As a child, she attended drawing courses at the Dijon college of Art.
Arrived in Paris in 1973, she followed the drawing courses at the Academies
Charpentier and the Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse.
In 1976, she went into
advertising illustration. She worked with several women’s magazines
(20 Ans, Marie-France, Marie-Claire, Cosmopolitan).
The births of her three children punctually interrupted in 1977, 1980,
and 1986 the first part of her professional career.
In 1986, she decided to
stop her activity in the “Arts Appliqués”.
From 1986 to 1989, she attended the sculptor Manfredi Quartana’s
modelling lectures and learned how to model from life.
In 1989, she met the sculptor Coutelle who taught her in his studio how
to sculpt in the stone block.
In 1994, she set up her own studio in Belleville in Paris.
After taking part in several
group exhibitions, she had for the first her own exhibition in the Selmersheim
Gallery in Paris in 1995.
In 1997,with Asnières town (92) she won her first public monument,
dedicated to the Palatine Princess.
Meanwhile, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais several exhibitions and events started
with the creation of the “Bass player”, carried out in the Marquise
marble quarries (62).
In 1998, within the context of corporate sponsorship, she was commissioned
by the S.I.B. (Printing firm of Boulogne-sur-Mer) a sculpture made of
Boulogne marble, “Impressions” and based on the firm’s
brand image.
At the end of 2000, she
carried out a monumental sculpture made of Britain granite; this sculpture
named “Nature”, has been privately commissioned.
In April 2001, Concarneau town invited her for a personal exhibition.
In January 2002, she carried out the posthumous portrait of M.A. Martinez
made of Volvic lava.
In November 2002, next to a personnal exhibition in the “Histoire
Naturelle Museum” of Lille, the geology department purchased one
of her sculpture made of Volvic lava named “Trois Soeurs”.
In January 2003, “La Maison Française d’Oxford”(UK)
invited her for a personnal exhibition.
DAUM France edited her work of Art named KEA made of “pâte
de verre”.
In november 2003, the agricultural college of Coulogne (Pas-de-Calais,
France) commissioned her for a portrait of Emile Dupuy Abbot, founder
of the college. The sculpture is made of Boulonnais marble.
In January 2004, Boulogne-sur-Mer council confides to her the realisation
of two monumental sphinx made of Lanhelin granit to complete the Auguste
Mariette monument.
The town council ordered it for the cultural event “Boulogne-sur-Mer
2004” (delivery expected in June 2004)
The Galerie-en-Ré
of Bois-Colombes (92) shew her new works on the topic of the sea in December
2004 and March 2005.
DAUM France edited a second work named “SOURIRE” made of “pâte
de verre”in January 2005.
She participated to the Artistic Exhibition of Rosenau in April 2005,
of Landser in September 2005 in the Haut-Rhin and of Wimereux (62) under
the sponsorship of Robert Zieba.
The Marcel-Sahut Museum of Volvic invited her for a retrospective on sculptures
cut in lava.
In September 2005, her sculpture entitled “Sirène-Fleur”
is selected for the “Salon de la Marine” in Paris.
In October 2005 of the same year, the “Salon d’Automne”
of Paris exhibited the sculpture “Amants Eternels”. The Taylor
Foundation awards the « Sandoz Prize 2005 » to this sculpture.
In june 2006, the Estaimpuis
council in Belgium commissioned her for a monumental sculpture made of
Boulonnais marble dedicated to « The Old Bargeman » 270 x
150 x 100 cm being in place on the roundabout Leers-Nord–Province
of Hainaut.
In 2007 she installed a monumental fresco made of marble and bronze 300
x 100 cm on the topic of
“Printing since Gutenberg time” in the head office
of SIB (Société d’Impression du Boulonnais)
Saint-Léonard (62).
In November 2007, her sculpture entitled “Rendez-vous à Dogger Bank” is selected for the 40th Salon de la Marine in Paris. She received a congratulatory letter from the Secretary of State for Defence about this work of art in January 2008, as well as a special award by the panel of judges of the 9th Biennial Exhibition of Wildlife Sculptures in Rambouillet Castle park in september 2008.
She participated to the Monumental Sculpture Exhibition organized by the Potassiumine of Alsace Company-Wittelsheim in june 2008.
She received the Sculpture Medal of the 143 rd Salon de Versailles in December 2008.
In 2009, The 88th Prix d’Amérique’s trophy, the worldwide horse competition of harness race was sculpted by Sylvie Koechlin
In February 2010, she participates to the group exhibition within the context “ SculpturELLES”, four women sculptors meeting.
In July/August 2010, she participates to the group exhibition “SCULPTURES/Matières à rencontres” in the Public Library of Boulogne-sur-Mer (62) France.
Today, Sylvie KOECHLIN lives and works near Boulogne-sur-Mer/ Pas-de-Calais
in France.
Member of the Salon d’Automne Society Paris.
Member of the Taylor Foundation since 1997.
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Sylvie Koechlin