In Memoriam: René Groebli
07 may 2026
On 5 May, the Swiss photographer René Groebli passed away in Zurich, the city where he was also born in 1927. With his passing, the art world loses a photographer who continuously brought movement into the medium and opened it up in an intuitive way. While many post-war photographers pursued sharpness, control and objectivity, Groebli gravitated towards smoke, movement, grain, speed and emotion. For more than seventy years, he continued to experiment with what photography could be: not only a documentary medium, but also a way of making the intuitive and the elusive tangible, rendering visible that which is felt, remembered and desired. Groebli’s work is represented by Bildhalle.
