From 26th October 2024 to 21st April 2025
Vitromusée, swiss stained glass Museum
Rue du Château 108 b
1680 Romont
From 27th September 2024 to 31st January 2025
Ravieli: a New Delicacy for Sweet Lovers
The Ravieli were created by the painter Marie Vieli who plays with her surname and created the prototypes. The latter are coproduced with the chocolate maker Jorge Cardoso twice world champion of chocolate sculptures.
Cut up in a sheet of unleavened bread with special scissors, their shape with jagged edges is reminiscent of ravioli!
To taste Ravieli, place one in your mouth and let it melt gently for 5 seconds. When the insipid unleavened sheet has disappeared, the chocolate will reveal its gorgeous and powerful taste.
Marie Vieli also created the painting reproduced on the lid of the Ravieli chocolate box.
From September 27th, Ravieli can be purchased in Jorge Cardoso’s boutiques in Fribourg and Lausanne. (www.jorge-cardoso.com)
Photo/James Goss: Marie Vieli and Jorge Cardoso with a box of Ravieli
From 17th May to 22nd September 2024
Musée d’art et d’histoire
Rue de Morat 12
1700 Fribourg
200 years of stories 1824-2024
From 4th November to 9th December 2023
Reto Furter Gallery
Rue de Zaehringen 2
1700 Fribourg
galerieretofurter.ch
Illustration: Without title (detail), watercolour and colored pencils on paper, 31 x 46 cm, 2023
From 2nd April to 1st May 2022
Château Art Gallery
1580 Avenches
www.galeriechateauavenches.ch
The artist presents a selection of works from the past and the present
Illustration: Without title, acrylic on paper, 15 x 20 cm, 2021
From 13th to 28th November 2021
Video installation and paintings
Cultural lab of the city of Fribourg
Place des Ormeaux 1
1700 Fribourg
From 15th to 24th October 2021
Cultural lab of the city of Fribourg
www.ville-fr.ch/culture/regie
End October 24th 2021
Rue de Lausanne 24, 1700 Fribourg
Reading by Marie Vieli from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
From 2nd March to 15th May 2021
Pop-up space Guggenheim
Rue de Vevey 6
1630 Bulle
Open every day from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
For further information: 079 301 19 83
From 3rd to 4th October 2020
Exhibition of projects
Parish hall
Grand-Rue 14
1700 Fribourg
From 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
From 11th May to 16th June 2019
Château Art Gallery
1580 Avenches
www.galeriechateauavenches.ch
The artist exhibits works on glass (archeonatures), acrylics (natures) and watercolours (From Paris with love).
Illustration: From Paris with love – Louvre Museum, watercolour and coloured pencils on paper, 10 x 15 cm.
From 10th May to 18th August 2019
Musée d’art et d’histoire
Rue de Morat 12
1700 Fribourg
www.mahf.ch
Contemporary creation and heritage
From 31st August to 11th November 2018
From 18th March to 10th June 2018
Musée Charmey
Les Charrières 1
1637 Charmey
The last exhibition of the current Museum curator, Patrick Rudaz
From 1st to 15th December 2017
APCd Fondation
Route de l’Ancienne Papeterie 170
1723 Marly
www.apcd-fondation.com
A few months after the death of its founder Pierre Eichenberger, the APCd Foundation organizes a retrospective exhibition to mark the end of its activities.
From 19th November to 11th December 2016
Gruérien Museum
Rue de la Condémine 25
1630 Bulle
www.musee-gruerien.ch
The day after the attacks in Paris on November 13th 2015, Massimo Baroncelli expresses his deep emotion by means of his drawings and paintings. He invites artists to join him in order to stand up together against violence and terror. The Gruérien Museum exhibits in the welcome area fourteen works all stemming from this concern.
19th November 2015
5 pm at ‘Café du Commerce’ (Pérolles) Fribourg.
The publisher ‘Faim de Siècle’ publishes a children’s book with texts and illustrations by Marie Vieli.
