Emilie Ding

Emilie Ding is a Franco-Swiss artist born in Friborg who has lived and worked in Berlin since 2012. Whether in a museum space with her colossal sculptures or during her in situ interventions, she offers a new look at places and their functions. , their architecture. Navigating between drawing, sculpture, painting, photography and installation, his minimal and architectural work questions the visible and invisible systems that enclose our daily lives. His practice borrows from the different architectural movements of the 20th century their aesthetic codes, and from the physics of the building its formal and lexical field (constraint, resistance, system, force) to symbolize the balance of power, frontal or more diffuse, than the human interacts with its environment and its history.
A 2008 graduate of HEAD, Emilie Ding has exhibited in numerous contemporary art spaces in Switzerland and abroad, notably at the Migrosmuseum, Zürich, at the Aargauer Kunsthaus, at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, or at the Center Pompidou Kanal , Brussels. In 2015, she exhibited at Mamco in Geneva, five massive pieces made of concrete slabs and measuring 2.50 meters in height, on which she drew the memory of the place. She is the winner of several prizes including the Swiss Art Awards, the Gandur Foundation Prize for Art, the Grolsch Prize and the Liechti Foundation Prize for the Arts. In 2017, she won the distinction of the most beautiful Swiss books for the artist's book But time is not linear…., which manipulates, through a dense and systematic layout, references from modern architecture. In 2018, For the scientific journal GSS, she co-directs the special issue “Visuels” dealing with questions of gender and sexuality in the field of contemporary artistic practices. Emilie Ding is represented by the Xippas gallery.