Marie José Burki

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Photography, neon, text and video are the preferred media used by Marie José Burki. Using visual devices, her work focuses on creating constantly shifting relationships between static and moving images, which ceaselessly interrogate our perceptions of reality in a world saturated with images. Associated with close observation of the background of daily life, the confrontation of these media contributes to the realization of a ‘fixed’ temporality, and, by this very means, to an evocation of time as at once real and suspended, accurately reflecting its relationship to the world in which we live. The artist is drawn to images of waiting and idleness; the camera films languid bodies in the intimacy of a living room or a hotel room. Beyond an almost absent narrative, a description emerges which plays with pictorial and literary codes, questioning the relationship with the pose in the image, along with the concepts of duration, space and perception. The time filmed by Marie José Burki is not social time. Naked and stripped, the time which passes before our slowed gaze makes us reflect in a world saturated by the acceleration of time.

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    Marie José Burki

    anatomies d’un monde

    18 January 2024 – 2 March 2024 18.01.2024 – 02.03.2024
    Xippas, Genève

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    Figures, figures, figures

    9 October 2023 – 30 June 2024 09.10.2023 – 30.06.2024
    Théâtre de Liège

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    Zeit

    22 September 2023 – 14 January 2024 22.09.2023 – 14.01.2024
    Kunsthaus Zürich

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    SHŌKAKKŌ

    6 September 2023 – 29 March 2024 06.09.2023 – 29.03.2024
    The Merode, Place Poelaert 6, 1000 Brussels

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    BREAKFAST & TALK | Marie José Burki with Pauline Hatzigeorgiou | 17 June, 11 am

    17 June 2023 – 17 June 2023 17.06.2023 – 17.06.2023
    Baronian, Isidore Verheyden 2, 1050 Brussels
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    Les professeurs gribouillent aussi...

    8 February 2023 – 21 April 2023 08.02.2023 – 21.04.2023
    Beaux-Arts Paris, 14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris

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    Les Fabriques du cœur et leur usage

    23 October 2022 – 19 March 2023 23.10.2022 – 19.03.2023
    MAC's Grand Hornu

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    Mouvements - Exposition permanente

    20 September 2022 – 20 September 2023 20.09.2022 – 20.09.2023
    MAHN - Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel

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    EXPOSURE : FIGURES OF SPEECH

    10 July 2021 – 11 September 2021 10.07.2021 – 11.09.2021
    Xippas Genève

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    La Cité sous le Ciel

    16 June 2021 – 29 August 2021 16.06.2021 – 29.08.2021
    cneai = , Paris

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    Exposure : Dusk

    12 June 2021 – 30 July 2021 12.06.2021 – 30.07.2021
    Ceysson & Bénétière, Wandhaff, Luxemburg

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    GROUP SHOW - Les nourritures criées

    3 October 2020 – 31 October 2020 03.10.2020 – 31.10.2020
    Atelier Alain Le Bras, Nantes (FR)

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    Infinite Sculpture. From the Antique Cast to the 3D Scan,

    18 September 2020 – 25 January 2021 18.09.2020 – 25.01.2021
    Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

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    Kaléidoscope,

    4 July 2020 – 6 September 2020 04.07.2020 – 06.09.2020
    Kunsthaus Pasquart, Bienne, Switzerland

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    SCULPTURES INFINIES des collections de moulages à l'ère digitale

    4 December 2019 – 16 February 2020 04.12.2019 – 16.02.2020
    Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris (FR)

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    Sculptures Infinies

    3 December 2019 – 31 December 2019 03.12.2019 – 31.12.2019
    Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris (FR)

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    PETIT GRAND MONDE

    16 November 2019 – 21 December 2019 16.11.2019 – 21.12.2019
    Xippas Geneva, Geneva (CH)
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    Writing in art, with works by Mark Melvin, Patrick Corillon, Marie José Burki et Mekhitar Garabedian. Opening: November 2nd from 4-7pm.

    1 November 2019 – 22 December 2019 01.11.2019 – 22.12.2019
    Albert Baronian/Yoko Uhoda Knokke, Knokke (BE)

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    Présentation de l'ouvrage "Robert Walser - Grosse kleine Welt Grand petit monde," publié par Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions, sous la direction de Marie José Burki et Mandana Covindassamy, à 19h

    15 October 2019 – 15 October 2019 15.10.2019 – 15.10.2019
    Médiathèque des Beaux-Arts de Paris
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    Le petit cercle bruxellois

    17 June 2019 – 1 September 2019 17.06.2019 – 01.09.2019
    A.VE.NU.DE.JE.TE - Institut de Carton, Brussels (BE)

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    Le Choix d'Albert

    17 May 2019 – 29 June 2019 17.05.2019 – 29.06.2019
    Xippas Genève, Geneva (CH)

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    Nel Aerts, Vaast Colson, Marie José Burki, Mitja Tušek LLS Paleis

    28 October 2018 – 2 December 2018 28.10.2018 – 02.12.2018
    Ruimte voor actuele kunst, Anvers (BE)

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    Grosse kleine Welt Grand petit monde

    13 October 2018 – 6 January 2019 13.10.2018 – 06.01.2019
    Beaux-Arts de Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris (FR)

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    The Women Behind

    22 June 2018 – 22 July 2018 22.06.2018 – 22.07.2018
    Museum on The Seam, Jerusalem (I)

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    Flowers

    20 May 2018 – 15 July 2018 20.05.2018 – 15.07.2018
    Flowers, Albert Baronian - Yoko Uhoda Knokke, 731, Zeedijk, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium
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    Notre vie est un voyage

    12 April 2018 – 25 June 2018 12.04.2018 – 25.06.2018
    Oeuvres de la collection du Fonds régional d’art contemporain Corse

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    MARIE JOSÉ BURKI - A FILM

    28 January 2018 – 18 February 2018 28.01.2018 – 18.02.2018
    ARGOS, Bruxelles

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    Private Choices

    8 November 2017 – 27 May 2018 08.11.2017 – 27.05.2018
    La Centrale For Contemporary Art, Brussels

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    Sometimes Shade, Sometimes Light

    14 September 2017 – 20 November 2017 14.09.2017 – 20.11.2017
    Fondation Gulbenkian

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