Vincent Kohler appropriates familiar objects and takes them as far as his imagination will carry him, towards popular culture and, sometimes, childhood. He oversizes and transforms them, giving them a humorous, grotesque or fantastical quality.

In 1984, Thomas Hirschhorn moved from Switzerland to Paris, where he still lives today, in order to join Grapus, a graphics collective with roots in the events of May 1968. The collective seeks to combine…

A self-taught painter, Christoph Gossweiler began his career in the mid-1970s, adopting the practice of seriality that played an important role, especially in minimalist art and in conceptual art. Also evident in his work is…

Since 1987, Francis Baudevin has been producing a referential form of geometrical abstraction. He postulates that it is impossible to create even abstract art without referring to preexisting images, if only involuntarily. Each of his…

David Hominal mixes images from different sources and references  with different arts and pictorial traditions in order to take on the great narratives of painting, and even to partake in them, with the gravity of…

Silvie Defraoui studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Algiers and then ceramics at the École des arts décoratifs in Geneva. After a period working alone, she teamed up with Chérif Defraoui. Between…

Robert Breer began his career as a painter after studying at Stanford University, near San Francisco, in 1949. That same year he moved to Paris where he applied the principles of neoplasticism, as defined by…

Don Hazlitt worked on this painting while staying at the Nota Bene art residency in Cadaqués, Spain, in 1996. It is one of a series of small-format works in bright colours, influenced by the Mediterranean…

Alain Huck studied at the École cantonale d’art in Lausanne from 1982 and 1986, where he was influenced by the néo-géo school and by his teachers, Jean Otth and Janos Urban. The notion of the…

Propped up on a bolster and a pile of pillows and tucked under warm blankets, fourteen-year-old Patrice X. is smiling timidly at the photographer. His head is slightly tilted and his right hand is gripping…