Sophie Bouvier Ausländer

SOPHIE BOUVIER AUSLÄNDER b. 1970, Switzerland

Avalanche (SBA20180905) Gouache on waxed map 92 x 64 cm 2018 € 5,000.00 incl. VAT & frame

Avalanche (SBA20170800) Gouache on waxed map, dismantled atlas, 42 pages 235 x 193 cm 2017 â‚Ź 18,000.00 incl. VAT & frame

Avalanche (SBA20170800) - detail

Avalanche (SBA20180901) Gouache on waxed map 126 x 90 cm 2017 € 7,000.00 incl. VAT

Avalanche (SBA04120301) Gouache on waxed map 120 x 96 cm 2017 € 7,000.00 incl. VAT

Avalanche (SBA20190104) Gouache on waxed map 55 x 39 cm 2019 € 3,300.00 incl. VAT

Avalanche (SBA20190105) Gouache on waxed map 55 x 39 cm 2019 € 3,300.00 incl. VAT

Avalanche (SBA20170657) Gouache on waxed map, 32 x 24.5 cm, 2017 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame

Avalanche (SBA20170613) Gouache on waxed map, 32 x 24.5 cm, 2017 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame

Avalanche (SBA20170636) Gouache on waxed map, 32 x 24.5 cm, 2017 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame

Avalanche (SBA20180207) Gouache on waxed map, 34 x 30 cm, 2018 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame

Avalanche (SBA20180208) Gouache on waxed map 32 x 28 cm 2018 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame

Avalanche (SBA2017NS1287) Gouache on waxed map 32 x 28 cm 2017 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame

“Rarely you end up working with an artist that you meet at the booth of an art fair. Sophie was almost blushing when she complimented me on the integrity and beauty of our booths over the past years. Of the many unsolicited catalogues sent to the gallery I had kept hers to review as I was somehow intrigued. Then a close gallery client, after previewing another fair, brought me to the booth of Sophie’s Swiss gallery, and it finally all made sense. Sophie’s fascination with mapping and maps reaches a depth unsurpassed in that medium. The texture and sensuality of her surfaces mirror her philosophical approach and I suppose her character as well; multifaceted and gentle, yet determined.”

(Patrick Heide) Sophie Bouvier Ausländer’s point of departure for her artistic practice is nothing less than our planet, which can be considered as the sculpture par excellence.

Bouvier Ausländer is interested in the tangibility of things. Her creations are arcane, often rudimentary and transitory. The Swiss artist eliminates, disrupts or perforates the structure of the objects she works with. One needs to closely inspect them to understand what is hidden beneath the surface, under painted road maps, shredded world map collages or subscribed plasticine sculptures.

Her small and large-scale waxed maps from the Avalanche series for instance are covered with paint and then scratched and scribbled into with abstract shapes or grids, and then sometimes recovered with paint drippings. Exposing hints of the underlying countries, oceans, cities and borders, one tries to decipher and rediscover familiar environments, names and signs. This way Bouvier Ausländer keeps our curiosity and familiarity alive while she manages to produce almost entirely new objects that recharge the existing ones.

Avalanche (SBA2017NS1205) Gouache on waxed map, 32 x 28 cm, 2017 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame

Avalanche (SBA2017NS1241) Gouache on waxed map, 32 x 28 cm, 2017 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame

Avalanche (SBA2017NS1203) Gouache on waxed map 32 x 28 cm 2017 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame

Avalanche (SBA20170610) Gouache on waxed map, 32 x 24.5 cm, 2017 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT

Avalanche (SBA20170617) Gouache on waxed map, 32 x 24.5 cm, 2017 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT

Avalanche (SBA20180205) Gouache on waxed map 32 x 28 cm 2018 € 2,200.00 incl. VAT & frame

Avalanche (SBA20180310) Gouache on waxed map, 34 x 30 cm, 2018 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT

Avalanche (SBA20180311) Gouache on waxed map, 34 x 30 cm, 2018 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT

Avalanche (SBA20180313) Gouache on waxed map, 34 x 30 cm, 2018 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT

Avalanche (SBA20180314) Gouache on waxed map, 32 x 28 cm, 2018 € 2,000.00 incl. VAT

Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art

SOPHIE BOUVIER AUSLÄNDER Born in 1970, Switzerland Lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland, and London, UK Education 1989-90 1990-92 1998-2000 2013-19

École cantonale d’art de Lausanne, ECAL (École Cantonale d’Art Lausanne), foundation year École nationale supérieure d’arts visuels de la Cambre, Painting department, Brussels Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London; Textile Design, Design for Textile Futures, PGDip with distinction Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, PhD (part-time), led research (On Tangibility / contemporary reliefs and continuous dimensions)

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2014 2013 2012 2010 2009

Words, Works, Worlds, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London (upcoming) Words, Works, Worlds, Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Lausanne Mare Vostrum, Musée des beaux-arts du Locle, Le Locle Avalanche, Davidson Contemporary, New York Night Shift, solo booth with Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Art Genève, Geneva Resident, Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Lausanne Avalanche, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London Avalanche, Fondation Louis Moret, Martigny The Snake of Maloja, Galerie Sobering, Paris Tepid Water, The Great Pacific War, Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Lausanne Lost, Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Lausanne Hotel Ausland, Musée d’art de Pully A Space Odyssey, Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Brussels Le Monde comme sculpture, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne Persogéo, Espace Echallens 13, Lausanne Linea, Galerie davel14 with Gilles Porret (édition), Cully essetiV, Centre d’art, L’Attrape-Couleurs, Lyon Originel, Fondation Louis Moret, Martigny

Selected Group Exhibitions 2019

2018 2017 2016 2015

2014 2013

We are small/Carnets d'artistes, Centre d'art Ferme Asile, Sion Atlas. A cartography of Donation, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne Women to Watch / Paper Work, Sotheby’s London, London Should I Stay or Should I Go?, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London Redress, UCL Art Museum, London Over het verlangen en de troost, Watou Kunst Festival Richochet, Centre d’Art Contemporain d’Yverdon-Les-Bains Das Esszimmer, Weltraum, Basel The Intercontinental, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and Roaming Room, London Climax, Galerie Heinzer Reszler, Lausanne Dimensione Disegno. Posizione Contemporanee, Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzone Charcoal Works, Hardwick Gallery, University of Gloustershire Lignes (É)mouvantes with Gary Woodley, Gallery Épisodique, Paris Harnessing the Wind, Beaconsfield, London, with Ellie Harris, Monika Oechsler and Naomi Siderfin Je me souviens du génocide arménien, La Traverse - CAC, Alfortville Departures, European House, London Quand L’Art se livre, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle Trait Papier, un essai sur le dessin contemporain, Centre d’art d’Yverdon-les-Bains and Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal

2012

Atlas at last, grandes galeries ESADHaR, Rouen

Public art Commissions 2013 2011 2010

Ways of Worldmaking, cultural percent commissioned by the State of Vaud, architects Dettling Péléraux, Gymnase du Grand Ouest, Renens, CH, completed in 2016 UPSIDE DOWN, cultural percent commissioned by Mobimo, Av. d’Ouchy 4-6. Lausanne Prolifics, cultural percent, commissioned by the State of Vaud, architects Galletti & Matter, Institut Galli-Valerio, Contrôle Cantonal des Finances, Lausanne Bound and Torn, Grange-Canal, comissioned by the City of Geneva Pollens, cultural percent commissioned by the State of Vaud, architect Alain Wolf, Fondation Echaud, home les Esserts, Cugy Copy – cut – paste – delete, Fondation Lausannoise pour L’Art Contemporain et le Fond des Arts Plastiques de la Ville de Lausanne, commissioned by the City of Lausanne

Collections Musée Jenisch Vevey (don de la Fondation Lélo Fiaux), Switzerland Cleveland Clinic, USA Frankel Collection, USA Crédit Suisse, Switzerland Caldic Collectie, Wassenaar, The Netherlands Musée d’Art Pully, Switzerland Musée des Beaux-Arts du Locle, Switzerland Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland Fonds d’art visual (F.A.V.) de la ville d’Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland Fonds des Arts Plastiques de la ville de Lausanne, Switzerland Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland Banque Bordier & Co, Lausanne Banque Cantonale Vaudoise, Lausanne, Switzerland Gymnase Cantonal du Bugnon, Lausanne, Switzerland