Jérôme Leuba

Jérôme Leuba is an artist, teacher and researcher, and a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel de Genève (now Head). He began by making 16 and 35 mm films, as well as a feature-length experimental road-movie entitled Gaule in 2003.

Over the past twenty years, he has been developing a body of work entitled #battlefield, combining different media (video, installation, object, text), including living sculptures and performative works that he often stages in public spaces and museums. His work tests our social codes and attempts to shift the boundaries between reality and representation, creating ambiguous images and situations based on opposing signs. Leuba plays with our conditioned reflexes and interpretations from the public sphere, bringing into play our social norms and internalized constraints that determine private attitudes and public postures, unknowingly sculpting our behavior.
These devices are not delivered in a single glance, and underline the problematic nature of any mediatization of reality that reconstructs our perceptions of the world. The articulation between images, media and influences is constantly at play in his work.

Jérôme Leuba has exhibited in monographic and group shows in numerous Swiss and European art centers (see CV), and has benefited from residencies in Paris, Berlin and Johannesburg. He has twice won the Swiss Art Award. He was also awarded the Prix Culturel Manor, the Prix Irène Reymond and the Prix de la Fondation Liechti pour les Arts. In Geneva, he created two public art pieces: Breath in Neon Parallax (2007) and Assemblage (2023). He published the monograph battlefield with JRP art publishing in 2013.

He is an associate professor in the Master of Arts in Public Spheres and Bachelor's programs at the Ecole de Design et Haute Ecole d'Art (EDHEA) in Sierre, Valais. He has conducted several institutional research projects, including Rhône Territoires Mouvants with Marie Velardi. He is particularly interested in the theoretical question of documenting performance art and its potential translations. He is currently working on a book with texts by Camille Paulhan, Anaïs Wenger, Alain Freudinger and Anne Bénichou, to be published by éditions art&fiction in 2026. He also took part in the SNSF research project Collecting the ephemeral, as an invited artist working on questions of reenactment and reproduction of performances.

He collaborates with the annex14 gallery in Zurich.