Silvie Defraoui

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Silvie Defraoui is a visual artist born in St. Gallen in 1935.^[1]

Biography[]

Silvie Defraoui spent her childhood in St. Gallen and in Grisons. She first studied painting at the l’école des Beaux-Arts d’Alger and later ceramics at the l’école des Arts décoratifs de Genève. Between 1975 and 1994 she worked together with Chérif Defraoui (Geneva 1932–1994).^[1] From 1974 to 1999 she taught at the l'Ecole supérieure d'art visuel de Genève (today the ), where in 1975 she established together with Chérif Defraoui, the Mixed Media Studio.^[2]

Solo exhibitions (selection)[]

• 1979, Cartographie des contrées à venir, Soares dos Reis National Museum, Porto
• 1989, Orient/Occident, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève / Musée Rath, Geneva.
• 1993, Les origines de la description, Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble.
• 1996, Bruits de surface, Mamco, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
• 2000, Nacht und Tag und Nacht, Helmhaus, Zurich
• 2004–2005, Archives du futur, ; Mamco, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
• 2009, Sombras electricas, , Paris

Group exhibitions (selection)[]

• 1976, Venice Biennial
• 1979, Photography as art, art as photography II und III, Gesamthochschule Kassel
• 1981, Ils se disent peintres, ils se disent photographes, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
• 1992, La Fontaine du désir, documenta IX, Kassel
• 1997, Magie der Zahl, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
• 1998, Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus, Zurich

Awards[]

• 2006, Kulturpreis of the City of St. Gallen^[3]

Publications[]

• Kihm, Christophe; Vögele, Christoph (2014). Silvie Defraoui. Und überdies Projektionen (Archives du futur). Zürich: Edition Fink. p. 96. ISBN 9783037461815.
• Bitterli, Konrad, editor (2004). Defraoui : archives du futur 1975 - 2004. Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst. p. 248. ISBN 9783936711325.

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