Guest artists
in our boutiques
Art Takes Center Stage at Norki
At Norki, we cultivate a deep passion for art, which we celebrate within our exceptional boutiques. Through an exclusive program of exhibitions, we invite works by renowned artists to engage in dialogue with our collections, within a refined and sophisticated setting.
Photography, paintings, ceramics, and contemporary or conceptual creations blend seamlessly with our seasonal pieces and vintage collection, offering a truly unique aesthetic experience. These ephemeral installations transform our spaces in Gstaad, Megève, and Paris into veritable cabinets of curiosity.
JUSTIN WEILER ON DISPLAY IN OUR GSTAAD BOUTIQUE
DECEMBER 2025 – FEBRUARY 2026
Justin Weiler
Born in 1990
Paris-born visual artist Justin Weiler, born in 1990, lives and works in Paris. He graduated from the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes in 2015, then from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris with honours (DNSAP 2017).
He was an artist-in-residence at the Académie de France in Madrid, at the Casa de Velázquez, in 2019/2020.
In 2016, he was successively awarded the Visual Arts Prize of the City of Nantes, the Biennale of Contemporary Arts at the CRAC of Champigny-sur-Marne, and the Diamond Grant from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Since then, his work has been included in numerous public and private collections, such as the Musée d’arts de Nantes, the FRAC des Pays de la Loire, and the Société Générale collection.
His work has been presented in several exhibitions in France, notably at the Collection Lambert in Avignon during ¡Viva Villa!, as well as in China, Cyprus, Canada, Dubai, and Luxembourg.
In 2022, the Mobilier National acquired three of his works for the creation of two carpets and a tapestry.
In 2023, he was named laureate of the Yves Saint Laurent Worldwide Windows, and his work was exhibited simultaneously in Saint Laurent stores in New York, Los Angeles, Dubai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Milan, Paris, London, and Seoul.
The Mobilier National commissioned him to create a monumental work, which was installed in February 2023 at the Élysée Palace.
Artistic Approach
Light and Transparency
Essential to painting, light gives life to forms and reveals colours. It structures space and guides the gaze. In Justin Weiler’s work, it seems to emanate from the support itself, without any identifiable source. The artist does not merely depict light: he actively captures it and uses it as a raw material.
Painting is no longer a closed surface: it opens, inhabited by light and movement, transforming the surface into depth, surpassing the limits of a mere image to create perceptual experiences. A silent dialogue unfolds between the artwork, the light, and the viewer. It is an experience, a conversation between the ephemeral and the permanent.
Glass painting never exists in isolation: it awaits the gaze to come to life. With every glance, with every presence, it reveals itself a little more.
The viewer who discovers it at the pace of their own steps does not confront a fixed image: they are not simply observing a coloured glass surface. Glass does not impose its opacity: transparency—far from being an absence—is a passage connecting the painter’s hand to the light that reveals it.
In this subtle dialogue, light, the elusive accomplice of transparency, does more than illuminate. It passes through the material, refracts within the colour, and settles on the floor and walls. In this way, painting becomes a space to traverse, rather than a surface to contemplate.
Exhibition « Un Été à la Montagne »
Boutique Norki Alps France, Megève, 2025
cassandre albert
Née en 2000
Born in 2000 in Tours (France), Cassandre Albert is emerging as a prominent voice on the contemporary art scene. Her work revolves around the observation of landscapes, with a particular focus on the mountains—an endless source of inspiration and contemplation.
A graduate of the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR), she embraces a multidisciplinary approach, seamlessly blending painting, light, and installation to explore a poetic reflection on our deep and intimate connection to the natural world.
Artistic Approach
Her work is driven by a fascination with darkness—not as a veil of opacity, but as a territory to be explored. From this darkness, luminous points emerge, sketching shapes, spaces, and narratives. These visions oscillate between abstraction and landscape.
In her site-specific installations, she transforms organ pipes into basaltic lava flows and wooden frameworks into crevasses. In her performance “Ce n'était que de vastes sommets d'où partaient de vastes pentes” (2023), these projections materialize into realities, turning the space into an alpine exploration that verges on the creation of dreamlike worlds.
Cassandre Albert does not merely depict landscapes; she questions them, dissects them, splits them apart. Her approach is both immersive and sensorial.
Her works, such as “Sous un linceul” or “Par delà l’enchantement”, reveal a constant tension between the representation of landscape and a near-mystical interpretation. In this dialogue between the visible and the invisible, Cassandre Albert shapes worlds where the viewer is invited to lose their bearings and to reconsider their connection to reality.
Her work, distinguished by a refined pictorial skill and subtle narrative, unfolds as a silent fable about our perspectives and hopes. This exploration of an imagined world, far from being mere aesthetic contemplation, challenges us to reflect on our beliefs and our fear of disappearance.
