Liliane Csuka

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Liliane Csuka (born January 5, 1935 in Zurich ; also Liliane Levy) is a Swiss artist and art patron.

life and work

From 1951 to 1954 she graduated from the commercial school in Zurich and from 1972 to 1974 the F + F school for experimental design . From 1980 to 1985 she was also on the board of the F + F school. While she was still studying at F + F, she began an international artistic career, for example by participating in exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Zürich (1976, 1978) or at the Venice Biennale (1976). She realized numerous installations in exhibition rooms, outdoors and as Land Art . Also central to her work are larger sculptures and smaller objects, all of which she produced herself, often using experimental methods, such as mixing foam rubber and concrete, tonal (a clay mass) and found objects, or with recycled material such as newspapers or plastic. The “erotic objects” (1974–1992), in which the male genitals address machismo in society, form an important group of works .

At Csuka, murals are often not flat, but continue the sculptural work. She realized some of these picture objects with found objects and, since the series Symphonie internationale (1986/87) also with paper strings, i. H. strings stuck with magazine text, which she sticks to a surface and thus creates a multi-layered text image. In the case of the symphony international in record form, in other works in very different forms. As early as the 1970s she made large-scale drawings, in the early 1980s she painted with unmixed color pigments , later she worked with cut-out photocopies, made photographs and videos, and showed performances. From 1974 to 1980 and from 2004 to 2011 Csuka was a member of the Ateliergemeinschaft Spinnerei Wettingen , which showed various exhibitions in Switzerland. From 1981 to 2013, Csuka was also a «part-donor» of Peter Trachsel's Hasena Artists' Association , which was based in Zurich and, from 1987, in Dalvazza / Küblis .

From 1955 to 1983 she was married to Henry Levy and they had two children (Simone, Ivan). They lived in Herrliberg since 1957 , from 1977 to 1982 in Brissenden House in Bethersden / Kent ( Great Britain ), where they also offered residency grants for artists. After traveling, Csuka lived from 1989 to 2004 near Omaha Beach in Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes near Port-en-Bessin-Huppain in France . She has been living in Zurich again since 2004.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • Klaus Mettler / Liliane Levy , Mattengalerie Bern, 1975
  • Liliane Levy , Wettingen spinning mill, 1976
  • Liliane Levy - Shadows II , Ursula Wiedenkeller Gallery, Zurich, 1980
  • Brissenden House Gallery, Bethersden / Kent, Great Britain, 1981
  • Financial Times , editorial building, London, 1981
  • F + F School Zurich, 1981
  • Liliane Csuka - 640 Days in Kent / Erotic Sculptures , Gallery a16, 1982
  • Liliane Csuka: The street without end , hasena exhibition room , Zurich, 1983
  • Galerie Michèle Zeller, Bern, 1984
  • reaching into the intimate sphere as part of Hasena , Zurich, 1985
  • Galerie sec 52, Zurich, 1986
  • Liliane Csuka - La chanson , Galerie Michèle Zeller, 1991
  • Florence Arnaud Gallery, Paris, 1991
  • Atelier community spinning mill Wettingen, 1994
  • Liliane Csuka, Philippe Godderidge , Kunstmuseum Thurgau and Ittinger Wald, Ittingen, 1995
  • Liliane Csuka - Retrospective , At Home Gallery, Synagóga, Samorin, Slovakia, 1998
  • Liliane Csuka - The pillars , synagogues in Győr , Szeged , Nagykanizsa (Hungary); Subotica (Serbia); Cluj-Napoca (Romania), 1998
  • Center d'art Passerelle, Brest , France, 1999
  • Liliane Csuka - Close up , Galerie elten & elten, Zurich, 2004
  • Galerie Eulenspiegel, Basel , 2008
  • Gallery in Artforum, Offenburg and the former synagogue Kippenheim , Germany, 2010
  • Gallery Sudoh, Odawara , Japan, 2011
  • Galerie Eulenspiegel, Basel, 2012
  • Liliane Csuka, Klaus Mettler , Galerie Eulenspiegel, Basel, 2016

Group exhibitions

  • 2nd international plastic symposium Lindau , 1973 (with F + F school), with catalog
  • Art School F + F , Venice Biennale, 1976
  • Art School F + F , Kunsthaus Zürich, 1976
  • Kunstszene Zürich , Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich , 1978
  • Wettingen spinning mill , Kunsthaus Zurich, 1978
  • Cité internationale des arts Paris , 1985
  • Contemporary Art Fair London, 1986
  • International Congress of Sexology, Heidelberg, 1987
  • The Dancing Man Gallery, Santa Cruz, California, 1987
  • FIAC Paris, 1987
  • Art 17'88 Basel, 1988
  • the simultaneity of the same , in the context of Hasena, Bayeux, 1989
  • Prix ​​Silvagni du Dessin SPAS, Paris 1989
  • Municipal Gallery Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach (DE), 1992
  • Martha Stevens Gallery, Fressingfield / Suffolk (GB), 1995
  • Festival d'art de St. Gabriel Brécy (FR), installation in chapel, 1996
  • Otwarta Pracownia Gallery, Krakow, 2001
  • A&D Gallery London, 2002
  • Center Artistic de Verderonne , France, 2002
  • Omanut: some Jewish something Jewish , Jüdisches Museum Hohenems , Austria, 2010
  • serge stauffer - art as research , Helmhaus Zurich, 2013
  • Woman power , Art Dock Zurich, 2016

