Bildhalle

The gallery Bildhalle, founded by Mirjam Cavegn in 2013, deliberately takes on the responsibility of a long-standing Swiss tradition regarding photography and its distribution as an artistic medium. Thus, it represents outstanding classic and contemporary positions with the necessary consequence. bildhalle.ch

Benjamin  Füglister

is an artist and cultural entrepreneur based in Basel, Switzerland. He is the founding director of the CAP Prize – The Contemporary African Photography Prize. capprize.com

Miryam Abebe

Curator and author for photography. Support in communicative and administrative matters (exhibition organization and financing, media relations). miryamabebe.com

Artphilein Editions

Publishing house dedicated to producing photography-based books. Focused on: the human impact on the environment; critical investigations on current territorial transformations; post-colonialism and new geopolitical assets. artphilein.org/editions

Joerg Bader

Artist, curator and critic and Centre de la Photographie Genève Director. centrephotogeneve.ch

Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography

is a festival of emerging photography. www.bielerfototage.ch

Biennale dell’immagine

An International photographic and video Festival in Chiasso, organised every two years around a different theme. www.biennaleimmagine.ch

Raphaël Biollay

Art Historian, Curator, Festival Images, Vevey. images.ch

Daniel Blochwitz

Daniel Blochwitz (*1973) is a photography specialist, working as curator, lecturer, publicist and advisor. As curator, he has organized a number of well-received solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in the United States, Switzerland and Germany and in this function recently also joined the team of Fotofestival Lenzburg. Previously, he has worked for contemporary art and photography galleries in New York City and Zurich for over a decade. He was also named curator and artistic director for photo basel, the first and only art fair in Switzerland dedicated to photography, for the editions 2018 and 2019. Blochwitz graduated with a Master’s degree in Photography (with a minor in German Literature and Film) from the University of Florida in 2003. Afterwards, he attended the postgraduate Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum in New York. He lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. danielblochwitz.com

Julie Bonzon

Art historian with a special interest in overlooked archives and geographies, looking specifically at the African continent. Founder of The Photographic Collective and currently working as an independent curator based between Zurich and London. Completed a PhD on South African photography at University College London in 2020. Has led curatorial and education projects at Magnum Photos, The Photographer’s Gallery, The Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage and The Sharjah Architecture Triennial. thephotographiccollective.com

Jehanne Carnal

Art historian specialised in photography, project manager at Théâtre Populaire Romand à La Chaux-de-Fonds.

Centre de la photographie Genève

Centre de la Photographie Genève CPG, Genève. A research laboratory since 2001, the Centre de la Photographie Genève (CPG) explores innovative forms of presenting and thinking about photography, and more specifically its implications in all fields of contemporary society. centrephotogeneve.ch

Coalmine

Forum for documentary photography and room for contemporary photography in Winterthur. coalmine.ch

Cons Arc / Galleria

A gallery dedicated to photography in Chiasso since 1990. Directed by Daniela and Guido Giudici. Both are also board committee members of the Biennale dell’immagine. www.galleriaconsarc.ch  

Corinne Currat

Art historian, curator and project manager at Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne.

Marco  De Mutiis

Marco De Mutiis is Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur, and a researcher with the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University. At Fotomuseum he led and co-curated the experimental exhibition format and research lab SITUATIONS, exploring the changing role of photography in contemporary digital and networked cultures. He co-created and curates Screen Walks, a series of live streams with artists using the screen as their medium. marcodemutiis.com

De Pietri Artphilein Foundation

Founded in 2006 as a non-profit organisation dedicated to promote contemporary photography. Main activities: a publishing house of artist’s books and photo-books, a public library, an exhibition space in Lugano. artphilein.org

Lydia Dorner

is an Assistant Curator at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne. Having graduated with degrees in Art History and French Literature, her early years at the museum were spent assisting the curatorial team on several major exhibitions. She currently focuses on curating exhibitions on contemporary photographers and her research interests include the relationship between text and image, family photography and the re-appropriation of art historical icons.

