About
Biography, statements, solo and group shows, residencies, projects, catalogues and more.
Statement
My work begins with images.
Not with images as representations of the world, but as structures through which the world becomes imaginable. Every image carries histories, assumptions and omissions. Every image establishes relationships between what is made visible and what remains outside the frame.
I am interested in these structures because they shape how reality is perceived long before it is questioned.
Working across moving image, installation, drawing and photography, I investigate the narratives embedded in landscapes, bodies, archives and collective memory. Rather than treating images as documents, I approach them as active sites where cultural, political and ecological realities are continuously produced and negotiated.
Much of my recent work shifts away from anthropocentric perspectives. Rivers, plants, animals and landscapes become more than subjects of representation; they function as positions from which dominant narratives can be unsettled. This shift is not an attempt to speak for the more-than-human world, but to expose the limits of human-centred systems of knowledge and to imagine other forms of attention.
Observation, field research and documentary material frequently intersect with fictional narration. These different modes are not opposed to one another but operate as complementary ways of approaching realities that remain fragmented, situated and inherently incomplete.
My installations do not seek to resolve these fragments into coherent stories. Instead, they open spaces in which perception itself becomes negotiable. By questioning the images through which we understand the world, the work asks how reality might change once those images begin to shift.
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Biography
Swiss Artist Sibylle Feucht, born in Kaufbeuren (GER), grew up in Switzerland and lives and works in Bonn (GER) since 2010, before that she lived and worked in Basel (CH). She has a conceptual work approach and uses different media such as Photography, Video and Video Installation as well as melted together Plastic Beads.
She earned a Master in Science (Biology) from the University of Basel (Biozentrum) and the Molecular Biology Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), studied Art at F+F School for Art and New Media in Zurich (CH) and added an Executive Master in Design | Art + Innovation from the Academy of Art and Design, Basel (CH).
She was present in numerous solo- and group shows in Switzerland and abroad, had purchases by private collectors and governmental institutions and a number of studiobourses, e.g., Cité des Arts, Paris (F), Rotterdam (NL) (www.iaab.ch), Urban Residency Slavutych, in the frame of 86 FESTIVAL OF FILM AND URBANISM (Ukraine), Travel Grant by Frauenkulturbüro NorthRhineWestfalia (GER) for Armenia and Georgia. 2020 nominated for CityARTists NorthRhineWestfalia (GER), 2022 research residency in the frame of Goethe on Mallorca, Casa Planas and Goethe Institute Barcelona.
Since 2011 Launch and management of the artist-run, non-profit art space DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+ in Bonn (GER).
Her work approach spans from classical photography to instagram-based projects, large-scale projects in public space to wall installations using plastic beads, for example.
METASITU (Liva DUDAREVA Eduardo CASSINA), 2020
Before her artistic career, Sibylle was a Molecular Biologist: this idea of dealing with the minute and the colossal, constellations of objects that come together at multi-scalar planes, is something that she very much took with her into her artistic career. Her work reflects on political, ecological and social issues that we all face by often focusing on the small things, the private and intimate perspectives that contain the whole world. These connections and distances between the private and the public run through all of her works.
Traveling and diving into other societies and cultures is an inherent part of her work approach, yet remaining respectful and mindful of the local context she is working with.
