Sandrine Pelletier is a swiss sculptor born in 1976. For over 20 years, she has been developing a protean body of work, using a wide and free range of techniques.
The artist provoke materials such as wood, glass and metal, giving shape to pieces that range from the minute to monumental
installations. While decay, metamorphosis of elements and telluric forces are the common thread running through her work, her reflections are always influenced by the ground and the origins of the people she meets, and by the poetry that continually accompanies her.
Always rooted in the contemporary world, Pelletier draws on the expression of raw energy to create works that reveal poetic fragility.
Represented in many public and private collections, her work has been exhibited in international institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Kunsthaus in Zurich and the MACAAL in Marrakesh.
She lives and works between Cairo and Lausanne.
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EDUCATION AND GRANTS
2023 Residency, Kiosko - Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2022 Residency, Matza - Medellin, Columbia
2021 Prix Buchet
2020 Grand Prix, Fondation Vaudoise pour la Culture
2019 Residency - Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels
2019 Residency - Beirut Art Center BAR, Beirut
2018 Artistic grant - SSG, Swiss Engraving Society
2018 Residency Matza Aletsch, Aletsch glacier, Switzerland
2015 Residency - Pro Helvetia, Cairo, Egypt
2014 Artistic grant Irène Reymond, Lausanne
2014 Bourse arts plastiques du Canton de Vaud
2014 Le Vent des Forêts, Meuse (France)
2013 Artistic grant Alice Bailly, Lausanne
2012 Cairo artist residency (CVC/SKK)
2004 Swiss Design Award, Bern
2002 ECAL, University of art and design, Lausanne (graphic design)
1999 CEPV, School of applied arts, Vevey (Scenography)
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SOLO SHOW
2024 Erode, Art Genève
2023 Ô Saisons! MAHN Neuchâtel
2022 Spicilèges, Rosa Turetsky gallery, Geneva
2020 Ferme Asile, Sion, Switzerland
2018 Psyché au Cyclop, Milly-la-Forêt, France. Curator: François Taillade
2017 Der Einzige Ort, Salle Poma, Pasquart, Biel
2017 Foreign Accent, Castle of Gruyères, Gruyères
2017 9.5 on Luther squale, church of Saint-François, Lausanne
2015 Opéra de Lausanne, Salon Alice Bailly, Lausanne
2015 Only The Ocean is Pacific, Musée des beaux-arts du Locle
2014 La Horde, Palexpo - art genève
2014 Masculine Moon, Rosa Turetsky gallery, Geneva
2009 Time To Clown Around, Taché-Levy gallery, Brussels
2009 GoodBye, Pieceunic galerie, Geneva
2009 Pays Extérieurs, Super Window Project, Kyoto
2008 Insekts, Fette’s gallery, Los Angeles
2006 Défi Fantastique, Centre culturel français de Milan
2006 Angoraphobia, Taché-Levy gallery, Brussels
2005 Damoisie, Frank Elbaz gallery, Paris
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SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2023 Something Else III, Cairo Biennal, Salah al- Din Citadel
2023 Art Geneva with Mario Mauroner gallery and Rosa Turetsky
2022 Golden Hour, Bloom gallery, Saint-Tropez, France
2022 Melting Pot, CACY, Yverdon-les-Bains
2022 Open End, Cimetière des Rois, Geneva
2022 Matza Medellin, Columbia
2020 Marguerite Burnat Provins, Jenisch museum, Vevey
2020 C'est certain, seul l'Amour sauvera le monde, Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2020 Villa Dei Cerdi, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Curator: Marco Costantini
2020 Have You Seen A Horizon, Lately? MACAAL, Marrakech. Curator: Marie-Ann Yemsi
2020 LEAF - Limited Edition Art Fair, Villa Empain, Brussels
Curator: Louma Salamé
