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NEWS

 

 

«Leave a Hello», Kunstkredit Werkbeiträge, Kunsthalle Basel

Opening on Sunday September 24th, 2pm

Exhibition 24.9. - 8.10.2023

First presentation of «Notes from the dreaming Caracal»

https://www.kunsthallebasel.ch

 

 

ProHelvetia New Delhi 2022/23

Artist-in-residency, Sri Lanka, together with Jannik Giger

Nov 2022 till Jan 2023

 

 

Swiss Art Awards 2022

Opening June 13, On view June 13-19, 2022

Messe Basel Hall 1.1

Presentation of «This is Home - Installation»

 

 

Das Tanzfest Basel 2022, Foyer Public Theater Basel

May 14th 2022

Premiere of «This is Home - Performance»

 

 

Venice Biennale 2021

Palazzo Trevisan, «Salon Suisse», Bodily Encounters, Curated by Evelyn Steiner

Presentation of  «This is home - Film»

 

 

 

 

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«Maleen, in some moments I envy you for your cool, dignified and conscious distance towards the environment». 
Production still, 2011

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Florine Leoni is a Swiss artist engaged in interdisciplinary, longterm and collaborative projects at the intersection of art, film, photography and education. Leoni’s artistic practice focuses on exploring and exposing the hidden structures and influences of social and psychological constructs, which are linked to spatial entities and are interwoven with the web of human existence. Her work has been shown in group and solo shows at national and international exhibition venues and film festivals. Leoni has received awards for her artistic projects as well as studio scholarships in Europe, America and Asia.

 

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Florine Leoni, born 1980 in Switzerland. Lives with her family in Basel.
 

 

EDUCATION

 

2024-25

Institut für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Institut für Psychologie

Coaching in der Praxis, Certificate of Advanced Studies

 

2023

Handlungskompetenzorientiert Unterrichten, Testat

Eidgenössische Hochschule für Berufsbildung EHB

 

2023

Didaktisches Basismodul A ZBKU/ZHF, Zertifikat

Eidgenössische Hochschule für Berufsbildung EHB, Schule für Gestaltung Bern Biel

 

2013
Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule) Frankfurt

Guest semester. Film class Prof. Douglas Gordon, Frankfurt a.M., D

2011-13
Master of Arts (MFA)  in Contemporary Arts Practice, Y-Institute for Transdisciplinarity

Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, CH

2002-06
Diploma Fine Arts (BA), Art and Education

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, CH

2001-02
Vorkurs, Schule für Gestaltung Bern, CH

 

 

GRANTS / AWARDS

 

2022 Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Basel, CH. Promotion award

2022/23 ProHelvetia, Sri Lanka. Artist-in-residence

2020 Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Project grant for «This is home - Performance»

2020 Atelier Mondial, Studio Berlin. Artist-in-residence

2018 Aeschlimann-Corti Stipendium, Recipient of main award

2018 Best Documentary Short Film Award for «Aysha Kevin Michele» , South Film and Arts academy Festival, Chile, 2018

2017 Basler Filmpreis - Kurzfilm, «Aysha Kevin Michele», Basel, CH

2017 UBS Culture Foundation, Promotion award

2015 Casa Poli, Tomé, Concepción, Chile in collaboration with Sandra Volny (CAN) and Macarena Ruiz-Tagle (CHI). Artist-in-residence

2012 Post-Studio-Tales, District Kunst-, und Kulturförderung, Berlin, D. Artist-in-residence

2010 Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Basel, CH. Promotion award

2010 Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan. Artist-in-residence

2010 BBS Basel-Berlin-Sarnen, Sarnen, CH. Artist-in-residence

2010 AXENEO7, Ottawa, CAN. Artist-in-residence

2009 Darling Foundry, iaab International Exchange and Studio Programm Basel, Montréal, CAN. Artist-in-residence

2009 Point de Fuite, Toulouse, F. Artist-in-residence

2006 Zeugin Stiftung Luzern, CH. Promotion award

 

 

SELECTED SOLO PRESENTATIONS

 

2022 Foyer Public Theater Basel, Das Tanzfest Basel,

Premiere of «This is home - Performance», Basel CH

2021 Venice Biennale 2021, Palazzo Trevisan, Salon Suisse, Bodily Encounters

World premiere of «This is Home - Film»

