| Carmen D'Apollonio (*1973, Zurich, Switzerland) lives and works in Los Angeles. D’Apollonio previously worked as an art director for short films and commercials in the mid-nineties. In 1996, she began working with the artist Urs Fischer, and assisting him for over a decade. In 2006, she founded the fashion brand Ikou Tschuss (ikou means “let’s go” in Japanese and tschüss is “byebye” in Swiss German), which combined modern textiles with traditional artistry. D’Apollonio established her own studio in Los Angeles in 2014. D’Apollonio’s process begins with sketching, which she then translates into clay—evolving the three-dimensional form as she goes. Her titles range from the comic to the plaintive and offer narrative fragments entirely in tune with their suggestive, open-ended compositions. | |
| 1995 | art director for short film and commercials |
| 1996–2006 | assistance and collaboration for Urs Fischer, New York |
| 2006 | foundation of Ikou Tschuss |
| 2006–2014 | design and creation for Ikou Tschuss, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2015–2016 | qualification as a ceramicist |
Exhibitions
| 2023 | coming up September: Tobias Mueller Modern Art, Zurich, Switzerland (S) |
| 2022 | I´m Not A Shrimp, Friedman Benda, Los Angeles, US (S) |
| 2021 | One Lazy Afternoon, Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf, Germany (S) Don´t Wake The Snake, Friedman Benda, New York (S) |
| 2020 | Felix LA, Los Angeles |
| 2019 | Independent New York Jeff Lincoln, New York (G) Jeff Lincoln, New York (G) Summer, Friedman Benda, New York (G) |
| 2018 | Time to Say Hello, Matt Blacke Inc./ Cliff Fong, Los Angeles, USA (S) And Other Stories, invited by Camille Bidaut-Waddington, Paris, France (G) 3 days with Carmen D´Apollonio, Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf, Germany (S) |
| 2017 | Schöner Wohnen Galerie Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany (G) The More I See, Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf, Germany (S) |
| 2016 | Collaboration with Céline, Paris, Fall/Winter 2016 |
Press (excerpt)
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Licht-Skulpturen, NZZ Magazine, December 2022 Don´t Wake the Snake, Whitewall Magazine, October 2021 Discover the Evocative Lighting of Carmen D´Apollonio, Galerie Magazine, July 2021 Carmen D´Apollonio Makes Lamps That Feel Like Friends, Cultured Magazine, July 2021 Architectural Digest US, May 2021 Apartamento Magazine, May/ June 2021 Mooi uitgelicht, JAN Living (The Netherlands), January 2021 Les portraits, AD France, No. 157, No./ Dec. 2019 Carmen D’Apollonio, Dream Magazine (ES), April 2019 Carmen D’Apollonio, Harper’s Bazaar Spain, March 2019 September 2018 - New York Times Magazine, The Design Issue Modevärldens nya älsklingar, STYLE BY, fall 2018 ELLE Decoration NL, June/ July 2018 Still Life, RUSSH June/ July 2018 Vogue Living NL, May 2018 Carmen D´Apollonio, L´Officiel (Mexico), Feb/March 2018 Jetzt geht´s rund, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland), Dec 3, 2017 Carmen D´Apollonio´s Ceramic Creations Are Céline Approved, VOGUE online (US), Oct. 15, 2017 D´Apollonio, l´artista che trasforma la ceramica in lampade di design, ELLE Decor Italia, Oct. 2, 2017 Carmen D´Apollonio, Unconditional Magazine (US), Autumn/Winter 2017 Lampes sculpturales , MilK Decoration (France), Sept. 27, 2017 Lampes sculpturales en céramique, Le Journal Du Design (France), Sept. 26, 2017 Sculptural Ceramic Lamps, Ignant/ Design (Germany), Sept. 22, 2017 Carmen D´Apollonio, Miss Moss (Australia), Sept. 8, 2017 We Love NYC, annabelle (Switzerland), August 30, 2011 |