Galerie Sechs
Switzerland
Galerie Sechs is an inspiring and inviting space in which art can be experienced within a human context. The venue creates an atmosphere in which artists, collectors and visitors can interact with each other.
The gallery showcases emerging artists who have been carefully selected through a curatorial programme. The focus is on the dialogue between inner and outer worlds. Addressing themes such as humanity, relationships, nature and changing perspectives, the programme is characterised by emotional depth and conceptual clarity. Alongside regular exhibitions, the gallery organises events such as artist talks, panel discussions and workshops. Through these curated events and thoughtful art experiences, the gallery enriches cultural life in Basel. These events encourage interaction between artists, collectors and the wider public. This creates a space where conversation, reflection, and connection can flourish naturally.
Artists at the fair: Marco Benedetti, Marc Brenzikofer, Michel Juvet, Arun Khau Ny, Margaret Larmuth
Arun Khau Ny
Arun Khau Ny: La cicatrice
Arun Khau Ny: Trésor intérieur
Arun Khau Ny's practice is deeply rooted in her dual French and Cambodian heritage. Growing up between two cultural contexts where artistic expression held significant value, she developed an early sensitivity to questions of identity, memory, and emotional complexity.
Before dedicating herself fully to painting, Khau Ny worked as a teacher in France and studied psychology—foundations that continue to inform her artistic language. Her subsequent academic training in the visual arts, combined with formative exchanges with established artists, shaped a practice that is both technically refined and conceptually grounded. Materiality lies at the core of her work. Employing cellulose, minerals, sand, epoxy resin, textured paste, and bistre, she constructs layered surfaces in which texture becomes a carrier of emotional resonance.
The physical transformation of matter mirrors an inner psychological process. Closely connected to her parallel work as a therapist, her painting operates as a space where unconscious tensions and emotional states are translated into form. The resulting works invite a contemplative encounter with vulnerability, resilience, and shared human experience.
The work 'Trésor intérieur' combines Easy Structure and embedded plant fibres to create a sculptural relief surface. This is layered with acrylic paints containing matte and metallic pigments, and finished with waxes and patinas to enhance the depth and texture, giving it an aged patina effect.
«My work is shaped by my dual French and Cambodian heritage and by my background in psychology and education. I approach painting as a space where emotional complexity and unconscious tensions can take form. Working with materials such as cellulose, minerals, sand, epoxy resin, and bistre, I build layered, textured surfaces that mirror processes of vulnerability and transformation. Material itself becomes a language through which inner states are translated into physical presence, inviting viewers into a contemplative encounter with resilience and shared human experience.» - Arun Khau Ny
Marco Benedetti
Marco Benedetti: Seam Unseamed 002
Marco Benedetti: The Rip 001
Marco Benedetti (Swiss–Italian) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans analogue and digital photography, drawing, painting, and mixed media. Active since the early 1990s, he brings together technical precision— shaped by his background in engineering, IT, and visual communication—with intuitive and emotionally charged expression.
Influenced by Japanese martial arts and the philosophy of Satori, Benedetti's work is characterised by clarity, restraint, and quiet intensity. Over three decades, he has navigated diverse genres, from sports and fashion photography to portraiture and fine art nudes, while progressively moving toward analogue-digital hybrid processes and conceptual mixed-media explorations centered on fragility, memory, and transformation. Internationally awarded more than one hundred times, Benedetti has exhibited widely, including at the MEAM – European Museum of Modern Art.
His recent sculptural photographs— physically incised and sutured—mark a decisive evolution in his practice, shifting from representation toward material intervention. In these works, photography becomes both surface and body, subject to wounding and repair.
