Beat Kuert

Beat Kuert’s oeuvre represents a broad spectrum of the female character, from the sensual and the erotic, to the duality of being both the creator and the destroyer. Drawn by his models’ beauty Kuert depicts graceful creatures with flowing locks, crimson lips and melancholic expressions, transforming women into goddesses and warriors. The metaphors and symbols in his works refer to more than just the subject matter of the female form, they convey human emotions in a powerful and evocative manner. Beat Kuert  is a Swiss multimedia artist, he started his career as a filmmaker and achieved great success with his experimental films ‘Schilten,’ ‘Martha Dubronski,’ ‘Deshima,’‘The Grand Inquisitor,’ and ‘Pierrotische Beziehungen.’ For this work he was honoured with several internation awards. He has also made several documentaries about the architects Jean Nouvel, Herzog & deMeuron, Mario Botta, Max Dudler and Luigi Snozzi.  

In 2005, Kuert founded the art collective dust&scratches, creating performances, video art, and music, along with his photographic work. Since then, he has exhibited internationally. He is an advisor to ‘Yuanfen-Flow’ in Beijing, an institution that promotes the exchange of ideas between China and the rest of the world. In 2015 and 2017, he participated in the collateral events at Palazzo Bembo at the Venice Biennale, with importantinstallations, such as FaultLine/TimeLine and Good Morning Darkness. In November of the same year, he was the main character at the event Processualità ideative e attuative di un libro d’artista, held in Milan’s Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, during which he launched the book  Beat Me, a pictorial requiem, by Eyemazing Susan. In 2018, his work was shown at the Milan Photo Fair. The Fondazione Maimeri staged his latest solo exhibition, Furor Corporis, and his performance Intertwined at Musica Arte Cultura in Milan.

The video installation and performance  Per Crucem ad Lucem, Spazio Ratti, Chiesa San Francesco, Como, Italy was staged in 2019,  along with Stills - still moving, Galleria Il fort arte, Forte dei Marmi, Italy. In 2021, Kuert showed at MIA Photo Fair, the Mall,  Milano and Habeas Arte Paris, France.

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