Explore Artists in Switzerland
Find Contemporary, Modern, and Emerging Artists in Switzerland
Tobias Spichtig
Lucerne, Switzerland
Tobias Spichtig is a Swiss artist known for his multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, sculpture, and installation. His work often utilizes everyday objects, consumer goods, and digital imagery to explore themes of transience, consumerism, and the uncanny within contemporary visual culture, often with a subtle melancholic humor.
Ugo Rondinone
Brunnen, Switzerland
Ugo Rondinone is a Swiss-born, New York-based artist known for his diverse oeuvre spanning sculpture, painting, video, and installation. His work often incorporates everyday motifs like rainbows, clowns, and ancient stones, imbued with a contemplative, meditative quality that explores themes of time, nature, and human experience.
Urs Fischer
Zurich, Switzerland
Urs Fischer is a Swiss artist known for his boundary-pushing, often provocative sculptures and installations. His diverse practice employs various materials, from clay to melting wax, and explores themes of decay, transformation, and the ephemeral nature of existence with wit and conceptual rigor.
Vanessa Safavi
Lausanne, Switzerland
Vanessa Safavi, a Swiss artist, creates evocative sculptures and installations using diverse materials, often exploring the interplay between the organic and the artificial. Her work delves into themes of the body, sensuality, and contemporary anxieties, inviting viewers to engage with objects on a visceral and psychological level. Safavi’s art is subtly disruptive and deeply textural.
Lori Hersberger
Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss interdisciplinary artist known for vibrant, reflective installations, neon, video, sculpture, and neon paintings. Lives and works in Zurich.
Heidi Bucher
Winterthur, Switzerland
Bucher's transformative works, involving latex casts of architectural interiors, explore themes of memory, domesticity, and the body. Her practice challenged traditional notions of sculpture.
Olivier Mosset
Bern, Switzerland
Mosset's paintings, with their minimalist forms and monochromatic palettes, explore the materiality of paint and the act of creation.
Olympia Scarry
Zurich, Switzerland
Scarry's sculptures and installations, with their minimalist forms and industrial materials, explore themes of space and structure.