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Catherine Gfeller

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Catherine Gfeller
Gfeller in 2002
Born5 March 1966
Neuchâtel
NationalitySwiss
EducationUniversité de Neuchâtel, Université de Lausanne, School of Visual Arts New York
Known forartist, photographer, videoartist, videomaker
Websitecatherinegfeller.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

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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]

She takes part in contemporary art fairs such as Art Basel, Art Unlimited, KunstZurich, Armory Show, the Foire internationale d'art contemporain de Paris,[17] Paris Photo, the Biennale de Ljubjana and Art Bruxelles.[18]

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

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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]

In 2010-2011, the solo exhibition Pulsations was shown at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne and the Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain de Sète : visitors are invited to wander through large-scale installations in the form of photographs, videos, sound pieces and multi-projection.[27]

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 Pur in March–April 2024.

References

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  1. ^ Nouvelles de l'Estampe. Comité national de la gravure française. 1998. p. 32.
  2. ^ Les inrockuptibles. Editions Indépendantes. 2002. p. 78.
  3. ^ Simone Küng. "Interview with Catherine Gfeller about artistic collaboration". Zentrum Paul Klee. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  4. ^ "Biographie - Catherine Gfeller". www.catherinegfeller.com. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
  5. ^ a b Séverine Fromaigeat (January 17, 2022). "Gfeller, Catherine". SIKART (in French). Retrieved 2022-05-22.
  6. ^ a b "Gfeller, Catherine - SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz". www.sikart.ch. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
  7. ^ swissinfo.ch (19 September 2011). "Exposition: Catherine Gfeller à Sète, à Paris et à Genève". SWI swissinfo.ch (in French). Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  8. ^ "CATHERINE GFELLER | GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN". www.galeriespringer.de. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  9. ^ Methode. "Images numériques". La Libre.be (in French). Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  10. ^ "Catherine Gfeller - New York USA". rts.ch (in French). 2021-02-23. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  11. ^ "Atelier international in situ de visu in motu – Calendrier de l'Université de Montréal". www.calendrier.umontreal.ca. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  12. ^ Clarín.com (1998-10-04). "Punto y coma". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  13. ^ "Catherine Gfeller - Ubiquité". rts.ch (in French). 2021-02-26. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  14. ^ admin (23 March 2021). "Chinese WomenProjections nocturnes neuchâteloises par Catherine GFELLER". Romandie-Chine (in French). Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  15. ^ "Swiss Voice in Kyiv: Catherine Gfeller". destinations.com.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  16. ^ Bibliothèque Kandinsky (June–August 2011). "NOUVELLES ACQUISITIONS JUIN-JUILLET-AOUT 2011" (PDF). bibliotheque Kandinsky - Centre Pompidou (in French).
  17. ^ Sabine Gignoux (2000-10-26). "Une Fiac belle mais assez sage". La Croix (in French). ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
  18. ^ International biennial of graphic arts. Ljubljana: Mirjam Behek. June 2001. pp. 112, 113, 114. ISBN 961-6229-03-6.
  19. ^ http://www10.unine.ch/desc_data/plans2020-2021/plan_2020-2021_2HA2153.pdf
  20. ^ "Bernardines de Dijon: une spiritualité au féminin | Cister.eu". www.cister.net. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  21. ^ "Catherine Gfeller transforme trois monuments neuchâtelois en écrans de cinéma". Bilan (in French). Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  22. ^ "Catherine Gfeller - Paris, le retour à lʹEurope". rts.ch (in French). 2021-07-28. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
  23. ^ P.A Steiner (13 December 1988). "Espaces privilégiés". L'Express (in French).
  24. ^ a b "20th Anniversary Prix HSBC pour la Photographie: Catherine Gfeller, 1999 Winner". The Eye of Photography Magazine. 2015-03-18. Retrieved 2022-05-17.
  25. ^ "CATHERINE GFELLER | 'Multi-Compositions', New York and Paris | Eyestorm Magazine Article". www.eyestorm.com. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
  26. ^ Salignon, Bernard (2002). Dérobades: les déshabilleuses de Catherine Gfeller. Éditions de l'œil. ISBN 978-2-912415-48-6. OCLC 85284220.
  27. ^ "Archives des expositions Art Contemporain - CRAC OCCITANIE à Sète - Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain OCCITANIE / Pyrénées-Méditerranée". crac.laregion.fr. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  28. ^ "CV". Urs Stahel. Retrieved 2023-04-08..
  29. ^ (fr + de) Peter Fischer, Pulsations, Lucerne, Edizioni Periferia, 2010, 224 p. (ISBN 978-3-907474-85-3), p. 15
  30. ^ Guillaume Perret (2016-09-16). "Don de Catherine Gfeller à l'Université". L'Express.
  31. ^ Miroslava Makarevich (21 March 2018). "Swiss Voice in Kyiv: Catherine Gfeller". destinations.com.ua (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  32. ^ "Wandering between dream and reality, they take you to drift in Guangzhou". www.gd.chinanews.com (in Chinese). 2018-03-16. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  33. ^ Zhouhui Huang & Danni Liu (2018-03-14). "Visual project of Guangzhou Driftings exhibited in Guangdong Museum of Art". news.ycwb.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 2019-02-05.
  34. ^ "Soutien à la photographie documentaire contemporaine | Cnap". www.cnap.fr. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
  35. ^ "Résultats 2022 | Cnap". www.cnap.fr. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
  36. ^ "Médine à travers l'objectif de Catherine Gfeller au Forum Smart Madinah 2023". www.arabnews.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-04-08.
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