Category: Publications

Sorry, this entry is only available in German. Continue reading (Deutsch) Eine unzeitgemäße Zeitgenossenschaft? Über den Realismus des Designs in der Kunst der Gegenwart

Lisa Biedlingmaier and Burkhard Meltzer in an email conversation, published on October 18, 2020 in: tria Spreadsheet #21. Dear Burkhard, After the entire Swiss art scene ascended to the mountains this summer (from what I can see on my insta bubble), I too decided to relocate my practice, and followed a herd of yaks at … Continue reading Subject: Nayan, Julong, Naulekh, Ogotai, Tsarang and Umsonai

May 2020 Published as part of the exhibition Real Time, Seventeen Gallery, London (curated by Damien Roach). I do not feel like having time for ‘a deep breath’ at the moment. On the contrary – time to work is not only much more limited, but also divided in smaller units. Especially with a kid, when … Continue reading Precarious temporalities: Trying to access the reality of real time

Helmhaus Zürich, February 14-April 5, 2020. Published in: critics picks, artforum.com, March 17, 2020. While sitting in a tramcar on my way to the exhibition venue, I noticed a curious ad for Florence Jung’s solo exhibition: “If there is one name you never utter, call 0775050362.” The intrigue continued inside the Helmhaus, which offered further … Continue reading Florence Jung

Kunstmuseum Bern, February 22–June 16. Published in: critics picks, artforum.com, June 4, 2019. Until the early 1990s, Swiss artist Miriam Cahn primarily drafted large-format charcoal-and-chalk drawings on paper. They were often influenced by her political involvement with the antinuclear and women’s movements, and, sometimes, she made them with her eyes closed. Her subject matter from … Continue reading Miriam Cahn

Sorry, this entry is only available in German. Continue reading (Deutsch) Universalismus heute

Kunsthalle Zurich, Limmatstrasse 270, February 16–May 26. Published in: critics picks, artforum.com, April 7, 2019. A vast array of drawings, photographs, videos, restaged installations, and artifacts by the Brotherhood of the New Blockheads—a Russian performance collective active mainly in and around Saint Petersburg in the mid-1990s—is presented in this archival exhibition. From 1996 to 2002, … Continue reading The Brotherhood of the New Blockheads

Kunsthalle Bern, Helvetiaplatz 1, September 22–December 2, 2018. Published in: critics picks, artforum.com, November 20, 2018. “Independence” is a loaded exhibition title. It evokes a certain kind of gallerygoer’s cliché fantasy of art and artists, and it immediately raises the question: Independence from what? With its nondisclosure of the participating artist’s name, this show’s title … Continue reading Independence

Published in: form Design Magazine, No. 280, 2018. Design is principally a positive proposition, I was recently informed at a design school. So taken aback was I by the matter-of-factness of this blithe pronouncement, which came in the context of a conference talk on the fundamental premises of aesthetics and design, that I decided to … Continue reading Design and Negativity