Biography
Pascal Robert was born in 1978 in Berne, Switzerland with a swiss-french-vietnamese background. He first studied architecture, then moved to Paris and New York. From 2001-2007 he was a student at ESBA, the Geneva University of Art and Design. He currently lives and works in Istanbul and Berlin.
The essence of his artistic work focusses on the processes of everyday life, the construction of an individual’s personal identity, as well as the impact on the individual of a society’s collective consciousness. He’s continually fascinated, in this respect, by the confrontation with an enduring, static and historically-charged form like that of the “portrait”, how he can approach this historical form, and how he can develop a new, uninhibited point of view, thereby overcoming tradition.
pascalforever(at)gmail.com
Pascal Robert, 2007, installation view on the premises of the Galerie Skopia, Geneva (CH)
Fellowships:
2009 First international Kempinski Felloship in visual arts, Istanbul and Berlin
Mentor: David Galloway, curator and art critic (ARTnews and International Herald Tribune)
The prize will will culminate with a solo show in both cities, entitled ’shapes of existence’.
Solo exhibitions:
2010 TMproject, Geneva (CH), upcoming
2009 Portraits – Before and beyond the image, Galerie Laleh June, Basel (CH)
2008 Heritage, Galerie Ex-Machina, Geneva (CH)
2008 Hoffmann – La Roche Collection, Basel (CH)
2007 Portraits abstraits – on/off, on the premises of the Galerie Skopia, Geneva (CH)
(with Jérémy Chevalier)
Projects:
2009 Porto Alegre (BR), ‘What’s inside your luggage?’
2009 Maastricht (NL), ‘eleven artists, three spaces, fourteen days’
(An invitation by Marcel Hiller and Suchan Kinoshita)
2009 Langnau (CH), ‘Jazz-Nights’ (stage setting)
Group shows (selection):
2009 ‘Floating details’, La Pinacothèque, Geneva (CH)
2009 I am by birth a Genevese, Vegas Gallery, London (UK)
and Espace Forde, Geneva (CH)
2008 June begins May 29, Galerie Laleh June, Basel (CH)
2008 Utopie des Raums, Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek (KG)
2007 Zwei Strassen weiter zwei, Patronage: Dr. Carina Plath – Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 (DE)
2007 Aeschlimann/Corti Stipendium, Kunstmuseum Thun (CH), Patronage: Susanne Kulli
2007 Sijang jeon eun neomu ileo, heungmiroun samusil jeon eun neomu neuzeo, Espace Forde, Geneva (CH)
2006 Annual view, Patronage: Philippe Pirotte, Kunsthalle Berne (CH)
2006 8/18, La Ruine, Geneva (CH)
2005 ACT 05, Attitudes – espace d’arts contemporains, Geneva (CH)
2005 Villes imprévisibles, Forum d’architecture, Curator: Karatchian/Blaser, Musée Elysée, Lausanne (CH)
2004 Annual view, Patronage: Dr. Bernhard Fibicher, Kunsthalle Berne (CH)
2004 Vous êtes ici, Palais Athenée, Geneva (CH)
2004 Lukas Mettler/ Pascal Robert, Sodium, Hochschule der Künste, Berne (CH)
2003 Walking, Thinking, Drawing …, Bh9, Geneva, invited curator: Frank Sciarone, Groningen (NL)
Public interventions:
2009 Temporary family: (for upcoming interventions, please have a look under the heading of ‘News’)
Amsterdam (NL): July 11, 2009 at 6 p.m., Oudekerksplein, De Wallen district (’red light district’)
London (UK): June 18, 2009, 6.30 p.m., Tate Modern (Bankside)
Maastricht (NL): July 8, 2009, 6 p.m., Marktplein
Vienna (AT): June 1, 2009, 6.30 p.m, Stephansplatz
2008 Anatomy of a man’s heart, Usine Kugler, Geneva (CH)
Corporate and private collections:
Hoffmann – La Roche Collection, Basel (CH)
Private collection, Basel, Geneva, Zurich (CH)
Private collection, London, Hamburg, Paris (EU)
Private collection, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv (IL)
Private collection, Tehran (IRN)
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Studio Pascal Robert:
Usine Kugler
Association Kuglof
19 Avenue de la Jonction
CH – 1205 Geneva (Switzerland)
www.usinekugler.ch
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Gallery contact:
Galerie Laleh June
Laleh Bazargan Harandi, Director
Picassoplatz 4
CH-4052 Basel (Switzerland)
T +41 61 228 77 78
info@lalehjune.com
www.lalehjune.com
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