Gilles Furtwängler was born in Lausanne in 1982, he lives and works between Johannesburg and Lausanne. He graduated from the École Supérieure d’Art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2006. During his studies, he developed artistic work based around text, using words as a trigger for his visual production. It is in this way that he devotes himself to the use of mediums such as drawing, painting and printing as plastic supports for his texts. The artist attempts, through his artistic productions, to question the ways of thinking and representations of our time.
Gilles Furtwängler regularly presents his work in personal and group exhibitions in Switzerland and internationally (France, Russia, Greece, Germany, Spain, South Africa, etc.). In 2014 he won the Quark Prize in Geneva and in 2015 the Federal Art Awards (Swiss Art Awards). He is also a member of the CIRCUIT Center d’Art Contemporain association and founder of the show “Revenir et dire ça” on the Paris-based internet radio. It is supported by ProHelvetia.
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Gilles FURTWÄNGLER
Gilles FURTWÄNGLER