Nathalie Herschdorfer Photography curator Director Alt. +

Nathalie Herschdorfer
Photography curator
Director Alt. +1000 Festival, Switzerland
www.plus1000.ch
Curator / Director Switzerland
FEP Suisse / Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography
www.fep-paris.org
Was previously Curator at the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (1998-2010)
Exhibitions
2011
AfterDark
Curator
La Filature, Mulhouse, 2011
Facing Forward
Curator
The Forward Thinking Museum, 2011
2010
Engineering the Landscape
Curator
The Forward Thinking Museum, 2010
reGeneration : Tomorrow’s Photographers Today
Co-curator with William A. Ewing
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2010 / Rencontres d’Arles, France, 2010 /
Michaelis Art School, Cape Town, 2010 / Pingyao International Photography
Festival, China, 2010 / Flash Forward Festival, Toronto, 2010 / Miami Dade
College, Miami, 2010 / Aperture Foundation, New York, 2011 / Azzédine
Alaïa, Paris, 2011 / Caochangdi PhotoSpring Festival, Beijing, 2011
2009
Impression en continu. Steidl, l’art du livre
Co-curator with William A. Ewing
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2009 / La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, 2010
Stigmata
Curator
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, 2009
Carlo Valsecchi. Lumen
Curator
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2009 / Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, 2011
2008-2010
Edward Steichen. In High Fashion
Co-curator with Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing
(co-produced by the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne and the Foundation for the
Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis)
Kunsthaus Zürich, 2008 / Chiostri di San Domenico, Reggio Emilia, 2008 /
Museo del Traje, Madrid, 2008 / Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2008 /
International Center of Photography, New York, 2009 / Williams College
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Museum of Art, Williamstown MA, 2009 / Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2009
/ The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2010
2008
Teen City. L’aventure adolescence
Curator
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2008
Juraj Lipscher. Body Shops
Curator
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2008
2007-2008
Ray K. Metzker. Light Lines
Co-curator with William A. Ewing
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2007 / Fotomuseum Horten, Norway, 2008 /
Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, 2008
Edward Steichen. Lives in Photography
Co-curator with Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing
(co-produced by the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne and the Foundation for the
Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis)
Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2007 / Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2008 / Palazzo
Magnani, Reggio Emilia, 2008 / Museo nacional de centro de arte Reina
Sofía, Madrid, 2008
Valérie Belin
Co-curator with Els Barents and Jean-Luc Monterosso
(co-produced by Huis Marseille, Amsterdam and the Maison Européenne de
la Photographie, Paris)
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, 2007 / Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris,
2008 / Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2008
Leonard Freed. Worldview
Co-curator with William A. Ewing
(co-produced with Magnum Photos, Paris)
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2007 / Fotomuseum, La Haye, 2007 / C/O
Berlin, 2008
Brigitte Lustenberger
Curator
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2007
2006
Les péchés capitaux
Curator
Biennale de Nancy, 2006
Catherine Leutenegger. Hors-champ
Curator
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2006 / Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, 2008
2005-2009
reGeneration. 50 photographers of tomorrow
Co-curator with Jean-Christophe Blaser and William A. Ewing
Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, 2005 / Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, 2005 /
Aperture Foundation, New York, 2006 / Pingyao International Photography
Festival, China, 2006 / Art Institute of Boston, 2006 / Art Center College of
Design, Pasadena, 2007 / DeVos Art Museum, Marquette MI, 2008 / Fort
Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins CO, 2008 / Miami Dade
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College, Miami, 2008 / Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Portland OR,
2009 / Fotomuseum Horten, Norway, 2009
2003-2008
About Face. Photography and the Death of the Portrait
Co-curator with Jean-Christophe Blaser and William A. Ewing
Culturgest, Lisbon, 2003 / Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne / Hayward Gallery,
London, 2004 / Forma, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan, 2007 / Le
Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, 2008
Publications
2011
Afterwards
Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past
Thames & Hudson, London / New York / Paris, 2011
