Isadora Vogt - SUGARBAGS - installation view

Isadora Vogt - SUGARBAGS - installation view

Isadora Vogt - SUGARBAGS - installation view

Isadora Vogt - SUGARBAGS - installation view

Isadora Vogt - SUGARBAGS - installation view

Isadora Vogt
Sugarbag 4, 2021
oil on canvas, wooden frame
70 x 70 cm
72 x 72 cm (framed)

Isadora Vogt
Sugarbag 3, 2021
oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm

Isadora Vogt
Sugarbag 2, 2021
oil on canvas
40 x 40 cm

Isadora Vogt
Sugarbag 2, 2021
oil on canvas
40 x 40 cm

Isadora Vogt
Zuckertüte 3, 2021
oil on canvas, wooden frame
80.5 x 46.5 cm
83 x 48 cm ( framed)

Isadora Vogt’s paintings combine different narratives, mashing up and deconstructing seemingly familiar motifs. This deconstruction lets the viewer glimpse friendly faces and figures smothered in a synergy of merging layers of subjects, objects and gestures.

Taking inspiration from the characters and stories found in fairytales and in children's books from the 50s and 60s, Isadora supplants these narratives into her works. By unpacking nostalgic memories and cultural traditions, she creates stories within stories where the mostly predictable outcome of fairytales and fables harbours the potential for sneaking in different messages that do not seem aligned with the apparent cuteness and sugariness of their characters: what seems to be innocently cute is in fact potentially threatening. What is idyllic and domestic takes an uncanny turn. The stereotypical representation and expectations tied to the characters and depicted environments become especially powerful aesthetic devices to employ and deceive.

ISADORA VOGT (* 1992 in Zurich, Switzerland) lives and works in London and Basel.

EDUCATION

2019 - 2021 -  MA Painting, RCA, London
2013 – 2016 - BA Fine Arts, Institut Kunst FHNW, Basel

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2021
Sugarbags, Sundy, London
Glück für Sorgenkinder, Sentiment, Zurich

2020
Jenseits der Kastanie, Basel

2018
Enter for Newcomer, Dock Kunstraum, Basel

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2021
Triple Burner, Union Pacific, London
Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Kunstpreis 2020, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal

2020
Woshbourg, Weiss Falk, Basel
Regionale 21. Situation 1 und andere, Kunsthalle Basel
Countdown to a new year, Barbara Seiler & Temnikova Kasel, online
The becoming and the vanishing, Die Grotte, Tuscany
WIP Show RCA, London

2018
Bikini Collection, Bikini Space, Basel
Society of the common & good, GGG Atelier Basel

2017
Youngart 2017. Klangwelten, Zeughaus Kultur Brig; CH

2016
Every contact leaves a trace, BA & MA exhibition FHNW, Kunsthalle Basel
Dr. Kukukslabrador, Kaskadenkondesator, Basel
Kommt her zu Ostaver, Artattachment, Basel
Loose Thinking, Annual Exhibition Institut Kunst, Kunsthaus Baselland.

AWARDS:
2016 - 2018:  Artist Studio, Atelier House of the GGG
2016 Museumnacht Bern, Credit Suisse Förderpreis für Videokunst

Isadora Vogt - SUGARBAGS - installation view

Isadora Vogt - SUGARBAGS - installation view

Isadora Vogt - SUGARBAGS - installation view

Isadora Vogt - SUGARBAGS - installation view

Isadora Vogt - SUGARBAGS - installation view

Isadora Vogt
Sugarbag 4, 2021
oil on canvas, wooden frame
70 x 70 cm
72 x 72 cm (framed)

Isadora Vogt
Sugarbag 3, 2021
oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm

Isadora Vogt
Sugarbag 2, 2021
oil on canvas
40 x 40 cm

Isadora Vogt
Sugarbag 2, 2021
oil on canvas
40 x 40 cm

Isadora Vogt
Zuckertüte 3, 2021
oil on canvas, wooden frame
80.5 x 46.5 cm
83 x 48 cm ( framed)

Isadora Vogt’s paintings combine different narratives, mashing up and deconstructing seemingly familiar motifs. This deconstruction lets the viewer glimpse friendly faces and figures smothered in a synergy of merging layers of subjects, objects and gestures.

Taking inspiration from the characters and stories found in fairytales and in children's books from the 50s and 60s, Isadora supplants these narratives into her works. By unpacking nostalgic memories and cultural traditions, she creates stories within stories where the mostly predictable outcome of fairytales and fables harbours the potential for sneaking in different messages that do not seem aligned with the apparent cuteness and sugariness of their characters: what seems to be innocently cute is in fact potentially threatening. What is idyllic and domestic takes an uncanny turn. The stereotypical representation and expectations tied to the characters and depicted environments become especially powerful aesthetic devices to employ and deceive.

ISADORA VOGT (* 1992 in Zurich, Switzerland) lives and works in London and Basel.

EDUCATION

2019 - 2021 -  MA Painting, RCA, London
2013 – 2016 - BA Fine Arts, Institut Kunst FHNW, Basel

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2021
Sugarbags, Sundy, London
Glück für Sorgenkinder, Sentiment, Zurich

2020
Jenseits der Kastanie, Basel

2018
Enter for Newcomer, Dock Kunstraum, Basel

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2021
Triple Burner, Union Pacific, London
Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Kunstpreis 2020, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal

2020
Woshbourg, Weiss Falk, Basel
Regionale 21. Situation 1 und andere, Kunsthalle Basel
Countdown to a new year, Barbara Seiler & Temnikova Kasel, online
The becoming and the vanishing, Die Grotte, Tuscany
WIP Show RCA, London

2018
Bikini Collection, Bikini Space, Basel
Society of the common & good, GGG Atelier Basel

2017
Youngart 2017. Klangwelten, Zeughaus Kultur Brig; CH

2016
Every contact leaves a trace, BA & MA exhibition FHNW, Kunsthalle Basel
Dr. Kukukslabrador, Kaskadenkondesator, Basel
Kommt her zu Ostaver, Artattachment, Basel
Loose Thinking, Annual Exhibition Institut Kunst, Kunsthaus Baselland.

AWARDS:
2016 - 2018:  Artist Studio, Atelier House of the GGG
2016 Museumnacht Bern, Credit Suisse Förderpreis für Videokunst