Augustin Rebetez | Vitamin

AUGUSTIN REBETEZ
Vitamin

If Augustin needs a table or a chair, he builds it himself, and the result is visibly cobbled together and riddled with splinters. The same goes for his art, which he stages and stretches endlessly like a dark, magical paste bristling with prickly spikes.

With his heart between his teeth and backed by a solid team, this is how the “total artist” conquers the world. More interested in a rubbish dump than a museum, Augustin’s gently enraged art cherishes the hope of an underground uprising and transgenic anarchy in the making.

“We are ghosts trying to become visible. We believe in shadows and whispers. We work for the night”, he writes in his manifesto. Drawing his primal matter from his viscera and limbo, the artist creates a sprawling, bewitching world: “if nothing satisfies you, we are the appetite that you need”.

Here in Lodz, people will appreciate the famous “very charming cats” of the Swiss artist, alongside crazy videos, epileptic animations, photographs and objects or drawings in a very unique and intense set-up, just under the roof of Biedermann Palace – the main festival location. 

Not to be missed if you need to be shaken a bit.

This exhibition is financed by Pro Helvetia. 

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» GET TO KNOW THE ARTIST «

Augustin Rebetez lives and works in Switzerland. Highly productive, he has developed a rich and powerful body of work, expressing his vibrant inner poetry through dynamic forms and a multitude of media and collaborations.

His work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Sydney Biennale, the Daegu Photo Biennale, the Rencontres d’Arles, the SESC in São Paulo, and the Shenzhen Independent Art and Animation Biennale.

He has received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix Images Vevey, the Foam Talent, the Swiss Art Awards and the Prix Fondation Latour.
He has published books with Actes Sud, RVB Books and Label Rapace, his own publishing house.

In 2024, he opened Maison Totale in Switzerland, a permanent summer museum and sculpture park in the shape of a large work of art.