Name Simon Lamuniere Role Curator | Education School of Visual Arts | |
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Simon Lamunière (born 1961 in Geneva) is a Swiss curator.
After his studies at the School of Visual Arts in Geneva (today HEAD) and a postgraduate course at the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel, Simon Lamunière has received grants for a residence at the Cité internationale des Arts, Paris and at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart where he produces some multimedia pieces. His experience as curator began at the Centre pour l'image contemporaine (CIC) with the International Video Week program, one of the first video festivals in Switzerland and Europe. He then created and managed "Version 1.0", the first edition of what became the "Version Biennale".
After leaving the Centre in 2004, Lamunière designed and curated the website of the documenta X directed by Catherine David, in Kassel in 1997 and contributed to the creation of the Museum of Modern Art (MUDAM) website in Luxembourg with Claude Closky, Jean-Charles Massera and Benjamin Weil. As an artist he has participated to solo and group shows from 1987 to 2003 in Paris, New-York, Lisbonne, Frankfuft and in Switzerland. His last known exhibition was at the Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain or MAMCO, Geneva, in 2003.
In 2000 Simon Lamunière was appointed curator of Art|Unlimited at Art Basel , a job he held until 2011. He has been the project manager of Neons within the City Contemporary Art Fund (FMAC) and the Canton Contemporary Art Fund (FCAC) of Geneva. Located on the largest public place of Geneva, this site-specific art project invited Swiss and international artists to create luminous artworks for building roofs in the same way as advertising signs are placed on the Geneva lakeside. Video about the project
In 2009, SImon Lamunière was the Director of "Utopics"", the 11th Swiss Exhibition of Sculptures in Biel/Bienne in the Canton of Bern. From 2012 to 2015, he was Chairman of artgenève directed by Thomas HUG. Since 2008 he produces artist's editions. He has already produced pieces with Peter Kogler, Matt Mullican, Heimo Zobernig, Carsten Hoeller, Sylvie Fleury, Sarah Morris, Liam Gillick.