Valérie Favre

Who is Valérie Favre?

Valérie Favre is a Berlin-based artist. Since 2006 she is Professor of painting at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

Background

Valérie Favre grew up in Switzerland, canton of Biel. Having worked as a stage designer and actress at the theater in Paris in the early 1980s she soon turned to the field of painting. After 18 years in France, where she became a well-known and successful visual artist, she finally moved to Berlin in 1998.

History of works 1989-2010

Over the years Favre's works have grown to a series of interconnected cycles, showing references to the different fields of art history, geopolicy, philosophy, theater and film as well as her interest in narration in general.

⁕1989-1990 Period of the paintings Périmètre

⁕1991-1994 Period of white paintings

⁕1992-1994 Creation of objects

⁕1994-1996 works in sound, Robe Rouge, first work of the series Balls and Tunnels

⁕1996-1997 works after Pontormo, Velazquez, Watteau, Géricault

⁕1998 Filets a souvenirs

⁕1999 Les soeurs malade, beginning of series Lapine Univers

⁕2000 Series of Intérieurs, Petite filles

⁕2001 Series of Excercices de vols

⁕2002-2004 series Autos dans la nuit, series Forêt, beginning of ongoing suicide- series, beginning of series Idiotinnen