Paul Bernard and Yoan Mudry

Foto: Léa Kunz

Paul Bernard has been Director of the KBCB, Biel/Bienne's exhibition institution for contemporary art, since 2023. Prior to this time, he spent 10 years as a curator at MAMCO, Geneva's museum of contemporary art, where he was responsible for the concrete poetry collection, among other things. He has also worked for the Centre Pompidou, the Institut d'art contemporain (Institute of Contemporary Art) in Villeurbanne (France) and HEAD Genève (Geneva University of Art and Design). He has a Master's degree from the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, and a French national diploma in fine arts from the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux. He has curated some fifty projects, including retrospectives of works by Philippe Thomas, Olivier Mosset and Anita Molinero, as well as the group exhibitions Die Welt als Labyrinth (on the Situationist International) and Zeitgeist. A member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) since 2013, he regularly publishes critical and scientific texts for specialist journals and catalogues. His most recent publications have focused on the work of Julia Scher, Verena Loewensberg and Anita Molinero, and on concrete poetry.

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Yoan Mudry (*1990, Lausanne) lives and works in Geneva. He holds a Bachelor’s degree (2012) and a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from HEAD-Genève (2014). He is represented by the galleries Nicolas Krupp in Basel and Frank Elbaz in Paris, and his work is regularly exhibited in Switzerland and internationally. His works have been shown at venues including Kunsthalle Basel (CH), Kunsthalle Zurich (CH), Kunsthalle Bern (CH), MCBA (CH), Union Pacific (London), the Swiss Institute in Rome (IT), Super Dakota (BE), and the Astrup Fearnley Museum (NO). In 2025, he was awarded the Berthoud, Lissignol-Chevalier, and Galland grants from the City of Geneva. In 2024, he received the Irène Reymond Prize as well as the Visual Arts Prize of the Canton of Vaud. As a curator, he co-directed the art space Zabriskie Point between 2015 and 2017 and the art space Forde between 2018 and 2020. Additionally, he is a member and co-founder of the art and residency center RITA in Turbigo (IT).