M. Vänçi Stirnemann

M. Vänçi Stirnemann (born 21 April 1951 in Zurich, Switzerland as Manfred Ulrich Stirnemann) is a Swiss artist, author and curator. He has been active in performance art, copy art (Xerox art), mail art and installation art. In 1997 he initiated the collaborative performance Artist Trading Cards.

Stirnemann graduated from the Zurich-based art school F+F founded by progressive artists and art teachers in 1971. His mentor Serge Stauffer (who translated Marcel Duchamp's writings into German) became a close friend. Early on, Stirnemann studied genres like Mannerism, Dada, Surrealism, Art Brut, Fluxus, performance art and media art, and made himself familiar with artists like Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Broodthaers and Dieter Roth. In the 1980s, he became known to a wider public with art performances and installations. Until today, he made more than 180 international solo and collaborative performances. Stirnemann is also a curator and editor of art catalogues and art magazines. Since 1983, he publishes the art edition "copy-left". As a freelance journalist he published in different newspapers and magazines, and he was an editor at the Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, a Swiss broadcasting company.

In 1986, Stirnemann was founder member of the performance groups The Nomads and a' battery a". In 1990, he initiated the international groups Feed back and forth and POW.WOW. Together with his group The Nomads he participated in the documenta 8 in Kassel, Germany, in 1987, and in the Olympic Arts Festival in Calgary, Canada, in 1988. With a grant from the Canada Council he was Visiting Foreign Artist in Calgary in 1990.

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