Philip Ortelli (Switzerland)
Philip Ortelli
(born in 1991 in Bern, living and working in Zurich and Paris) is an artist working with video and sculpture, oscillating between concept and intuition. His work practices are highly contextual, taking inspiration from the everyday occurrences of our digital era. His recent works reflect queerness and its complicated history of representation, and how the internet changes historiographical mechanisms for social minorities. Philip Ortelli uses archives to construct a queer political history; one that is not only limited to material objects, but also includes personal stories of experience and understanding. He cares about how a silent past can be reanimated by new technology and through new social configurations.
Philip Ortelli earned his Bachelor degree at the Bern University of the Arts in 2015, and graduated from the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam with a MFA in 2018. He occasionally teaches at the F+F School for Art and Design and is currently a member of the Art Commission of the Canton of Berne. Philip Ortelli has shown at the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris (2022), Kunsthalle Bern (2022), Kunsthaus Pasquart in Biel (2022, 2021, 2018) Centre d’Art Contemporaine Genève (2021), Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich (2021), Looiersgracht 60 in Amsterdam (2018), his work has been acquired by the public art collection of the city of Zurich, and he has been awarded several grants and prizes by public and private institutions.
- Curator
- Julia Harasimowicz
- Producer of the residency
- Olga Miękus
