Bernard Fibicher
Bernard Fibicher studied art history at the Universities of Zurich and Bern. After serving as curator at the Musée des beaux-arts in Sion and later at the Kunsthaus Zürich, he became director of the Kunsthalle Bern and subsequently held a position at the Kunstmuseum Bern. In 2007, he was appointed director of the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne (MCBA), where he was involved from the outset in the project for the new Musée des Beaux-Arts on the Plateforme 10 site.
Over the course of his career, he has led numerous public-space projects and organized more than 100 exhibitions of ancient and contemporary art.
These include thematic exhibitions—such as Six Feet Under. An Autopsy of Our Relationship with the Dead (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2006) and Comme des bêtes (Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, 2008)—as well as exhibitions of contemporary art from other cultures: South Meets West (Kunsthalle Bern, 2000), devoted to Africa; Mahjong. Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2005), focusing on China; and Horn Please (Kunstmuseum Bern, 2007), devoted to India. Among the most recent exhibitions he organized at the MCBA are Nalini Malani. Splitting the Other (2010), Incongru. When Art Makes You Laugh (2011), Painting. Alex Katz & Félix Vallotton (2013), Giuseppe Penone. Crossed Perspectives (2015), Ai Weiwei. D’ailleurs c’est toujours les autres (2018), Atlas. Cartography of the Gift (2019), and Résister, encore (2022).