Liliane Zumkemi
June–July 2023
photo credit: @Barbara Bühler
LILIANE ZUMKEMI was born in the Swiss Alps. She studied Art at Ecole Cantonale des Beaux-Arts in Sion and at University for Art and Design in Lucerne, Switzerland (1992- 1998).
For her first show in 1998 she hollowed out a tree trunk with her own hands, stood in the tree trunk that reached her eye level and looked at the audience.
In 2003 he participated at the first edition of “Brand New” in Bangkok where she installed her participatory installation “Neither….Nor”, 6 Rats in a golden 49 m² paper field were controlled by the remote control in the visitor’s hand.
For the Busan Biennale in 2009 she produced the video installation” The Heart Power Plant”. The video shows a golden heart beating, catching fire, burning and beating again accompanied by a bird song.
Her more than 50 exhibitions are documented in the Asia Art Archive in Hongkong and at the Swiss Institute for Art Research in Zürich. Currently she lives and works in an artist cooperative living and studio space in Basel and in the mountains in the Southern part of Switzerland.
She is looking forward to her Art residency at Matdot Art Center.
Website: zumkemi.net
Liliane Zumkemi, video still from the Heart Power Plant, 2008