Catherine Gfeller (born 5 March 1966) is a Swiss artist. She currently lives and works in Paris and Southern France after having lived in New York from 1995 to 1999.
Career
After a Master in Fine Arts in 1991 at the Universities of Neuchâtel and Lausanne, she devoted herself to photography. Gfeller traveled to many different continents (Europe, South Africa, Asia, South America, North America) to create large landscape triptychs (“A Matter of Landscape”). In 1995, she received a grant for a one-year residency in New York. There, she developed a printing technique which combines paper, monoprint and photography on the theme of urban landscape ("Urban Friezes").
In 1999 she was invited for a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris where she received the Photography Award from the HSBC Foundation. Paris inspires a new work (“Multi-Compositions”), focused on metaphorical urban subjects using various media: video, sound and the written word. Intimate spaces and daily gestures create new multi-layered compositions where urban rhythms still resonate as an acting presence (“The Insiders”, “Chimeras”, “Domestic Pieces”, “Waders”).
In 2010-2012 her monographic exhibition "Pulsations" was hosted by Museum of Fine Arts La Chaux-de-Fonds, Museum of Fine Arts KKL Luzern and Center of contemporary Arts Sète (South of France) .
Recent Projects:
2013: Film "Words of Artists/Portraits of Artists" (87 Min.), Swiss contemporary art, produced by Richard Dindo and Swiss Television RTS Zürich.
2014: Residency and exhibition at WAM Museum in Johannesburg.
2015: Dozen of artistic projects combining installation, performance, photography, video, radio and soundwalk, the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern (architect: Renzo Piano).
2017: "Voices in Kyiv" multi-media exhibition, Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2018: "Guangzhou Driftings" multi-media exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China. This project will continue with new themes in Hong Kong and Beijing in 2020.
Catherine Gfeller has exhibited extensively in Switzerland, France, Italy, England, Holland, Germany, Belgium, South America, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Ukraine and China. Her work belongs to private and public collections in Switzerland, France, England, Italy, Germany, Japan, Belgium and the United States. She regularly takes part in Art Fairs, such as ArtBasel, Kunst Zurich, Armory Show, la Fiac, Ljubjana Biennale and Art Bruxelles. Parallel to her exhibitions, Catherine Gfeller is invited to give lectures and workshops in universities.
She also produces large-scale commissions for public spaces.
Solo exhibitions
Information is from her own web site at catherinegfeller.com
1994
Galerie Fotoart Neugebauer, Basel, Switzerland
1995
The Matter of Landscape, Royal Pavilion and Art Museum, Brighton, England
1996
Landscapes, Center for Photography, Geneva, Switzerland
New York Façades, Villa du Jardin alpin, Meyrin, Genève
Six Chapel Row Gallery, Bath, England
1997
Frises Urbaines, Villa Le Corbusier (Centre Ebel), La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland Urban Friezes, Landon Gallery, New York The Matter of Landscape, Pennings Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1998
Landscapes, Centro cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Blancpain Stepczynski Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Urban Friezes, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
Natural and Urban Landscapes, La Maison française, New-York University, New York
Urban Friezes, The Landon Gallery, New York
1999
Urban Rituals, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia
Frises urbaines, Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris
Urban Rituals, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida
Urban Friezes, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamot Art Center, Los Angeles
Catherine Gfeller photography, Swiss Embassy, Paris
2000
FIAC, One-man-show C. Gfeller Carzaniga Gallery, Paris
Urban images Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida
School of Fine Arts, CCF Foundation for Photography, Dijon, France
Le Carré Gallery, CCF Foundation for Photography, Lille, France
La Filature Gallery, CCF Foundation for Photography, Mulhouse, France
Sur l’écran de la ville, Windows in Champs Elysées, Foundation HSBC Foundation for Photography, Paris