simon Kroug

Simon Kroug, a multidisciplinary Swiss artist — painter and printmaker — born in Geneva in

1977 and a graduate of ECAL (École cantonale d’art de Lausanne), maps the emotional

resonance of places through his art. His works are not mere depictions of landscapes, but

sensory narratives where memory and perception intertwine. Guided by his own photographs

captured during travels and solitary walks, Kroug reconstructs horizons and vistas suffused with

the echoes of lived experience. The choice of fragile materials — such as Japanese and Thai

paper — becomes a metaphor for the delicacy and transience of memory itself. Lines emerge in

varied forms, textures shift between presence and blur, and colors — from contemplative blues

to stark blacks and occasional bursts of orange — suggest moments when the past briefly

sharpens into focus before fading again. Kroug’s paintings and prints invite viewers to slow

down, to drift into an intimate, poetic dialogue with the landscapes he reimagines — places both

familiar and elusive, suspended between remembrance and reverie.

Exhibitions