Marie DuPasquier

is a Swiss independent curator and museologist working between Berlin and Zürich. After having worked several years in institutions (Maison d’Ailleurs CH and Biel/Bienne Photography Festival CH) she is now the director of Display, space for artistic and curatorial practices, in Berlin. display-berlin.com

Festival Images, Vevey

Most important visual art biennale in Switzerland, the Festival Images proposes every two year an exclusive photography exhibition concept on façades, in parks, indoor exhibitions in unusual venues, and joint ventures with people who ensure Vevey’s status as a ‘city of images’ all year round. images.ch

Focale

s a gallery created in 1982 by Daniel Baudraz and Constantin Fernandez. Focale promotes humanistic and aesthetic photography. It offers a bookshop specialized in documentary photography. www.focale.ch

Fotofestival Lenzburg

The Fotofestival Lenzburg is an emerging festival that turns every September the small city of Lenzburg, in northern Switzerland, into an open gallery dedicated to international photography. With exhibitions in various venues, open-air installations, photobooks corners, images in the shops' windows and a rich program of events, the Festival attracts experts and a bride public, offering a real opportunity to meet, exchange ideas and spreading the photographic culture, maintaining an intimate dimension. fotofestivallenzburg.ch  

Fotomuseum Winterthur

Fotomuseum Winterthur is a leading institution for the presentation and discussion of photography and visual culture. Through our exhibitions, art education, discursive formats, publications and collection, we address contemporary issues and contribute towards shaping a deeper understanding of photographic media. fotomuseum.ch

Galerie 94

Galerie 94 is an art gallery with an emphasis on contemporary and classical photography, presenting national and international artists. The gallery is located in the former shipping building of the Merker-Areal in the center of Baden. Having already managed photogalerie 94 in Ennetbaden from 1994 to 2004, Sascha Laue opened Galerie 94 as owner and curator in 2015. Galerie 94 organized since then about 40 exhibitions. Galerie 94 is still the only platform with a focus on photography in the canton of Aargau. galerie94.ch

Martin Gasser

Curator, Fondation suisse pour la photographie / Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur. fotostiftung.ch

Sarah Girard

is the director of the Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, a festival of emerging photography. www.bielerfototage.ch  

Melody Gygax

is the Swiss agent of MAGNUM PHOTOS. As a photo editor/curator she now works with brands, advertising agencies, corporate publishers, photo galleries, cultural institutions and photographers, showing them how to take their visual storytelling to the next level. www.melodygygax.com

Jana Johanna Haeckel

Currently director of Photoforum Pasquart, Dr. Jana Johanna Haeckel works internationally as curator, researcher and lecturer, specializing in photography and new media. She curated extensive group shows for various museums and art centres, such as Pinakothek der Moderne or Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and regularly publishes books and articles on image and body politics in the age of the digital. photoforumpasquart.ch

Nathalie Herschdorfer

Director, Photo Elysée, Lausanne, Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. She is currently Director of Photo Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland. She lectures at ECAL and is the author of several books on photography, all published with Thames & Hudson, London. She has also been working as a curator with the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) for several years. From 2014 to 2022, she was the Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, Switzerland. Previously, she was a curator at Photo Elysée in Lausanne, where she worked for twelve years on major exhibitions. elysee.ch

Julia Hountou

Art historian, curator, Doctor in Art History (Université de Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne), critic and responsable of the Crochetan gallery (Monthey, CH) www.juliahountou.com

International Photo Festival Olten

Held every second year in Olten at the end of August, with various exhibitions including photoville4600, a high quality open air exhibition dedicated to Swiss photography, evening speeches by world renown photographers, dozens of seminars, workshops and portfolio reviews. A great gathering for international and national photographers and the whole industry. www.ipfo.ch

IPFO House of Photography

Museum dedicated entirely to photography. Inaugurated in March 2021 with an exhibition by David Lynch. Regular exhibitions of international and national top photographers. www.ipfo.ch

Milo Keller

Professor and Head of the Photography Department at ECAL (University of Art and Design of Lausanne). He is known for his photography works in the field of architecture and design. Aside from his professional career as a photographer he has been teaching at ECAL since 2007, and became the Head of the Photography Department at ECAL in 2012 and launched the Master Photography in 2016. He often collaborates with the art director Julien Gallico for magazines and companies. milokeller.com

Anna Konstantinova

is a curator based in Zurich. Her professional interests include photography and post-photography, process-based and participatory art and digital curating. She is a part of the Swiss photographic collective pool, the curatorial team of the contemporary photography collection of the bank Vontobel and the contemporary art gallery Lullin + Ferrari, alongside contributing to the program of fortnightly online events dedicated to digital cultures “Screen Walks”, a collaboration between Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland) and The Photographers’ Gallery (London, UK). She holds an MA in Media Studies from the Russian State University of the Humanities and MAS in Curating from Zurich University of the Arts.

