Denise Bertschi*1983 (Aarau) is an artist based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
MANOR Kunstpreis 2020, Aargauer Kunsthaus
MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS, 2018 with "We say we are fine. They say we are not."
PRO HELVETIA, South Africa, Johannesburg, Studio Residency (2017)
NAB FÖRDERPREIS, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Auswahl 16 (2016)
NAIRS Contemporary Art Center, Scuol/Engadin, Switzerland (2016)
2018–22
PhD candidate EPFL/EDAR Lausanne in collaboration with HEAD – Genève
2015– 2019
Assistant at Master for contemporary artistic practices, HEAD - Genève, WorkMaster
Associate PhD-Forum CCC, HEAD - Genève
Swiss Art Awards
11.–16.06.2019
Messehalle Basel
Most Beautiful Swiss Books
(with We say we are fine. They say we are not.
Self-published, 2018)
20.06.2019
Helmhaus Zürich
NEUTRALITY AS AN AGENT
Artivist, Braamfontein
Johannesburg South Africa
05.09.–30.10.2018
«FOREVER OR IN A HUNDRED YEARS –
Denise Bertschi (CH) and Inas Halabi (Palestine)»
15.9. – 28.10.2018
*ALTEFABRIK, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil
duo show, curated by Josiane Imhasly
MOBILE WELTEN
MKG Hamburg – Museum für unsere transkulturelle Gegenwart
group show
13.4. – 14.10.2018
curated by Roger M. Buergel
*ALTEFABRIK, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil
24.3. – 6.5.2018
TARNEN, TÄUSCHEN, IMMITIEREN
group show
curated by Josiane Imhasly
LOKAL-INT, Biel/Bienne
28.1.2018
solo show
curated by Chri Frautschi
JOHANN JACOBS MUSEUM, Zürich
29.08.2017 – 28.01.2018
KAFFEE AUS HELVÉCIA
curated by Marcelo Rezende and Roger M. Buergel
Artist talk in the exhibition:
05.11.2017, 15h
Johann Jacobs Museum, Zürich
ONE GEE IN A FOG, Geneva
04.11.2017
group show, curated by
Camilla Paolina, Bénédicte Le Pimpec, Lucas Cantori
AUSWAHL 16, Aargauer Kunsthaus
2.12.2016
NO TITLES Nr.3
Soulce / Jura, group show, curated by Sophie Yerly
KUNSTVEREIN ZÜRICH
7.7.2016
‚How to waste time‘, parallel program Manifesta 11, Bürkliplatz, Zürich
curated by Nele Dechmann and Nicola Ruffo
NO TITLES Nr.2
13.–19.6.2016
Grenzacherstrasse 84, Basel, group show, curated by Sophie Yerly
FREEDOM
7.5.2016
public space performance within a workshop with Eckhaus Latta, Los Angeles
in collaboration with Arttu Palmio
NO-WHERE? NOW-HERE!
17.3.–17.4.2016
The Molecular Books of Life – Colleges of Unreason, Corner College, Zürich, group show (With Denise Bertschi, Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, Jonas Etter, Henrik Hentschel, San Keller, Petra Elena Köhle & Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin, Julie Sas, Triin Tamm, Riikka Tauriainen, Alexander Tuchaček, Anne Käthi Wehrli, Martina-Sofie Wildberger, Sophie Yerly)
NO TITLES Nr.1
6.2. - 2.3.2016
Schwarzwaldallee, Basel, group show, curated by Sophie Yerly, (with Sarah Burger, Denise Bertschi, Arnaud Wohlhauser, Dauphine Klein, Camille Besson & Vianney Fivel)
COLD.WAR.HOT.STARS
Corner College, Zürich, group show, curated by Dimitrina Sevova
VITRINE 5
Die Diele, Zürich, group show
PROTECTION ROOM
group show, RosaBrux, Bruxelles (BL) (with Denise Bertschi, Doris Boerman, Gitte Hendrikx, Sophie Reble, Martina-Sofie Wildberger)
KENDALL NOTATION
Die Diele, Zürich, with Etienne Chosson
POETICS OF RELATION
WITTS Johannesburg (SA), curated by Uriel Orlow and Bettina Malcomess
TERRITORIES OF ASSEMBLY
LiveInYourHead, Genève, curated by Yann Chateigné
TERRITORIES OF ASSEMBLY
Artsonje Art Center, Seoul (South Korea), curated by Markus Miessen
LA SPACIALISATION DE L’IMAGE
Villa du Parc, Centre d’art contemporain, Annemasse (FR)
MANDATORY PASSIVITY
LiveInYourHead, Genève, curated by Lars Bang Larsen
MAY YOU BE THE ROAD
solo show, Espace TILT, Lausanne (CH)
MA, Contemporary Artistic Practises
Work.Master, HEAD Genève, 2013–2015
BA, Zurich University of the Arts
Zurich University of the Arts/CH,
Visual Communication, 2009–2012
ARTeZ Arnhem Institute of the Arts/NL, 2011
2018 – WE SAY THEY ARE FINE. THEY SAY WE ARE NOT. Self-published. (Awarded with Best Swiss Books 2018, BAK CH)
2016 – POETICS OF RELATION, Slippery Sessions, Ed. Uriel Orlow & Bettina Malcomess
2015 – STATE FICTION, Helvetia Mediatrix
2014 – THE TREES FOR THE WOOD, THE WOOD FOR THE TREES
2013 – NOMAD THOUGHT