Augustin Rebetez. REBET’Z CARPETS

17 Nov 2023 - 17 Feb 2024
Galerie Nicola von Senger, Limmatstrasse 275, 8005 Zürich

Augustin Rebetez. REBET’Z CARPETS

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BIOGRAPHY

Augustin Rebetez (1986) works in various media including painting, photography, video, sculpture, music, installations and theatre. The swiss artist constructs a multifacetted body of work that defies categorisation.

Since 2009, he has exhibited his work all over the world including the Sydney Biennale, the Ren- contres d’Arles, the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, the Kunstmuseum Bern, the Daegu Photo Bien- nale, the MBAL, the Tinguely Museum in Basel or the Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale.

He received different awards, including the Vevey International Photography Prize, the Swiss Art Awards or the Prize Fondation Latour.

In 2019 he did two major solo shows in São Paulo and Milano, alongside curator Adelina von Fürsten- berg.

In his vibrant exploration of total art, he collaborates with many performers, punks, models, musi- cians and friends, as well institutions such as Théâtre de Vidy in Lausanne, where he created three different pieces, or the NGO Art for the World, amongst others.

In 2018, he released a serie of twelve stop-motion shorts with director and clown Martin Zimmer- mann, entitled Mr. Skeleton. And in 2019, his first DIY feature movie called La Grande Lune.

He has published several art and photography books (RVB Books, Actes Sud) and also different artist books. He is part of the band Gängstgäng and the music collective Chruch. Often abroad, he is based in a small village in the swiss countryside, where he uses his big house as an atelier and an open art residency.

Since 2020, he is working on a site-specific project in the region of Neuchâtel.

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CV - Augustin Rebetez (1986, Switzerland)

SOLO SHOWS

2023
REBET’Z CARPETS, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich (CH) La Ferme des Tilleuls, Renens (CH) Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH)
2022
Nature morte, La Grande Serre, Théâtre de l’Orangerie, Genève (CH) See me now, Les Battements de l’Abbatiale, Bellelay (CH)
2021
Throw your shadows, Galerie Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph, Berlin (DE) Winter birds, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich (CH)
Liquid Panic, Showroom, Progr, Bern (CH)
Liquid Panic, Videofenster Houdini Kino/Bar, Zürich (CH)
2019
Solo Show, Metenkov House, Iekaterinburg (RU)
Chagrin Festival, QG, La Chaux-de-Fonds (with Leo Regazzoni) (CH) A winter window, Unosunove, Roma (I)
Estremecer Auroras, Sesc Consolaçao, São Paulo (BR)
Shake the auroras, Assab One, Milano (I)
2018
Dream powder, Station, Beirut (LEB)
Les catacombes de Mr. Skeleton, Festival Images, Vevey (CH) with Martin Zimmermann Atelier, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich (CH)
Door for dreams, Galerie Naruyama, Tokyo (JP)
Fête du village, Mervelier (CH)
2 0 17
La Kantina, Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne (CH)
Ode aux fantômes, KissTheDesign, Lausanne (CH)
Musée Carton, Plateforme10, Nuit des Musées, Lausanne (CH)
Arrière-tête (mécanismes), Stieglitz19, Antwerpen (B)
The Loudspeakers Convention, Nidwaldner Museum, Stans (CH) with Laurent Güdel
2016
Musée Carton, Plateforme10, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR)
Colloque des Oiseaux, MBAL, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle, Le Locle (CH) Arrière-tête (mécanismes) , Galerie Feldbuschwiesner, ParisPhoto, Paris (FR) Despots with Photoshop, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich (CH)
Musée Carton, Plateforme10, ArtGenève, Geneva (CH)
Atelier Général, Ferme-Asile, Sion (CH) with crew
Arrière-tête (mécanismes), KKKC Exhibition Hall, Klaipeda (LTU)
2015
Factory behind your brain, Centre Clark, Montréal (CA) with crew
Exposition féline, Atelier d’Estienne, Lorient (FR) with Noé Cauderay
Avant le déluge, Kissthedesign, Lausanne (CH)
Post-epileptic vids and krautshots, La Rada, Locarno (CH)
Arrière-tête (mécanismes), Galerie Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin (DE)
RAW WAR ARW WRA, Grand Palais, Berne (CH) with Giona Bierens de Haan Lokal-Int, Bienne (CH)
Arrière-tête (mécanismes), Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich (CH)
2014
Arrière-tête (mécanismes) , Festival Images, Vevey (CH) Unseen, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Amsterdam (NL) Anthill (Meteorites), Galerie RVB Books, Paris (FR)
Meteorite, Edinburgh Art Festival, Summerhall, Edinburgh (UK) with Giona Bierens de Haan When our dreams trickle down your umbrella, it is nice weather, Kunst Museum Thun (CH) Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (FR)
Zona Maco, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Mexico City (MEX)
Photo Biennale, Thessaloniki (GR)
2013
Athens Photo Festival, Athens (GR)
Univers (part 3), Villa Bernasconi, Genève (CH) with crew
Nuit des Images, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (CH) with crew
If your dreams trickle down your umbrella then it is nice weather, Art & Design Gallery, Hertfordshire (UK) Kiss The Design Gallery, Lausanne (CH)
Ici vous allez trouver ce que nous cherchons, Centre Dürrenmatt, Neuchâtel (CH)
with Noé Cauderay & Giona Bierens de Haan
2012
Festival Les Urbaines, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne (CH) with Noé Cauderay Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich (CH)
Artijuli Festival, Kråkeslottet (NO)
Homesession, Barcelona (E)
2011
Solo show, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR)
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH)
Le Mois de la Photo, Montréal (CA)
Probably the best village in the world, Transformateur, Mervelier (CH)
2010
Lokal-Int, Biel (CH)
Kurant, Tromsø (NO) Artsenal, Delémont (CH) Espace Noir, Saint-Imier (CH)
2009
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (CH) Photoforum PasquArt, Biel (CH) SAS, Delémont (CH)
2008
Espace Exit, Cheseaux (CH)
Strates photographies, Lausanne (CH)

