – 25 Aug 2019

with Johan Oesterholm, Nobuyoshi Araki, Ursula Böhmer, Dorothee Baumann, Renate Bertlmann, Anne Collier, Nicolas Crispini, Bunu Dhungana, Charles Eames, Ray Eames, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Sylvie Fleury …
My Garden of Eden

curated by Bob van Orsouw

Christophe Guye Galerie, Zürich (CH)
9 May 2019 – 24 Aug 2019

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Grazia Conti Rossini, Grazia Conti Rossini, Armen Eloyan, Gabríela Fridriksdóttir, Loretta Lux, Paul McCarthy, Russ Meyer , Daido Moriyama, Thomas Ruff, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler …
Orlando

Guest Curated by Tilda Swinton

Aperture, New York (US)
24 May 2019 – 11 Jul 2019

with Zackary Drucker, Lynn Hershman, Jamal Nxedlana, Elle Perez, Viviane Sassen, Collier Schorr, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mickalene Thomas, Carmen Winant
25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories

25 Jahre! Gemeinsam Geschichte(n) schreiben

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
20 Oct 2018 – 10 Feb 2019

with Kristina Ollek , John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Becky Beasley, Besma Ben Said, Suky Best, Daniele Buetti, Hannah Collins, Antje Dorn, Jan Paul Evers, Valie Export, Nicolas Faure …
Another Kind of Life

Photography on the Margins

Barbican Art Gallery , London (GB)
28 Feb 2018 – 27 May 2018

with Diane Arbus, Philippe Chancel, Larry Clark, Bruce Davidson, Paz Errazuriz, Jim Goldberg, Katy Grannan, Pieter Hugo, Seiji Kurata, Danny Lyon, Teresa Margolles, Mary Ellen Mark …
Only the Good Ones

The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited

Galerie Rudolfinum, Praha (CZ)
23 Jan 2014 – 6 Apr 2014

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Tim Barber, Richard Billingham, Mark Borthwick, Mike Brodie, William Christenberry, Larry Clark, Barbara Crane, Corinne Day, William Eggleston, JH Engstroem, Walker Evans …
TRANSFORMER

Aspects of Travesty

Richard Saltoun, London (GB)
12 Dec 2013 – 14 Feb 2014

with Luciano Castelli, Juergen Klauke, Urs Luethi, Pierre Molinier, Luigi Ontani, Katharina Sieverding, Andy Warhol
SUMMER OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York (US)
12 Jul 2013 – 21 Sep 2013

with Doug Aitken, Darren Almond, Nobuyoshi Araki, John Baldessari, Uta Barth, Peter Blake, Chuck Close, Anne Collier, William Eggleston, Fischli & Weiss, Adam Fuss, Robert Gober …
Young People / Junge Menschen

Set 9 from the Collection of Fotomuseum Winterthur

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
8 Sep 2012 – 10 Feb 2013

with Nobuyoshi Araki, David Armstrong, Nathan Beck, Sabrina Biro, Beni Bischof, Daniele Buetti, Larry Clark, JH Engstroem, Michel Francois, Ilse Frech, Julian Germain, Nan Goldin …
Icons of Tomorrow

Contemporary Fashion Photography

Christophe Guye Galerie, Zürich (CH)
29 Mar 2012 – 2 Jun 2012

with Miles Aldridge, Kate Bellm, Guy Bourdin, Ina Jang, David LaChapelle, Terry Richardson, Albert Watson
Minor Cropping May Occur

Jane Lombard Gallery, New York (US)
17 Feb 2011 – 19 Mar 2011

with Jacob Aue Sobol, Mike Brodie, Carl Johan de Geer, JH Engstroem, Janine Gordon, Takashi Homma, Daifu Motoyuki, Nick Waplington, Rona Yefman
Regionale 11

The Village Cry

Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (CH)
28 Nov 2010 – 2 Jan 2011

with Heike Aumüller, Salome Ghazanfari, Beat Presser
REBEL REBEL

Remembering Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006)

Anna Kustera Gallery, New York (US)
20 Apr 2007 – 25 May 2007

with Ryan McGinley, Collier Schorr, Karlheinz Weinberger
Der Traum vom Ich, der Traum von der Welt

