Valérie Favre

Valérie Favre (born 1959, Evilard, Switzerland) is a Berlin-based artist. Since 2006 she is Professor of painting at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

Background

Valérie Favre grew up in Switzerland, canton of Biel. Having worked as a stage designer and actress at the theater in Paris in the early 1980s she soon turned to the field of painting. After 18 years in France, where she became a well-known and successful visual artist, she finally moved to Berlin in 1998.

History of works 1989-2010

Over the years Favre's works have grown to a series of interconnected cycles, showing references to the different fields of art history, geopolicy, philosophy, theater and film as well as her interest in narration in general.

• 1989-1990 Period of the paintings Périmètre
• 1991-1994 Period of white paintings
• 1992-1994 Creation of objects
• 1994-1996 works in sound, Robe Rouge, first work of the series Balls and Tunnels
• 1996-1997 works after Pontormo, Velazquez, Watteau, Géricault
• 1998 Filets a souvenirs
• 1999 Les soeurs malade, beginning of series Lapine Univers
• 2000 Series of Intérieurs, Petite filles
• 2001 Series of Excercices de vols
• 2002-2004 series Autos dans la nuit, series Forêt, beginning of ongoing suicide- series, beginning of series Idiotinnen
• 2005-2007 series Bruder Grimm and Columbia Variations, beginning of shortcuts series
• 2008 Kakerlaken, Autoscooter, Redescription
• 2008-2011 triptychs: series Volière and series Stage

Exhibition history

Favre`s work has been exhibited internationally in museums such as K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (2010/2011); Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (2009/2010); Carré d'Art Nîmes, France (2009); Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France (2009); Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany (2006); Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, Germany (2004); Musée de Picardie Amiens, France (2003); FRAC Auvergne, France (1999).

Valérie Favre is represented by the following galleries: Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany; Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, France and Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles, USA.

Publications

• “Valérie Favre - Visions”, exh. cat. Carré d'Art Nîmes, Kunstmuseum Luzern, texts by Beatrice von Bismarck, Claire Brunet, Jürgen Harten, Jaqueline Lichtenstein, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009
• “Valérie Favre - Der dritte Bruder Grimm”, exh. cat. Haus am Waldsee, texts by Katja Blomberg, Alexander Koch, Revolver, Frankfurt 2006
• “Valérie Favre - Mise en Scène”, exh. cat. Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, texts by Valérie Favre, Carina Plath, Gregor Jansen, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg 2004
• “Valérie Favre - Forêts”, exh. cat. Musée de Picardie, texts by Sylvie Couderc, Kerstin Grübmeyer, Amiens 2003
• “Valérie Favre - Sophie et Patrick”, exh. cat. L’Espal, Centre Culturel, text by Marion Casanova, Le Mans 2001
• “Range ta Chambre”, exh. cat. Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse Normandie, Herouville Saint-Clair 1994

External links

• artist homepage on www.valeriefavre.net [1]
• Barbara Thumm www.bthumm.de [2] in Berlin, Germany
• Jocelyn Wolff www.galeriewolff.com [3] in Paris, France
• Susanne Vielmetter www.vielmetter.com [4] in Los Angeles
• Valérie Favre on Art net
• Valérie Favre on Art News