Artist Research

Beat Streuli

Beat Streuli is a Swiss visual artist born in 1957. He works with photo and video based media, and is known for his street portraiture.. His photographs, window installations, and videos have been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. Permanent installations of his works include those at the Lufthansa Aviation Centre, Frankfurt Airport. the EHT University in Zurich, the Style Company building in Osaka, Japan, and the immigration hall of Dallas Fort Interaional Airport in Texas.

From 1977 to 1983, he attended the schools of design in Basel and Zurich, and the Hochschüle Der Künste in Berlin, where he lived until 1987. 

Streuli has spent time working in various cities, such as New York, Sydney, Düsseldorf, Zurich, and Brussels. 

His works are focused systematically on ordinary street dwellers, and the contemporary 'Flaneurs' going about their daily business. He photographs them using a telephoto lens, so as to capture his subjects in an unguarded state, bringing them closer to the proximity if the viewer, lending them an iconic aura which transcends the ordinariness of the scene portrayed.

He works with a variety of presentation media, from large format colour photographs, and installations od slide and video projections, to billboards and large scale window installations on the facades of public buildings.