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Françoise Bassand ist Bildende Künstlerin, Autorin und Kuratorin mit langjähriger Erfahrung und Ausstellungen im In- und Ausland. Sie zeigt in der Einzelausstellung SOLO neue Werke und Serien.
THE LAW THE LOCAL ART WINDOW Steinstrasse 68, 8003 Zürich
9. – 15. März 2026
11.3.26 ab 17 Uhr, Vernissage
14.3.26 ab 17 Uhr, Kaffee & Kuchen
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Françoise Nov 2

Female artist travelling solo in East Asia. The best shows I saw and why I travelled this far…

https://fbassand.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/female-artist-travelling-solo-in-east-asia/

Female artist travelling solo in East Asia

The megacities along the Pacific rim are the motors of innovation and cultural impact. The world looks different from here. Stereotypes about nations, cultures, identities dissolve into a multitude…

Françoise Bassand – art, culture & life

Françoise Jul 1, 2025

I will have to leave my #studio in the end of August. I have no prospect of finding a new place, as there are no more affordable studios in #Zurich. Any ideas?
https://fbassand.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/looking-for-an-affordable-studio-in-zurich-is-this-city-too-rich-for-me/

Looking for an affordable studio in Zurich. Is this city too rich for me?

I will have to leave my #studio in the end of August. I have no prospect of finding a new place, as there are no more affordable studios in Zurich. #Gentrification is also affecting the outer distr…

Françoise Bassand – art, culture & life

Françoise May 12, 2025

Die Teilnahme an der fair Art Fair 25 in St.Gallen - organisiert vom @kollektiv_streunenderhund - war ein Erfolg.

Die #Schweiz hat viele #Offspaces und unabhängige #Ausstellungsorte, die jenseits des institutionalisierten und kommerziellen Kunstbetrieb bestehen. Diese Orte werden - oft mit bescheidenen finanziellen Mitteln - von engagierten Einzelpersonen und Gruppen betrieben, die mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdienen.

#contemporaryart #independentart #curatingart #Switzerland

Françoise Apr 2, 2025

Can art save the world? Is an artist entitled to do whatever she wants to? Can money create artistic freedom? Is the art market a failure? Do sponsors corrupt the independence of art?

#wordart #painting #femaleartist #contemporaryart

Françoise Mar 15, 2025

Ich freu mich, dieses Jahr eine Auswahl meiner neuen Werke in Brandenburg zu zeigen!

Jägerschere Contemporary Art Gallery, Niederer-Fläming, Deutschland

27 April 2025 – 25 Mai 2025 und 15 Juni 2025 – 14 Juli 2025

Mit Françoise Bassand, Julia Brunner, Stefan Endewardt, Alex Lebus, LEO, Paul Maciejowski

https://fbassand.wordpress.com/

Françoise Bassand – art, culture & life

kunst, kultur & leben

Françoise Bassand – art, culture & life

Françoise Feb 14, 2025

“The fact that this tiny country of only 42,000 sq km, of which only 60% is habitable, with a population of fewer than 10 million, is such a powerful offshore centre – that 27% of the world’s offshore fortunes are managed in or from #Switzerland – it’s just astonishing.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/13/here-lives-the-monsters-brain-the-man-who-exposed-switzerlands-dirty-secrets

‘Here lives the monster’s brain’: the man who exposed Switzerland’s dirty secrets

Inspired by Che Guevara, Jean Ziegler has spent the past 60 years exposing how Switzerland enabled global wrongdoing. His enemies accuse him of treason

The Guardian

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Françoise Dec 17, 2024

When I read tenders in which I have to prove that I’m only a fully-fledged artist if I can make a living from art, it just makes me angry. The people who set these rules usually don’t have the faintest idea what it means to make a living as a freelance artist.

Françoise Dec 17, 2024

The art world is a classic market failure: a few highly acclaimed players are easily making large amounts of money, while most people are scraping along at subsistence level.
https://fbassand.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/keep-your-dreams-alive-respect-artists-support-creativity/

Keep your dreams alive. Respect artists. Support creativity.

Favorite place of the year is my studio. Where I create art, mix colors, meditate on light and space, invent memes, listed to music, enjoy the silence. Where I’m alone and happy. In the f…

Françoise Bassand – art, culture & life

Françoise Aug 21, 2024

Good news concerning my #studio - my lease has been extended for another year. This gives me continuity for my creative work.

Whatever happens, my space is open to me and my ideas. Here I can continue experimenting and letting off steam. And I don't owe anyone anything.

I got some new material and brought back many inspirations from my summer holiday.

#creativity #workspace #contemporaryart #femaleartist