Martha Rosler Woman with Cannon (Dots) (from the series House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home), 1967-1972 Martha Rosler initially trained in painting before turning to photography as a student at the University of California San Diego. The years from…
Senga Nengudi Water Composition III, 1970 Senga Nengusi was born in Chicago and raised in California. Choosing to study Fine Art at UCLA in the 1960s, she found herself…
On display Birgit Jürgenssen Going to Bed Without Sleeping, 1986 A myriad of eyes seem to bulge from a half-human object. This eerie, uncanny depiction of a hybrid body against a background hatched…
André Tommasini Dogonto, 1974 André Tommasini was born in Lausanne to an Italian family of marble headstone suppliers based close to Montoie cemetery. He learned stone-carving with…
On display Beauford Delaney Mémoire (Memory), 1964 Born into poverty and racial segregation, Beauford Delaney left his home state of Tennessee to study art in Boston. He moved to New…
Robert Breer Form Phases IV, 1954 Robert Breer was a recent Stanford graduate when he moved to Paris in 1949 to build his career as a painter. His budding style was…
On display Renée Green Space Poem #2 (Endless Dreams Triptych), 2009 Renée Green’s multimedia installation Endless Dreams and Water Between explores how desires and dreams have taken shape around islands in literature and history. Colourful banners…
Leonora Carrington Acrobats, 1981 Leonora Carrington was a wild, rebellious child. She showed an early aptitude for drawing, proved ambidextrous as a painter, and wrote her letters backwards. She…
Rebecca Horn Zen of Raven – Federskulptur (Zen of Raven – Feather Sculpture), 2008 Rebecca Horn made her first kinetic sculptures in the 1980s, building on a major period of creativity following the artist’s graduation from the Hamburg Hochschule…
Lubaina Himid Accidental Encounter, 2021 The leading contemporary artist Lubaina Himid was born in Tanzania in 1954. In the 1980s, she became a central figure in the British Black Arts…
On display Banu Cennetoğlu Gurbet’s Diary (27.07.1995 – 08.10.1997), 2016-2017 The Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu trained as a photographer. She is interested in classification, access to knowledge, information dissemination and the political aspects of archives…
Anne Rochat Doris Magico’s Nose is Facing Chongqing, chapitre 5 de Doris Magico, 2019 Anne Rochat's art consists essentially of performances developed in response to particular situations and spaces: as she said in 2020, she seeks "the tangible experience…
On display Guillaume Pilet My Life as a Parade, 2017 Guillaume Pilet is a multifaceted artist, working in paints, sculpture, ceramics, installations, performances, and opera to explore the language of abstraction and the afterlives of…
Yoan Mudry Reflections on Painting #3 (Jane Goodall), 2021 Yoan Mudry graduated from the Haute école d’art et de design, Geneva, in 2014. Since then, he has been developing a theory of image saturation,…
Jean-Frédéric Schnyder Ein Freund (A Friend), 1986 Jean-Frédéric Schnyder represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 1993, exhibiting a series of 119 small-format oil paintings of views from motorway bridges (Wanderung, 1991-1992).…
Francis Baudevin Untitled, 2003 Francis Baudevin creates paintings, wall paintings, and prints following a process he settled on in 1987. He seeks out abstract forms in the visual realm…
Félix Labisse Portrait de Jean-Louis Barrault (Portrait of Jean-Louis Barrault), 1947 In 1940, André Gide sat down to re-read Kafka's 1925 novel The Trial, recounting the arrest of Josef K., a bank clerk caught up in…
René Auberjonois Ubu roi, 1935 René Auberjonois moved to Paris in October 1896. There, he may have attended the premier of Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi, performed by the Théâtre…
Jean Otth Untitled, 1966 Jean Otth studied Fine Art in Lausanne from 1961 to 1963. He then devoted his early career to painting, experimenting widely with form, seeking particularly…
Jorge Macchi La luz (Light), 2015 Jorge Macchi's artworks use a variety of media and strategies to play with the viewer's perceptions. Flashes of light diffracted by a disco ball turn…
Denis Savary Franz, 2019 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…
Alain Huck Pause, 2019-2020 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…
On display Miriam Cahn Schiff, 1984 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…
Sandrine Pelletier The Deserted, 2015 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…
Maria Eichhorn Eichhörnchenkäfig (Squirrel cage), 2014 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…
Denis Savary Untitled, 2012 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…
Silvie Defraoui Das Bild im Boden (The Picture in the Floor), 1986-2009 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,…
