Kotscha Reist

Born in 1963, he lives and works in Bern. Graduating in 1989 from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, he is interested in figurative painting and works on paper, always linked to a conceptual realization. Alongside his partner Sibylla Walpen, he has carried out various projects in the public spaces of the canton of Bern and Valais. He has received awards including the State of Holland grant in 1993, the Aeschlimann Corti grant in 1996, residences from the canton of Bern in New York (1999) and Berlin (2010), and a travel grant from the Canton of Bern (2015). He has also curated various Off Spaces. As the President of the Kunstgesellschaft Bern and the Äschlimann Corti grant, he is a member of the board of the Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee foundation.

He regularly exhibits in Switzerland and abroad. His work is represented in international and Swiss collections (Centre Pompidou, Frac Normandie, UBS London, ABN AMRO in the Netherlands, Kunstmuseum Bern, Thun, etc.).