Set 2 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseums Winterthur

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
12 Mar 2005 – 9 Oct 2005

with Annelies Strba, Vito Acconci, Richard Billingham, Guenter Brus, Daniele Buetti, Clegg & Guttmann , JH Engstroem, Valie Export, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Katrin Freisager, Maria Friberg, Lee Friedlander …
with Hamburg Kennedy Photographs

Scalo Project Space, New York (US)
14 Dec 2004 – 29 Jan 2005

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, David Armstrong, Bruce Davidson, Walker Evans, Wendy Ewald, Robert Frank, Seiichi Furuya, Nan Goldin, Paul Graham, Bill Henson, Karen Kilimnik …
my people were fair and had cum in their hair

Team Gallery, New York (US)
18 Oct 2003 – 15 Nov 2003

with Charles Atlas, Brice Dellsperger, Michael Meads, Wolfgang Tillmans, T.J. Wilcox

Events

Art Salon Zürich

Art Salon Zürich, Zürich (CH)
23 Oct 2024 – 27 Oct 2024

with Beni Bischof, Sergey Bratkov, Balthasar Burkhard, Jeffrey Conley, Joakim Eskildsen, Boris Gaberscik, Verena Guther, Matjaz Krivic, Andrej Lamut, Margaret Lansink, Patrick Lo Giudice, Douglas Mandry …
Photo Phnom Penh 2022

Photo Phnom Penh Association (PPPA) , Phnom Penh (KH)
27 Oct 2022 – 27 Nov 2022

with Claudine Doury, Vannak Khun, Jean-Baptiste Phou, Enrique Ramirez, Channal Sean, Shirana Shahbazi, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Jules Spinatsch, Zen Teh, Bernard Voita
Independent NY 2022

Independent NY, New York (US)
6 May 2022 – 8 May 2022

with Derrick Adams, Harold Ancart, Martine Barrat, Jennifer Bolande, Geta Bratescu, Ion Grigorescu, Janice Guy, Peter Hujar, Birgit Juergenssen, Kris Lemsalu, Katja Novitskova, Olivia Reavey …
artgenève 2022

artgeneve, Genève (CH)
3 Mar 2022 – 6 Mar 2022

with Vito Acconci, Carlos Aires, Miles Aldridge, Brook Andrew, Valerie Belin, Abdelkader Benchamma, Werner Bischof, Matt Black, Daniel Blaufuks, Guillaume Bresson, Rene Burri, Lisetta Carmi …
ZURICH ART WEEKEND 2021

ZURICH ART WEEKEND, Zürich (CH)
17 Sep 2021 – 19 Sep 2021

with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Michel Auder, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Hans Bellmer, Hannah Black, Ian Cheng, Michel Comte, Minerva Cuevas, Ida Ekblad, Alicia Framis, Roger Humbert, Kiluanji Kia Henda …
50JPG - 50 Days for Photography in Geneva

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Centre Photographie Geneve, Genève (CH)
19 Jun 2019 – 25 Aug 2019

with Annelies Strba, Romy Alizee, Nobuyoshi Araki, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Ursula Böhmer, Dorothee Baumann, Helene Bellenger, Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Renate Bertlmann, Viktoria Binschtok, Mauren Brodbeck, Florence Chevallier …
abc art berlin contemporary 2013

abc art berlin , Berlin (DE)
20 Sep 2013 – 22 Sep 2013

with Andrea Bowers, Anetta Mona Chisa, Andy Coolquitt, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Thea Djordjadze, Laetitia Gendre, Samuel Henne, Anni Leppaelae, Ryan McGinley, Navid Nuur, Tony Oursler, Patrick Fabian Panetta …
40 Jahre fotografisches Schaffen

Werkschau Fotografie, Zürich (CH)
8 Jan 2011
ARTE Video Night

arte TV, Funk & Fernsehen (DE)
24 Oct 2010

with Yael Bartana, William Kentridge, Yves Netzhammer, Zineb Sedira
In Love With Beauty

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
7 Dec 2008
Cherchez la femme!

Orell Füssli Krauthammer, Zürich (CH)
20 Sep 2007
vfg Bildersoirée: Chasing Beauty (Dokumentarfilm, 89 Min.)

Photobastei, Zürich (CH)
Chasing Beauty

3sat . TV, Funk & Fernsehen (DE)