Short biography
Andrea Cindy Raemy (*Fribourg/Freiburg) is a visual artist based in Biel/Bienne. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and a MA in Contemporary Arts Practice with a focus on Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Bern (HKB).
She works mainly with the mediums of sculpture and installation. Her process- and experience-based practice reflects the conditions of everyday life and the social conventions that shape it.
Andrea Cindy Raemy‘s work has been featured in institutional, artist-run and gallery spaces.
Introduction to my work
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”
– Mary Shelley, FrankensteinI am particularly interested in social structures, the roles they dictate, and the routines that sustain them. They shape our existence yet often remain hidden. Through sculptural and installative settings, I give form to these mechanisms. I work playfully with motifs drawn from everyday life, folk customs and architecture, and place them in new contexts.
Everyday materials and traditional craft techniques are central to this process. Their familiarity allows viewers to immediately connect with the work, whereas my experimental interventions unlock the transformative potential of the materials and reveal new meanings.
Through poetic shifts, humour and chosen inconsistencies, I create situations of productive irritation from which fairer narratives can emerge.
