Artist Statement
The fundamental themes of my artistic work are identity, sexuality, transformation and the power of images in public space. My practice is mainly in the field of video art, partly with a performative character. I use the current possibilities of video editing and publishing to create multi-layered worlds of images and sounds that are particularly concerned with the representation, duplication and perception of bodies in digital space. I combine an immediate production method with complex editing and image design: the videos are created on the iPhone and I use my own body as the protagonist. Referential and personal image fragments and video sequences are combined into a whole through the editing of sound and colour. I often publish my work directly on social media first, especially on Instagram. This creates a reciprocal dialogue between the visual language of the digital public as a subject and the experimental presentation space of my work. |
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Exogenic, Royal Baden royalbaden.ch in Kooperation mit Videokunst.ch ketterer-ertle.ch
2024 Frames Of References, Wartsaal Wipkingen , CH www.wartsaal-wipkingen.ch/wordpress/2023/12/30/anouk-sebald-frames-of-references/
2022 Exogenic / Deep Down Off -Space Juraplatz Biel /Bienne CH, www.juraplatz.ch
2022 ¡Transformation!, OFF Space Peripherie 8, Basel, CH https://www.peripherie8.com
2022 Extrinsic, Galerie /DuflonRacz/ CH www.duflon-racz.ch/bern
2021 Eutopia, Superposition, Showroom Videokunst.ch, Progr Bern CH https://www.videokunst.ch/artists/anouk-sebald
2020 Hotel Eutopia , casita , Bern, CH www.casita-bern.ch
2019 Als ich wiederkam, Galerie /DuflonRacz/, Bern CH www.duflon-racz.ch/bern
2017 >IN CHARGE< Off-Space 9a, Bern CH www.9a-stauffacherplatz.ch
2016 gepard14, Off-Space Kunstraum
und Gastatelier, Bern Liebefeld, CH
Auf den Spuren von Hannah Villiger
"Das konstruierte Ich" ein Diskurs
mit dem Werk von Hannah Villiger.
http://www.gepard14.ch
2002 "Louise Eliot", Galerie Kabinett, Krethlow, Zürich, CH
1997 Galerie Barak, Bern CH
1995 Loeb Treppenhausgalerie, Bern, CH
Group Exhibitions / Screenings
2025 Screening im Loop, Videokunst.ch ein collab mit Progr Bern, Progr www.videokunst.ch
2024/25 Cantonale Berne Jura , Kunstmuseum Thun kunstmuseumthun.ch/de/ausstellungen/aktuell/
2024 Videotfestival Biel / Bienne. bbvideofestival.com
2024 Fondation JETZT KUNST, Marzilibad, Bern CH jetztkunst.ch/ausstellung/n15
2024 Galerie Karin Wunderlin , Zürich
2024 Étage19, Nidau
2024 „Le Salon“ au Jolie Mois du Mais , Couronne, Biel
2024 Flower Power/Utopia Today, Videocity Basel, Kino Rex Box, Bern CH rexbern.ch/rex-box-programm/rex-box-programm-flower-power
2023/24 Video*Kunst , Kunsthaus Zofingen, CH kunsthauszofingen.ch/
2023 „Flower Power“ Videocity, Outside Screening Songeun Art and Cultural Fondation, Seoul (KR)songeunartspace.org/en/exhibitions/2023-11-01-songeun-x-videocity-flower-power
2023 Jubiläum Frauenkunstpreis 10+10+1, Kunsthaus Interlaken https://kunsthausinterlaken.ch/aktuelle-ausstellungen/
2023 Dreaming Away, Studio Naegeli , Gstaad (CH) https://studionaegeli.com/pages/dreaming-away
2023 Utopia today Videocity x Container City Festival Stuttgart, (D)
2023 Utopia today, Videocity Basel, Kino Rex Box, Bern (CH) https://www.videocity.org/kino-rex-may-2023
2023 «Video Hybrid» B74 Raum für Kunst, Luzern (CH) www.b74-luzern.ch