2010
reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today
« Discovering the shifting terrains of photography »
With William A. Ewing – Thames & Hudson, London and Paris, 2010 /
Aperture, New York, 2010
2009
Impressions en continu. Steidl, l’art du livre
With William A. Ewing – Steidl, Göttingen, 2009 / 2010
Philipp Schaerer
«When the virtual becomes real»
Standpunkte, Basel, 2009
Ole John Aandal. Juvenilia
«Capturing Unlikely Pictures»
With Susan Bright, Eva Loveid Molster, and Ole John Aandal – Teknisk
Industri, Oslo, 2009
Carlo Valsecchi. Lumen
«Matter, Colors, Light, and Other Arrangements»
With William A. Ewing – Hatje Cantz, Osterfildern, 2009
2008
Ray K. Metzker. Light Lines. A Retrospective
«Interview with Ray K. Metzker»
With William A. Ewing - Steidl, Paris and Göttingen, 2008
Juraj Lipscher. Body Shops
«Une hygiène de l’espace: Les lieux communs de Juraj
Lipscher»
Gwinzegal, Plouha (France), 2008
Edward Steichen. In High Fashion. The Condé Nast Years
«In the Days of Chic»
Edited by Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing - Armero Ediciones, Madrid /
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Stuttgart / Norton, New York / Skira, Milan / Thames &
Hudson, Paris and London, 2008
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Edward Steichen. Lives in Photography
«Chronology»
Edited by Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing - Armero Ediciones, Madrid /
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Allemagne / Skira, Milan / Thames & Hudson, Paris and
London, 2007 / Norton, New York, 2008
Leonard Freed. Worldview
«Wandering with a Purpose. Interview with Leonard Freed»
With William A. Ewing and Wim van Sinderen - Steidl, Paris and Göttingen,
2007
Valérie Belin
«Interview»
With Els Barents, Régis Durand, William A. Ewing and Jean-Luc Monteresso Steidl, Paris and Göttingen, 2007
2006
Face. The New Photographic Portrait
With William A. Ewing - Actes Sud, Arles / Contrasto, Rome / Thames &
Hudson, London, 2006 / Blume, Madrid, 2008
Catherine Leutenegger. Hors-champ
«The Scene of Photography»
With Philippe Kaenel - Infolio, Gollion, 2006
2005
reGeneration. 50 photographers of tomorrow
With Jean-Christophe Blaser and William A. Ewing - Thames & Hudson, Paris
and Londres, 2005 / Aperture, New York, 2006 / Akaaka, Tokyo, 2007 /
Seoul, 2008
Monique Jacot. Rétrospective
«Paysannes et ouvrières, le choix d’une femme photographe»
By Peter Pfrunder - Benteli Verlag, Bern / Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur,
2005
2000
The Century of the Body. Photographs 1900-2000
By William A. Ewing - Seemann, Leipzig / Thames & Hudson, Paris and
London, 2000
Lectures
2011
«Making Faces: the New Photographic Portrait»
University College London, London
2010
«Regards sur le paysage. Lorsque la photographie devient
ingénierie»
Lausanne Contemporain, Lausanne
«Ray K. Metzker, parcours d’un photographe entre la ville et la
nature»
Lyon Septembre de la Photographie, Ecole normale supérieure Lettres et
Sciences humaines, Lyon, France
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«Quel avenir pour la photographie émergente : reGeneration»
Journées de Bienne / Bieler Fototage, Biel, Switzerland
«The loan agreement» – Course in museology
Swiss museums associations, Musée Suisse du Jeu, Tour-de-Peilz,
Switzerland
2009
«reGeneration: A Process of Discovery»
Ryerson University, Toronto
«reGeneration: Looking Ahead with Emerging Photographers»
Fotomuseum Horten, Norway
2008
«On existe que si on est photographié»
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
«Le Musée de l’Elysée, ses collections »
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
With William A. Ewing, Daniel Girardin
«Le destin des images»
Lyon Septembre de la Photographie, Ecole normale supérieure Lettres et
Sciences humaines, Lyon, France
«The loan agreement» – Course in museology
Swiss museums associations, Le Château de Nyon, Switzerland
2007
«Le visage comme champ de bataille»
La Filature, Mulhouse
2006
«reGeneration: Looking Ahead with Emerging Photographers»
National Centre of Photography of the Russian Federation, Saint- Petersburg,
Russia
«Edward Steichen: Between Art and Commerce»
Pingyao International Photographic Festival, China
«The reGeneration project»
Pingyao International Photographic Festival, China
«Le théâtre de la photographie de Catherine Leutenegger»
Symposium, Les Gens d’Images, Nantes, France
«The loan agreement» – Course in museology
Swiss museums associations, Centre Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland
2004
«Le visage dans la photographie contemporaine»
Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne
2003
«Regards sur le corps dans la photographie du 20e siècle»
Colloque, Les Gens d’Images, Bordeaux, France
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Education
2003
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Training in Museology and Cultural Mediation
1996
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Master of Arts in Art History
1990-1995
Universities of Lausanne, Saint-Petersburg (Russia) and Zurich
Studies in Art History, Russian and History
March 2011