Valérie Favre

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Valérie Favre (born August 18, 1959 in Evilard , Canton Bern ) is a Swiss visual artist and has been professor of painting at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2006 .

Life and work

Valérie Favre grew up in the canton of Neuchâtel ; her mother tongue is French . After training in theater, she worked as a set designer and actress in Paris from the early 1980s, but then turned to painting in the late 1980s . She moved to Berlin in 1998 after living in France for 18 years and making a name for herself there.

The university professor is currently a member of the five-person jury for the Fred Thieler Prize for Painting.

Valérie Favre lives and works in Berlin.

Working method

Her work was shaped by a variety of focus areas on topics from art history, philosophy, theater and film. In 2016, cultural journalist Stefan Lüddemann used the term reenactment to describe the manner in which Favre is doing this . She realizes most of her artistic work as an oil painter .

Work phases since 1989

  • 1989–1990: period of "Périmètre painting"
  • 1991–1994: Period of the "White Paintings"
  • 1992–1994: objects, installations
  • 1994–1996: Klangwerke, Robe Rouge , entry into the spheres and tunnels series
  • 1996–1997: Works based on Pontormo , Velázquez , Watteau , Géricault
  • 1998: Filets a souvenirs
  • 1999: The Sick Sisters , beginning of the Lapine Univers series
  • 2000: Intérieurs series, Little Girls
  • 2001: series of flight exercises
  • 2002–2004: row of cars in the night , row of forest , beginning of series of ongoing suicides , beginning of series of idiot women
  • 2005–2007: Series Gebrüder Grimm and Columbia Variations , beginning of the Shortcuts Series
  • 2008: Cockroaches , bumper cars , redescription
  • 2008–2011: Triptychs : series of aviaries and series of stages
  • 2010–2014: Series of fragments
  • Since 2012: Ghost series (based on Goya's "Hexenflug")

Exhibitions

Favre's work has been recognized in international collections and exhibitions, such as the von der Heydt Kunsthalle in Wuppertal-Barmen (2016/17) or the K21 in Düsseldorf (2010/2011); in the Kunstmuseum Luzern (2009/2010); in the Carré d'Art in Nîmes, France (2009); in the Center Georges Pompidou Paris (2009); in the Haus am Waldsee , Berlin (2006); in the Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster (2004); in the Musée de Picardie Amiens, France (2003); in the Fondazione per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2000); in FRAC Auvergne, France (1999).

literature

Exhibition catalogs

  • Valérie Favre - Visions . Exhibition catalog Carré d'Art Nîmes, Kunstmuseum Luzern, texts by Beatrice von Bismarck , Claire Brunet, Jürgen Harten , Jaqueline Lichtenstein. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009.
  • Valérie Favre - The third brother Grimm . Exhibition catalog Haus am Waldsee. Texts by Katja Blomberg, Alexander Koch. Revolver, Frankfurt 2006.
  • Valérie Favre - Mise en Scène . Exhibition catalog Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster. Texts by Valérie Favre, Carina Plath , Gregor Jansen. Modern Art Publishing House Nuremberg, Nuremberg 2004.
  • Valérie Favre - Forêts . Exhibition catalog Musée de Picardie. Texts by Sylvie Couderc. Kerstin Grübmeyer, Amiens 2003.
  • Valérie Favre - Sophie and Patrick . Exhibition catalog L'Espal, Center Culturel. Texts by Marion Casanova. Le Mans 2001.
  • Range ta Chambre . Exhibition catalog Center d'Art Contemporain de Basse Normandie. Herouville, Saint-Clair 1994.

Movie

  • Artist up close . Artist portrait on Arte , broadcast on March 11, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Carsten Probst: The third brother Grimm . On September 28, 2006 on deutschlandfunk.de
  2. ↑ March 18 - June 17, 2013 - Sergej Jensen - Fred Thieler Prize for Painting 2013 ( Memento from March 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). At berlinischegalerie.de, accessed on March 17, 2013
  3. ↑ Sebastian Preuss: Galerie Thumm: The streams of consciousness of Valérie Favre - The distant land that is in us . On March 8, 2011 on berliner-zeitung.de
  4. ↑ Stefan Lüddemann: Wuppertal shows paintings by Valérie Favre . On September 2, 2016 on noz.de
  5. ↑ Carina Plath: Allerleirauh - On the working method of a painter . In: Valérie Favre - Mise en Scène . Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg 2004 ( Online . Onwohnmaschine.de, accessed on March 17, 2013)
  6. ↑ January 18, 2013 - February 23, 2013 - Valérie Favre - "Paintings" ( Memento from January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). From monopol-magazin.de, accessed on January 23, 2013
  7. ↑ Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . At art-tv.ch, accessed on March 25, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-tv.ch
  8. ↑ Valérie Favre - March 27 - May 16, 2004 . At westfaelischer-kunstverein.de, accessed on September 17, 2016
  9. ^ Valérie Favre 1959, CH - profile . From artfacts.net, accessed September 17, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Favre, Valérie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss visual artist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Evilard