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PRESS RELEASE
MUSÉE CANTONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DE LAUSANNE
September 2014
We are pleased to invite you to the press conference of the exhibitions
Julian Charrière. Future Fossil Spaces
Prix culturel Manor Vaud 2014
and
Accrochage [Vaud 2014] &
Lukas Beyeler. Instant Win
Prix du Jury 2013
on Thursday 30 October 2014 at 11 am. The artists will be present.
GENERAL
INFORMATION
Opening reception
Curator
Media contact
Thursday 30 October 2014 at 6.30 pm
Nicole Schweizer
Loïse Cuendet, [email protected]
Tel.: +41 (0)21 316 34 48
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31 October 2014 – 11 January 2015.
Tuesday – Friday: 11 am – 6 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm
Closed on Monday
24, 26 and 31 December: 11 am – 5 pm
25 December, 1 and 2 January: closed
Free
Access
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JULIAN CHARRIÈRE. FUTURE FOSSIL SPACES
PRIX CULTUREL MANOR VAUD 2014
THE EXHIBITION
The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne presents the first museum
exhibition dedicated to Julian Charrière, winner of the 2014 Manor Vaud cultural
prize. Born in Morges in 1987, he studied at ECAV (École cantonale d’art du
Valais) and at the Institut für Raumexperimente in Berlin, under the guidance of
Olafur Eliasson. Julian Charrière now lives and works in Berlin.
His work, which is a blend of conceptual explorations and poetic archaeology,
is similar to a research process which includes performances and photographic
documentations as well as installations. Charrière’s works – bricks made of materials from the world’s great rivers, core samples which reveal the sediment of a
Berlin pavement, globes which have been sanded until the names of territories
disappear – are anchored in the physical substance of the places they explore
and also generate new geographies.
The exhibition designed by Julian Charrière for the Museum brings
together works for which the artist travelled to Iceland, Kazakhstan, the Atacama
Desert (Chile), Bolivia and Argentina. It is entitled Future Fossil Spaces, a title
which is a nod to The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, three photographs which
were taken during an expedition undertaken in 2013, when the artist climbed an
iceberg in the Arctic Ocean and attempted to melt the ice underfoot using a gas
blowtorch for over eight hours. The fossils mentioned in this instance do not refer
to animal or mineral traces captured in rocks but to the Latin etymology, which
literally means “obtained by digging”, where the artist’s action involves presenting, there and then in the exhibition space, works which are in dialectic conflict
between the two arrows of time, one pointing towards the past and the other
pointing towards the future. One of the works, the most understated in the exhibition, is entitled The Key to the Present Lies in the Future (2014). Twenty-four
hourglasses containing sand from twenty-four geological periods are hurled by
the artist against a wall of the Museum. All that is left of all those eras suddenly
brought together in the same place and at the same time as a result of a powerful
act are glass debris and sandy remnants. The hourglass itself is already a
perfect metonymy of the link between time and space since it allows an interval
of time to be measured by the movement of matter. The work echoes that of Robert
Smithson, and in particular his thoughts on the issue of non-sites, and recalls one
of his works in particular, Hypothetical Continent (Map of Broken Glass: Atlantis),
created in 1969, a pile of glass fragments which make up the fictitious map of a
lost continent.
Rather than a hypothetical continent, Julian Charrière lays out a fictitious
topography, a sort of “energetic garden”, in his exhibition in Lausanne. On the
ground, there are strangely beautiful coloured landscapes made from enamelled steel containers full of saline solutions from lithium deposits in Chile, which
resemble an aerial view of the deposits; rising high, columns of salt bricks from
the same area highlight the tension between a material of the future – lithium –
and the time which has had to elapse in order to create it; further on time seems
to be frozen in a display cabinet where the artist has deposited plants captured in
a sheath of ice; finally, a video filmed in Kazakhstan, at the Semipalatinsk nuclear
test site, closes – or opens – the exhibition on the issue of the interdependence
between humans and their environment. Entitled Somewhere, the video explores
the site of the first Soviet military nuclear tests, where the radiation which was released between 1949 and 1989 remains extremely high today. The desolate and
timeless aspect of these landscapes, filmed in a slow motion tracking shot by the
artist without any accompanying commentary, lends an unsettling strangeness to
them. The past catches up with the future in a constantly expanding present.
