Vanessa Safavi Route du Bugnon 14 1752 Villars sur Glâne SWITZERLAND Born in 1980 in Lausanne, CH. Education 2003-2007 HEA Diplôme d arts visuels, ECAL école cantonale d art de Lausanne Professors: Francis Baudevin, John Armleder, Julien Fronsacq, Philippe Decrauzat, Stépahnie Moisdon and Stéphane Dafflon Solo Exhibitions 2019 The Approach, London (CONDO with The Breeder) FRI-ART Centre d Art, (film premiere), Fribourg Fürstenbergischen Sammlungen Donaueschingen Turns and Returns, The Breeder, Athens The Cook and the smoke Detector, ChertLüdde, Berlin FAIR PLAY, Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zürich Stick to Me Fantasy (with Pauline Beaudemont), SOLO SHOWS, curated by Tobi Maier, Sao Paulo Medulla Plaza, Kunstverein Grafschaft, Bentheim Airbags, MOT INTERNATIONAL, Brussels Amygdala, The Breeder Playroom, Athens La Nuit Liquide, The Breeder, Athens Cloud Metal Cities, Kunsthalle Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo fiac! Lafayette section, Grand Palais, Paris One Torino with Santo Tolone and Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa Castello di Rivoli, curated by Beatrix Ruff, Gegor Muir and Andrew Berardini, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Turin, Italy 3 Pounds of Jelly, Chert, Berlin Der Tanz, curated by Roman Kurzmeyer, Atelier Amden, Amden Present Future, Artissima, Turin, with Chert, Berlin After the Monument Comes the People, Back wall, Kunsthalle Basel I wish Blue could be Water, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch Les Figures Autonomes, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris Resort, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus No More Ice Cream, Blank Projects, Cape Town Between a Tree and a Plastic Chair, Chert, Berlin
Wandering Works, Claudia Groeflin Galerie, Zürich Successes and Traumas, Le Palais Bleu, Trogen 2009 NEO, Naphtaline, Lausanne 2008 DOM-TOM, zwanzigquadrameter, Berlin Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 The House where you live Forever, GARAGE Rotterdam Objects Like Us, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum And as things fall apart, nobody paid much attention, MONITOR, Lisbon An ear, severed, listens, ChertLüdde, Berlin How much is too much? with Amelia Crouch, Oliver Czarnetta, Sam Ekwurtzel, Daniel Faust, Benjamin Hirte, Paloma Muñoz & Walter Martin, Giles Round, Vanessa Safavi, Aki Sasamoto, School for Curatorial Studies, Venice Sammlung, ALMA, Annette Amberg, Carl Andre, Elisabeth Arpagaus, Monika Dillier, Marc Egger, Paul Fröhlich, Nanette Genoud, Susanne Hauser, Hanspeter Hofmann, Elsbeth Kuchen, Alfred Leuzinger, Greta Leuzinger, Urs Lüthi, Shana Moulton, Bruce Nauman, Ugo Rondinone, Daniel Roth, Vanessa Safavi, Yorgos Sapountzis, Gustav Schneeli, Annelies Štrba, Bryan Cyril Thurston, Lill Tschudi, Stefan Wagner, Andrea Wolfensberger, Kunsthaus Glarus Meaning can only grows out of Intimacy, curated by Elise Lammer, Musée Arlaud, Lausanne That Time, Cycle music and art festival, curated by Eva Wilson, Kópavogur Art Museum, Iceland The World No Longer Exists, curated by Christina Lenhert, KURATOR Rapperswill LONESOME WIFE, organized by Attila Fattori Franchini, Seventeen Gallery London Che il vero possa confutare il falso, AgiVerona Collection, Palazzo Pubblico/Santa Maria della Scala/ Accademia dei Fisiocritici, Siena, curated by Luigi Fassi and Alberto Salvadori Macaroni, WallRiss, Fribourg A Month of Sundays, Taylor Macklin Zürich Unexpected Others, L Atelier-ksr, Berlin Leaping over a bush to surprise a quail, Chert, Berlin The transparent tortoiseshell and the un-ripe umbrella, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow Inflected Objects # 2 Circulation Mise en Séance, at Frans Hals Museum De Hallen Haarlem, Netherlands Intro, Giorgio Galotti,gallery, Turin A Space is a Space, Deutsche Architektur Zentrum, Berlin Ceramics and Graphite, Chert, Berlin Stoneroses, curated by Santiago Tacetti and Mirak Jamal Swiss Art Awards, ArtBasel, Basel Interior / Exterior / Sculpture, with Amir Fattal and Przemek Pyszczek, Galerie Niklaus Belenius, Stockholm, Sweden Milk Revolution, curated by Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin, American Academy, Rome Fieldworks, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland What do you write when men are puking into plastic bags, Chert, Berlin ART GENEVE, invitation for Kunsthalle Basel, with Pauline Beaudemont, Lauren Huret and Hannah Weinberger, curated by Adam Szymczyk and Fabian Schonheich
