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…

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…