NICOLE HASSLER
LIPSTICKS

10 November — 16 December, 2024

Opening: Sunday 10 November 16.00 — 18.00 hrs.

PS projectspace is excited to announce the exhibition of Nicole Hassler – Lipsticks.

Nicole Hassler is a visual artist, part of the minimal conceptual movement, influenced by Color Remarks (L. Wittgenstein, philosopher) and by Beginning Again (Marcia Hafif, artist). Although painting is her primary medium, her body of work also includes photography, video and 3D works. Nicole Hassler is interested in artifice, in the world of illusion.
She creates works that question the unstable boundaries between what is considered art and what is not. Her works bear witness to the history and discourse of contemporary art, neo-feminism, consumerism and industry. By appropriating the colors that we put on the skin, Hassler claims the right to consumption. She sets the trend codes of cosmetic fashion whose evocative titles of her paintings reveal the identity. They relate to the Industry of Beauty, the image of Woman and the globalized fashion of Luxury. They produce surprisingly autonomous paintings and invent a kind of Classicism derived from ephemeral codes.

From 2022 to 2023, the artist collected lipsticks from 200 women, which they did not wear while wearing the face mask. Nicole Hassler created a gigantic work of art featuring 200 lipsticks paintings with their first names. The work is entitled Art lovers' lipsticks, 2022-2023 and a book has been edited.
«Nicole Hassler’s preoccupation with the recycling of beauty products is central to her creative process. Art Lovers’ Lipsticks is a fundamental affirmation of this.»
Françoise Ninghetto, p. 216 in Art Lovers’ Lipsticks, edited April 2024.

Nicole Hassler (b. 1953) lives and works in Saint-Louis, France (Basel Switzerland boarder) since she moved her studio from Geneva (2019). Graduated in interior architecture from the ESAA (HEAD, Geneva Switzerland) in 1977 and in visual arts from the ESBA (HEAD) in Geneva in 1980. Exhibitions include Frauenmuseum, Berlin (2001) and Bonn (2006), Mursollaici, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2003). Fondation Fernet-Branca in Saint-Louis in 2007, Fondation Louis Moret in Martigny in 2008 and 2013, Villa du Parc Annemasse, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva in 2010, Simon Studer Art Geneva 2015, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre in Paris, since 2011. From 1981-1982, she lived in Boston and New York, from 2000-2001 in Berlin with the Landis&Gyr grant, in 2014 in Paris.

Her works are in the following public collections: Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Fonds Municipal d'Art Contemporain, Fonds Cantonal d'Art Contemporain, Banque Cantonale Genevoise, Banque Mirabaud & Cie, Fondation Rolex à Genève, Musée des Beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, City and Kanton Basel-Landschaft, Musée des Beaux Arts, Grenoble, MOCA Tucson Arizona, O.P.I factory, Los Angeles USA.
Another solo show is currently running in Zürich Switzerland, Galerie Multipleart (till 14 December 2024) and the famous piece « Nailbar, 2010 » is showed in Le Mamco de mémoire, MAMCO, Geneva (till 22 December 2024).

Instagram: hassler_nicole
Website: nicolehassler.com