CLAUDIA COMTE
Zooming in on Nature

»In my work, I am thinking about the DNA of a plant,
or looking at the patterns that you can find
on the leaves of a tree.«

»In my work, I am thinking about the DNA of a plant, or looking at the patterns that you can find on the leaves of a tree.«

Claudia Comte draws inspiration from the structural intelligence and formal complexity of the natural world, creating sculptures, wall drawings, and site-specific work that rhyme and repeat those patterns that exist around her. Hear her discuss the centrality of nature to her practice as she moves inside one of her installations at St. Agnes in Berlin.
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CLAUDIA COMTE
Claudia Comte (b. 1983 in Grancy, Switzerland) is an artist based in the countryside outside of Basel, Switzerland. She studied at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne, ECAL (2004-2007) followed by a Masters of Art in Science of Education at Haute Ecole Pédagogique, Visual Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland (2008-2010). 

Comte works between media, often combining sculptures or installations with wall paintings to create environments where works relate to each other with a visual rhythm that is both methodical and playful. Her work is defined by her interest in the memory of materials and by a careful observation of how the hand relates to d...
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