Inspired by the monumentality of landscapes and the buried stories they hold, Cassandre Albert offers us a body of work where the mountain—so often seen as immutable—reveals itself through visionary, revelatory hallucinations.
Exhibition « Un Été à la Montagne »
Boutique Norki Alps Swiss, Gstaad, 2025
carlo zinelli
(1916 – 1974)
Carlo Zinelli, born on July 2, 1916, in San Giovanni Lupatoto in the province of Verona, is now considered one of the leading figures of Art Brut.
The sixth of seven siblings, he lost his mother at the age of two. After working in the fields from the age of nine, he moved to Verona in 1934, where he became a butcher’s apprentice at the municipal slaughterhouses, while also developing a passion for music and drawing.
His life took a decisive turn when he participated in the Spanish Civil War in 1939 with the Italian contingent. Deeply affected by this traumatic experience, he was repatriated for medical reasons after only two months of service. This was followed by several turbulent years, alternating between periods of work and hospitalization, before he was permanently institutionalized on April 9, 1947, at the San Giacomo Hospital in Verona, where he was diagnosed with "paranoid schizophrenia."
Artistic Approach
Carlo Zinelli’s work reveals a graphic language of singular richness, born out of a profound creative necessity rather than conventional artistic training. His production is marked by a striking formal inventiveness that transcends the limits of his isolated condition.
As if driven by an urgent need to maintain his creative momentum, Zinelli would paint both the front and back of the sheets of paper he used, usually in 50 × 70 cm format. His pictorial universe is characterized by an accumulation of motifs, varying points of view and scales, creating complex narrative compositions.
His instantly recognizable figurative style combines human and animal silhouettes, often shown in profile, sometimes pierced with holes or stars.
Perspective is deliberately absent, replaced by interstitial writings and onomatopoeias that integrate into the work with a personal syntax. His bold use of vivid and contrasting colors gives his creations undeniable visual power.
Zinelli’s work can be read as a kind of coded autobiographical narrative, where themes of war, nature, and childhood recur persistently. His art, never influenced by contemporary artistic trends, reflects a search for original purity and stands as a remarkable example of creative power as a means of survival and inner exploration.
Exhibition « Un Été à la Montagne »
Boutique Norki Alps Swiss, Gstaad, 2025
stefan Holzmüller
(1949 – 2010)
Originally from Karlsruhe, Germany, Stefan Holzmüller first explored pottery before formally training in ceramics, eventually earning the title of master craftsman. In 1979, he settled in Grötzingen, where the municipality provided him with a small house — a gesture reflecting its support for local artists.
A solitary figure, often perceived as eccentric, Holzmüller worked in a studio attached to his home. There, he sculpted clay objects which he fired in his own kiln. Passionate about history, he also collected fragments of Roman pottery and Merovingian coins found during his walks.
Noticed by Jean Dubuffet during his lifetime, his work was included in the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne as early as the 1980s. His studio, a true poetic laboratory, became a place where local craftsmanship met an extraordinary artistic vision. He passed away in February 2010, leaving behind a ceramic legacy of rare intensity.
Artistic Approach
Stefan Holzmüller’s work consists mainly of high-reliefs and freestanding sculptures. He creates an organic and dreamlike universe, where raw and fired clay is transformed into miniature landscapes inhabited by enigmatic creatures.
His assemblies of autonomous pieces, often pierced with tunnels or topped with crooked towers, evoke primitive architectures or imaginary fossils.
He shapes clumps of clay without smoothing them, digs cavities with his bare hands, and plays with rough textures (glazed terracotta, untreated clay).
His fantastic bestiary (owls, mischievous animals) engages in dialogue with hybrid geological forms, oscillating between collapse and rebirth.
Pointed roofs, suspended bridges, and multiple perspectives create a visual language that is both medieval and magical, laced with humour.
Exhibition "Between Shadows and Ice:
Wild Portraits of the Ice Floe in Black and White"
Norki Alps France Boutique, Megève, 2024
GRIET VAN MALDEREN
Born in 1970
Wildlife Photographer
Griet's passion for wildlife photography took root during a memorable family trip to South Africa. Mesmerized by the exceptional wildlife she encountered, she discovered a profound vocation. Since that moment, she has regularly returned to Africa to capture its wild beauty and share it with the world. For Griet, wildlife photography is not just a career; it is a way of life. She is continually inspired by the beauty of the animal kingdom and the intense emotions these encounters evoke in her. Her goal is to capture these emotions and the deep connections she feels with the animals, in order to convey them to others.
