Stories across the oceans
Curriculum vitae / Resume of Andrea Iten

 

 

  Andrea Iten

Holderstr. 4, 4057 Basel, Switzerland

email: andrea@connected.ch

Born on the 4th of November 1959, Switzerland.

Living and working as installation and video artist in Basel. Active in fields of photography, video art, new media, and drawing. Independent artist since 1990.

EDUCTION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

1966 - 1973

Primary and high school education

1974

Diplôme 1 + 2 de language de l'Alliance Française

1975

1st Cambridge Certificate (4 months in London)

1976 - 1980

Nursery school training with teaching certificate

1980 - 1985

Nursery school teacher

ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT:

1985

Courses at Lucerne School of Art

1986

Primary level (sculpture, graphics, painting) at Lucerne School of Art

1987 - 1989

Painting class at Basel School of Art (2 years)

1988 - 1990

Audiovisual class at Basel School of Art (2 years)

1988 - 1990

Continuing training in photography, film and music (electronic studio) at Basel School of Art and the Academy of Music, Basel.

1966 - 1990

Violin lessons for 22 years, member of several orchestras

1990 - 1998

Dancing lessons and body work at Ecole de danse d'expression africaine, Jacqueline Moesch Mampuya

1989 - 1991

Assistant to Professor P. Jenny, Dept. of Arts and Architecture at the Technical University of Zurich (E.T.H.).

PERFORMANCES AND EXHIBITIONS:

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

1987

Art scene Meilen, paintings

1988

Super 8-Film "Action Claraplatz" Film and Video Festival Basel

1988/89
1993/94
1995/96

Annual exhibition of Basler artists (Jahresausstellung der Basler Künstlerinnen und Künstler) Kunsthalle Basel

1990

Film and Video days, Oerlikon Museum of Art, Zurich
III. International Video Biennale (MAMM), Medellin by invitation of the Swiss Government, Dept. of the Arts

1991

"An Ort und Stelle" video installation in factory
Video installation for the Swiss Glass Museum, Romont commissioned by Canton Zug
Exhibition for the national grant, Basel, video installation,

1993

Exhibition for the national grant, St. Gallen, video installation

1996

25th Art exhibition, Kunstverein Baselland, Münchenstein, invitation to present a video installation
"Body, Identity, Irritation", Glarus Museum of Art, installations

1997/98

Eternit AG, Niederurnen, installations
Baselland Museum of Art, selection '97

1998 Station Engel III, Pflegerinnenspital Zurich, with Vreni Spieser, Videoinstallation

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1990

Video installation at Basel station "Von innen und von aussen"

1992

"Fixpunkte", video installation and drawings, Glarus Museum of Art

1994

"Dome", video installation sponsored by PRO HELVETIA, Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, Australia

1997

Kunstautomat Zürich, "Augenschmaus", video stills on floppy discs

1999

Kunstraum Aarau, video installations and Internet project

VIDEO FESTIVALS AND BROADCASTS

1993/94

"Letter to Maimouna", video, SF DRS (Swiss Television),S4, Glarus Museum of Art, Shedhalle Zürich

1996

"Legal Weapons/The Drama Queen", VIPER Lucerne, SF DRS, Film and video days Basel, Forum Claque, Baden

1998

"Abroad" video, VIPER Lucerne, SF DRS

 

COMMISSIONS, GRANTS, AWARDS

1989

Commission from Canton Zug,

1991

Commission from Canton Glarus

1990

Grant from Canton of Basel-Land for a cultural exchange to the Gambia, West Africa

1993

Commission for a video ("Letter to Maimouna") on the relationship between Europe and Africa, from Cantons Basel and Glarus

1994

Christoph Merian Foundation

IAAB - International Studio at Fremantle, West Australia

1997

Commission for the video installation "Drop", Cantons Basel

Since 1997

Member of Arts Council, (Fachgruppe bildende Kunst) Canton Basel Land

Conceptual work for the Collection of video and new media.

 

ABOUT MY WORK

As the first student of cross-media studies at the Basel School of Art I was able to complete my training in various artistic fields. And today I still find myself moving back and forwards between drawing, sound, photography and the electronic image, according to the project I happen to be working on. I see art primarily as an expression of creativity based on culture - more specifically an intercultural expression of creativity of which the focal point is the multifacetted phenomenon of human existence. As a result of enriching exchanges with men and women in the arts field in Africa and Australia, I have been made aware of similarities and differences that serve to guide me in my own artistic development. Step by step, I complete works that embody a vision that encompasses political, human, social and personal themes. Everything is a potential source of ideas: that which is banal, unconventional, black, white, colourful, historical, womanly. I attempt to trap fleeting moments that belong to all of us and present them in my work.

 

 

 

                     
         

 

 

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