Denise Bertschi

NAMIB. Raw Cut (2018), Film, 60 min., film still

Lokal-Int. Biel/Bienne,

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Helvécia, Brazil, 3-screen video installation, video still

Landesmuseum Zürich, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Salts Basel,Johann Jacobs Museum Zürich,

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Helvécia, Brazil, Exhibition view, 3-/ and 2-screen video installation, embroidered textile works

Aargauer Kunsthaus, image credit: Timo Uhlmann

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Helvécia, Brazil, Research project, 3-screen video installation

Landesmuseum Zürich, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Salts Basel,Johann Jacobs Museum Zürich, Denise Bertschi

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Helvécia, Brazil, Research project, 3-screen video installation

Landesmuseum Zürich, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Salts Basel,Johann Jacobs Museum Zürich, Denise Bertschi

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Denise Bertschi, "STATE FICTION. The Gaze of the Neutral Swiss Mission in the Korean Demilitarized Zone", Monographic publication

Published by Centre de la Photographie, Geneva (2021), Winner of "MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS" 2021 (©NASK)

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Denise Bertschi, "STATE FICTION. The Gaze of the Neutral Swiss Mission in the Korean Demilitarized Zone", Monographic publication

Published by Centre de la Photographie, Geneva (2021), Winner of "MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS" 2021 (©NASK)

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Denise Bertschi, "STATE FICTION. The Gaze of the Neutral Swiss Mission in the Korean Demilitarized Zone", Monographic publication

Published by Centre de la Photographie, Geneva (2021), Winner of "MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS" 2021 (©NASK)

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OASIS OF PEACE. Neutral Only on the Outside, Solo exhibition, curated by Claire Hoffmann

CCS Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, image credit: Tristan Savoy

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STATE FICTION. Neutral Only on the Outside, Installation view, film projection

CCS Center Culturel Suisse Paris, Fotomuseum Winterthur, image credit: Tristan Savoy

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STATE FICTION. Neutral Only on the Outside, Film, 70 min., based on archival material

CCS Center Culturel Suisse Paris, Fotomuseum Winterthur, © Bibliothek am Guisanplatz, Bern

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STATE FICTION. Neutral Only on the Outside, Film, 70 min., based on archival material

CCS Center Culturel Suisse Paris, Fotomuseum Winterthur, © Bibliothek am Guisanplatz, Bern

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Denise Bertschi. STRATA. Mining Silence (2020), Artist monograph, edited by Yasmin Afschar

Aargauer Kunsthaus, Edition Fink Zürich, Design & image credit: Stoecklin & Wilson Gmbh Zürich

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Denise Bertschi. STRATA. Mining Silence (2020), Artist monograph, edited by Yasmin Afschar

Aargauer Kunsthaus, Edition Fink Zürich, Design & image credit: Stoecklin & Wilson Gmbh Zürich

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Denise Bertschi. STRATA. Mining Silence (2020), Artist monograph, edited by Yasmin Afschar

Aargauer Kunsthaus, Edition Fink Zürich, Design & image credit: Stoecklin & Wilson Gmbh Zürich

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CONFIDENTIAL, Video installation

Swiss Art Awards, BAK

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CONFIDENTIAL, Video installation

Swiss Art Awards, BAK

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CONFIDENTIAL (2018), 3-screen video installation

Alte Fabrik, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur,

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CONFIDENTIAL (2018), 3-screen video installation, video still

Swiss Art Awards, CCS Paris, Alte Fabrik Rapperswil, Artivist Johannesburg,

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CONFIDENTIAL (2018), 3-screen video installation, video still

Swiss Art Awards, CCS Paris, Alte Fabrik Rapperswil, Artivist Johannesburg,

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Neutrality as an Agent (2018), Solo exhibition, installation view

CCS Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, image credit: Tristan Savoy

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Neutrality as an Agent (2018), Exhibition view, detail of wallpaper

CCS Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, image credit: Tristan Savoy

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We say we are fine, they say we are not, Artist book (awarded Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2018)

Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil,

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"We say we are fine, they say we are not" (2018), Exhibition view, detail artist publication

CCS Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, image credit: Tristan Savoy

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Neutrality as an Agent: Please ensure the gate is properly closed, Exhibition view, detail of photography series

Center Culturel Suisse Paris, (image credit: Tristan Savoy)

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Neutrality as an Agent. Clarens–Clarens, Exhibition view, detail of archival table

AlteFabrik Rapperswil,

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Haunting Home. MANOR ART PRIZE (2020), Solo exhibition

Aargauer Kunsthaus, image credit: Timo Uhlmann

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Haunting Home. MANOR ART PRIZE (2020), Solo show, exhibition view, textiles works coloured with brazilin

Aargauer Kunsthaus, image credit: Timo Uhlmann

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Haunting Home. MANOR ART PRIZE (2020), Solo exhibition, photographic series

Aargauer Kunsthaus, image credit: Timo Uhlmann

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Haunting Home. MANOR ART PRIZE (2020), Solo exhibition, video installation

Aargauer Kunsthaus, image credit: Timo Uhlmann

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Polyphonie auf dem Zauberberg: Klimakrise, koloniale Vergangenheit, Enrichissement – Die Verantwortung von Architektur und Architekturschaffenden, Discussion with Denise Bertschi, Marcel Hänggi, Cathérine Hug, Jakob Tanner, Christoph Keller (Mod.)

BSA Bund Schweizerischer Architektinnen und Architekten,

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PLANTA(tions) (2021), Video installation about Villa Planta's entanglement with Egyptian Cotton plantations by the Von Planta family

Bündner Kunstmuseum, In collaboration with Alaa Abdelhamid (Cairo)

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Villa Bleuler Talks "Wer schafft Wissen?", Discussion with Denise Bertschi and Sally Schonfeldt

SIKArt Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstgeschichte Zürich,

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Cracks in appearances, representations slipping in and out of reality, and gaps in historiography are all of interest to the artist-researcher Denise Bertschi (*1983, Aarau/CH). Working at the intersection of art, architecture and history, she seeks to render visible the links between Switzerland and planetary geopolitical spaces. To this end, she retraces places of Swiss colonial entanglements and ambivalent relations in the world of economics and culture, while calling into question narratives of nationalism and the notion of neutrality. As a doctoral researcher, she transforms tools of historians, anthropologists, or investigative journalists into her unique artistic research methodology, while creating installations and videos in which critical investigations of places and of visual culture commingle with oral history of the people she encounters.

Denise Bertschi's multi-awarded artistic research practice is exhibited widely in Switzerland and beyond and was repeatedly supported by funding grants (by Pro Helvetia, Getty Research Institute, SNF or the Aargauer Kuratorium). She was awarded the Manor Art Prize in 2020 and nominated for the Swiss Art Awards in 2019. Two of her monographic publications received the "Most Beautiful Swiss Books" in 2019 and 2022. She is part of the Kiefer Hablitzel Göhner Prize jury (Swiss Art Awards) since 2021 and currently conducts her doctoral research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, in collaboration with Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design (HEAD) in Geneva.

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