CLAUDIA COMTE
Suisse, elle est née à Grancy en 1983
Formation
2010 — Master en Science de l’éducation, Haute Ecole Pédagogique, Visual Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2007 — Bachelor en Arts Visuels, Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prix et résidences
2018 — The Irène Reymond Foundation Prize, Switzerland
2018 — The Current, TBA21-Academy, expedition and residency, New Zealand
2018 — Kulturförderpreis 2018 der Alexander Clavel Stiftung, Riehen, Switzerland
2015 — International Artists-In-Labs Residency – Russian-Swiss Exchange, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Division Ipae of Russian Academy of Sciences at Jekaterinburg, Russia
2015 — Prix de la Ville du Locle, Triennale de l’Art Imprime Contemporain, Switzerland
2015 — Sponsorship Award, Stiftung für die Graphische Kunst in der Schweiz, Switzerland
2014 — Swiss Art Award
2013 — Pro Helvetia Residency, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 — Kiefer Hablitzel Award, Switzerland Mobiliar Award, Switzerland
2012 — Support from the UBS Foundation for Contemporary Art, Switzerland
2011 — Support from the Canton Vaud, Switzerland Support from the city of Lausanne, Switzerland
2010 — Residency Swiss Institute of Rome, Rome, Italy Residency Vent des Forêts, Meuse, France
2009 — Residency galerie Zwanzigquadrameter, Berlin, Germany
2008 — Residency Cité des Arts, Paris, Laureate of l’atelier Vaudois du 700ème, France
Support from the Social and Cultural Association for the Swiss in Paris, France
Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Baltimore Museum, USA
Julius Baer Collection, Switzerland
UBS Art Collection, Switzerland
Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland
Collection Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Collection Bundesamt für Kultur, Switzerland
The Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation, LA, USA Fondation Salomon Art Contemporain, Annecy, France
Crédit Suisse Collection, Switzerland
Art Collection Mobiliar, Switzerland
Nationale Suisse Art Collection, Switzerland
Collection of the Canton Zurich, Switzerland
Collection of the City of Lausanne, Switzerland
Collection Ecole Cantonale d’Art Lausanne, Renens, Switzerland
Expositions principales
2019
2019 — The Cavern of Lost Dreams (nine characters), Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
2019 — Bunnies and ZigZag, Galerie Joy de Rouvre, Genève
2019 — I have Grown Taller from Standing with Trees, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
2019 — The Morphing Scallops, Gladstone Gallery, 24th St, New York City
2018
2018 — Fruits and Bodies, Villa Wenkenhof & Alexander Clavel Prize 2018
2018 — When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, König Galerie, Berlin
2018 — Electric Burst (Lines and Zigzags),Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, Zigzags and Diagonals, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
2017
2017 — The Primary Fondue Party, Salon Suisse: ATARAXIA / Venice Biennale,Venice
2017 — La Ligne Claire, curated by Samuel Leuenberger at Basement Roma, Rome
2017 — Black and White Circles in the Sky, solo exhibition curated by Christoph Doswald, Münsterhof, Zurich
2017 — NOW I WON, curated by Chus Martinez, Messeplatz, Art Basel in Basel
2017 — 10 Rooms, 40 Walls, 1059 m2, Kunstmuseum, Luzern
2017 — Solo boothfor ArtGeneve, with König Galerie, ArtGeneve 2017, Palexpo, Geneve
2016
2016 — The Curves, the Corners and the Machines, Festival International d‘Art Toulouse at le Bazacle, Toulouse, France
2016 — Zigzag division, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2016 — Catch The Tail By The Tiger, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2016 — The Primary Fondue Party, performance organized with BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
2015
2015 — Sonic Geometry, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 — Sonic Geometry, Galerie Art et Essaie, Rennes, France Story Bumping, Milieu Galerie, Bern, Switzerland
2015 — No Melon No Lemon, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2014
2014 — Le Passage de L’Etoile, with Guillaume Pilet, Vevey, Switzerland
2014 — Fluide Glacial, LISTE, with BolteLang, Basel
2014 — Solo presentation Art Brussels, with Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Easy Heavy III, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
2014 — Sharp Sharp, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, Ireland
2013
2013 — All Work and All Play, Toshiba House, Besançon, France
2013 — Claudia Comte & Omar Ba, Centre Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
2013 — Wir badenauf der Freianlage, curated by Neville Wakefield, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2013 — If I were a rabbit, where would I keep my gloves?,BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
