“My paintings are a celebration of colors and landscapes surrounding me – mountains, lakes, trees and flowers - with the ever-changing light during a day, a season, a year. Moments and fragments captured in my scrapbook, reborn as colorful improvisations on canvas and nourished by memory. I work in cycles and series lasting 365 days - one day is equal to one painting – creating a tribute to each day, remembering an instant, a color, an emotion. As a further step in the painting process, I recompose the 365-day paintings within triptychs and polyptychs, exploring harmonies, dissonances, rhythms and contrasts. Moving between figuration and abstraction, between representation and dissolution, where emptiness and diffusion become portals to interior worlds that transcend the canvas."

Florica Marian is a Swiss artist with Serbian and Romanian roots. After studies in cultural anthropology (University Zürich) and visual arts (Geneva, University of Arts & Design HEAD), she completed her training under the supervision of Maria Lassnig (Vienna, University of Applied Arts). 

She worked as an art teacher and art-therapist before obtaining a PhD from the University Witten-Herdecke in Germany and pursuing an academic career as a researcher and lecturer.

Her work includes painting, drawing, photography, performance and installation. She exhibits nationally and internationally since the late 1980s. Florica Marian lives and works in the Swiss Alps and in Montreux. From January to April 2026, she will be an artist-in-residence at the Chinese European Art Center CEAC in Xiamen, China.