Manon (artist)

Biography

• 1972 Manon opened her boutique, Manon’s, in the old part of Zurich where she sold her own creations: jackets made from glitter fabric with appliqués. She posed in self designed interiors as a model for fashion magazines.
• 1973/74 Manon experimented for the first time in photography, creating Polaroids, and 'Fetischbilder'.
• Manon submerged in Zurich’s subculture during this time and met the artists Sigmar Polke, Jürgen Klauke, Luciano Castelli, Markus Rätz, Walter Pfeiffer, and Esther Altdorfer, filmmaker Daniel Schmid, and musician Stefan Wittwer. She was always extravagantly done up for her nightly appearances in the club Platte 27.
• 1974 Manon’s meticulously furnished bedroom in a loft on Augustinergasse in Zurich presents a little universe filled with fetish objects, feathers, and glittery materials, and would become the starting point for her first installation 'Das lachsfarbene Boudoir' at the art gallery Li Tobler. It was reconstructed in 2006 and thereafter shown at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, at the Helmhaus in 2008 and the Swiss Institute in New York City in 2009.
• 1975 'Das Ende der Lola Montez'
• 'Manonomanie'
• 1975/76 'Das Leben im Schaukasten'
• 1976 'Manon Presents Man' )
• 1977 'The Artist Is Present'
• 'Walk on the Wild Side'
• 'Le regret, le désir'
• 'On Manon ’74-77'
• 1977/78 'La dame au crane rasé'
• 1978 'Elektrokardiogramm 304/303'
• 1979 'Die graue Wand oder 36 schlaflose Nächte'
• 'Sentimental Journey'
• 'Traps'
• 1980 'Ball der Einsamkeiten'
• 1982 'Das Doppelzimmer'
• 1983/84 'Wendekreise'
• 1990 'Damenzimmer'
• 'Künstler Eingang'
• 1993 'Die Philosophie im Boudoir'
• 1994 'Wege zum Ruhm'
• 1996'La stanza delle donne'
• 1997 'Seduzione e dolore'
• 'Blut im Schuh'
• 1999 'Forever Young'
• 2003 'Einst war sie Miss Rimini'
• 2006 'Manon as Edgar'
• Since 2004 photo cycle 'Diaries'
• 2008 'Borderline'

Awards and Grants

• 1975 Kiefer-Hablitzel-Scholarship
• 1978 Scholarship des Kantons Zürich
• 1979 Scholarship des Kantons Zürich
• 1980 Scholarship of the Swiss Government
• 1980 Scholarship of the Canton of Zürich
• 1980 Workcontribution
• 1980 Atelier from the town of Zürich in Cité internationale Paris
• 1981 Support contribution STEO-Foundation
• 1981 The publishers Benteli receive the first prize in the competition for the most beautiful Swiss books .
• 1982 Apartment of the town of Zürich in New York.
• 1982 Atelier of the Canton of Zürich in Paris.
• 1985 Atelier of the Canton of Zürich in Paris.
• 1994 Apartment of the federal government in the Istituto Svizzero, Rome.
• 1995/96 Atelier of the town of Zürich in Genova
• 1996/97 Workcontribution for Artists book "Wege zum Ruhm" from STEO-Stiftung, Cassinelli-Vogel Stiftung, Migros Genossenschafts Bund, Pro Helvetia.
• 2000 visarte visual arts association atelier in Paris.
• 2006 UBS Culture-Foundation "Honorary gift for the pioneer work"
• 2008 Fontana Gränacher Prize
• 2008 Workcontribution Esther Matossi Foundation
• 2008

  Books

• On Manon '74-77
• Manon - Identität Selbstdarstellung Image
• Künstler Eingang
• Einst war sie Miss Rimini / She once was Miss Rimini
• Manon - eine Person / Manon - A Person

  Catalogues

• The Artist is present
• Ball der Einsamkeiten
• Forever Young