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Château de Prangins has given 12 female comic artists from the collective La bûche free rein to create a temporary exhibition. In pairs, they spent a week at the château during autumn 2022, drawing inspiration from the voices and lives of women of varying social backgrounds - the Baroness of Prangins, a servant, and an American feminist and philanthropist - who resided there between the 18th and 20th centuries. The exhibition Comics! Telling Women's Stories showcases the fruits of their work.

From 11 March to 4 June 2023, their creations in media ranging from drawing and engraving to painting will tell a richly diverse array of stories. At the core of the exhibition, a strip of paper 10 metres in length on which each artist has drawn a few motifs stands as a joint endeavour, symbolising the bond between the illustrators.

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Comics! Telling Women's Stories

Château de Prangins | 11.3.2023 - 24.9.2023
published on 23.2.2023

Twelve comic artists, six weeks of residency at the château, a strip of paper 10 metres long plus a wealth of original and varied creations: that is the story of a collaboration between Château de Prangins and the feminist collective La bûche. The vernissage of this new temporary exhibition is free of charge and will take place on Saturday 11 March, from 16:00.

Château de Prangins has given 12 female comic artists from the collective La bûche free rein to create a temporary exhibition. Between July 2022 and January 2023, they spent a week at the château in pairs.

Their approach was to highlight female experiences and fates, and so they chose a common thread for the residency: the lives and voices of women of all classes and eras associated with the château from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Their drawings depict everyone from a young Englishwoman named Matilda, who became baroness of Prangins, to a wet nurse, as well as Katharina McCormick, an American suffragette and philanthropist who funded research into the pill. Taking inspiration from their surroundings, they also created images of people, animals and plants they encountered at the château.

Each artist presents works in a variety of media, including comics, engravings and drawings, which blend reality and fiction. Sometimes, the paper becomes a space where two creators with vastly differing worlds can come together. Taking their cue from the Surrealist game of exquisite corpses, each pair residing at Prangins drew some vignettes on a long strip of paper, without seeing what their predecessors had done. Their subjects included a woman imprisoned at the top of a tower, domestic objects (an iron, a bottle, a coachman’s boot) flying through the air, and half-human, half-animal figures roaming the countryside... This work, some 10 metres in length and symbolising the bond between the illustrators, will be shown in its entirety in the exhibition.

The vernissage on 11 March will be an opportunity to meet the artists and discuss with them the genesis of their individual and collective projects. Throughout the exhibition, artists from La bûche will be offering creative comic workshops for adults, children and families.

 

La bûche is a collective of female comic artists based in French-speaking Switzerland. Its aim is to bring together and publicise the work of women who are active in the medium, in a spirit of sorority and solidarity. The illustrators work on independent publications, artistic events and encounters. The 12 artists who took part in this collaboration are:

Agathe Borin                                       Anouck Fontaine                        Léandre Ackermann

Katharina Kreil                                     Maud Oïhénart                            Maeva Rubli

Cécile Koepfli                                       Maou                                          MarieMo

Anaïs Bloch                                         BEEMO                                       Vulpo Vulpo

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Affiche de l'exposition BD! Voix de femmes | © ©Musée national suisse
Affiche de l'exposition BD! Voix de femmes

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Agathe Borin - Carnet(s) au château | © ©Musée national suisse
Agathe Borin - Carnet(s) au château

Exposition BD! Voix de Femmes

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Anaïs Bloch & Cécile Koepfli - Rêverie à quatre mains | © ©Musée national suisse
Anaïs Bloch & Cécile Koepfli - Rêverie à quatre mains

Exposition BD! Voix de femmes

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Anaïs Bloch & Cécile Koepfli - Rêverie à quatre mains | © ©Musée national suisse

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Anaïs Bloch - “Elle est jeune et sera mère dès le commencement de février” | © ©Musée national suisse
Anaïs Bloch - “Elle est jeune et sera mère dès le commencement de février”

Exposition BD! Voix de femmes

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Anaïs Bloch - “Elle est jeune et sera mère dès le commencement de février” | © ©Musée national suisse
Anaïs Bloch - “Elle est jeune et sera mère dès le commencement de février”

Exposition BD! Voix de femmes

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Anaïs Bloch - “Elle est jeune et sera mère dès le commencement de février” | © ©Musée national suisse
Anaïs Bloch - “Elle est jeune et sera mère dès le commencement de février”

