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Camenisch / Vetsch

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The artist duo has been working together since 2010. In their mostly site-specific and expansive video installations, they repeatedly question our viewing and perception habits.

Biography

Christine Camenisch was born 1956 in Basle (CH), where she lives and works. Johannes Vetsch was born in the same year in Buchs (CH). He also lives and works in Basle.
Since 2010 they develop their art projects together.

Christine Camenisch is a trained artist and studied at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basle (CH). Johannes Vetsch first studied Visual Design. Since 1981 he works as a music producer for own projects as well as for commissioned art, theater, performance, video and film productions.

Christine Camenisch and Johannes Vetsch on Vimeo.

stipends and prizes

Einzelausstellungen

Gruppenausstellungen

  • 2016 Habitus, Villa Renata, Basel (CH) | Aufstiege, Kulturegion Stuttgart, Stuttgart (D)
  • 2015 un état mésomorph, Fabrikculture, Hegenheim (F)
  • 2014 Ankäufe Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Kunsthalle Basel (CH) | Kunstwege Vias d‘art, Pontresina (CH)
  • 2013 Regionale 14, Palazzo, Liestal (CH)
  • 2012 SUPE Stadtträume, R. Bartels-Stiftung, Basel (CH) | moving surface, Künstlerforum, Bonn (CH)
  • 2011 Kollateral, DAS ESSZIMMER, Bonn (D) | Thrill, Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg (F) | Le 1er dimanche, Maison Turberg , Porrentruy (CH) | Dark light, Hermannshof, Springe/Hannover (D)

Exhibitions

Past
  • goes
  • Hillside Projects (Stockholm/SE)
  • Kai Richter (Düsseldorf/GER )
  • Gabriele Horndasch (Düsseldorf / GER)
  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Jonas Hohnke (Wuppertal/GER)
  • Sibylle Feucht (Bonn/GER)
  • Jolijn van den Heuvel (Veghel/NL)
  • Johannes S. Sistermanns (Cologne/GER)
  • Stijn Peeters (Eindhoven/NL )
  • Doris Schmid (Berlin/GER)
  • Doris Scheuermann (Bonn/GER)
  • Eunice Martins (Berlin/GER)

PASSAGE

26.03.2021 – 31.12.2021

The art project “PASSAGE” uses the temporary vacancy in the Kaiserpassage, in the center of Bonn, and turns it into a pop-up exhibition space that enables art experiences independent of opening times and contact regulations.

Past
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  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS)
  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)
  • Karel Doing (London/UK)
  • Adam Knight (London/UK)
  • Marianne Halter (Zurich/CH)
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)

Kollateral | Collateral

08.12.2011 – 19.01.2012

The video programme “Kollateral/Collateral” attempts to illuminate the unkle time: with the light of the projected videos and as an invitation to open the view for the collateral – the simultaneous, neighbouring and often overlooked.

Past
  • goes
  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Celina Jure (Buenos Aires/ARG)
  • Christoph Bucher (Dusseldorf/CH)
  • Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS)
  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)
  • Doris Schmid (Berlin/GER)
  • Dorothee von Rechenberg (Basel/CH)
  • Eric Cruikshank (Edinburgh/UK)
  • Felix Baudenbacher (London/UK)
  • Ingrid Roscheck (Cologne/DE)
  • Katarzyna Badach (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Magdalena Gerber (Geneva/CH)
  • Maria Magdalena Z`Graggen (Basel/CH)
  • Marianne Eigenheer (Basel/CH + London/UK)
  • Marianne Halter (Zurich/CH)
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)
  • Petra Egg (Vienna/AT)
  • Rainer Barzen (Cologne / GER)
  • Selma Weber (Basel/CH)
  • Sibylle Feucht (Bonn/GER)
  • stöckerselig (Basel/CH)

DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum – during Art Basel 2017

14.06.2017 – 16.06.2017

The second collaboration between the Weltraum (Basel/CH) and the ESSZIMMER during the ART Basel.

Past
  • goes
  • Adam Knight (London/UK)
  • Alfredo Ramoz Fernandez (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Anne Hody (Basel/CH)
  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Christine de la Garenne (Berlin/GER)
  • Christoph Bucher (Dusseldorf/CH)
  • Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS)
  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)
  • Doris Schmid (Berlin/GER)
  • Dorothee von Rechenberg (Basel/CH)
  • Eric Cruikshank (Edinburgh/UK)
  • Felix Baudenbacher (London/UK)
  • Ingrid Roscheck (Cologne/DE)
  • Katarzyna Badach (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Magdalena Gerber (Geneva/CH)
  • Maria Magdalena Z`Graggen (Basel/CH)
  • Marianne Eigenheer (Basel/CH + London/UK)
  • Marianne Halter (Zurich/CH)
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)
  • Petra Egg (Vienna/AT)
  • Rainer Barzen (Cologne / GER)
  • Selma Weber (Basel/CH)
  • Sibylle Feucht (Bonn/GER)
  • stöckerselig (Basel/CH)
  • Celina Jure (Buenos Aires/ARG)

DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum – during Art Basel 2016

15.06.2016 – 17.06.2016

Gesamtkunstwerk of 49 artist’s opens up the discussion on authorship and genius.

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