Work presentation Eggs Bitschin
The Swiss artists Francine Eggs and Andreas Bitschin founded the artist group Eggs & Bitschin in 1992 after studying at the ECBA art school (Valais) and at the Port Royal art academy (Paris). After studying painting, they developed so-called “endograms” (“looking into the picture”), with which they digitized parts of paintings by scanning, enlarged by zooming and formally transformed by coloring and intensified the color. These digital copies were then transferred to various media (foils, glass, synthetic materials), which they applied to window surfaces and used to cover steles, cubes and cuboids. Illuminated from behind or from the inside, these works shine in color areas that are reminiscent of abstract-impressionistic shapes and colors.
This concept could be extended in many ways up to the recent past. Eggs & Bitschin expanded the early sculptural formations into spatial installations, placing the installations on water surfaces and thereby setting them in gentle motion; Interventions in buildings opened up the digitally processed veil of color by means of projections and the pictorial design of spaces in between to the architectural space. And at the same time, the artists have regularly conceived their pictorial spaces in direct dialogue with other artists. The curatorial activities of Eggs & Bitschin, with which they also shape social space, can be seen as the highlight and extension of this collaboration.
Technically advanced, aesthetically brilliant and spatially complex, her works appear as border definitions and crossings between image, space and urban or natural context. At the same time, their surfaces can be seen as an expression of a visual poetry that refers to references in the history of art as well as literature.
dr Marvin Altner
Curriculum Vitae Francine Eggs and Andreas Bitschin
Francine Eggs / Andreas Bitschin
Francine Eggs and Andreas Bitschin, both born in 1958, live and work in Switzerland
1975 - 1984 Studies with diploma at the ECAV, Canton Valais
1977 - 1978 at the Port Royal Academy of Art, Paris
1983 - 1995 Study visits to Montreal, Spain and France, among others
1992 Foundation of the artist duo Francine Eggs Andreas Bitschin
Exhibitions (selection)
2023 L'ombre du Corbusier, Immersion polychrome, Fondation suisse /Pavillon le Corbusier, Paris
2023 Cabinet de curiosité, Galerie Les Dilettantes, Sion
2021 Spondias dulcis, Artistes D'ici, Ferme Asile and Ville de Sion, Sion
2021 Vulcan Worlds, 7th Swiss Triennial of Sculpture in Bad Ragaz
2021 Oscillations, work dialog with Matthias Pabsch, Galerie Urs Reichlin, Zug
2020 Superpositions, work dialog with Matthias Pabsch, Galerie Oblique, St. Maurice
2020 L'ombre de Vulcain | Transformation, work dialog with Matthias Pabsch, Industria, Triennale Bex&Arts Bex VD
2019 Modulations, work dialog with Matthias Pabsch, Espace Pilotis, Fondation Suisse | Pavillon Le Corbusier, Paris
2019 Animaux de Légende, work dialog with Matthias Pabsch, Chemin Faisant, Espace Culturel Assens
2019 Déesse Libellule, Insects, Kunsthaus Steffisburg BE
2019 Animaux de Légende, work dialog with Matthias Pabsch, LILU Light Festival Lucerne
2018 Mythes et Légendes, Kunsthaus Steffisburg BE
2018 House of Europe, ZentralDepot, Meiningen D
2018 Terra Incognita, Ça Cartonne, Espace Culturel Assens VD
2018 Sylphe / Noctiluca, work dialog with Matthias Pabsch, 7th Swiss Sculpture Triennial in Bad Ragaz
2017 Pylône N°3, Impression, Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen
2017 Sortilège, Now Art N°4, Marzilibad, Bern
2017 Pylône, Triennale Valais / Valais 2017, A9 Relais du Saint-Bernard, Martigny
2016 Europe Island, Winter Light - Art on the Lake II, Von Rütte Gut BE
2016 Haus Europa, U-Bahn station Bundestag Berlin 2016 / Europe, open space between the Chancellery and the Paul Löbe House, Berlin Mitte
2015 Turbulante Trublione, La Camera Degli Ospiti, Ellen Kobe, project with the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Castello Colonna, Olevano Romano, Italy
2015 Embarkation, work dialog with Elisabeth Sonneck, 6th Swiss Sculpture Triennial in Bad Ragaz
2014 Islands, Now Art N°4, Marzilibad, Bern
2013 Love Island, hochZEITEN!, Belvedere, Potsdam D
2012 Fountain of Youth, Havariebüro, Alfred Töpfer Foundation, Hamburg
2012 Scheurers Tor, Gleisdreieck Berlin 2012, Park am Gleisdreieck/Ostpark and areas of the German Museum of Technology, Berlin
2011 Unité, Etats d'âme, park and Belle-Idée psychiatric clinic, HUG, Geneva
2011 Fountain of Youth, Now Art N°3, Marzilibad, Bern
2010 River God Aare, art on the water, art along the Aare, Bern
