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Avousse Gynahru, Togo, Skulpturen aus Keramik

Ölbilder zum Thema Wasser, Beatrice Baumann

Vernissage, 10.07. – Finissage 29.08. 2021

Avousse Gynahru
Born in Togo, West Africa, Gynahru trained as a cultural animator before dedicating his work to clay figures shaped by hand. His sculptures explore human action and inner life, with women as central motif — an inscription of human genetics. For ten years he has lived in near-solitude on Mont Agou at 900m, drawing from earth, rain, and light as the foundation of all life.

Beatrice Baumann
When a subject captivates her — such as the element of water — she immerses herself fully until it is exhausted within her current consciousness. Her series of oil paintings explores water’s paradox: universally known as the softest and weakest force on earth, yet nothing compares to the way it overcomes hardness. The weak conquers the strong. The soft conquers the hard.

Jean Michel Degoumois, Yannick Bonvin Rey

Jean Michel Degoumois, Switzerland
Landscape — rural or urban — is his source. Rather than reproducing it, he filters it through feeling and impression. He works predominantly in black, whose strength other colours can emphasize without replacing. Using bitumen, pastel, and oil, he traces what he calls „black paths“ — unmarked routes, lost roads, the side ways absent from any map. His research extends in parallel into engraving.

Yannick Bonvin Rey, Switzerland
Her painting practice is inseparable from poetry. Words catalyse gestures, shape palettes, and open new directions from one series to the next. Her current body of work is structured around Andrée Chedid’s Fouilles — exploring the relationship to rock, earth, and immemorial strata. Moving between large mineral-dense formats and fluid, map-like intimacy, her work shifts perspective: from frontal encounter to the view of a migratory bird passing overhead.

Philippe Biffiger, Switzerland

Vernissage 1. February | Finissage, 2. March 2019

Born 1979 in Bern, Biffiger developed an early fascination with moving images, shaped by his father’s extensive VHS collection. Since 2003 he has appeared in various film productions, and in 2008 co-founded the association bewegtbild for non-commercial artistic film. Since 2009 he has pursued photography in his own style — capturing lines, structures, and compositions of people and urban space, predominantly in high-contrast black and white, always seeking the unconventional angle.

Eduard Dill, Schweiz

Vernissage, Do. 29. November | Finissage, Sa. 22. December 2018

His oil paintings embrace the unpredictable — spontaneous, poetic, direct, without preconception. What moves him is the moment of surprise, where he can still astonish himself. The viewer, looking into the image, always discovers something new and senses their own aliveness within it. His charcoal drawings were made using coal from a burnt, uprooted almond tree — a tribute to it.

Arlette Zurbuchen, Schweiz

September 15, 5 pm – October 6, 10 pm, 2018

Her paintings and drawings reflect on everyday situations in contemporary society. She searches for ways to characterize the world we live in and the events that define our time. Alongside her theatre work, painting allows her to expand moments that would otherwise remain mere details within a production. Arlette has exhibited in New York, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland.

Matheus Guimaràes, Brasilien

Vernissage, Sa. 2. June 2018 | Finissage, Sa. 30 June 2018

Born 1986 in southern Brazil into an art-inspired family, Guimarães works exclusively with abstract elements combined with photography and 3D fractals. Each piece is developed independently, with no shared thread between works. Though digitally created, every artwork is sold as a unique original — once sold, it will never be reproduced in any format or size.

Mojca Nevenka Locki, Sarajevo

Vernissage,14. April | Finissage, 12. May 2018

Born 1955 in Sarajevo, she worked for many years as a computer programmer before moving to Düsseldorf, Germany in 1985. Around 2007 she discovered painting as her true passion. She works in acrylics, without reference or plan, painting everything that emerges from within — until the work feels complete.

Jamie Townsend, USA

Vernissage, 13 January – 11. February 2018

Born 1972 in Vermont, Townsend grew up captivated by the colours and chaos of nature, observing the harmony of form and colour in his surroundings. He later studied at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida, where his palette developed as sand met sky. On large canvases he works with movement and dynamic energy, using the camera to zoom in and out, searching for form in nature.

Valeriu Buev, Moldova

Vernissage 15.November – 30 Dezember 2017

Trained as a book designer, Buev held his first Western European exhibition in Sneek, Holland in 2002. Since then he has exhibited annually in Germany, Holland, Switzerland, the USA, and Australia. In collaboration with a US art dealer, he created a series of surrealist paintings shown in galleries in Hamburg, Meiningen, Lausanne, Montreux, Romainmôtier, and Bern.