From 30th October to 15th November 2015
Projektraum M54
Mörsbergerstrasse 54
CH-4057 Basel
From 29th August to 27th September 2015
Château Art Gallery
1580 Avenches
www.galeriechateauavenches.ch
The artist presents her recent works including paintings and stained glass windows
Illustration: Without title, acrylic on paper, 24 x 30 cm
From 6th June to 4th October 2015
Museum Murten
Ryf 4
3280 Murten / Morat
Tel. 026 670 31 00
kontakt@museummurten.ch
www.museummurten.ch
Opening hours:
Tuesdays to Saturdays: 2pm – 5pm
Sundays: 10am – 5pm
The exhibition proposes a reflection on the three borders that have marked our regional history until today. The themes of religious and linguistic boundaries –the cultural dimension- as well as the territorial boundaries –the political dimension- will be evoked by means of historical objects, documents from archives and interviews. To accompany and extend the reflection, the Morat Museum will host the works of 20 artists, members of Visarte Fribourg.
From 10th January to 31st May 2015
Visarte-Fribroug is given carte blanche
Wall Paper Museum
Rte de l’Eglise 12
1684 Mézières
+41 26 652 06 90
info@museepapierpeint.ch
www.museepapierpeint.ch
Opening hours:
Winter time: (November 1st to March 31st) Saturdays & Sundays: 1.30 pm to 5.00 pm.
Summer time: (April 1st to October 31st) Thursdays to Sundays: 1.30 pm to 5.00 pm.
Sunday April 19th 2015: special activity for children
“Quand les poupées dansent…”
with the artist Marie Vieli
By appointment only.
From 28th June to 4th October 2014
Forme + Confort SA
Rue de la Cathédrale-St-Nicolas 5
1700 Fribourg
Monday closed
Tuesday – Friday: 9 am – 12 am / 1.30 pm – 6.30 pm
Saturday: 9 am – 4 pm
Marie Vieli presents ‘patois sayings’ and other works in an exhibition which interacts with objects and design furniture.
Illustration: It takes seven shrewd people to resell what a madman buys (patois saying).
From 15th February to 15th November 2014
UNIFR, Pérolles
PER 21 – Groundfloor – Main entrance
From 9 am to 8 pm
Within the 125th anniversary of the University of Fribourg, Marie Vieli, visual artist, and Christian Mazza, mathematician, present the results of their collaboration.
The exhibition illustrates how equations allow us to understand the emergence of shapes in Nature such as stripes on animals.
In artistic creations, do shapes follow the laws of fate or are they the result of some universal laws?
What is the evolutional architecture of a painting?
From 17th January to 22nd February 2014
Presbyterian College
Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery
Harper Center For The Arts
503 S.Broad Street
Clinton,Sc 29325 USA
A travelling exhibition of works of art by 9 contemporary artists from the city of Fribourg in Switzerland:
André Sugnaux – Francesco Ragusa – Magdolna Rubin – Catherine Liechti – Hafis Bertschinger – Marie Vieli – Cornélia Patthey – Karin Kurzmeyer – Olivier Zappelli
From 22nd October to 21st December 2013
Spartanburg Art Museum
200 E. St. John Street Spartanburg, SC 29306, USA
www.spartanburgartmuseum.org
From Bourg to Burg (Fribourg to Spartanburg) is an international exhibition opening on October 22 featuring contemporary works by nine artists living and working in Fribourg, Switzerland. This collection of over 40 works of art includes photography, painting and two-dimensional mixed-media works.
Six of the nine artists are coming to Spartanburg during the month of November to meet and engage the Spartanburg community with receptions, informal gallery talks and workshops at SAM and the university of South Carolina Upstate.
Artist Presentation with Marie Vieli
Wednesday 11.06 1-2pm
Spartanburg Art Museum Gallery
From 6th June to 5th July 2013
APCd Gallery
Rue Pierre-Aeby 37
1700 Fribourg
tél.: +41 26 321 28 66
www.art-buvette.com
The artist presents 22 messages from adolescents collected in a shopping centre. The messages are placed in blown glass balls filling a paper bag and entitled “Like a bottle in the sea”.
To avoid opening the glass balls, the messages can be read on the wall.