2023 "Flower Power", Videocity Basel, Art Busan (KR) https://artbusan.com/ko/pages/ex_connect.php https://www.videocity.org/
2023 BITTERSWEET, Grandpalais, Bern (CH) https://www.grandpalais.ch/
2022 Gleichzeitiges, Format K, Stall 5, Bümpliz, CH https://www.format-k.ch
2022 Eye / View Women Videocit, Video >IN CHARGE< STARTraum, St. Pölten. A www.videocity.org
2022 Videokunstfestival Industrietempel, Ausstellung, Video Superposition, Ludwigshafen, D
2022 Eye / View Women, Videocity Basel, Billboardcenter Messeplatz, Basel CH www.videocity.org
2022 Kino Rex, REXBOX collaboration mit Videocity, Basel, CH Eye / View cycle CH/ www.videocity.org/
2021 " Ort und Stelle" Treffpunkt Kunst" /make art happening / Plakatausstellung, Luzern CH www.make-art-happening.com
2021 flair-expo, videokunst.ch / Sammlung Ketterer-Ertle , Biel/Nidau CH www.videokunst.ch
2020 „Salon 2“, Wilkerstrasse, Bern-Liebefeld CH
2018 Cantonale Berne Jura, La Nef / Le Noirmont / CH
2018 All Together Now, Galerie / DuflonRacz/ Bern, CH www.duflon-racz.ch/bern
2013 "bernsehen II“, Bilder und Texte zu Bern, CH
http://www.bernsehen.ch
2010 "Artsouk" Dachstock Reitschule, Bern CH
1995 "one day for one Year" Galerie Barak, Bern, CH
Collections
2020 Sammlung Carola & Günther Ketterer-Ertle
Work Contribution
2017 Werkförderung der Kulturabteilung Thun, CH
in Form eines zehnmonatigen Atelier-
Aufenthalts im Schloss Schadau
Publication
2021 #instagramtakeover Galerie Soon www.instagram.com/p/CS3kyH-tmtr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
2020 3x12, Kalender 2021, Kunst, Literatur und Musik inkl. Portraits der Kunstschaffenden, http://aitselma.com/3x12/
2013 "bernsehen II“ Gruppenprojekt (dachsart)
2013 Eine Gedankliche Intervention,
zum Thema Kunst an den öffentlichen
Schulen der Schweiz. (kkj,
Schweizerischer Verband
Künste für Kinder und Jugendliche)
2009 Bebilderung des Albums "ABAFAHRA"
Tonight & Only, Wädi Gysi / Michael Morris
2007 Bebilderung des Albums
"Picking up the Pieces"
der Band Tonight & Only
Wädi Gysi/ Michael Morris
http://www.waedigysi.ch
Artist Bio
Anouk Sebald (* 1971) lives in Gümligen and works at Atelierhaus Thun.
Her artistic practice includes video, performance, photography and installations.
From 2002 to 2012, she performed under the pseudonym LouiseEliot. In 2017, Sebald received a work grant from the Thun Department of Culture in the form of a ten-month studio residency at Schadau Castle. In recent years, her work has been shown in numerous off-spaces and exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad - including at gepard14 (2016), in the Progr showroom as part of videokunst. ch (Eutopia, 2021), at Rexbox, Kino Rex in collaboration with Videocity Basel (2022) as well as at Art Busan (KR) and screend at Songeun Art Space Center Seoul (KR), 2023.
2022 she showed the solo exhibition Extrinsic at Galerie DuflonRacz, Bern, after already being part of the gallery's Links project in 2019. In 2023/24 Sebald was part of the group exhibition Video*Kunst at Kunsthaus Zofingen.
Since 2023, there has been a selective cooperation with the artist Salomé Bäumlin, which has resulted in conceptual, cross-media works. The first joint work was exhibited as part of the Women's Art Prize 2023 at the Kunsthaus Interlaken, another will be shown in the upcoming exhibition in June 2025 at the Kunsthaus Grenchen, in the group exhibition ‘Print and Pixel’.