Laurence Bonvin

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Laurence Bonvin (2020)

Laurence Bonvin (born January 25, 1967 in Sierre ) is a Swiss artist , photographer , film director and author. Her photographs and films are shown at international exhibitions. Since 2001 she has been a professor of photography at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne , Lausanne .

Professional background

In 1991 Laurence Bonvin graduated from the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles (France) with a degree in photography . Since 2001 she has been a professor of photography at the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne , Lausanne. She began her artistic career with photography, followed by film in 2011. She realized her first artistic work in Switzerland, followed by the Netherlands, Georgia, Berlin, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Abidjan and Dakar. The artist exhibits internationally and showed her work at film festivals, such as the Berlinale 2020 .

Bonvin's works often show the changes in the landscape in the vicinity of large cities. It addresses not only natural, but also social landscapes and deals, among other things, with the topics of exclusion and the architecture of power. Her style is very documentary.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2002: White Heat , Skopia Gallery, Geneva
  • 2003: Laurence Bonvin photographies , Espace Abstract, Lausanne
  • 2003: One-Eyed Little Owl , Palais de l'Athénée, Geneva
  • 2004: Laurence Bonvin Forum d'art contemporain, Sierre
  • 2006: It's Not What You See , 10M², Sarajevo , Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • 2007: The Photographers (with Juul Hondius), Platform Garanti, Istanbul
  • 2008: On The Edges Of Paradise , Center de la Photographie, Geneva
  • 2010: On The Edges , Center Photographique d'Île-de-France (CPIF), Pontault-Combault
  • 2010: In Transit , blank projects, Le Cap
  • 2011: In and Out , Market Photo Gallery, Johannesburg
  • 2013: Passing , Mamco, Geneva
  • 2019: Still Moving , Le Manoir, Martigny

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1993: From French- speaking Switzerland, Winterthur Photo Museum
  • 1995: Genève-Bruxelles: aller-retour , CIC Saint-Gervais, Geneva; Galerie Contretype, Brussels
  • 1997: Welten-Blick - Reportage Photography and its Media, Fotomuseum Winterthur
  • 2002: Meyrin, 4 photographes , Forum Meyrin, Meyrin
  • 2002: Quoi de 9/11 photographes , Center pour la Photographie, Geneva
  • 2004: Interférences, Photography contemporaine suisse, Aarhus and Copenhagen
  • 2004: Zoom In, Zoom Out , Fri-Art, Friborg
  • 2005: Wednesday Calls the Future , National Art Center, Tbilisi (Georgia)
  • 2005: Coghuf , Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle
  • 2007: Les artistes de la collection Cahiers d'Artistes, série VI + VII , Fri-Art, Friborg (Switzerland)
  • 2007: Welt-Bilder 2 , Helmhaus , Zurich
  • 2007: L'Europe en devenir , Center culturel suisse , Paris
  • 2007: Global Cities , Tate Modern , London
  • 2008: Guest at Losers , Substitute, Berlin
  • 2009: Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial (Part II) , Tirana
  • 2010: Hidden Publics , Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal ; <Rotor>, Graz
  • 2010: Madrid Abierto 2010 , Madrid
  • 2010: Us , Iziko National Art Gallery, Le Cap
  • 2011: Fragments-Urban Realities in South Africa , PhotoForum PasquArt, Biel / Bienne
  • 2015: Xenopolis , Deutsche Bank KunstHalle , Berlin (Blikkiesdorp, 2009–2015, photo and video installation)
  • 2018: Something Else, Off Biennale Cairo. , Cairo (three photographs by Aletsch )
  • 2020: Masters , Biennale Kampala (Uganda)
  • 2020: Black Rock , Dakar Biennale, Dakar

Filmography

  • 2013: After Vegas
  • 2014: Blikkiesdorp
  • 2016: Avant l'envol
  • 2019: Aletsch negative

Awards (selection)

  • 2002: Swiss Art Award, Basel
  • 2006: Swiss Art Award, Basel
  • 2016: Swiss Camera Prize for Avant l'envol , International Short Film Festival, Winterthur
  • 2019: Black Rock Residency, Senegal
  • 2020: Cairo Residency, Pro Helvetia

literature

  • Adefojeke Ajao: Evicting History
  • Laurence Bonvin: Free time . With texts by Yves Rosset and Gabriel Truan. Edited by Atelier Schönhauser, Geneva.
  • Daniel Baumann, Laurence Bonvin, Urs Stahel, Bülent Tanju: On the Edges of Paradise. edition fink, ISBN 978-3-03746124-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bertrand Bacqué: Bonvin, Laurence. In: Sikart
  2. ^ Aletsch negatives. Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Laurence Bonvin | Studio residency. In: Pro Helvetia Cairo. Retrieved April 1, 2020 (UK English).
personal data
SURNAME Bonvin, Laurence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist, photographer, film director and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Sierre , Switzerland