Michel Comte
Biography
1954 born in Zurich, Switzerland
lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland
in 2009 Michel Comte officially withdrew from fashion photography and devoted himself to the creation of artworks.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Villa Panza, Varese, Italy, in conversation with the Old Royal Naval College, London, UK
2020
Erosion II, Michel Comte Studio, Uetikon am See, Switzerland
Erosion I, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
2019
Light IV, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
2018
Light III, Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing, China
2017
Light, MAXXI | Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Black Light, White Light, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
2016
Neoclassic, Palazzo del Governatore, Parma, Italy; Galleria d’Arte Moderna Milano, Milan, Italy
2013
Retrospective, Kunst Haus, Vienna, Austria
2011
Retrospective curated by Walter Keller, Crescendo Fotografico, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
2006
The Face of Pace, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2002
Retrospective, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Verona, Italy
1995
Afghanistan, Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy
FILMS
2014
Sundance Film Festival
2013
Michel Comte directed and produced his first feature film in 3D, The Girl from Nagasaki, retelling of the classic opera, Madame Butterfly, in which Puccini’s tragic heroine, emerging from the ashes of the atomic bomb, begins her fateful story of obsession for an American pilot.