Born in Neuchâtel in 1977, Léopold Rabus studied at the Académie de Meuron and then at the School of Art in La Chaux-de-Fonds, before joining the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris. He currently lives and works in Neuchâtel.
Coming from a family of artists, he was immersed from an early age in a world that is both surreal and playfully parodic. Drawing on his familiar surroundings and the rural everyday life that shapes them, Rabus endows his works with a strong sense of staging and theatrical presence. His approach is instinctive and makes no claim to a conceptual agenda: like a voyeur, the viewer is confronted with a reality in which perceptions and emotions unfold—an art that is folkloric, vivid, and infused with humor.
His works are held in numerous international collections.