Christian Bader

Born in 1960, after a youth strewn with hardships, Christian saw a major questioning. He trained as an educator and worked in the social sector until he became director of an institute for young people in difficulty. Nothing in his career leads one to think that an artistic approach can emerge from it. Interested in art as a spectator, it was necessary to meet artists for the desire to achieve to awaken. In 2007, and in a self-taught way, he started painting and sculpture. It is a period of consequent insomnia which generates important health problems. Christian decides to make passing time his ally because the days and nights offer him plenty of it. He begins to work his artistic expression permanently.
After two or three years of trial and error, it was in 2011 that the colors came out. He doesn’t really know how to use what appears to him. In this unknown terrain, expressing oneself without constraint seems obvious to him.
« Just because I have to, » he said.
Acrylic, oil, oil pastel, felt, earth, plaster and bronze are all materials used to draw, paint, sculpt his ailments as much as his inner words. Wood, paper, sheet metal, canvas or cardboard are among the supports he inhabits with his colors. He works with constancy, challe...

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Kudeta à Sion-Valais-Suisse août et septembre 2014
Fondation Valette à Ardon-Valais-Suisse du 21 au 30 mai 2015
Galerie Latour à Martigny-Valais-Suisse du 05 au 19 décembre 2015
Les Mayens d’Anakolodge, la Forclaz-Valais- Suisse du 24-25 juin 2016
Galerie Mounir-Sion-Suisse- novembre du 20.10 au 11.11.2017
New Art 48 Gallery à Montreux-Vaud-Suisse du 28 juin au 31 juillet 2018
New Art 48 Gallery (collective à thème) du 25 janvier au 24 février 2019
Fondation Valette à Ardon- Valais-Suisse du 17.09 au 09.10 2020

Collectives :
New Art 48 Gallery du 28 septembre au 21 octobre 2018
Montreux Art Gallery-Salon d’art contemporain du 7 au 11 novembre 2018
Citere- Galeria Azur - Berlin- 11.06 au 06.07 2022
Inernational Arfair Paris- Galerie Monat de Madrid 23 au 25.09.2022
The Unexpected- Galerie Monat de Madrid du 24 mars au 07 avril 2023
Galerie Saint-Bonnet, CH-Dully, du 13 au 19.10 2023