2013 — X, Y, Z, Friart, Centre d’Art de Fribourg, Switzerland
2013 — Summer Villa Extension, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
2012
2012 — NO LEMON NO MELON, Tripode, Nantes, France
2012 — From Zanzibar to Acapulco, with Guillaume Pilet, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland
2012 — Trouble Rainbow III, with A. Galiciadis and M. Mousset, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
2012 — Vanity Loop, Kunst am Bau, Yverdon Gymnasium, Canton Vaud, Switzerland
2012 — From Acapulco to Zanzibar, with Guillaume Pilet, La Rada, Locarno, Switzerland
2011
2011 — Scantione-Tensione, Swiss Institute of Rome, Rome, Italy
2011 — IBIZA, Milieu Gallery, with Vittorio Brodmann, Bern, Switzerland
2011 — Trouble Rainbow II, with A. Galiciadis and M. Mousset, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles, USA
2011 — Trouble Rainbow, with A. Galiciadis and M. Mousset, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Roma, Italy
2011 — Estampes, Studio Raynald Métraux, Lausanne, Switzerland
2010
2010 — Welcome to Colorful, Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
2009
2009 — Rond Point, Darse Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2009 — You cut but you can’t, with Mélodie Mousset, Galerie 20qmberlin, Berlin, Germany
2009 — Naturalisés, collaboration with Tatiana Rihs, Musée Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
2008
2008 — Inimitable, Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, Switzerland
2008 — Georges abstraction surface air, Bureau des vidéos, Le George, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2008 — Rêves, Video projection, Window of Swiss Cultural Center, Paris, France
2007
2007 — L’Echo, standard deluxe, Lausanne, Switzerland
Expositions collectives
2019
2019 — Delirious, Lustwarande, Tilburg, Netherlands
2018
2018 — Foundation for Contemporary Arts Benefit Exhibition, Gladstone Gallery, 21st St, New York City
2018 — HOLZSCHNITT NOW! XYLON Deutschland und Schweiz mit Gästen, Kunstmuseum Reutlingen
2018 — « Exclusively Contemporary » on the occasion of 100 years of the Swiss Society of Engraving, Cabinet d’Estampes Geneva
2018 — 20 years Kunst Raum Riehen – The Jubilee Exhibition, Kunst Raum, Riehen
2018 — Biennale Gherdeina VI, Ortisei, Italy
2018 — UNTITLED (MONOCHROME), 1957-2017, curated by Gregory Lang, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York City
2018 — 100 Jahre Schweizerische Graphische Gesellschaft, Graphische Sammlung, Zurich
2018 — Hot Saw – Electric Power, New Swiss Performance Now, Kunsthalle Basel
2017
2017 — Crib II, curated by Yves Scherer, Galerie 95, Biel
2017 — SkulptureKöln #9 « La Fin de Babylone. Mich wundert, dass ich so fröhlich bin!”curated by Chus Martinez, Sculpture Park Cologne
2017 — Beneath the Salt, presented by Conglomerate with Joe Clark and Lauryn Youden, Kinderhook and Caracas, Berlin
2017 — Curves and Zigzags, Desert X, Palm Springs
2016
2016 — 128 triangles and their demonstration, Installation for the Public sector at ArtBasel Miami Beach
2016 — The Language of Things, with the Public Art Fund, City Hall Park Lower Manhattan, New York
2016 — UM DIE ECKE DENKEN – DIE SAMMLUNG (1986-2016), Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 — Tous les tableaux sont à l’envers, Circuit, Lausanne
2016 — /Quiz 2, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2015
2015 — Christmas show, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland
2015 — Des Seins à Dessein, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
2015 — Ligne Aveugle, ISBA, Besançon, France
2015 — Full House, Bunk Club at Shanaynay, Paris, France
2015 — Architecture & Nature, curated by Simon Lamunière, Domaine de Muy, Contemporary Sculpture Park, France
2015 — My Lonely Days Are Gone Part 2, curated by Arturo Herrera, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
2015 — Art Imprimé, Triennale 2015, Musee des Beaux-Arts Le Locle, Le Locle, Switzerland
2015 — « Pour quevousaimiezquelque chose il fautquevousl’ayezvu et entendudepuislongtemps tas d’idiots. »
2015 — Francis Picabia, Performance at Collection Cahiers d’Artistes 2015, LISTE, Basel, Switzerland
2015 — WLGTDWI – a performance evening with Claudia Comte, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland
2015 — Môtiers Art en plein air 2015, Môtiers, Switzerland
2015 — Gargle/Spit, curated by Kenny Schachter, TBD, New York, USA
2015 — Work Hard: Selections by Valentin Carron,Swiss Institute, New York, USA
2015 — Reliability of Recognition, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
2014
2014 — Elevation 1049, curated by Neville Wakefield, Gstaad, Switzerland
2014 — Post-Op. Perceptual Gone Painterly / Du perceptuelau pictural. 1958 – 2014, curated by Matthieu Poirier, Galerie Perrotin, Paris France