GROUP SHOWS (selection)

2022
Le Parti pris des choses, Centre photographique Rouen Normandie, Rouen (FR) Radical Sources, Krone/Couronne, Biel/Bienne (CH)
Fondation Joseph et Nicole Lachat 1978-2022, 28 lauréats, Les Halles, Porrentruy (CH) Mist, Hof Blum, Samstagern (CH)
Mystères & Frissons, Musée des Arts Moutier (CH)
2021
La Sculpture suisse depuis 1945, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH) Schneemansgarn, Kunsthaus Interlaken (CH)
Metalmorphosen, Oxyd Kunsträume, Winterthur (CH)
2020
Perspectives, la collection Helvetia, Musée d’Art de Pully (CH) Festival Circulations, Paris (FR) Extraordinaire, Mudac, Lausanne (CH)
2019
Swiss Art Awards, Basel (CH)
Nyarlathotep, Galeria Promocyjna, Warsaw (P)
Mister Skeleton, CCS Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (FR) Rencontres d’Arles, Night of the Year, Papeterie Etienne, Arles (FR) Porträt II, Schloss Agatenburg (DE)
Group show, Galerie C, Neuchâtel (CH)
End of future, Cuernavaca (MX)
Art on A Postcard, Photo London (GB)
Art Genève, ART for The World, Genève (CH)
Get A Nerve, Villa Sarasin, Genève (CH)
Bieler Fototage, Biel/Bienne (CH)
Video Art week, Maxxi Museum, Roma (I)
Big Picture, Large Work, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH)
2018
PLAYED, Galerie Ebensperger’s Neulich, Salzburg (AU)
Merry Crisis & Happy New Fear, La Rada, Locarno (CH)
Les éditions et les arts, Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier (CH)
The Scrap, Culture Station, Seoul (SK)
Landskrona Photo Festival (SWE)
Collection Helvetia, Art Paris Art Fair, Paris (FR)
Galerie C, Art Paris Art Fair, Paris (FR)
4th Independent Art &Animation Biennale, Shenzhen (C) Sammlung Gegenwartskunst, Kunst Museum Bern (CH)
Photo España, Madrid (curator Hester Keiszer) (ES)
Matières I, Galerie C, Neuchâtel (CH)
Matières II, Galerie 2026, Cormondrèches (CH)
Aqua, Isola dei Pescatori, Stresa (I)
Artgenève, Art of the World (curator Adelina von Fürstenberg) (CH) Ohm sweet Ohm, La Nef, Le Noirmont (CH)
Cupboard Love, Gewerbe Museum, Winterthur (CH)
2 0 17
Present(s), StadtGalerie, Bern (CH)
Night, Road House, Doll House, Johannesburg (SA)
Power Mask : Walter Van Beirendonck, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam (N)
In Between, Feldbuschwiesnerrudolph Galerie, Berlin (DE)
Artijuli Festival, Krakeslottet (NO)
Flashback’17, Now&After Festival, CCI FABRIKA, Moscow (RU)
Les Nuits Photographiques, Institut Français, Madrid (E)
Now &After, TK Storehouse, National center for contemporary arts, Samara (RU) Summer Exhibition, Espace Noir, St-Imier (CH)
2016
Pepper House Residency Show, Kochi Biennale (IN) Zklad, Sukhumi (ABK)
Ordinary, KK Outlet, London (EN)
Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Musem (GR)
Prière de Toucher, Tinguely Museum, Basel (CH) Traversées du Marais, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (FR) Mdm, Galerie C, Neuchâtel (CH)
Meet the Publisher, Tiff, Wroclaw, (P)
Now&After, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow (RU) Now&After, TEA, Espacio Enter Festival, Canarias (ES) BIP, Biennale de l’Image Possible, Liège (BE) Mykologismus, Neues Museum Biel, Biel (CH) Totentanz, StadtGalerie, Bern (CH)
Charles, Insitu, Berlin (DE)
Dreams and Nightmares, Cell63 Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2015
Inhabitations, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH)
Le livre de photographie et ses auteurs, Bibliothèque Nationale Suisse, Berne (CH) The Devil May Care, Noorderlicht Gallery, Groningen (NL)
Room with a view, Feldbuschwiesner, Berlin (DE)
Festival Actoral, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseilles (FR)
Come, little friend, Kulturstiftung Schloss, Agathenburg (DE) Photo Junctions with LagosPhoto, Abuja (NIG)
