ARTIST TALK WITH SOFÍA DURRIEU
Join us for a conversation between Sofía Durrieu and Jeni Fulton and learn more about Sofía Durrieu’s practice and her current exhibition Unpredictable Fruit.
January 11, 2024
Artist Talk | 7pm
New Year’s Apéro | 6-8pm
Learn more about Sofía Durrieu’s current exhibition Unpredictable Fruit here.
Dr. Jeni Fulton is Art Basel’s Head of Editorial, leading the art fair’s digital magazine, Stories. She obtained her PhD on the subject of “Value and evaluation in 21st Century Art” from the Humboldt University in Berlin and read Philosophy at the University of Cambridge for her undergraduate degree. She lectures on the art market, contemporary art history, and art and technology at Zurich’s University of the Arts (ZHdK), and teaches in the Executive Master’s in Art Market Studies at the University of Zurich. Jeni Fulton was editor-in-chief of Sleek Magazine and has published in art magazines such as Spike, Frieze, Apollo and Randian.
Sofía Durrieu (*1980 Buenos Aires, Argentina, lives in Basel, Switzerland and Buenos Aires, Argentina) studied Fine Arts at Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires, and Graphic Design at the Faculty of Design of Buenos Aires. In 2018 she moved to Basel, Switzerland to join the Master in Fine Arts program at FHNW HGK Institut Kunst, directed by Chus Martínez, graduating in 2020. Recent solo exhibitions of the artist were Protolito/Limen at Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Magenmund at Palazzina, Basel, Amenities at Reaktor, Zurich, Control Remoto at Pasto Galería, Buenos Aires. Her work has been included in several group exhibitions, among them at Kunsthalle Basel, MALBA, Buenos Aires, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CEAAC Strasbourg, Federico Klemm Foundation, Buenos Aires, and Livie Gallery, Zurich. Her work was part of the performance series “Friday Beyeler” at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, and of the Performance Biennial in Parque Memorial in Buenos Aires in 2022. Recently she has been awarded with the 2022 Swiss Art Awards, the Werkbeitrag Kunstkredit Basel Stadt 2021, as well as an Atelier Mondial residency in Tokas, Tokyo. A solo exhibition at Kunstverein Heppenheim and a performance at Kunstmuseum Basel are planned for 2024.
Image:
Sofía Durrieu
Obstructure 2 (hear no evil), 2023
bronze, steel
37.3 x 105 x 30 cm
photo: Esther Mathis