Jean Crotti left his literary studies at the University of Lausanne after a year to study fine art in Geneva from 1977-1979. Together with other young artists who were to make their mark on the…

The human body and its workings, representations, and social status are at the heart of the American artist Kiki Smith’s art. Since the early 1980s, her work has been driven by the urge to understand…

Despite the severe, bare appearance of his artistic language, François Morellet shows great invention and humour in his approach to geometrical abstraction. After a short figurative period in the late 1940s, the artist rejected expressiveness…

Following a period in which he created pencil drawings on very large sheets of paper or on a multitude of small sheets covering a given architectural space, Karim Noureldin began using colour. In 2006, he…

Didier Rittener has spent nearly twenty years building an archive of images. He copies faces, patterns, textual fragments, works of art, and landscapes onto A4 tracing paper, sometimes adding his own modifications. Together they form…

Yael Bartana shot her first videos at the turn of the millennium, and has since built a body of work that shifts between a documentary approach and the fictional construction of historical events and even…

Valérie Favre’s series Make-up depicts the artist herself as characters from famous paintings or photographs. From Giorgio de Chirico’s Seer (1915, New York, The Museum of Modern Art) to Jean Cocteau asleep, photographed by Berenice…

Before devoting herself to the visual arts in the 1980s, Valérie Favre worked as a theatre actress in Geneva and Paris. After a brief stab at performance art, she turned to painting as a medium…

Claudia Comte revisits the history of forms, with references ranging from sculpture of the first half of the twentieth century (Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Barbara Hepworth, etc.) to artistic movements of the mid-century and beyond…

Miriam Cahn began specialising in drawing from the outset of her career. The medium allowed her to break free from the purely technical skills she learned as a graphic design student in Basel from 1968…