Valérie Favre
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Valérie Favre (born 1959, Evilard, Switzerland) is a Berlin-based artist. Since 2006 she is Professor of painting at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
Background
Valérie Favre grew up in Switzerland, canton of Berne. Having worked as a stage designer and actress at the theater in Paris in the early 1980s she soon turned to the field of painting. After 18 years in France, where she became a well-known and successful visual artist, she finally moved to Berlin in 1998.
History of works 1989-2010
Over the years Favre's works have grown to a series of interconnected cycles, showing references to the different fields of art history, geopolicy, philosophy, theater and film as well as her interest in narration in general.
- 1989-1990 Period of the paintings Périmètre
- 1991-1994 Period of white paintings
- 1992-1994 Creation of objects
- 1994-1996 works in sound, Robe Rouge, first work of the series Balls and Tunnels
- 1996-1997 works after Pontormo, Velázquez, Watteau, Géricault
- 1998 Filets a souvenirs
- 1999 Les soeurs malades, beginning of series Lapine Univers
- 2000 Series of Intérieurs, Petite filles
- 2001 Series of Excercices de vols
- 2002-2004 series Autos dans la nuit, series Forêt, beginning of ongoing suicide- series, beginning of series Idiotinnen
- 2005-2007 series Bruder Grimm and Columbia Variations, beginning of shortcuts series
- 2008 Kakerlaken, Autoscooter, Redescription
- 2008-2011 triptychs: series Volière and series Stage
Exhibition history
Favre's work has been exhibited internationally in museums such as K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (2010/2011); Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (2009/2010); Carré d'Art Nîmes, France (2009); Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France (2009); Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany (2006); Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, Germany (2004); Musée de Picardie Amiens, France (2003); FRAC Auvergne, France (1999).
Valérie Favre is represented by the following galleries: Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany; Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, France, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles, USA, and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich.
Publications
- “Valérie Favre - Visions”, exh. cat. Carré d'Art Nîmes, Kunstmuseum Luzern, texts by Beatrice von Bismarck, Claire Brunet, Jürgen Harten, Jaqueline Lichtenstein, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009
- “Valérie Favre - Der dritte Bruder Grimm”, exh. cat. Haus am Waldsee, texts by Katja Blomberg, Alexander Koch, Revolver, Frankfurt 2006
- “Valérie Favre - Mise en Scène”, exh. cat. Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, texts by Valérie Favre, Carina Plath, Gregor Jansen, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg 2004
- “Valérie Favre - Forêts”, exh. cat. Musée de Picardie, texts by Sylvie Couderc, Kerstin Grübmeyer, Amiens 2003
- “Valérie Favre - Sophie et Patrick”, exh. cat. L’Espal, Centre Culturel, text by Marion Casanova, Le Mans 2001
- “Range ta Chambre”, exh. cat. Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse Normandie, Herouville Saint-Clair 1994
External links
- artist homepage on www.valeriefavre.net [1]
- Barbara Thumm www.bthumm.de [2] in Berlin, Germany
- Jocelyn Wolff www.galeriewolff.com [3] in Paris, France
- Susanne Vielmetter www.vielmetter.com [4] in Los Angeles
- Valérie Favre on Art net
- Valérie Favre on Art News
- http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/ausstellung-val-rie-favre-in-berlin-welt-theater-mit-kassandra,10809148,30725168.html
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- 1959 births
- Living people
- Berlin University of the Arts faculty
- People from Biel/Bienne District
- Swiss women artists
- Swiss contemporary artists
- Swiss artists
- 20th-century Swiss painters
- 21st-century Swiss painters
- 20th-century women artists
- 21st-century women artists