Galerie Impact (1968)
Switzerland
Biography :
Located in Lausanne, the Galerie impact is an independent space managed collectively which had a major role in the worldwide representation of video art from Switzerland.
"From 1968 to 1975, the Impact Group, founded by Jean-Claude Schauenberg, Jean Scheurer and Henri Barbier, deployed experimental and avant-garde art. One of the goals of this association between different idealist and activist artists is to make art accessible to all through provocative actions, full of humor. Inside their eponymous Lausanne gallery (rue Centrale 31), the Group organizes around 70 exhibitions. Extra muros, he performs in around thirty exhibitions and public events. The gallery closed in 1975, due to exhaustion, everyone returning to their personal creation, but the Group remained active until 1980 to launch one-off and spectacular actions.
Among the early members, we find the ceramist Pierre Guberan, Kurt von Ballmoos, Bertrand Caspar, Archibald Ganslmayer, Jean-Pierre Tzaud and Jacques-Dominique Rouiller. This group also included women including Mick Muller. Lorenz Nussbaumer and Charles Duboux will join them in a second phase. Everyone comes together thanks to the provision of a premises by the dancers Philippe Dahlmann and Asa Lanova with the idea of allowing the meeting of several expressions. This premises, located at rue Centrale 31, will become the Impact Gallery." (Source, website, Museris Lausanne)