Claudia Comte

Claudia Comte (* 1983 in Grancy ) is a Swiss visual artist from the canton of Vaud .

Career

Claudia Comte studied from 2004 to 2007 at the Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL) from 2004 to 2007. In 2010 she received a Master of Art in Science of Education from the Haute Ecole de Pédagogique , Visual Arts, in Lausanne .

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Claudia Comte mainly works with wood and graphic patterns. She produced a “considerably differentiated, much noticed oeuvre ”. Exhibitions took place in the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2017 the first overview exhibition took place at the Kunstmuseum Luzern under the title “10 Rooms, 40 Walls, 1059 m²”. For Claudia Comte's work, handicraft is central: the artist saws, grinds, mills, polishes.

Awards

• 2014: Swiss Art Award
• 2018: Prix 2018 of the Irène Reymond Foundation , Switzerland
• 2018: Culture Prize 2018 of the Alexander Clavel Foundation, Riehen, Switzerland

Web links

• Petra Krausz: Comte, Claudia. In: Sikart
• Claudia Comte's website
• Everything for art - 5 × 5 years of young Swiss art. SRF, «Sternstunde Kunst», June 18, 2017 (film portrait)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ There are contradicting information about her place of birth.
   SIKART and the following daily newspapers state Grancy - which has no maternity hospital - as the place of birth:
   • La Vaudoise Claudia Comte reçoit le prix Clavel . In: 24Heures . May 16, 2018, ISSN  1424-4039 ( 24heures.ch [accessed November 29, 2019]).
   • SDA: LUCERNE: Claudia Comte shows paintings, wall paintings and sculptures in Lucerne. In: Lucerne newspaper. March 3, 2017. Retrieved November 29, 2019 . 
   Galleries indicate Lausanne as the place of birth:
   • Claudia Comte Biography. In: BolteLang. Retrieved November 29, 2019 . 
   • Easy Heavy III, 2013 and Eye to Eye, 2013 by Claudia Comte. In: Museum Haus Konstruktiv. Retrieved November 29, 2019 . 
   The school she attended Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne gives Morges as the place of birth:
   • Conférences ECAL (May 2019). In: ECAL. Retrieved November 29, 2019 (French). 
2. ^ Matthias Balzer: The winner is: Claudia Comte. In: Aargauer Zeitung . Retrieved on November 7, 2019 (Swiss Standard German). 
3. ^ Petra Krausz: Comte, Claudia. In: SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland. 2017, accessed on November 29, 2019 (French). 
4. ^ Alice Henkes: First exhibition of works. Claudia Comte gets squares and lines going. SRF, March 4, 2017, accessed November 7, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Claudia Comte. In: Lucerne Art Museum. Retrieved November 7, 2019 .