Swiss Art Brut 1945–2026

Sarah Lombardi is an art historian and has been director of the Collection de l’Art Brut since 2013. She has organized exhibitions within the institution and internationally, and conceived the art brut biennials, which are accompanied by the bilingual series of publications entitled Art Brut, la Collection. She has edited various works on art brut authors, as well as Almanach de l’Art Brut (2016), a project begun by Jean Dubuffet in 1948, and Les Albums Photographiques de Jean Dubuffet (2017). Metin Arditi is the author of a significant body of work, including L’homme qui peignait les âmes (Grasset, 2021, Catholic University of the West Award winner), Tu seras mon père (Grasset, 2022, Machiavelli Prize winner) and Le danseur oriental (Grasset, 2025). He is a Commander of Arts and Letters and a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. Michel Thévoz holds a PhD in Art History and was behind the creation of the Collection de l’Art Brut, whose director he was from 1976 to 2001. He was also Professor of Art History and Museology at the University of Lausanne from 1977 to 2001. Lucienne Peiry holds a PhD in Art History and is an exhibition organizer, lecturer and essayist. Her doctoral thesis, which has been published in several languages, examined art brut and the history of the collection founded by Jean Dubuffet. She was director of the Collection de l’Art Brut from 2001 to 2011 and has been a member of the Art Brut Committee at the Centre Pompidou in Paris since 2021. Andreas Steck is Honorary Professor of Neurology at the University of Basel. He has authored a number of scientific publications and co-wrote Creativity and Art with his wife Barbara, a book that studies the creative process from a neuroscientific and psychoanalytical perspective. Astrid Berglund is an art historian and holder of an international diploma from the Institut National du Patrimoine in Paris (curatorship section). She has been a curator at the Collection de l’Art Brut since 2014 and is responsible for loaning works and coordinating travelling exhibitions. Eleanor Philippoz is an art historian and has been outreach coordinator at the Collection de l’Art Brut since 2025, as well as carrying out research on the collections.