Catherine Gfeller
Catherine Gfeller is a Swiss artist. She currently lives and works in Paris and Southern France after having lived in New York from 1995 to 1999.
Career
After a Master in Fine Arts in 1991 at the Universities of Neuchâtel and Lausanne, she devotes herself to photography. Gfeller travels to many different continents to create large landscape triptychs. In 1995, she receives a grant for a one-year residency in New York. There, she develops a printing technique which combines paper, monoprint and photography on the theme of urban landscape.In 1999 she is invited for a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and receives the Photography Award from the HSBC Foundation. Paris inspires a new work, focused on metaphorical urban subjects using various media: video, sound and the written word. Intimate spaces and daily gestures create new multi-layered compositions where urban rhythms still resonate as an acting presence.
In 2010-2012 her monographic exhibition "Pulsations" is hosted by Museum of Fine Arts La Chaux-de-Fonds, Museum of Fine Arts KKL Luzern and Center of contemporary Arts Sète .
Recent Projects:
2013: Film "Words of Artists/Portraits of Artists", Swiss contemporary art, produced by Richard Dindo and Swiss Television RTS Zürich.
2014: Residency and exhibition at WAM Museum in Johannesburg.
2015: Dozen of artistic projects combining installation, performance, photography, video, radio and soundwalk, the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern.
2017: "Voices in Kiev" multi-media exhibition, Shevchenko National Museum, Kiev, Ukraine.
2018: "Guangzhou Driftings" multi-media exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China. This project will continue with new themes in Hong Kong and Beijing in 2020.
Catherine Gfeller has exhibited extensively in Switzerland, France, Italy, England, Holland, Germany, Belgium, South America, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Ukraine and China. Her work belongs to private and public collections in Switzerland, France, England, Italy, Germany, Japan, Belgium and the United States. She regularly takes part in Art Fairs, such as ArtBasel, Kunst Zurich, Armory Show, la Fiac, Ljubjana Biennale and Art Bruxelles. Parallel to her exhibitions, Catherine Gfeller is invited to give lectures and workshops in universities.
She also produces large-scale commissions for public spaces.
Solo exhibitions
Information is from her own web site at catherinegfeller.com2018
- China Driftings, Galerie RX, Paris
- Guangzhou Driftings, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
- Voices in Kiev, Tars Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Cinema and Photography, Festival 7e Art, Marie du VII, Paris
- End of the games, HtH, National Theater 13 Vents, Montpellier
- Ville de rêves, Neuchâtel University
- A la croisée des mondes avec M. de Meuron, Rondes romaines, MAHN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- ZigZag ZPK Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
- Urban Friezes, Batut Gallery Space, F- Labruguière, Midi-Pyrénées
- Identity, C Gallery, Neuchâtel
- The City is Passing Through You, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Au plus noir du Jour, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
- Processions, AL/MA Gallery, Montpellier, France
- Pulsations, Galerie Springer, Berlin
- Belles de Nuit, Turetsky Gallery, Geneva
- Pulsations, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
- Pulsations, CRAC, Contemporary Art Center, LR, Sète, France
- Pulsations, Museum of Fine Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
- Processions Croisées, Abbatiale de Bellelay, Switzerland
- Les Frayeuses, Rosa Turetsky Gallery, Geneva
- Elles et Villes, Une Gallery, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Villes et Elles, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
- Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamot Art Center, Los Angeles
- Many Times, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York
- D'une Ville l'autre, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
- Jubilee : 250 years, Bank Leu Zurich, Switzerland
- She wanders through B., Galerie Carzaniga, Basel
- Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamot Art Center, Los Angeles
- Fictions Urbaines, Rez d’art contemporain Meyzieu/Lyon, France
- Versions d’elle, Centre Culturel Switzerland, Mois de la Photo, Paris
- Parcours Face à Face, ArtMateur, Museum of Fine Arts, Lille, France
- New York : Frises urbaines, Ileana Bouboulis Gallery, Paris
- Urban Friezes, Galerie Carzaniga & Uecker, Basel
- Serial Visitors, Keitelman Gallery, Bruxelles
- FIAC, One-man-show C. Gfeller Carzaniga Gallery, Paris
- Urban images Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida
- School of Fine Arts, CCF Foundation for Photography, Dijon, France
- Le Carré Gallery, CCF Foundation for Photography, Lille, France
- La Filature Gallery, CCF Foundation for Photography, Mulhouse, France
- Sur l’écran de la ville, Windows in Champs Elysées, Foundation HSBC Foundation for Photography, Paris
- Urban Rituals, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
- Frises urbaines, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris
- Urban Rituals, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida
- Urban Friezes, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamot Art Center, Los Angeles