Clusters, Sonnenstube, Lugano (CH)
Arte Linard, Lavin (CH)
2014
You Imagine what you desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney (AU)
Seoul Lunar Photo Festival, Seoul (SK)
Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos (NIG)
Aus der Tiefe..., Haus für Kunst, Uri (CH)
Hordes & Nuées, Festival Images, CEPV, Vevey (CH)
Espace urbain, Musée d’Art de Joliette (CA)
Histoires, Pavillon du Carré de Baudouin, Nuits Photographiques, Paris (FR) Regeneration2, Landskrona Museum, Landskrona (SE)
Regeneration2, Museum of Fine Arts,Yekaterinburg (RU)
Rotor, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Zürich (CH)
Recent Acquisitions, University of Hertfordshire Art Collection, Museum of St Albans (UK)
2013
Balades avec le Minotaure, Centre Dürrenmatt, Neuchâtel (CH)
Der Turm und urbane Giganten in der Skulptur, Städtische Museen Heilbronn (DE) United Art Fair, New Delhi (India)
Foam Talents 2013, Rosphoto, St. Petersburg (RU)
Foam Talents 2013, Unseen Int’l Photo Fair, Amsterdam (NL)
Foam Talents 2013, Mercatorplein, Amsterdam (NL)
Night Contact, London (UK)
Regeneration2, Rosphoto, St. Petersburg (RU)
Regeneration2, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland (USA)
Regeneration2, Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (USA) Regeneration2, Devos Art Museum, Marquette, Michigan (USA)
Jour de Fête, Miden Arts Festival, Kalamata (GRC)
Babel, Kunst Museum, Olten (CH)
Nature ?, Kunsthaus Palazzo, Liestal (CH)
Maison, Juraplatz, Bienne (CH)
Equus, La Nef, Le Noirmont (CH)
2012
Post Tenebras Lux, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zurich (CH) The Youth Code, Photo Biennale, Daegu (SK)
Discours Général, Alpineum Galerie, Luzern (CH)
Drôles de gens, Musée des Arts de Moutier, (CH)
Unter 30, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus (CH)
Grid Festival, Amsterdam (NL)
Swiss Art Award, Basel (CH)
Swiss Photo Award, Zürich (CH)
Festival Circulations, Paris (FR)
Social Body, Palazzo Ducale, Genova (IT)
2011
Winter World, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (CH)
Prix Photo 2011, Kornhaus Forum, Bern (CH)
Jungkunst, City Halle, Winterthur (CH)
Espace Temporaire, Geneva (CH)
Jour de Fête, The Private Space, Barcelona (E)
Galerie FNAC, Paris, Lyon, Toulon, Nice (FR)
After Dark, La Filature, Mulhouse (FR)
Regeneration2, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey (MX) Regeneration2, Rencontres Internationales de la Photo de Fès, (MA) Regeneration2, Caochangdi PhotoSpring Festival Beijing (CN) Regeneration2, Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris (CH)
Regeneration2, Aperture Foundation, New York (USA)
2010
Lust und Laster, Kunstmuseum & Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (CH)
Festival Images10, Ex-EPA, Vevey (CH)
ARTUNG!, L’Esplanade, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH)
Regeneration2, Centre Gallery, Miami Dade Collection, Miami (USA) Regeneration2, DC Foto Week, Washington DC (USA)
Regeneration2, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano (IT)
Regeneration2, Flash Forward Festival, Toronto (CA)
Regeneration2, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao (CN) Regeneration2, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town (ZA) Regeneration2, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR) Regeneration2, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (CH)
THE CITY OF BIEL PROUDLY PRESENTS 2, Centre PasquArt, Biel (CH) Eden Roc, Musée de Bagnes, Bagnes (CH)
2009
Weihnachtsausstellung, Photoforum, Biel (CH) Creator/Curator, HungryMan Gallery, Chicago (USA) Promenades photographiques, Vendôme (FR)
Le Pantographe, Moutier (CH)

PERFORMANCES

2020 Voodoo Sandwich, Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne (CH) + tour
La Bâtie Genève, Kaserne Basel, Dampfzentrale Bern, Belluard Fribourg (canceled), Tanzhaus Zürich (canceled), Halles de Schaerbeek Bruxelles, Maubeuge, Festival Metz, etc. 2017 L’Âge des ronces, Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne (CH)+ tour
Les 2 Scènes, Besançon
2017 The Grain Show, Théâtre de Vidy + Echandole (CH) with Louis Jucker + tour TU Genève, l’Abri Genève, Les 2 Scènes Besançon, CCS Paris, etc
2015 Rentrer au volcan, Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne (CH) + tour
Kaserne Basel, Le Lieu Unique Nantes, CCS Paris, Salle St-Georges Delémont

MONOGRAPHS

2023 La Stratégie des coeurs battus, Label Rapace (CH) 2023 Very charming animals : CATS, Label Rapace (CH) 2023 The Good Life, a practical guide, Label Rapace (CH) 2022 Les Forces fluides, manifestes, Label Rapace (CH) 2021 Fleur d’hiver (coeur fragile), Label Rapace (CH) 2021 La Vie moderne, Label Rapace (CH)
2021 Les Jours anciens, with Dany Petermann, Label Rapace (CH)
2020 Le Coeur entre les dents, Manifeste primitif, Actes Sud & Fondation Alfred Latour (FR/CH) 2019 Les Limaces, autoproduction
2018 Peintures et Objets, Editions SJE (CH)
2018 Photographies, Editions SJE (CH)
2018 Stamps, autoproduction
2017 Les Bois perdus, with José Gsell, autoproduction
2016 Alphabet, autoproduction
2016 Despots with Photoshop, RVB Books (FR)
2015 Arrière-tête (mécanismes), Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph (D)
2015 When our dreams trickle down your umbrella, the weather is nice, Kunstmuseum Thun (CH) 2014 Arrière-tête (textes), autoproduction
2014 Anthill (meteorites), RVB Books (FR)
2013 Amour liquide (fuel), Editions d’autre part (CH)
2013 Augustin Rebetez, Collection cahier d’artiste, Pro Helvetia (CH)
2013 Un Arbre à chaque bras, Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel & Editions D’Autre Part (CH)
GROUP PUBLICATIONS (selection)
2018 BODY, by Nathalie Herschdorfer, Thames & Hudson 2016 Les Rencontres d’Arles 2016, Actes Sud (FR)
2012 Unter 30, Kunsthaus Glarus (CH)
2012 Special Exhibition I, Daegu Photo Biennale (SK)
2012 EWZ.Selection 11, Brunner Verlag, Kriens (CH)
2011 Lucidity. Inward Views, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal (CA)
2011 Les Rencontres d’Arles 2011, Actes Sud (FR)
2010 Lust und Laster. Die 7 Todsünden von Dürer bis Nauman, Hatje Cantz Verlag (DE) 2010 Regeneration2, Thames & Hudson (UK)

