Silvie Defraoui

Silvie Defraoui studied at Graduate School of Fine Arts of Algiers and École supérieure d'art visuel Genève. Work by Silvie Defraoui is recorded in the collections of MACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Silvie Defraoui was born in St. Gallen and spent her childhood there and in Grisons. She first studied painting at the l'école des Beaux-Arts d'Alger and later ceramics at the l'école des Arts décoratifs de Genève. Between 1975 and 1994 she worked together with Chérif Defraoui (Geneva 1932–1994). From 1974 to 1999 she taught at the l'Ecole supérieure d'art visuel de Genève (today the Geneva School of Art and Design), where in 1975 she established together with Chérif Defraoui, the Mixed Media Studio.

• 1979, Cartographie des contrées à venir, Soares dos Reis National Museum, Porto • 1989, Orient/Occident, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève / Musée Rath, Geneva. • 1993, Les origines de la description, Le Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble. • 1996, Bruits de surface, Mamco, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva • 2000, Nacht und Tag und Nacht, Helmhaus, Zurich • 2004–2005, Archives du futur, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Mamco, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva • 2009, Sombras electricas, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris

• 1976, Venice Biennial • 1979, Photography as art, art as photography II und III, Gesamthochschule Kassel • 1981, Ils se disent peintres, ils se disent photographes, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris • 1992, La Fontaine du désir, documenta IX, Kassel • 1997, Magie der Zahl, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart • 1998, Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus, Zurich