The work of collaborative duo Barbezat-Villetard takes over physical and mental territories, arranging objects or setting up installations that temporarily graft themselves to the given space. The resolutely minimal, though sometimes radical, intervention by this Franco-Swiss duo is not intended to serve as a declaration of form. By reducing, extending and ablating shapes, sections, perspectives and volume, they create remote spaces, both real and imaginary. The duo deploys a geometric compendium reminiscent of the formal chemical and biological nomenclatures that allows them to play with the boundaries between the inside and outside, the visible and the invisible. In doing so, they offer the viewer a new perception of space, enabling him to truly modulate his environment. The landscapes they redraw are as sweeping as they are untamed, as tiny as they are aseptic, and renders the, albeit fragile, perception of spacetime intervals possible.

Education
Matthieu Barbezat
Master “CAP” Fine Arts, HKB Hochschule der Kunste Bern, Switzerland
2011 Master “Raumstrategien”, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee (1 semester), Germany
2007 Bachelor in visuals arts, ECAV Ecole Cantonale d’art du Valais, Switzerland
2006 Preparatory year, Schule fur Gestaltung , B:B. Bienne, Switzerland
2002 Preparatory year, Schule fur Gestaltung , B:B. Bienne, Switzerland

Camille Villetard
2012 MAPS “Master art in public Sphere”, ECAV Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais, Switzerland
2009 Master (1) Bachelor graphic design, ESAG Penninghen Paris, France
2006 Preparatory year, Atelier Met de Penninghen et Jacques d’Andon ？ Academie Julian,
Paris, France

Exhibitions (selection)
2022 Les Mondes paralleles , CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland
2021 74eme Biennale d’art contemporain. Une breve histoire des marges, Musee des beaux arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
2021 Aucun souvenir assez solide, Ferme Asile, Sion, Suisse, cur. Anne Jean-Richard (solo)
2020 EAC (les halles), Porrentruy, Switzerland (solo)
2020 Chateau de Gruyeres, Gruyeres, Switzerland (solo)
2020 Mobiliere art price, artgeneve, Geneva, Switzerland
2019 Erehwon, Kunsthalle Arbon, Arbon, Switzerland (solo) cur. Deborah Keller
2019 artgeneve, with Galerie Laurence Bernard, Geneva, Switzerland
2019 Furniture of Time, Wallriss, Fribourg, Switzerland (solo)
2018 Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland
2018 Disaspearer, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, South Korea
2018 Voyage out, Galerie Laurence Bernard, Geneva, Switzerland, cur. Helene Mariethoz (solo)
2018 artgeneve, with Galerie Laurence Bernard, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 Cantonale Bern Jura, Kunsthalle Bern & StadtGalerie Bern, Switzerland
2017 Lights sculptures, Galerie Lange+Pult, Auvernier, Switzerland
2017 Like ripples on a blank shore, Centre culturel suisse Paris, France, cur. Olivier Felley & Jean-Paul Felley (solo)
2017 Radical Biotope, Ferme asile, Sion, Switzerland
2017 Artist’s shoes, Smallville, Neuchatel, Switzerland
2017 In my garden, Fabrikculture, Hegenheim, France, cur. Helene Mariethoz
2017 Scheinraueme, TART Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (duo)
2017 Constructions sensibles, Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany
2017 X/X, Galerie C, Neuchatel, Switzerland
2017 Invisibles tropisms, GSN Project, Moncton, New Brunswick Canada (solo)
2017 When the hammer hits(...), WinorLoseLA, Los Angeles, United States of America (solo)
2016 Pengee, Abstract, Lausanne, Switzerland
2016 Plants for tonight, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
2016 Taken in the night, made with the night, ZQM, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2016 Kontakt, Palais-Galerie, Neuchatel, Switzerland (duo)
2016 Kunst bring Rosen, Aeschlimann Corti-Stipendium, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
2016 Born in the 80’s, La Nef, Le Noirmont, Switzerland
2015 Cantonale Bern Jura - Centre PasquArt, Biel & StadtGalerie, Bern, Switzerland
2015 a dissident room / Prix culturel Manor Sion 2015, Musee d’art du Valais, Sion, Switzerland (solo)
2015 Mise en abime, Ferme-la-chappelle, Grand-Lancy, Switzerland
2014 Fox & Anemones, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Zurich, Switzerland
2014 Fern resort, Fat Gallery, Montreal, Canada (solo)
2014 Lokal-chiasma, Lokal-Int, Biel, Switzerland (solo)
2014 Cantonale Bern Jura, Kunstmuseum Thun & Kunsthaus Langenthal & Musee des arts de Moutier, Switzerland
2014 Bulle point de vue sur une ville, Musee gruerien, Bulle, Switzerland
2014 Jungkunst 2014, Halle 52, Winterthur, Switzerland
2014 Mon tan dun (2), Caves de Courten & MAXXX, Sierre, Switzerland
2014 Mon tan dun (1), KKKC, Klaipeda, Lituania
2014 Merci tout va tres bien (2), Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland
2014 Merci tout va tres bien (1), -ion +, Zurich, Switzerland

Residency

2022 Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea  

2020 Cite internationale, Paris, France

2019 Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams MA, United States 

2018 Swatch Art Residency, Shanghai, China 

2018 Paradise Air Residency, Tokyo, Japan 

2018 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon Residency, Seoul, South Korea 

2017 Cite internationale des Arts Residency, Paris, France 

2016 Berlin Wedding Residency, Berlin, Germany 

2014 Gepard 14, Koniz, Bern, Switzerland 

2013 Rojaraku, International artist residency Roja, Latvia