Silvia Gallart is a visual artist and designer based in Switzerland.

She specializes in contemporary digital pop art, often characterized by vivid colors, unconventional combinations, and playful compositions. Her work is inspired by her fascination with pop culture—particularly pop and rock music, online communication, and the internet—as well as by graphic elements such as typography, geometry, and lines. Her multicultural background, passion for travel, and love of languages also play a central role in her artistic expression.

Silvia Gallart has successfully exhibited in Zurich, Zug, Lucerne, Chicago, and Barcelona, among other locations.

While her earlier work focused on ideas, conceptual foundations, and thematic content—often using the collage genre—her more recent pieces increasingly emphasize formal aspects. Her visual language, always influenced by graphic design, is now shaped more strongly by geometric elements, which she continues to refine and evolve.

When moving between her earlier and more recent work, a distinctive artistic signature and consistent thread become apparent. Drawing inspiration from New Media Art and Pop Art, Gallart works with pre-existing images from everyday life—as templates for drawings, elements within collages, or for intermedial transformation using digital tools. She borrows from the image universe of the Western world and combines it with a recurring, graphic-inspired color palette to create works that are at once ironic, critical, optimistic, and humorous. Her works function as visual series or self-contained narratives, yet also evoke a multiplicity of possible stories within each piece.

Gallart deliberately incorporates symbols, icons, and slogans—some pre-existing, others self-created—such as “Connect – Make the Internet Real,” “Thanks for the music,” “Ask your pillow,” “Lost in translation,” and “When does a picture disappear?” She works with visual references that are omnipresent in our image-saturated world, regardless of time and place—David Bowie, Grace Jones, emojis, subway maps, flags, antiques, and more.

Despite their bright and cheerful color schemes, Silvia Gallart’s cross-media works do not remain on the surface. Instead, they prompt reflection on our daily lives shaped by digital communication technologies and encourage viewers to consider the nature of images and their supposed self-evidence.

Text: Nadja Borer

Email: silviagallart@gmail.com

Instagram: @silviagallart

Facebook: @silviagallartdesign