Alessia Locatelli

Contemporary Art & Photographic Curator and Critic. Alessia Locatelli focuses in photography and works as an Independent Curator, organizing exhibitions - in public and private locations - in Italy and abroad, while in parallel she continues her curating and consulting activity for artists and photographers. She teaches at Instituto Italian di Fotografia in Milan and she’s artistic director of Enrico Cattaneo’s Archive.
www.celesteprize.com

Olivier Lugon

Professor in history of art, specialised in photography and exhibition scenography Université de Lausanne, UNIL. unil.ch

Victoria Mühlig

Victoria Mühlig is swiss art historian and a curator at the Musée d’art de Pully where she is in charge of contemporary art and photography exhibitions. She graduated in art history, cinema and journalism at the University of Lausanne. Between 2014 and 2017, she worked at the Valais art museum taking care of the Prix culturel Manor Valais as well as many other exhibitions. Secretary of near since 2015, she curated for the association a project at La nuit de l’image in 2015 and a show at the Muhlouse Biennial of photography in 2016.

Christophe  Mauron

Born in 1972, Christophe Mauron studied humanities at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Curator at the Musée gruérien de Bulle since 2002, he is in charge of the patrimonial and contemporary photographic collections. He has directed and co-produced numerous exhibitions and publications, including ‘Boaventura. Thomas Brasey’ (2017), ‘Conquistador. Nicolas Savary’ (2019) and ‘Trace and Territory. Photographic explorations by Jacques Pugin’ (2020). musee-gruerien.ch christophemauron  

Musée suisse de l’appareil photographique, Vevey

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Davide Nerini

is an art historian and freelance project coordinator focusing on photography, digital cultures, and print design. He is currently Research associate at the Swiss Institute for Art Research and at the Prints and Photographs Division of the Public and University Library of Lausanne, Managing editor at Transbordeur Journal, and PhD candidate at the Centre for History of Culture of the Lausanne University. dvnr.ch

Giuseppe Oliverio

Entrepreneur and Filmmaker, Founder and Director of PHmuseum. phmuseum.com

Maude Oswald

Phd candidate in history of photography at Université de Lausanne. After teaching for several years, Maude Oswald studied History, History of Art and History of Cinema at the University of Lausanne (2005-2011). Her Master’s thesis, directed by Olivier Lugon, examined social documentary photography and white poverty in Appalachia. She is now working on a PhD thesis about post-Katrina photography in New Orleans under the direction of Olivier Lugon. osmaude@sunrise.ch

Virginie Otth

Photographer and teacher at CEPV, Vevey. presque-rien.net

Danaé Panchaud

Danaé Panchaud is a curator and lecturer specialising in photography. Trained in photography, curating and museology in Switzerland and the UK, she is currently the director of the Centre de la photographie Genève. She was the director or Photoforum Pasquart in Biel from 2018 to 2021, and a lecturer at the photography school in Vevey (CEPV) from 2014 to 2018. centrephotogeneve.ch

Peter Pfrunder

Director,  Fondation suisse pour la photographie, Fotostiftung Schweiz,  Winterthur. fotostiftung.ch

PHmuseum

PHmuseum is a curated platform dedicated to contemporary photography, featuring the work of 5,000 selected photographers. Its mission is to connect professionals within the photographic industry as well as create a free online space where everyone could learn about photography and its language. PHmuseum is also known for its grants, which offer £25,000 in cash prizes every year, and its new online education program. phmuseum.com

photo basel

photo basel, created in 2015, is a boutique fair who’s main goal is to foster photography based art. Every year during Art Basel week, the Volskhaus becomes the house to an intimate and highly curated show with a world-wide gallery selection and amazing artists. Next dates: 11-16.06.2019. photo-basel.com

Ariane Pollet

Art historian, curator and Phd candidate Université de Lausanne, UNIL. unil.ch

Nicolas Polli

A photographer, graphic designer and publisher from Switzerland, Nicolas Polli (1989) studied art direction at the Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL). In 2012, together with Salvatore Vitale, he founded the photography magazine YET. Since 2016, he has been developing an independent studio (Atelier CIAO) and focusing on editorial design as well as still life photography. In 2018 and 2020, he won the Swiss Design Award. in 2018, after working for different publishers, he founded his own publishing house: CIAO PRESS. He teaches photography and photo book design at several universities. Since 2021, he is the resident at Atelier Robert in Biel and in charge of the visual identity of Images Vevey. As an artist, Nicolas Polli had the chance to exhibit internationally as well as publishing two monographs: “Ferox the Forgotten Archives 1976–2010” and “When Strawberries Will Grow on Trees, I Will Kiss U”. ciaopress.com

