Yvonne Rainer is a dancer, choreographer and filmmaker.  She helped start the Judson Dance Theater, and was at the forefront of the postmodern dance movement in the 1960's. She is known for stripping dance of frill and narrative.  The emphasis being on everyday, or pedestrian movement, i

Born in Rapperswil/CH, 1954

University of Fine Arts, Zurich/CH, 1974-1979
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, 1981

lives and works in New York and Zürich


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 Museo d'Arte Co

She graduates in Scenography in 2004, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan with a dissertation on photographer Jeff Wall. In the same year she gets a grant to attend courses at the Italian Institute