Claudia Comte Biography

Born 1983 in Lausanne, Switzerland
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

2010
Master of Art in Science of Education, Haute Ecole Pédagogique, Visual Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

2007
BA Visual Arts, l’Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, ECAL, Switzerland

Solo Exhibitions

2016
Catch the Tail by the Tiger, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2015
Sonic Geometry II, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
Sonic Geometry, Galerie Art et Essai, invited and curated by Anne Langlois, 40mcube, Rennes, France
Story Bumping, Milieu Galerie, Bern, Switzerland
NO LEMON NO MELON, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA

2014
Le Passage de L’Etoile, with Guillaume Pilet, Vevey, Switzerland
Fluide Glacial, LISTE, with BolteLang, Basel, Switzerland
Solo presentation Art Brussels, with Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Easy Heavy III, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Sharp Sharp, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, Ireland

2013
SUNDAY Art Fair, solo presentation with BolteLang, London, England
All Work and All Play, Toshiba House, Besançon, France
Claudia Comte & Omar Ba, Centre Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
Wir baden auf der Freianlage, invited and curated by Neville Wakefield, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
If I were a rabbit, where would I keep my gloves?, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
X, Y, Z, Friart, Centre d’Art de Fribourg, Switzerland
Summer Villa Extension, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France

2012

NO LEMON NO MELON, Tripode, Nantes, France
From Zanzibar to Acapulco, avec Guillaume Pilet, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland
Trouble Rainbow III, with Athene Galiciadis and Mélodie Mousset, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
Vanity Loop, Kunst am Bau, Etat de Vaud, Gymnase d’Yverdon, Switzerland
From Acapulco to Zanzibar, with Guillaume Pilet, La Rada, Locarno, Switzerland

2011
Scantione-Tensione, Institut suisse de Rome, Roma, Italy
IBIZA, Milieu Gallery, with Vittorio Brodmann, Bern, Switzerland
Trouble Rainbow II, with Athene Galiciadis and Mélodie Mousset, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles, USA
Trouble Rainbow, with Athene Galiciadis and Mélodie Mousset, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
Estampes, Studio Raynald Métraux, Lausanne, Switzerland

2010
Welcome to Colorful, Lucy Mackintosh Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland

2009
Rond-point, Darse Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
You cut but you can’t, with Mélodie Mousset, Galerie 20qmberlin, Berlin, Germany
Installation in-situ, % culturel, Fondation lausannoise pour l’art contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland
Naturalisés, collaboration avec Tatiana Rihs, Musée Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland

2008
Inimitable, Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, Switzerland
Georges abstraction surface air, Bureau des vidéos, Le George, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Video projection, «Rêves», Vitrine du Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France

2007
L’Echo, Standard deluxe, Lausanne, Switzerland

Group Exhibitions

2016
The Language of Things, City Hall Park Lower Manhattan, New York, USA

2015
Ligne Aveugle, ISBA, Besançon, France
Des Seins à Dessein, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
Full House, Bunk Club at Shanaynay, Paris, France
My Lonely Days Are Gone Part 2, Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany
Architecture & Nature, curated by Simon Lamunière, Parc du Muy, France
Triennale de l’art imprimé contemporain, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
Môtiers Art en plein air, Môtiers, Switzerland
Gargle/Spit, TBD, New York City, USA
Work Hard: Selections by Valentin Carron, Swiss Institute, New York City, USA
Reliability of Recognition, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland

2014
Elevation 1049, curated by Neville Wakefield, Gstaad, Switzerland
Post-Op. Perceptual Gone Painterly / Du perceptuel au pictural. 1958 – 2014, curated by Matthieu Poirier, Galerie Perrotin, Paris France
BolteLang Stadtbiotop 2014, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
Bex & Arts, triennale de la sculpture Suisse, Bex, Switzerland
Ars Multiplicata, Kunsthalle Koidl, Berlin, Germany

2013
Post-Mortem, Forde, Geneva, Switzerland
Draft for a particular vision of the future, Bar Babette, Berlin, Germany
Châteaux Secrets, Fondation Ricard, Iles des Embiez
Mixed Message Media, curated by Neville Wakefield, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Harum Scarum, Galerie Blancpain, Geneva, Switzerland
Paraphernalia, Telemark Contemporary Art Center, Skien, Norway

2012
Under 30, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
La jeunesse est un art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Swiss Art Award, Basel, Switzerland
Tell The Children / Abstraction pour enfant, La Salle de Bain, Lyon, France
If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend 6 sharpening my ax, Kunst Raum, Riehen, Switzerland

2011
Territoires, Bex & Arts, triennale de sculpture suisse, Bex, Switzerland
Swiss Art Award, Basel, Switzerland
Roma Art Fair, avec la galerie Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome, Italy
Train Fantôme, Cruise and Callas Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Rock The Casbah, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, Italy
20 ans des espaces d’une sculpture, Visarte Vaud, Parc de Mont Repos, Lausanne, Switzerland
Le Fédéral à Semen-Contra, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Accrochage Vaud 2011, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

