informations
Lisa Mazenauer (*1996, CH)
Currently based in Basel
lisamazenauer@hotmail.com
@lisamazenauer
education
2023 – now 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)
work
2017– now Freelance artist, photographer and videographer
2023 Teaching assistant, ECAL (University of Art and and Design of Lausanne, CH)
exhibitions
2025 Alt+1000, La Vue-des-Alpes (CH)
2024 Regionale Internationale, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (CH)
2024 PEP, Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse (FR)
2024 Duende!, group show, Atelier Mondial, Basel (CH)
2024 Rivières Revers, duo show Courants soniques, Espace 3353, Carouge (CH)
2023 Welding Flows In Between, Postnatural Independent Program, final presentation, Intermediae, Madrid (ES)
2023 Perseverance, Videoex, Zurich (CH)
2023 Below Breath Body Rocks, Galerie C, Neuchâtel (CH)
2023 Plat(t)form 2023, Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH)
2022 Copper Tales, Prix Photoforum, Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne (CH)
2022 Smells Like Queer Spirit, MBAL, Le Locle (CH)
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)
2021 Être autrement, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne (CH)
2021 Various festivals during the Kassel Dummy Award 2020 (HR, DK, CZ, TR, IE, KH, SG, AU, RO, IT, DE)
2019 Half Time, ECAL, Renens (CH)
grants, awards, distinctions
2025 Grant, Gwaertler Grant, Gwaertler Stiftung (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)
talks
2025 Lecture, ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris), Paris (FR)
2024 Presentation of my work, 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)
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)