Anne-Lise Coste (*1973 in Marignane near Marseille; lives and works in Paris, France) studied in Marseille and in Zurich, after which she was based in New York, and now lives in Sète (South of France). Her drawings and texts have the immediacy of graffiti, and allow her to express subjective moods mixed with political criticism and literary sentences. With a dada-influenced language and intensely lyrical images, her work exudes irony, rebellion and emotion. She creates seemingly decorative compositions that actually offer us a catalogue of contemporary anxieties, where the immediacy of the gesture of drawing combines a strong poetic sense with an element of social critique. Her work is in the collections of many public and corporate collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, MACBA, Barcelona; FRAC des Pays de la Loire; Swiss National Bank; Deutsche Bank and in many private collections in Europe and the USA. She had numerous solo exhibitions recently amongst others at the Dortmunder Kunstverein, the CRAC in Sète and the Salomon Fondation in Annecy.
Solo Exhibitions
2025:
Upcoming Solo exhibition, Musee Rochechouart FR (September)
Upcoming Poetry reading, Villa Valmont, Bordeaux FR (November)
Poetry Reading, Gallery Marcelle Alix, Paris FR
YANA (You Are Not Alone), Kiasma, FRAC Montpellier FR
2024:
Estructuras animadas de chocolate fundido, L21 Palma, Islas Baleares ES
Solo exhibition at Paper Positions in Berlin with Reinhard Hauff Galerie, Berlin DE
Solo presentation Drawing Now Art Fair with Lullin + Ferrari, Paris FR
Emoji peace dove Emoji red heart Emoji blue butterfly, NoguerasBlanchard Barcelona ES
Anne-Lise Coste, NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid ES
Anne-Lise Coste, Le berceau, during Art-o-rama 2023, Marseille FR
I ❤️ l’imaginaire, Librairie L'Échappée Belle, Sète FR
2022-2023:
FRONTEX FACHO MACHO MANAGEMENT, Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam NL
No god, No boss, No husband, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich CH
2022:
Poem Police, Kunsthaus Baselland CH (Cat.)
Post Modern Classic, Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart DE
2021:
TOUT EROS, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich CH
Nous Danserons, URDLA, 22.3 bis 21.5, Villeurbanne FR
Les Vitrines, Institut Français, Berlin DE
2020:
Poème, Pute, Police, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL
Anne-Lise Coste, La Mazade, Saint-Mamert du Gard FR
LA LA CUNT, Dortmunder Kunstverein DE (Cat.)
Bazooka, Château d’Assas du Vigan FR
2019:
Bazooka, art institute chateau d' Assas, Le Vigan
La Vie En Rose, CRAC, Sète
120 tons of body and soul, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
Sors le Monde, La Fabrique, Foundation Salomon, Annecy
2018:
La femme parfaite, Lullin + Ferrari, Zürich
YOUR SKULL, MY SKULL, Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
2017:
"La conquête de l’espace,la chute des feuilles, les neiges éternelles, l’avancée des déserts, la puce électronique" at Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL
Le Lieu multiple, Montpellier FR
MORE BONES at Halsey McKay, New York
2016:
Bones, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY
L'ART DE LA JOIE, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2015:
NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid, Spain
Lullin Ferrari, Zurich, Switzerland
2014:
Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Susanne Hilberry Detroit, MI, US
2013:
Galerie Halsey-Mckay, East Hampton, NY, US
Eleven Rivington, New York, NY, US
2012:
Gare de l'Est, Esslinger Kunstverein e.V., Esslingen, Germany
m,l,e, toomer labzda gallery, New York, NY, US
2011:
Être en vie–l’infini, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, Spain
Être en vie–le feu, Ellen de Bruijne, Amsterdam, Netherlands
d5919bcc3aeeb621e64dafo6b703c106, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
noir noir noir, Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander, Santander, Spain
Seduce & Destroy, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI, US
2010:
A cage is a cage is a cage, Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zürich, Switzerland
Là, Galerie Art Attitude Hervé Bize, Nancy, France
5 days 5 years, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, Spain
2009:
To Molly et Twombly, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Liberty, Ellen de Bruijne, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Merde, merde, merde, you + you+ you, tell me tell me tell me, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI, US
Anne-Lise Coste, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, US
2008:
Instantané (69): Anne-Lise Coste, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Save Picasso, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, Spain
2007:
One day, Galerie Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
La vie sur Terre, Galerie Art:Concept, Paris, France
Qui suis-je, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2006:
Parmi les singes et les signes, Kunstverein Lingen, Lingen, Germany
F R A N C E, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, Spain
Anne-Lise Coste. Le Retour des Colonisés, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
You-me, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2005:
Contre la saturation du visible, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
