Pierre Vogel

After his schooling at the Collège Calvin, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, which he left after six months to undertake long journeys through Europe, the USA and Africa. Upon his return, he decided to devote himself exclusively to artistic creation. His first exhibition of paintings took place in 1960 in Geneva. In order to enlarge his vocabulary of forms and enrich his pictorial technique, he draws on film, studies photography, is fascinated by engraving and builds his first press to print etchings.

Passionate about music, both classical and contemporary, he built several musical instruments, an organ, then his Vogella, a kind of large 8-string guitar, and a koto.

At the end of the 60's, he made sets for the Théâtre de Poche, then he met Serge Golovine and created sets and costumes for the Grand Théâtre de Genève for several ballets.

At this time, he discovered Indian music and built his own sitar and surbahar. He became friends with Ravi Shankar.

He created a dance hall in Geneva, the "Black Bird", which was distinguished by an inflatable track.

In 1966, he was invited to collaborate on the illustration of contemporary German poets, published in "Centaur II" edited by H. Raumschüssel in Göttingen. In 1972, he engraved and edited the book "Parallèlement" (poems by P. Verlaine) presented at the Musée de l'Athénée. In 1978, he published 20 pen-and-ink drawings in the magazine "Obliques" devoted to Alain Robbe-Grillet (ed. Borderie, Paris).

In the years 1989-1993 he realized several mural paintings.

From 1974 until 2005 he exhibited in Switzerland as well as abroad, in Germany, France, Poland, Canada and Latin America, in galleries and museums, notably at the Cour Saint-Pierre Gallery, Europ-Art Palexpo, Musée Rath, Musée d'art et d'histoire in Geneva, Helmhaus in Zurich, Galerie Skipholt in Reykjavik, Haus der Kunst in Munich. In 2006 he became independent by inaugurating the Pavillon de la Tulette, where he regularly shows his work and that of artists he values.