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Lisa Mazenauer
Currently in Basel
lisamazenauer@hotmail.com
@lisamazenauer
exhibitions, screenings
2025 Camminare insieme, Alt+1000, La Vue-des-Alpes, CH (cur. Morgane Paillard)
2025 Revolt against the sun!, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH (cur. Chus Martínez, Margaux Bonopera)
2025 La Vetrina, Venezia, IT (cur. Joël Desaules, Christine Matthey)
2024 Regionale Internationale, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH (cur. Ines Goldbach, Ines Tondar)
2024 PEP, Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, FR (cur. Anne Immelé, Bénédicte Blondeau)
2024 Duende!, group show, Atelier Mondial, Basel, CH (cur. Filipa Ramos)
2024 Rivières Revers, duo show Courants soniques, Espace 3353, Carouge, CH (cur. ASAP collective)
2023 Welding Flows In Between, Postnatural Independent Program, final presentation, Intermediae, Madrid, ES (cur. Institute for Postnatural Studies)
2023 Perseverance, Videoex, Zurich (CH)
2023 Below Breath Body Rocks, Galerie C, Neuchâtel, CH (cur. Morgane Paillard, Fête de la Danse Neuchâtel)
2023 Plat(t)form 2023, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH
2022 Copper Tales, Prix Photoforum, Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne, CH (cur. Jana Johanna Haeckel; jury incl. Julie Jones, Kabelo Malatsie, Kathrin Schönegg)
2022 Smells Like Queer Spirit, MBAL, Le Locle, CH (cur. Milo Keller, Nathalie Herschdorfer)
2021 25. vfg, Young Talent Award, finalist, IPFO, Olten (CH)
2021 Hans Emmenegger (1866-1940): carte blanche à l’ECAL, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, CH (cur. Milo Keller)
2021 Être autrement, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, CH (cur. Milo Keller)
2021 Various festivals during the Kassel Dummy Award 2020 (HR, DK, CZ, TR, IE, KH, SG, AU, RO, IT, DE)
grants, awards, distinctions
2025 Grant, Gwaertler Grant, Gwaertler Stiftung (CH)
2025 Grant, Film und Medien Kunst BS/BL, Basel (CH)
2022 Finalist, Prix Photoforum 2022 (CH)
2022 Award, Prix La Foncière (CH)
2022 Jury Distinction, Bachelor in Photography (ECAL, CH)
2021 Finalist, 25. vfg, Young Talent Award (CH)
2020 Finalist, Kassel Dummy Award 2020 (DE)
publications, writings
2025 Photographie et écologie, text, Centre de la Photographie Genève (CH)
2023 We?, text contributions, cthulhu books (ES)
2022 Copper Tales, portfolio, Blurring The Lines 2022 (FR)
2022 Swiss Gold Entropy, portfolio, L'Atelier Magazine (CH)
2020 Mitholz, portfolio, Yogurt Magazine (IT)
education
2025 Master Fine Arts, Institute Art Gender Nature, HGK, Basel (CH)
2024 Documentary Summer School, Locarno Film Festival (CH)
2023 Postnatural Independent Program, Institute for Postnatural Studies, Madrid (ES)
2022 Bachelor of Arts in Photography, ECAL (University of Art and and Design of Lausanne, CH), excellent mention. Thesis «Extractivist relations, in search of images»
2019 Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Art History, UNIL/UQAM (University of Lausanne, CH/University of Québec in Montréal, CA)
talks
2025 Lecture, ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris), Paris (FR)
2024 Guest lecture during ECAL Open Day, Renens (CH)
2023 Discussion moderated by Jana Johanna Haeckel, Prix Photoforum, Photoforum Pasquart, Biel (CH)
2021 Mitholz, presentation at Master Architecture, EPFL (CH)
work
2017– now Freelance photographer and videographer
2023 Teaching assistant, ECAL (University of Art and and Design of Lausanne, CH)