Yann Stéphane Bisso

Born 1998 in Cameroon, lives and works in Geneva.

At the heart of his work, Yann Stéphane Bisso favours painting as a means of exploring identity and socio-political issues. Inspired in particular by the pictorial tradition of landscape, he creates a dreamlike universe that oscillates between memory and imagination, sometimes populated by figures. Influenced by Édouard Glissant’s reflections on diaspora and creolization, his work navigates the tensions between origin and displacement. Through a unique pictorial language, he rethinks the classical genre, addressing sociopolitical questions with a poetic sensitivity and offering a personal vision of fragmented geographies and belonging.

His work has been exhibited at Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva ; One Gee in Fog, Geneva ; Forde, Geneva ; Hit, Geneva ; Limbo, Geneva. He is the Laureate of the Kiefer Hablitzel Special Prize in 2024 and the Helvetia Art Prize in 2023.