Katya Bonnenfant

Katya Bonnenfant studied graphic design, fine art, and philosophy in Paris. She has been a freelance designer since 2ooo. Her work emerges in a continual conversation between her practice as a designer and her visual-art research, through web design, sound, animations, installations, video, and performing art.

Katya likes to explore the frame of commissioned works the same way she does her own projects, creating little narrations in a baroque and humorous proliferation: what is subject and what is ornament? Must entertainment and leisure conflict with function and usage? How can politics be engaged in a poetic process, giving place to accidents, fortuitous encounters, improbable sharing? For her the design, and the fellow of our every day life, can only attempt to encourage collective cheerfulness.

Bonnenfant currently teaches multimedia design at the Nationale Fine Art School of Lyon in France.