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PUBLICATION
PRIX
CULTUREL
MANOR
JURY
Julian Charrière. Future Fossil Spaces
Under the direction of Nicole Schweizer, with texts by Amelia Barikin, Rebecca
Lamarche-Vadel and Nadim Samman, Musée cantonal des Beaux-arts in
Lausanne & Mousse Publishing, 2014 (FR./ENG.)
Price: CHF 30.00 / EUR 25.00
The Manor cultural prize was established in 1982 by Philippe Nordmann to promote young Swiss talent which is relatively little known to the general public. It
opens up a wealth of possibilities and is awarded every two years by a jury which
includes professionals from the artistic community in twelve Swiss cities: Aarau,
Basel, Biel/Bienne, Chur, Geneva, Lausanne, Lucerne, Lugano, Schaffhouse, Sion,
St Gallen and Winterthur. The cultural prize is awarded at a key moment in a young
artist’s career: their first exhibition in a great museum or the first publication of a
catalogue. It is a unique opportunity for the prize-winning artist to give a significant
boost to his or her work. The Manor Vaud cultural prize has been awarded to the
following artists: Laurent Huber (1989), Alain Huck (1990), Laurence Pittet (1991),
Bernard Voïta (1994), Ariane Epars (1996), Anne Peverelli (1998), Nicolas Savary
(2001), Philippe Decrauzat (2002), Didier Rittener (2005), Catherine Leutenegger
(2006), Aloïs Godinat (2009) and Laurent Kropf (2011).
To select the prize-winner, the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts submitted the
candidature of four artists to a jury which this year included:
Pierre André Maus, Maus Frères SA; Catherine Othenin-Girard, art historian;
Robert Ireland, artist, Lausanne; Marco Costantini, freelance curator, Lausanne;
and Chantal Prod’Hom, director of Mudac, Lausanne.
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JULIAN CHARRIÈRE
Studies
2013
Master student of Prof. Olafur Eliasson,
Universität der Künste, Berlin
2011
Institut für Raumexperimente, Prof.
Olafur Eliasson, Universität der
Künste, Berlin
2007
Universität der Künste, Berlin, Prof.
Christiane Möbus
2006
ECAV, Ecole cantonale d’art du Valais
Solo exhibitions
2014
Future Fossil Spaces, Musée cantonal
des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
CLOCKWORK, with Julius von
Bismarck, OBEN, Vienna
Die Welt is mittelgross, Kunstverein
Arnsberg, Arsberg
We Are All Astronauts, Centre Culturel
Suisse, Paris
2013
On The Sidewalk, I Have Forgotten the Dinosauria, DITTRICH &
SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin
2012
Non Sites Sight, Case Studio Vogt,
Zurich
2011
Dominion PROGRAM e.V, in collaboration with Andreas Greiner, Berlin
Horizons, DITTRICH &
SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin (cat.)
Group exhibitions
2014
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India
La Triennale du Valais, Valais
One place Next to Another, Winzavod,
Moscow
Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition,
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Academy, Isla del Coco, Costa Rica
The Figure in the Carpet, Bugada &
Cargnel, Paris
2013
Come All Ye Faithfull, Florian Christopher, Gotthelfstrasse 37, Zurich
IBB Photography Award, IBB Atrium,
Berlin
move - align – avoid / Vom Schwarm
als Prinzip und Phänomen, Kunstverein Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
> 30 IX. Jeune Art Suisse, Bâtiment
d’art contemporain, Geneva
Let’s Invent a Language to Narrate my
Born in Morges in 1987,
lives and works in Berlin.
www.julian-charriere.net
Story, Dienstgebäude, Zurich
Les Modules du Palais de Tokyo, 12e
Biennale de Lyon
JENSEITS DER ANSICHTSKARTE:
Die Alpen in der Fotografie, Galerie
Stihl Waiblingen (cat.)
DAS NUMEN - Momentum, Deutsche
Architektur Zentrum, Berlin
Accidental Accomplishment, Institut für
Raumexperimente, Berlin
Rules of Attraction, insitu, Berlin
Heiliges Leben, UDK, Berlin
(n)on site, km temporaer, Berlin
Umfall am Mittelpunkt Deutschlands,
Alexander Levy Galerie, Berlin
Ich bin dein Nachbar!, Bromer Art
Collection, Roggwil
2012
COLOR upon paper space, Berlin
13th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, in
collaboration with Julius von Bismarck,
Venice
Adyton I, Barcelone
Grosses Feld, Institut für Raumexperimente, Janmeda, Addis Ababa
Addis Fotofest, Addis Ababa
Lovin it’ Symbol and Contradiction,
Bromer Art Collection, Roggwil
JUNGE POSITIONEN: Kapitel II/Berlin, Galerie Rigassi, Bern
Life Clock curated by A Kassen, Den
Frie Center for Contemporary Art,
Copenhagen
Swiss Art Awards, Basel
The World is not Fair, Die Grosse Weltausstellung 2012, Tempelhof, Berlin
Glasauge, Group Show – Class Olafur
Eliasson, Berlin
2012, DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM,
Berlin
2011
Your Body of Work, Goethe Institut,
Sao Paulo
Transformation – Das Numen, Haus
am Lützowplatz, Berlin
Fragments of an Unknown City, Krasnoe Znamya (Red Banner Factory),
St. Petersburg
Berlin 2000-2011 - Playing among the
Ruins, Museum of Contemporary Art
Tokyo (MOT), Tokyo
Ideas are Motion, Multimedijalmi Institut – MAMA, Zagreb
Abstract Pocket Collection, Espace
Abstract, Lausanne
ÜBER LEBENS KUNST, Haus der
Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Mapping Everything, Universität der
Künste, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthof,
Zurich
art&architecture, Espace Culturel
d´Assens
Le Grand Final, Kunstamt Reinickendorf, Galerie Atelier-Oellermann, Berlin
DAY LIGHT, 401 Contemporary, Berlin
100° Festival, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
Without Destination, Reykjavik Art
Museum, Reykjavik
2010
Artpoint, Donetsk
Tangente, La Placette, Lausanne
Auflösung, die Letzten Grenzen Fallen, Fabian Knecht, Haus am Lützow
Platz, Berlin
Geist III, Unknown place in Berlin
Rahmenprogramm, Grosse Hamburger Strasse, Berlin
let’s start to implement little errors, Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin
Théorie des modèles, Art & Science:
trop simple, trop complexe, Espace
d’exposition de la HEAD, Geneva
Das Numen, HBC Berlin
2009
Neutrino/ en hommage à mon ami
Thomas Baumgartner, HBC, Berlin
Geist II, Friedrichstrasse 112B, Berlin
2008
géometria physiké, Galerie-Atelier
Oellermann, Berlin
Das Schilf, Joanna Render Galerie,
Berlin
Distinctions / Grants / Residences
2014
Nachwuchs Stipendium des Landes
Berlin
Shifting Foundation
Prix culturel Manor Vaud
DAS NUMEN Katalogfördeung der
Kulturverwaltung des Berliner Senats
2013
Kieferhablitzel Award
Artgrant Award
Regina Pistor Preis
IBB Preis für Photographie_
DAS NUMEN Projektfördeung der
Kulturverwaltung des Berliner Senats
KKWV University of the Arts project
support for Das Numen MOMENTUM
2012
Call for Future, ÜBER LEBENSKUNST, Das Numen, Kulturstiftung
des Bundes
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ACCROCHAGE [VAUD 2014]
THE EXHIBITION
The Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne this year presents its twelfth
annual exhibition of the contemporary art scene in the canton of Vaud, an exhibition of recent works by artists of different generations selected following a free
submission process by a jury of professionals. Whether a painting, a sculpture, a
photograph or a video, art which is being created in the canton is celebrated at the
Musée des Beaux-Arts to round off the year in style.
For the 2014 exhibition, 210 artists who are from or who live in the canton of
Vaud responded to the Museum’s invitation, submitting 503 paintings, sculptures,
drawings, photographs, performances, videos and installations. This year, the jury
tasked with making the selection included Aloïs Godinat, an artist from Lausanne;
Samuel Gross, director of the Speerstra Foundation in Apples; Felicity Lunn, director
of the PasquArt Centre in Biel/Bienne, and Sabine Rusterholz, director of the
Kunsthaus Glarus.
The jury chose 48 works produced by 32 artists.
SELECTED ARTISTS
Céline Amendola
Emmanuelle Antille
Sophie Ballmer
Delphine Burtin
Maëlle Cornut
Sylvain Croci-Torti
Nicolas Delaroche
Guillaume Dénervaud
Simon Deppierraz
Noémie Doge
Jacques Duboux
Livia Salome Gnos
Anne Hildbrand
Jean-Christophe Huguenin
Florian Javet and
Michael Rampa
Lucie Kohler
Stéphane Kropf
Mingjun Luo
Emanuele Marcuccio
Line Marquis
Genêt Mayor
Sébastien Mennet
David Monnet
Banu Narciso
Virginie Otth
Jérôme Pfister
Stéphanie Pfister
Nicolas Raufaste
Maya Rochat
Marie-Luce Ruffieux
Léonore Thélin
Arnaud Wohlhauser
The 2014 jury prize will be awarded on the day of the private viewing. The winner will
then join the roll-call of previous winners: Robert Ireland, Bernard Voïta, Yves
Mettler, David Hominal, Anne-Julie Raccoursier, Jean Crotti, Elisabeth Llach,
Pauline Boudry, Luc Aubort and Lukas Beyeler.
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LUKAS BEYELER. INSTANT WIN
PRIX DU JURY 2013
PRIX DU
JURY 2013
Winner of the 2013 jury prize, Lukas Beyeler was awarded the prize last year for
his video entitled Everyone Wants Me, It’s My Biggest Downfall. Born in Lausanne
in 1980, Lukas Beyeler trained at ECAL, where he was awarded the Manganel
prize on completing his studies, and has lived and worked in Zurich for a number of
years. His photographs and videos cast actors and friends from his circle in Zurich
in poses and scenarios which, as Florence Grivel writes in her contribution to the
catalogue, follow “a tradition which merges pop, gay glamour and eighties aesthetic
images.”
For his exhibition in Lausanne, Lukas Beyeler has created an environment from
scratch in which references to architecture and popular culture collide. A video
inspired by the frontage of the Ennis House by Frank Lloyd Wright in Beverly
Hills, which is famous for its relief ornamentation, is projected on the wall whilst
tiles produced by the artist on the same lines adorn a fake tomb in the centre of
the room. A corridor leading to this room, which is lined with Japanese pinball
machines, welcomes visitors. Japan is a major influence for the artist; he has been
fascinated since childhood both by the language – which he speaks fluently – and
by the gadgets manufactured in the country.
Lukas Beyeler will orchestrate performances to echo his installation both at the
private viewing and also as part of the Festival des créations emergentes Les
Urbaines in December 2014.
PUBLICATION
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication edited by the Museum, which
includes an interview with the artist by Florence Grivel.
Price: CHF 15.00
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LUKAS BEYELER
Born in Lausanne in 1980,
lives and works in Zurich.
