HIGHER EDUCATION
1989 - National Diploma of Arts and Techniques - Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Valence
1987 - Bachelor’s Degree in Art - Grenoble School of Fine Arts
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
2006 / 2020 - Chinese calligraphy and painting - Geneva & Shaoxing University / China
2012 / 2016 - Chinese language level 3 HSK - University of Geneva
1996 / 2006 - Tai chi Chuan - Grenoble / Paris
1987 / 1988 - Latin calligraphy - Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Valence
1980 / 1996 - Contemporary dance - Grenoble / Paris / Valence
CAREER PATH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2017 / 2021 - Teacher of the Portrait Workshop and online courses - CHEMINEE NORD Geneva
2015 / 2017 - Teacher of the Artist’s Book Publishing Workshop CITE SENIORS Geneva
2015 / 2017 - Art therapy instructor - CENTRE D’EDUCATION ET THERAPIE COGNITIVE Geneva
2015 / 2017 - Teacher of calligraphy workshops - ECOLE INTERNATIONALE Geneva 1998 / 2016 - Head of the Graphic Design department - IPAC DESIGN Geneva
- Teacher - Graphic design department - IPAC DESIGN Geneva
2001 / 2004 - Visual art teacher - INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL Geneva
1993 / 2010 - Graphic designer and illustrator - INDEPENDANTE Paris & Geneva
1988 / 1993 - Art director at SAATCHI & SAATCHI Paris
Depuis juin 2018 - Présidente de Visarte Genève
Referencing SIKART / www.sikart.ch
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SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2022 - L’ATELIER GALERIE / Berlin
2021 - In the footsteps of the Deserter - Residence and exhibition - LEZ’ARTS - Condémines / Nendaz
2021 - 5 faces raised to the sky - Salles des invalides, FORT L’ECLUSE - Léaz
2021 - ARTSIGHT GALLERI - Stockholm
2021 - GALERIE KAMINSKA & STOCKER - Yverdon-Les-Bains
2020 - Zoonographies - S. Wozniak & V. Hadengue - CENTRE CULTUREL DU MANOIR - Cologny
2020 - Dolos and Apaté - GALERIE KAMINSKA & STOCKER - Yverdon
2019 - BANQUE CREDIT AGRICOLE INDOZUEZ WEALTH MANAGEMENT - Geneva
2019 - See and be seen - S. Wozniak & N. Schippof - GALERIE RUINE - Geneva
2019 - Looking at the sky - GALERIE ANDATA RITORNO - Geneva
2018 - LD Fontana, JP Bolle & S Wozniak - LE PONT DES ARTS - Seyssel
2017 - Dance, trace and fragment - VISARTE ESPACE RUINE - Geneva
2017 - Sons of the Dawn - GALERIE RUINE - Geneva
2016 - Duality - GALERIE D10 - Geneva
2001 - Families, I’m filming you / Video - COLLOQUE DE SEYSSEL - Seyssel
2000 - Domestic images / Video installation - GRÜTLI - Geneva
1999 - Les actes de montrer / Installation and image catalogues - GRÜTLI - Geneva
1998 - Density - ESPACE DANSE CONTEMPORAINE - Valence
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 - In-between - CASTELLO DEL MONFERRATO / Italy
2022 - In-between - CHEMINEE NORD - Geneva
2021 - BIENNALE USINE KUGLER - Geneva
2020 - Artistedici - Exhibition in the public space - Fond Municipal d’Art Contemporain - Geneva
2020 - Linked to our soil - CHAPELLE SAINT-MAURICE - Alby-sur-Chéran
2020 - Wild life - FONDERIE KUGLER - Geneva
2020 - Vol d’encre - GRÜTLI - Genève
2019 - Sacred fire - BIENNALE USINE KUGLER - Geneva
2019 - Chinese calligraphy in Switzerland - Fujing MUSEUM - China
2019 - Hissez haut (36 flags on the Chauderon bridge) - Lausanne
2019 - Murmurs - CHAPELLE SAINT-MAURICE - Alby-sur-Chéran
2019 - Preliminaries - VILLA DUTOIT - Visarte.Genève
2019 - Tauwetter (thaw) - GARAGE 19 - Geneva
2019 - Big Paintings - GALERIE FRANÇOIS FONTAINE - Satigny
2018 - Chinese Calligraphy in Switzerland - MUSEE DE SHAOXIN - China
2018 - Art between 46°1 and 13°4 n - ECURIES DU CHATEAU - Samoëns
2018 - Macadam - VILLA DUTOIT - Geneva
2017 - Utopik Parc - BIENNALE USINE KUGLER - Geneva
