Valérie Knoll and Matthias Sohr
Photo: Stefan Burger
Valérie Knoll (*1978) has been director of the Kunsthalle Bern since 2015. As a curator, she has focused on the possibilities of contemporary painting and has worked with artists such as Amelie von Wulffen, Monika Baer, Michael Krebber, Vittorio Brodmann, Leidy Churchman, Michaela Eichwald and Jill Mulleady. In exhibitions such as No Dandy, No Fun (2020) (curated with Hans-Christian Dany), Letzte Lockerung (2019) and Sie sagen, wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer (2017), she focused on the question of artistic self-understanding. As an editor of publications, she has, among other things, published a series of texts by Elisabeth Lebovici, Annika Bender and Diedrich Diederichsen. From 2010 to 2015, Valérie Knoll ran the Halle für Kunst e.V. in Lüneburg, and from 2006 to 2010 she wrote about exhibitions for Artforum International, New York.
Photo: Su Yang
Matthias Sohr, born 1980 in Düsseldorf, lives and works as an artist and historian in Lausanne. There, in 2019, Sohr founded the association Bureaucracy Studies, which runs the art space of the same name. In 2022, Sohr was appointed co-director of the Centre d'art contemporain of the same name by CIRCUIT Association d'art contemporain, Lausanne.
Project
Since 2018, the art space Bureaucracy Studies in Lausanne has presented solo exhibitions and interventions by the following artists: Francis Ruyter, Moosje M Goosen, Thomas Julier, Mooni Perry, Eric Bell & Kristoffer Frick, Josip Novosel, Orawan Arunrak and Christophe Sarlin. As a result of the Covid pandemic and the appointment of Matthias Sohr as co-director of CIRCUIT, the largest and oldest centre d'art contemporain in Lausanne, the relocation of bureaucracy studies is an obvious step. Valérie Knoll accompanies Matthias Sohr in this process.