2016 Milieu Gallery, Bern, CH

2015 Filmbau, a cooperation with S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, CH

2014 Stadtgalerie Bern, CH

2011 Schwarzwaldallee, Koordinaten ihrer Erinnerung, nt-Areal, Basel, CH

2011 CIRCA Centre d’exposition art contemporain, Persistence, Montreal, CAN

2010 Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Voids Between Scenes, Taipei, Taiwan

2010 AXENEO7, Ottawa, CAN

2009 Point de fuite, Toulouse, F.

2009 Darling Foundry Garage, Montreal, CAN

2008 mitart gallery, Basel, CH

2008 Kunsthalle Vienna Projectspace, Wien, (performance with Faye Shapiro)

2008 sic! Raum für Kunst, Luzern, CH

 

 

 

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

 

2024 CAN Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Video Show and The Blind Pigeon, CH

2024 Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Regionale 24 - Im Angesicht der Dämmerung, CH

2022 Swiss Art Awards, Messehallen Basel, CH

2021 Fake Quotes and Sitting Ducks, MAL:MAL, Bern, CH

2020 CEAC Strasbourg, Installation «How close we are» (2011)

2018 Kunsthaus Langenthal, Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium

2017 Kunsthalle Bern, Cantonale, 2017, CH

2016 Ernte, Kunstankäufe bl., Kunsthaus Baselland, CH

2015 Historical Museum of Crete, GR

2015 FLAT 2, London, GB

2014 Kunsthalle Bern, All I ever see is matchstickmen and you, Cantonale, CH

2014 Centre PasquArt Biel, Cantonale, CH

2014 Haus für elektronische Künste, Ma(r)king Territories, Basel, CH

2013 MJ Gallery, floaters, Geneva, CH

2013 Donaufestival 2013, Kunsthalle Krems, Österreich

2013 handlungsbereitschaft 4, Berlin, D

2013 Centre PasquArt Biel, show me show me show me, CH

2013 ION, ON-ION, Zürich, CH

2013 Gallery Weekend THE ROOM, Berlin, D

2013 Kunsthalle Krems, Donaufestival Krems, AU

2012 L‘Atelier, Specific Space, Nantes, F

2012 District Kunst- und Kulturförderung, Post-Studio-Tales, Berlin, D

2011 Musée d‘Art Contemporain de Montreal, Triennale Quebecoise 2011, Montreal, CAN

2011 centquatre, Jeune Création, Paris, F

2011 Kunstraum Riehen, Nico Unique, Riehen, CH

2010 Donetsk City, Art-Point, Ukraine

2010 S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum, Kunstkredit Werkbeitraege Basel-Stadt, CH

2010 Swiss Art Awards, Messehallen, Basel, CH

2009 Kunsthalle Palazzo, Regioanle10, Liestal, CH

2007 Kunsthaus Baselland, Regionale8, CH. (with Faye Shapiro)

 

 

WORKSHOPS / CONFERENCES / ARTIST TALKS

 

2022 Teaching Artist - Video/Film

Co-Leitung Projektmodul rec play, Vorkurs, Schule für Gestaltung Basel

 

2022 Teaching Artist - Video/Film

Co-Leitung Workshop «Poesie meets Film», Schule+Kultur der Bildungsdirek-tion Kanton Zürich und dem Blickfelder Festival.

 

2021 Teaching Artist - Video/Film

Workshop «Peer Media Educators» at inTeam Basel

 

2020 Teaching Artist - Video/Film

Workshop «Peer Media Educators»,  inTeam Basel, Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel

 

2020 Teaching Artist - Video/Film

«Hopper Sampling» Workshop for K'Werk, Schule für Gestaltung Basel, Fondation Beyeler

 

2019 Teaching Artist - Video/Film

Workshop «Peer Media Educators»,  inTeam Basel, Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel, November 2019

 

2018 Teaching Artist - Video/Film

Research lab «Mehr? Weniger! Action!», Sekundarschule Uster, Zürich, CH
In collaboration with Grit Röser, Chari Maria Santos

 

2018 Teaching Artist - Video/Film

Video/Film at K'Werk Bildschule bis 16 - Schule für Gestaltung Basel, CH

 