- Catherine Gfeller photography, Swiss Embassy, Paris
- Landscapes, Centro cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Blancpain Stepczynski Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
- Urban Friezes, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
- Natural and Urban Landscapes, La Maison française, New-York University, New York
- Urban Friezes, The Landon Gallery, New York
- Frises Urbaines, Villa Le Corbusier, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
- Urban Friezes, Landon Gallery, New York
- The Matter of Landscape, Pennings Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Landscapes, Center for Photography, Geneva, Switzerland
- New York Façades, Villa du Jardin alpin, Meyrin, Genève
- Six Chapel Row Gallery, Bath, England
- The Matter of Landscape, Royal Pavilion and Art Museum, Brighton, England
2020
- Bxl Universel, L’Usine électrique, Bruxelles
- Fotografica, FotoMuseo, Bogotà
- Art Genève, Rosa Turetsky Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
- Carnets, Halle Nord, Centre d'art en l'Ile, Genève
- Dialogues Art sacré/art contemporain, Churches in Ariège
- Cityscapes, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel
- Arts speaks out, Ikono TV, Museum Istanbul Modern
- Dream to Utopia , Gallery C, Neuchâtel
- Art en plein air Môtiers, Môtiers, Switzerland
- Imago Mundi Helvetia, Luciano Benetton Collection, Fondazione Cini, Venice Biennal, Venice
- Alt+1000 Contemporary Photography Festival, Rossinière
- A.I.R. Arlberg Hospiz, St.Christoph und Bregenz, Tirol, Austria
- Meta Project, Galerie Laurent Müller, Paris
- Kunst Zürich Art Fair, Carzaniga Gallery, Zürich
- Le Nonante-Neuf, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
- First Choice, Galerie Springer, Berlin
- Kunst Zürich, Galerie Carzaniga, Zürich
- Video-Time, Ilan Engel Gallery, Paris
- Art Paris, Grand Palais, Galerie Ilan Engel
- SynchroniCity, Ilan Engel Gallery, Paris
- Feminine Spirituality, Hiéron Museum, Paray-le-Monial, France
- Urbi et Orbi: Biennal of Video and Photography, Sedan, France
- Collection Julius Baer, Museo cantonale d'arte, Lugano, Switzerland
- Contemporary Artists France-Italy, Palazzo delle Belle Arti, Torino, Italy
- Kunst Zürich, Carzaniga Gallery, Zürich
- Snow, Ilan Engel Gallery, Paris
- 'Undercurrents', Stephen Haller Gallery, New York
- Belles de Jour, Galerie Une, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Objectifs, Objectivités, Officine Fotografiche, Rome
- Saison Vidéo,, Espaces Croisés, Lille, France
- 30 Anniversary, Rosa Turetsky Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
- Ex Nugis Seria, Collection of F. Denaës, Le Château d’eau, Toulouse, France
- 10 Years, Galerie AL/MA, Montpellier
- L’Oeil sur les rues, La Villette, Paris
- Images-Mouvement, Center of Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
- Art Basel, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
- Territories of Light, Ecole française de Rome, Piazza Navone, Rome
- VideoParcours « Finis», Transhitorisches Museum, Pfyn, Switzerland
- Millenium, Museum of Fine Arts, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- La revanche de l’Archive, Festival 50 JPG, Center of Photography, Geneva, Switzerland
- Tribute to Nadar, French Embassy, Trinité des Monts, Rome and Museum Marino Marini, Florence
- Complicity, 60 years of Picto, Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
- Séries, Suites, Variations, Museum of Fine Arts, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Kunst Zurich, Galerie Carzaniga, Zürich, Switzerland
- Projection, 15 years Foundation for Photography, RIP, Arles
- Cheminements, Center of Photography, Lectoure, Toulouse, France
- Video Installation on 6 screens, Eglise Saint-Clar and Chapelle Saint-Blaise, France
- Ex Nugis Seria, Fondation nationale des arts plastiques, Maison des Arts, Nogent-sur-Marne, Paris
- ArteVideoNight, Preview, Centre Pompidou, Paris and FIAC, Paris
- KunstZurich, Carzaniga Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
- Festival Video du Centre Pompidou et Musée Fabre, AL/MA Gallery, Montpellier, France
- Still Cinema 6, OpenEyeGallery, Contemporary Arts Biennal, Liverpool
- Make Believe, Photographic Days, ArtCenter Pasquart, Bienne
- Jeanne Lombard et les Artistes contemporaines, Museum of Fine Arts, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Biennal, Museum of Fine Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
- Migrations, Biennal Contemporary Arts, Dieppe, France
- Off Time, SaarlandMuseum Saarbrücken, Germany
- Contemporary Photography, Laureats Award Foundation HSBC for Photography, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
- FIAF, Festival Video, Espace Neruda, Nîmes
- Shift Video Festival, Basel
- Paris Photo Studio Franck Bordas, Paris
- La Nuit de la Photo, 50 Swiss Photographers, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Villes imprévisibles, Architecture Forum, Design Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris
- Narratives, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York
- 20 Years, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles
- Notte, Fondazione Olivetti, Rome
- D’un espace à l’autre, 2nd Biennal Contemporary Arts, Saint-Cloud, Paris
- Art Basel, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
- Interdit aux moins de 18 ans, Une Gallery, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Intimités, Hôtel de ville, Paris
