Born in Geneva in 1993, Zoé Tullen lives in Marseille and is currently an artist-in-residence at Sissi Club Studio. She graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2019.
The artist’s career
Born in Geneva in 1993, Zoé Tullen lives in Marseille and is currently an artist-in-residence at Sissi Club Studio. She graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2019.
Her work has been recognized by several platforms dedicated to the emerging art scene, including
the Utopi·e Prize (2025 winner), the 67th Salon de Montrouge (2023), and Jungkunst, Winterthur (2022). Her recent group and solo exhibitions include Art Genève (2026), Centre Wallonie Bruxelles (2025), AtelierHaus of the Canton of Geneva, Berlin (2025), One Gee in Fog, Geneva (2025), Hiflow, Geneva (2024), Espace Le Carré, Lille (2024), Galerie Dix9, Paris (2024), Galerie du Crous de Paris (2023). In 2025, she was awarded a six-month residency in Berlin by the Canton of Geneva, which will result in a publication to be released by Atelier Berlin (FCAC). She will soon be exhibiting at 193 Gallery in Paris and at 6B in Saint-Denis.
Presentation
« Zoé Tullen’s artistic practice is inspired by an observation: machines, like women, are subjected to patriarchy through shared mechanisms. Whether in physical or virtual form, her three-dimensional work precisely reveals the objectification endured by these two groups – human and non-human. The evolving series she began in 2022, Motherlode (meaning ‘mother vein’ or ‘source code’), focuses in particular on the historical relationships between women and electronic programming devices.
(…) Whilst feminist artists of the 1980s, such as Dara Birnbaum and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, asserted their gendered place within and through technological media, Zoé Tullen is now exploring the abolition of gender as a path to emancipation. Both sculptural and pictorial, analogue and digital – and thus non-binary – her works also open up the binary nature of computer language to new horizons. The artist seeks to introduce emotion and subjectivity into the technological realm – tools through which women and queer people have not only resisted but also freed themselves from the shackles of patriarchal domination. (…) »
Claire Contamine, 67e Salon de Montrouge, 2023