Claudia Comte

Education

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

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) 

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

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