Université de Neuchâtel, Université de Lausanne, School of Visual Arts New York
Knownfor
artist, photographer, videoartist, videomaker
Website
catherinegfeller.com/
Catherine Gfeller (born 5 March 1966) is a Swiss artist.[1][2] She currently lives and works in Paris and Southern France after having lived in New York from 1995 to 1999.[3][4]
She has held numerous exhibitions around the world since 1988 and takes part in contemporary art fairs. Her works can be found in public and private collections.
Biography
Catherine Gfeller was born on 5.3.1966 à Neuchâtel. She is originally from Worb, in the canton de Berne. She also holds French nationality.[5]
She obtained a master in French literature and art history in 1991 as well as a certificat d'aptitudes pédagogiques at the Université de Neuchâtel , then taught for a number of years.[6] In 2003, she also obtained a degree in aesthetics and psychoanalysis from the université de Montpellier.[6]
From 1988 to 2022, she held numerous exhibitions in Switzerland[7] and abroad (In Europa,[8][9] but also in South Africa,[citation needed] North America[10][11] et South America,[12][13] in China[14] and in Ukraine[15]), where his works can be found in numerous public and private collections.[16]
Alongside her exhibitions, she gives lectures and runs workshops at various art schools and universities.[19] She also commissions works for buildings in the public spacec.[20][21]
She lives and works in Paris and the South of France after spending five years in New York.[22]
Artistic career
She began photography in the eighties with a passion for landscapes.[23]
In 1995, she was awarded a grant from the canton and the city of Neuchâtel , enabling her to continue her research in New York, where she lived until 1999.[5] There, she created the Frises Urbaines series, long horizontal compositions obtained by mounting, collaging and superimposing images, giving life to a universe that is both close to and distant from the reality of the city.[24]
In 1999, she moved to Paris, where she was awarded the prix de la Fondation HSBC for photography.[24] Since then, the city, taken in a metaphorical sense, has been a source of inspiration for many of her works (Multi-compositions), which combine photography, video and writing.[25] Some of the series (Les Déshabilleuses, les Dérangeuses, les Frayeuses) feature female protagonists whose bodies are immersed in exterior and interior space in a play of multiple imbrications.[26]
Catherine Gfeller's works have the quality of speaking directly to the viewer through the diversity of her means of expression. She has a way of looking at the world that touches the very heart of our lives. The characters in her videos and photos are all of us. Her vision is unique. There have been thousands of photographers who have focused on urban space. But she is a musician who gives us the rhythm of the city. In that sense, all her work is a performance, with her as conductor.Urs Stahel[28][29]
After several residencies in South Africa, in 2014 the WAM Museum in Johannesburg presented a monographic exhibition of work produced there under the title Passing the City through You.
Throughout 2015, Catherine Gfeller is the guest artist at the Centre Paul-Klee in Berne. She will be making around fifteen interventions combining different media to create a dialogue between the art of Paul Klee and the architecture of Renzo Piano, including a sound trail exploring both the interior of the museum and the surrounding landscape.[30]
After several visits, the Taras Shevchenko National Museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, welcomed Catherine Gfeller in 2017 for her exhibition Voices in Kyiv. Here she presented the work she had done accompanying Ukrainian writers through the districts of Kyiv, combining their interpretations of the city with her own vision.[31]
Since 2016, Catherine Gfeller has been involved in a project in China, China Driftings, the first part of which was exhibited at the Guangdong National Museum of Art in Guangzhou in 2018 in Canton. This exhibition will continue, through residencies, in Hong Kong, Chengdu, Shanghai and Pékin until 202.[32][33]
n 2022, the artist won the Support for Contemporary Documentary Photography prize[34] organized by the CNAP ((Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Ministry of Culture, Paris) ) for her Firelands project[35] devoted to landscapes ravaged by fire.
In 2023, Catherine Gfeller created an exhibition called Rythms in Médine en Saudi Arabia illustrating "the coexistence and convergence of man and the city"[36] as part of the Smart Madinah Forum. .
In 2024, the artist was invited by the French Embassy in Riyadh to carry out an artistic residency in collaboration with the artist Daniah ALSALEH on the theme of Saudi women. The exhibition Woven Portraits, Dreamscrapes of a city will be presented at Fondation l'Art Purin March-April 2024.
