James Bantone b. 1992
Exhibitions
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James Bantone
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Swiss Institute Off site, New York, USA 15 Mar - 5 May 2024'Swiss Institute (SI) presents 202420242024 , the first solo exhibition in the US by artist James Bantone, featuring a suite of newly commissioned works. Bantone’s practice brings together photography and...Read more -
James Bantone
Horripilations 2 Dec 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 Weststrasse 70, Zurich, CHOpening on Friday December 1st from 6 to 8pmRead more -
James Bantone
Protozone13
Group Show
Shedhalle, Zurich, CH 17 Nov 2023 - 14 Jan 2024'When – and how – are you “touched” by a sound, a movement, a texture, a sight, a taste or a smell in a space of “visual” arts? Which bodily...Read more -
James Bantone
Stranger in the Village
group show curated by Celine Eidenbenz in dialog with the Advisory Board
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH 3 Sep 2023 - 7 Jan 2024“In seinem berühmten Text Stranger in the Village (Fremder im Dorf) verarbeitete der US-amerikanische Schriftsteller James Baldwin seine von Rassismus durchzogene Erfahrung in der Schweiz der 1950er-Jahre. Baldwins Worte sind...Read more -
James Bantone
CRY ME A RIVER
group show
Simian, Copenhagen, DK 16 Aug - 15 Oct 2023SimianRead more -
James Bantone & Ser Serpas
CITY SALTS: FALLEN ANGELS
group show
City SALTS, Birsfelden, CH 15 Jul - 15 Aug 2023City SALTSRead more -
James Bantone
yours truly,
Museum Morsbroich, Essen, DE 12 May - 29 Oct 2023“yours truly,” entwirft ein Gefüge aus figurativen sowie abstrakten und konkreten Kunstwerken, die untereinander in ebenso nicht offensichtliche wie provozierende Dialoge treten und die doch immer zuerst den Dialog mit...Read more -
James Bantone
Bodies Bodies
group show curated by Giacomo Pigliapoco and Lucrezia Galeotti
La Rada, Locarno, CH 26 Nov 2022 - 15 Jan 2023BodiesBodies è un discorso aperto e frammentario sulla meta-identità in cui sculture, installazioni, video e performance si combinano per disegnare uno spazio ibrido, tra reale e immaginario, verità e menzogna....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 -
James Bantone
Bourses de la Ville de Genève 2022
Group show
Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève 1 Sep - 2 Oct 2022Read more -
James Bantone
Kiefer Hablitzel │Göhner Kunstpreis
Swiss Art Awards 2022
Messe Basel Halle 1.1 13 - 19 Jun 2022Read more -
James Bantone
Espace Arlaud, Les Urbaines, Lausanne, CH 3 - 12 Dec 2021Les UrbainesRead more -
James Bantone
Cuts of Love 25 Nov 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 Weststrasse 75, Zurich, CHRead more -
James Bantone
He Said, They Said
Coalmine, Winterthur 20 Nov 2020 - 27 Mar 2021Read more
Works
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If you see me (the way you are), 2024
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Untitled (do you even), 2024
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Entrepreneur of the Self 01, 2023
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Entrepreneur of the Self 02, 2023
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Entrepreneur of the Self 03, 2023
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OPEN (mmhmm), 2023
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OPEN (slatt), 2023
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Child's Play 02, 2022
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Child's Play 03, 2022
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Polite Lies 02, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Fool of the Month, 2022
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Terminal Irony, 2021
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Profeta, 2021
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The Fade, 2021
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Cuts of Love, 2021
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Cuts of Love, 2021
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Cuts of Love, 2021
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Chronic Oversharer, 2021
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Blue Magic (Anti-Breakage Formula) 04, 2020
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A Demon Hairstyle Guide, 2020
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A Demon Hairstyle Guide 15, 2020
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A Demon Hairstyle Guide 10, 2020
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Demon Tingz: Reloaded 5, 2020
Overview
James Bantone (*1992, Geneva, lives and works in Paris)'s artistic practice is an ongoing exploration and unsettling look at identity obsession. Through installations that play with the poetics of anonymity, ulterior perspectives, and subjectivity, combining photography, sculpture, and video, Bantone questions not only contemporary markers of violence towards the racialized and queer body, but also the refusal of identification of his subjects and thus their exploitation. By appropriating the "tools of the fashion world" and, at times, perverting their application, Bantone approaches a new method of representation wrapped in layers of refusal - tightly sewn neoprene jumpsuits reveal neither skin nor face, oversized prosthetics impose the grotesque, and, at times, all anthropomorphic signifiers are abandoned. Accompanied by a strong interest in the horror genre, the artist is driven to reconfigure and design bodies, objects and clothing by staging them in an absurd manner, in order to question various tropes.
Biography
James Bantone graduated with a Bachelor of Art & Media - Video at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2019 and completed the Work. Master - Contemporary Artistic Practices at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in 2021. He has had solo exhibitions at Karma International, Zurich (2021), Coalmine, Winterthur (2020), and participated in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Zurich (2023), Simian, Copenhagen (2023), Klemm’s Gallery, Berlin (2023), Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2023), Centre d'Art Contemporain de Genève (2022) Cordova, Barcelona (2021), Swiss Institute, New York (2020), Kunsthalle Fribourg (2020), and UV Estudios, Buenos Aires (2019).
Events