Nathalie Bissig (*1981) lives and works in Switzerland.
After completing her diploma in photography at the School of Arts and Design Zürich in 2004, she has been working for photographic research and reporting in many countries of the world, mainly in Africa and Asia,

In 2011, she began engaging with the question: how far can I go if I stay?
Committing to a long-term exploration of her roots in the Canton of Uri (Central Switzerland), her work draws on rituals, myths, and what a place holds beyond words: the familiar becoming uncanny, the body intertwining with landscape, and the past pressing into the present.

Her practice spans photography, drawing, and objects, moving between documentary observation and staged scenes. Images shift, overlap, and reappear in new constellations — ranging from raw and immediate to dreamlike and unsettling. In books and immersive installations, everything is continuously rearranged into a visual system that, rather than explaining, opens.

Her debut monograph Thunder was published by Vexer Verlag in 2025. Her work has been featured in Kunstbulletin, Republik, and WOZ, as well as on SRF Kulturplatz, and shown among others at Aargauer Kunsthaus; Kunsthaus Zug; Espace Jörg Brockmann, Geneva; Verzasca Foto Festival; and Circulation(s), Festival of Young European Photography, Paris.

CONTACT
NATHALIE BISSIG
+41 (0)78 611 08 62
bissig@bissig.cc
(German, English, French)

ig_@nathaliebissig @uri_blog @kunst_mit_bissig

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UPCOMING EVENTS
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21.March - 17.Mai 2026
Circulation(s)
Festival of young European Photography,
Centquatre, Paris
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8.5.2026
Rapperswiler Tag
Talk about Hollywood (UR)
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31.05.– 23.08.2026
Sommerausstellung
Haus für Kunst Uri
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27. Juni 2026
Gitschener Bienentage
IG Maisander
Gitschenen Uri
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22.August - 28. September 2026
Ansichtsachen
im öffentlichen Raum von Altdorf
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PAST EVENTS
23 - 25
13. november 2025 / Paris Foto / Bookpresentation Thunder
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“Eintauchen” with Judith Albert, Pascale Birchler, Nathalie Bissig, Yvonne Christen Vagner, Moritz Hossli u. Johanna Gschwend, Christian Kathriner, Nils Nova, Denis Twerenbold
Kunsthaus Zug
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September 2025 / Groupexhibition, Alt.+1000 Festival, La Vue des Alpes, Jura
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October 2025 / Artist Residency at Villa Numa, La Chaux de Fonds, Jura
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Dezember 2025 / Groupexhibition, zentral! XL / Kunstmuseum Luzern
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Dezember 2025 / Thunder / Soloexhibition, never stop reading Zürich
9. Sept. 11.30h / How do we do photobooks? Panel at Verzasca Foto Festival, Sonogno
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20.Sept 18h / Bookrelease Thunder, Vexer Verlag Büro, Berlin
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2025 / Publication of the Monographie “Thunder” with Vexer Verlag / Berlin - St.Gallen / Design Ann Griffin
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Mai 2025 / Soloexhibition Hollywood (UR) / AKS Kulturprojekt “schön!?.”
Alte Kirche, Flüelen
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January 2025 / Groupexhibition / Multiple Animal, Salon de l’ Estampe
Musée du papier paint, Mézières
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August 2024 / Ninna Nanna
Soloexhibition / Benzeholz Meggen
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February 2024 / Un écho depuis les vallées abruptes /
Soloexhibition / Espace Jörg Brockmann
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October 2023 Soloexhibition KONUS / standard/deluxe / Lausanne
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September 2023 / Soloexhibition
Memmorie e Immaginazioni / 10. Verzasca Fotofestival
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2023 Groupexhibition / Taghaus Nachthaus,
with Nathalie Bissig, Kasia Jackowska, Jennifer Kuhn, Caroline Singeisen, Nina Weber,
Wartsaal Wipkingen / Zürich

Inspirationimage from the book: Alte Masken aus der Ostschweiz, Museum Rietberg Zürich