CurrIculum Vitae

Julieta Schildknecht
Julieta Schildknecht is a Photographer and Journalist; studied law at the Catholic
University in Rio de Janiero, Art Residence in Visual Culture Studies with Katharina Sieverding
at the International Summer Academy of the Arts (2005) in Salzburg, History of Art and
Photography at the University of Zurich (2005) and Master of Arts with Merit from Oxford
Brookes University (2013), UK; has had several solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad,
including Switzerland, Brazil, New York and London; present in private and institutional
collections, among others, Thomas Koerfer, The Tinguely Museum and The World
Meteorological Organisation; represented by the picture agencies Keystone, Agência O Estado
de Sao Paolo and the art dealer Megan Piper in London.
Solo Shows
“moving images of one same frame”, Megan Piper, Private space, London, 2015
“photo-project”, The Piper Gallery, London, 2013
“de profundis”, Gallery Foto-Forum, Bolzano, South Tyrol, 2008
“de profundis“ (in parallel to Max Ernst, “In the Garden of the Nymph Ancolie”), Tinguely
Museum, Basel, 2007
"fairy kind“ Inter-canton College for Curative Pedagogy, Zurich, 2007
“sky plantation”, landscape photography. SWX, Zurich, World Meteorological Organisation,
Geneva, 2004
“en route to the castle”, landscape photography, Tarasp Castle, Engadin, 2002
“Oui” Pavilion, Yverdon, Switzerland, 2002
“gabriele's wedding”, documentary, Hotel Seehof (Zurich), Suvretta House, St. Moritz, 2001
“very good people”, portraits / photo-painting, Gallery Andy Jillien, Zurich, 2001
Group Exhibitions
"je ne suis pas photographe", Kunstraeume Zermatt , Zermatt, february 2014
“x= /i am a tree”, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 2013
“equus”, Gallery fotoforum, Bolzano, South Tyrol, 2012
“giacomo joyce”, Musée Guttenberg, Fribourg, 2011
“blera maila”, Gallery Kunstwarenhaus, Zurich, 2010
“auction-inebriation” in Razzia Seefeld, Zurich,2010
“de profundis”, Gallery Peter Vann, Schanf (Engadin), 2009
“giacomo joyce”, State Archive of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, 2009
“en route to the castle”, Railroad Station Ardez & Sculpture Trail Sur En, Sent, Engadin, 2009
“verygoodreason”, Gallery Kashya Hildebrand, New York, 2006
“heilige ga-me”, June 2006, Gallery a16, Zurich, 2006
“verygoodreason”, Kunstmesse Berliner-Liste, Berlin, 2005
Short Film Festivals
“verygoodreason”, short film, length 6'35’’, 2009
Part of the House of Peace and Human Rights Video Library, San Sebastian, 2010
Short film festivals in Venice, Manhattan, Los Angeles, Berlin, San Sebastian, Locarno, 2009
Publications
“ENGIADINA UND VAL MÜSTAIR Eine Galerie mit 81 Porträts”, Published by Scheidegger &
Spiess Verlag, Zurich, 2015
Giocoma Joyce, unique book commissioned by a private Collector Leo Koenders
24hr Lighthouse, commissioned by Lighthouse Palliative Care Clinic in Zurich
Projects
“neue frauen" book project in German Switzerland, published by DU and entwuerfe (2002), 2008
and WOZ (2003), 2012.
kinder en not (iracema meine liebe), Documentary work related to Child prostitution in Brazil,
2002 – ongoing.
Grants from Terre des Hommes, Volart Stiftung, Ecpat Kinderschutz, Switzerland, 2002 , Don
Bosco Youth Aid Latin America, Syngenta, Cape Capital, UBS Culture-Fund, Regula Curti and
Mauro Salles, 2002
Portraits (selected)
Harald Szeemann, Ernst Beyeler, H.R. Giger, Patricia Kaas, Franz Beckenbauer, Sepp Blatter,
Heinz Holliger, William Christie, Guido Magnaguagno, Hugo Loetscher, Christian Frei, Dieter Meier,
Fritz Senn, Gianfranco Legler, David Zinman, Ton Koopman, Kurt Aeschbacher, Schang Hutter, Jing
Xin, Andi Stutz, Ellen Ringier, Kaspar Fleischmann, René Burri, Kurt Masur, Don Mccullin, Gotan
Project, Irène Schweizer, Martha Argerich, Nelson Freire, David Carson, Philipp Egli, Hans Danuser,
Peter Greenaway, Valie Export, Ernst Scheidegger, Dimitri, Peter Zumthor, Not Vital, Emir Kusturica,
Agnès Varda, Bianca Jagger, Vilmos Szigmund, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Terence Davies, Richard
Davenport-Hines, John Travolta, Valery Gergiev, Vaughan Smith
Collections
Tina Turner, Thomas Koerfer, Jan Fabre, Andy Jllien, Tomas Boller, Patrick Frei, Matthias von
Bauznern, Leo Koenders, Andreas Eppenberger, Baron Frédéric de Mevius. families: Rotzler; Aebi;
Graetz; Cuellar-Natan; Levy; Staal; Pius Fisch et al., Gallery Peter Vann, S-chanf; Gallery foto
forum, Bolzano; Foundation Herzog for Photography, Basel; World Meteorological Organisation,
Geneva; Tinguely Museum, Basel; Zürcher Kantonalbank, Zürich.

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