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Silvie Defraoui (née Rehsteiner; born 1935) is a Swiss visual artist who uses various forms of artistic expression: installation, photography, painting, screen printing, and video art. She lives and works in Vufflens-le-Château.

Biography

Silvie Defraoui was born in St. Gallen and spent her childhood there and in Grisons. She first studied painting at the l'école des Beaux-Arts d'Alger and later ceramics at the l'école des Arts décoratifs de Genève. Between 1975 and 1994 she worked together with Chérif Defraoui (Geneva 1932–1994). From 1974 to 1999 she taught at the l'Ecole supérieure d'art visuel de Genève (today the Geneva School of Art and Design), where in 1975 she established together with Chérif Defraoui, the Mixed Media Studio.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 1979, Cartographie des contrées à venir, Soares dos Reis National Museum, Porto
• 1989, Orient/Occident, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève / Musée Rath, Geneva.
• 1993, Les origines de la description, Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble.
• 1996, Bruits de surface, Mamco, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
• 2000, Nacht und Tag und Nacht, Helmhaus, Zurich
• 2004–2005, Archives du futur, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Mamco, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
• 2009, Sombras electricas, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris

Group exhibitions

• 1976, Venice Biennial
• 1979, Photography as art, art as photography II und III, Gesamthochschule Kassel
• 1981, Ils se disent peintres, ils se disent photographes, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
• 1992, La Fontaine du désir, documenta IX, Kassel
• 1997, Magie der Zahl, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
• 1998, Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus, Zurich

Awards

• 2006, Kulturpreis of the City of St. Gallen

Publications

• Kihm, Christophe; Vögele, Christoph (2014). Silvie Defraoui. Und überdies Projektionen (Archives du futur). Zürich: Edition Fink. p. 96. ISBN 9783037461815.
• Bitterli, Konrad, editor (2004). Defraoui : archives du futur 1975 - 2004. Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst. p. 248. ISBN 9783936711325.

References

1. "Silvie Defraoui". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
2. Ninghetto, Françoise. "Defraoui, Silvie". Sikart. Swiss Institute for Art Research. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
3. Léchot Hirt, Lysianne. "Biography". New Media Encyclopedia. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
4. "Kulturpreis". Stadt St. Gallen. Retrieved 10 October 2016.

• Swiss sculptors
• Swiss contemporary artists
• 1935 births
• Living people
• People from St. Gallen (city)
• Swiss women artists