Bastian Oldhouse was born in 1948 and grew up bilingually in Biel/Bienne (Switzerland). He painted his first pictures at the age of 14. His wish to train as a graphic designer was not fulfilled, but instead he was apprenticed as a draughtsman in civil engineering. This was followed by military service and studies. After devoting himself to painting during the three years following his training as an engineer, he became a married father and devoted himself to his profession, but not without promising himself to return to art one day…

For his sixtieth birthday, he returned – this time definitively – to his brushes and pen. In the period following 2008, he produced 600 works, mainly large-format paintings, a video production and installations.

In addition to the visual arts, Bastian also writes articles for the local and national press. In the summer of 2021, his first book in German appeared. A “realoman” published under the title “SALVATION – ist die Menschheit zu retten?”  – (“SALVATION – Will mankind be spared?”), in which fiction, reality and dystopia rub shoulders without regard for the political corectness that is too busy minimising the real threats to the planet.

EXIBITIONS (selection) 

11.2023: CH-Burgdorf:             Comedy night, solo

08.2023: CH-Zürich:                 Artbox, virtual

05.2023: CH-Lausanne:           Swiss Art Space (“nature”)

04.2023: CH-Murten/Morat:   Gallerie Pellegrini

03.2023: CH-Lausanne:           Swiss Art Space (“spring”)

12.2022: CH-Lausanne:           Swiss Art Space, solo (32 Items)    

11.2022: E-Palma de Mallorca: Artbox, virtual

11.2022: CH-Lausanne:           Swiss Art space (“autumn”)

10.2022: CH-Lausanne:           Swiss Art space (“Landscapes”)

09.2022: CH-Lausanne:            Swiss Art space (“my best art”)

2021: Corona

2020: CH-Aarburg:                     City hall, solo

2020: CH- Zürich:                       Artbox (finalist) collective

2020: E-Barcelona:                     Artbox virtual

2019: USA-Miami:                      Artbox, virtual

2019: CH-Lausanne:                  Swiss Artspace, collective

2019: CH-Zürich:                        Artbox, virtual

2019: CH-Biel/Bern:                   Hirslanden-Klinik Linde, solo

2018: GB-London:                      A&D Gallery, collective

2018: F-Paris:                             Carrousel du Louvre, collective

2018: A-Innsbruck:                    Art Innsbruck, collective

2017: CH-Basel:                         ArtCenterBasel, collective.

2016: CH-Binningen/BL:           Arte Binningen, collective

2016: CH Bern:                           Galerie habitARTE on tour, solo.

2013: CH-Basel:                         Basler Versicherungen, collective.

2012: CH-Safnern:                     own exhibition, solo

2011: CH-Alchenflüh/BE:         Galerie im Chalet, solo