Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist. He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Lawrence Charles Weiner was an artist born and raised in New York City. One of the central figures in the formation of Conceptual Art in the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner explored the potentials of language as a sculptural medium. For him language could be presented in any format able to discourse with typical art subjects such as: language installed on a wall, printed as text in a book or catalog, spoken or performed in a film, spoken aloud in conversation, simply remembered, et cetera; as Lawrence explains in 1970:
"As to construction please remember that... there is no correct way to construct the piece as there is no incorrect way to construct it. If the piece is built it constitutes not how the piece looks but only how it could look."
Hans Josephsohn was a Swiss sculptor.
Sophie Henriette Gertrud Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist, painter, sculptor, textile designer, furniture and interior designer, architect, and dancer.
Uwe Wittwer is a Swiss artist. He lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland. The media he uses include watercolor, oil painting, inkjet prints and video.
Olaf Breuning is a Swiss-born artist, born in Schaffhausen, who lives in New York City.
Franz Gertsch was a Swiss painter and printmaker who was known for his large format photorealistic portraits and detailed studies of nature.
Giovanni Ulrico Giacometti was a Swiss painter. He was the father of artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti and architect Bruno Giacometti.
Robin Rhode is a South African artist based in Berlin, Germany. He has made wall drawings, photographs and sculptures.
Karim Noureldin is a Swiss visual artist.
Rémy Zaugg was a Swiss painter, primarily known as a conceptual artist. He played an important role as both a critic and observer of contemporary culture, especially with regards to the perception of space and architecture.
Helmut Federle is a Swiss painter.
Ingeborg Lüscher is a German/Swiss artist, working with painting, sculpture, photography, installation and video. Her work has been exhibited in many institutional venues around the world, including the Musée d‘art moderne de la ville de Paris, the Centre d‘Art Contemporain in Geneva, the Kunstmuseum Luzern and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Abraham David Christian is a German sculptor.
Marc Bauer is an artist best known for his works in the graphic medium, primarily drawing.
Myriam Thyes is a new media artist from Switzerland. She lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Hans Danuser was a Swiss artist and photographer. His first major work, the cycle In Vivo, brought him international fame, therein he broke several societal taboos with respect to genetic research and nuclear physics. Since the 1990s, in addition to his photographic studies, Danuser has focused increasingly on transdisciplinary (research) projects in the arts and sciences.
Silvie Defraoui is a Swiss visual artist who uses various forms of artistic expression: installation, photography, painting, screen printing, and video art. She lives and works in Vufflens-le-Château.
Christine Streuli is a Swiss-born contemporary artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Niklaus Stoecklin was a Swiss painter and graphic artist. He is regarded as a Swiss exponent of New Objectivity and Magic Realism, and at least with his early works numbers among their international co-founders. He was also a poster designer of international renown.
