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About

Corinne Vionnet is a Franco-Swiss visual artist based in Switzerland.

She is a pioneer in the exploration and re-purposing of web-based imagery. Her work includes extensive archival research, photographic image making, the appropriation of crowd-sourced material, and collage.

She is part of these first artists to have had interest in exploring and re-purposing the Web-based imagery. Her artistic process includes extensive archival research, photographic image making, the appropriation of crowd-sourced material, and collage.
Her works led her to analyze the construction and maintenance of the social imagination and collective identity, as well as our behavior with images, with the act of taking of pictures as well as the content of these overflow of pictures.
Her works conveys the ambiguous lure of the Internet, which seemingly promises freedom and the discovery of new worlds, yet, in reality, imprisons us all you in a algorithm space, and make us believe that we are unique.
Today, she is heading towards investigations of our perceptions of reality, as well as the strength of the images, their power of persuasion, and the transformation and building of emblematic figures.


Corinne Vionnet’s work is included in the collections of SF MOMA, San Francisco; Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne; Musée Carnavalet, Paris;  Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao; Musée d'Art du Valais, Sion; Musée d'Art, Pully; Musée français de la photographie, among others. Her artist books are part of collection of the Fotomuseum in Winterthur, the MOMA of New York, Whitney Museum in New York, NYPL in New York, MACBA in Barcelona, Reina Sofia in Madrid, Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie in Geneva, to name a few.

She had solo shows including the Swiss Camera Museum (2018); Danziger Gallery, New York (2015, 2024); Oslo 8, Basel (2012); and East Wing, Doha (exhibition in Dubai, 2009).

She also has participated in numerous group exhibitions such as V&A, Dundee (2024); Musée Carnavalet, Paris (2024-25); Elektron, Esch-sur-Alzette (2024); Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao (2023);  Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum (2021-22), C|O Berlin (2021), SFMOMA, San Francisco (2019); Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussel (2018); Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds (2017); Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne (2017); Musées d'art et d'histoire, Geneva (2015-16); Musée d'Art du Valais, Sion, Switzerland (2021-22; 2020; 2015-16; 2012); Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2015); FotoMuseum, Antwerp (2015 and 2012); Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2013); Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona (2013); Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2011).

Her work has been included in photography festivals and art biennials such as Visiona, Spain;  Jeju Art Biennial, Korea; Images, Switzerland; Fotofestiwal, Poland; Photo Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Fotográfica Bogotá, Colombia; and Les Rencontres d'Arles, France; as well as at art fairs including Photo London, Pulse Miami, and Paris Photo.

Her first monograph, Photo Opportunities, is published in 2011 (Kehrer Verlag, Germany). ME. Here Now, her second book, is published in 2017 (Fall Line Press, USA). In 2018, she self-published Total Flag  which all had great press coverage, Automated_Matterhorn in 2019, CIELS in 2020 and Total Palm Tree in 2021. Also in 2019, she was approached by RRose Editions and published Souvenirs d'un glacier, which is very successful, then worked again together in 2023 to publish the artist book Almost There. Her book Paris Paris Paris was published in 2024 by RVB Books. 

Vionnet has been featured in numerous art, photography and editorial newspapers, magazines and journals including ArtForum, Hyperallergic, Beaux-Arts magazine, Flash Art, Nouvel Obs, The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Collector Daily, The British Journal of Photography, The New York Times, Tique Art Paper, Images Magazine, BLOW Photo, Vogue Italia, COLORS, Yvi Magazine, Le Temps, Libération, Le Monde as well as in publications including Chefs d’Oeuvre du 21e siècle. L’art à l’ère du digitale, by Dominique Moulon (Scala, 2021); To Be Determined: Photography and the Future, by Duncan Wooldridge (SPBH Editions, UK; 2021); Send Me an Image, by Kathrin Schönegg and Felix Hoffman (Steidl, 2021); Snap+Share, by Clément Chéroux, Linde B. Lehtinen (Cernunnos, France); Space/Prix Pictet (London, 2017); Photography Vol.4: The Contemporary Era 1981-2013 (Skira, 2014); Art and The Internet (BlackDog Publishing, 2014) and MAO (Horizons Editions, 2012).

Photo Opportunities was also featured in the documentary by Arte, Collection PHOTO/Les Appropriationnistes, directed by Stan Neumann and co-produced by ARTE France, Camera Lucida, Centre Pompidou, Musée d'Orsay, Bibliothèque Nationale de France. In 2013, Vionnet was invited at the World Economic Forum in Davos to present her work for the conference Seeing is Believing.

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Some Interviews

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Invitée fil rouge: Corinne Vionnet; August 2021




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l'invitée: Corinne Vionnet, Suisse; March 2021




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VERTIGO _ L'invitée: Corinne Vionnet " MOI. Ici Maintenant"




:: Deutsche Welle :: EUROMAXX - Photographer Corinne Vionnet | Swiss photographer Corinne Vionnet creates unusual views of familiar sights. In her series "Photo Opportunities," famous tourist landmarks look almost like impressionist paintings - but actually the pictures are the result of superimposing numerous images of the same motif.




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Invitée culturelle: Corinne Vionnet. Pour l’exposition Do you speak tourist à Pully 

World Economic Forum, Guest Speaker, Annual Meeting, Davos-Klosters, Switzerland; 2013