Karine Tissot
Landis & Gyr Stiftung Residency
2018
Karine Tissot is an art historian, critic and exhibition curator.
Karine is the Cultural Activities Officer at CHUV (Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois) in Switzerland. She was previously the Director of the Yverdon-les-Bains Contemporary Art Centre (CACY), in Switzerland. In addition to this, Karine teaches art history and art criticism. She has curated numerous exhibitions and contributed to several publications. She is the editor of Artists in Geneva, from 1400 to the present day (2010), Objects of contemporary art (2011) Trait Papier, an essay on contemporary drawing (2012), Geometry on the walls (2013), Hadrien Dussoix (2014), and Hotel Ausland (2014).
Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Switzerland
The Landis & Gyr foundation awards studio scholarships to Swiss artists and cultural professionals in London, Budapest, Sofia and Zug. Its London-based residency partnership with Acme was established in 1987, and provides six month long work/live opportunities for ten Swiss artists per year. Artists are selected for the programme directly by Landis & Gyr Stiftung and must demonstrate a track record of achievement in their field. Over two hundred visual artists, curators, writers, musicians and composers have benefitted from the programme. Residencies are based in Stepney, E1 and are available to Swiss residents only
For more information visit lg-stiftung.ch.
