Foreign Agent is a contemporary art gallery in Lausanne, Switzerland, showcasing emerging and confirmed contemporary artists and designers from Africa and the diaspora. Announcing Superlife, the first solo by Geneva-based Cameroonian artist Maurice Mboa! Coming very soon…
Foreign Agent also aims at developing unique collaborations with leading talent in art and design: Foreign Affairs. Discover our exclusive fibreglass furniture by award-winning British designer Yinka Ilori. And watch out for our forthcoming collaboration with The Photographic Collective!
Foreign Agent is the Big Brother of Little Agent, a concept store with unique and carefully selected must-have pieces which will elevate your global style.
Foreign Agent. Live bold.
Contact details
Foreign Agent
64 Avenue d’Ouchy
1006 Lausanne
olivier@foreignagent.ch
+41 21 9090 007
Opening Times
Tuesday to Friday
11-1pm and 3-6pm
Saturday
from 11 to 5pm
& by appointment
Agent extraordinaire
Olivier Chow is a Swiss-Chinese citizen of the world, educated in Geneva, London and the field, a political scientist and art historian with a PhD on the aesthetics of cruelty from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. In a previous life, he worked for UNESCO in Paris and for a leading humanitarian agency in Kabul, Phnom Penh, Goma, Skopje, Kigali, Tel Aviv, Conakry, Port-au-Prince, Niamey, Geneva and Pretoria. He has published for Tate papers, Sotheby’s, the International Review of the Red Cross and other peer-reviewed publications.
