Giuseppe Penone spent his early years in the countryside, giving him an inalienable sense of the importance of the bond between man and nature and the often invisible ways in which they impact each other.

Trained at Hongik University in Seoul and then at the École nationale des beaux-arts de Paris, Kimsooja has divided her time between New York and Seoul for the past thirty years. Since 1999, she has…

In 1975, after respective careers in the visual arts (for her) and in writing and cultural criticism (for him, after training as a historian), Silvie and Chérif Defraoui decided that they would henceforth work together.

Trees as a motif and wood as a material are constant presences in Giuseppe Penone’s work. He has exhibited blocks of wood, carved trunks into a tree trunk and sculpted them in marble, assembled branches…

After having given up an opportunity to study at the École Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1937, Soulages returned to the city in 1946 to devote himself wholly to painting. His paintings, already…

In 2014, Circuit, an artist-run space in Lausanne, held an exhibition of works by Michael Scott, including ATHTTSTW # 7, which paid homage to his influence on artists in the french-speaking part of Switzerland, most…

Created mainly outdoors (on the US East Coast, in Iowa, Indiana, Canada, Mexico and Cuba), the works of Ana Mendieta are all about the relation to the earth, the body and time. The artist was…

In 1967, VALIE EXPORT abandoned her birth surname for that of a brand of cheap cigarettes, ‘Smart Export’, which became her artist and legal name. This powerful feminist act, refusing to perpetuate the tradition of…

Stéphane Dafflon’s development as an artist was shaped by his studies and an art scene that encouraged geometric abstraction. The influence of Swiss graphic design, the precedent of concrete art in Zurich in the 1930s…

Trained at the School of Visual Arts and in the Whitney Independent Program in New York during the 1980s, Tom Burr produces works – photographs, sculptures and installations – that revisit the formal vocabulary of…