BEX ARTS, Bex, Switzerland I'll be your Mirror, Herald St, London Focus, Frieze Art Fair, London AB, Nomas Foundation, Rome The Droste Affect, Scaramouche Gallery, New York Emmy Moore s Journal, curated by Quinn Latimer, SALTS, Basel If I was John Armleder, a project by Luca Cerizza for Art Genève, Geneva Harum-Scarum, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva Partoftheprocess 5, Zero gallery, Milan Gong Places, IAAB-Projektraum, Münchenstein, Basel The Thing Itself, Abbt Projects, Zürich Junge Kunst in der Schweiz 30 Jahre Manor Kunstpreis, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau Le Choix de Paris, curated by Elsy Lahner, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris Be nice to me, curated by Niels Trannois and Gyonata Bonvicini at Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin A Skeleton in the Closet, curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Heidelberger Kunstverein-Ausser Haus project, Heidelberg Livingroom Exotica, curated by Sabine Rusterholz, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus The forever ending story #012, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel That s all Folklore, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch Wood you rather, K3 Project Space, Zürich Drinnen & Draussen, Chert, Berlin En Miroir, projections sur le Folklore, centre d'art de Fribourg, Fribourg Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession), curated by Adam Szymczyk and Salvatore Lacagnina, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Luck Draw, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York The Amazone Conversation, Raum Zur Kunst, Basel 2009 All The Girls Standing In The Line For The Bathroom, curated by Christiane Rekade, Artnews Project Space, Berlin Kiefer Hablitzel, Swiss Art Awards, Basel 2008 If it s a bird, shoot it!, In Practice project curated by Sarina Basta, Sculpture Center, Long Island, New York Centre culturel suisse de Paris, curated by Léa Fluck, Paris X, 1M3 Gallery, Lausanne Joseph Hannibal Now! curated by Joseph Hannibal, Galerie Blancpain, Geneva Zoo Art Fair, with 1M3, Royal Academy of Arts, London Prizes & Public Comissions LUCI D ARTISTA, Public Commission, Turin, Italy Illy Prize, Artissima art fair, Turin, Nominated for GASAG ART PRIZE Collections (selected) Fiorucci Art Trust, London Nomas Foundation, Rome Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
Ricola, Laufen, Switzerland Residencies Fürstenberg Zeitgenoessisch fellowship Heiligenberg 92CAPITAL, Peru Residency Unlimited (RU) in collaboration with Galapagos Art space, New York Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council, Cape Town/Johannesburg Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris, Paris Bibliography & Publications Formas Fragiles, Neo Magazine Medulla Plazza, publication and catalgoue for the exhibition Medulla Plazza, Kunstverein Grafschaft The Amden Atelier, 1999-, by Roman Kurzmeyer, Editions Voldemeer Zürich SOUTH MAGAZINE, Cloud Metal Cities, Interview with Estelle Nayberat Record edition My Head is a Box by Kunsthalle Basel Waterfall Magazine : Artist s playlist A Letter to Berlin, Andew Berardini, One Torino Catalogue, Automn From Pole to Pole on A Rollercoaster, poem for Adrien Missika Catalogue Botanica Des métaphores à la logique suspendue Vanessa Safavi, Estelle Nabeyat, Code 2.0, Issue 6, Montreuil-sousbois, Spring Brand New, Andreas Schlaegel, Flash Art, March - April, Deserts, ideologies and relics, Quinn Latimer, Fokus: Frieze d/e, No. 7, Berlin A conversation between Vanessa Safavi and Silvio do Nascimento, published in Wandering Magazine #1, Berlin, Feb 13th, Kunstbulletin, Fokus - Vanessa Safavi, Christiane Rekade Vanessa Safavi, Art in America, review by Aoife Rosenmeyer Don't you have anything else to talk about than the color of your car?", Vanessa Safavi in discussion with Pauline Beaudemont, Capetown - New York, April 12 - November 3, Vanessa Safavi - Blind Traveller, published by Kunsthaus Glarus and Chert on the occasion of the exhibitions: "Resorts", Kunsthaus Glarus, August-October and "Between the Tree and a Plastic Chair", Chert, Berlin, September-October Between the Tree and a Plastic Chair, Vanessa Safavi solo exhibition, Chert, Berlin, Novembre magazine, Issue no. 2, November Between the Tree and a Plastic Chair, Vanessa Safavi solo exhibition, Chert, Berlin, review in Spike magazine by Andreas Schlaegel, October Drinnen & Draussen, exhibition catalogue, published by Chert & Motto, Berlin
Collection Cahiers d Artistes, published by Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture/swiss Arts Council 2007 Kunstbulletin The West-Coast of the Lake, by Kim Seob Bongnisegni Kunstbulletin DECORUM, invitation de Zorro & Bernardo 2006 Kunstbulletin L Atelier du coq a l âne, by Kim Seob Bongnisegni and Aurélien Gamboni