- VideoKiosk Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
- States, Filmprogramm, Movie Theater of contemporary arts center of Meyzieu/Lyon
- Nuit Blanche Videoprogramm, Movie Theater l’Entrepôt, Paris
- Photographie Romande, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Art Basel 33, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
- Expo 02, Diaporama, Museum of Fine Arts Square, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Art Brussels, Keitelmann Gallery, Bruxelles
- Armory Show, Eyestorm, New York
- The colour of white, Gallery at Pentagram Design, London
- Not Landscape, Camera Works, San Francisco, California
- FIAC, Keitelmann Gallery, Paris
- Francophonies, Museum of Fine Arts, Ottawa
- De natura rerum, Paysage - cosa mentale, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris
- Lubljana 24th Biennal, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Art Basel 32, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
- Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel
- Art Brussels, Keitelmann Gallery, Bruxelles
- Art Miami, Haim Chanin Gallery, NY, Miami
- International Triennal of Prints, Le Locle, Switzerland
- Paris Photo, Corporate Collections CCF, Paris
- Mois de la Photo, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris
- Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco
- Art Basel 31, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
- Urban images, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach
- KunstZurich, Carzaniga and Uecker Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
- Beyond Landscapes, Schneider Gallery, Chicago
- Art Basel 30, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
- Swiss Art, Auction, Swiss Institute of New York, New York
- Summer Show, Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt
- Soho Annual, Soho Arts Festival, New York
- Belluard Bollwerk International Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland
- Cultura ArtFair, Alexia Goethe Fine Art Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
- Six Young Artists, Carzaniga and Uecker Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
- Triennal, Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
- Boston International Fine Art Show, Pentimenti Gallery, Boston
- Kunst Zurich Art Fair, Carzaniga and Uecker Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
- Ritratti, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
- New York Visions, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York
- Auction, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
- Young Artists, Sotheby's, Tel-Aviv, Israël2
- Biennal, Museum of Fine Arts La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
- Aerial Perspectives, DC Moore Gallery, New York
- Aerial Perspectives Kendall Gallery, Miami
- Swiss Art: Old World, New World, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
- Group Show, Tibor de Nagy/First Street Gallery, New York
- Selections, Visual Arts Gallery, Soho, New York
- Soho Annual, Soho Arts Festival, New York
- Belluard Bollwerk International Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland
- Viaggio intorno alla mia camera, Fondazione G.Costa, Genova, Italy
- Digital Landscapes, International Festival of Photography, Isle of Skye, Scotland
- Digital Landscapes, International Festival of Photography, The Works, Edmonton, Canada
- Digital Landscapes, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore
- Sequenze, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
Monographs
- * "Au plus noir du jour", text Jérôme Neutres, Carzaniga Gallery, Basel, 2014
- * "Sévilles en vierges", text Jean-Pierre Brice Olivier, Bernard Salignon, Editions du Cerf, Paris, 2012
- * "Vidéo-Divagations", text : Frédérique Villemur Editions de l’Espérou, Montpellier, France, 2011
- * "Pulsations", exhibition Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Chaux-de-Fonds et Kunstmusem Luzern, textes : Paul Ardenne, Elisabeth Lebovici, Françoise Ninghetto, Urs Sahel, Edizioni Perfiferia, Lucerne, 2010
- * "Catherine Gfeller : Processions croisées", textes : Bernard Comment et Caroline Nicod, Edition Clandestin et Fondation de l’Abbatiale de Bellelay, Bienne, Switzerland, 2010
Collective Books
- * "Villes et Elles", text : Guido Magnaguagno, Galerie Carzaniga, Basel, 2009
- * "250 Jahre Bank Leu : Im Wechsel der Perspektiven", texte : Andreas Honegger, Editions Orell Füssli, Zürich, 2005
- * "Fictions urbaines", texts :Bernard Salignon, Rez d'art contemporain, Meyzieu-Lyon, France, 2003
- * "Dérobades", Carnets de la création contemporaine, texte : Bernard Salignon, Editions de l’œil et Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2002
- * "Serial Visitors", text : Bernard Comment, Editions Galerie Carzaniga & Uecker, Basel, Switzerland, 2002
- * "La ville, un corps sensible", texte:Urs Stahel, Galerie Carzaniga +Uecker, Basel, Switzerland, 2000
- * "Urban Scenes", A. Carzaniga, text : A. Carzaniga et C.Gfeller, Basel, Switzerland, 1999
- * "Regard sur la Villa turque de Le Corbusier", textes: Daniel Schwarz et C.Gfeller, Editions Montres Ebel, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 1999
- * "Urban Rituals", text : A. Mingam, Collection Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie, Editions Actes Sud, Arles, France,1999
- * "A Matter of Landscape," text : Julia Ballerini, exhibition New York, New York, 1997