2014 — BolteLang Stadtbiotop 2014, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
2014 — Bex & Arts, triennale de la sculpture Suisse, Bex, Switzerland
2014 — Ars Multiplicata, Kunsthalle Koidl, Berlin, Germany
2013
2013 — Post-Mortem, Forde, Geneva, Switzerland
2013 — Draft for a particular vision of the future, Bar Babette, Berlin, Germany
2013 — Châteaux Secrets, Fondation Ricard, Iles des Embiez
2013 — Mixed Message Media, curated by Neville Wakefield, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2013 — Harum Scarum, Galerie Blancpain, Geneva, Switzerland
2013 — Paraphernalia, Telemark Contemporary Art Center, Skien, Norway
2012
2012 — Under 30, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
2012 — La jeunesse est un art, Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
2012 — Tell The Children / Abstraction pour enfant, La Salle de Bain, Lyon, France
2012 — If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend 6 sharpening my ax, Kunst Raum, Riehen, Switzerland
2011
2011 — Territoires, Bex & Arts, Swiss Sculpture Triannual, Bex, Switzerland
2011 — Train Fantôme, Cruise and Callas Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011 — Rock The Casbah, Swiss Institute of Rome, Rome, Italy
2011 — 20 ans des espacesd’une sculpture, Visarte Vaud, Parc de Mont Repos, Lausanne, Switzerland
2011 — Le Fédéral à Semen-Contra, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 — Accrochage Vaud 2011, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2010
2010 — Jeune Création 2010, Le CENTQUATRE, Paris, France
2010 — Minipic, Pauline’s, New York, USA
2010 — 10 ans du MUDAC, collaboration with Tatiana Rihs, Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland
2009
2009 — I could do that! No, you could’t!, Milieu Gallery, Bern, Switzerland Kawabanga, Espace Delrue, La Barthoteque, Nantes, France
2009 — Condominia, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
2009 — I am by birth a Genevese, Espace Forde, Geneva, Switzerland
2009 — I am by birth a Genevese, Vegas Gallery, London, UK
2009 — Transit, collective urban exhibition, Renens, Switzerland
2008
2008 — Patapsychique, Library of the Swiss Cultural Center, Paris, France
2008 — Le Spectrarium, Le Corbusier Pavillion, Cité universitaire, Paris, France
2008 — Made by ECAL, Espace lausannois d’art contemporain, Renens, Switzerland
2008 — Abstraction-Extension, Fondation Salomon, Alex, France
2008 — That’s all Folks!, Chez Popper, Geneva, Switzerland
2008 — X, proposed by N. Wagnières, galerie 1m3, Lausanne, Switzerland
2008 — Black Diaspora, exposition collective, Galerie Out of this World, Montreux, Switzerland
2007
2007 — Weihnachtsmarkt, Milieu Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
2007 — Athéne, Claudia, Orlane, Milieu Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
2006
2006 — Cabinet Budget, collective exhibition, Atelier 304, Usine, Geneva, Switzerland
2006 — Sonal, collective exhibition of sound installations, Arsenic, Lausanne, Switzerland
2006 — Sublime, collective exhibition, Atelier 304, Usine, Geneva, Switzerland
2006 — Morgenstern, collective exhibition, Château de Morges, Morges, Switzerland
2006 — Mini-golf, collective exhibition, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
2005
2005 — Accrochage, Vaud 2005, collective exhibition, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
2005 — Académie de sculpture, proposition by Pierre Vadi, Atelier 304, Usine, Geneva, Switzerland
2005 — Les Urbaines, young videographers at the Cinemathèque Suisse, « Rêves », Lausanne, Switzerland
Prix et résidences
2018 — The Current, TBA21-Academy, expedition and residency, New Zealand
2018 — Kulturförderpreis 2018 der Alexander Clavel Stiftung, Riehen, Switzerland
2015 — International Artists-In-Labs Residency – Russian-Swiss Exchange, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Division Ipae of Russian Academy of Sciences at Jekaterinburg, Russia
2015 — Prix de la Ville du Locle, Triennale de l’Art Imprime Contemporain, Switzerland
2015 — Sponsorship Award, Stiftung für die Graphische Kunst in der Schweiz, Switzerland
2014 — Swiss Art Award
2013 — Pro Helvetia Residency, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 — Kiefer Hablitzel Award, Switzerland Mobiliar Award, Switzerland
2012 — Support from the UBS Foundation for Contemporary Art, Switzerland
2011 — Support from the Canton Vaud, Switzerland Support from the city of Lausanne, Switzerland
2010 — Residency Swiss Institute of Rome, Rome, Italy Residency Vent des Forêts, Meuse, France
2009 — Residency galerie Zwanzigquadrameter, Berlin, Germany
2008 — Residency Cité des Arts, Paris, Laureate of l’atelier Vaudois du 700ème, France
2008 — Support from the Social and Cultural Association for the Swiss in Paris, France