loin, loin, loin, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
GalleriaLaurin, Zürich, Switzerland
Galerie Philippe Pannetier, Nîmes, France
Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
2004:
Wuthering Heights, Malmö, Sweden
Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003:
Fallen from Grace, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany (with Uwe Max Jensen)
Galerie Nicolas Krupp, Basel, Switzerland
2002:
Exposition Française, Galerie Philippe Pannetier, Nîmes, France
2001:
Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland
2000:
The Projectroom Is Everywhere, Galerie Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany
1999:
Ugly Can Happen, Kleines Helmhaus, Zürich, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions
2025:
Upcoming Accumulation – On Collecting, Growth and Excess (Second Sequence), The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich CH (June)
Upcoming Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier - Sète - Béziers FR (May)
Upcoming Chevalières errantes, Gallery Zlotowksy Paris FR (May)
Explicite lyrique, Gallery Marcelle Alix, Paris FR
Surprise, Surprise! Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich CH
2024:
Liminal Moments 1 & 2, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich CH
REWILDING, New Kunsthaus Baselland, Dreispitz Basel CH
Poetic Intention, MACBA, Barcelona ES
NON Objectified, curated by Kathy Battista, Verplanck, NJ, USA
Like a crossword saying — you should take a breath now, with Marl Brun and Nora
Guislan at DOC, Paris FR
Rewilding: Opening exhibition of the new Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel CH
You Must Be Joking, BCMA, Arts Projects Space, Berlin DE
2023:
Le Retour, Musée régional d’art contemporain, Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée FR
Publication by Anne-Lise Coste in the exhibition Over the Rainbow, Centre Pompidou, Paris FR
Anne-Lise Coste in associated projects at Le berceau, Art-o-rama, Marseille FR
Gathering, The Corner Gallery, NY US
The Habit of Being, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich CH
WORDS, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York USA
Stick n Poke, Fomo Art Space, Zurich CH
Soft Touch, Sultana Summer Set Arles FR
La Force des Choses, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich CH
sur le fil, URDLA, Villeurbanne FR
AOULIOULÉ, Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sérignan FR
2022:
Colleccíon MACBA. Preludio: Intención poética, MACBA, Barcelona ES
Museums in exile, MO.CO Montpellier FR
Battre la mesure, FRAC, Musée Mobile dans la région des Pays de la Loire, FR
Group show of the collection, Musée régional d’art contemporain, Sérignan FR
Showroom on the occasion of the 16th Lyon Biennale, URDLA, Villeurbanne FR
Your Taste on the Lips, FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph Galerie, Berlin DE
Aus den Fugen. Momente der Störung 2, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich, CH
And Now the Good News (Works from the Nobel Collection), Pera Museum, Istanbul TR
For every word an emergence of entropy and a call for reconstruction, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL
Text, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich CH
2021:
Sol ! La Biennale du Territoire – #1 un pas de côté, MO.CO.PANACÉ, Montpellier FR
"Old" Masters, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart DE
Le Grand Bleu, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich, CH
Spring in your step, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich CH
A future unknown to me except as the whisper of a plea, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam NL
Parar la fresca, NoguerasBlanchard in Fonteta ES
2020:
MAD AS HELL: Decades of Protest, Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
ATLAS, MBnb, New York City
Narration and Performance, Lullin+Ferrari, Zurich
2019:
Tainted love, Villa Arson, Nice
Galerie Nicole Klagsburn, New York
Write Me A Letter, Works on Paper, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Everybody is looking for something, La Salle de Bain, Lyon
Mondes merveilleux, Galerie Hervé Bize, Nancy
2018:
NIGHT, SHORTLY, Susan Inglett, New York
WITH OTHER EYES: 10 YEARS OF LULLIN + FERRARI, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich
FLATLAND, Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain
2017:
BODY at Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
TENDER COMRADES, at Studioli, Rome, Italy
INSIDE INTENSITY, at Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME... at Helmhaus Zurich, Zurich (CH)
TRUE LIES at NIGHT GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA
Número 5, Montpellier, France
2016:
DU UND ICH at Hospitalhof Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN at Lullin+Ferrari, Zurich, Switzerland
WATCHDOG-LAPDOG-PLAYDOG at Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Spain
2015:
CHANGING PERSPECTIVES, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich, Switzerland
ONLY LOVERS, Le Coeur Paris, Paris, France
THIRTY NINE YEARS, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI, US
Icons(s), Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium.
ROAD TO RUIN, Simon Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Family Guys, Otto Zoo Gallery, Milan, Italy.
I DON'T CARE, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany.
