OUR EMERGING ARTISTS
OUR EMERGING ARTISTS
Emerging artists already have both feet in the art world. We support them to get in touch with galleries, museums and collections to realize first important projects.
Piet Baumgartner
lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland
Piet Baumgartner is a visual artist and director. He works transdisciplinarily in film, visual arts and theatre. He worked as a journalist before completing an MA in film directing at the Zurich University of the Arts and later the "Drehbuchwerkstatt München". This was followed by training with Andrej Wajda in Warsaw and assistant role with Frank Castorf and Rene Pollesch at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. Piet Baumgartner works both independently and collectively with Rio Wolta and has received numerous international awards. He lives in Zurich and lectures at the F+F School of Art and Design.
Vierwind - Micha Häni
lives and works in Zollikofen, Switzerland
Born and raised in Bern in 1994, Micha Häni (Vierwind) did an apprenticeship as a 3D polydesigner after primary school. After the apprenticeship, he continued working as a freelancer in the profession. As a sideline, he started creating his own images and selling them. Since 2016 he is self-employed and works full time as a freelance artist. His skills are mainly shown in painting, graffiti and illustrations. He now exhibits his works all over the world.
Hinano Hayama
lives and works in Hokkaido, Japan
Hinano Hayama (b. 1995) lives and works in Hokkaido, Japan. Her unique creative process does not begin with a concrete image in mind. Before she begins to paint or draw, she focuses on her physical sensations and transfers these momentary feelings to the canvas. The next brushstrokes are always an immediate reaction to what she has just created on the canvas. She does not have a thought in mind that she wants to portray in her paintings, but her deeply rooted intuitive painting forms the path of the thoughts that pass through her mind in the state of creation. Her paintings can be seen as an overlay of momentary feelings, reactions to what she has created, and a visualization of her thoughts. Hinano Hayama describes that "the layered paintings show where she is in the moment."
After her stay at Chateau Orquevaux, Hinano Hayama realized how being in nature nurtures her artistic creation. After living in Tokyo for years, she decided to move to a remote area in Hokkaido where nature continues to inspire her work. In addition, the tranquil atmosphere of the northern Japanese island helps her introspective creative process.
Emanuel Heim
lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Emanuel Heim, born in 1992 in Lenzburg, Switzerland, completed the preliminary design course at the Schule für Gestaltung Aarau, attended the specialist class for graphics, space and new media at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel and graduated from the specialist class for graphics in Lucerne. In 2017, Heim moved to Berlin. After three residencies with the Palace Collective in Gorzanów, Poland and several group exhibitions in Berlin and with us in Lucerne, Emanuel Heim's first major solo exhibition took place at Theater Rüsselsheim. His preferred technique is oil painting. Photographed here by Tegwen Evans.
Nicolas Vionnet
lives and works in Grüt, Switzerland
Swiss artist Nicolas Vionnet is fascinated by irritations. A multi-disciplinary artist, Vionnet is creator of thought-provoking, jarring and sometimes playful interventions between objects, conceptual paintings and installations which provoke a dialogue with their environment. His works do not shout for attention, but instead present themselves through subtlety and wit. To engage with his works is to feel a build-up of tension that challenges viewers and triggers curiosity.