Mireille Gros

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Mireille Gros (born March 28, 1954 in Aarau ) is a Swiss artist working primarily in the fields of drawing , painting , printmaking , video art , photography and artist books .

Life

Mireille Gros graduated from the Basel School of Design in 1980 and then studied for two years with Vito Acconci and Hans Haacke at Cooper Union , NYC .

Since its first public presentation in 1978 at the Kunsthaus Aarau , national and international exhibitions have followed. a. Drawing Center in New York, the Kunsthalle Basel , the Kunstmuseum Basel , the graphic collection of the ETH Zurich , in 2001 she had her first major solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bern and the Musée Jenisch in Vevey.

Mireille Gros lives in Basel and Paris .

Working method

Mireille Gros seeks flowing transitions between media and processes. Works are created individually, in series or as work research, even over years or decades. Neither theory, concept nor a specific idea serve as a starting point. All ideas are kept on the same level without giving preference to a particular idea in order to be open to the course of nature as long as possible. She herself describes her way of working, inspired by a stay in China, as "Inborn Nature", the inner nature that is innate. In addition to the question of the origins and processes of nature, her works are shaped by travels, a longer stay on the Ivory Coast, followed by travel grants to Mali and China.

Work cycles (selection)

"Fictional Plants" (since 1993)

Since her first stay in the last primary forest in West Africa, in the Parc national de Taï , in the Ivory Coast , since experiencing the diverse and much greater biodiversity than the European one, since becoming aware of this threatened fragility, Mireille Gros has been inventing her own plant species. While at least one plant species dies out every day, Mireille Gros lets fictional, drawn plants grow on different types of paper with her work cycle Fictional Plants .

«Archives intimes» (1987-2018)

Over the course of 30 years, a large number of 144 numbered small books were created from photographs, card and paper clippings, dried plants, drawings and watercolors. This fund is not only used to store impressions and personal mementos, but is also an important source of inspiration that she draws on again and again.

«My books draw from the chaos or at least emerge unintentionally and deliberately. A kind of order arises when the decision is made: should I stick these pictures in the books or throw them away? Although these decisions are made rather subconsciously, over a certain period of time I notice that there are similar images that I keep, that a kind of new order has been created. "

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017 Archives intimes , cabinet exhibition, Kunstmuseum Basel
  • 2016 Paysage intérieurs lumières rasante , Anton Meier Galerie, Geneva, CH, (cat.)
  • 2016 Time Line , Hauser Gallery, Zurich CH
  • 2014 Ouvrir les archives , Graphic Collection of ETH Zurich (cat.)
  • 2010 The use of the useless , Kunsthaus Baselland, CH
  • 2008 Tiden Weather and other things , Museum Langmatt, Baden, CH
  • 2007 La belle voisine , MAPRA, Lyon; GAC Annonay; CACL Lacoux; Hauteville-Lompnes, F.
  • 2005 Alliances française Buenos Aires, Argentina + Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2003 Mira Suiza , Circolo de bellas artes, Madrid, Spain (catalog)
  • 2002 Émergence Musée Jenisch Vevey, CH (catalog)
  • 2001 Émergence Kunstmuseum Bern, CH (catalog)
  • 1994 Réserves Naturelles , Project Switzerland II, Kunsthalle Basel, CH (cat.)

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018 Art Paris, 25 Swiss video artists, curated by Karine Tissot, Paris, F
  • 2018 stowaways , Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, CH (cat.)
  • 2017 Eternal present , 150 years of the ETH graphic collection in the Helmhaus Zurich, CH
  • 2015 Triennale de l'art imprimé contemporain, Musée des Beaux-arts Le Locle, CH (cat.)
  • 2014 Unique Unicum, artists' books, Swiss National Library, Bern
  • 2013 Tout est là , Pavillon Carré de Baudouin, Paris, F
  • 2012 Drawing a line in the sand, Peter Blum Gallery, NYC, USA
  • 2012 La commande contemporaine de la chalcographie du Louvre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, F.
  • 2011 Les nomminés du Prix Canson, Hotel de Sauroy, Paris, F
  • 2011 Memory and identity, MK2 Art Space Beijing, People's Republic of China, (cat.)
  • 2010 Felicità , Center Pasqu'art, Biel, CH (cat.)
  • 2010 Art Beijing, Beijing, People's Republic of China
  • 2005 In the realm of drawing, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH
  • 2005 A peau de fleur - le dessin à l'épreuve , Galerie Eric Dupont Paris, F
  • 2002 Uniques, Cabinet cantonal des estampes Vevey, CH (cat.)
  • 2002 Art Film Basel, Stadtkino, Art Basel, CH
  • 2000 Art Film Basel, Stadtkino Basel, Art Basel 31, CH
  • 1999 In thanks to Dieter Koepplin Kunstmuseum Basel, CH (cat.)
  • 1999 Art Film Basel 30, Stadtkino, Art Basel, CH
  • 1996 Watercolors, works from the Kupferstichkabinett Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, CH
  • 1995 New acquisitions and gifts, Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel, CH
  • 1989 Height times width times color, Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, CH (cat.)
  • 1988 Line and Image, ICI, Santa Fe Community College; Bass Museum of Art, City of Miami Beach; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, USA (cat.)
  • 1983 Selection 22, Drawing Center, New York, USA
  • 1981 Prospect, Room for Current Swiss Art, Lucerne, CH (cat.)

Collections (selection)

  • Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau
  • Christoph Merian Foundation, Basel
  • FMAC (Fonds municipal d'art contemporain de la Ville de Paris)
  • FRAC Alsace (Fonds regional d'art contemporain)
  • Graphic collection of the ETH Zurich
  • Art credit Baselland
  • Art credit Basel-Stadt
  • Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett
  • Art Museum Bern
  • Art collection of the city of Baden
  • Le Locle Art Museum
  • Art collection of the Migros Aare cooperative
  • Kunstzeughaus Bosshart, Rapperswil
  • La Chalcographie du Louvre, Musée du Louvre , Paris
  • Médiathèque Valais, Sion
  • Jenisch Museum, Cabinet des Estampes, Vevey

Literature (selection)

  • Blind passengers. Kunsthaus Aarau, 2018. Eds. Peter Suter and Thomas Schmutz. Scheidegger and Spiess publishing house.
  • 1997–2017 Fondation Louis Moret. Edited by Marie-Fabienne Aymon. ISBN 978-2-940570-35-5 .
  • Ouvrir les archives. Graphic collection of the ETH Zurich, 2014. Michael Imhof Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7319-0051-1 .
  • Capture the beginning. 2001. Ed. Stephan Kunz. Edition der Tage, Baden 2001, ISBN 3-9520525-2-3 .
  • Emergence. 2001. Ed. Kunstmuseum Bern and Musée Jenisch Vevey. Text: Marc Fehlmann, Nicole Minder, Marie-Laure Bernadac. ISBN 3-906628-31-0 .
  • Hydrordyh. 2003. Eds. Pro Helvetia and Círculo de Bellas Artes Madrid. Text: Andreas Langenbacher. ISBN 3-907622-52-9 .

Media coverage

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Brunner: data sheet. In: SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland. SIKART Lexicon on Art in Switzerland, 2007, accessed on March 31, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gros, Mireille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau