Education Solo Exhibitions

CLAUDIA COMTE
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 Visual Arts, l’Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, ECAL, Switzerland BA
Residencies and Fellowships
2015 Residency at The Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Russian Academy
of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2013 Residency at Swiss XXX, Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 Prix Kiefer Hablitzel
Prix Mobiliar
Support from the UBS Foundation for Contemporary Art
2011 Support from the Canton of Vaud
Support from the city of Lausanne
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
Solo Exhibitions
2016 “Inauguration of The Three Graces ,” London
“Le printemps de Septembre,” 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,” Konig Galerie, Berlin
2015 “NO MELON NO LEMON,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“The Fondue Party,” BolteLang, Zurich
“Sonic Geometry,” Galerie Art et Essaie, Rennes, France
“Story Bumping,” Milieu Galerie, Bern, Switzerland
“Sonic Geometry II,” BolteLang, Zurich
2014 “Fluide Glacial,” LISTE, with BolteLang, Basel, Switzerland
“Wir baden auf der Freianlage,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“Sharp Sharp,” David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom
“Easy Heavy III,” Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
2013 SUNDAY Art Fair, solo presentation with BolteLang, London
“All Work and All Play,” Toshiba House, Besançon, France
“Claudia Comte & Omar Ba,” Centre Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
“Wir baden auf der Freianlage,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“If I were a rabbit, where would I keep my gloves?,” BolteLang, Zurich
“X, Y, Z,” Friart, Centre d’Art de Fribourg, Switzerland
Summer Villa Extension, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
2012 “NO LEMON NO MELON,” Tripode, Nantes, France
“From Zanzibar to Acapulco,” SALTS, Basel
“Trouble Rainbow III,” 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, Rome
“IBIZA, Milieu Gallery,” Bern, Switzerland
“Trouble Rainbow II,” Favorite Goods, Los Angeles [traveled to: Galleria
Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome]
“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,” Galerie 20qmberlin, Berlin, Germany
“Installation in-situ,” % culturel, Fondation lausannoise pour l’art
contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland
“Naturalisés,” Musée Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
2008 “Inimitable,” Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, Switzerland
“Georges abstraction surface air,” Bureau des vidéos, Le George, Centre
Pompidou, Paris
Video projection, “«Rêves»,” Vitrine du Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
2007 “L’Echo,” Standard deluxe, Lausanne, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions
2016 Public Installation, Public Art Fund, Doris Freedman Plaza, New York
“Art Basel Miami Public,” curated by Nicolas Baume, Art Basel and The
Bass Museum of Art, Collins Park, Miami, Florida
“The Language of Things,” City Hall Park, New York
“Quiz 2,” Mudam, Luxembourg
“Conglomerate,” Kinderhook and Caracas, Berlin
2015 “Work Hard: Selections by Valentin Carron,” Swiss Institute Contemporary
Art, New York
“Reliability of Recognition,” BolteLang, Zurich
“Gargle/Spit,” TBD, New York
“My Lonely Days Are Gone Part 2,” Arratia Beer, Berlin
“Triennale de l’art imprime contemporain,” Musee des Beaux-Arts, Le
Locle, Switzerland
“Motiers Art en plein air,” Motiers, Switzerland
“Architecture & Nature,” Parc Domaine du Muy, Le Muy, France
“Full House,” Bunk Club at Shanaynay, Paris
“WLGTDWI – a performance event,” SALTS, Birsfelden, Switzerland
“Des Seins à Dessein,” Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
“Ligne Aveugle,” Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts, Besançon, France
“A M-erry X-mas S-how,” SALTS, Basel
2014 “Associations News,” Salts, Basel, Switzerland
“BolteLang Stadtbiotop 2014,” Eleonorenstrasse, Zurich
“Le Passage de L’Etoile,” Vevey, Switzerland
“Bex & Arts,” triennale de la sculpture Suisse, Bex, Switzerland
“Post-Op. Perceptual Gone Painterly / Du perceptuel au pictural. 1958 –
2014,” Galerie Perrotin, Paris
“Elevation 1049.2,” Gstaad, Switzerland
“Ars Multiplicata,” Kunsthalle Koidl, Berlin
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
“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
“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
Roma Art Fair, with 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
“Accrochage Vaud 2011,” Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne,
Switzerland
2010 “Jeune Création 2010,” Le CENTQUATRE, Paris
“Minipic,” Pauline’s, New York
“10 ans du MUDAC,” 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 [traveled
to: Vegas Gallery, London]
“Transit,” collective urbain exhibition, Renens, Switzerland
2008 “Patapsychique,” Bibliothèque du Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
“Le Spectrarium,” Pavillon Le Corbusier, Cité universitaire, Paris
“Made by ECAL,” Espace lausannois d’art contemporain, Renens,
Switzerland
“Zoo Art Fair,” 1m3 Gallery, London
“Abstraction-Extension,” Fondation Salomon, Alex, France
“That’s all Folks !,” Chez Popper, Geneva, Switzerland
“X,” galerie 1m3, La Diligence, Nice, France
2007 “Weihnachtsmarkt,” Milieu Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
“Athéne, Claudia, Orlane,” Milieu Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
Collections
Collection Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
The Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation, LA, USA
Fondation Salomon Art Contemporain, Annecy, France
Credit Suisse Collection, Switzerland
Art Collection Mobiliar, Switzerland
Nationale Suisse Art Collection, Switzerland
Collection of the Canton Zurich, Switzerland
Collection of the city of Lausanne, Switzerland
Collection of the city of Renens, Switzerland
Collection Ecole Cantonale d’Art Lausanne, Renens, Switzerland