2010
Jeune Création 2010, Le CENTQUATRE, Paris, France
Minipic, Pauline’s, New York, USA
10 ans du MUDAC, collaboration avec Tatiana Rihs, Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland

2009
I could do that! No, you could’t!, Milieu Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
Kawabanga, Espace Delrue, La Barthoteque, Nantes, France
Condominia, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
I am by birth a Genevese, Espace Forde, Geneva, Switzerland
I am by birth a Genevese, Vegas Gallery, London, UK
Transit, collective urbain exhibition, Renens, Switzerland

2008
Patapsychique, Bibliothèque du Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
Le Spectrarium, Pavillon Le Corbusier, Cité universitaire, Paris, France
Made by ECAL, Espace lausannois d’art contemporain, Renens, Switzerland
Zoo Art Fair, 1m3 Gallery, London, UK
Abstraction-Extension, Fondation Salomon, Alex, France
That’s all Folks !, Chez Popper, Geneva, Switzerland
X, proposed by N. Wagnières, galerie 1m3, Lausanne Portfolio edited by N. Wagnières, La Diligence, Nice, France

2007
Weihnachtsmarkt, Milieu Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
Athéne, Claudia, Orlane,  Milieu Gallery, Bern, Switzerland

Press & Publications

2015
Kettensägen und Fräsmachinen, Brigitte Ulmer, Bilanz, 12/2015
Claudia Comte’s Art on Ice, Kate Messinger, Paper Mag, 6 March
Claudia Comte: No Melon No Lemon, Roberta Smith, The New York Times , 5 March
LABOR INTENSITY Ursula Von Reydingsvard and Claudia Comte, Kara Rooney, The Brooklyn Rail, 5 March
Art Forum Critic’s picks: Claudia Comte, Frank Expósito, Artforum, February

2014
Trophäen im Trupp/Shaping Up, Paul Teasdale, Frieze d/e, June-August
The ArtReview Files: Bridget Riley, Claudia Comte discusses influence of Bridget Riley on her work, ArtReview Summer Issue, June
Eine Präsentation wie eine Wunderkammer, Annette Hoffmann, Tagesanzeiger, 17.06.2014
Die Frau mit der Kettensäge im Gepäck, Leoni Jessica Hof, Bolero, June
Mobil und vernetzt: Fünf junge Künstler und ihre Ateliers, Sandra Roth, http://www.srf.ch/kultur/kunst/mobil-und-vernetzt-fuenf-junge-kuenstler-und-ihre-ateliers, 16 April
Claudia Comte, Future Greats 2014, Giovanni Carmine, Art Review, March

2013
Claudia Comte, Aoife Rosenmeyer, Frieze d/e 11, September/October
Mit Gasbrenner und Kettensäge, Dietrich Roeschmann, SonntagsZeitung, 8.9.2013
Wofür wir leben – u40 – Junge Künstler in der Schweiz – Sternstunde Kunst, SRF, 9.6.2013
Cahiers d’artistes, Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council, Switzerland
Blow, by Yann Chateigné, May, Le Phare publication by Centre Culturel Suisse de Paris, France
Claudia Comte – un certain folklore, by Laurence Schmidlin, March, Kunstbulletin, Zurich, Switzerland

2012
Trouble Rainbow, ArtCollector, October, Basel, Switzerland
Under 30, exhibition catalogue Junge Schweizer Kunst, Kunsthaus Glarus, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Switzerland
La jeunesse est un art, exhibition catalogue Aargauer Kunsthaus, Edizioni Periferia, Switzerland

2011
Baboo Time, January, Sylvain Menétrey, Geneva, Switzerland
Novembre Magazine, January, Geneva, Switzerland

2010
Welcome to Colorful, artist book, Claudia Comte, Switzerland
Journal Le Temps, Hors série Arts, November, Lorette Coen, Geneva, Switzerland
Journal de Cossonay, October, Jean-Pierre Grandjean, Cossonay, Switzerland
ArtCollector magazine, September, Zurich, Switzerland
Guide Loisirs, September, Laurent Delaloye, Lausanne, Switzerland

2009
Dorade, revue galante, photographie et formes critiques, n°1, interview with Julien Fronsacq, October, Paris, France

Residencies & Awards

2015
International Artists-In-Labs Residency – Russian-Swiss Exchange
The City of Le Locle Prize
Stiftung für die Graphische Kunst in der Schweiz advancement award

2014
Swiss Art Award

2013-14
Residency at Pro Helvetia, Johannesburg, South Africa

2012
Prix Kiefer Hablitzel, Switzerland
Prix Mobiliar, Switzerland
Support from the UBS Foundation for Contemporary Art, Switzerland

2011
Support from the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland
Support from the city of Lausanne, Switzerland

2010
Residency at the Swiss Institute in Rome, Italy
Residency at  Vent des Forêts, Meuse, France

2009
Residency at Galerie Zwanzigquadrameter, Berlin, Germany

2008
Residency at Cité des Arts à Paris, Lauréate de l’atelier Vaudois du 700ème, Paris, France
Support from l’Association sociale et culturelle pour les Suisses à Paris, France

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