solo shows (selection)
2025 | Molekyl Galleri, Malmö/SE |
2024 | Tales from a River, Galerie L’oeuvre de l’Autre, Centre d’exposition de l’Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada |
2022 | Aftermath/Mariupol, solo show and release of publication #143 with the independent Swiss Art Magazine _957, at Redaktion, Lucerne/SUI |
2019 | The Cable Car, Installation in Public Space, Severodonetsk/UA and Lyssytschansk/UA |
2018 | Slavutych@home, Installation in public space, Slavutych/UA |
2016 | Interface Error, Strümpfe – the supper artclub, Mannheim/GER |
2015 | SNAFU, Art at Tina Miyake, Dusseldorf/GER |
2013 | Kunst geht nach Brot, by Cynal, at CentrumGalerie, Dresden/GER | publication: cynal #02 |
2011 | take shelter, nachtspeicher23, Hamburg/GER |
2006 | …all my dreams, Forum Vebikus, Kammgarn, Schaffhausen/SUI |
2005 | |
2003 | Remote Desire, Gallery Staub (later until 2017 Galery Rotwand), Zurich/SUI |
Hohe Berge, Enge Täler, site specific Installation, CargoBar, Basel/SUI | |
1998 | en passant, Installation in public space, Cultural Center Scuol-Nairs (CH) |
1997 | Dislokation, Installation in trains of the Swiss Railway Company SBB (CH) |
group shows (selection)
2026 | you make me shiver – I feel so tender, edition Cologne/GER, group show by the international art collectiv life during wartime, Labor Ebertplatz, Cologne/GER |
you make me shiver – I feel so tender, edition Hégenheim/FR, group show by the international art collectiv life during wartime, FabrikCulture, Hégenheim/FR | |
2025 | Redaktion, Lucern/SUI, Dessin mort ou vif |
Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen/GER, Farbe und Form – Unikat und Edition | |
∑ SUMME Biennale, Basel/SUI | |
Packed up and ready to go, Redaktion Parking/Lucern, SUI | |
2024 | duo-show with Mary-Ruth Walsh, Space-o, Düsseldorf/GER |
Materialities, Scala Trun, Trun/SUI | |
heard of a van that`s loaded with weapons, Redaktion, Lucern/SUI | |
2023/24 | |
2023 | spin-off of the PORTRAITS – Hellerau Photography Awards 2023 at Mazars GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/GER |
Supermarket Independent Art fair, Stockholm/SE, featured by Scala Trun, Trun/SUI | |
PORTRAITS – Hellerau Photography Awards 2023, Dresden/GER, group exhibition of the finalists at Dresden Technical Collections | |
2022/23 | |
2022 | Platforms Project 2022, Athens/GR, featured by DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+ |
Supermarket Independent Art fair, Stockholm/SE, featured by DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+ | |
2021 | PASSAGE, exhibition project in public space at Kaiserpassage, Bonn/GER |
2020 | Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund/GER, Künstlereltern (engl.: Artist Parents) |
Südtiroler Künstlerbund, Bozen/IT, Wohin geht die Reise – Alles ist Wechselwirkung (engl.: Where is the journey going? Everything is interaction), cooperation between Südtiroler Künstlerbund, Bozen/IT and Künstlerforum Bonn, Bonn/GER | |
2019 | Duo-Dia, part of Kellerlichter (engl.: Cellar Lights), Ebertplatz, Cologne/GER), Installation in Public Space, Slide projections and Light Installations |
Künstlerforum Bonn, Bonn/GER, Wohin geht die Reise – Alles ist Wechselwirkung (engl.: Where is the journey going? Everything is interaction), cooperation between Südtiroler Künstlerbund, Bozen/IT and Künstlerforum Bonn, Bonn/GER | |
ostrale Biennale 2019, Dresden/GER | |
Platforms Project 2019, Athens/GR, featured by DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+ | |
