Valérie Favre: Selbstmord. Suicide

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

The second group of works still/leben (de la fragilité des fleurs n°5) (2013), which was created especially for the exhibition, consists of large-format canvases as well as a collection of small format paintings and addresses the creative process of the artist. In preparation for her exhibition at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, for three months every day, Favre painted a new still life of a flower arrangement in her studio. She illustrates the dimension of time within the project in a diary-like style, with one brush stroke at a time on large format canvases. From the multitude of the small still lifes, one will be selected on every day of the exhibition and presented in the exhibition space.

 

Valérie Favre (b. 1959 in Evilard, Switzerland) teaches as a professor of painting at the University of Arts in Berlin since 2006. From 1980 to 1998 Favre lived in Paris, where she became one of the most important painters of France. Since 1998, she has been living and working in Berlin. In 2012 she was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp. Lately her works were exhibited at: Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (2012); Märkisches Museum Witten (2012); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2012); Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine (2010); K21, Dusseldorf (2010); Museum of Art Lucerne (2010); Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin (2009); Museu de Arte de São Paolo (2009); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009); Carré d’Art – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes (2009); Kunstverein Ulm (2008) among others.

 

Curator: Marius Babias