Gabriela Löffel (*1972 ch) mainly works with time-based media and focuses on the zones of political and finance structures, and infrastructures.
Shifting and translating from the documented immediate to the fields of interpretation and mise-en-scène are strategies she uses in her work process. A method that often results in long-term projects and enables her to create spaces for questions and to propose disruptions to linear narratives. She is interested in the obliquity of the subject and his context. It’s in this gap, brought about by her way of addressing subjects, that her work opens onto reflections on the sense of how we understand a world when we become conscious of the fragmentation of our knowledge.
Exhibitions and Screenings (selection)
2024
“Vertigo – Video Scenarios of Rapid Changes” Mast Bologna
Artgenève, Art fair Genève
Video Database, FMAC Genève
2023
“Werte im Wandel” Kunsthaus, Interlaken
“Tell the story or it goes” Matca, Cluj-Napoca
“In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire” Kochi-Muziris Biennale India
2022
“Les Instants Vidéo” Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
“Monitoring” 39. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Kassel
“A visual alphabet of industry, work and technology“ Mast, Bologna
Swiss Art Awards, Basel
“5.752.414.468” Vebikus Kunsthalle, Schaffhausen
“Performance” Galerie Béatrice Brunner, Bern
2021
“Performance” Standard/deluxe, Lausanne
Optica Centre d’art contemporain Montréal
2020
“Inside” Centre d’art contemporain Cacy, Yverdon-les-Bains
“Storytelling – Erzählende Kunst Heute und Morgen” Grimmwelt Kassel (cancelled)
“Performance” Optica Montréal, CA (postponed)
2019
“Film as idea, film as film, film as art” Galeria Studio Warsaw
Body&Soul, Genève
2018
“Choreography of the Frame” Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wien
“Multiple Contexts” Around Space Gallery Shanghai
“Gut gespielt. Der Mensch und sein Avatar” Alte Fabrik Rapperswil-Jona
Art Paris Art Fair, Videoprogram, Paris
“Stumble and choose” Médiathèque FMAC Genève
2017
“Work in motion” Mast Bologna
“Video–∑” Neues Kino, Projektraum M54, Basel
“Extended Cahiers” Ground, Moscow
Les Editions (les halles) at FRAC Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon
2016
“Komplexe Systeme” E-Werk Galerie für Gegenwartskunst Freiburg iB
“TWISTING C(R)ASH” Athen
Swiss Art Awards, Basel
2015
“Geschichte in Geschichten” Helmhaus Zürich
“TWISTING C(R)ASH” Le Commun Genève
“Embedded Language” Dazibao Montréal
“Fassung #1” Liste Art Fair Basel, Special Guest at Druckwerk
“Kinematographische Räume” Kaskadenkondensator Basel
Awards and Grants (selection)
2023
Work grant, Pro Helvetia
2022
Lewis Baltz Research Fund #7
2018
Work grant, Pro Helvetia
2017
Grant, Ville de Genève FMAC
2016
Swiss Art Award
Support for research, Pro Helvetia
2015
Award Irène Reymond Fondation
Grant Bildende Kunst, Amt für Kultur Kanton Bern
2013
Award “Anerkennungspreis / Fotopreise 2013” Amt für Kultur Kanton Bern
2012
Grant Société des Arts, Genève
2011
Swiss Art Award
Award “Fondation Gertrude Hirzel” Société des arts Genève
2007
Award “Aeschlimann-Corti Stipendium”
Collections
Swiss Federal Art Collection, Federal Office of Culture
Swiss National Library Collection
MAST Collection of Photography, Bologna
Collection des Beaux-Arts Jura
Kantonale Kunstsammlung Bern, Amt für Kultur Kanton Bern
FMAC / Fonds d‘art contemporain Ville de Genève
Residencies
2023
Beirut, research residency Pro Helvetia
2021
London, Landis & Gyr Foundation
2018
Shanghai, studio residency Pro Helvetia
2013
Québec, La Bande Vidéo
Montréal, Vidéographe
2006
Berlin, Artdirekt
Akureyri IS, Gil-society
Seydisfjördur IS, Skaftfell