Silvia Bächli
Works
Gouache on paper
144 × 204 cm; 150 × 210 × 5 cm framed 4 parts (72 x 102 cm each)
SB8246
Gouache on paper
144,3 × 409 cm (8 parts; 72 x 102 cm each)
SB8173
Installation view, 2024, Centro Botin, Santander
Gouache on paper
72 × 102 cm; 77 × 107 × 3,5 cm framed
Gouache on paper
102 × 72 cm; 104,5 × 75 × 3,5 cm framed
Installation view, 2023, Museum Langmatt, Baden
Gouache on paper
102 × 144 cm; 105,5 × 148 × 4 cm framed (2 parts, 102 × 72 cm each)
Installation view, 2025, MAMbo, Bologna
Gouache on paper
102 × 72 cm; 104,5 × 75 × 3,5 cm framed
Installation view, 2025, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan
Installation view, 2024, Centro Botín, Santander
Installation view, 2024, Kunst Museum Winterthur Beim Stadthaus
Gouache on paper
55 × 75 cm; 58,5 × 78,5 × 3,5 cm framed
SB8124
Gouache on paper
80 × 60 cm; 84 × 64 × 3,5 cm framed
SB8155
Gouache on paper
80 × 60 cm; 84 × 64 × 3,5 cm framed
SB8157
Gouache on paper
80 × 60 cm; 84 × 64 × 3,5 cm framed
SB8158
Gouache on paper
30 × 22,5 cm
SB8200
SB8069
Gouache on paper
62 × 44 cm
131 found wood sections and black paint (plywood, chipboard, mdf, acrylic)
500 × 1850 × 3 cm
Gouache on paper
62 × 44 cm
SB8017
Oil pastel on paper
22,5 × 30 cm
SB4006
With Eric Hattan
131 found wood sections and black paint (plywood, chipboard, mdf, acrylic)
500 × 1850 × 3 cm
Biography
Silvia Bächli was born in Baden, Switzerland, in 1956. She lives and works in Basel.
She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2013.
Bächli has developed her drawing practice working on sheets of white paper of different sizes, qualities and tones, and using Indian ink, charcoal, gouache or pastels. Using the body and its movements as a starting point, her work spreads into everything that can be considered part of the realm of feeling. In this way she presents a reality made up of fragments and impressions. The result is not just painterly moments: the drawings often seem to capture, as if in film stills, a cinematic way of looking at bodies and things or their details, at landscapes, gestures, structures, and processes. Her works tell stories without an actual beginning or end, just a visualization of a moment captured in time.
Important solo exhibitions have been dedicated to her, including: before, Museo Morandi, Bologna (2025); Partitura, Centro Botin, Santander (2024); They’ve Turned into Each Other. Which Is Which?, Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2024); Silvia Bächli, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland (2023); Silvia Bächli. Along Long Lines, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany (2022); Side Facing the Wind, Fidelidade Arte, Lisbona (2021). Travelled to: Culturgest, Porto (2021); Silvia Bächli, Fondation espace écureuil, Printemps de septembre, Toulouse (2021) Interstices, LaBF15, Lyon (2021); Shift, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (2019); Arts lointains si proche dans le regard de Silvia Bächli, Musée Barbier-Müller, Genève (2018); Situer la différence, Centre culturel suisse, Paris (2017, with Eric Hattan); weiter.wird.Les abords, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon (2015); Brombeeren, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2014); Far apart – close together, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2012).
Silvia Bächli has been included in a number of group shows, including: Drawing Today Recent Additions to the Collection, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2024); Dynamics of the Organic, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2023); “Warum ist nicht alles schon Verschwunden?”, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany (2021); Resonating Spaces, Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2019); To have a shelf live, Eric Hattan & Silvia Bächli, Art Basel | Parcours (2018); Drawing Now, Albertina, Vienna (2015); Biens communs I, acquisitions récentes, Mamco, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (2011); elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010). She represented Switzerland at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Bächli’s works are featured in numerous major collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum, Basel; Kunstmuseum St.Gallen; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung and Neue Pinakothek, Munich; Mamco, Geneva; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Fundación Botín Santander; Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur.
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