Emilie Ding

Born in 1981 in Freiburg, Switzerland, Emilie Ding lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland and Berlin, Germany.
Emilie Ding’s work, which mainly takes the form of drawing and sculpture, shows an attraction for structural forms derived from construction and modern architecture. Appropriating elements from these aesthetics, she modifies them by pushing the limits of the techniques she uses to the limit. Crosses, angles, metal, concrete; so many concrete forms and raw materials, representative of the spaces that surround us, that the artist exploits, even abuses. By multiplying these works on paper as well as isolating them in space, the artist seeks, through their format, their technique and the signs she applies to them, to take the viewer’s body into the fields of force created between these objects, the architecture of the place that hosts them and its history.
Emilie Ding graduated in 2008 from the HEAD – Geneva, and has exhibited in numerous contemporary art spaces in Switzerland and abroad, including the Migrosmuseum, Zürich, the Aargauer Kunsthaus, the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and the Centre Pompidou Kanal, Brussels. In 2015, she exhibited at the Mamco, Geneva, five massive pieces made of concrete slabs and measuring 2.50 metres in height, on which she drew the memory of the place. She has won several prizes including the Swiss Art Awards, the Gandur Foundation for Art Prize, the Grolsch Prize and the Liechti Foundation for the Arts Prize. In 2017, she won the distinction of the most beautiful Swiss books for the artist’s book “But time is not linear….”, which manipulates, through a dense and systematic layout, references of modern architecture. In 2018, she is co-editing the special issue “Visuals” for the scientific journal GSS, which deals with questions of gender and sexuality in the field of contemporary art practices. She is also a teacher at HEAD – Geneva.
Works
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"Emilie Ding. Books of Sleep", exhibition view Xippas Geneva, 2016 © Annik Wetter
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Emilie Ding
Untitled (Truth & Compensation), 2016
Felt, burnt felt, acrylic
204,5 x 180 x 30 cm
(reverse)
Photo: Annik Wetter -
Emilie Ding
Les Ailes du Cossy, 2018
Parc de la Morâche, City of Nyon, Switzerland -
Emilie Ding
Sans titre, 2020
Concrete, cement, plastic and metal
59 x 110 x 50 cm
Photo: Julien Gremaud -
Emilie Ding
One Must Have a Mind of Winter - and Have Been Cold A Long Time, 2013
Palais de Tokyo, Paris -
Emilie Ding
Burning, 2011
Graphite and mixed technics on paper -
Emilie Ding
Sans titre, 2020
Archival pigment print mounted on Dibond aluminum
159,6 x 119,6 cm
Edition of 5 + 2 EA -
Emilie Ding
Cito Longe Tarde, 2021
Neon sign and dimmer
41,5 x 205 x 15 cm
Printemps de septembre, 2021 -
Emilie Ding
Sans titre, 2020
Archival pigment print mounted on Dibond aluminum
159,6 x 119,6 cm
Edition de 5 + 2 EA -
Emilie Ding
How High Can You Count, 2017
Luminescent tubes
Façade of the Mirabaud bank, Geneva, Switzerland