2009 - 2016
2006-2008
2009 - 2016
2006-2008
framing
neon installation: 432 x 119 cm
2017
framing
neon installation: 432 x 119 cm
2017
framing
neon installation: 432 x 119 cm
2017
Typology Operator
Inkjet print with wooden frame 125 x 175 cm
2017
In Typologie Operator, a woman performs in 25 poses a typology of the postures and gestures based on the experience of the artist.
After scetching first her poses and gestures in a diagram, the artist reenacts these poses and gestures in public space.
DOROTHEE ELISA BAUMANN
Grants/Awards
2023 Dr. Joséphine de Karman foundation talented students of the Faculty of Humanities University of Bern for artistic-scientific project Unlearning for the Commons
2021 SNF research grant Doc.Mobility in New York City for artistic-scientific research Unlearning for the Commons
2019 12 months research New York City: Oct. 2019 - Oct. 2020, grant Doc Mobility of Swiss National Research Foundation at CUNY Graduate Center, NYC
2012 Pleasure Arousal Dominance, Critique Prize (Prix de la Critique), Selection of 1500 portfolios Voies Off, Les rencontres int’l de la photographie, Arles, 1st position
2006. Young Swiss Talents for emerging art photographers, Zurich, 4th position
2004 Competition Reinhart Ring, SWISS ART COUNCIL, 1st position
Solo art exhibitions
2023 – Dialogue through colors and shapes. A conversation with my father Martins' painting. In collaboration with my father Martin Baumann. from 8th January
2022 – Time Circle series (2022), The Photographers' Gallery, Instagram publication, August 2022
2020 – Unlearning For The Commons, Lokal Int, November 2020
2019 – Art Manifesto Take A Better Picture, Espace Juraplatz curated by Enrique Munoz Garcia, 1st March – 10th March 2019, Biel/Bienne
2018 – Take A Better Picture, Centre Pasquart photo forum curated by Nadine Wietlisbach (Fotomuseum) & Danaé Panchaud, 28th January–15th April 2018, Biel/Bienne
2015 – Pleasure Arousal Dominance, Art Space Rosa Brux curated by Nicolas Rivet & Jeanne Gillard, Oct 2015, Brussel
2013 – Play & Replay, Biennale photographique de Mulhouse curated by Anne Immelé, June–September 2013, Geneva
2012 – Pleasure Arousal Dominance, Centre de la photographie Genève curated by Joerg Bader, June–September 2012, Geneva
2009 – Operator, En Avant Première, Musée de l’Elysée curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer & Corinne Curat, May 2009
Collectives art expositions (selection)
2022 – Performance/installation "May the force be with you" in Photo Festival Saint Germain Paris in the exhibition"Phenomena. The Unexplained in the face of Science
curated by Philippe Baudouin, Museum of the History of Medicine, 12th November
2022 – How to Win at Photography, Image Making as a Play, The Photographers' Gallery, June, 23 - September, 25, London
2021 – Fotomseum Winterthur, How to Win at Photography, Image Making as a Play, 2021
2019 – Noorderlicht Festival, TAXED TO THE MAX ...at least you are not afraid to live life on the brink of chaos curated by Hester Keijser,
2019 – OSMOSCOSMOS – 50JPG.CH, CPG Centre de la photographie Genève curated by Joerg Bader and Alexandra Schüssler
2016 – Mon art à moi, Centre Pasquart, Biel/Bienne
2014 – Jeune Photographie Suisse, Luc Debraine d’art Walter Benjamin, Perpignan, France 2013 – Metamorphose1883-2013, Centre contemporain
2013 – Flood Wall ll, Berlin curated by Claire Laude Schulte-Heuthaus
2012 – Festival Bordeaux, interdisciplinary research space curated by Sévérine Garat, Novartis
2012 – Domaines, CCN Montpellier invitation Michel Schweizer, research space curated by Sévérine Garat, Montpellier
2010 – Don’t Kill the Crocodile, exposition Innuendo curated by Ariane Pollet, Villa Dutoit, Genève
2010 – Théorie de modèle, Live in Your Head, Genève curated by Katharina Howald
2008 – Jeunevois, Centre de la Genève curated by Jörg Bader
2007 – Non-Lieu, Journées photographiques photographie de Bienne curated by Catherine Kohler and Helène Joye-Cagnard
2005 – Projection, Extase, Festival Images, for Formation Supérieure curated by Virginie Otth
2004 – Face You, Je t'envisage, Musée de l’Elysée curated by William. A. Ewing and Nathalie Herschdorfer, Lausanne
2004 – Face You, About Face, Hayward Gallery curated by William A. Ewing and Nathalie Herschdorfer, London
International prizes
2012 – Winner of Critique Prize - Selection of international portfolios (1'531 candidates) Voies Off for int’l projection at Rencontres de la photographie
