Simon Senn

News

Swiss Performance Art Award (with the californium 248 collective),
Le Commun, Geneva, November 10, 2011

Simon has started a MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University

Simon Senn
Videodromo, Ancona, Italy
August 20 - September 3, 2011

SWISS ART AWARDS 2011
Messehalle 3, Basel
June 13 - 20, 2011

Opening, ARCOmadrid, Madrid
(with Jerome Zodo Contemporary)
February 16 - 20, 2011

Lust and Vice: The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman
Kunstmuseum Bern
October 15, 2010 - February 20, 2011

Dans un deuxième temps (1)
Piano Nobile, Geneva
September 23 - October 13, 2010

TIMING
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
September 4-11, 2010

THE TERRY CHATKUPT, TIGRAN KHACHATRYAN AND SIMON SENN’S VIDEO REVIEW
Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milano
June 24 – September 11, 2010

Performance Project (with the californium 248 colective)
LISTE 15 – The Young Art Fair, Basel
20.06.10

AFTERPIECE: performance art on video (with the californium 248 colective)
Claudia Groeflin Galerie, Zurich
May 6 – 28, 2010

Simon Senn - Participatory Panopticon
CACT Centro d’Arte Contemporanea del Ticino, Bellinzona
April 10 — May 16, 2010

(Ex)communicate
Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milano, Italy
January 21 - February 27, 2010

Pascale Birchler, Saskia Edens, Simon Senn
Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich
January 9 - February 27, 2010

SIMON SENN
Born 1986 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, works and lives in Geneva

EDUCATION
2011-2013
MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London
2007-2010
HEAD, Geneva University of art and design

SOLO SHOWS
2011
Simon Senn, Videodromo, Ancona, Italy
Opening, Arcomadrid, (with Jerome Zodo Contemporary)

2010
Simon Senn – Participatory Panopticon, CACT Centro d’Arte Contemporanea del Ticino, Bellinzona
Simon Senn, Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich

Group exhibitions
2010
Video review, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milano, Italy
Lust and Vice. The seven deadly sins from Dürer to Nauman, Kunstmuseum Bern
Dans un deuxième temps (1), Piano Nobile, Geneva
Timing, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Luigi Pecci, Prato (I)
(Ex)communicate, Jerome Zodo, Contemporary, Milano (I)

2009
Lèche vitrine, Espace Temporaire, Geneva
Complete control, Apex, Göttingen, (DE)
Chassez le naturel, Villa Bernasconi, Lancy
Swiss Art Awards 2009, Basel
Définitions, Photoforumpasquart, Biel
Unter 30, Kunstmuseum Thun

Performances
2009
Best of Act, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Art of Encountering, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel

Performances with the Californium
248 collective
2010
Performance project, Liste 15 – The Young Art Fair, Basel
Afterpiece : Performance Art on Video, Claudia Groeflin Galerie, Zürich

2009
Lust Macht Kunst, Kunstmuseum Thun
Mit freundlichen Grüssen, La Bellone, Bruxelles (B)
Série Romandie, Kaserne, Basel
Happy Body, Agent Double, Geneva

Awards / Scholarships
2011
Swiss Art Award, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Bern, Switzerland

2010
Bea Young Artists Foundation, Geneva
Premio – Prix d’encouragement pour les arts de la scène (with Californium 248)

2009
Artist residency : Théâtre de l’Usine, Geneva (with Californium 248)
Kiefer Hablitzel Award

Public collections
Kunsthaus Zürich

In his works, Simon Senn deals with human behavior and interaction patterns. His explorations of group dynamics and individual behavior take place in a context defined by the artist. The specific context usually seeks to emphasize aspects of societal settings in such a way that, in combination with the deployed means of recording, behaviors are being accentuated, if not radicalized. Thus, through the aesthetic dimension of his works, Simon Senn inevitably touches the controversial area of tension between ethic and aesthetic.