The early twenty-first century saw Denis Savary develop a body of work hybridising references gleaned from his immediate surroundings, art history, and pop culture. The form and materiality of his sculptures gesture to fragmentary narratives…

Alain Huck explored a number of creative paths before settling on drawing in the early 1990s, choosing the medium for the fragility it brought to images that were often deeply brutal in nature, echoing the…

Miriam Cahn completed a demanding graphic design course at the Basel Gewerbeschule from 1968 to 1973, finding freedom of expression in drawing with her eyes closed, straight on the ground or on large sheets of…

Sandrine Pelletier graduated in stage design from the Centre d’enseignement professionnel in Vevey in 1999 and in graphic design at the École cantonale d’art in Lausanne in 2002. Her first works were drawings, textile art,…

Maria Eichhorn is a Berlin-based conceptual artist whose work incorporates social, economic, environmental and political aspects and who brings a critical gaze to bear on the art world and the values it embodies. Eichhörnchenkäfig, produced…

Denis Savary initially became interested in video and drawing for their ‘practical and transportable’ side, as he explained in a 2016 interview. In the early 2000s, he began to develop an oeuvre in the two…

Das Bild im Boden is a series of over one hundred works produced between 1986 and 2015 as part of the Archives du futur project, begun in 1975 by the husband-and-wife team Chérif and Silvie…

Silvie and Chérif Defraoui began working together in 1975 on the long-term project Archives du futur, involving a range of techniques including installations, videos, and photography, among others. After Chérif’s death in 1994, Silvie Defraoui…

Lynn Chadwick was a self-taught sculptor. The influence of his architecture studies before World War Two is clear in his early works, reflecting an interest in how shapes balance and integrate space. His later sculptures…

After leaving school in Paris, Aimée Moreau studied art privately in the same city, devoting herself entirely to painting from the mid-1950s on. She has painted from life every day since, working to a timetable…