Born in 1983 in Morges, Switzerland. Lives and works in the countryside on the outskirts of Basel, Switzerland.
Claudia Comte is known for her immersive environments, combining painting, sculpture, and performance. Her practice is guided by a longstanding interest in teasing out the history and memory of biomorphic forms through traditional hand processes, as well as industrial and machine technologies. Her distinctive environmental projects contemplate the future of our ecosystems, often bringing the aesthetics of 1960s Minimalism together with the concerns of the Land artists of the 1970s. In her work, the wide-ranging aesthetics of pop and cartoon worlds become departure points for her biomorphic representations of cacti or corals. These idiosyncratic forms are used as emblems to draw attention to the fragility of our ecosystems and desertification around the world. Her practice is deeply engaged in discourses about the environment and the importance of its preservation – urgent, complex topics conveyed through her work with an apparent lightness.
Comte has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions around the world: Globus Public Art Project/Fondation Beyeler, 2023; Foundación Casa Wabi, Mexico, 2023; Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, 2022; Desert X AlUla, 2022; Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2021; Copenhagen Contemporary, 2019; and Castello di Rivoli, 2019.
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