Luxury cars and lip gloss. Shopping, beauty and lifestyle. What do we dream of surrounding ourselves with? And how does what we consume shape our understanding of who we are?
For the first time in the Nordic region, internationally renowned Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury is the subject of a major solo exhibition. Since the early 1990s, Fleury has created art that explores our desire for objects and symbols.

Chrome-plated casts of American muscle-car engines mingle with gleaming Balenciaga boots, glowing neon signs and giant paintings resembling makeup palettes. Fleury has a deep fascination with cars as ultimate status symbols and codes of masculinity. The car is central to lifestyle and culture, from motorsport’s clichéd gender divides to mythical narratives of freedom and movement.

Yet Fleury does not pass judgement on our consumer habits and lifestyle aspirations. She is simultaneously a lover, a victim and a critic of fashion and cars. By bringing their material objects and visual language into the realm of art, she creates surprising new encounters between them – with a generous dose of punk feminism and humour.

Join us on a road trip through Sylvie Fleury’s art. The journey takes you through bold, vibrant and immersive works – from her early videos, in which she washes cars wearing razor-sharp stilettos, to iconic sculptures, paintings and new installations created especially for the exhibition.

Sylvie Fleury, Biography
With audacity, glamour and conceptual elegance, Sylvie Fleury (b. 1961) made her debut on the international art scene in 1990, when she walked into Galerie Rivolta and placed shopping bags from luxury brands on the floor as her contribution to a group exhibition. With this single, witty and perceptive gesture, her career took off.

She has since been recognised for her contribution to female empowerment in art and for her critical engagement with Pop Art, Conceptual Art and Minimalism of the 1960s and 1970s – a period in which male artists such as Andy Warhol, Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre became canonical figures in art history.

Sylvie Fleury lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland.