Our artistic collaboration began during our photography studies at the university and continues to this day. Since graduating in 2006, we have worked as artists, photographers and freelance lecturers for various art colleges. Our photographs have been shown in numerous exhibitions, including at the Metropolitan Museum in New York (USA), the Museum Folkwang in Essen (D), the Fotostiftung Schweiz (CH) and the C/O Berlin (D), as well as at festivals in Switzerland, France, Poland, Sweden and China. Our book "Double Take" was published in 2018 in English by Thames & Hudson (GB/USA), in German by Lars Müller Publisher (CH), in Taiwanese and in Japanese by Seigensha (JP).
Jojakim Cortis was born in Germany in 1978 and has lived in Zurich since 2001. He studied photography at the Zurich University of the Arts ZHDK and graduated in 2006. He gained experience through internships in the studio of photographer Ben Isselstein (Germany), Torkil Gudanson (USA) and at the Walter Schupfer Management agency (USA).
Adrian Sonderegger was born in Switzerland in 1980 and has lived in Zurich since 2001. After completing the preliminary design course in 2001, he studied photography at the Zurich University of the Arts ZHDK and graduated in 2006. From 2007-2011, he worked as an assistant to the artist Jules Spinach and taught at the Zurich University of Art and Design SKDZ.
OUR STYLE
"Cortis & Sonderegger's works are characterised by a clear aesthetic diction. Their pictorial tricks are satirical, cleverly staged and metaphorically underpinned. Objects and people take off, float, fall..."
"... her photographic raw material is simple fabrics, props and tools."
"The artificial structure with rods and equipment, with reductions of foreground and background to a picture scenery, with light and fog machines etc. is often made transparent at the edges of the picture."
Die Schwerische Post - Post CH Netz AG, Ochsner Sport, Bundesamt für Kultur Schweiz, Hochschule Luzern - Design & Kunst, Staatskanzlei des Kantons Zürich, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHDK, M4Music, Kuhn Rikon, Bilanz, Annabelle, Beobachter, Das Magazin, Die Zeit, DU, Friday, Hochparterre, Neon, Passagen, Schweizer Familie, SonntagsZeitung, Weltwoche, WOZ, Pro Helvetia, Kauf, Horgen Glarus, Halter, DU, Migros Magazin, UBS, Via, Vivai, Z Magazine, Greenpeace, Helvetas, Ruf Lanz, Spinas Civil Voices, Wirz, Publicis and many more.
OUR SUCCESS
Selection „15th Anniversary Displays“, Der Greif, Munich (DE), 2023
Short-list „Festival Images“, Vevey (CH), 2023
Work grant Covid-19, City Council, Zürich (CH), 2021
Short-list „Festival Images“, Vevey (CH), 2021
“Photographer of the Year“, SWISS PHOTO ACADEMY, Zürich (CH), 2019
Best Photography Awards, 7th Dali international photography exhibition, Dali (CHN), 2017
