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Our Story
Cortis & Sonderegger’s artistic collaboration began during their photography studies at the college and continues to this day. Since graduating in 2006, they have worked as artists, photographers and lecturers.
Their photographs and installations have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York (USA), Museum Folkwang in Essen (D), Fotostiftung Schweiz (CH) and C/O Berlin (D), as well as at festivals in Switzerland, France, Poland, Sweden and China. The monography „Double Take“ was published in 2018 in English by Thames & Hudson (GB/USA), in German by Lars Müller Publisher (CH), in Taiwanese by Sharp Point Press (TWN) and in Japanese by Seigensha (JP).
In addition to their artistic work, in recent years they have designed and performed in a theater and built models for a documentary film with and about Lars von Trier.
AWARDS
2023
Selection 15th Anniversary Displays, Der Greif, Munich (DE)
2023
Festival Images, Short-list, Vevey (CH)
2021
Work grant Covid-19, City Council, Zürich (CH)
Festival Images, Short-list, Vevey (CH)
2019
Photographer of the Year, SWISS PHOTO ACADEMY, Zürich (CH)
2017
Best Photography Awards, 7th Dali international photography exhibition, Dali (CHN)
2016
Henry Nannen – Preis, Winner Category staged photography, Hamburg (D)
Festival de Mode et Photographie, Dotation Memories Lab, Hyères (F)
2015
Grand Prix international de photographie 2015/2016, Broncolor Prize (lightning prize), Vevey (CH)
2014
Swiss Photo Award, Winner Category Free, Zürich (CH)
EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming
Gluri Suter Huus, Wettingen (CH)
2025
S11, Künstlerhaus, Solothurn (CH)
2024
International Photography Festival (SIPF) Singapore (SG)
Fotofestival Lenzburg, Lenzburg (CH)
Walking in the Wild, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich (CH)
2023
YEAST, Photo Festival, Matino (IT)
Revela‘t, International Festival of Contemporary Analog Photography, Barcelona (SP)
2022
Walker Evans Revisited, Kunsthalle Helmond (NL)
Panoràmic Granollers Festival, Barcelona (SP)
T3 Photo Festival Tokyo, Tokyo (JP)
Me, myself and I, Cortona on the Move Festival, Cortona (IT)
To Imagine, Getxophoto Festival, Getxo (SP)
2021
Illustré - 100 ans, solo show at Images, Vevey (CH)
2020
The Architecture of Deception, B’NK’R, Munich (DE)
20/20 Twenty Artworks Celebrating Twenty Years, Gallery Bryce Wolkowitz, NYC (USA)
Athens Photo Festival 2020, Athens (GR)
Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2020, Mannheim (DE)
Rabbit Hole, Ljubljana (SLO)
2019
Human Impact, Künstlerhaus Dortmund (DE)
Maan/Moon, FOMU, Antwerp (BE)
Modell-Naturen in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, several places (DE)
Icons, Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography, MET, NYC (USA)
Double Take, C/O, Berlin (DE)
Stories That Matter, Objectifs, Singapore (SG)
Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast (GB)
Photo Basel, Ravestijn Gallery, Basel (CH)
Photo Schweiz 19, Zurich (CH)
Ways of Seeing, by Sam and Til, Abu Dhabi (UAE)
2018
Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris (F)
ICONS, Gallery exhibition at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, NY (USA)
Icons, WestLicht, Vienna (AT)
NEXT IMAGE - The Past of the Future, Daegu Photo Biennale (KOR)
Double Take, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur (CH)
10. Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt (DE)
Way of Seeing, Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussles (BE)
UNVERIFIED, Museum of Contemporary Art/Jacksonville (US)
2017
Lianzhou Foto 17, Lianzhou (CHN)
Landskrona Foto Festival 2017, Landskrona (SWE)
