Protoplast (est. 1990, Basel, Switzerland) is a three-member artist collective that has been generating artefacts for over 35 years: cross-domain works oscillating between hybrid glitch and cultural residue. Their practice unfolds across painting, woodcut, drawing, screen printing, etching, sculpture, video, poster art, and large-scale public interventions – a singular visual language running through every medium.

The works operate within a tension of space, time, desire, suffering, and humour. Pop-cultural references meet the legacy of traditional image-making techniques, generating meaning through broken causality and individual association. The group maintains outward anonymity; authorship remains collective.

Protoplast has exhibited in institutional contexts – Kunsthalle Basel, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Kunstverein Hamburg, Centre d’Art Bienne (KBCB), Kunsthalle Palazzo – as well as in galleries, off-spaces, on public billboards, and in underground car parks. Since 2022, annual poster campaigns during Art Basel have accompanied the collective’s programme.