«My practice exists at the intersection of precision and intuition. Influenced by my background in engineering and by the philosophy of Satori drawn from Japanese martial arts, I seek clarity, presence, and essential form. In recent works, I move beyond representation by physically incising and suturing my photographic prints, transforming them into vulnerable, sculptural bodies. Through these gestures of wounding and repair, I question photography's claim to permanence and explore fragility, memory, and transformation as central human conditions.» - Marco Benedetti
Marc Brenzikofer
Marc Brenzikofer: La Lucelle #2, 2024-2025
Marc Brenzikofer: La Lucelle #3, 2024-2025
Marc Brenzikofer (b. 1965) lives and works in Biel-Benken, Switzerland. His early engagement with analogue photography and darkroom practice continues to inform his contemporary digital approach. Brenzikofer's work challenges the documentary tradition of photography.
Through reduction, estrangement, and deliberate chromatic intervention, he transforms familiar landscapes into immersive, surreal environments. Intense and deliberately unnatural color palettes—dominated by saturated pinks, blues, and yellows—shift the focus from representation to emotional impact. Strong compositional contrasts, with sharply defined foreground silhouettes set against blurred, luminous backgrounds, create richly textured surfaces that approach painterly abstraction.
By abstracting natural motifs, Brenzikofer invites viewers to reconsider perception itself and to experience landscape not as depiction, but as interpretation.
«Rooted in my early analogue darkroom experience, my work focuses on transforming rather than documenting reality. Through abstraction, reduction, and deliberate chromatic intervention, I reimagine landscapes using intense, unnatural colors that privilege emotional impact over realism. By contrasting sharp silhouettes with blurred, luminous backgrounds, I create painterly tensions that challenge perception. My aim is to invite viewers to reconsider how they see and to experience nature as interpretation rather than depiction.» - Marc Brenzikofer
Margaret Larmuth
Margaret Larmuth: I hear the roots whisper
Margaret Larmuth is a South African artist based in Switzerland whose work explores the intricate interconnections between human experience and the plant world. Working across drawing, painting, and collage, she currently focuses on large-format pencil crayon drawings that examine unseen lifesustaining networks—root systems, mycelial structures, and invisible energetic fields.
Profoundly influenced by the stillness of the 2020 lockdown, Larmuth developed a body of work shaped by attentive listening and close observation of the natural world. Her drawings exist between observation and invention, neither botanical illustration nor pure abstraction, but speculative ecologies that suggest knowledge without fixed meaning. Engaging with ideas of entanglement and interconnected systems, her practice reflects on the invisible structures that bind human and non-human life.
Her works are meditations on quiet transformation and on restoring a sensitive relationship with the living world.
«My work explores our entanglement with nature and the potency of invisible spaces. I am interested in systems that operate beneath the visible surface: root networks, mycelial structures, mystical plants, acoustic and energetic fields, and the social and ecological bonds that sustain life"» - Margaret Larmuth
Majicmiju – Michel Juvet
Michel Juvet: Too strong CHF
Michel Juvet: Vendôme aftermath
Majicmiju – Michel Juvet is a Swiss photographer born in Geneva. Before dedicating himself fully to photography in 2021, he was a recognised expert in economic and financial markets and Managing Partner at Bordier and Cie. His analytical background informs his photographic approach, where timing, perspective, and the reading of subtle emotional cues are central.
Self-taught from an early age and later mentored in lighting and fashion photography in New York, Juvet's practice spans fashion, portraiture, concerts, dance, and street photography. Over the past decade, he has published several books and received multiple distinctions for both literary and photographic work. In recent years, his practice has evolved toward a conceptual investigation of perception.
Moving beyond sharp representation, he creates deliberately blurred images of figures and global cities. These works, including recent colorised blackand-white photographs printed behind plexiglass, blur the boundary between photography and painting. For Juvet, blur is not merely aesthetic—it is philosophical, suggesting that clarity itself may be an illusion.
«Photography, for me, is an exploration of perception. Drawing from my analytical background, I seek the right angle, timing, and emotional undercurrent in each image. In recent years, I have moved beyond sharp representation toward deliberately blurred photographs of people and cities, questioning the illusion of clarity. By colorising and presenting these works behind plexiglass, I bring photography closer to painting, creating luminous spaces where memory, emotion, and ambiguity converge.» - Michel Juvet
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