Space52, Athens/GR, The Whole and it’s Parts through an urbanistique Lens, curated by DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+ | |
2018 | DAS ESSZIMMER goes ID:I Galleri, Stockholm/SE |
Platforms Project 2018, Athens/GR, featured by DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+ | |
Cargo Rebuilt, 20 years CargoBar Art Programme, Cargo Bar, Basel/SUI | |
Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Perspektiven – Strategien fotografischen Handelns (engl.: Perspectives – Strategies for Photographic Action), Darmstadt/GER | |
Künstlerforum Bonn, Bonn/GER, haus der fehler (engl.: home of mistakes) | |
2017 | tête, Berlin/GER – The next 100 years |
Gallery Lausberg, Dusseldorf/GER | |
2016 | Kunstraum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf/GER, 5 x 3, curated by Christoph Bucher |
2015 | Artothèque de Strasbourg, Strassbourg/FR, Regionale 16 |
Frauenmuseum Bonn, Bonn/GER, Women in War and Peace, 15-45-15 | |
thealit – Labor, Bremen/GER, Ordnung // Struktur | |
DON’T TAKE PICTURES, New York/USA, City Life | |
2014 | DIENSTGEBÄUDE Zurich/SUI, catch of the year 2014 – 100 artists / 100 works |
dock-Basel/SUI, GASTSPIEL – Kunst_stücke ins Licht getaucht | |
Raum 2810, Bonn/GER, Auf den Punkt | |
Photobastei Zurich/SUI, DAS ESSZIMMER goes | |
2013 | FABRIKculture, Hégenheim/FR, Regionale 14, curated by Françoise Theis |
2010 | artschool uk, Phase II at Whitechapel Gallery London/UK / Phase I at Cell Project Space, London/UK |
Kultursommer Mels 2010 – Denkpause, Mels/SUI | |
2009 | ostrale 09, Dresden/GER |
Villa Kolbe, Halle/Saale/GER, Grosse Kunstausstellung | |
2008 | contemporary art ruhr, fair for contemporary art, Zollverein Essen/GER, Förderkoje für KünstlerInnen / Funding booth for artists |
thealit, Bremen/GER, Prototypisieren – Eine Messe für Theorie und Kunst | Publikation | |
2007 | Autonomes Cultur Centrum (ACC) Gallery Weimar, Weimar/GER, Le Souvenir, im Rahmen des Kunstfest Weimar |
2006/07 | Kunstraum Baden, Baden/SUI, Home Sweet Home, duo exhibition with Simone Müller, curated by Stefi Binder |
2006 | Gallery Staubkohler (2003 – 2007,afterwards Gallery Rotwand), Zurich/SUI, SPEED |
2003 | IN OUT, International Festival of The Digital Image, Prague/CZ |
Trafo Gallery, Budapest/HU, selected works from the IN OUT Festival | |
2002/03 | Coninx Museum, Zurich/SUI, Ikonen. Kunst und Kult, catalogue |
2002 | VIPER_02, Basel/SUI, public – private, catalogue | my family_02, Video Installation in the foyer of the Theater Basel, Basel/SUI |
2001/02 | Galerie im Amtshimmel (later Kunstraum Baden), Baden/SUI, Altäre und Ikonen / Altars and Icons, duo exhibition with Philippe Winninger, curated by Stefi Binder |
2001 | Kasko, Basel/SUI, FrontFlipping, duo exhibition with Nicoletta West |
Gallery Kabinett, Bern/SUI, Mobile Home, curated by Rolf Staub and Stefi Binder | |
1999/00 | Swiss Institute, New York, New York/USA, Shooting Stars, presented by Xposition |
Projects / Presentations
2026 WDR 3 Forum / Radio conversation (in German), Kunst statt Konsum. City-Leerflächen kulturell nutzen? – Michael Köhler diskutiert mit: Sibylle Feucht, Künstlerin, Leiterin eines non-profit Ausstellungsraumes; Kay von Keitz, Kulturwissenschaftler, Kurator und Urbanist und Daniela Schneckenburger, Beigeordnete Deutscher Städtetag, Leiterin des Dezernats Bildung, Integration, Kultur, Sport und Gleichstellung
