Mauren Brodbeck

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Mauren Brodbeck (born 1974) is a Swiss contemporary artist. [1]

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Early life and education

Mauren Brodbeck was born in Geneva, Switzerland. She trained in screenwriting, production and filmmaking in Canada. She was hired as an assistant director on the production of the film Drawing Flies, whose executive producers were Scott Mosier and Kevin Smith. [2] From 2001 to 2004, she completed a degree at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (California), gaining a Bachelor of Fine art in Photography and Imaging. [3] She followed postgraduate studies in new media at the Geneva School of Art and Design  [ fr ] (HEAD) in Geneva, a program called Immédiat. [4]

Biography

Her work was shown in the 2005 exhibition reGeneration 1 : 50 photographes de demain at the musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, [5] then traveled to Germany, Italy, China, and the United States. [6] In 2006, she founded Compactlab with designer Oliver Rubli, and conducted multisensory, scripting and coloring of collective environments, with smells and sounds—an activity that she developed until 2018. [7] From 2009 to 2012, for the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, Brodbeck produced a photographic report of the Hans Wilsdorf Bridge construction in Geneva. At her solo exhibition Mood Motel, in 2016, at the Andata Ritorno contemporary art laboratory in Geneva, she presented a series of self-portraits taken in Hollywood motels. [1] A conference entitled The Missing Motel was organized at the Pavillon Sicli on April 19, 2016, with art critic Reyner Banham and Jacques Ferrier. [8] [ failed verification ] [9] [ failed verification ] As part of the 6th edition of the Triennale 50JPG (50 jours pour la photographie à Genève), Brodbeck participated in the group exhibition Osmoscosmos at the Geneva Photography Center, from June to August 2019. [10]

Exhibitions

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