New solo show!

MOTEL
January 27, 2011 – March 24, 2012



Opening Reception:
Thursday, January 26, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The young photographer from Lausanne Catherine Leutenegger (*1983) opens the 2012 exhibition program of the gallery Kissthedesign with two series produced between 2003 and 2004 – still unpublished – exploring the topic of the motel in the swiss landscapes.

Her photographs let us feel the kind of uncanny, David Lynch produces in Lost Highway or Twin Peaks. Though we are not in the United States, we are far away from the large areas of Los Angeles, Washington or Texas as depicted by Wim Wenders. Catherine Leutenegger conveys the american and strongly cinematic charged world of the motel in our quiet swiss reality. The photographer brings us to the periphery of citys, close to the cantonal roads of the french part of Switzerland, in search of these strange atmospheres of the films noirs that impressed her photographic language.


Kissthedesign Gallery
Avenue de Rumine, 4
CH-1005 Lausanne

Opening times:
Thursday-friday : 11.00 am- 7.00 pm
Saturday: 10.00 am- 6.00 pm
And on appointment on +41 (0)78 921 82 62
www.kissthedesign.ch

YOUNG TALENTS
Stéphanie Marie Couson, Jonathan Heyer, Catherine Leutenegger,
Zhang Peng, Julian Salinas
October 28, 2011 – January 14, 2012



Opening Reception:
Thursday, October 27, 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The young photographer from Lausanne Catherine Leutenegger (*1983) opens the 2012 exhibition program of the gallery Kissthedesign with two series produced between 2003 and 2004 – still unpublished – exploring the topic of the motel in the swiss landscapes.

In their works, Stéphanie Marie Couson, Jonathan Heyer, Catherine Leutenegger, Zhang Peng and Julian Salinas not only assume the position of the photographer but also of the stage director, the architect, the literati, the philosopher and the storyteller.


hammer gallery AG
beethovenstrasse 20
8002 zurich / switzerland
+41 43 817 62 10
info@hammergallery.ch
www.hammergallery.ch

WELCOME HOME BABY
April 28 – May 3 | 2011



artbygenève is the international modern and contemporary art fair which takes
place annually in the famous state-ofthe-art convention centre, Palexpo in Geneva.
Visitors will have the unique opportunity to discover emerging talents,whilst also admiring the works of already accomplished artists.

Some 55 galleries gather here from all over the world, choosing to open the much acclaimed Swiss art season with artbygenève to be followed by ArtBasel only 6 short weeks later. A number of exhibitors attend both events allowing the public to immerse fully in some of the best work available today.


artbygenève
la galerie cyril kobler
(stand C10)
CH-1218 grand-saconnex (geneva)
+41 22 761 11 11
info@artbygeneve.ch
www.artbygeneve.ch

WELCOME HOME BABY
NY PHOTO FESTIVAL – PROVOCATION EXHIBITON

The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn
March 27 – April 17 | 2011

Opening Reception:
Saturday March 26, from 5-7pm

The New York Photo Festival presents the third juried photo invitational exhibition entitled Provocation, a group exhibition featuring submissions of photographs that shatter definitions of the passively accepted and open the door to social change. Among the works are Catherine Leutenegger’s photographs of eerily life-like polymer dolls from the series Welcome Home Baby. The exhibition will be on view at the powerHouse Arena until April 17, 2011. For more information and a complete list of the photographers featured in Provocation visit:

www.provocation.newyorkphotofestival.com

The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 666 – 3049

WELCOME HOME BABY
Accrochage [VAUD 2011]
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
January 22 – February 20 | 2011

Opening Reception:
Friday January 21, at 6pm

Catherine Leutenegger's photo exhibition of babies in white cardboard boxes is both profound and troubling. That is the artist's intention.
The "babies" are actually polymer dolls eerily life-like. The first clue that they aren't real comes as you gradually notice that each baby is nestled in its own cardboard box. Leutenegger, who is a youthful 27, was clearly going for the shock that follows when you realize that you've been taken in by an extremely effective illusion, but her real goal is deeper than that.

"We are living in a time when parents are on the point of being able to pick the sex of their children and even determine the hair coloring and other features," Leutenegger says, "It raises questions about where the limits are."





Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts
Palais de Rumine,
Place de la Riponne 6
CH - 1014 Lausanne

Free entry

Hours:
Tue-wed: 11.00-18.00
Thu: 11.00-20.00
Fri-Sun: 11.00-17.00
Closed Mondays

Tél: +41 21 316 34 45
Fax +41 21 316 34 46
www.beaux-arts.vd.ch

MA VILLE, MA VIE, MA VOIX
du 19 au 29 janvier 2011

Vernissage
mercredi 19 janvier, à 18h

DÉCOUVREZ LES PORTRAITS ET LES VOIX
DE PERSONNES MIGRANTES INSTALLÉES
À LAUSANNE!

