Valérie Favre
Born in 1959.
Valérie Favre is presented as an actress, painter and academic. The sources indicate Swiss origins and also use the designation “Franco-Swiss”.
She first trained artistically at the Académie de Meuron, before beginning studies at the Collège Voltaire in Geneva.
Since 2006, she has held the chair of painting at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK); one source specifies the period 2006–2025 for this activity. Biographical notices indicate that she lives and works between Berlin and Neuchâtel.
Recent works are cited at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, including Selfportrait after Hugo Ball, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (1916), IV, oil on canvas, 146 × 89 cm (2016–2017), and Crystal Palace, oil on canvas, 170 × 390 cm (2017). A substantial group of works from the series Le Troisième Frère Grimm is mentioned: Domination, a triptych dated 2004, 2.5 × 4.5 m, identified in the dossier as pertaining to the Musée national d'art moderne.
The critical literature includes catalogues and monographs, notably Valérie Favre : Visions (Hatje Cantz, 2009) and a 2017 catalogue published by Scheidegger & Spiess (Musée d'art et d'histoire, Neuchâtel – Zürich). According to the assembled sources, her practice combines painterly production, documented institutional presences and university teaching responsibilities.
Selected bibliography from the dossier: Valérie Favre : Visions, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2009; Thomas Facchinetti and Antonia Nessi, Valérie Favre, Scheidegger & Spiess, Neuchâtel – Zürich, 2017.
