Simon Lamunière

Simon Lamunière (born 1961 in Geneva) is a Swiss art curator.

swiss art curator Simon Lamunière, July 2010

After his studies at the School of Visual Arts in Geneva (today HEAD) and a postgraduate course at the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel, Simon Lamunière has received grants for a residence at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart where he produces videos, installations and new media art pieces . As an artist he has participated to solo and group shows from 1987 to 2003 in Paris, New-York, Lisbonne, Frankfuft and in Switzerland. His last known exhibition was at the Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain or MAMCO, Geneva, in 2003.

His experience as curator began at the Centre pour l'image contemporaine (CIC)[1] with the International Video Week program, one of the first video festivals in Switzerland and Europe.[2] He then created and managed "Version 1.0", the first edition of what became the "Version Biennale" until 2004, an internationally considered biennale, focused on video and multimedia. In 1997, he designed and curated the website of the documenta X directed by Catherine David, in Kassel. He engaged artists as Antoni Muntadas to produce net art as On translation or Up to 625 by Matt Mullican or artist like Jodi among others for the site. Simon Lamunière also contributed to the creation of the Museum of Modern Art Mudam) website in Luxembourg with Claude Closky, Jean-Charles Massera and Benjamin Weil. In 2000 he was appointed curator of Art|Unlimited at Art Basel, a job he held until 2011.[3] Then he became Chairman of artgenève directed by Thomas HUG until 2015.

Since 2007, he was the project manager of Neons Parallax within the (FMAC) and the Canton Contemporary Art Fund (FCAC) of Geneva. Located on the largest public place of Geneva, this site-specific art project invited Swiss and international artists to create luminous artworks for building roofs in the same way as advertising signs are placed on the Geneva lakeside. The project has just received the swiss Prix Visarte 2017.[4]

In 2009, Simon Lamunière was the Director of "Utopics""(interview), the 11th Swiss Exhibition of Sculptures, a quinquennial exhibition launched in 1954 by Marcel Joray [5] in the field of contemporary art in public space [6] in Biel/Bienne in the Canton of Bern.

From 2014 to 2016 He was curator of the Domaine du Muy, a site specific art area in the south of France.

Since 2008 he is producing artist's editions. He has already collaborated with Peter Kogler, Matt Mullican, Heimo Zobernig, Carsten Hoeller, Sylvie Fleury, Sarah Morris, Liam Gillick.

He co-curated site-specific or public art exhibitions as Open End [7][8] in Geneva; or the recent Triennale du Valais 2017 in the Valais, Switzerland.

References
  1. Centre pour l'image contemporaine
  2. Press review
  3. Interview_Art_Unlimited_(english)_2009.pdf
  4. http://visarte.ch/fr/content/laur%C3%A9ats-2017
  5. http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/f/F41306.php
  6. ESS/SPA
  7. http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/arts/sculpture/open-end-l-art-investit-le-cimetiere-des-rois-a-geneve-247857
  8. Open End, a site specific and public art exhibition in the Cimetière des rois or Planpalais's cemetery, in Geneva Cemetery
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