artist: natacha donzé

Swiss artist Natacha Donzé (*1991 in Boudevilliers, CH) creates enigmatic painterly compositions that reflect the orders and ambivalences of the present. Characteristic of her work is that she illustrates systems and power structures through geometric divisions of the picture surface or by combining several canvases. Using an airbrush technique, she achieves atmospheric, luminous color fields on which small, organic forms appear, painted with meticulous delicacy. These can be reminiscent of light reflections, drops of water, sparks of fire, explosions, or body cells under a microscope. The artist references images from political contexts, historical encyclopedias, found press photographs, or scientific imagery from databases. Her canvases also evoke associations with landscapes photographed with thermal cameras, aerial photographs, or satellite images, depicting a fragmented and alienated reality. In this way, her works combine the aesthetics of media-based, digital images with ecological issues.

Recent solo exhibitions took place at the Kunst(Zeug)Haus in Rapperswil-Jona (2022), the Musée des Beaux-Arts in La Chaux-de-Fonds (2021), and Unit110 in New York (2018). Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at Oldenburger Kunstverein (2025), MCBA in Lausanne (2023), Kunstmuseum Appenzell as part of the Vordemberge-Gildewart Fellowship (2023), CAPC Bordeaux (2022), and Hagiwara Projects in Tokyo (2021), among others. Natacha Donzé received the Swiss Art Award in 2023 and the Kiefer Halblitzel Prize for Young Artists in 2019. In 2018, she was also awarded the Young Artist Prize of the of the Museum of Art in La Chaux-de-Fonds, which is awarded in the context of the Biennale of Contemporary Art.