Valérie Favre

Valérie Favre (born 1959, Evilard, Switzerland) is a Berlin-based artist. Since 2006 she is Professor of painting at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

Valérie Favre grew up in Switzerland, canton of Berne. Having worked as a stage designer and actress at the theater in Paris in the early 1980s she soon turned to the field of painting. After 18 years in France, where she became a well-known and successful visual artist, she finally moved to Berlin in 1998.

Over the years Favre's works have grown to a series of interconnected cycles, showing references to the different fields of art history, geopolicy, philosophy, theater and film as well as her interest in narration in general.

Favre's work has been exhibited internationally in museums such as K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (2010/2011); Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (2009/2010); Carré d'Art Nîmes, France (2009); Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France (2009); Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany (2006); Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, Germany (2004); Musée de Picardie Amiens, France (2003); FRAC Auvergne, France (1999).

Valérie Favre is represented by the following galleries: Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany; Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, France, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles, USA, and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich.

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