Sylvie Fleury b. 1961

Exhibitions
Works
  • Sylvie Fleury, Bye Bye Dark Circles (Sand), 2023
    Bye Bye Dark Circles (Sand), 2023
  • Sylvie Fleury, Cherry Blossom, 2023
    Cherry Blossom, 2023
  • Sylvie Fleury, Cuddly Dot (White), 2023
    Cuddly Dot (White), 2023
  • Sylvie Fleury, Eyelashes 101, 2023
    Eyelashes 101, 2023
  • Sylvie Fleury, Fashion Police, 2023
    Fashion Police, 2023
  • Sylvie Fleury, First Spaceship on Venus (Pink Explosion), 2023
    First Spaceship on Venus (Pink Explosion), 2023
  • Sylvie Fleury, First Spaceship on Venus (Shell Mate), 2023
    First Spaceship on Venus (Shell Mate), 2023
  • Sylvie Fleury, Frankie Goes to Hollywood n.6, 2023
    Frankie Goes to Hollywood n.6, 2023
  • Sylvie Fleury, Mistake-Proof Makeup, 2023
    Mistake-Proof Makeup, 2023
  • Sylvie Fleury, Modern Living - Passion Fruit, 2023
    Modern Living - Passion Fruit, 2023
  • Sylvie Fleury, One Minute Silence (purple gold), 2023
    One Minute Silence (purple gold), 2023
  • Sylvie Fleury, 6,480, 2022
    6,480, 2022
  • Sylvie Fleury, Let Me Do It Bob (Sky Blue), 2022
    Let Me Do It Bob (Sky Blue), 2022
  • Sylvie Fleury, Soleil Contouring Compact Bask, 2022
    Soleil Contouring Compact Bask, 2022
  • Sylvie Fleury, Untitled (gold neon green, white cuddly painting), 2022
    Untitled (gold neon green, white cuddly painting), 2022
  • Sylvie Fleury, Brown Cream Black, 2021
    Brown Cream Black, 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, Composition with Blue, 2021
    Composition with Blue, 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, Mirage, 2021
    Mirage, 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, C'est la Vie!, 2020
    C'est la Vie!, 2020
  • Sylvie Fleury, YES TO ALL, 2020
    YES TO ALL, 2020
  • Sylvie Fleury, Wow 7, 2008
    Wow 7, 2008
  • Sylvie Fleury, Best of Me (Vanilla Cream), 2021
    Best of Me (Vanilla Cream), 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, Ash Plumes From The Iron Soul, 2010
    Ash Plumes From The Iron Soul, 2010
  • Sylvie Fleury, Composition with Blue and Red, 2021
    Composition with Blue and Red, 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, Ciao Martin!, 2021
    Ciao Martin!, 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, Cuddly Painting (Pale Blue), 2018
    Cuddly Painting (Pale Blue), 2018
  • Sylvie Fleury, Cuddly Painting (With Dusty Pink Boots), 2018
    Cuddly Painting (With Dusty Pink Boots), 2018
  • Sylvie Fleury, Cuddly Painting (Yellow and Gold), 2018
    Cuddly Painting (Yellow and Gold), 2018
  • Sylvie Fleury, Deep & Dark (Turquoise-Blue), 2021
    Deep & Dark (Turquoise-Blue), 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, Dunk (hot pink, Prada ball), 2021
    Dunk (hot pink, Prada ball), 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, First Spaceship on Venus(Soft Rocket in Gold), 2018
    First Spaceship on Venus(Soft Rocket in Gold), 2018
  • Sylvie Fleury, Flawless Finish - Perfect Beige, 2021
    Flawless Finish - Perfect Beige, 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, Gloria's Triumph (Kawasaki 100, 1973), 2018
    Gloria's Triumph (Kawasaki 100, 1973), 2018
  • Sylvie Fleury, JOY, 2019
    JOY, 2019
  • Sylvie Fleury, L'Oeil Du Vampire (violet), 2015
    L'Oeil Du Vampire (violet), 2015
  • Sylvie Fleury, Mixage:, 2021
    Mixage:, 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, Mondrian Dresses on Racks, 1993/2016
    Mondrian Dresses on Racks, 1993/2016
  • Sylvie Fleury, Monochrome, 2021
    Monochrome, 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, Untitled, 2019
    Untitled, 2019
  • Sylvie Fleury, SPF 30 - Light Ivory, 2021
    SPF 30 - Light Ivory, 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, The Truth Is In-between, 2021
    The Truth Is In-between, 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, Turbulent, 2019
    Turbulent, 2019
  • Sylvie Fleury, What Clout (Light Cognac), 2021
    What Clout (Light Cognac), 2021
  • Sylvie Fleury, You Too Martin! #2, 2018
    You Too Martin! #2, 2018
  • Sylvie Fleury, You Too Martin! #5, 2018
    You Too Martin! #5, 2018
Overview
Sylvie Fleury (b. 1961 in Geneva, CH) lives and works in Geneva, CH. Subversively taking on capitalist aesthetics through a distinctly feminized lense, her work examines the intersection of popular and high culture.
After shopping one day, Fleury stopped into an art gallery and when she set her armful of bags on the floor and claimed them as sculpture. From thereon she began her exploration of the ready made, often in the form of a crossover between fashion and art such as other nontraditional mediums like motorcycles and vinyl banners long before the more recent trend towards collaborations with brands. The commodification of beauty and wellness are rendered in slick, highly produced objects d’art with human-scale makeup palettes and neon signs expressing state of the art aphorisms appropriated from perfume brands.
As she also employs a world of atypical textures like faux-fur, she directly confronts the art historical precedent of monochromatic painted squares for which male artists in the 20th century were glorified. Fleury looks at the marketization of the art world while challenging the space of the gallery and the very process of consuming art.
Biography

Since her first exhibition Shopping Bags in 1991, Fleury has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthal Rotterdam; Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2023), Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin (2023); Aranya Art Center, China (2022); the Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria (2019); Istituto Svizzero, Rome (2019); Villa Stuck, Munich (2016); Eternity Now, as part of the permanent collection at the Bass Museum, Miami (2017 and 2015); Centro de arte contemporaneo de Malága (2011); and MAMCO Genève (2008). Her work has also been presented in group shows internationally, including at Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich (2024); Bechtler Stiftung Uster (2024); Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris  (2024); Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2024); Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris (2024); MAK Vienna (2023); Mamco Geneva (2023); Mambo Bogotà (2023); The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach (2022); Kunstmuseum Gegenwart Basel (2022); Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2022); Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2021); Muzeum Susch (2020); KANAL - Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2020); the Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (2019); Leopold Museum, Vienna (2018); Kunsthaus Zürich (2018); Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich (2016); SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen (2014); Kunstverein Hannover (2011); and Kunstverein Frankfurt (2011). In 2018 she was awarded Switzerland's Prix Meret Oppenheim and in 2015 received the Société des Arts de Genève Prize.

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