Carole Kohler creates aesthetic, energetic, multi-layered and atmospheric abstract images that invite the viewer again and again to a visual journey into the depths of the work. Layer by layer and using a wide variety of materials, she creates forms and structures, some of which are reminiscent of traces of natural patina on rocks and tree bark or volcanic rock surfaces. Her abstract pictorial worlds in natural mixed tones can develop into visible landscapes, into forms recognizable on contemplation that open up into meditative spaces at rest in themselves. Her trademark is semi-transparent layering and camouflaged elements that are not immediately recognizable. Thus, the viewer is always offered a new experience as he discovers new, semi-hidden layers, and his perception of the work is renewed and changed as a result.
Carole Kohler, born in La-Chaux-de-Fonds in 1967, is a Swiss artist who creates abstract paintings and sculptures and augments her visual worlds for exhibitions with augmented reality. Carole Kohler grew up in Biel, where she completed an artistic education at the School of Applied Arts before training as a decorative designer. She worked as a set designer in Turkey, made murals with children with cancer in Soweto, South Africa and painted with baby elephants in northern Thailand. Nearly 30 years ago, she began her artistic career with charcoal portraits of indigenous people and paintings of wildlife. A mind-expanding trek with camels through the Sahara prompted her to abandon the figurative path and turn to abstraction.
In 2015, she won the "Prix de la Sarrazine" which allowed her to work in Provence for 8 months.
In 2018 she won the 2nd prize at the international art competition Parco Artistico Leonardo, Italy.
In 2019, she spent a two-month artist residency at the Kirsten Kjaer Museum in Denmark.
In 2021, she won 1st prize at the Novum Investments Basel online exhibition.
Discover the pictorial works of Carole Kohler with the iazzu app. In the app you get access to the current stock of available paintings by the artist and can visualize them on your walls with augmented reality.
With the QR code you can download the app and after installation you will get to the section with works by Carole Kohler.