Andriu Deplazes Born 1993 in Zurich, Switzerland

Lives and works in Marseille, France

Deplazes expands it all: nature, which otherwise frequently appears in the form of lush forests and meadows but also flat, sparse moorland, becomes rockier and more mountainous and seems to shift human bodies and animals more intensely into the foreground. Deplazes imbues the rather serious and pensive looking characters with gently insinuated humour. The scenes that at first glance seem strange, on closer inspection open up many-layered levels of meaning and point to the artist’s deep cultural-historical knowledge which he transposes into a very contemporary visual language.

 

Andriu Deplazes (born 1993 in Zurich) lives and works in Marseille. Currently, fours paintings from 2017 to 2023 are exhibited in the group show "Apropos Hodler" in Kunsthaus Zurich. In 2023, a monographic catalog of his work was published on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy, and is available at the gallery. Deplazes has had three solo exhibitions at Galerie Peter Kilchmann ( in Zurich 2020, 2021 and in Paris in 2023). In 2020 he had a solo show at S11, Solothurn, Switzerland. Further solo exhibitions include: Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, Switzerland (2019); Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, Germany (2018); Mark Lungley, London (2018); Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (2018). In 2021, Deplazes designed a “cabinet” presentation for Art Basel Miami. Deplazes also exhibited his work in numerous group exhibitions, including VFO Kunsthalle Zurich, Musee Pasquart Bienne, Museum Gertsch, Burgdorf, Museum zu Aller Heiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland (2022); at the Bregaglia Biennale, Val Bregaglia, Switzerland (2022); in Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2020); at the Pully Museum, Pully, Switzerland (2020); at the Center for Contemporary Art Futura, Prague (2020); in the Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil, Switzerland (2019); in the Helvetia Art Foyer, Basel (2017); at CC Strombeek, Brussels (2017); at the Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil, Switzerland (2016). In 2024, the Kunsthaus Zurich will show works by Deplazes as part of an exhibition dedicated to Ferdinand Hodler. From 2015 to 2018, Deplazes lived in Brussels and studied at the Sint Lukas LUCA School of Arts. In 2016, Deplazes completed his studies in fine arts at the Zurich University of the Arts and has since won several awards, including the Prix d'Art Manor (2019) and the Visarte Atelier Cité des Arts, Paris scholarship (2021).