cabanne
Joëlle

Joëlle Cabanne was born in Geneva in 1976. After her artistic maturity at Voltaire College in 1997, she study art history and film history at the University of Lausanne and Geneva (1997-2000). Passionate about architecture, she continued her education at the EPFL (2000-2002) and then turned finaly to the Haute École d'Art et de design Genève HEAD where she obtained her Bachelor of Art in 2005. She She then works as an architect in Geneva and pursues her artistic activity in parallel. The line, and the notion of spatiality feeds her art and vice versa. For 7 years she taught the architecture  as well as volume and drawing at the CFPArts in Geneva. Insatiable, she pursues her path as an architect in parallel with her work as a visual artist, since she co-founded dasBureau a studio of architecture and urbanism. She is involved locally in several associations: Visarte-Genève, Vsi-asai, the Maison de l'Architecture and is vice-president of the association Madame Long: association for womxn in the founded in 2020.

Artist Practice

Joëlle's mediums are multiple, she creates her own tools from Balsa wood (flexible wood). Her practice goes from drawing to photography, cutting or inks on canvas and many others. Her series are always composed of several media (painting, drawings, and inks)

Joëlle Cabanne's work could be summed up in the words of Cézanne: caught up in the forms of nature mainly those resulting from its alpine and Tuscan universe, it reads them, decorates them, makes them its own and makes them her own and gives an account of them in her works through the prism of her sensations, of her emotion. Like Ferdinand Hodler in front of the grandiose of the Swiss mountains and lakes, she dives into the colored sensation of the landscape, in the effects of mists, in the lines of crests... thus making appear the landscapes as expressionist metaphors of vital energy. Joëlle Cabanne is part of the Sustainable Art Market (SAM) program, which engages artists in a in a process of ecological transition within their artistic practice. Each artist in the program this program develops a unique and solidary Partnership with an Association of support to the environment. As a SAM artist, Joëlle Cabanne collaborates and donates 10% of her sales to the association Pro Natura Switzerland.