Maya Bringolf
*1969, lives and works in Zürich
Maya Bringolf lives and works in Zürich. From 1992 to 2000 she studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Zürich and at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich with Gerhard Berger and Ben Willikens.
In her disconcerting assemblages of "objets trouvés" she deals with cyclical processes such as the circulation of raw materials and air, or the reprocessing of clothing and furnishing. From the recycling circuits, Bringolf extracts and transforms furniture that once embodied bourgeois prosperity and can now be found in second-hand stores. With office chairs that have been torched and pierced by ventilation pipes or with carpets riddled with holes, Bringolf reflects social structures and habits. Destruction and change are ubiquitous themes that significantly influence and shape her work process. With her methodology, Bringolf poses questions about beauty and ephemerality, volume and corporeality, transformation and new beginnings. She develops her works in an experimental interplay of action and reaction, using a wide variety of materials and objects from everyday life and the hardware store, such as polyurethane foam, epoxy resin, textiles, or car paint.
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Education
1994–2000 Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Prof. G. Berger und Prof. Ben Willikens
1992–1994 Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich, Switzerland
Selected exhibitions
2021 Light Up, Blue Velvet Projects, Zürich, Switzerland
2020 Fremdkörper, Lokal 14, Zürich, Switzerland
2018 Phantom Horizon, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
2015 Loaded Circles, Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
2008 Whipped Dream#1, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland
2003 Demon, Kabinettausstellung, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland
Awards and Scholarships
2018 Artist Residency Berlin, Canton of Zürich
2015 Subsidy, Canton and City of Schaffhausen
2015 Work Grant, Canton of Zürich
2015 Recognition Award, UBS Kulturstiftung
2013 Work Grant, City of Zürich
2012 Arist Residency Fundaziun NAIRS
2009 Eidgenössischer Preis für Kunst
2009 Work Grant, Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt
2009 Ernte-Kunstpreis, Credit Suisse Schaffhausen
2008 Eidgenössischer Preis für Kunst
2005 Kulturförderpreis, Alexander Clavel Stiftung
2004 Artist Residency Berlin, Kunstkredit Baselstadt
2003 Artist Residency Helsinki, IAAB, CMS Stiftung, Basel
2001 Ernte-Kunstpreis, Credit Suisse Schaffhausen
2000 First Price Dannerwettbewerb, Kunstakademie München
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Skeleton, 2021 Melted monobloc chairs 300 x 105 x 85 cm
Zero, 2021 Carpet, epoxy resin, acrylic spray 130 x 100 cm
Iron Coat III, 2019 Trenchcoat, epoxy resin, acrylic spray 110 x 83 x 15 cm
Deep Diving, 2021 Melted monobloc chairs 105 x 90 x 100 cm