Deborah-Joyce Holman: Close-Up

Jan 22 - Apr 13 2025

Deborah-Joyce Holman is a multidisciplinary artist based between London, UK, and Basel, CH. Their work has recently been shown at TANK Shanghai (2024); Kunsthalle Bern (2023); Cordova, Barcelona; Istituto Svizzero, Palermo; schwarzescafé, Luma Westbau, Zurich; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (all 2022); 7th Athens Biennial; Cherish, Geneva; Yaby, Madrid; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (all 2021); La Quadriennale di Roma (2020); Mikro, Zurich; Fondation Entreprise Ricard, Paris; Auto Italia, London (all 2019), among others. From 2020-2022, Holman worked at East London arts organisation Auto Italia as Associate Director. They were the founding director of 1.1, a platform for early-career practitioners in arts, music and text-based practices, with an exhibition space in Basel, CH, which ran 2015–2020. Holman curated the 2018 and 2019 annual group exhibitions for the arts and music festival Les Urbaines, Lausanne, presenting newly commissioned works by over 15 international artists.

In partnership with Kunstverein Freiburg

Image: Deborah-Joyce Holman. Close-Up, 2024. Film Still. Courtesy of the artist.