Sophie Ristelhueber
born 1949 in Paris, where she still lives.She studied at Sorbonne and
at l’Ecole pratique des hautes etudes in Paris. Active as a
professional photographer since 1980, she photographed for La Mission
photographique de la DATAR, focussing the French alpine landscapes.
Claiming wrath to be at the center of her work Ristelhueber’s
photography evolves a language for expressing places and environments
of conflict; she has photographed in Armenia, Bosnia, Libanon, Kuwait
and Iraq. Her work is collected in several monographs, such as Beirut –
Photographs (London, 1984), Aftermath (London, 1992); Sophie
Ristelhueber · Details of the World (Boston, 2001) and W B, Thames
& Hudson, London 2005. Among separate exhibition since 1990 are
Fait, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Le Magasin, Grenoble (1992);
Aftermath, Imperial War Museum, London (1993), Every One, Centraal
Museum, Utrecht (1994), Posljedice, galleria Bosnia Herzegovina,
Sarajevo (1994); Les Barricades Mystérieuses, Le Consortium,
Dijon (1995); 1996 Vulaines, galerie Blancpain Stepczynski, Genève
(1996); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Toronto 1998; La Liste, Hôtel
des Arts, Toulon (2000); L’Air est à tout le monde, Fonds régional
d’art contemporain, Caen Fiac (2000); Dead Set, galerie Blancpain
Stepczynski, Genève (2001); Details of the World, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston (2002); Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (Mamco) Genève,
(2005). Selected recent group exhibitions include: Dhaulagiri, galerie
Verney-Carron, Villeurbanne (1990); Warworks, Victoria & Albert
Museum, Londres (1995); Dialogues of Peace, palais des Nations, Genève
(1995); Face à l’Histoire, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1996);
Match/Onmatch, MUKHA, Anvers (1996); Trade Routes, IIème Biennale
de Johannesburg (1997); The Edge of Awareness WHO Headquarters, Genève
and PS1 New York (1998); Traces/1st Liverpool Biennal of International
Contemporary Art, Liverpool (1999), Erresistentziak/Resistencias,
Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian (2000).
