Caroline Bachmann is one of Switzerland's foremost contemporary artists. Alongside her
independent work in painting and drawing she has also formed one half of the artist duo
Bachmann Banz together with Stefan Banz (1961-2021) from 2004 to 2014. Together the two
founded the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp-The Forestay Museum of Art in Cully Switzerland in
2009. In 2013 Bachmann reinvented herself as an artist and turned to classical themes of
painting. She engages deeply with the genres of portraiture still life and history painting
and takes up existential questions of the metaphysical and the sacred creating compositions
that strive not for a materialistic grasp of reality but for a depiction of the spiritual
dimension of existence. This first comprehensive and richly illustrated monograph traces
Caroline Bachmann's extraordinary journey through the medium of painting. The essay by Paul
Bernard curator at MAMCO Museum of contemporary art of Geneva as well as a conversation with
the editor Julie Enckell and the artist reveal a creative self-discovery that is shaped by the
ideals of artistic idols such as Marcel Duchamp Louis Michel Eilshemius and Arthur Dove and
set in motion by the courage to reinvent herself through subject technique and material.
