Harald Szeemann was a Swiss curator, artist, and art historian. Having curated more than 200 exhibitions, many of which have been characterized as groundbreaking, Szeemann is said to have helped redefine the role of an art curator. It is believed that Szeemann elevated curating to a legitimate art form itself.
Meret Elisabeth Oppenheim was a German-born Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer.
Hans Erni was a Swiss graphic designer, painter, illustrator, engraver and sculptor.
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.
The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the oldest public art collection in the world and is generally considered to be the most important museum of art in Switzerland. It is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Stefan Banz was an artist and curator.
Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, often shortened to Hubbard / Birchler, are an American-Swiss artist duo who make short films and photographs about the construction of narrative time and space. Their work invites open-ended reflections on memory, place and cinema, and first gained international attention with their participation in the 48th Venice Biennale curated by Harald Szeemann. Hubbard and Birchler were showcased in the PBS series titled "Art:21".
Olivier Mosset is a Swiss visual artist. He lives and works in Tucson, Arizona.
The Gurlitt Collection was a collection of around 1,500 art works inherited by Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of one of Hitler's official art dealers, Hildebrand Gurlitt (1895–1956), and which was found to have contained several artworks looted from Jews by the Nazis.
The Migros Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum for contemporary art in Zürich, Switzerland. Founded in 1996 by Gottlieb Duttweiler, the museum was directed by Rein Wolfs up until 2001, when he was replaced by Heike Munder.
Frantiček Klossner is a Swiss artist based in Bern, known for creating video art, installations, performance, drawings and visual poetry.
M. S. Bastian and Isabelle L. are a Swiss artist couple who has made a name for themselves with their comic art, including paintings, sculptures, animated films and installations.
Léo-Paul Samuel Robert, also known as Paul Robert, was a Swiss painter, known for his depictions of birds and other wildlife.
Ida Ekblad is a Norwegian artist who works across painting, sculpture, installation and poetry.
Gen Atem is a visual and performance artist, musician, writer, and Zen-master. He lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.
RELAX is an artist collective founded by Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza and Daniel Hauser.
Fritz Nathan was a German-Swiss gallery owner and art dealer.
Manor Cultural Prize is a Swiss fine arts prize awarded every two years by the Manor alongside art museums in 12 Swiss cities, which was founded in 1982 in Lucerne. The goal is to promote emerging artists under the age of 40.
Aaremilch AG is a Swiss milk producer organization based in Lyss.