2008 New Chamber for the New Chamber, work dialog with Bonnard Woeffray Architectes, Exhibition NKNK!, Potsdam D
2008 Scheurers Arch, Lascami, Triennale Bex&Arts 2008, Bex VD
2008 Simultaneous spaces, Jetzt Kunst N°2, Schüpfen BE
2006 Scheuer's Gate, subway station Zoologischer Garten | line U2, Berlin
Curatorial activities
2023 Amplifications, Fondation suisse / Pavillon Le Corbusier, Paris
2023 Cabinet de curiosité, Galerie Les Dilettantes, Sion
2019 Modulations, Espace Pilotis, Fondation suisse / Pavillon Le Corbusier, Paris
2016 U-Bahnhof Bundestag Berlin 2016 / Europe, U-Bahnhof Bundestag and green space between the Chancellery and Paul Löbe House, Berlin Mitte
2012 Gleisdreieck Berlin 2012, Park am Gleisdreieck/Ostpark and loading route of the Deutsches Museum of Technology, Berlin
2011 Etats d'âme, park and psychiatric clinic Belle-Idée, HUG, Geneva
2006 Scheuer's Gate, subway station Zoologischer Garten | line U2, Berlin
Prizes / grants / scholarships (selection)
2023 Canton of Valais, Thurgau Cultural Office, Michalski Foundation, Oertli Foundation (book Amplifications)
2023 Fondation suisse, Centre culturel suisse, Ambassade suisse en France, cultural sponsorships Cantons of Valais, Vaud, Geneva and Thurgau (exhibition Amplifications)
2023 Studio grant in Paris (Canton of Valais)
2021 Grant, Artistes D'ici, Ville de Sion
2019 Studio grant in Paris (Canton of Valais)
2018 Cultural promotion canton Valais (Mythes et Légendes, Kunsthaus Steffisburg BE)
2018 Studio residency in Lombardy, Viavai+ exchange program (cantons of Ticino and Valais, Lombardy and Pro Helvetia)
2016 Cultural promotion Canton Valais (U-Bahnhof Bundestag Berlin 2016 / Europe)
2016 Cultural sponsorship Canton of Geneva (U-Bahnhof Bundestag Berlin 2016 / Europe)
2015 Cultural Foundation Canton of Thurgau (U-Bahnhof Bundestag Berlin 2016 / Europe)
2014 Cultural Promotion Canton Valais (Islands, Now Art N°4)
2013 Cultural Promotion Canton Valais (Liebesinsel, hochZEITEN!)
2012 Pro Helvetia (Gleisdreieck Berlin 2012)
2011 Karin Abt-Straubinger Foundation, Stuttgart (Gleisdreieck Berlin 2012)
2011 Cultural promotion of the Canton of Valais (Gleisdreieck Berlin 2012)
2010 Creative contribution Canton Valais
2008 Pro Helvetia (New Art in the New Chambers!)
2006 Studio grant in Berlin (Canton Valais)
Publications (as editor)
2023 Amplifications, ed. Eggs/Bitschin/Altner, publishing house editions clandestin, Biel
2016 U-Bahnhof Bundestag Berlin 2016, ed. Eggs/Bitschin/Altner, Jovis Verlag Berlin
2012 Gleisdreieck Berlin 2012, ed. Eggs/Bitschin/Altner, Jovis Verlag Berlin
Exhibition catalogs (selection)
2021 Bad Ragartz 2021, Bad Ragartz
2020 Industria, Bex & Arts, 2020
2019 Chemin faisant, Center Culturel Assens VD
2019 Lilu, Lucerne Light Festival
2018 Ça Cartonne, Espace Culturel Assens
2018 Bad Ragartz 2018, Bad Ragartz
2017 Next Exit, Triennale Valais/Wallis 2017
2016 Winter Light - Art by the Lake II, Von Rütte Gut BE
2016 U-Bahnhof Bundestag Berlin 2016, Jovis Verlag Berlin
2015 Bad Ragartz 2015, Bad Ragartz
2012 Gleisdreieck Berlin 2012, Jovis Verlag Berlin
2010 Art on the water, art along the Aare, BE
2008 NKNK! New Art for the New Chambers, Jovis Verlag Berlin
2008 Lasciami, Bex & Arts
Media (selection)
2024 Amplifications, Pavillon Le Corbusier, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich (book presentation)
2023 Amplifications, Centre culturel suisse, Kunstforum, Kunstbulletin, Kultur Wallis (exhibition)
2020 L'ombre de Vulcain, Bex & Arts, Canal 9 (TV)
2018 Haus Europa, The discreet charm of the bonded warehouses, Deutschlandfunk Kultur
2018 House of Europe, Central Depot, Meiningen, MDR (TV)
2017 Pylône, C'est vous qui voyez, Triennale du Valais/Wallis 2017, Canal 9 (TV)
2017 Europa Insel, Winterlicht, Kunstbulletin
2012 Gleisdreieck Berlin 2012, In the track wilderness, NZZ
2012 Gleisdreieck Berlin 2012, TVB, Berlin
2012 Gleisdreieck Berlin 2012, Radioeins, Berlin
2010 River God Aare, art on the water, Kunstbulletin
2008 NKNK! Art Bulletin
2008 New Chamber for the New Chambers, Potsdam TV
Art in architecture / collections (selection)
2023 Endogram - Lightbox, collection Center Culturel Ferme-Asile, Sion
2021 L'arche de Watteau, collection Center Culturel Ferme-Asile, Sion
2018 House of Europe, ZentralDepot, Meiningen, Thuringia D
2016 Endogram - Window, office building Alpenblickstrasse, Lachen SZ
2014 Endograms Füssli, park and psychiatric clinic Belle-Idée, collection HUG, Geneva
2011 Endogram - Light stele, collection Ville de Sion
2009 Endogram - Arc of light, collection Center Culturel Ferme - Asile, Sion
2003 Endogram - Window, Suva Neuhof, Altendorf SZ