A graduate of the Geneva School of Fine Arts, Weidmann was recipient of the federal Fine Arts Prize in 1997 and 1998, and the Moët Hennessy Swiss Foundation for Art Prize in 1997.
Weidmann has had solo museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide, including Centre de la Photographie and MAMCO in Geneva, and has been included in group exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
Artist and writer Patrick Weidmann has been focusing on photography since the early 1990s. Weidmann’s photographic work explores the mass aesthetics and consumerist society by depicting our everyday objects –a Jacuzzi, an airplane seat, an electronic circuit, a soft toy, a cross-section of a car– and framing the image so as to accentuate its fragmentary nature, itself characteristic of photography. Sometimes identifiable, sometimes abstracted, these fragments give us the panoramic view of the consumer society.
Selected exhibitions:
2014 Maison des arts Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur-Marne
2014 Motopoétique, MAC Lyon
2013 Galerie Analix, Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris
2013 7 chez Daniel Varenne, Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva
2013 Eurasia, Patrick Weidmann, curator & Fanny Laumonier, Galerie Analix, Geneva
2012 Centre de la photographie, Geneva
2010 Centre d’art de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel
2009 Le printemps de septembre, Galerie Christine Kandler, Toulouse