Contemporary Art Gallery in Switzerland & Spain | KALI Gallery

In this interview, Swiss artist Sebastian Haas reflects on his earliest encounters with art and the formative experiences that shaped their path. What began with a childhood drawing and a first moment of recognition has evolved into a compelling contemporary practice that bridges tradition and innovation.

This conversation introduces an artist whose practice moves fluidly between sculpture and image, shaped by an early dependence on drawing as a form of communication and later by studies at the Accademia di Brera with Alberto Garutti. Their work challenges the idea of the artwork as a closed object, instead proposing pieces that exist as perceptual states—open, unstable encounters that unfold between viewer, material, and space.

Héloïse Chassepot’s work moves deftly between sincerity and artifice, drawing on familiar visual languages—flowers, ribbons, softness—to question cultural assumptions and explore emotional nuance. In her upcoming duo exhibition Positive Paradox with Swetlana Heger, she merges painterly and sculptural elements to reflect on the role of the artist within the social and spatial realities of London. In this interview, Chassepot speaks about her attraction to amateurism, the tension of repetition, and why irony can only emerge from a place of deep sincerity. What appears playful or decorative on the surface often conceals a complex negotiation with identity, perception, and artistic autonomy.