Augustin Rebetez
«Internal Relations»
28 November 2025 – 14 February 2026
Born in Delémont in 1986, the artist Augustin Rebetez lives in Mervelier, an idyllic village of 500 inhabitants in the Swiss Jura, a place that seems to be made for its poetic and mystical pictorial worlds. He comes from a very creative family: his father is an author, his mother a painter, his sister, Eugénie Rebetez, a renowned dancer and clown.
Rebetez works with an impressive variety of media – from photography, painting, sculpture and video to installation, theatre, music, dance and circus. His work stands in the tradition of Dada and Fluxus and crosses the boundaries of art forms with playful ease.
Its unmistakable formal language creates a dreamlike, fairytale-like world, populated by hybrid figures and shapes. Inspired by popular and spiritual rites, Rebetez invents an iconographic repertoire of polymorphous figures and fantastic scenarios. His transmedia work draws on popular and mythical imagery – everything appears alive, connected, networked in a web of friendship, love and interactions.
Rebetez’s art moves between multimedia and archetype. His mystical imagery, reminiscent of modern cave paintings, evokes associations with Mayan art or the caves of Lascaux. He digs up images from the collective memory and uses their emotional power to detach the audience from the flood of images of everyday life.
For the exhibition “Internal Relations”, he created new works in milky, poetic tones in close collaboration with his mother, the painter Michèle Martin – delicate, multi-layered works that combine intimacy and mysticism.
“It’s best not to describe my art in words,” says Rebetez. “My job is to create images – open spaces for interpretation. I want to transport emotions, touch dreams. Inspired by my life, my home, my feelings, my perception of society, my blockages, my desire for change, my stupidity, my dreams.”
In addition, the exhibition shows two light boxes that originally served as advertising media and were transformed by Rebetez into mystical light objects, luminous relics that become poetic lanterns in his universe.
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