2020 Art Geneva with Rosa Turetsy gallery
2019 MERDELAMERDELAMERDELAMERDEMERDELAMERDELAMERDELAMERDELA, Mario Mauroner Gallery, Vienna. Curator: Kendell Geers
2019 Get a Nerve, OFF art genève. Curator: Elena Montesinos
2019 Atlas, Cartographie du Don - MCBAL Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
2018 Something Else, Biennale OFF, Cairo, Egypt. Curator: Simon Njami
2018 Spectres, Ici gallery, Paris, France. Curator: Vincent Mesaros
2018 Art Paris, with Rosa Turetsky gallery, Geneva
2017 Capitule, with Alain Huck, cabinet du docteur MC Gailloud-Matthieu, Lausanne
2017 Crystal Palace, galerie Escougnou Cetraro, Paris
2017 Miroir Miroir, MUDAC Lausanne, Switzerland. Curator: Marco Costantini
2017 Jeunes pousses, Château de Vullierens, Switzerland. Curator: Karine Tissot
2016 Le retour des Ténèbres, Musée Rath, Geneva
2016 Malakoff mon amour, Maison des arts de Malakoff, France. Curator: M. Vertut
2016 Oshtoora 2016 - Fayoum desert, Egypt
2016 ON/OFF, Winterthur, with Simone Monstein
2016 Less Than Important, Studio Khana, Cairo
2015 Lady Made espace le carré, Lille, France. Curator: Renato Casciani
2015 Biennale OFF, Something Else, Cairo. Curator: Simon Njami
2015 Map of the new art, Imago Mundi, Fondazione Cini, Venice, Italy
2015 Possible...but uncertain, Saad Zaghloul center, Cairo
2014 Diorama, Le Vent des Forêts. With Olivier Ducret. Curator: Pascal Yonet
2014 Emergences Bex & Arts. With Olivier Ducret. Curators: J. Schupbach & N. Enz
2014 Telling Tales, Centre PasquArt, Biel
2013 Art Brussels, Super Window Project, Brussels
2013 Géométrie Variable, with Olivier Ducret, Domaine des Crayères, Reims
2013 I am your neighbourg! Bromer Art Collection (BAC), Roggwil
2012 Contemporain...ou bien? BCV art collection - Musée de l’Hermitage de Lausanne
2012 La Jeunesse est un art, Aargauer Kunsthaus. Curator: Madeleine Schuppli
2011 Bourses, centre d’art contemporain de Genève (CAC)
2011 De l’hétérogène, Art & Rapy x Super Window Project, Monaco
2011 Incongru, Musée des Beaux Arts de Lausanne (mcb-a)
2011 Les Nuits Parisiennes, L’éclaireur, Paris. Curators: Marie-Ann Yemsi, Agnès Violeau
2011 Echoes, centre culturel suisse (CCS), Paris
2010 Black Mirror, Arsenic, Lausanne. Curator: Marco Costantini
2009 Art Osaka, with Super Window Project, Kyoto
2009 Fiber show, Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery, New York
2009 La marque jeune, musée d’ethnographie, Neuchâtel
2007 Serie Noire, Villa Bernasconi, Geneva. Curator: BySelf, Marseille
2007 Nit/Threads, Koroska Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec, (Slovenia)
2007 Eau Sauvage part II, Fieldgate gallery, Londres. Curators: Jean-Luc Manz, Juan Bolivar, Marco Costantini
2004 Unpainted, Villa Grisebach, Berlin
2004 Swiss design, winner of the federal design competition, Museum Bellerive, Zürick
2003 Lee 3 Tau Ceti Central Armory Show, Villa Arson, Nice. Curateurs: Stéphane Magnin and Laurence Gateau
2003 Signes des écoles d’arts, Centre national d’art moderne Georges Pompidou, Paris
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SCENOGRAPHY
2023 Correspondances, Caroline2cornière
2019 Le Cabaret des Réalités, cie Un Air de Rien, Lausanne
2014 La Boutique Fantastique, Puppet compagnie Chamarbellclochette, Geneva
2010 Femme de, cie Caroline de Cornière, Geneva
2010 Sanctuary, Cavalera conspiracy video clip. Directed by Surface to Air, Paris
2005–2008 Tsumori Chisato Store, Paris
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LECTURES, JURYS AND WORKSHOPS
ENBA (Lyon), HEAD (Geneva), ESAH (Le Havre), STUDIO KHANA (Cairo) EDHEA (Sierre)
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