Simon Lamunière (born 1961 in

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situ ...

) is a

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. After his studies at the School of Visual Arts in Geneva (today HEAD) and a postgraduate course at the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel, Simon Lamunière has received grants for a residence at the

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in Paris and at the

Akademie Schloss Solitude The Akademie Schloss Solitude is a foundation under public law. The main aspect of the Akademie is to promote mainly younger, particularly gifted artists and scientists by means of residency fellowships and also by organizing events and exhibitio ...

, Stuttgart where he produces videos, installations and

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pieces . As an artist he has participated to solo and group shows from 1987 to 2003 in Paris, New-York, Lisbonne, Frankfuft and in Switzerland. His last known exhibition was at the Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain o
MAMCO
Geneva, in 2003. His experience as

curator A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...

began at the Centre pour l'image contemporaine (CIC) with the International Video Week program, one of the first video festivals in Switzerland and Europe. He then created and managed "Version 1.0", the first edition of what became the "Version Biennale" until 2004, an internationally considered biennale, focused on video and multimedia. In 1997, he designed and curated the website of the

documenta ''documenta'' is an exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. The ''documenta'' was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau (Federal Horticultura ...

br>X
directed by

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, in

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. He engaged artists as

Antoni Muntadas Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942) is a postconceptual multimedia artist, who resides in New York since 1971. His work often addresses social, political and communications issues through different media: such as photography, video, text and image p ...

to produce net art a
''On translation''
o

by Matt Mullican or artist like

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among others for the site. Simon Lamunière also contributed to the creation of the Museum of Modern Art

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) website in

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with

Claude Closky Claude Closky (born 22 May 1963) is a French Contemporary Artist who lives and works in Paris, France. Reception Closky won the "Grand prix des Arts plastiques" (1999) and the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2005) awarded by the ADIAF. Dike Blair w ...

, Jean-Charles Massera and Benjamin Weil. In 2000 he was appointed curator of ''Art, Unlimited'' at

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, a job he held until 2011. Then he became Chairman o
artgenève
directed by Thomas HUG until 2015. Since 2007, he was the project manager o
Neons Parallax
within the (FMAC) and the Canton Contemporary Art Fund (FCAC) of

. Located on the largest public place of

, this

site-specific art Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork. Site-specific art is produced both by commercial artists, and independently, and can ...

project invited Swiss and international artists to create luminous artworks for building roofs in the same way as advertising signs are placed on the Geneva lakeside. The project has just received the swiss Prix Visarte 2017. In 2009, Simon Lamunière was the Director of "Utopics
(interview)
the 11th Swiss Exhibition of Sculptures, a quinquennial exhibition launched in 1954 by Marcel Joray in the field of contemporary art in public space in Biel/Bienne in the Canton of Bern. From 2014 to 2016 He was curator of th
Domaine du Muy
a site specific art area in the south of France. Since 2008 he is producing artist's editions. He has already collaborated with

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, Matt Mullican, Heimo Zobernig, Carsten Hoeller,

Sylvie Fleury Sylvie Fleury (born 24 June 1961) is a Swiss contemporary pop artist known for her installations, sculpture, and mixed media. Her work generally depicts objects with sentimental and aesthetic attachments in consumer culture, as well as the para ...

Sarah Morris Sarah Morris (born 20 June 1967 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England) is an American and British artist. She lives in New York City in the United States. Personal life and education Morris was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in south-east England, on 20 Jun ...

Liam Gillick Liam Gillick (born 1964, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) is a British artist who lives and works in New York City.

. He co-curated site-specific or

public art Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process. It is a specific art genre with its own professional and critical discourse. Public art is visually and physically acce ...

exhibitions as Open End Open End, a site specific and public art exhibition in the ''Cimetière des rois'' or Planpalais's cemetery, in Geneva Cemetery in Geneva; or the recen
Triennale du Valais 2017
in the

Valais Valais ( , , ; frp, Valês; german: Wallis ), more formally the Canton of Valais,; german: Kanton Wallis; in other official Swiss languages outside Valais: it, (Canton) Vallese ; rm, (Chantun) Vallais. is one of the 26 cantons forming the S ...

, Switzerland.

References

External links

Interview of Simon Lamunière about his show at the MAMCO

swissart.ch news

Art_Unlimited visit by SimonLamunière

personal website

"Utopics: Systems and Landmarks"Video about the Neon Parallax project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lamuniere, Simon Swiss art curators Living people Curators from Geneva 1961 births