Rebecca Horn made her first kinetic sculptures in the 1980s, building on a major period of creativity following the artist’s graduation from the Hamburg Hochschule für bildende Künste and a stay in a sanatorium that…

The leading contemporary artist Lubaina Himid was born in Tanzania in 1954. In the 1980s, she became a central figure in the British Black Arts Movement. Also a curator, she won the Turner Prize in…

The Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu trained as a photographer. She is interested in classification, access to knowledge, information dissemination and the political aspects of archives and archival collection. Her conceptual language takes shape in installations…

Anne Rochat’s art consists essentially of performances developed in response to particular situations and spaces: as she said in 2020, she seeks “the tangible experience of travel, discomfort, the exotic, the disturbing or astonishing, then…

Guillaume Pilet is a multifaceted artist, working in paints, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performances, and opera to explore the language of abstraction and the afterlives of forms, motifs, and techniques that distantly chime with it. My…

Yoan Mudry graduated from the Haute école d’art et de design, Geneva, in 2014. Since then, he has been developing a theory of image saturation, excess information, and the multiplication of narrative inputs that run…

Jean-Frédéric Schnyder represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 1993, exhibiting a series of 119 small-format oil paintings of views from motorway bridges (Wanderung, 1991-1992). The title of each work was the ID number of…

Francis Baudevin creates paintings, wall paintings, and prints following a process he settled on in 1987. He seeks out abstract forms in the visual realm that surrounds us, in packaging, logos, album sleeves, and the…

In 1940, André Gide sat down to re-read Kafka’s 1925 novel The Trial, recounting the arrest of Josef K., a bank clerk caught up in a legal nightmare and sentenced for a crime that is…

René Auberjonois moved to Paris in October 1896. There, he may have attended the premier of Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi, performed by the Théâtre de l’Œuvre troupe on December 10 that same year. The…