Sonja Feldmeier

Sonja Feldmeier (born March 5, 1965 in Männedorf ) is a Swiss multimedia artist. She works with painting, airbrushing , photography, video and audio, developing objects and complex installations .

life and work

Feldmeier studied at the Lucerne School of Art and Design (1986), the painting class at the Basel School of Design (1987–1990) and the Master of Fine Arts course at the Zurich University of the Arts (2012–2015).

The archiving principle is constitutive for her artistic practice . Using collage and montage techniques, she distills polyphonic narratives from her archive in which social and political questions are negotiated, but which refer beyond concrete circumstances and occurrences to fundamental questions of the human condition . In expansive narrative settings with multimedia works she asks questions about identities and attributions, about the migration behavior of people, things and signs . She is interested in communication processes and construction models . In her work, she examines how value systems and meaning patterns manifest themselves in images .

Prizes and awards

• 2009: Basler Filmpreis, category art film

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2013: Lapilli , Kunstraum John Schmid, Basel
• 2012: Kalka Shimla Diaries , Albula Railway Museum, Bergün
• 2011: meters behind sea level , Arts Reverie (AIAF), Ahmedabad, India
• 2010: from nowhere to somewhere , Kunstraum Baden
• 2007: Inhale Exhale , Kunsthalle St. Gallen , St. Gallen
• 2007: Lost Call , Klingental exhibition space , Basel
• 2006: In Your Room , Galerie Ruzicka / Weiss, Düsseldorf
• 2006: Repatriated Territories , Spazio Culturale La Rada, Locarno
• 2005: meters behind sea level , Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt
• 2005: Curator's Best , The Wrong Gallery, New York (with Christoph Büchel)
• 2000: Phantom 00 , guest presentation, Aargauer Kunsthaus , Aarau

Collections

Works by Sonja Feldmeier are represented in the following collections:

• Art Museum Basel
• Art collection of the city of Baden AG
• Federal Office for Culture , Swiss Confederation , Bern
• Museum for Communication Bern
• Solothurn Art Museum
• Art credit Basel-Stadt
• Nationale Suisse , Basel
• Essl Museum , Neuburg Abbey near Vienna
• Art credit collection from the Canton of Basel-Landschaft
• Kunstkammer in Bartenstein Castle, Bartenstein

Literature (selection)

• Markus Stegmann: Sonja Feldmeier - Wisp of the stars . In: Art Bulletin . No. 11, Zurich, November 2013, accessed on May 28, 2014.
• Annette Hoffmann: Grown into the ground. In: Basler Zeitung . Basel, September 7, 2013.
• Simon Baur: Basel researcher of parallel worlds. In: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung . Liestal, July 11, 2012.
• Café des rêves . Catalog Helmhaus Zurich, published by Helmhaus und Videocompany, Zurich, 2011.
• Irene Müller: Sonja Feldmeier - transitions and condensation of images and events . In: Art Bulletin . No. 6, Zurich, June 2010, accessed on May 28, 2014.
• Sonja Feldmeier - Duality, 2 of 2 . Edited by Pierre-André Lienhard (texts by Giovanni Carmine, Barbara Reber, Pierre-André Lienhard, Claudia Spinelli). Christoph Merian Verlag , Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-85616-366-2 .
• Real estate . Catalog Kunstmuseum Solothurn . Ed. Kunstverein Solothurn (texts by Claudia Spinelli and others). Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940748-32-4 .
• The evacuator . Magazine object. Edited by Pierre-André Lienhard, (Text: Pierre-André Lienhard). Self-published, Basel 2006.
• emerging artists. Switzerland . Catalog Essl Collection , Vienna. (With texts by Andreas Hoffer, Daniela Balogh, Sonja Feldmeier and others), Edition Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg 2006, ISBN 3-902001-33-X .
• Visioni del Paradiso . Catalog Istituto Svizzero. Edited by the Istituto Svizzero di Roma (text by Karin Frei), Rome 2006, ISBN 88-370-4657-X .
• Christoph Schütte: Stalin in a savoy cabbage coat. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 7, 2005
• David Pagel: Slackers and Circles. In: Los Angeles Times . September 7, 2001.
• Sonja Feldmeier . Catalog Aargauer Kunsthaus. Ed. Aargauer Kunsthaus (Text: Nina Gülicher). Aarau, 2000, ISBN 3-905004-17-8 .
• Positions of young art and culture Z 2000 . Edited by the Berlin Academy of the Arts , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931126-34-X .

Web links

• Michael Schmid: Feldmeier, Sonja. In: Sikart (as of 2010)
• Website by Sonja Feldmeier
• Sonja Feldmeier in the Kunstraum Baden (2010) on ART-TV
• Works by Sonja Feldmeier at Videoart
• Works by Sonja Feldmeier ( Memento from May 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at Edition 5