2022 Museu Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca, Project Presentation in the frame of the residency Goethe on Mallorca by Goethe Institute Barcelona/ES
2022 Open Studio at Casa Planas, Palma de Mallorca/ES in the frame of the residency Goethe on Mallorca by Goethe Institute Barcelona/ES
2019 Studio20, Yerevan/AM, The Dream of Home, Presentation
2018/19 Goethe Inst. Ukraine and Garage Gang, Kiew/UA, Remote and Imminent: Culture and Conflict
since 2011 foundation and running of the non-profit, artist-run art space DAS ESSZIMMER – space for art+
Residencies / Stipends
2026 Research Residency at PADA Studios, Barreiro/PT
2025 Residency Malmö/SE, invited by Molekyl Gallery Malmö/SE
2024 Residency at Chicoutimi, Québec/CAN, invited by the artist group AMV (Art / Materialité / Visibilité),
2023 Residency at Björkö Konstnod (BKN)/, funded by Culture Moves Europe
2022 Residency Goethe on Mallorca, Centre Cultural Casa Planas, Palma de Mallorca/ES / by Goethe Institute Barcelona
2022 project-based stipend from Stiftung Kunstfonds/GER, in the frame of Neustart Kultur
2022 project-based stipend from Deutscher Künstlerbund/GER in the frame of Neustart Kultur | returned
2022 project-based stipend from NorthRhineWestphalia/GER | returned
2021 project-based stipend from NorthRhineWestphalia/GER
2021 project-based stipend from VG Bildkunst
2020 Project-based stipend from NorthRhineWestphalia/GER
2019 WomensCulturOffice of NorthRhineWestphalia, Residency Yerevan (Armenia) and Tbilisi (Georgia)
2018/19 Goethe Inst. Ukraine and Garage Gang, Kiew (UA), project-based stipend, Remote and Imminent: Culture and Conflict
2018 Urban Residency in the frame of the international 86Festival of Film and Urbanism, Slavutych (Ukraine)
2010 Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt/CH, project-based stipend artschool uk
2002 Rotterdam/NL Residency (3 month). Christoph Merian Foundation, Basel/CH,
1999 Paris Residency (6 month), Kanton Basel-Landschaft/CH at Cité des Arts, Paris/F
1998 Werkbeitrag Fachausschuss Film/Video/Foto der Kantone Basel-Stadt und Basel-Landschaft/CH
Residency Scuol-Nairs, BINZ39 and Pro Engiadina Bassa (3 month),
1997 Werkbeitrag Fachausschuss Film/Video/Foto der Kantone Basel-Stadt und Basel-Landschaft/CH
in Collections
Art Collection of the city of Baden/SUI
Art Collection of the city of Basel/SUI
Art Collection of the Canton Basel-Landschaft/SUI
Private Collections in Basel, Zug, Baden and Zurich/SUI
Publications
2024 _957, Independent Swiss Art Magazine, Issue 164_HEARD OF A VAN THAT‘S LOADED WITH WEAPONS
2023 DER GREIF, online Guest Room with Annekathrin Kohout
2023 FRAC Alsace – l´Art e-s-t métier (Transmergence #04), Sélestat/FR, exhibition publication
2022 _957, Independent Swiss Art Magazine, Issue #143 Aftermath/Mariupol
2018 Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt (GER), Katalog S. 174-175, ISBN 978-3-9813629-9-2
2017 Itch No. 20, creative journal from new Zealand | artist contribution
2016 Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (GER), Publikation zur Ausstellung 5 x 3, 2016
2015 Frauenmuseum Bonn (GER), Katalog zur Ausstellung Frauen in Krieg und Frieden – 15-45-15 | ISBN 978-3-940482-85
2014 LASSO Magazin No.6 (CH), Schöne neue Welt | artist contribution
2013 cynal #02, Kunst geht nach Brot, ISBN 978-3-8442-6611-5 | artist contribution
2012 Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Format Foto Tableau, 24. – 28. September 2012, Bilder aus der Serie Folds of Life, Tokyo, 2012
