Exhibition Lucerne Art Museum shows enigmatic dreamscapes
In landscapes with trees and lakes, shrouded in clouds and fog, mysterious intermediate worlds open up in Yann Stéphane Bisso's paintings. The Lucerne Art Museum is now showing his works in a solo exhibition.
31.10.2025, 15:15
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The water reflection of a boat melts into an hourglass, circles in the sky become alien planets or a human silhouette appears on a cloud like a walker on a hill. Yann Stéphane Bisso's pictures are dreamy compositions of familiar motifs, in which mysterious elements flash up again and again.
Bisso received the special prize of the Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Art Prize 2024, which is awarded to a person under the age of 30 who lives in Switzerland or is enrolled at a Swiss university.
Playing with original and copy
The exhibition is entitled "Mosaïque, présence, absence". It includes not only paintings, but also works that combine painting and sculpture. For this series of works, Bisso created a series of paintings, each based on the previous one. According to the Kunstmuseum, this interplay between original and copy shows how motifs and symbols circulate, recur and take on new relevance.
Memories of his country of origin, Cameroon, characterize Bisso's work. Themes such as migration and colonialism also crop up. In his methods, he sometimes deals with "the Eurocentric view of constant progress and linear time sequence", as the art museum wrote. He counters this with "a cyclical form of remembrance and perception of time".
The exhibition "Yann Stéphane Bisso. Mosaïque, présence, absence" at the Kunstmuseum Luzern runs until February 8, 2026.
