Nicole Schweizer is curator of contemporary art at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland. Her exhibitions and publications focus mainly on questions of the politics of representation, with a specific interest in time based practices. She has curated major retrospective shows with accompanying monographs Alfredo Jaar: The Politics of Images, 2007; Renée Green: Ongoing Becomings 1989–2009, 2009; Esther Shalev-Gerz: Between Telling and Listening, 2012; Kader Attia: The Injuries Are Here, 2015; Yael Bartana: Trembling Times, 2017), as well as numerous shows with emerging artists (David Hominal, Anne-Julie Raccoursier, Philippe Decrauzat, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Christopher Füllemann, Julian Charrière, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud, among others). Group shows on video art include Making Space: 40 Years of Video Art (2013), and Brennpunkt Schweiz. Positionen in der Videokunst seit 1970 (2005). Nicole Schweizer holds an MA in Art History, Sociology, and English from the University of Lausanne (1999), as well as an MA in Feminist Theory, History, and Criticism in the Visual Arts from Leeds University (2000). She was a 2005–2006 Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher at the Institute of Fine Art, New York University.
Renée Green: ED/HF (2017) – Extraterritorial Durations/Harun Farocki
“What happens when the oscillations of two lives’ endeavor—Harun Farocki’s stopped by death, Renée Green’s in full flow—are made to resonate with each other?” Nicole Schweizer, curator of contemporary art at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland ruminates on this question and the presence given to life past through memory.