Biography

Yael Wicki (CH/CHL) is an artist, curator and writer working and living in Zurich, Switzerland.
Her practice is multidiciplinary and thinks through the subjects: order vs. disorder, emotions, navigation and neo-rationalist philosophy.

info( )yaelwicki.com

GIF from the artistic project Dead Reckoning


EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2020 Compatible Rupture, Mikro, Zürich, Switzerland
2017 Dead Reckoning, Mikro, Zürich, Switzerland
2016 Venusia, Locale Due, Bologna, Italy
http://www.localedue.it/localedue/225-venusia
2015 A ( ) Ω, Up State, Zürich, Switzerland
2014 The Beauty Shop, Up State, Zürich, Switzerland
2013 Violence, Up State, Zürich, Switzerland
2013 Kunstrepresjonen, Blå Grotte, Fredrikstad, Norway
2013 Prosecco Manifesto, Messagesalon Perla-Mode, Zürich, Switzerland
2011 The Whole Ball Of Wax, Amstel 41, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

PERFORMANCES
2019 Communal Interoception, Plateaux Festival, Hof Froh Ussicht, Samstagern, Switzerland
2017 The Political Geography of the Mash, Plain Hearty Fare #MASH UP, Berlin, Germany
2016 Communal Interoception, The Who of Things. An Evening of Technoshamanism @ UP STATE’, Up State, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 7 Chakras - Because You’re Worth It, Up State, Zürich, Switzerland / St. Croix, Fredrikstad, Norway
2015 Prosecco Manifesto, Friction_ Perla-Mode, Zürich, Switzerland
2014 The Beauty Shop, Up State, Zürich, Switzerland
2013 The Society of the Spectacle, Blå Grotte, Fredrikstad, Norwegen / Up State, Zürich, Switzerland
2013 Prosecco Manifesto, Messagesalon Perla-Mode, Zürich, Switzerland




CURATORIAL PROJECTS (Selection)
2017 What is Dis- Order?, 1.1, Basel, Switzerland
2016 DisOrder Group, Raum Station, Zürich, Switzerland
http://disorder.anarchiveforemotions.com/
2015 A ( ) Ω, Up State, Zürich, Switzerland
2014 The Beauty Shop, Up State, Zürich, Switzerland
2013 The Translation, Curatorial Assistent of Basak Senova for Cabaret Voltaire Zürich, Switzerland
http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/33132/the-translation/
2013 White Squat Off-Space, with Amos Bollag and Marc Hunziker, Zürich, Switzerland
https://www.whitesquat.up-state.ch/

PUBLICATIONS
2017 The 9 Faces Of The Black Swan in 'The Black Swan Turned Its 9 Faces Towards Me' by Jamahiriya Hagbolt, published by CCC Research Master
2017 Thinking Under Turbulence, Geneva Colloquium published by CCC Research Master / HEAD – Genève and Motto Books
https://www.hesge.ch/head/en/event/2017/book-launch-thinking-under-turbulence
2015 Dada Hand Book, Adrian Notz and Yael Wicki, Publisher: Zürich Cabaret Voltaire 2015. ©2015
2013 I Hope You Have it Like The Universe, self-published