2014:
BLACK BOARD - WHITE PAGE, Kantonsschule Zurich Nord, Zurich, Switzerland
ARCOmadrid, Madrid, Spain
2013:
Endless Vacation, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Artists against Aids (with auction), Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, Germany
Caixa Madrid, from the MACBA collection, Madrid, Spain
Art-o-Rama, NoguerasBlanchard, Marseille, France
Bromert Art Collection, Roggwil, Bern, Switzerland
LISTE Basel with NoguerasBlanchard and Ellen de Bruijne, Basel, Switzerland
Laat je haar neer (Let Your Hair Down), Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands (curated by Pipilotti Rist)
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Mein Revier|My Territory, Kunst Raum Riehen, Riehen, Switzerland
Living with art, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Brooklyn Museum Auction, New York, NY, US
Print Portfolio, White Columns, New York, NY, US
2012:
Benefit Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum of Art (BAM), Brooklyn, NY, US
Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, NY, US
Benefit Exhibition, Robert Wilson Foundation, New York, NY, US
Critical Episodes (1957-2011). Macba Collection, Macba, Barcelona, Spain
Anne-Lise Coste / Molly Stevens: New work, studio 509, New York, NY, US
Gare de L'Est, Esslinger Kunstverein, Esslingen, Germany
I glove U, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, US
The Quality of Presence, Chelsea Hotel, New York, NY, US
30 Days of Peace, Love and Painting, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Buy my bananas, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY, US
Le vicomte pourfendu, Macelle Alix, Paris, France
Living with Art, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Spring / Break Art Show, Old School, New York, NY, US
2011:
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, US
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Hysteria, Laughter and a Sense of Seriousness, Galerie Gregor Staiger and Karma International, Zürich, Switzerland
Voici un dessin suisse, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2010:
Untitled: Über Erfolg in der Kunst, Substitut - Raum für aktuelle Kunst aus der Schweiz, Berlin, Germany
Anne-Lise Coste, Galerie Art Attitude hervé Bize, Nancy, France
Salon du dessin Contemporain, Carrousel du Lovre, Paris, France
PRESS ART – Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Out of Line, Slag Gallery, New York, NY, US
Voici un dessin suisse 1990-2010, Jenisch Museum, Vevey y Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
Collection 3, Fondation Salomon, Alex, France
PRESS ART – Werke aus der Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
2009:
PALINDROM, Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart, Germany
Shining by Absence, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona, Spain (curated by Jacqueline Uhlman)
curated by_vienna 09–Beginnings, Middles, And Ends, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
curated by_vienna 09–Beginnings, Middles, And Ends, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Shifting Identities—Swiss Art Now, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
EVENT HORIZON, Raster, Warsaw, Poland (curated by Karma International)
2008:
Doméstico’08, El papel del artista, Madrid, Spain
BLAST FROM THE PAST (part 2), Art Attitude Hervé Bize, Nancy, France
Violência Institucional e poetica, Fundación Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Order. Desire. Light. An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2007:
Words Fail Me, MoCAD Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, US (curated by Matthew Higgs)
Destroy Athens: 1st Athens Biennial 2007, Athens, Greece (curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio and Agustine Zenakos)
COSMIC Dreams, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx, Spain (curated by Friedericke Nymphius)
Overtake. The Reinterpretation of Modern Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Collection migros museum für gegenwartskunst Part I, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
Learn to read, Tate Modern, London, UK
2006:
Under Pressure, Galerie Art Concept, Paris, France (curated by Bill Cournoyer)
Aller / Retour 2, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France (curated by Fishli/Weiss)
The Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany (curated by Matthias Ulrich)
Midnight Walkers, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
2005:
Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Holland, Netherlands
Swiss artists, Buchmesse, Warsaw, Poland
2004:
Global World / Private Universe, Kunstverein St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (catalogue)
D Troubles, Halle für Kunst e.V., Lüneburg, Germany
Galerie Donzé Van Saanen, Lausanne, Switzerland
Galerie Laurin, Zürich, Switzerland
In Erster Linie..., Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
twinkle, twinkle, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2003:
Zeichnen. Eine Konfiguration, Museum Im Bellpark Kriens, Luzern, Switzerland
Urban Diaries – Young Swiss Art, Arco 03, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
In Portraiture Irrelevance Is Ugliness, Museum Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert-Neviges, Germany
Werk-und Atelierstipendien der Stadt Zürich 2003, Helmhaus, Zürich, Switzerland
Galerie Karrer, Zürich, Switzerland
Lee 3 Tau Ceti Central Armory Show, Villa Arson, Niza, France
Paint, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
The bourgeois show – sociala strukturer i stadens rum, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
Luck is for Losers, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002:
Energies de Resistance, Attitudes, Genf, Switzerland
The Collective Unconsciousness, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
Zeitmaschine, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Persönliche Pläne, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Protest! Respect!, Kunsthalle St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland
Unloaded – Coming Up For Air’Art, Bunker, Oberschan/Wartau, Switzerland
8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
In Portraiture Irrelevance Is Ugliness, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Violence The True Way, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland
2001:
Binz 39, Zürich, Switzerland
Wald/Explosion, Helmhaus, Zürich, Switzerland
2000:
Mixing Memory and Desire, Neues Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland (catalogue)
Flexibilitätsversuche, Museum Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany (catalogue)
Präsentation der städtischen Ankäufe, Helmhaus, Zürich, Switzerland (catalogue)
Cute, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland
1998:
Freie Sicht auf’s Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland (catalogue)
Körper: Tanz/Performance, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Education:
1997-1999 Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich
1995-1997 Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Marseille