2011 Basel – Rotterdam | Rotterdam Basel – 10 Years of Artists in Residence and Cultural Exchange | ISBN: 9789460830440 | artist contribution
2011 Handbuch zur Umgestaltung des Lueger-Denkmals | Beitrag Sibylle Feucht: sans souci, S. 224 | ZVR: 662773619
2010 artschool uk I + II, project publication with artist contributions
2009 Andrea Sick (Hrg.): PROTOTYPISIEREN, thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor, Bremen / Sibylle Feucht: … – Die Lücke zwischen den Punkten oder: Woher kommt der Prototyp’
Hrgs. Susanne Bauer, Ulrike Bergermann, Christine Hanke, Helene von Oldenburg, Andrea Sick: Prototypisieren. Eine Messe für Theorie und Kunst, Bremen, Juli 2009, 272 Seiten, ISBN: 978-3-930924-14-1
2006 Sibylle Feucht: PORN 1 – ein Daumenkino, Künstlerbuch (2+1)
Sibylle Feucht: Das Konzept der Lücke – Skizze einer Metaphysik der Wahrnehmung, Diplomarbeit, Nachdiplomstudium in Design | Art + Innovation, HGK Basel
Sibylle Feucht: Interpretation als Origami – Versuch einer Interpretation der Interpretation, Zwischenprüfung II, Nachdiplomstudium in Design | Art + Innovation, HGK Basel
2005 Sibylle Feucht: Was ist ein Bild? – Die Sehnsucht nach dem Blick hinter den (gemalten) Vorhang, Zwischenprüfung I, Nachdiplomstudium in Design | Art + Innovation, HGK Basel
Andrea Sick (Hrg.): Überdreht – Spindoctoring, Politik, Medien, thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor Bremen – ISBN 3930924-11-00 / Sibylle Feucht: my_family_04, S. 339
2002 viper_02, Basel (CH), public | private, Katalog
1999 CH – Creatio Helvetica, Magazin (CH), artist contribution, Passage.
1997 Sibylle Feucht. Dislokation – Eine Installation in Zügen. Künstlerbuch (10+1).
Sibylle Feucht. VorTrag Nr. 7 – Die Heilige 3-Faltigkeit. Künstlerbuch (35).
Sibylle Feucht VorTrag Nr. 8 – Definitionen 1+2. Künstlerbuch (35)
Bibliography / Publications / Press
2014 General-Anzeiger Bonn (GER), 15.9.2014, Gudrun von Schoenebeck, Punkte und Standpunkte (zur Ausstellung Auf den Punkt, Raum 2810, Bonn),
2012 Christine Schick, Die Brüchigkeit des scheinbar Wertvollen (zur Ausstellung im Kunstfenster Wolkenhof, Murrhardt (D)), Murrhardter Zeitung, 14.11.2012
2006 Mittellandzeitung (MZ), 8. Dezember 2006, Evelyne Baumberger, Zerschlagene Träume (zur Ausstellung Home Sweet Home im Kunstraum Baden),
2006 LIVE – Veranstaltungsmagazin der Aargauer Zeitung (CH), 7. Dezember 2006, Annelise Zwez, Im Zeichen der Zweideutigkeit (zur Vernissage der Ausstellung Home Sweet Home im Kunstraum Baden)
2006 Schaffhauser Zeitung (CH), Von Schmelzenden Perlen und Roten Punkten (zur Vernissage der Doppelausstellung im Forum Vebikus, Kammgarn, Schaffhausen (CH)
2003 züritipp, 10.1.-16.1.2002, Sabine Arlitt, Perlensuche, zur Einzelausstellung in der Galerie Rolf Staub
2002 BaZ-Magazin Nr. 48, 30.11.2002, Michèle Binswanger, Wundersames Bestiarium (zur Regionale 2002)
2002 Tages-Anzeiger, Zürich (CH), Ausgabe vom 29.10.2002, Kathrin Halter, Viper 2002
2001 Kunstbulletin, Ausgabe 12, 2001, Altäre und Ikonen
2001 LIVE – Veranstaltungsmagazin der Aargauer Zeitung (CH), Ausgabe 45, Marlene Halter, Liebe zu Plastik
2001 Baz – Magazin (weekend edition), Basel (CH), August 4 200, Annemarie Monteill, Sibylle Feucht: Alltag und Gardinenmystik
2001 Kunstbulletin, Ausgabe 7/8, 2001, zur Ausstellung Mobile Home, in der Galerie Kabinett, Bern (CH)
1997 NZZ, 17. Juni 1997, Pendeln als geistige Lebensform
1997 Tages-Anzeiger, 14./15. Juni 1997, Eine gewisse Verdopplung