Yan Duyvendak, originally from the Netherlands, lives in Geneva and Marseille. Trained at the École Cantonale d’Art du Valais and the École Supérieure d’Art Visuel de Genève, his career as a performance artist began in 1995 with the staging of his first work of live art “Keep It Fun For Yourself”. His art underlines in particular how the overwhelming mass of analogical, digital and mental images as well as our social codes and other rituals of our fun society thicken the curtain between ourselves and reality. Yan Duyvendak’s video pieces feature in numerous public and private collections, for instance the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and the Museum der Moderne (MdM) in Salzburg. He won the “Swiss Art Award” three times in a row (2002, 2003 and 2004), the “Namics Kunstpreis für Neue Medien” in 2004 and the “Network Kulturpreis” in 2006. He received the two most prestigious art awards in Switzerland: in 2010, the highest distinction for contemporary art, the “Meret Oppenheim Preis”, and in 2019, the highest one for theater and live art, the “Hans Reinhart Ring”.

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Please Continue (Hamlet)
2013 Edition
18.10 – 27.10