Caroline Bachmann is one of the outstanding protagonists of contemporary Swiss art. In addition to her independent work as a painter and draughtswoman, she has also formed the artist duo Bachmann Banz together with Stefan Banz since 2004. Together they founded the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp – The Forestay Museum of Art in Cully in 2009.

In 2013, Bachmann decided to make a fresh artistic start and reactivate the classic themes of painting. Since then, she has focussed intensively on the genres of portraiture, still life and history painting. In her works, she takes up the existential questions of the metaphysical and the sacred and creates compositions that do not strive for a materialistic capture of reality, but for a depiction of the spiritual relationship to existence.

This first comprehensive and richly illustrated monograph on Caroline Bachmann, written in English and French, traces her intensive journey through the medium of painting. Essays by recognised experts on Bachmann’s work and contemporary Swiss art, as well as an interview with the artist, reveal a creative self-discovery shaped by the ideals of artistic role models such as Marcel Duchamp, Louis Michel Eilshemius and Arthur Dove and set in motion by the courage to reinvent herself in terms of subject, technique and material.

With contributions by Paul Bernard and Marta Dziewanska as well as an interview with Caroline Bachmann by Julie Enckell Julliard.