Daniela Estephanía Thomet (Medellín, Colombia, 1993) is a visual artist and interior designer based in Basel, Switzerland. Trained as a Technician in interior Design and Decoration at the Institución Universitaria Salazar y Herrera (2017), her practice moves fluidly between illustration, painting, graphic work, muralism, and small-format publications such as fanzines and short-form comics.
Her work is informed by a long-standing affinity with architecture and urban studies, which shape her interest in how bodies, stories, and images inhabit both public and domestic space. Throughout her trajectory, she has experimented with visual narratives, critical vignettes, and acidic, sometimes humorous, micro-stories that reflect on everyday life, displacement, and cultural tension.
Since relocating to Switzerland in 2020, she has developed a practice positioned at the intersection of manual and digital processes, exploring themes of migration, territory, nature, and motherhood. From Basel, she continues to build a body of work where transnational experience, personal memory, and the artistic lineage inherited from her father converge to question how one constructs a sense of place and belonging.
CV – Daniela Estephanía Thomet
Visual artist and interior designer
Basel, Switzerland
Email: danielae.thomet@gmail.com
Nationality: Colombian
Born in 1993
Education
2017 – Technical Degree in Interior Design and Decoration
Institución Universitaria Salazar y Herrera, Medellín (CO)
2018 – Fundamentals of Bioclimatic Architecture
PVG Arquitectos, Medellín (CO)
2018 – Introduction to Sustainable Design
Colombian Society of Architects
2017 – Diploma in Habitability, Santa Cruz del Islote
Universidad Santo Tomás
2016 – Seminar on Urbanism, Landscape and Urban Mobility
National University of Colombia
2016 – E-commerce Certificate
Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies, Colombia
Artistic Practice and Selected Projects
2023 – Vitra Center Restaurant, Basel (CH)
Calligraphy and lettering for menus, signage, and graphic elements.
2019 – Carnival of Riosucio (CO)
Muralism: pictorial characterization of the traditional “Diablo del Carnaval.”
2018 – Paso a Paso, Medellín (CO)
Illustration through vignettes, creation of fanzines and short graphic narratives.
2016 – Pictopia, Mayor’s Office of Medellín (CO)
Outdoor mural intervention / graffiti.
2016 – Editorial Illustration
Illustration for poetry books, creation of fanzines and short graphic novels.