Valérie Favre

Valérie Favre (born in 1959 in Evilard, Switzerland) is a Swiss painter who lives and works primarily between Berlin and Neuchâtel. After beginning her career in theatre and film in Paris in the 1980s, she devoted herself fully to painting in the early 1990s and developed a body of work structured in “cycles” and series, in which narration, references to art history, and enigmatic motifs intersect in a figurative language that is often deliberately disorienting. Based in Berlin since the late 1990s, she has held a chair of painting at the Universität der Künste (UdK) since 2006, succeeding to a prestigious position in the German art landscape. Her work has been shown in numerous institutions and exhibition venues across Europe (notably in France, Switzerland, and Germany), and she was also awarded the Prix Meret Oppenheim (Swiss Grand Award for Art) in 2024.