Renée Levi

For over thirty years Renée Levi has been questioning the medium of painting. She investigates colour, the application of paint, its body, and its space on various image carriers as well as installations.

Levi was born 1960, in Istanbul and grew up in Aargau. Today, she lives and works in Basel. After studying architecture at the HTL Muttenz/Basel, she studied at the Zurich School of Art and Design. In 1998, she started working together with Marcel Schmid as a studio partner. Recent solo exhibitions include at Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2024); Galerie Mezzanin (Geneva, 2024); PHILIPPZOLLINGER (Zurich, 2023 & 2021); Öktem Aykut (Instanbul, 2022); Villa du Parc (Annemasse, 2021); Musée d’Art, Histoire et Archéologie d’Évreux (2020); Biennale de Lyon (2019); Museum Langmatt (Baden, 2019); Istituto Svizzero Milan (2019) and at Galerie Freymond-Guth (Basel, 2017). In addition, the artist has been included in numerous group exhibitions, such as at Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2023); Centre d'art Pasquart (Biel, 2022); MAMCO (Geneva, 2021); Istituto Svizzero Rome (2019); Vin Vin (Vienna, 2018) or at Kunstverein Munich (2015). Renée Levi has received several awards, including the Prix de la Société des Arts de Genève, Arts Visuel, in 2019, or the Prix Meret Oppenheim in 2002. Moreover, Levi is the winner of the public art competition of the Parliament Building in Bern, Switzerland.

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Heroic Protagonists

Group Exhibition

Dec 8, 2023 - Jan 20, 2024

We are thrilled to present the exhibition, Heroic Protagonists. The artists included are brave and determined to create works, which are idiosyncratic, sensuous, and evocative. Moreover, they have the ability...

Renée Levi

Maude

Sep 1 - Oct 14, 2023

Maude, Renée Levi’s second exhibition at the gallery, marks the first time the artist shows works she considers “precarious”. Emancipating from her signature scribbles and color-block compositions on more than...

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GINNY

Sep 17 - Oct 30, 2021

For over thirty years Renée Levi (*1960 in Istanbul, lives and works in Basel) has been questioning the medium of painting. She investigates colour, the application of paint, its body,...