Une exposition pour découvrir la vision et la voix de Lausannois-es qui vivent et votent ici et constater que voter, ce n’est pas seulement une action citoyenne, mais une action qui compte pour soi et pour la communauté, aujourd’hui et demain.

Forum de l’Hôtel de Ville
Place de la Palud 2
1003 Lausanne

Heures d’ouverture
lundi: 12h-18h30
mardi à vendredi: 10h-18h30
samedi: 9h-18h

www.lausanne-ma-ville.ch

WELCOME HOME BABY
October 14 – November 26 | 2010

Opening Reception:
Wednesday, October 13, from 6pm

Manufactured from vinyl and silicone, these ultra-realistic dolls were conceived in their slightest details. The expression of the face, the hair stuck by hand, the stuffed soft body, the folds of hands and feet. Everything gives that strange feeling that these dolls are true babies.These models are generally available with a wide range of extra-accessories such as clothes, the announcment of birth, curb chain, heart working on battery and even a breath device!

The designer of these dolls declares that - at the birth of her son - she felt the deep desire to immortalize him as a doll to keep a faithful memory of the first days of his life.

But who are buying these dolls? And what for? What is the point of replicating with high fidelity the anatomy of these new-borns?

la galerie, un espace pour la photographie
17 rue de la Coulouvrenière
CH - 1204 Geneva
T +41(0)22 321 66 84
M +41(0)78 789 34 37
lagalerie@bluewin.ch
Mon - Friday 5.30 - 9pm

More infos here

OPEN'ART / DOWNTOWN LAUSANNE
September 5 – September 27 | 2009

Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 5, 5pm
Espace des Télégraphes, Bâtiment des Télégraphes, Côtes-de-Montbenon 16, Lausanne-Flon.

À l’occasion du lancement officiel du Studio Survolté,
les demoiselles Déclencheuses – Catherine Leutenegger & Sandra Guignard –
ont le plaisir de vous inviter au vernissage de leur exposition regroupant les portraits d’une vingtaine de personnages à caractères hautement variés, parmi lesquels vous reconnaîtrez sans doute quelques acteurs de la scène artistique romande...

Communiqué de presse, cliquez ici

www.lestudiosurvolte.ch

The Kodak City, Journées Photographiques de Bienne / Bieler Fototage
September 4 – September 27 | 2009

Opening Reception:
Friday, September 4, 6.30pm
Esplanade Temple Allemand/ Kirchenterrasse. RingThe Kodak City | [Swiss Federal Prize of Design 2008]
Together with the steps I took to visit photographers' studios, it was essential for me to visit Rochester in the Northeastern part of the State of New York, to take a closer look at the headquarters of the Eastman Kodak group and the Kodak’s giant industrial park.

Many questions were at the heart of this desire of mine: What were the consequences of the technological digital reform for the Eastman Kodak group ? What is left today of the infrastructures that were dedicated to the manufacture of film and photo paper? How did the group react to the sudden onset of digital techonology? What were the consequences on the City of Rochester called "The Kodak City"?

Clearly photography is following a new road, and its future seems to be digital. By revealing the sites in which the traditional practice of photography evolved in a way, and by documenting the sites in which new technology is growing in the other way, my desire is to question the Photography’s very future but also to keep in memory what belongs / or will soon belong to the past. C. Leutenegger

Centre d'accueil, billeterie et informations
Ancienne Couronne (Place du Ring, vieille ville)
Centre PasquArt (Faubourg du Lac 71-75)
+41 32 322 42 45

Please visit the official website:
http://2009.jouph.ch/

The Kodak City, International Photography Festival, Leipzig
Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Fotografie, Leipzig, Germany | July 1 – July 7 | 2009

Opening Reception:
Wednesday, July 1, from 8 p.m.

The Kodak City | [Swiss Federal Prize of Design 2008]
Together with the steps I took to visit photographers' studios, it was essential for me to visit Rochester in the Northeastern part of the State of New York, to take a closer look at the headquarters of the Eastman Kodak group and the Kodak’s giant industrial park.

Many questions were at the heart of this desire of mine: What were the consequences of the technological digital reform for the Eastman Kodak group ? What is left today of the infrastructures that were dedicated to the manufacture of film and photo paper? How did the group react to the sudden onset of digital techonology? What were the consequences on the City of Rochester called "The Kodak City"?