From 16th September to 11th November 2012
Charmey Museum
www.musee-charmey.ch
At the origin of SPSAS (forerunner of Visarte) landscapes played a major role in the production of Fribourgeois artists. From the very start (around 1935) it was absolutely unthinkable not to exhibit oil, gouache or watercolour landscapes. Today’s local artists treat this theme, which is often considered heretical, in all sorts of ways and styles.
From 14th to 23rd September 2012
Route d’Estavayer 22
1482 Cugy
Saturday and sunday: 10 am – 8 pm
During the week: 4 pm – 8 pm
André Sugnaux (painting), Pascal Moret (stained glass window) and five artists invited to realise a stained glass window with the collaboration of Pascal Moret’s studio.
Camille von Deschwanden, Marie Vieli, Jeff Gianadda, Augustin Pasquier, Nicolas Ruffieux.
Illustration: Stained-glass window, antique blown glass, acid engraved, enamel, 151 x 45,5 cm (detail)
From 19th April to 9th May 2012
La villa Dutoit
chemin Gilbert-trolliet 5
1209 Petit-Saconnex
tel. 022 733 05 75
www.villadutoit.ch
200 artists, members of visarte-Switzerland and of the act-art Federation, received a paper bag with a window to turn it into something more than a simple bag. The work is the bag, the bag is the work, implementing the work, updating the work, ransacking the work…
From 20th November 2011 to 29th January 2012
Charmey Museum
1637 Charmey
After reading a book entitled “The Wisdom of the ‘Romand’, Patois sayings of French speaking Switzerland”, Marie Vieli was fascinated and imagined an ambitious project: the creation of 60 paintings inspired by 60 sayings.
From 23rd October to 27th November 2011
Le Manoir de la ville de Martigny
Place du Manoir 1
1920 Martigny
One and the other, one or the other! Nothing else to add. Two phrases in one sentence, two artists in one space containing the multiplicity of each. Marie Vieli and Josette Taramarcaz, each filtering into the personality of the other but without giving up their respective identity.
From 16th April to 15th May 2011
Château Art Gallery
1580 Avenches
tel. 026 675 33 03
The artist presents a selection of watercolours, pastels and acrylic works on canvas or paper.
Illustration: Les fleurs du mal (Baudelaire), acrylic on paper, 30 x 24cm
19th September 2010
Marie Vieli’s studio
1700 Fribourg
A DVD film of about 20 minutes, starring Marie Vieli. Film director: Marcel Muller
For further information: vieliart@vieliart.ch
From 19th June to 5th September 2010
Grandvillard
www.cmgrandvillard.ch
In Grandvillard, within the celebration of 150th anniversary of the village choir, 20 artists realised a painting (40 x 40 cm) on the specific theme: the tree.
The works were enlarged on a canvas (each 300 x 300 cm) and exhibited on the facades of some houses in Grandvillard. The original works were exhibited in the Town Hall.
Illustration: Les 4 saisons de l’arbre, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
From 29th May to 4th July 2010
Centre Pro Natura-Champ-Pittet
1400-Yverdon-les-Bains
2 artists from Fribourg unite to play with the contrasts of colours and light. Marie Vieli uses colours in an abstract way by means of very spontaneous gestures coupled with great assessing and constructive rigour. Influenced by the mosaic architecture of the Middle East, Iseut Bersier does not copy the beauty of Nature but tries to reveal the poetry in Nature. Two dreams to share in!
Illustration: Without title, pastel and colouring pencils on paper, 18,1 x 25,4 cm
From 7th to 23rd May 2010
Ancienne Gainerie Moderne
Rue François d’Alt 1
Fribourg
The Fribourg section of Visarte organises an exhibition in May 2010 on the former exceptional site “Gainerie Moderne” in Fribourg. The vast rooms of this ancient factory will house an exhibition entitled “large size”. 34 artists will exhibit a large size work.
This event, to which you are invited, represents a significant renewal for Visarte-Fribourg.
From 5th June to 16th August 2009
Art and History Museum, Fribourg
Rue de Morat 12
1700 Fribourg
Acquisition fund of the State of Fribourg 1984 – 2009
Debate about “What financial support for the artistic creation in Fribourg?” Wednesday June 17th 2009, 6.30pm. Debate leader Jacques Sterchi, participants: Gérald Berger, Hugo Brülhart, Walter Tschopp and Marie Vieli.
