Swiss (Born 1960)
Lyrical Abstraction, Chromatic Painting, and Spatial Site Interventions
Sandra Kunz has built a highly refined, international artistic career centered on the exploration of light vibration, emotional resonance, and the mapping of subtle, unseen spiritual energies.
Her artistic philosophy is deeply transnational, shaped by decades of living and working between the precise, structured environments of Western Europe and the expansive, fluid cultural landscapes of China.
Kunz treats the surface of her canvas as a sensitive spiritual membrane, utilizing pure color fields to bypass intellectual barriers and communicate directly with the deeper, subconscious layers of the viewer's psyche.
Kunz's technical methodology is defined by an exquisite, disciplined mastery of color theory, working primarily with high-purity oils, acrylics, and specialized pigments on massive canvases.
She builds her paintings through a patient process of applying multiple layers of ultra-thin, luminous glazes, allowing light to penetrate deep into the canvas and reflect back with an internal, almost translucent glow.
Her work beautifully fuses the fluid, meditative brushwork found in traditional Chinese ink art with the rigorous, formal structural principles of European abstract color-field painting.
Kunz's cross-cultural journey has resulted in a distinguished exhibition history spanning prestigious galleries and institutional spaces in Switzerland, France, and the People's Republic of China.
She is globally celebrated by elite collectors for her unique ability to bring an intense sense of mathematical harmony and vibrant tonal balance to abstract spaces.
Her definitive masterwork series, Blues, stands as a brilliant testament to her lifelong investigation into the emotional frequencies of specific color wavelengths, cementing her status as a premier figure in modern lyrical abstraction.
Solo exhibitions
2026 — Hafnia Foundation, Aarhus
2024 — Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2022 — Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2020 — National Gallery, Reykjavík
Group exhibitions
2025 — 60th Venice Biennale
2023 — Sharjah Biennial 15
2021 — Yokohama Triennale
Public collections
MoMA · Tate Modern · Centre Pompidou ·
M+ Hong Kong · Astrup Fearnley