2017 Teaching Artist - Video/Film

Masterclass «Exploring Spatial Awareness», Ionion Centre for the Arts and Culture on Kefalonia Island in Greece, GR

In collaboration with Macarena Ruiz-Tagle (Chile) and Sandra Volny (Canada)

 

2016/17 Teaching Artist - Video/Film
Art and Education Project, Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt, Fachmaturitässchule Basel, CH

 

2016 Workshop, Digital Media

University of Applied Sciences FHNW, Institute of Secondary Education I and II, CH
 

2016 Workshop on and around FILMBAU - Video/Film

University of Architecture, Construction and Geomatics, FHNW. Institute Architecture, CH
In collaboration with Evelyn Steiner

 

2016 Conference on and around FILMBAU

EPFL Lausanne, Institut d'Architecture, CH

In collaboration with Evelyn Steiner

 

2016 Artist Talk

Mediated Architecture, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Basel, CH

 

2015 Artist Talks with TRIANGULAR Project
Universidad Católica del Norte in Antofagasta
Chilean Antarctic Institute INACH in Punta Arenas
Universidad de Chile in Santiago, CL.
In collaboration with Macarena Ruiz-Tagle (CL). and Sandra Volny (FR). (forthcoming)

 

2014 Artist Talk

Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern, CH

 

2011 Artist Talk

Musée d‘Art Contemporain, Triennale Québécoise, Montréal, CAN

 

2010 Artist Talk

Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

 

2010 Artist Talk

Concordia University Montreal, Master of Fine Arts, Open Media, Sculpture Class of Prof. Trevor Gould, Montreal, CAN

 

2009 Workshop

École Nationale Supérieure d‘Architecture, Toulouse, F

 

 

 

FILMOGRAPHY / VIDEOGRAPHY

 

2021 This is Home

30min., full HD, color, sound, E/HEB/SP/RU/e, 2021

 

2017 Aysha Kevin Michele

Full HD, 28:00, color, sound, DE/E/e, independent documentary

 

2016 Nicht ich

Art and Education Project, Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt, Fachmaturitätschule Basel

Full HD, 28:00, color, sound, DE/e, experimental

 

2015 Filmbau

A cooperation with S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, CH

Full HD, 40:00, color, sound, DE/E/F/I/e, compilation film

 

2014 En garde

Full HD, 16:31, color, sound, DE/E/e, experimental documentary

 

2013 Your territory : Kasia Pacura, HD Video, 9:00, color, sound, E/de, video installation

2013 Your territory : Dina Ewans, HD video, 6:00, color, sound, Swiss German/e, video installation

 

2012 Koordinaten ihrer Erinnerung

HDV video, 7:00, loop, color, sound, loop, DE/f, 2-channel videoinstallation

 

2011 The venue

HDV video, 11:12, loop, color, sound, E/de/f, 2-channel videoinstallation

 

2011 Circumpolar

HDV video, 7:55, loop, color, sound, E/de, experimental

 

2008 I always knew it was there but never guessed where

HDV video, 12:11, loop, color, sound, experimental

 

2008 Everything seems ordinary

HDV video, 7:00, loop, b/w, 4-channel videoinstallation

 

2007 Ein Reiz oder Ähnliches

SD video, 8:00, loop, 2:00 loop, color, 2-channel videoinstallation

 

2007 When nothing happens, video installation

SD video, 14:47, loop, b/w, sound, 3-channel videoinstallation

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

2015 FILMBAU / CONSTRUCTING FILM. Schweizer Architektur im Bewegten Bild

Hrg. Evelyn Steiner, Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum.

 

2014 EN GARDE, Monography, 2014

Essay by Dr.phil. Doris Gassert, Graphic design by Dominique Berrel Grafik. Released june 2014

 

2013 POST-STUDIO-TALES, online documentation

 http://district-berlin.com/pst- documentation, Ed. District Kunst- und Kulturförderung, Berlin, D

 

2011/12 Paper Jam#2

Curated by Charlotte Seidel and Emile Ouroumov, Printed at: Cabaret Voltaire, Zuerich, May 31st 2012, marke.6 - gallery of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar June 14h, Le Commissariat at Treize, Paris, June 27th, Ygrec, Paris, June 29th, Messy Shop, Bankok, July 14th 2012. 2012

