Sylvie Fleury b. 1961
Exhibitions
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Sylvie Fleury
Double Positive
Curated by NIELS OLSEN & FREDI FISCHLI
Bechtler Stiftung, Uster, CH 8 Oct 2022 - 19 Feb 2023Sylvie Fleurys ortsspezifische Ausstellung Double Positive ist eine Reaktion auf das neu eröffnete Gebäude der Bechtler Stiftung, in dem die Skulptur The 2000 Sculpture von Walter de Maria dauerhaft zu...Read more -
Shoplifters from Venus
Group show 30 Sep - 19 Nov 2022 Weststrasse 70, Zurich, CHWith works by James Bantone, Judith Bernstein, Ida Ekblad, Sylvie Fleury, Jasmine Gregory, K8 Hardy, David Hominal, Markus Oehlen, Pamela Rosenkranz, Vivian Suter, Keiichi Tanaami, Elisabeth Wild, Urban Zellweger Opening...Read more -
Sylvie Fleury
Fun Feminism
Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart, Basel, CH 24 Sep 2022 - 19 Mar 2023Fun Feminism ist eine Aufforderung, die Sammlung aus feministisch-humorvoller Perspektive zu durchleuchten. Daraus entstand die Idee zu einer Ausstellung, die herausragende, selten gezeigte Sammlungswerke der späten 1960 bis 90er Jahre...Read more -
Sylvie Fleury
Turn Me On
Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino IT 27 May 2022 - 15 Jan 2023 -
Sylvie Fleury
Performance Promise 12 Jun - 17 Jul 2021 Weststrasse 70, Zurich, CH -
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Vivian Suter, Michel Auder, Alex Becerra, Ida Ekblad, Simone Fattal, Sylvie Fleury, Pamela Rosenkranz, Daniel Spoerri, Urban Zellweger 16 Nov - 19 Dec 2020 Weststrasse 70, Zurich, CH -
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Judith Bernstein, Ida Ekblad, Sylvie Fleury, Meret Oppenheim, Pamela Rosenkranz, Emanuel Rossetti, Xanti Schawinsky, Ser Serpas, Vivian Suter 12 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 Weststrasse 70, Zurich, CH -
Sylvie Fleury
JOY 27 Nov 2019 - 25 Jan 2020 Weststrasse 75, Zurich, CH -
Sylvie Fleury
ÎÔ
Kunstraum Dornbirn, AUS 28 Jun - 13 Oct 2019 -
Sylvie Fleury
Chaussures Italiennes
Istituto Svizzero, Roma, IT 29 Mar - 30 Jun 2019 -
Sylvie Fleury
LA Bougainvillea 20 Mar - 30 Jun 2018 Karma International, Los Angeles, USA -
Group show
10 Mar - 29 Apr 2017 Karma International, Zurich, CH -
Sylvie Fleury
My Life on the Road
Villa Stuck, Munich, DE 30 Jun - 3 Oct 2016 -
Sylvie Fleury
Your Dress Is More Beautiful
19 Mar - 18 Jun 2016 Karma International, Zurich, CH -
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Après Ski 16 Jan - 20 Feb 2016 Karma International, Los Angeles, USA -
Groupshow
Pluggs 19 Dec 2014 - 15 Jan 2015 Karma International, Zurich, CH
Works
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6,480, 2022
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Car wash today, 2022
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First Spaceship on Venus n.3, 2022
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood n.3, 2022
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Frankie Goes to Hollywood n.5, 2022
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Hollywood Goddess, 2022
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Let Me Do It Bob (Sky Blue), 2022
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One Minute Silence (golden ice blue), 2022
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Soleil Contouring Compact Bask, 2022
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Untitled (gold neon green, white cuddly painting), 2022
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Brown Cream Black, 2021
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YES TO ALL, 2020
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Labrisrynthe, 2008
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Wow 7, 2008
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#42
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Best of Me (Vanilla Cream), 2021
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Ash Plumes From The Iron Soul, 2010
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Composition with Blue and Red, 2021
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Ciao Martin!, 2021
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Cuddly Painting (Pale Blue), 2018
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Cuddly Painting (With Dusty Pink Boots), 2018
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Cuddly Painting (Yellow and Gold), 2018
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Deep & Dark (Turquoise-Blue), 2021
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Dunk (hot pink, Prada ball), 2021
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First Spaceship on Venus(Soft Rocket in Gold), 2018
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Flawless Finish - Perfect Beige, 2021
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Gloria's Triumph (Kawasaki 100, 1973), 2018
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JOY, 2019
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L'Oeil Du Vampire (violet), 2015
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Mirage, 2021
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Mixage:, 2021
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Mondrian Dress Rack, 1993/2016
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Monochrome, 2021
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Untitled, 2019
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Pure Color Cyber (purple), 2019
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SPF 30 - Light Ivory, 2021
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The Truth Is In-between, 2021
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Turbulent, 2019
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What Clout (Light Cognac), 2021
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You Too Martin! #2, 2018
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You Too Martin! #5, 2018
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André et Robert (mint pearl and aubergine), 2019
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.
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
Sylvie Fleury has had exhibitions at Villa Stuck in Munich, the Bass museum, Miami, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, ETH Zurich and MoCA, Los Angeles, amongst others. A permanent installation of hers is positioned on top of the Bass museum in Miami.
News
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Sylvie Fleury: Turn Me On
Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin, IT
27 May 2022 – 15 Jan 2023 May 27, 2022Curated by Sarah Cosulich and Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti The exhibition marking the opening of the new Pinacoteca is dedicated to artist Sylvie Fleury. A pioneer...Read more -
Sylvie Fleury: Aranya Art Center
Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, CN
06 Mar – 21 Aug 2022 March 6, 2022Aranya Art Center is pleased to present the first major institutional exhibition of the renowned Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury in China. The exhibition brings together...Read more -
Sylvie Fleury: Geometrische Opulenz
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, CH
Group show curated by Sabine Schaschl
10 Feb – 08 May 2022 February 10, 2022Mit der Ausstellung Geometrische Opulenz präsentiert das Museum Haus Konstruktiv eine grosse Gruppenschau, die einen lustvollen Umgang mit der geometrischen und abstrakten Kunst zelebriert. Zu...Read more
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