Caroline Bachmann was born in 1962 in Lausanne, Switzerland. She lives and works between Cully, Switzerland and Berlin. Winner of the Swiss Grand Award for Art | Prix Meret Oppenheim 2022, Bachmann was Professor and head of the painting and drawing department at the university of art HEAD – Genève from 2007 to 2022. Between 2004 and 2014 she collaborated with Swiss artist Stefan Banz, a period during which they founded KMD – Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp | the Forestay Museum of Art. Solo presentations of her work include shows at Galerie Gregor Staiger (Zürich, 2021), Kunsthaus Glarus (2020), Duane Thomas Gallery (New York, 2020), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2016) and Museum Schloss Moyland (Bedburg-Hau, 2014), the latter two together with Stefan Banz. Bachmann has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including at Mamco (Geneva, 2021), MCBA Musée cantonal des beaux arts (Lausanne, 2021), Kunstmuseum Luzern (2020), Palazzina (Basel, 2020), Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal (Basel, 2018) and Fotomuseum Winterthur (2011), as well as at Hubei Institute of Fine Arts with Stefan Banz (Wuhan, 2010).