 

2011 Jeune Création 2011

Exposition internationale d’art contemporain, Ed. Jeune Création, Paris

 

2011 La Triennale Québecoise 2011

Le travail qui nous attend, Ed. Du Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal

 

2011 iaab, GOING PLACES

Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel

 

2010 YA YA YA - GENAU

Raum für Kunst - sic! [ zik; lat. ] so, ebenso; wirklich so! , Hrg. Nadine Wietlisbach, Luzern

 

2010 Art Point

Bereznitsky Project Donetsk, Ed. Master Knyg, Kiev

 

2008 ERNTE‘07

Kunstankäufe des Kantons Basel Landschaft, Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Hrs. Marcel Falk, kulturelles.bl, Liestal

 

2008 Swiss Performance

KUNSTHALLE Wien, project space, Ed. Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg

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2018 BZ Thuner Tagblatt - Der Sound dreier Teenager. Von Helen Lagger

2018 BZ Berner Oberländer -  Auf der Suche nach sich selbst. Von Helen Lagger

2017 BZ Berner Zeitung - Kevin rappt in der Kunsthalle. Von Helen Lagger
2016 Hochparterre. Auf der Suche nach dem bewegten Bild. Von Marcel Bächtiger. 
2015 Kunstbulletin Dez. 2015. Basel : Florine Leoni. Von Grit Weber.
2015 NZZ Feuilleton, Kunst und Architektur. Schweizer Architektur im Film
2015 Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, Kultur. Architektur flimmert über den Bildschirm. Von Simon Baur.
2015 Könizer Zeitung, Christa Pfanner, En garde
2014 Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, Christian Fluri, BZ, Räume, die klingen
2014 Tageswoche, Naomi Gregoris, Gespaltene Bildschirme im Stadtkino Basel
2014 Zur Konstruktion Filmischer Zwischenräume, Doris Gassert. 
2013 Tageswoche, Karen Gerig, Überschrittene Grenzen
2011 Basler Zeitung Kulturmagazin, Annette Hoffmann, Es tönt nach Neuanfang. 2011
2009 Multiprise Toulouse, Anaïs Delmas, Le labyrinthe de plan
2008 Basler Zeitung Kulturmagazin, Simon Baur, Raum-Architekur
2008 Kunsthalle Wien, Katarzyna Uszynska, Kristall
2008 When nothing happens, Evelyn Schuep
2008 Basler Zeitung Kulturmagazin, Nathalie Baumann, Das ist kein Pappen Stil
2008 sic! Raum für Kunst, Irène Buffat
2008 Kulturelles bl, ERNTE 08, Marcel Falk
2007 Ein Reiz oder Ähnliches, Giger / Leemann
2007 Schalter, Simon Koenig

 

 

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SELECTED REFERENCES

VIDEO / FILM

Basler Fechtclub
FMS Fachmaturitätsschule Basel

Kultur Basel-Stadt
Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum S AM, Basel
Schulheim Schloss Kasteln

Sekundarschule Uster, Zürich
Vitra AG

Waisenhaus Basel

Atelier Gillmann & Co. Basel
zoeTanz Basel

 

PHOTOGRAPHY COMMISSIONS
Büro Berrel Gschwind
Claudia&Julia Müller 
DesignMiami Basel
Egeler Lutz AG
Ensemble Phoenix Basel
Gastropraxis Basel, Dr. Haack, Dr. Rossi
JM Treuhand und Verwaltung GmbH
Magazin 50plus
Pädagogische Hochschule FHNW
STAMPA Galerie
Vitra AG

WORKSHOPS / LECTURES / PODIUMS
Architektenkammer Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
Chilean Antarctic Institute INACH in Punta Arenas
École Nationale supérieure d‘architecture de Toulouse
EPFL Lausanne, Institut Architektur
Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW,
Gymnasium Muttenz
Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW, Institut Architektur
Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture Kefalonia Griechenland
Pädagogische Hochschule PH, FHNW
Pädagogische Hochschule Luzern
Sekundarschule Aesch

Schule für Gestaltung Basel
Schweizerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Schul- und Jugend-Fotografie (SASJF)
Universidad Católica del Norte in Antofagasta
Universidad de Chile in Santiago