“I keep a piece of linen in a chest, two woven pieces of white linen thread sewn together to form a sheet. Its workmanship marks are of great nobility. It was woven on the small family loom by my great-grandmother. Unfolded, the sheet forms a screen onto which Fassen's stories are projected...”

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Fassen was founded by Sébastien Gschwind in 2023. Trained as a sculptor, he is driven by object culture, a love of materials and the invention of form. An interdisciplinary visual artist, he is also a pedagogue committed to education and artistic research. He grew up in Alsace, on the border between Switzerland and Germany.

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He trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de Nancy (1993-1999). In 1996, he studied at the Glasgow School of Art. In 2003, he co-authored a prefabricated steel house near Jean Prouvé's house in Nancy. The work was nominated for the Moniteur d'Architecture's “équerre d'argent” award for first work. In 2005, he designed signage furniture for the Château de Versailles. From 2006, he lives in Berlin and founds Happyfew gallery and design studio. In 2011, back in France, he is resident at the Fondation Hermès art program, where he designs Un genre humain, a totemic, wandering sculpture. He has given a number of performances as part of the nuits blanches festival. In parallel with his work, he taught for 15 years at art and architecture schools in Mulhouse and Paris.