2017 - My Art Goes Boom - JORIS BRANTUA AT LA VILLA DUTOIT - Geneva
2017 - Portrait Gallery - VILLA DUTOIT - Geneva
2017 - SEA(S) - IONION CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND CULTURE - Greece
2017 - Frozen feet under dried torrent, red sunset without its own dawn, let the wind crack the frosted stone - LISTRIK - Montreux
2017 - Living in the world - VILLA DUTOIT - Geneva
2016 - My Art Goes Boom - GARAGE 19, USINE KUGLER - Geneva
2016 - Cross Border Experiment - GALERIE LATELIER - Sète
2015 - Chinese Calligraphy in Switzerland - MUSEE DE SHAOXIN - China
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EDITIONS
2017 - Portraits - Leporello rice paper - Artist’s book (unique piece) - Ruine Gallery Geneva
2017 - Transparent collection / Artist’s book - Listrik Edition - Montreux
2015 - My child... my battle by Gérard Chatel (Pediatric cancer, help for parents) Photographs and layout - Medical Edition
2015 - I met Fritz in a bicycle shop - Text/Illustration/Layout Self-publishing
2006 - Soft resistance - Novel - Self-publishing
LINKS
Démesures, film de Patrick Herzig, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQcTpo6AAko
RTS Nendaz - https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=M4pax8CDw2P
Artistes d’ici - Fond municipal d’art contemporain Genève https://www.rts.ch/play/tv/redirect/detail/1247251
FCAC - Artistes d’ici / Interview Leman bleu:
https://fb.watch/2u_DYfYlr6/
Video of Joris Brantuas realised within the framework of «My Art Goes boom»:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xXVgEDKgXI
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PRESENTATION
At first she danced.
Now she defines emotion as mobility.
Trained in different disciplines, she studied the relationship between them: contemporary dance, Tai Chi Chuan, Chinese calligraphy and painting. All these disciplines are for her forms of writing of the gesture. The imprint (the act of pressing), then the trace (the act of moving) and finally the writing (the act of composing) represent the process of memorising the movement. She points out that, contrary to all expectations, movement is not self-affirmation because it is already there in the breath; it is because it escapes us that it must be written.
The body takes a central place in his work very early on.
The face, which groups together all the organs of communication and is the only part of the body that is always visible, appears to her as an omnipresent reference point.
She paints what is warm and breathes: animals, people, but more obsessively, faces. She is eagerly immersed in a serial production and evolves in the «motional» flow of others. For several years, the portrait and all its natures have been the object of a long study and this slow exploration feeds her love for the being and its movements, a love that never ceases to grow.
She works on very large formats, penetrating the moving flesh of her subjects.
Various living mediums such as bitumen or black ink allow such body to body contact, but her attraction for oil paint is even stronger.
His painting mixes transparency and opacity. The earthy colour sometimes refers to ancient times.
It is rare that the canvases remain fixed to the wall. She undoes, reverses and upsets what has been stopped.
The staging questions the canvas for what it supports and proposes a story in which the human being is irrevocably confronted with himself.
She works in the Kugler factories. Her research sometimes leads to large installations.
L’Atelier du portrait, opened in 2017, is an extension of her studio to the outside world.
Since 2018, Sylvie Wozniak is president of Visarte.Genève, the association of Swiss professional visual artists.)