Related Research Articles
The Centre national des arts plastiques is a French institution established in 1982 under the Ministry of Culture and Communication that promotes creation of visual arts. It provides assistance to artists and galleries, and manages the Fonds national d'art contemporain.
Beatrice Helg is a Swiss photographer.
Tsuneko Taniuchi, born in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan, in 1946, is a contemporary artist, who uses performance as her main medium. Her practice, which oscillates between scripted situations and participatory works, aims to question cultural, social, and sexual constructions, linked to notions of identity, immigrations, and feminism.
Lucienne Peiry, born in Lausanne on 4 September 1961, holds a doctorate (PhD) in the history of art; she is a specialist in Outsider Art, an exhibition curator, a lecturer and the author of several publications. She gives lectures in both Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe, and has been teaching Outsider Art at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne since 2010. Since 2016, she has also been teaching at the University of Lausanne
Jacques Halbert is a French contemporary artist.
Alina Mnatsakanian is an Iranian-born American-Swiss visual artist, of Armenian descent, known for her conceptual installations in various media and her style of painting and drawing called Marks. Identity, borders, and injustice are her preferred themes.
Elsa Werth is a French artist who lives and works in Paris.
The Creux de l'Enfer is a contemporary art center located in Thiers' Vallée des Usines, France. It opened in 1988 in a former cutlery factory which closed in 1956.
Paul Devautour is a French artist born in 1958 who lives and works in Shanghai.
Marcella Lista is a French curator and art historian. She is chief curator at the Centre Pompidou.
Véronique Joumard is a French artist.
Anne-Lise Coste is a French painter living in Orthoux. Her style can best be described as confrontational and thought-provoking. Her art evokes the contemplative topics that many artist are afraid to engage in like war, friendship, desire, and sexuality.
Camila Oliveira Fairclough is a Brazilian and British artist who lives in Paris.
Vonjiniaina, is a contemporary Malagasy artist, gold medalist in sculpture at the fifth Jeux de la Francophonie in 2005.
Hsia-Fei Chang is Taiwanese artist. She currently lives and works in Paris.
Pauline Curnier Jardin is a visual artist working mainly in film, installation, performance and drawing. She lives in Rome and Berlin. In her work, Curnier Jardin has revisited Joan of Arc, Bernadette Soubirous, the Goddess Demeter, the birth of Jesus and his saint Family, the Anatomical theatre of the Renaissance, as well as pagan and catholic rites in Central and Southern Europe. In 2019 she was awarded the Preis der Nationalgalerie.
Miri Segal is a new media artist currently living in Tel Aviv. Segal was born 1965, in Haifa, Israel. Since the late 90s she has created video and media installations, light objects and theatrical pieces. Prior to her career as an artist she studied Mathematics. In 1997, She received a PhD in mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem under the instruction of Prof. Menachem Magidor. In 1998, she studied Art at the San Francisco Art Institute. Segal owes her taste for the mechanisms of perception and the construction of sense-stimulating illusions to her mathematical background, according to art historian Hanna Almeka.
Bertrand Lavier is a French conceptual artist, painter and sculptor, belonging to the post-readymade era, inspired by the Duchampian legacy and the Nouveau réalisme, the artistic movement created by the art critic Pierre Restany in 1960. Lavier studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Horticulture in Versailles, France in 1968-1971.
Jean Le Gac is a French conceptual artist, painter, pastelist, photographer using mixed media, frequently video or photography and text to document his investigations and sketched scenes. His poetic photographic interventions in which he is most often the main subject are accompanied either by typed text describing the underlying story in the artwork or handwritten notes in the art piece itself. Member of the Narrative art movement since the seventies, Le Gac ofttimes tells a story about an imaginary character that viewers can easily identify with the artist himself. He calls it a “metaphor for painting." Le Gac also uses the artist's book as a central part of his art practice. Le Gac is a Professor and lecturer at Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques.
Valentine Schlegel was a French sculptor and ceramicist. Her most prominent works are the series of vases she created during the 1950s and her bespoke white plaster fireplaces. Her style could be considered as Modernist organic abstraction.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
