Myriam Mizzo Gämperli, born in 1982 in Jonschwil (Switzerland), graduated with a Master of Art and Design from the Hochschule Kunst & Design, Luzern. Publications are a treasure trove that Mizzo first raided for motifs such as forks, knives, heads, hands, torsos and tails. These images come to life in her collages and drawings. Mizzo builds on this tradition of disruption; her arrangements balance recognition and unfamiliarity. That mixture of the known and the unexpected often generates humour, though that element of comedy also illustrates the tension generated by powerful juxtapositions. The displacement of body parts, if torsos and heads seem independent of each other, for example, interrupts how an image is read and makes the viewer look twice. Mizzo creates a space where hierarchies are turned upside down, gravity is overcome and bodies freed from their limitations. These disturbances are unsettling, though also liberating. Through her unlikely conjunctions, the darker and dynamic facets of Surrealism come to light. By taking images apart, breaking them down and suturing them together again, our fantasies are triggered. Mizzo lives and works in Zurich.

Selected Exhibitions:
2020 EAC Peep Show, Studio Stalder, Zürich
2019 Artist in Residence, tägliche Kurzfilme, “Die in Zorten”, Zorten, GR, Schweiz
2018 “Casa Son Duno” Kurzfilm mit Vanessa Ruegger, Solothurner Filmtage, Schweiz
2017 “Under Construction”, Rehmann Museum, Laufenburg, Schweiz
2017 “PING POM” Performance with Martina von Meyenburg & Myriam Gämperli, Katz Contemporary Gallery, Zürich
2016 “PING POM” Performance with Martina von Meyenburg & Mizzo, Manifesta 11, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
2016 “LOST FACES”, the Trace Gallery, Zürich
2015 Solo show, the Trace Gallery, Zürich
2015 Jungkunst, s‘DUO, Winterthur, Schweiz
2014 Kunst am Bau, Treppenhaus Gemälde, Lames Festival, Wien, Österreich
2013 Kunst Projekt Z(orten), “die Neuen von Zorten”, Vogelscheuchen Performance, Zorten, Schweiz
2013 Wandgestaltung bei FAKT Gallery, Basel, Schweiz
2012 Mad Art, Zürich, Schweiz
2012 Dylan and Amanda Bradway Gallery, Oklahoma, US
2011 Rhytem, München, Deutschland
2010 ArtYou, Basel, Schweiz
2009 Exhibition at nicenice Gallery, Hannover, Germany
2008 Exhibition at Jungkunst, Winterthur, Switzerland
2007 Exhibition helmets for ap-art at BALS, Ginza, Tokyo
2006 Pictures and Art Objects for ap-art Gallery, London, England