Short biography Katherine is a Swiss artist working mainly with video perfomances and photography. Her work involves the use of gestures, and cultural clichés related to everyday life, nature and urban landscapes as potential ingredients loaded with connotations. With this approach, she has managed to create a working language in which deliberate absurdity, humour and action have become vocabulary she uses to compose her carefully crafted performances. “Katherine Oggier Chanda joue avec les clichés culturels liés à la vie de tous les jours, à la nature ou au paysage urbain. En décortiquant les codes de ces systèmes de représentation, l’artiste s’est forgé son propre langage, souvent tenté d’humour et d’un sens de l’absurde, qui constitue la base de ses vidéo-performances.” Benoît Antille, 2014 Studies: 2006-2008 MAPS, Master of Arts in the Public Sphere, ECAV, Sierre
; 2003-2006 Bachelor in visual arts, ECAV, Sierre Prizes and Recidencies: 2011 Six months art residency in Berlin, atelier de l’Etat du Valais
; 2006 Art Prize of the swiss state of Valais
; 2006 Prize of the Bea fondation for young artists
; 2006 one year residency at Atelier Tremplin, Ferme-Asile, Sion Video performance: Take Off, Squeaky Clean, Wall street choreography, Where is the Matterhorn, Bench Hike, Wonderland I, Wonderland II