Public room

  • Facades I , facade cladding Schuhhaus Csuka, Zurich, 1974
  • Areal Portland Cement , Siggenthal, Switzerland, 1975
  • Art on water , sculptures on Lake Zug , Zug , 1979
  • Land Art, Château de Brantes, Sorgues, France, 1988
  • Land Art, Salbris , Sologne , France, 1988
  • Land Art, Association calv'ART, Château de Commes, France, 1992
  • Land Art, Eurosculpture , Carhaix, France, 1993
  • Fountain installation, Park of Évreux , France, 1998
  • Land Art, Association L'être enchanté , Cambremer , France, 2000
  • Land Art, Parc de l'Abbaye de Liessies , France, 2000

Publications

Monographs

  • Liliane Levy: Shreds . Brissenden House (Great Britain): [self-published], 1980.
  • Liliane Levy: Do you know how it is? [Zurich]: [self-published], 1980.
  • Liliane Csuka. Photos. Drawings . [Zurich: self-published, 1985].
  • Liliane Csuka: La chanson . (Exhibition edition). Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes: L. Csuka, 1991.
  • Galerie CnR 23 and Galerie Ursula Rövekamp (ed.): Words by and about Liliane Csuka . Bayeux and Zurich: Galerie CnR 23 and Galerie Ursula Rövekamp, ​​1994.
  • Liliane Csuka: Words - and beyond words . Bergisch Gladbach: Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, 1998.
  • Liliane Csuka: Words. Work 1998-2004 . Zurich: [self-published], 2005.
  • Liliane Csuka: Stories. Gschichtä. Történetek. Pribehy . (DVD). [Zurich]: Paolo Rossi, 2009.
  • Liliane Csuka: Words . Zurich: [self-published], 2011.

Contributions

  • Liliane Csuka, contribution, in: 10 songs , cassette edition, Dalvazza / Küblis: Hasena, 1989.
  • Liliane Csuka: Contribution, in Weg -orientation, Dalvazza / Küblis: Hasena, 1993/94
  • Liliane Csuka: Collaboration at EcHOLos by Birgit Kempker, Dalvazza / Küblis: Hasena, 1995
  • Liliane Levi (sic!): Erotic Objects 1974/75. In: There is genius. The seventies at the F&F School for Experimental Design . Edited by Gerhard Johann Lischka with the assistance of Hansjörg Mattmüller . Frankfurt am Main: Betzel Verlag, 1981, pp. 124-126.

Collections

  • Graphic collection of the Swiss National Library , Bern (Serge Stauffer archive)
  • Lubiam, Mantova, Italy
  • Art Museum Bern
  • State Archive Graubünden , Chur (artist's estate Peter Trachsel)
  • Photo archive Hanspeter Gaechter, Gaechter + Clahsen, Zurich (documentation)

Prices

  • Poster competition Biennale of Swiss Artists , 1st Prize, 1974
  • Premium Liubam, Mantua, Italy, 1st prize, 1975
  • Scholarship from the City of Zurich, Atelier Cité internationale des arts, Paris, 1985
  • Prix ​​Silvagni du dessin, SPSAS Paris, selection, 1989

Teaching assignments

  • F + F School Zurich, 1975–80
  • St Catherine's Catholic School for Girls, London, 1980-82
  • Project with patients and staff, Center Hospitalier Spécialisé, Caen, France, 1992

Texts about the artist

  • Untitled : Liliane Csukas plastic phallocracy , in: Kontiki, No. 68, 1984.
  • Michel Itty: L'art de Liliane Csuka, ou un compte à régler avec les mots . In: Sandrine Bihorel-Hauquiert u. a .: Sculptures, installations. Sandrine Bihorel-Hauquiert, Liliane Csuka, Werner Ewers, Loïc Hervé, JG Gwezenneg, Keith Long. Brest: Center d'Art Passerelle, 1999, no p.
  • Michel Itty: The cardboard box novella. Dérobé à une autobiography of Liliane Csuka . Nantes: éditions joca seria, 1999, ISBN 978-2908929621
  • Susanne Ramm-Weber: Liliane Csuka - happy, precise art . Badische Zeitung, June 11, 2010, no p.
  • Doris Stauffer : 6 short stories on photographs by Liliane Csuka , Zurich: self-published, 2003/04
  • Serge Stauffer: track down liliane . In: Liliane Csuka: Pictures. Drawings . [Zurich: Selbstverlag, 1985], no p.
  • Wolfgang Vomm: Liliane Csuka. Words - and beyond words . In: Liliane Csuka: Words - and beyond words . Bergisch Gladbach: Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, 1998, pp. 10–13.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Liliane Csuka: Words. Zurich: [self-published], 2011.
  2. ↑ Cf. Galerie CnR 23 and Galerie Ursula Rövekamp (ed.): Words by and about Liliane Csuka. Bayeux and Zurich: Galerie CnR 23 and Galerie Ursula Rövekamp, ​​1994, p. 12f, p. 39.
  3. ↑ See www.diehasena.ch .
  4. ↑ Simone Levy works as an artist in Germany
personal data
SURNAME Csuka, Liliane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levy, Liliane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich