* 1971 Luzern (CH)
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Barbara Davi develops her artistic works, which include installation, photography, and collage, in constant interaction with each other. Engagement with found materials and space is central to and often the starting point of her artistic practice.
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"Specifically in the case of her spatial installations, she engages as constructively as intuitively with the given architectural structures, traces of use, found furniture, and possible views. Consequently, she develops her subtle interventions that, with colors, pictorial elements, and precise, often delicate sculptural placements, evoke imaginary spaces and surprising perspectives, allowing the space, through the overlaying of the composed elements, to be perceived as a kind of pictorial apparition. Conversely, in the pictorial planes of her collages, another important area of Davi's work, she creates imaginary worlds and unreal spaces whose illusionistic effect is due in no small part to the broken geometric composition principles." – Max Wechsler
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Barbara Davi studied at ZHDK (Zurich, Switzerland) and HSLU (Lucerne, Switzerland). Her successful solo exhibitions include Benzeholz Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst Meggen (2021), Lokal-int in Biel (2018), and the Kunstmuseum Luzern (2017). Internationally, the artist from Lucerne is also known and has exhibited at PLAY in Kortrijk, Belgium (2018), and at the Guangdong Times Museum in Guangzhou, China (2014).
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Barbara Davi lives and works in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Awards
2022 Werkbeitrag Freie Kunst, Kanton Luzern, CH
2016 Produktionsbeitrag fÜr Kunstpublikationen, Kanton Luzern, CH 2009 Hilfiker Kunstpreis, CH
2007 Werkbeitrag von Stadt und Kanton Luzern, CH
2005 Ausstellungspreis der Luzernen Kunstgesellschaft, CH
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Werkbeiträge - Auszeichnungen `21, akku Kunstplattform, E‘brücke
2021 Der Raum als Feld, Benzeholz Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst , Meggen 2020 Proximity and Distance, KUNSTBOX. Kunstprojekte, Luzern
2019 Fragmented Order, Kunstraum Hochdorf
2018 Collagen, Lokal-int, Biel
2017 Train of Thought, Kunstmuseum Luzern
2016 showRoom, Luzern
Kabinett, TUTTIART Luzern 2014 fumoire, Wohnung, Zürich
outdoors, Kunstpavillon o.T. Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Luzern 2012 460 m.ü.M.- vermessen, Pavillon Tribschenhorn, Luzern 2010 Geo-pictura, Hilfiker Kunstprojekte, Luzern
2009 Inserted Room, Wartesaal/Perla-Mode, Zürich
Pillars and Panels, o.T. Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Luzern 2007 Fluidum, Galerie Benzeholz, Meggen
2006 NANTUCKET, Kunstmuseum Luzern
explore, Zwinglistrasse 40, Zürich 2005 Vanitas, Beauty Room, Paris
das Glasregal, Vorraum Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern
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Group Exhibitions
2023 Fast eine Skulptur, Objektkunst im Fokus, Luzern 2022 PANART NEUCHÂTEL, Neuchâtel
2021 dreimaldreimaldrei, Kunsthalle Luzern
2020 IN TRANSITION, 6 1/2, Sennhof/Kyburg, Winterthur
Drawing Lesson, Museu Moli Paperer de Capellades, Spanien
PAPERWORK, Zitrone Manegg, Zürich
2019 Zentralschweizer Kunstschaffen 2019, Kunstmuseum Luzern 2018 PLAY, Kortrijk, Belgien
Abstraktion / Abbild, Verein für Originalgrafik Zürich 2016 Grosse Regionale, Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona
Jahresausstellung 2016, Kunstmuseum Luzern
The Snoring Princess, Salon Schmitz, Köln
2015 Afterburner, Alpineum Produzentengalerie, Luzern
LINIEN, Stadtmühle Willisau
Trans K3 Express, Kunsthof Zürich u. Project(or) Rotterdam 2007 Werkbeiträge 2007, Kunstpanorama Luzern
2014 You can only think about something if you think of somthing else, Time Museum, Guangzhou, China
Zentralschweizer Kunstschaffen 2014, Kunstmuseum Luzern
2013 Opposite, Rue Française by Miss China, Paris Edition VFO, Verein für Originalgrafik, Zürich
2012 Werkbeiträge 2012, Akku, Emmenbrücke
Pulk.Offene Ateliers, in Kooperation mit dem Kunstmuseum Luzern
2011 Zentralschweizer Kunstschaffen 2011, Kunstmuseum Luzern
Merz World: Yona Friedman & Tomas Saraceno, Cabaret Voltaire Zürich Frauenzimmer#2, Alpnach Dorf
2010 Kopien und Zitate, sic! Raum für Kunst, Luzern Zentralschweizer Kunstschaffen 2010, Kunstmuseum Luzern
2009 Welt in Sicht#2, Ausstellungsraum Klingenthal, Basel excuse me, are you famous?, WL Project, Berlin
Diesseits der Alpen:Hunger, jenseits der Alpen:Durst, Berlin
2008 Swiss Art Awards, Basel
Welt in Sicht#1, Kunsthalle Luzern
Trans K3 Express, Kunsthof Zürich u. Project(or) Rotterdam
2007 Werkbeiträge 2007, Kunstpanorama Luzern 2006 Re-enactment, Lokaal 01, Antwerpen
fragil, Kunsthaus Langenthal
Swiss Art Awards, Basel
2005 Zentralschweizer Kunstschaffen 2005, Kunstmuseum Luzern
Bring into play, Musée des Moulages, Lyon
hier.anderswo, Kunstpanorama Luzern
2004 Black, come follow me into this flower called nowhere, Galerie Nikki Marquard, Paris