Exposition BD! Voix de femmes

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Anaïs Bloch - “Elle est jeune et sera mère dès le commencement de février” | © ©Musée national suisse
Anaïs Bloch - “Elle est jeune et sera mère dès le commencement de février”

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Anouck Fontaine & Maud Oïhénart - Histoires croisées | © ©Musée national suisse
Anouck Fontaine & Maud Oïhénart - Histoires croisées

Exposition BD! Voix de femmes

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Anouck Fontaine & Maud Oïhénart - Histoires croisées | © ©Musée national suisse
Anouck Fontaine & Maud Oïhénart - Histoires croisées

Exposition BD! Voix de femmes

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Anouck Fontaine - L’arbre aux miroirs | © ©Musée national suisse
Anouck Fontaine - L’arbre aux miroirs

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BEEMO & Maou - La fête du siècle | © ©Musée national suisse
BEEMO & Maou - La fête du siècle

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Cécile Koepfli - LIBER | © ©Musée national suisse
Cécile Koepfli - LIBER

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Katharina Kreil - Le château de mon enfance | © ©Musée national suisse
Katharina Kreil - Le château de mon enfance

Exposition BD! Voix de femmes

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Katharina Kreil - Le château de mon enfance | © ©Musée national suisse
Katharina Kreil - Le château de mon enfance

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Katharina Kreil - Le château de mon enfance | © ©Musée national suisse
Katharina Kreil - Le château de mon enfance

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Léandre Ackermann - Métiers à tisser | © ©Musée national suisse
Léandre Ackermann - Métiers à tisser

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Léandre Ackermann - Métiers à tisser | © ©Musée national suisse
Léandre Ackermann - Métiers à tisser

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Maeva Rubli - Motifs répétitifs | © ©Musée national suisse
Maeva Rubli - Motifs répétitifs

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MarieMo - Histoire de femme | © ©Musée national suisse
MarieMo - Histoire de femme

Exposition BD! Voix de femmes

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Maud Oïhénart - Draperies potagères | © ©Musée national suisse
Maud Oïhénart - Draperies potagères

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Vulpo Vulpo - Château biotope | © ©Musée national suisse
Vulpo Vulpo - Château biotope

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Scénographie | © ©Musée national suisse
Scénographie

Exposition BD! Voix de femmes

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Scénographie | © ©Musée national suisse
Scénographie

Exposition BD! Voix de femmes

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Scénographie | © ©Musée national suisse
Scénographie

Exposition BD! Voix de femmes

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Scénographie | © ©Musée national suisse
Scénographie

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Scénographie | © ©Musée national suisse
Scénographie

Exposition BD! Voix de femmes

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Tatiana Oberson

Head of Marketing, Communication & Fundraising

Château de Prangins
Château de Prangins +41 22 994 88 68 tatiana.oberson@museenational.ch

Exhibition Imprint

  • General Management Swiss National Museum Denise Tonella
  • Management Swiss National Museum - Château de Prangins Helen Bieri Thomson
  • Project management Marie-Hélène Pellet
  • Project coordination Fanny Vaucher, La bûche
  • Exhibition design and graphic design Flyingkoenig, Nicolas Koenig, Rivaz
  • Exhibition furniture L'atelier, Joël Barret, Gland
  • Printing Meylan publicité et signalétique, Concise
  • Marketing and communication Tatiana Oberson (dir.), Sylvie Nickbarte
  • Advertising graphic design L’ADMP, L’Atelier de mon Père, Nyon
  • Cultural services and museum education Ana Vulic (dir.), Marie-Dominique de Preter
  • Controlling of project Odile Rigolet (dir.), Jacqueline Naepflin Karlen
  • Reception Véronique Laurent Kandem, Elisa Ottiger, Anita Rachetta Bays
  • Security Entreprise Securitas. Pedro Schreyer (dir.), Daniel Bartschi, Raphaël Conrad, Mark Goldschmid, Miguel Gonçalves, Jean-Claude Hunsinger, David Janelas, Sébastien Nobel, Priscilla Repond
  • Technical management Philippe Humm (dir.), André Schärer
  • Photography Jörg Brandt, Felix Jungo
  • Translations Elke Albrecht (Atidma Scop Sàrl), Alessia Schiavon, Geoffrey Spearing