Renée Levi
Professor bachelor and master
Artistic mentoring, seminars
Renée Levi initially studied architecture in Muttenz from 1980. From 1987 she studied fine arts at the Zurich University of the Arts.
The radical painterly gesture and questions of order, seriality and repetition have been fundamental aspects of Renée Levi’s work since the early 1990s. With her physically demanding paintings, such as her iconic endless lines applied directly to walls with spray cans, Levi addresses not only space itself, but also its effect on the human body.
Selected solo exhibitions include Swiss Institute New York (1997), Kunsthalle Basel (1999), Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel and Museum Folkwang Essen (both 2002), Kunsthaus Graz (2005), Credac Ivry-sur-Seine (2011) or Kunstverein München (2015). The examination of the place of painting is also the basis for many Insitu projects in collaboration with architects. After a guest professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, she has been Professor of Fine Arts at the HGK FHNW in Basel since 2001, where she established the team-teaching module Forum Kunst and was responsible for it until 2014.
Publications (selection)
2016, Kunst Station Triemli 2010—–2016, City of Zurich Art and Building / Karin Frei Bernasconi, 2015, Sudoku, Gintaras Didziapetris, Renée Levi, Rosalind Nashashibi / Chris Fitzpatrick, Kunstverein Munich, Roma Publication 244, 2014, Tohu-Bohu Renée Levi 200 Dessin 1:3, Frac Bretagne, 2013, Paroles d’Artistes, a film by Catherine Gfeller SRF and Binding Foundation