César Axel

césar axel born in mexico. based in vevey, switzerland.

education

year record
2021 mfa in visual arts, école cantonale d’art de lausanne (ecal), lausanne, switzerland.
2015 ba in digital art and animation, tecnológico de monterrey (itesm), guadalajara, mexico.

residencies

year record
2022 lieu commun, lausanne, switzerland.

talks & presentations

year record
2020 a room for two, flowstone, la halle de sébeillon, lausanne, switzerland.
2019 unesco creative cities network: fostering a strong future for digital artmaking, sxsw festival, austin central library, austin, usa.

awards

year record
2019 walter & eve kent award for painters, lausanne, switzerland.

artist-run initiatives

years record
2020–2022 espacio cabeza, artist-run exhibition space, guadalajara, mexico.
(co-founded with juan carlos guerrero santos and marco valtierra.)

exhibitions

year record
2025 tba, can, neuchâtel, switzerland.
hearts trained to failure, lokal-int, biel/bienne, switzerland.
douce death, espace contact, neuchâtel, switzerland.
2024 love in the between (otters holding hands), giulietta / lumpen station, basel, switzerland.
general æsthetics, smallville – espace d’art contemporain, neuchâtel, switzerland.
2023 slowdown for the baby, egg art space / zhdk, zurich, switzerland.
space invasion 2, galerie fabienne levy, lausanne, switzerland.
2022 slowburner, egg art space / zhdk, zurich, switzerland.
post contact, rhode island, new york, usa.
2021 space invasion, galerie fabienne levy, lausanne, switzerland.
2020 mark my words, garage gpf, guadalajara, mexico.
2019 unesco × sxsw, sxsw festival, austin central library, austin, usa.
2018 had a dream you won’t understand, goodbuy gallery, bucharest, romania.
deadline (6th edition), centro cultural fátima, monterrey, mexico.

languages

item record
spanish (native).
english (fluent).
french (intermediate).