Portrait
Vita
// Sophie Bouvier-Ausländer / vita
| 1970 | born in Switzerland |
| 1989-90 | École cantonale d’art de Lausanne, ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art Lausanne), foundation year |
| 1990-92 | École nationale supérieure d’arts visuels de la Cambre, Painting department, Brussels |
| 1998-2000 | Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London; Textile Design, Design for Textile Futures, PGDip with distinction |
| 20013-19 | Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, PhD (part-time), led research (On Tangibility / contemporary reliefs and continuous dimensions) |
Currently lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland and London, UK.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
| 2020 | Words, Works, Worlds, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art |
| 2019 | Words, Works, Worlds, Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Lausanne |
| Mare Vostrum, Musée des beaux-arts du Locle, Le Locle | |
| 2018 | Avalanche, Davidson Contemporary, New York |
| Night Shift, solo booth with Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Art Genève, Geneva | |
| 2017 | Resident, Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Lausanne |
| Avalanche, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London | |
| Avalanche, Fondation Louis Moret, Martigny | |
| 2016 | The Snake of Maloja, Galerie Sobering, Paris |
| Tepid Water, The Great Pacific War, Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Lausanne | |
| 2014 | Lost, Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Lausanne |
| Hotel Ausland, Musée d’art de Pully | |
| 2013 | A Space Odyssey, Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Brussels |
| Le Monde comme sculpture, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne | |
| 2012 | Persogéo, Espace Echallens 13, Lausanne |
| 2010 | Linea, Galerie davel14 with Gilles Porret (édition), Cully |
| essetiV, Centre d’art, L’Attrape-Couleurs, Lyon | |
| 2009 | Originel, Fondation Louis Moret, Martigny |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
| 2022 | Walking the Line XI – Cut, Torn and Folded, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne / D |
| 2021 | Les Résistant, L’Onde, Paris |
| 2019 | Atlas. A cartography of Donation, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne |
| Women to Watch / Paper Work, Sotheby’s London, London | |
| Should I Stay or Should I Go?, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art London | |
| 2018 | Redress, UCL Art Museum, London |
| Over het verlangen en de troost, Watou Kunst Festival Richochet, Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Yverdon-Les-Bains | |
| 2017 | Das Esszimmer, Weltraum, Basel |
| The Intercontinental, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and Roaming Room, London | |
| Climax, Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Lausanne | |
| 2016 | Dimensione Disegno. Posizione Contemporanee, Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzone |
| Charcoal Works, Hardwick Gallery, University of Gloustershire | |
| 2015 | Lignes (É)mouvantes with Gary Woodley, Gallery Épisodique, Paris |
| Harnessing the Wind, Beaconsfield, London, with Ellie Harris, Monika Oechsler and Naomi Siderfin | |
| Je me souviens du génocide arménien, La Traverse – CAC, Alfortville | |
| Departures, European House, London | |
| 2014 | Quand L’Art se livre, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle |
| 2013 | Trait Papier, un essai sur le dessin contemporain, Centre d’art d’Yverdon-les-Bains and Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal |
| 2012 | Atlas at last, grandes galeries ESADHaR, Rouen |
COLLECTIONS
Musée Jenisch Vevey (don de la Fondation Lélo Fiaux), Switzerland
Cleveland Clinic, USA
Frankel Collection, USA
Crédit Suisse, Switzerland
Caldic Collectie, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
Musée d’Art Pully, Switzerland
Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle, Switzerland
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
Fonds d’art visual (F.A.V.) de la ville d’Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
Fonds des Arts Plastiques de la ville de Lausanne, Switzerland
Sophie Bouvier Ausländer
Avalanche
2018, gouache on waxed map, 34 x 30 cm
Sophie Bouvier Ausländer
Avalanche
2018, gouache on waxed map, 32 x 28 cm
Sophie Bouvier Ausländer
Avalanche
2017, gouache on paper, 50 x 40 cm
Sophie Bouvier Ausländer
Avalanche
2019, gouache on waxed map, 55 x 39