SOFÍA DURRIEU
Sofía Durrieu’s practice inhabits the interface between sculpture and performance. She examines the human body and the inherent tension between body and environment. Hereby, she explores daily routines, their interruption, and the resulting changes in perception. Her practice involves classical techniques of sculpture such as metal work and casting, as well as reorganization of everyday materials, which she inscribes with perceptual systems, habits, and automatisms. In many of her works, she invites visitors to engage physically with her sculptures and thus become part of the work.
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, Phantom Limb at Kunstverein Heppenheim. 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.
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Image 1: Sofía Durrieu, Reflex arc – (IV D-Fence), Swiss Art Awards 2022, photo: Ramiro Oller
Image 2: installation view Embodiments, Sofía Durrieu, John Wayne (to be brave), 2018
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SOFÍA DURRIEU AT MALBA
Sofía Durrieu’s new performative sculpture/situation is on view at Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) as part of the exhibition Del Cielo a Casa, curated by Sebastian Adamo, Leandro Chiappa, Gustavo Eandi, Marcelo Faiden, Carolina Muzi, Veronica Rossi, Juan Ruades, Martin Wolfson and Paula Zuccotti, from March 23 to June 12, 2023. Sofía Durrieu’s […]
FAZ | SOFÍA DURRIEU AT ARCO MADRID
Nicole Scheyerer writes about Sofía Durrieu’s participation at ARCO Madrid 2023 in Frankfurter Allgemeine. “Insgesamt konnte die Zahl lateinamerikanischer Teilnehmer im Vergleich zum Vorjahr gehoben werden, wobei Argentinien die Nase vorne hat. Ruth Benzacar aus Buenos Aires zeigt wunderbare Bronzearbeiten von Sofía Durrieu. Wie Franz Wests „Passstücke“ sollen sie angefasst und benutzt werden, als humorvoll-unnütze […]
ARCOmadrid 2023
SOFÍA DURRIEUESTHER MATHIS HALL 7, BOOTH 7C07 IN COLLABORATION WITH RUTH BENZACAR GALERÍA DE ARTE, BUENOS AIRES FEBRUARY 22-26, 2023PROFESSIONAL DAYS, FEBRUARY 22 – 23PUBLIC DAYS, FEBRUARY 24 – 26 We are looking forward to participate for the first time at ARCOmadrid in collaboration with Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires, with whom we co-represent Sofía Durrieu. Alongside Durrieu’s […]
SOFÍA DURRIEU AT KUNSTHALLE BASEL
After having been awarded the Werkbeitrag Kunstkredit Basel Stadt in 2021, Sofía Durrieu’s new performative sculpture/situation Mise-en-abyme I is on view at Kunsthalle Basel as part of the exhibition Cat’s Cradle, curated by Len Schaller, from September 25 until October 9, 2022. Sofía Durrieu’s Mise-en-abyme I turns on hysteria in nineteenth-century France. Taking the Hystérique as her subject, Durrieu analyses how […]