RECORDS

2023 CHRUCH, The Bikini Session, tape, Label Rapace, Mervelier (CH)
2022 GÄNGSTGÄNG, Funeral Album, The greatest Hits, LP, Label Rapace, Burning Sound, Jelodanti Records (CH/FR) 2022 CHRUCH, Pic Nic, tape, Label Rapace, Mervelier (CH)
2021 CHRUCH, Mandarina, tape, Label Rapace, Mervelier (CH)
2021 CHRUCH, The Mushroom Show, tape, Label Rapace, Mervelier (CH)
2021 GÄNGSTGÄNG, Primitive Rap and shamanic dirty sabotage from Swiss Jura, LP, Jelodanti Records, Paris (FR) 2019 CHRUCH, Le Corps du triste, EP 12’’, Jelodanti Records, Paris (FR)
2018 GÄNGSTGÄNG, Rap à chien, CD, L’Axe du mal, Genève (CH)
2016 GÄNGSTGÄNG, Grappa Guerilla, CD, autoproduction
2014 Augustin Rebetez & Adil Coralic, Cantor, EP 10’’, Hummus Records, Burning Sound, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH)

AWARDS

2021 Prix Fondation Joseph et Nicole Lachat 2020 Sehnerv Medienkunstpreis
2019 Prix Alfred Latour
Swiss Art Award
2013 Grand Prix international de la Photographie de Vevey
Foam Talent, Amsterdam 2012 EWZ – Swiss Photo Award
Kiefer Hablitzel
2010 Laureate of Photo Folio Review, Rencontres d’Arles (FR)
Selected for Regeneration2 by Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne (CH)

TALKS / PRESENTATIONS

2023
Alexandra Bachzetsis und Augustin Rebetez, SIK-ISEA, Villa Bleuler, Zürich (CH) Fire NCCA Irkutsk (RU)
Yadro, Krasnoyarsk (RU)
Krasnoyarsk Art School Surikov, School of Creative Industries, Krasnoyarsk (RU) Siberian Design School, Tomsk (RU)
Art House, Tomsk (RU)
2022
Ecal, Lausanne (CH)
Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden (DE)
2021
Zarya Contemporary Art Center, Vladivostok (RU)
Artservatory, Khabarovsk (RU)
Creative House, Irkutsk Photo Club, Irkutsk (RU)
CC19, Novosibirsk (RU)
Post, Novosibirsk (RU)
National Center for Contemporary Arts, NCCA, Ekaterinburg (RU)
2019
Independent Art space, Mexico City (MEX)
2018
T.O.P. Art Space, Guangzhou (CH)
Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou (CH) Station, Beirut (LEB)
Espace Renfer, Porrentruy (CH)
Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier (CH)
La Fabrica, PhotoEspaña, Madrid (E) OCAT Museum, Shenzhen (CH)
2016
Sacred Heart College, Kochi (India)
2014
Independent Art space, Melbourne (AUS) Hauchschule Media, Luzern (CH)
2013
University of animation, Busan (SK)

WORKSHOPS

2022 La Manufacture, HEP, Lausanne (CH)
2016 Ecole supérieure des Arts, Saint-Luc, Liège (B)
Artas Foundation, Tkvarchal (Abkhazia) 2015 Ecal, Lausanne (CH)

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Photo Elysée Lausanne, Musée Jenisch Vevey, Musée de l’Appareil Photographique Vevey, Kunst Museum Thun, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Neuchâtel (MAHN), Haus für Kunst Uri, Michaelis Galleries Cape Town, Mudac Lausanne, Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel, Kunst Museum Bern, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle (MBAL), Neues Museum Biel Collection d’Art de la Mobilière, Helvetia Assurances, Versicherung Nationale Suisse, Banque Nationale Suisse, Banque Bonhôte, Bank Julius Baer, Crédit Suisse, Bâloise Assurances République et Canton du Jura, Canton de Berne, Ville de Bienne, Ville de Lancy, Commune de Mervelier University of Hertfordshire, Fondation BAT, Collection of Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, Sammlung Carola und Günther Ketterer Ertle, Gferer Hotel Salzburg, Société des Beaux-Arts de Bienne, etc.