Silvia Bächli

Place: Wettingen

Born: 1956

Biography:

Silvia Bächli is a Swiss visual artist, photographer, and educator. She works primarily in painting and drawing. She has taught art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe (German: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe) since 1993. Bächli was born in Wettingen, Switzerland in 1956. She studied at Haute École d'Arts Appliques de Bâle, and École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Genève. In 2009, her work was part of the Swiss pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Bächli has received many awards and honors including the Manor Cultural Prize in the Canton of Aargau in 1990, Montres Breguet Prize for contemporary art in 1991, the Meret-Oppenheim Prize in 2003, and the drawing prize from the Daniel and Florence Guerlain Fondation d’Art Contemporain in 2007. Her work can be found in museum collections, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.