Simon Lamunière is a Swissart curator. After his studies at the School of Visual Arts in Geneva and a postgraduate course at the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel, Simon Lamunière has received grants for a residence at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart where he produces videos, installations and new media art pieces. As an artist he has participated to solo and group shows from 1987 to 2003 in Paris, New-York, Lisbonne, Frankfuft and in Switzerland. His last known exhibition was at the :fr:Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain|Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain or , Geneva, in 2003. His experience as curator began at the Centre pour l'image contemporaine with the International Video Week program, one of the first video festivals in Switzerland and Europe. He then created and managed "Version 1.0", the first edition of what became the "Version Biennale" until 2004, an internationally considered biennale, focused on video and multimedia. In 1997, he designed and curated the website of the documenta directed by Catherine David, in Kassel. He engaged artists as Antoni Muntadas to produce net art as or by Matt Mullican or artist like Jodi among others for the site. Simon Lamunière also contributed to the creation of the Museum of Modern Art Mudam) website in Luxembourg with Claude Closky, Jean-Charles Massera and Benjamin Weil. In 2000 he was appointed curator of Art|Unlimited at Art Basel, a job he held until 2011. Then he became Chairman of directed by Thomas HUG until 2015. Since 2007, he was the project manager of within the and the Canton Contemporary Art Fund of Geneva. Located on the largest public place of Geneva, this site-specific art project invited Swiss and international artists to create luminous artworks for building roofs in the same way as advertising signs are placed on the Geneva lakeside. The project has just received the swiss Prix Visarte 2017. In 2009, Simon Lamunière was the Director of "Utopics"", the 11th Swiss Exhibition of Sculptures, a quinquennial exhibition launched in 1954 by Marcel Joray in the field of contemporary art in public space in Biel/Bienne in the Canton of Bern. From 2014 to 2016 He was curator of the , a site specific art area in the south of France. Since 2008 he is producing artist's editions. He has already collaborated with :de:Peter Kogler|Peter Kogler, Matt Mullican, Heimo Zobernig, Carsten Hoeller, Sylvie Fleury, Sarah Morris, Liam Gillick. He co-curated site-specific or public art exhibitions as Open End in Geneva; or the recent in the Valais, Switzerland.
