Thomas KOENIG, LE DOMESTIQUE ET LA FAUSSE PISTE Exhibition from april 15 to june 18 2011
The gallery Kissthedesign presents the new production of the young swiss artist Thomas KOENIG *1983 from 15th april to 18th june 2011.
The exhibition will include the new edition project of the FLAC (Fondation Lausannoise pour l’Art Contemporain) L’action Lausanne contemporain at Kissthedesign with a limited edition by Thomas Koenig.
Thomas Koenig’s work is hard to classify, he works with every medias and recycles everything, from pop culture to most different materials, no matter if mass produced or do it yourself.
He plays with art codes, he raises bad taste and low cost to luxury art goods and the pedestal get over the artwork.
In this context of dissonance, duplication, curious combination or accidents, the dialogue between Thomas Koenig’s work and the mid century design furniture of the gallery should be very exciting!
BIOGRAPHY
Thomas Koenig is born in 1983 in Switzerland, he lives and works in Vevey (CH). He graduted in 2008 of the ECAL in Lausanne, where he participated to workshops with among others Valentin Carron, Alexandre Bianchini and Sylvie Fleury. He is currently masterstudent at the HEAD in Geneva.
His work was exhibited in Switzerland, Europe and USA, among others at the Festival images’06 , where he won the 3rd prize Nestlé for young creation, in Standard Deluxe, Lausanne, Forde, Geneva, Vegas Gallery, London and in solo show at Mary Smith and Friends’ Gallery in Brooklyn in 2009 and 2010, at Marie Taillefer, Gobelins, Paris and La Dépendance, Renens in 2009 and in Doll, Lausanne in 2008.
Thomas Koenig works also with Mathias Forbach in the collective Themes and participates to several projects like Prism Clothing (the-prism.ch) and Ja Gern! Bleistift Jockey (jagern.ch), he is also member of the Joli Collectif (lejolicollectif.ch) in Lausanne and of RATS association from Vevey
