SIMONE KAPPELER

Simone Kappeler (*1952, CH) started taking pictures at the age of eleven. 1972–1976, read German and art history at the University of Zürich. 1975–1979, studied photography at the School of Design in Zürich (today’s Zürich University of the Arts). During a three-month trip to the United States in 1981, took her first pictures using cheap cameras, especially the Diana camera. Since 1982, ongoing projects in southern France and the Grisons. 1982/83, studio in New York, conceptual photography and Super 8 films. 1983/84, theater photographer, Schauspielhaus Zürich. Married to the writer Gianni Kuhn; three sons: Konradin, Joël and Gabriel. 2009, six-week photographic study of Japan, 2015 studio in New York. The artist lives in Frauenfeld and works from home and while travelling. She makes use of various techniques and devices.

Solo exhibitions (Selection)

"Falling out of Time", Galerie Bildhalle, Zurich, 2021

"Pflanzen im Licht", Kabinettausstellung Naturmuseum Thurgau, 2021

"Qui est Simone K?", Exposition de Photographies, Galerie Lumière des Roses, Paris, 2018

"Fleur", Galerie widmertheodoridis, Eschlikon, 2018

"Fleur", Musée La Filature, Mulhouse, 2017

"Paris Photo": Cyanotypies, Galerie Lumière des Roses, Paris, 2017

"Analoge Verfremdungen", Galerie widmertheodoridis, Eschlikon, 2015

"Röntgen- und Infrarotphotographien", La Belle Juliette, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, 2015

"Through America, Photographs from the 1980s", De Buck Gallery, New York, 2014

"Auftauchen im Bild", Kunstverein Konstanz, 2014

"Paris Photo: Infrarot- und Röntgenfotografien", mit Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, 2014

"Rotverschiebung", neuer shed, Frauenfeld, 2013

"Darkened Days", The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2013

"America 1981", Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris, 2013

"Seile. Fluss. Nacht. Fotografien 1964–2011", Museum zu Allerheiligen. Schaffhausen, 2011

"dazwischen – in between. Japan 09, semina rerum" – Irène Preiswerk, Zürich (with Yamamoto Masao), 2010

Awards and Grants (Selection)

2015 Studio grant New York of the canton of Thurgau

2014 Art price Konstanz

1996 / 2008 Förderbeitrag des Kantons Thurgau

1987 Price of the Jubiläumsstiftung der Schweizerischen Bankgesellschaft

1984 Art price of the city of Frauenfeld

Publications and books (Selection)

2020: America 1981, Codax Publisher und Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich

2011: Seile. Fluss. Nacht. Fotografien 1964–2011, Exhibition catalogue, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen

2010: dazwischen – in between. Japan 09, Exhibition catalogue, semina rerum – Irène Preiswerk, Zurich

2003: Momente unscheinbarer Sensation, Exhibition catalogue, Villa am Aabach

2001: Marvel: Das Geheimnis der unsichtbaren Strahlen, Exhibition catalogue, semina rerum – Irène Preiswerk, Zurich

1998: Die Schatten der Dinge, Exhibition catalogue, semina rerum – Irène Preiswerk, Zurich Simone Kappeler: an der Grenze des Sichtbaren, Exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen

1995: Diana. Photographien von Simone Kappeler, Frauenfeld

1990: Omphalos: Schildbuckel, Nabel, Mittelpunkt, Knopf, Schlussstein. Photographien von Simone Kappeler, Frauenfeld

Collections (Selection)

Banca del Gottardo, Lugano

Bank Vontobel, Zurich

Bayer, Leverkusen (Dauerleihgabe im Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne) Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern

Collection Neuflize Vie, Paris

Fotostiftung Schweiz

Kunstmuseum Thurgau

Kunstsammlung der Stadt Zürich

Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen

Sammlung Credit Suisse