2008 – Selection Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Int’l selection for portfolio viewing for emerging photographers curated by Urs Stahel & Thomas Seelig
2006 – Selection , Descrubimientos, Photo Espana, Madrid
Art monograph
2017 – Monograph Pleasure Arousal Dominance by Dorothée Elisa Baumann with texts by Jörg Bader, Anne Immelé, and Pascal Rousseau, Editions center
photographie Genève & distributed by Les presses du réel France and Belgium Selected for libraries: Jeu de Paume Paris, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art New
York City
Artist books
2018 – Blow-Up-Job artist book (collection of Fotomuseum Winterthur)
2011 – Pleasure Arousal Dominance (first part), artist book workshop Hardcopy directed by Delphine Bedel (Meta Books) and Barbara Federer (HEAD Geneva). Book
selected for exhibition Another kind of order, ICP - Int. Center of Photography, New York City
2005 – Mobile, workshop directed by Onestar Press (Paris) curated by Christophe Boutin at HEAD, Geneva
Publications
2005 – Un Phtographe de circonstance, Pierre Bourdieu en Algérie”, «Oh la Photographie» in coll. with artist Emmanuelle Bayart during the workshop Bourdieu title
directed by André Ducret and Franz Schultheis, Institute of Sociology, University of Geneva
2004 – Ecosse selected for publication in ICONE, a lifestyle magazine, in Paris
Artwork cited
2016 – C’est du trois tous les trois, JOUP for the 20th anniversary curated by Hélène Joye-Cagnard, Biel/Bienne
2012 – Artist Book Pleasure Arousal Dominance (limited edition) mentioned in Doing it by the book, British Journal of photography, London
2009 – C’est du trois tous les trois Peeping Tom Digest #1, The Chain Berlin, Les presses du reel, Paris and Berlin
2008 – Projection Spirit Level, Westford: RMR Press curated by Arno Minkkinen
2006 – Projection, VFG, 10th edition of the Young Swiss Talents, 4th prize, Zurich
2006 – Face You, Musée de l’Elysée, Faces - The new photography portrait, Thames + Hudson, UK (English, French)
Unpublished work
2018 – Artist Book: Take A Better Picture, special edition for exhibition center Pasquart photo forum, Biel/Bienne
2017 – Artist Book: ABC
2016 – Institute of Social Anthropology, - University of Bern (Switzerland) Master thesis title „There comes the new female photographer! A critical analysis of my tool, the
camera." (19.09.2016)
2011 – Dialogue(s) - Work.Master, Haute école d’art et de design, Geneva, directed by Serge Margel (philosopher), June 2011
Education
2017 – 2024 PhD (phil. hist.) Walter Benjamin College & Graduate School of the Arts / Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern (Switzerland)
PhD thesis working title: “Press the power button: The social semiotics of photography in marketing materials –
historical, multimodal and ideological perspectives. PhD advisors: Professor Dr. Michaela Schäuble (Social & Media Anthropology), Professor
Dr. Crispin Thurlow (Director of English Department), Dr. Andi Schoon. Co-director of Institute Y, and cultural and media scientist in interdisciplinary issues
Doc Mobility grant October 2019 - October 2020 of Swiss National Research Foundation at CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
2015 – 2016 Institute of Social Anthropology – MA Research on the Arts (MRA), insigni cum laude
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern (Switzerland)
Master’s thesis title "Es kommt die neue Fotografin! Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Fotoapparat."
There comes the new female photographer - a critical inquiry about the camera“ (19.09.2016)
2008 – 2011 MA Fine Arts–Contemporary Artistic Practices, summa cum laude
Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD), Switzerland
Masters degree under the direction of Laurent Schmid-Abt, Yann Chateigné, Marie Antoinette Chiarenza, Pierre Leguillon and Christophe Kihm
2004 – 2006 BA Fine Arts and Media, insigni cum laude
Academy of Arts (ESBA), Switzerland: workshops under the direction of Bruno Serralongue, Joerg Bader, and Jules Spinatsch
2002 – 2004 Higher Education in professional photography, Vevey, insigni cum laude
"Formation Supérieure", CEPV (Centre d’enseignement professionnel Vevey) under the direction of Radu Stern with Arno Minkinnen, Sarah Moon,
Duane Michals, Joan Fontcuberta, Susan Meiselas, A.D Coleman, Helmut Newton, and Arno Claas