Ways of Seeing, Arter, Istanbul (TUR) and Brussels (BE)
2016
Nun scheint im vollen Glanze, Burgrieden – Rot (D)
Photography never dies, Wroclaw (PL)
What’s Up Photo Doc, Paris (F)
Wings of Fantasy: New European Photography, Peking (CHN)
Grand Prix international de photographie de Vevey 2015/2016, Vevey (CH)
Bilderstrom, Bonn (D)
Nothing But Blue Skies, Rencontres d’Arles (F)
Festival de Mode et Photographie, Hyères (F)
Icons, Solo Show at East-Wing Gallery, Dubai (UAE)
Icônes, Solo Show at Galerie Robert Doisneau, Centre Culturel André Malraux, Nancy (F)
2015
Prix Photoforum, Biel (CH)
Prix Photo, Sothebys Zurich (CH)
Ikonen, Galllery Espace JB, Geneve (CH)
Swiss Photo Award, EWZ, Zürich (CH)
2014
For Future Reference, Paris Photo Art Fair, Paris (FR)
(Mis)Understanding Photography, Works and Manifestos, Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
Swiss Photo Award, Winner Category Free, EWZ, Zürich (CH)
2013
PHOTO 13, Maag event hall, Zürich (CH)
Ohne Titel (whithout title), Gallery 13Photo, Zürich (CH)
2008
Make Believe, Bienne Festival of Photography, Biel (CH)
2006
vfg sponsorship award for up and coming young talent, several places in Switzerland
Diploma exhibition ZHDK, Toni-Areal, Zürich (CH)
Work grants for fine arts of canton Zurich, Art school F+F, Zürich (CH)
2005
vfg pool – favorites, galerie Plattform 11, Zürich, (CH)
PHOTO 05, Maag Event Hall, Zürich, (CH)
2004
Art as Photography – Photography as Art, NRW forum for culture and economy, Dusseldorf (DE)
2003
Schönegg Exhibition, Art Space Walcheturm, Zürich (CH)
PUBLICATIONS
2022
Surveying the Anthropocene, Patricia Macdonald, Edinburgh University Press (GB)
2021
Les fictions documentaires en photographie, Christian Gattinoni, Yannick Vigouroux, SCALA (FR)
The Architecture of Deception/Confinement/Trasnformation, B’NK’R, Silvana Editoiriale S.p.A. (IT)
2020
THE BOOK OF IMAGES, Images Vevey and Koenig Books (GB)
2019
Civilization - The Way We Live Now, William A Ewing, Holly Roussell, Thames & Hudson (GB/USA)
Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography, The MET (USA)
Moon Photographing the Moon 1840 - Now, Hannibal Publishing & FOMU (BE)
Ticket to the Moon, Catalogue, Kunsthalle Krems (AT)
Models of Nature in Contemporary Photography, Catalogue, Imhof (DE)
2018
Double Take, images from the series ICONS, published by Thames & Hudson (GB/USA), Lars Müller (CH), Seigensha (JP)
2016
Photography Never Dies, Catalogue, Wroclaw (PL)
Rencontres de la Photographie, Catalogue, Arles, Actes Sud (F)
Wings of Fantasy, Catalogue, Photo Bejing, Post & Telecom Press (CN)
Bilderstrom. Der Rhein und die Fotografie 2016-1853, Catalogue, LVR-Landesmuseum, Hatje Cantz (D)
2014
(Mis)Understanding Photography, Catalogue, Museum Folkwang, Steidl (D)
2013
Küchen Werkzeug – Kitchen Tools, Design by Kuhn Rikon, Lars Müller (CH)
2010
Paarkunst: Anny Vonzun zum 100. Geburtstag, Stiftung Leonhard Meisser und Anny Vonzun (CH)
2008
Eidgenössische Förderpreise für Design 2008, Bundesamt für Kultur, Birkhäuser Verlag (CH)
2007
Photography, Made in Zürich, Studienbereich Fotografie, Scheidegger & Spiess (CH)
COLLECTIONS
Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
The Battery San Francisco, CA (USA)
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas (USA)
The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas (USA)
Collection of the Canton of Zürich, Zürich (CH)
Swiss Foundation of Photography, Winterthur (CH)
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (USA)
Karl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, Dallas (USA)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (USA)
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