Background
Ethnicity:
Karim Noureldin’s father is Egyptian, and his mother is Swiss.
Karim Noureldin was born in 1967 in Zurich, Switzerland.
Karim Noureldin
Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland
Zurich University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) where Karim Noureldin studied from 1988 to 1990.
Münchenstein CH, Freilager-Platz 1, 4142 Basel, Switzerland
The University of Art and Design Basel (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst) where Karim Noureldin received his diploma in Fine Arts in 1994.
Karim Noureldin
Karim Noureldin at Art Dubai's Julius Baer Lounge.
Karim Noureldin
Karim Noureldin. Photo by Alexander Preobrajenski.
(From left to right) Erich Franz, Beat Wismer, Director General of the Museum Kunstpalast in Dusseldorf, and Karim Noureldin. Photo by Arndt Zinkant.
Karim Noureldin
Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland
Zurich University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) where Karim Noureldin studied from 1988 to 1990.
Münchenstein CH, Freilager-Platz 1, 4142 Basel, Switzerland
The University of Art and Design Basel (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst) where Karim Noureldin received his diploma in Fine Arts in 1994.
Karim Noureldin
Karim Noureldin at Art Dubai's Julius Baer Lounge.
Karim Noureldin
Karim Noureldin. Photo by Alexander Preobrajenski.
(From left to right) Erich Franz, Beat Wismer, Director General of the Museum Kunstpalast in Dusseldorf, and Karim Noureldin. Photo by Arndt Zinkant.
Karim Noureldin
Karim Noureldin with his wife Virginie Lauwerier and their two daughters.
Ethnicity:
Karim Noureldin’s father is Egyptian, and his mother is Swiss.
Karim Noureldin was born in 1967 in Zurich, Switzerland.
Karim Noureldin studied at Zurich University of the Arts from 1988 to 1990. Then, he pursued his education in Fine Arts at the University of Art and Design Basel from which he graduated in 1994.
Karim Noureldin started his career at the end of the 1990s. Using elements of the abstract art movement, he elaborated his own style of drawing featuring geometric patterns created with colored pencils.
Since then, in addition to traditional canvases, he has applied his artworks to decorate a great number of public environments, walls and floor of contemporary art galleries, museums, as well as sculptures and photos. He has contributed his artworks to a wide range of cultural institutions and state corporations, from textile manufacturers in India to such international architect firms like Herzog & de Meuron architects in Basel, Müller Sigrist architects in Zurich, and Make architects in London.
In 2002, Noureldin joined the staff of École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (University of Art and Design) as an associate professor of Fine Arts. He has also taught part-time since then at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Burgdorf, the University of Art and Design, Basel, and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Recently, in 2018, he also became a Senior Lecturer at the University of Engineering and Architecture in Fribourg.
In addition to the above-mentioned projects, Noureldin has exhibited worldwide, both on the solo and group shows. Nowadays, the artist lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Karim Noureldin is an accomplished artist whose large-scale works are recognized by the international art community.
Noureldin’s contributions to the contemporary art have been marked by such awards as Kiefer Hablitzel Award, Swiss Art Award, Manor Award, and Fondation Irène Reymond Award. He has also been an artist in residence and a recipient of many grants and fellowships, like Cahiers d’Artistes Grant from Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, from Christoph Merian Foundation, Basel, ISR Istituto Svizzero di Roma (Swiss Institute in Rome), and others.
Quotations: "It doesn’t matter to me if art is abstract or figurative, but I have personally always like non-figurative art, it’s timeless, universal and good pieces really touch me. It is also close to other things I like that inspire me such as architecture, design and arts & crafts. Even music is purely abstract in its concept, which people sometimes forget. Music might even have been the first human cultural expression of abstract art, together with the symbolic marks and hatchings found on objects made out of stone or animal bones by our ancestors."
Karim Noureldin has membered many jury commissions in art institutions. In 2017, the artist was named supervisory board member of the Hermann and Margrit Rupf Foundation/Rupf Collection, Bern.
Karim Noureldin is married to Virginie Lauwerier. She is an assistant director of Théâtre Sévelin 36 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Noureldin and Lauwerier have two daughters.