From 1st to 31st May 2009
Nane Cailler Gallery
Avenue des Deux-Ponts 10
CH-1009 Pully
021 728 23 01
Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 2 pm to 7 pm and by appointment
Two exhibitions in 2009
N° 1 in May
N° 2 in November
Finishing aperitif on Saturday May 30th and November 28th, 5pm.
From 14th January to 11th March 2009
Kaléidoscope Gallery
Bd de Pérolles 25
1700 Fribourg
The value of words, the richness of words, the beauty of words, the power of words, the art of words: an interactive and uncommon exhibition.
Illustration: Memo-liste I, acrylic on canvas. 20 x 20 cm
From 15th June to 31st August 2008
Museum of Art and History
Esplanade Léopold Robert 1
2000 Neuchâtel
For the assembly of the delegates of Visarte Suisse in Neuchâtel, Visarte Neuchâtel invited the artists, members of the association, to send a photograph by e-mail on the theme “the border”. Catalogue available.
From 3rd June to 4th September 2008
Marie Vieli’s works in the Federal Palace (Parliament Building)
During the summer session and until the beginning of September, the members of parliament may appreciate Marie Vieli’s paintings in the media centre of the Federal Palace. The exhibition entitled “Art meets politics” is a first. The preview takes place today in the presence of Gérald Berger head of the cultural department of Fribourg and the Fribourgeois MPs. The latter will invite their colleagues of other cantons to join them and discover the work of Marie Vieli.
The paintings on canvas and paper reveal the artist’s great sensitivity. In her works the organisation of space is the fruit of great coherence and rigour. An abstract universe based on energy and meditation. – MDL La liberté 03.06.2008
Illustration : Without title, acrylic on paper, 24 x 30 cm
From 1st March to 12th April 2008
Atelier Fribourg-Nord
Varis 14
1700 Fribourg
The Fribourg-Nord studio presents an exhibition rallying artists from Switzerland, Germany and Poland. The qualities of the exhibited works, with their antagonism, contrasts and similarities, share one aspect: an intensive, uncompromising commitment serving the works.
From 22nd to 25th November 2007
Nane Cailler Gallery
Avenue des Deux-Ponts 10
Case postale 104
CH-1009 Pully
021 728 23 01
Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 3pm to 9pm. Sunday from 11am to 5pm and by appointment until mid-December.
From 10th to 12th August 2007
Payerne, Military Airfield
halle u70
Special guests : Au Paon Gallery, Avenches with the artists Bruno Baeriswyl, Sabine Hofkunst, Marie Vieli and Patrick Savary
From 22nd to 25th March 2007
Nane Cailler Gallery
Avenue des Deux-Ponts 10
1009 Pully
021 728 23 01
Barcelona, Berlin, Paris, Nuremberg, Sant’Abbondio (TI), different places where the artist spent some time creating the works which are exhibited here.
From 17th March to 16th May 2005
Art and History Museum, Fribourg
Rue de Morat 12
1700 Fribourg
Tuesday – Sunday : 11 am – 6 pm
Thursday : 11 am – 20 pm
The artist presents large size paintings on canvas with bright colours and stormy, turbulent shapes which stand in contrast to a series of intimate drawings / collages the latter being created in Barcelona in 2002 when the 150th anniversary of Gaudis birth was being celebrated.
Illustration : Without title, acrylic on canvas, 145 x 115 cm
After having focused on colour by creating a number of stained glass windows, the artist has also created for this particular exhibition, in the workshop of the master glassmaker Pascal Moret, a series of six works on glass to which she has given the name ex-voto. These ex-votos, like tiny patches of light, are a testimony of the life experienced during the past restrictions. They also reflect Marie’s artistic approach and represent her token of appreciation.
Marie’s current work is logically positioned in the continuity of her experiences and induces her to a greater search for freedom through colour and line.
