Dominique Teufen was born in Davos Switzerland in 1975. After following a two years stone sculpting class in Zürich, she moved to Amsterdam and received her BA in Sculpture from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2002. In the following years she worked and exhibited in Melbourne, Zürich, London and New York. After moving back to Amsterdam, she attained her Master of Fine Art in 2010 at the Academy for Art and Design St. Joost in S’Hertogenbosch the Netherlands. Since 2011 she lives and works in Zürich and Amsterdam.

With Dominique’s education in Sculpture and fine Arts, material-experiments make up an important part of her work. Curious and fascinated by photography, she investigates and engages in different processes and mechanisms before she takes her photographs. With her specific use of photography, she not only examines the field of tension between two- and three dimensionality or between identity and difference, but also explores the area where reality and illusion lose their specific definition and where different possible realities can be visualized.

In Dominique’s ongoing project "my travel through the world on my copy machine" the illusion seems perfect; the mental journey into a believed reality has begun. Our suggestive perception draws pictures of picturesque landscapes, which in reality are all products of a commercially available copy machine. In Dominique's travel, photography is not used as a medium to render reality as sharp as possible, but uses photography to dupe us. Objects, though detailed captured, are composed into new visual realities. The use of everyday familiar imagery deliberately creates a reference to the real and confidant. Looking closer at these reconstructed worlds, reality loses its familiar face and suddenly becomes an illusion. Our brain sounds the alarm, some of the landscapes are so realistic that you can not believe that you are being deceived, they question our perception of reality and appearance.

In 2013 Dominique won the "Vfg young photography Award Switzerland" with her work "Blitzlichtskulpturen/ Flashlight sculptures". In her Flashlight sculptures, Dominique experiments with the photographic medium and shifts the instant decisive from the photographer's keen eye to the specific characteristics of the apparatus. At first glance, the plastic structures of mirror cubes, -plates and –pyramids do not do much: Square and round panels are built vertically and horizontally. It is only in the moment of taking pictures that the complex forms emerge and a new reality is created. The flashlight breaks countless times, the overlapping play of the entrance and exit angles folds the basic structure like an immaterial Rorschachfleck symmetrically. Even in the knowledge of the mechanisms of reflection, it is not possible to deduce all the light reflections and shadows cast. Made by the flashlight, hardly grasped by the eye and only captured by the camera, photography becomes the only witness of the Flashlight sculptures existence.

Since 2014 Dominique Teufen is represented by the Christophe Guye Gallery in Zürich Switzerland and shows her work nationally and internationally, such as in the Central Museum in Utrecht 2016, the photography biennale in Bogota 2017, the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden the Netherlands 2018 and in the NRW Forum in Düsseldorf 2018.