Favre understands painting to be its own language, and it is the disruption that happens at the point of translation from idea to form that drives her artistic practice. She paints without preliminary sketches. She lays out her setting and then puts in the individual figures, which she is constantly correcting. The great narrative power and aura of her paintings result from its teeming composition, its imaginative richness and expressive treatment of the paint (colours, drips, impasto, accidents).
Valérie Favre (born in 1959, Neuchâtel Switzerland, lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Neuchâtel, Switzeralnd), initially pursued a career in theater after completing her training in the early 1980s, before fully dedicating herself to painting. Since 1998, she has been teaching painting at the UDK University of the Arts in Berlin.
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Bateau des poètes (Maryline Monroe; Guy Debord), 2022
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Bateau des Poètes (Olena Teliha, Anna Yablonskaya, David Bergelson, 2021/2022
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Bateau des poètes (Cesare Pavese, Georg Trakl), 2021
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De cornes et de bois/ Hörner und Geweih, 2020
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Bateau des poètes (Unica Zürn, Diane Arbus, Wladimir Majakowski), 2020
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Schimären - Chimères - Bleibox, 2019-2021
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Kosmos, 2019
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Engel, 2018
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Self-portrait after De Chirico, Le Vaticinateur, 1915 (female), 2017
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Self-portrait after Cocteau with Masque d'Orphée, by Berenice Abbot, 1927, 2017
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Self-portrait after Hugo Ball, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (1916) (VIII), 2017
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Ghost (nach Goyas Hexenflug), 2016
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Balls and Tunnels, 2015
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Das Bukett (La fragilité des fleurs), Nr. 3, 2012
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Rotkäppchen (Variation), 2012
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Selbstmord (Suicide), 2008-2013
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Lapine Univers Big Zirkus I, 2008
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30 Years Anniversary Exhibition
Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Rämistrasse, Zurich
3 Sep - 14 Oct 202230 Years Anniversary Exhibition Rita Ackermann (*1968 Budapest), Francis Alÿs (*1959 Antwerpen), Maja Bajevic (*1967 Sarajevo), Hernan Bas (*1978 Miami), Armin Boehm (*1972 Aachen), Marc Bauer (*1975 Genf), Monica Bonvicini...Read more -
(Un)certain Ground
Centre Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland 3 Jul - 4 Sep 2022No other artistic medium has experienced so many positive as well as negative attributions as painting. No longer a dominant art form, it has nonetheless remained a key reference for...Read more -
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Bateaux des poètesGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
11 Jun - 24 Jul 2021For Favre, painting is a language of its own that initiates a dialogue of imagination and visual sensations with the viewer. Like a poet or thinker, she inserts her 'words'...Read more -
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Le désir d’éternité, un arrangementNeue Galerie, Gladbeck, Germany
7 Sep - 2 Nov 2018Constitutive for the new paintings is an interior that is somewhere between a banquet hall and a doll's house and, in the gestural impasto on the one hand and the...Read more -
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Une exposition monographiqueMusée d'art et d'histoire, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
10 Dec 2017 - 17 Aug 2018La production de Valérie Favre reflète la force d’un imaginaire nourri de références constantes et déclarées à la géopolitique, au cinéma, à la littérature et à l’histoire de l’art, utilisées...Read more -
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Make-upGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
25 Feb - 1 Apr 2017'Valérie Favre makes herself a cubist costume out of cardboard and has herself photographed. Based on this photograph, she paints a cycle of eight self-portraits. This is the first time...Read more -
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La Première Nuit du mondeMusée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France
25 Nov - 27 Mar 2015Valérie Favre returns to Strasbourg with an exhibition conceived around her latest work, a tribute to Maurice Blanchot inspired by her reading of Thomas l'obscur. Fascinated by this strange story,...Read more -
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Selbstmord. SuicideNeuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
8 Jun - 28 Jul 2013The 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...Read more -
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PaintingsGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
18 Jan - 23 Feb 2013How can one die? Over the last ten years Valérie Favre has occupied herself with the motif of suicide and has created over one hundred small-format paintings on the subject...Read more -
Three Statements in Painting
Francis Alÿs, John Armleder, Valérie FavreGalerie Peter Kilchmann, Zahnradstrasse, Zurich
15 Apr - 28 May 2011With Francis Alÿs, John Armleder and Valérie Favre, Peter Kilchmann is pleased to present three artists who all also work in the medium of painting, yet have very singular positions....Read more -
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VisionsKunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
24 Oct 2009 - 7 Feb 2010Valérie Favre’s serial working method testifies to the significance of the media of literature, theatre and film to her work and, along with the violent painting, to an intense engagement...Read more
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Valery/ Plattform 1 / Exil, 2021 Texts by Valerie Favre, Angela Lammert, Interview with Annette TietzGalerie Pankow, Berlin
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2017 Texts by Antonia Nessi, Peter Fischer, Alain Quemin, Sylviane Dupuis, Thomas FacchinettiMusée d’art et d’histoire, Neuchâtel
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2016 Text by: Beate EickhoffVon der Heydt-Kunsthalle, Wuppertal
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La première nuit du monde, 2015 Texts by Corine Pencenat, Daniel Payot and Heike Fühlbrugge, with an interview by Joëlle Pijaudier-Cabot and Estelle PietrzykMusée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg
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Selbstmord. Suicide, 2013 Texts by Marius Babias, Elisabeth BronfenN.B.K., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
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Visions, 2009 Texts by Beatrice von Bismarck, Claire Brunet, Françoise Cohen, Peter Fischer, Jürgen Harten und Jacqueline LichtensteinKunstmuseum Luzern, Carré d’Art Musée d’Art contemporain
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2008 Kunstverein Ulm, 2008 Read more