Isabelle war

Isabelle Krieg (born November 15, 1971 in Freiburg ) is a Swiss artist . Her work includes works of the fine arts such as sculpture , object art and installation as well as painting , photography , art in construction and performance .

Life and professional development

Isabelle Krieg completed the Matura Type B in Freiburg in 1991. After a summer as an alpine girl and a tour with the children's circus Pipistrello, she attended the Scuola Dimitri in Verscio and the Lucerne School of Design & Art .

In her early works, she created paintings of various formats and materials, as well as large-scale installations that consisted of embroidery, buildings in wood and polyurethane foam , light sources and Super 8 projections. In her work Weltraum / Discovering the world in an empty house in Berlin , the geographical representation of the world could be found in new, unexpected places and in different materializations.

The use of indoor and outdoor spaces became a core theme of her work, for example with foam shows  in the foam-overflowing tower studio of the Istituto Svizzero in Rome, there as a living fountain figure; with breast clouds made of silicone in the work Milchstrasse  in the garden of the Museum of Art and History in Freiburg, with a brook that splashes over all of the artist's belongings, in the work Curriculum I and II  in the Musée Jurassien des Arts in Moutier and in Kunstmuseum Bern, with a fireplace made of disco balls and evening meals in the public space in Bern and Chur or with charred trees in the Center PasquArt in Biel for the exhibition War Makes Love .

At the same time, she won competitions for art in architecture: She created a stylized Zen garden in the inner courtyard of the intercantonal high school of the Broye in Payerne, or a forest awning made of tree tops on the ceiling of the connecting building between the operating wing and the ward for the Obwalden cantonal hospital in Sarnen (collaboration with the architect Ralph Alan Mueller).

In more recent work, Isabelle Krieg created a mobile with Weisser Katzenreigen from all the bones of a cat's skeleton and set up a Salon d'O in a former stone goat barn in Bergell at over 2,300 meters above sea level , which consisted of 22,200 colored felt balls . New works and an overview of her work over the past 25 years were shown in the spring of 2019 in the “ALL TAG” exhibition at the Solothurn Art Museum .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

• 2019: ALL TAG , Solothurn Art Museum
• 2019: CIRCLES IN EVERYDAY LIFE , Dresden City Gallery
• 2018: Reality, Stephan Witschi Gallery, Zurich
• 2018: A lot of everything, Ursula Walter Gallery, Dresden
• 2016: fleeting , Galerie Luciano Fasciati, Chur
• 2011: Ridiculous Eternity , Christinger De Mayo Gallery, Zurich
• 2010: Wandering Through Soul Provinces , Museo Cantonale d'Arte , Lugano
• 2009: Compost , Substitute, Berlin
• 2007: Pleasure Garden , Binz39 Foundation, Zurich
• 2007: Shift , Luciano Fasciati Gallery, Chur
• 2007: War makes love , Center PasquArt, Biel / Bienne
• 2006: Uh uh , White Space, Zurich
• 2005: Milky Way , Museum of Art and History Freiburg (CH)
• 2005: Nothing lost , Stadtgalerie Bern
• 2004: Curriculum I , Musée jurassien des Arts Moutier
• 2000: Time is on my side , exhibition space o. T., Lucerne

Group exhibitions

• 2018: fields of disappearance III, Binz39, Zurich
• 2017: Arte Albigna , Val Bregaglia
• 2016: Transactions , on the occasion of Manifesta 11, University of Zurich
• 2016: Bahnen , Kunstraum Geh8, Dresden (with Anja Kempe and Tina Beifuss)
• 2016: Global Home - yes Paradise no , Abu Dhabi , UAE
• 2014: L'immense édifice du souvenir , Galerie Christinger De Mayo, Zurich
• 2014: Visual emphasis , Zentralwerk, Dresden
• 2013: Berliner Mood , Gallery Valerie Traan, Antwerp
• 2012: Nouveau, Nouveau Réalisme , Binz39, Zurich
• 2012: Work and studio grants from the City of Zurich, Helmhaus Zurich
• 2012: Remue-Ménage , MAM, Salvador de Bahia and Freiburg (CH)
• 2012: A house is a house is a house , Villa Renata, Basel
• 2011: The End and Beyond , Art Today center for contemporary art, Plovdiv
• 2011: Territoires , Bex & Arts 2011, Bex
• 2011: Much ado about everything , House for Art Uri, Altdorf
• 2010: Do your actions mention your heart's intentions , Design Space, Tel Aviv
• 2010: Could have worked , art expander, Aarau
• 2009: Exhibition 09 of the Canton of Zurich, F&F, Zurich
• 2008: Shifting Identities , Kunsthaus Zürich
• 2008: Ego Documents , Kunstmuseum Bern
• 2008: Store almost full , Solothurn Art Museum
• 2006: Antipodes , Frac Lorraine, Metz
• 2006: Biennale A second sight , Prague
• 2003: As a house that moves , Fri-Art, Freiburg (CH)
• 2003: Swiss Art Awards , Basel

Awards

• 2009: Work grant from the Canton of Zurich
• 2008: Braziers International Artists Workshop
• 2006: Prix Mobilière Young Art
• 2005: Studio grant for two years from the Binz39 Foundation, Zurich                      
• 2005: year of work for the UBS Culture Foundation
• 2003: Atelier at the Swiss Institute in Rome
• 2003: Prize of the Irène Reymond Foundation
• 2003: Atelier in the Nairs cultural center , Scuol
• 2001: Vordemberge Gildewart scholarship
• 1999: Studio grant from the Canton of Freiburg in Berlin

Publications

• Isabelle Krieg: Discover the world. Realtime Verlag, Basel 2011, ISBN 978-3-905800-89-0 .
• Global Home - yes Paradise no. Ed. Sara Tröster Klemm . Exhibition cat., With Khaled Al-Saai, Stefan Guggisberg, Jörg Danielczyk , Mandy Kunze and Benjamin Dittrich. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden / Abu Dhabi 2016, ISBN 978-3-000-52904-7 .
• EVERYDAY LIFE. Monograph for the solo exhibition in the Kunstmuseum Solothurn / in the Städtische Galerie Dresden, with texts by Kathleen Bühler, Robin Byland and Susanne Magister. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-903269-78-1 .

Web links

• Kathleen Bühler: War, Isabelle. In: Sikart
• Isabelle Krieg's website
• Isabelle Krieg in the Luciano Fasciati Gallery
• Portrait of Isabelle Krieg in Kunstbulletin 4, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For art over stick and glue. In: Berner Zeitung. May 11, 2008, accessed September 20, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Isabelle Krieg - War makes love. Art Center, accessed September 20, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Bâtiments. Gymnase Intercantonal de la Broye, accessed on September 20, 2017 (French). 
4. ^ Art very close to the patient. In: Lucerne newspaper . May 13, 2014, accessed September 20, 2017 . 
5. ↑ 2017 - Vernissage catalog Collectionnite et suite + Acquisition Isabelle Krieg. (No longer available online.) APCd Fondation, Archives et Production'Art Contemporain, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 20, 2017 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
6. ↑ Isabelle Krieg. “Salon O”, 2017. Arte Albigna, accessed on September 20, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Isabelle Krieg in the Solothurn Art Museum: the whole world in the sink. Retrieved on May 12, 2019 (Swiss Standard German). 
8. ^ Exhibition website , accessed June 10, 2019.