Sascha Renner

Curator and Head of Communications at Fotostiftung Schweiz. Director of COALMINE Forum for Documentary Photography, Winterthur, Switzerland. fotostiftung.ch / coalmine.ch

Elisa Rusca

is a Berlin-based writer and independent curator. Ph.D candidate in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, for five years was assistant curator at the museum for photography Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne. Member of the international board of AICA, the International Association of Art Critics, she actively writes for Kunstbulletin and georgemag. From 2010 to 2012, she was editor for ch-arts, an internet-based platform for contemporary art in Switzerland. Since 2010 she has been curating contemporary art exhibitions in public and private institutions in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Slovakia and Poland.www.elisarusca.com

Nicolas Savary

Nicolas Savary, Photographer, teacher at Centre d’enseignement professionnel de Vevey (CEPV) Vevey. Member of the committee at Photoforum PasquArt, Bienne and standard/deluxe, Lausanne. nicolas-savary.ch

sichtbar.art

sichtbar.art is a blog about photography and a platform for exhibitions, book openings and other information about photography. sichtbar.art

Spectrum

Spectrum - Photography in Switzerland now welcomes not only photo institutions, collective members but also individual members who are active in the field of collection, mediation, processing and discussion of photography in Switzerland. The association promotes communication, networking among the various individual and institutional actors, museums, galleries, collections, archives, libraries, schools, and supports contact with politics and cultural policy. Spectrum is committed to the importance of photography in Swiss culture. photography-in-switzerland.ch

Urs Stahel

Curator, writer, lecturer, adviser. Curator at MAST Foundation, Bologna. Fellow of the University of Arts, London. Adviser to the art collection of Vontobel. President of Spectrum – Photography in Switzerland.

Rudolf  Steiner

is a self-taught contemporary Artist and Photographer who lives and works in Biel, Rondchâtel and Warsaw. He has received many Awards, Grants, Prizes and Residencies and his work was shown internationally. Steiner has run the Artist Label ‘Haus am Gern’ and the publishing house ‘Edition Haus am Gern’ in collaboration with Barbara Meyer Cesta since 1998. He is also an administrator at the artist run space & residency ‘Konsulat Prättigau’ in Warsaw, Member of the Executive Board of Photoforum Pasquart Biel, as well as being a teacher for photography and video at the School of Design Bern and at the School for Photography CEPV, Vevey. More information here; www.edition-hausamgern.ch

Stefano Stoll

Director Festival Images, Vevey. images.ch

Verzasca Foto Festival

The festival aims to promote emerging international photographers and to support visual arts in Southern Switzerland, by giving free space through connection and dialogues with nature, offering access to different forms of expression and ways of visual storytelling. verzascafoto.com

Léonore Veya

Art historian, specialised in photography. Léonore Veya is Head of the Photography Department at the Centre d’enseignement professionnel de Vevey (CEPV), since 2008. She is art historian, and teaches contemporary arts, history of photography and image analysis. She has elaborated workshops, exhibitions and publications projects involving students in collaboration with many photographers, linked to partnerships with numerous magazines and institutions (L’Espace nonante-neuf - Présence Suisse / Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles, Le Festival Images Vevey, Le Musée de l’Elysée, Le Photoforum Pasquart, Le Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, etc.). She has managed jointly an art gallery in Vevey and two art spaces in Lausanne dedicated to emerging artists, and is founding member of the Fondation Lausannoise pour l’Art Contemporain.

vfg vereinigung fotografischer gestalterInnen

vfg is a Swiss association for photographers and visual artists with the aim to promote and support them in their professional fields. Among others we organize the vfg Nachwuchsförderpreis (Swiss Young Talent Award of Photography), the vfg.selection - Swiss Photo Award, vfg lectures and bildersoirées. vfg.ch

Salvatore Vitale

Salvatore Vitale, born in 1986 in Italy, is a Swiss-based visual artist, editor, educator and is a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). Vitale is also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of YET magazine, a Swiss-based international photography magazine that focuses on the evolution of photography practice within the contemporary art field. www.salvatore-vitale.com  

Nadine Wietlisbach

devises exhibitions, publications and other discursive and mediative formats in the fields of contemporary photography and art. She is the director of Fotomuseum Winterthur since 2018. fotomuseum.ch

Lars Willumeit

Curator, author and art educator. Works as independent curator and head of department at Fachklasse Fotografie, F+F School for Art and Design, Zurich. Having completed degrees in Social Anthropology (LSE) and Curatorial Studies (ZHdK), his interests are in photography, documentarisms, regimes of representation and visual cultures. larswillumeit.com