Silvia Bächli

Silvia Bächli has held numerous solo exhibitions in major international museums, including: Frac Franche-Comté (Besançon, 2015), Staatliche Graphische Sammlung at the Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, 2014), Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2012), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museu Serralves (Porto, 2007), Mamco (Geneva, 2006), and Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (Strasbourg, 2002). In 2009, she represented Switzerland at the 53rd Venice Biennale with a project inspired by Danish poet Inger Christensen.

Her practice focuses on drawing, using papers of varying texture, tone, and size, and employing materials such as India ink, charcoal, gouache, or pastels. The movement of the body, gesture, rhythm, and the relationship with the edges of the sheet are central to her work. Her images often appear as fragments or visual impressions, emerging from the act of marking and the silence of the surface. These are not narratives with a clear beginning or end, but suspended moments — like cinematic frames capturing details, gestures, landscapes, structures, or sensations.