The case
Vivian Suter was born in Buenos Aires in 1949 to exiled European parents. When she was 12, during the Peròn regime, her family relocated to Basel, where she studied painting. In 1982 she travelled through the USA and Latin America, and in the following year she settled in Panajachel, Guatemala, near the lake Atitlan. The local atmosphere, climate, vegetation and animals became the central topics of her work.
Source: Palais de Tokyo – from 06/12/2025 to 09/07/2025
The commentary
In the summer of 2025, the Palais de Tokyo organizes the larger-scale retrospective of Vivian Suter, displaying around 500 paintings produced by the artist in her garden located in Panajachel, Guatemala over the course of the last ten years, where she has been living since the 1980s.
