Manon is a swiss-dutch photographer, born in 1991, who lives and works in Lausanne.

Starting from sensations and emotions she can’t associate with words only, Manon Wertenbroek literally creates her images building subjects on different levels and photographing them in the form of still life or portraits. In this need to give back materiality to an inner energy, complex and unstable, the groundwork of sculpture occupies a vital part: with the help of elements like paper, clay and pigments, these fragile forms are temporary anchor points, physical and spatial in her research; the finalization of the process is played in the second half, and the way the established space for expression is framed and emotions are confined.

Contact

manon.wertenbroek@gmail.com

+41(0)76.462.19.20

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Education

Bachelor of Arts HES-SO
Ecal, University of Art & Design, Switzerland

Awards & Residencies

06.07–16.07.2013 Deauville Planche(s) Contact Residency, Deauville , France

05.2014 La Foncière award «Das Auge und der Stein»

03.2013 Jury Prize. Swiss Day against counterfeiting, organized by the FHH

Website by Laura Perrenoud

Selected exhibitions

16.07.2015 Protein Fix Group Show
Centre d'Art Contemporain / Project Space, Genève

22.01– 29.01.2015 exposition La Mue
Espace Fer de Lance, Lausanne

05.12.2014 –15.01.2015 Ecal Photography
Display Gallery, Londres

25.09 – 11.10.2014 exposition des diplômes
Bachelor et Master ecal Galerie l’elac, Renens

30.04 – 04.05.2014 Jeune Photographie Suisse
Salon du livre, Palexo, Genève

11.01– 09.02.2014 Ecal Photography
Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan

15.11–15.12.2013, Ecal Photography
Gallerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris

26.10 – 01.12.2013 exposition Planche(s) Contact
Deauville

11.02 – 16.03 2013 exposition Half-Time 2013
travaux d’étudiants du 1er semestre 2012-2013
Galerie l’elac, Renens

Publications

01.09.2015 Foam Talent 2015

27.06.2015 Else Magazine

01.06.2015 Yet Magazine Issue #8

15.11. 2013 Ecal Photography
Hatje Cantz Verlag

06.2013 Tank Magazine