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Silvie Defraoui is a visual artist born in St. Gallen in 1935. [1]
Silvie Defraoui spent her childhood in St. Gallen and in Grisons. She first studied painting at the l’école des Beaux-Arts d’Alger and later ceramics at the l’école des Arts décoratifs de Genève. Between 1975 and 1994 she worked together with Chérif Defraoui (Geneva 1932–1994). [1] From 1974 to 1999 she taught at the l'Ecole supérieure d'art visuel de Genève (today the Geneva School of Art and Design), where in 1975 she established together with Chérif Defraoui, the Mixed Media Studio. [2]
Valéry Grancher is a French Internet-based artist, performer, theorist, curator and lecturer.
Stéphane Ducret is a Swiss contemporary artist born in 1970 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and living in Geneva, Switzerland since 2012.
Adel Abdessemed is a French contemporary artist. He has worked in a variety of media, including animation, installation, performance, sculpture and video. Some of his work relates to the topic of violence in the world.
Karim Noureldin is a Swiss visual artist.
Tatiana Trouvé is a contemporary visual artist based in Paris. Born in Cosenza, Italy in 1968, she later spent her childhood living in Senegal, before continuing her studies in the Netherlands and at the Villa Arson in the South of France.
Simon Lamunière is a swiss art curator.
Michel François is a Belgian artist. He lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
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Thomas Huber is a Swiss artist who lived and worked in Mettmann near Düsseldorf for several years and is currently resident in Berlin.
Nina Childress is a French-American visual artist based in Paris.
Tania Mouraud,, is a contemporary French artist.
Béatrice Cussol is a French artist and writer.
The Buchmann Galerie is a gallery for international contemporary art with branches in Switzerland and Germany.
The MAMCO is the contemporary art museum of Geneva.
Latifa Echakhch is a Moroccan-French visual artist working in Switzerland who creates installations. She participated in the Venice Biennale in 2011 and won the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2013.
Meir Eshel, known professionally as Absalon, was an Israeli-French artist and sculptor.
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Greg Parma Smith is a New York-based painter. He is known for his precise painterly realism, which incorporates elements of academic figuration, representational painting, neo-pop, and appropriation art.
Nicolas Cilins is an artist living in Geneva, Switzerland, working across the disciplines of visual arts, filmmaking, and performance art. His works are included as part of several public collections, such as the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland, Fonds régional d'art contemporain in France, and the Institut für Film und Videokunst in Germany. In June of 2018, Cilins became a laureate of the Swiss Art Awards.