www.lukasbeyeler.com
Studies
2001-2005 Ecole cantonale d’art de
Lausanne (ECAL)
2010
Luminous Darkness, The Horse Hospital,
London (video)
2009
Luminous Darkness, MIX22 NYC – The
New York Queer Experimental Film Festival,
New York (video)
2008
OUTFEST 2008 – The LA Gay & Lesbian
Film Festival, Los Angeles (video)
Nature Revisited, SUBSTITUT / Raum für
aktuelle Kunst aus der Schweiz, Berlin
(video)
2007
Emerging Artists Schweiz 06, Sammlung
Essl, Vienna (video & video installation)
Artseasons 2007, Cape Town (video)
2005
Editions ECAL du département arts visuels,
Galerie de Multiples, Paris
Editions ECAL du département arts visuels,
Espace lausannois d’art contemporain,
Lausanne, ELAC
2004
Rien ne va plus, 5ème Biennale d’art contemporain d’Enghien-les-Bains, Paris (performance)
Dirty Pair, Complices, Zurich (photographs
& performance)
Solo exhibitions
2014
Instant Win, Musée cantonal des BeauxArts, Lausanne (video & installation)
2012
Selected Works, The Horse Hospital, London (video)
I Am God, Wäscherei – Kunstverein, Zurich
(photographs)
2009
Selected Works, David Cunningham
Projects, San Francisco (video)
2005
Empty Dreams, White Space, Zurich (video
& installation)
Group exhibitions, screenings
2014
Suzanne Wright “Rainbow Control Room”,
Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles
(video)
2013
Accrochage [Vaud 2013], Musée cantonal
des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (video)
2012
3rd GIBSMIR Anonymous Art Auction, Zurich
(video)
Homoccult & Other Esoterotica, S & S Project Gallery, Chicago (video)
2011
Onedotzero_ch, Zurich Film Festival, Zurich
(video)
Tree Structure: GIBSMIR at Collective
Show, Los Angeles (installation)
Noël Noir, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
San Francisco (video)
GIBSMIR Anonymous Art Auction, K3 Project Space, Zurich (vidéo)
Ego, AKA 1st Year Anniversary, AKA Kunst &
Body Art, Berlin (video)
Awards
2013 Prix du Jury Accrochage [Vaud]
2005 Prix Manganel
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EVENTS
GUIDED TOURS
PERFORMANCES
– Thursday 6 November at 12.30 pm: a tour for the Friends of the Museum.
– Thursday 20 November at 6.30 pm: a tour with Samuel Gross, member of the jury of
Accrochage [Vaud 2014].
– Thursday 27 November and 18 December at 12.30 pm: a tour devised by the
Masters students on the TRANS course at the Haute école d’art et de design (HEAD)
in Geneva.
– Thursday 4 December at 12.30 pm
– Thursday 11 December at 6.30 pm
– Saturday 29 November at 3 pm.
Bored to Death, a musical performance by the Jetpack Bellerive ensemble
(Noëlle-Anne Darbellay, violin; Samuel Stoll, horn; Francisco Sierra, artist)
– Saturday 6 December.
Invited by the Festival des créations émergentes Les Urbaines, performances
organised by Lukas Beyeler at the Museum. Before/after: debate organised by
Masters students on the TRANS course at the HEAD in Geneva.
Details: www.urbaines.ch
PARENT/CHILD
DRAWING TOUR
DISCOVERY
BOOKLET
EDUCATIONAL
MATERIAL
Wednesday 19 November and 3 December, 3 – 4.30 pm.
Produce a travel diary together whilst touring the exhibition to explore contemporary
artistic worlds.
Tour followed by a snack.
Age 6+ (CHF 8.00 for 1 adult and 1 child, booking required, limited spaces)
Activities in the exhibition.
From 7 years, free
École-Musée, mini Accrochage [Vaud 2014] booklet
Available for download: www.vd.ch/themes/culture/ecole-musee/
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PRESS IMAGES
Visuals of the exhibitions will be available for download from 30 Octobre 2014 onwards:
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LUKAS BEYELER. INSTANT WIN
PRIX DU JURY ACCROCHAGE [VAUD 2013]
Lukas Beyeler présente François Sagat, 2014.
Photograph.
© Lukas Beyeler
JULIAN CHARRIÉRE. FUTURE FOSSIL SPACES.
PRIX CULTUREL MANOR VAUD 2014
Julian Charrière
The Key to the Present Lies in the Future,
2014.
Installation (24 broken hourglasses). Detail
© the artist
Julian Charrière
The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories, 2013.
Photographic documentation of a performative
expedition
© the artist, courtesy DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM,
Berlin
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