Claudia Comte
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An Iguana on a burned Trunk, 2024 -
At that Moment it Seemed that Nothing Could Disturb the Sweet Harmony of her Existence and Yet (zigzag/jungle painting), 2024
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In the Green Heat of the Vast Forest, Bird Calls Echoed from the Giant Trunks (zigzag/jungle painting), 2024
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The Tusks of a Woolly Mammoth, 2024
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Two Golden Toads on Driftwood, 2024
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Marble Fire Coral (four short fingers), 2022
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The Grey Marble Leaves IV, 2022
| Education | |
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2008-2010 |
Master of Art in Science of Education, Haute Ecole Pédagogique, Visual Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 2004-2007 | BA Visual Arts, Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne, ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2024 |
Ascending the Ashes: A Tale of Renewal, K&L Museum, Seoul, Korea There Was No Up, There Was No Down, There Was No Side To Side, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China Birds and Trees, permanent installation, Cosmos Dübendorf, Zurich, Switzerland Home Sweet Home, Vistamare, Milano, Italy The Origin of the Shockwave Ripple Effect (yellow and turquoise), EMST, Athens, Greece |
| 2023 |
Cacti, Waves and Sunsets, Globus Public Art Project in collaboration with Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland Marine Wildfire & Underwater Forests, Gladstone Gallery, Seoul, South Korea From Where We Rise, Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico |
| 2022 |
Jungle and Corals, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany Through Dry Ocean Forests, Albarrán Bourdais, Madrid, Spain Five Marble Leaves, Central Wharf Park, Boston, USA An Impending Disaster (hahaha), König Galerie im Kleines Haus der Kunst, Vienna, Austria |
| 2021 |
Tree Line Curve, Rolex Learning Center, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland The Interview Paintings Ensemble (mise en scène in 12 Acts), Art Basel Parcours, StadtCasino, Basel, Switzerland After Nature, Museo Nacional Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain Dreaming of Alligator Head, König Digital, König Galerie Jungle and Corals, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| 2020 |
The Sea of Darkness, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria Corals and Jungle, CLAUDIA COMTE x KÖNIG GALERIE, Kunsttage Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2019 |
How to Grow and Still Stay the Same Shape, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy Fruits and Jungle, König Galerie, London, UK The Cavern of Lost Dreams (nine characters), Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Bunnies and ZigZag, Galerie Joy de Rouvre, Geneva, Switzerland I have Grown Taller from Standing with Trees, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Danmark The Morphing Scallops, Gladstone Gallery, 24th St, New York, USA |
| 2018 |
Fruits and Bodies, Villa Wenkenhof & Alexander Clavel Prize 2018, Switzerland When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany Electric Burst (Lines and Zigzags), Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, USA Zigzags and Diagonals, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA |
| 2017 |
The Primary Fondue Party, Salon Suisse: ATARAXIA / Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy La Ligne Claire, curated by Samuel Leuenberger at Basement Roma, Rome, Italy Black and White Circles in the Sky, solo exhibition curated by Christoph Doswald, Münsterhof, Zurich, Switzerland NOW I WON, curated by Chus Martinez, Messeplatz, Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland 10 Rooms, 40 Walls, 1059 m2, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland Solo booth for ArtGeneve, with König Galerie, ArtGeneve 2017, Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2016 |
The Curves, the Corners and the Machines, Festival International d'Art Toulouse at le Bazacle, Toulouse, France Zigzag division, Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland Catch The Tail By The Tiger, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany The Primary Fondue Party, performance organized with BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2015 |
Sonic Geometry, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland Sonic Geometry, Galerie Art et Essaie, Rennes, France Story Bumping, Milieu Galerie, Bern, Switzerland No Melon No Lemon, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2014 |
Le Passage de L'Etoile, with Guillaume Pilet, Vevey, Switzerland Fluide Glacial, LISTE, with BolteLang, Basel, Solo presentation Art Brussels, with Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Easy Heavy III, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland Sharp Sharp, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, Ireland |
| 2013 |
All Work and All Play, Toshiba House, Besançon, France Claudia Comte & Omar Ba, Centre Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland Wir baden auf der Freianlage, 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, with Guillaume Pilet, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland Trouble Rainbow III, with A. Galiciadis and M. Mousset, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland Vanity Loop, Kunst am Bau, Yverdon Gymnasium, Canton Vaud, Switzerland From Acapulco to Zanzibar, with Guillaume Pilet, La Rada, Locarno, Switzerland |
| 2011 |
Scantione-Tensione, Swiss Institute of Rome, Rome, Italy IBIZA, Milieu Gallery, with Vittorio Brodmann, Bern, Switzerland Trouble Rainbow II, with A. Galiciadis and M. Mousset, Favorite Goods, Los Angeles, USA Trouble Rainbow, with A. Galiciadis and M. Mousset, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Roma, 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 Naturalisés, collaboration with 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, Window of Swiss Cultural Center, Paris, France |
| 2007 | L'Echo, standard deluxe, Lausanne, Switzerland |
Collections
Art Collection of the Canton Zürich (CH)
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (USA)
BCV Art collection (CH)
Castello di Rivoli, Turin (IT)
Collection Bundesamt für Kultur (CH)
Collection of ECAL - Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (CH)
Collection of Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (CH)
Credit Suisse Collection (CH)
Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson, Madrid (ES)
Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Annecy (FR)
Julius Baer Collection (CH)
Kunstmuseum Luzern (CH)
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (USA)
Mobiliar Art Collection (CH)
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA)
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (CH)
Musée Jenisch, Vevey (CH)
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (CH)
Nationale Suisse Art Collection (CH)
Novartis Art Collection, Basel (CH)
The Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (USA)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
UBS Art Collection (CH)
Awards & Residencies
2019
TBA21-Academy Residency: Claudia Comte at Alligator Head Foundation, Port Antonio, Jamaica
2018
The Irène Reymond Foundation Prize, Switzerland
The Current, TBA21-Academy, expedition and residency, New Zealand
Kulturförderpreis 2018 der Alexander Clavel Stiftung, Riehen, Switzerland
2015
International Artists-In-Labs Residency - Russian-Swiss Exchange, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Division Ipae of Russian Academy of Sciences at Jekaterinburg, Russia
Prix de la Ville du Locle, Triennale de l'Art Imprime Contemporain, Switzerland
Sponsorship Award, Stiftung für die Graphische Kunst in der Schweiz, Switzerland
2014
Swiss Art Award
2013
Pro Helvetia Residency, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012
Kiefer Hablitzel Award, Switzerland
Mobiliar Award, Switzerland
Support from the UBS Foundation for Contemporary Art, Switzerland
2011
Support from the Canton Vaud, Switzerland
Support from the city of Lausanne, Switzerland
2010
Residency Swiss Institute of Rome, Rome, Italy
Residency Vent des Forêts, Meuse, France
2009
Residency galerie Zwanzigquadrameter, Berlin, Germany
2008
Residency Cité des Arts, Paris, Laureate of l'atelier Vaudois du 700ème, France
Support from the Social and Cultural Association for the Swiss in Paris, France
