Born in Switzerland

2024 – 2025
May 2025 – October 2025. Group exhibition: Sammlung Heiner Hörni, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Warth, Switzerland
April 2024 – April 2025. Sammlungsausstellung: Mein Garten. Works from the Bosshard Collection – (Swiss art collection), Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil, Switzerland
November 2024: Project in Venice, Italy – since 2004  ongoing
May 2024, Rapperswil, Switzerland: From Cairo – With Love. Works from my residency in Egypt
February 2024: project in NY

2022 – 2023
October / November 2023: project in Cairo and Alexandria
February – July 2023: Artist residency in Cairo, Egypt*
September 2022: Project in Venice, Italy since 2004 – ongoing
Glass project with Glas Mäder, Switzerland: Covid-Arbeitsstipendium 2022, Stadt Zürich / Covid Work Grant 2022, City of Zurich
March and November 2022: subsidized residency – Cove Park, Scotland

2016 – 2022 
Heimspiel 2021 – Read the Room. Triennial, Kunst Halle St.Gallen, CH* (2021/2022)
Penumbra Foundation, NYC. Virtual Art Walk. Presentation of my work. Instructor: Claudia Sohrens, 2021
Preliminary research in Rome: Marmi Colorati. I colori degli affreschi, 2019
Venice: Salon Suisse*. Collateral Event of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia – Salon Suisse – Organized by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia – 2018
Projects in Berlin and Venice, Italy – since 2004, ongoing
Project in New York: Out of the Dark. Marble Drawings UN – Assembly Hall, New York, 2016 – 2018

2012-2016
Based in Zurich. Projects in Berlin, Venice, London, Vienna, NY
Residency ‘vorAnker’, Vienna, Spring 2015

2009-2012
Based in Berlin. Projects in Zurich, London, Venice

2003 -2009
Projects in New York, Venice, Berlin, Poland, London
Grant and Residency in London. The Landis & Gyr Foundation* – Fall/Winter 2007/08
Residency in Venice. Istituto Svizzero di Roma a Venezia – Winter/Spring 2004
Return to Switzerland, 2003

1998-2003
Based in New York. Independent studies in printmaking, video editing, figure drawing, 16-mm film, silkscreen and printing techniques at the International Center of Photography (ICP), The New School and the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York

1997-1998
One Year General Studies Certificate Program at the International Center of Photography, New York

1997
Move with son (14) to New York

1996
PhD – (Psychology) University of Zurich, Switzerland. Dissertation: ‘Schattenriss der Zeit. Fotografie und Wirklichkeit’ (Silhouette of Time. Photography and Reality)

1993
Trip with son (10) to Pakistan, China, New Zealand, Polynesia, New York

1988
Master / Licentiate in Psychology, Psychopathology, Ethnology. University of Zurich, Switzerland

Solo Exhibitions
2024 May, Rapperswil, Switzerland. From Cairo – With Love. (Works from the residency in Egypt)
2015 Tart Gallery, Zurich. Images in Which Reality Plays a Part. No Notion What the Journey Is All About – Since We Know Nothing – Still It Requires Our Whole Attention
2015 Atelierausstellung Brotfabrik, Artist in Residence ‘vorAnker’, Wien
2013 Elektrizitätswerk Jona-Rapperswil. Out of the Dark
2008/09 Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil, CH. Fotografien, Zeichnungen, Siebdrucke
2001 Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich

Group Exhibitions
2025 May – October 2025: Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Warth, Switzerland: Sammlung Heiner Hörni
2024 April – April 2025: Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil, Switzerland. Sammlungsausstellung: Mein Garten. Works from the Bosshard (Swiss art) collection
2021/22 December 21 – January 22: Heimspiel 2021, Kunst Halle St.Gallen, CH*
2018/19 A Line Is A Dot That Went For A Walk, Tart Gallery, December Zurich
2017 Out of the Blue. KunstZeugHaus, Rapperswil
2014 vfg., Zurich
2012 Swiss Photo Award – Fine Art, Zurich. Prize Julius Baer Foundation
2011 Parallax AF, Royal Arcade, London
2010 Scotty Enterprises – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
2010 welten. Forum Factory, Berlin
2010 Accrochage, Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich
2009 Pioneering Colour Photography meets Contemporary. Galerie Zur Stockeregg
2007 Le Festival Voies Off 2007, 12-ème édition du Festival Voies Off, Arles, France
2006 Venices – Istituto Svizzero di Roma a Venezia, Italy
2004 Swiss Art Miami. Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce, Miami Beach, Florida
2004 Swiss Photo Award 2003 –The Selection, Zurich
2004 Showcase International, Zurich
2001 New Works Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich
1998 ICP / GS-Exhibition, New York

Grants / Residencies / Awards
Artist residency in Cairo, Egypt, February – July 2023
Covid-Arbeitsstipendium 2022, Stadt Zürich / Covid Work Grant 2022, City of Zurich
Subsidized residency in Scotland, Cove Park. March and November, 2022
Residency ‘vorAnker’ Vienna, 2015
‘Swiss Photo Award 2012’, Zurich. Fine Art – Prize: Julius Baer Foundation, 2012
Grant and Residency in London, The LANDIS & GYR Foundation, 2007/2008
Residency in Venice at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma a Venezia, Italy, 2004
‘Swiss Photo Award 2003. The Selection’, Zurich, 2004
‘Voies Off ‘, Arles, 2007
‘Swiss Art Miami’, Miami, 2004
‘Showcase’, Zurich, 2004

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*Some links:
https://skk-cvc.ch
https://heimspiel.tv
https://www.kunsthallesanktgallen.ch/en/exhibition/heimspiel-2021-kunstschaffen-aus-ar-ai-gl-sg-tg-fl-und-vorarlberg-2.htmlhttps://biennials.ch/home/PersonDetail.aspx?ArtistId=952
https://www.hochparterre.ch/nachrichten/architektur/blog/post/detail/aus-dem-leben-eines-saloniers-teil-3/1542580908/
https://www.instagram.com/virtual.artwalks/
https://voranker.org/en/patricia-haemmerle-2/
https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/zuercher_kultur/wunderkammer-mit-leuchteffekt-1.18037516
https://acme.org.uk/artist-support/alumni/patricia-haemmerle
https://www.galerie1214.com/beitraege/patricia-haemmerle-original-kopie-geschichte
https://www.sikart.ch/kuenstlerinnen.aspx?id=11749300
https://www.lg-stiftung.ch