Specializing in black and white photography, Griet highlights the unique contrasts and ambiance of her subjects. She also uses colour and sepia tones when necessary to capture the distinctive essence of certain animals. Each photograph is an authentic expression of her emotions and her connection with the animal. As a wildlife photographer, Griet is passionate about capturing unique moments that showcase wildlife and animals in their natural habitats. With her camera and telephoto lens, she has the opportunity to immortalize exceptional moments, revealing the beauty of wild animals and wildlife in general.
Griet strives to convey the intense emotions she experiences during her encounters with animals. She captures and shares the deep connections she perceives between herself and her subjects through each photograph. Her specialization in black and white photography allows her to enhance contrasts and ambiance, but she does not hesitate to use colour and sepia tones to capture the unique essence of certain animals. Each image is a true expression of her emotional connection with nature. Griet's wildlife photography highlights the wild in its natural habitat, immortalizing unique moments and revealing the beauty of animals and wildlife.
Discover the exhibition "Between Shadows and Ice: Wild Portraits of the Ice Fields in Black and White," in our Megève boutique starting December 7, 2024, within a new scenography of our Fall–Winter 2024 Collection, Anja.
OLIVIER DASSAULT exhibition
Norki Alps Swiss Boutique, Gstaad, 2024
OLIVIER DASSAULT
(1951 – 2021)
Born in 1951 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Olivier Dassault, French photographer, has devoted his life to immortalizing unique moments and creating captivating visual compositions, using silver photography.
His artistic approach is characterized by three themes: colour, which plays an essential role in the composition of his photographs; light, which is captured in such a way as to transform our perception of the objects around us; and finally, overprinting, which gives rise to compositions with multiple sizes.
His photographs are now the subject of exhibitions all over the world, from Paris to New York, Madrid to Marrakech, as well as being included in the catalogs of several museums and institutions. In 2023, Olivier Dassault's work joined the collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
FLORE SIGRIST exhibition
Norki boutiques and our office, 2023
FLORE SIGRIST
(Born in 1985)
Flor Sigrist is a French-Swiss artist born in 1985 in Strasbourg. Flore Sigrist began painting at the age of seven and quickly demonstrated an exceptional talent for painting. She was revealed in 1995, at the first auction organised by Sotheby's in the Principality of Monaco.
Each of her paintings is an invitation to travel. Everyone can see what they want. Like the greatest abstractionists, she gives no code, but it is up to the viewer to wander, imagine and interpret.
Internationally recognised, in 2011 and 2012 she was ranked as the world's second most expensive contemporary painter under the age of 30 (Artprice ranking). In 2013, a 4,92 × 4,92 ft work from 1998 sold for €104,000 at Sotheby's New York. Flore is the only French woman in the 2013 Top 500 list of contemporary artists, ranked 458. In 2015, she was nominated by the American business magazine Forbes as one of the ‘30 Under 30’, the most highly rated artists under the age of 30 on the art market.
« HORS DU CADRE » exhibition
LAURENCE AUZIÈRE & GRAFFENSTTADEN
Norki boutiques, 2023
LAURENCE AUZIÈRE & MATTHIEU GRAFFENSTTADEN
(Born in 1977)
In 2019, Matthieu Gasser called Graffensttaden created his first cellular portrait using his own saliva cells - a unique and powerful concept combining Art and Science. A series of self-portraits soon followed.
Meeting Laurence Auzière in 2021 gave another dimension to his project. Together they developed the initial concept by adding new formats, graphic work and black and white.
They opened up to collaboration with other artists and entrepreneurs. Meeting Flore Sigrist was a major artistic turning point for these artists: a new alliance between Conceptual Art and Contemporary Art.
FABIENNE AUZOLLE exhibition
Norki Alps France boutique, Megève, 2023
FABIENNE AUZOLLE
(Born in 1967)
Fabienne Auzolle is a contemporary Ceramic artist. Graduated from the École Duperré and from the Paris ENSAAD, she also studied History of Art in the École du Louvre. Specialized in glazed earthenware, she connects the ceramic at her love for thread and textile, creating sculpture and installations steeped in symbolism and rituals.
Fabienne grew up surrounded by nature, which fueled her passion for art and creation. She is an eager learner, always seeking to see, understand, and experiment. Her curiosity cabinet, 'La Chambre de Merveilles,' is an immersion into her inner world, where the sacred and secular intersect, inspired by myths and rites.
Her artwork reflects a deep interest in art history and a mastery of ceramics and textiles. With a bohemian and vibrant spirit, Fabienne regularly expands her repertoire through her travels. Fascinated by myths, tales, and rites, she revisits the flamboyance of Mexican Trees of Life, integrating these elements into her creations. Her art explores the mystery of femininity and origins, celebrating the constant renewal of nature.