Chantal Michel

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Chantal Michel (born 1968) is a contemporary Swiss sculptor who currently lives in Thun, Switzerland. [1] She has exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions across Europe.

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Michel’s photographic series have featured locations such as a disused brewery and a hotel, where she uses costumes, gestures, and mimicry to blend into the surroundings. According to the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, her images are “outbreaks of the bizarre in a world in which the principle of causality reigns." [1]

Education

From 1989 to 1993, Chantal studied ceramics at the Schule für Gestaltung in Bern, Switzerland. Between 1994 and 1998, she studied at the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe. In 2002, she received the Performance-Förderpreis from the Alexander-Clavel-Stiftung. [1]

Career

In 1998, Michel held her first known exhibition, In the summertime, at Galerie Haus Schneider, Uschi Kolb, in Ettlingen. According to Artfacts, she has participated in over 30 solo exhibitions and more than 100 group exhibitions. In 2001, she was included in the 49th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. [2] [ better source needed ]

In 2005, she presented a photographic and video exhibition in the closed Schweizerhof Hotel in Bern. The exhibition was the result of several months of work inside the hotel. According to Swissinfo , Michel became “a regular fixture in the Schweizerhof day and night” and looked “for ways to react to the space and create a dialogue with it using her body”. [3]

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  1. 1 2 3 "Chantal Michel". www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org. Retrieved 2025-03-20.
  2. ↑ ArtFacts. "Chantal Michel | Artist". ArtFacts. Retrieved 2025-03-20.
  3. ↑ "Silent hotel opens its doors to art". SWI swissinfo.ch. 19 October 2005. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
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