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 a legal nightmare and sentenced for a crime that is…

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 de l’Œuvre troupe on December 10 that same year. The…

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 to put a new spin on classic techniques and media.

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 into slashes in the walls and ceiling (Still Song, 2005,…

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…