Marie’s Archeonatures play on appearances which can sometimes prove to be deceptive: The almost imperceptible imprints left in the raw, heavy and slightly blown material, both thick and yet delicate, lead to think that Nature which once was, is the mere shadow of its former reality. This shadow cast by traces make it look surprisingly alive: we think we see herbs, leaves, flowers that begin to quiver in a light breeze. As you observe these skilfully rhythmic and created Archeonatures, you may then catch yourself dreaming of a colourful universe in which everything becomes possible again from Rebirth where harmony and balance merge and become reality.
Preview speech, May 11th 2019, “Marie Vieli, Oeuvres sur toile, verre et papier”, Château Art Gallery, Avenches
For Marie Vieli painting is a language full of colours, movement and transparency. As you watch her work, you discover her fiery temperament and her intense creative concentration. Vast colourful gestures fill the surface of the canvas or paper. Gradually the work develops through the emergence of shapes followed by their partial disappearance beneath the glaze. The brisk and nimble brush strokes the canvas and gives birth to a fine network of lines.
“La collection de la Banque Cantonale de Fribourg”, C. Schuster Cordone, C. Guisolan-Dreyer, F. Python, Editions Favre, Lausanne, 2017
Some years ago, I visited Vieli’s studio in Fribourg, where her luminous works had a profound effect on me. I remember with fondness the vigorous marks and lyrical drips that covered her canvases and works on delicate papers. The warm, bright reds influenced by her “Projet Gaudi”, as well as the crisp yellows of a summer day from her “Lettres de Berlin”, are particularly etched in my memory. A distinct sense of freedom, or possibly abandon, can be perceived in her works, particularly those created in response to her travels across Europe.
Viewers of Vieli’s works will be captivated, as I have been, by her use of lush colors and the sense of animated movement sensed in her expressive mark making.
Catalog of the exhibition “L’une et l’autre, l’une ou l’autre”, Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, 2011
Long live colours and vitality! Marie Vieli’s exhibition gives you the feeling and the envy that you are breathing pure joy. Her watercolours, dry pastels and acrylic on canvas or paper are lyrical and sparkling outbursts. Abstraction knows no bounds. Actually you feel like wallowing in Marie’s colours and pigmented fields. The invitation card shows a work entitled “The Flowers of Evil”: honestly, I cannot see where this shifty Evil hides! It is rather a call to enjoy life …
Guide TV Loisirs, 30 avril 2011, “Marie, Vieli Peinture”, Château Art Gallery, Avenches
The signs Marie Vieli both uses and hides in her paintings appear as figurative traces in abstract pictures. They remind us of another reality and evoke, without clearly expressing it, organic life.
Besides the expression of another reality, the representation of light appears to be the second main theme in Marie Vieli’s art. This light dwells not only in the artist’s works but also in the way she considers Nature and her close environment.
Roland Barthes once described Cy Twombly’s drawings as “time quakes” an allusion to the uncertainty and fragility of life. Likewise, Marie Vieli’s mysterious style of drawing and painting echoes in us and reminds us that everything is in movement, that nothing is fixed, neither shapes, nor colours. Marie Vieli’s “time quakes” are symbols of life involving mishaps and contrasts but above all involving the energy and solar dazzling speed which surround us tonight.
Preview speech, April 16th 2011, “Marie Vieli, Peinture”, Château Art Gallery, Avenches
After an effortful day, the painter turns into a diarist. He will restrict himself to trapping signs of life –of an intimate life- bringing back scraps of the most humble and daily activities: leaning over the ground, observing, collecting; then comparing, weighing up, working out and, eventually, tearing, cutting out, pasting, sewing or embroidering, in short, inventing by means of cunning contrivances and diversions a minimal process made of signs both frenzied and controlled at the same time.
“Papiers Barcelone”, catalog of the exhibition “Marie Vieli, peintures et papiers”, Art and History Museum Fribourg, 2005
NOTHING BEATS A MEETING…
Feel like visiting my studio ? Do you have a project ? Do you wish to buy a work or simply ask a question? Just get into touch.
Marie Vieli
Rue Hans-Geiler 2
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
vieliart@vieliart.ch
Phone: +41 (0) 26 322 65 29