Benoit Jeannet

Born in 1991 in Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Benoît Jeannet is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Benoît considers the studio as a laboratory and photography as a research tool. His work consists of protean images and objects that dialogue at the point of collision of contrasts. Witnessing an environment in which images overwhelm us, Jeannet functions as an operator who analyzes, deconstructs and reorganizes this flow. Jeannet’s works are constructed by conceptual layers that associate and confront each other where the represented object distinguishes itself from the physical materiality of the image. His work critically examines the popular perception of photographic images and their responsibility to the movements of Western society.

 

Since 2020, Benoît Jeannet has devoted himself mainly to oil painting. Freed from any photographic references, his figurative work explores the representation of the banal and the ability of painting to inflict singular reading grids. Fascinated by the wildness of things, the objects he represents function as narrative primers for a sense that the author chooses not to control. Composition is the intermediary between things, within which the artist attempts to generate tension through the treatment of colors and the process of applying paint.

Education

 

   2017 – 2019:

MA - visual arts - Work Master / HEAD Geneva University of Art and Design

   2012 – 2015:

BA - photography / ECAL University of Art and Design

   2008 – 2012:

Professional Diploma - photography / CEPV Vevey school of photography

   2007 – 2008:

Preparatory artistic education / CEPV Vevey School of Photography

 

Awards:

 

   2020:

Foam Talent, Foam Museum, Amsterdam

   2019:

Festival Images - Broncolor light Price

   2015:

Prix Photoforum Pasquart

   2012:

Prix Focale - Ville de Nyon

 

Shortlist & Nominations:

 

   2019:

Paul Huf Award, Foam Museum, Amsterdam

Plat(t)form Fotomuseum Winterthur

   2018:

Paul Huf Award, Foam Museum, Amsterdam

   2017:

Paul Huf Award, Foam Museum, Amsterdam

   2016:

Aperture Foundation – Paris Photo Photobook Award

Mack Firstbook Award

   2014:

VFG Nachwuchsförderpreis

2013:

Prix Photoforum PasquArt

2012:

Prix Photoforum PasquArt

2011:

Prix Photoforum PasquArt

 

Exhibitions:

 

   2021:

Belfast Photo festival, Belfast, IE

Foam Talent, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, NL

Foam Talent, Kühlhaus, Berlin, DE

 “Snack 2” Lange Pult Gallery, Auvernier, CH

No 20, Neuchâtel, CH

 Biennale of contemporary art, Fine Arts Museum, La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH

   2020:

“On Earth”, Foam Museum,Amsterdam, NL

“On Earth”, Foam Museum,Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, FR

“On Earth”, Foam Museum,Les Rencontres de la photographies, Arles, FR

Image Festival, Vevey, CH

“Snack” Lange Pult Gallery, Auvernier, CH

La Fabrik h2, Art space, Monthey, CH

   2019:

A p p roche, Eric Mouchet Gallery, Paris, FR

V5 Art space, Neuchâtel, CH

MBAL Fine Arts Museum of Le Locle - Neuchâtel’s Hospitals, CH

   2016:

Jimei x Arles Photo Festival, Jimei, CI

Eric Mouchet Gallery, Paris, FR

   2015:

Prix PhotoforumPasquArt, Biel, CH

ID-50 Gallery, Geneva, CH

Voies-Off Photo Festival, Arles, FR

   2013:

Prix PhotoforumPasquArt, Biel, CH

   2012:

Focale Gallery, Nyon, CH

VFG Nachwuchsförderpreis, CH

Prix PhotoforumPasquArt, Biel, CH

   2011:

Biennale of contemporary art, Fine Arts Museum, La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH

 

Publication:

 

2018:

«A Geological Index of The Landscape», Mörel Books, London, UK

 

Teaching:

 

2019 - 2021: Workshop at CEPV, Vevey school of photography, CH

2020: Workshop at ECAL, Lausanne University of Arts and Design, CH

2019: Workshop at EAA, Art school of La Chaux-de-Fonds, CH

2016 - 2019: Teacher at ECAL, Lausanne University of Arts and Design, CH