Foreign Agent is a contemporary art gallery in Lausanne, Switzerland, showcasing emerging and confirmed contemporary artists and designers from Africa and the diaspora. Foreign Agent celebrates unique storytelling and radical design, an African Memphis with a neo-pop afro-futuristic vibe. The future, from an African perspective.
Foreign Agent also aims at developing unique collaborations with leading talent in global design: Foreign Affairs. Discover our exclusive fibreglass furniture by award-winning British designer Yinka Ilori.
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 from blipster fashion brands Teddy Ondo Ella, Maxhosa and Simon & Mary, Caralarga ethical textile jewellery made in Mexico, Gestalten art books, accessories from Italian brand Palorosa made in Guatemala and organic Africology products.
Welcome to a life in Africolor and escape from the drudgery of the everyday!
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
We are open!
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.