Clearly photography is following a new road, and its future seems to be digital. By revealing the sites in which the traditional practice of photography evolved in a way, and by documenting the sites in which new technology is growing in the other way, my desire is to question the Photography’s very future but also to keep in memory what belongs / or will soon belong to the past. C. Leutenegger

F/Stop 3rd International Photography Festival Leipzig
Karl-Heine-Straße 61
04229 Leipzig
+ 49 341 60 49 814
info@f-stop-leipzig.de

Please visit the official website:
www.f-stop-leipzig.de

RE-PAIRES à la Galerie de la Clinique de la Source
Exposition du 1er juillet au 15 décembre | 2009

Opening Reception:
Wednesday, July 1, from 5:30 – 7:30 pm

À l'occasion des 150 ans de son Ecole, La Source a le plaisir de vous présenter l'exposition RE-PAIRES.

Catherine Leutenegger, jeune photographe lausannoise, vous invite à la découverte de ses portraits d’étudiants et de professionnels infirmiers.
Vingt-trois paires assemblées et autant de repères saisissants qui relient le novice à l’expert et l’élève à son modèle.

Une perspective projective inédite, à découvrir sans faute !


Galerie de La Source
Avenue Vinet 30 1004 Lausanne - Suisse
Tél.+41(0)21 641 33 33
Fax +41(0)21 641 33 66
clinique@lasource.ch
www.lasource.ch

Carton d'invitation, cliquez ici

The Kodak City, MIP 2009
6e Mois International Photo, Dol-de-Bretagne, France | June 6 – June 21

Opening Reception:
Saturday, June 6, from 5:30 p.m.

Pour sa 6ème édition, le MIP s’ouvre à «l’image vérité» via le photojournalisme qui va côtoyer l’image éclectique. Il accueille Horst Faas et Henri Huet et quelque 33 photographes ainsi que des réalisateurs de cinéma: Rémi Mauger et Guy
Milledrogues.

The Kodak City | [Bourse Fédérale de Design 2008]
En 2007, Catherine Leutenegger se rend à Rochester aux Etats-Unis – surnommée la « Ville Kodak » – où siègent les quartiers généraux du Géant Jaune, leader mondial de l’image et plus grand fabricant de films au monde. Son travail photographique intitulé "The Kodak City" constitue un témoignage des lourdes répercussions que subit la Ville et ses habitants face au brusque déclin de l’argentique devant l’essor fulgurant de la technologie numérique.


1, Place Charles de Gaulle
35120 Dol de Bretagne
06 32 12 49 34
dpi35@orange.fr

Plus d'infos sur:
http://dpi35.fr

Welcome Home Baby through the collective exhibition PRIVATE EYE
La Galerie du Passage, Moutier, Suisse| April 24– May 17 2009

PRIVATE EYE flyer

Opening Reception:
Friday, April 24, from 6:30 p.m.

Six lausannoises investissent l'espace de la Galerie du Passage à Moutier, avec des propositions artistiques qui composent un dialogue à plusieurs voix autour de la question de la féminité et de son dévoilement. L’exposition, conçue comme un assemblage de points de vue, réunit les travaux de Sophie Huguenot (vidéo), Catherine Leutenegger (photographie), Shirin Mashayekh (vidéo), Jen Morris (vidéo et photographie), et du collectif monokini (photographie).

La Galerie du Passage
Ruelle de l'Ours
2740 Moutier
Tél. +41 32 493 45 11

HORS-CHAMP "OFF-CAMERA" at Aperture Gallery in New-York
October 27 – November 3 2008

Opening Reception:
Monday, October 27, 6:00–8:00 p.m.

Catherine Leutenegger, the winner of the Raymond Weil Club Photography competition 2007 will exhibit a selection of prints from her serie Hors-champ at the Aperture Gallery.

“ Hors-Champ” (“Off-camera”):“Hors-Champ” (“Off-camera”) is an invitation to discover a place that often remains unknown: where photographs are made—workshops and studios, darkrooms, development and print labs. The work behind the illusion so meticulously crafted by photographers in their studios is indeed rarely revealed. The realization of this project arises from a personal desire to explore, behind-the-scenes, the world of professionals in the photography field in my region, at a point in time when, obviously, photography is undergoing a deep change both in its technical aspects and its esthetical ones. In this digitalized age, what really occurs behind-the-scenes? What will become of studios and traditional photo labs? “Off-camera” is an homage to photography, its history and to the creators of images, and encourages the viewer to reflect on the future of this medium of communication.

Exhibition on view:
Monday, October 27, 2008 — Monday, November 03, 2008

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555