Curator, Researcher and Writer in Zurich
Published in: Huber, Meltzer, Munder, von Oppeln (eds.), It`s not a Garden Table – Art and Design in the Expanded Field, JRP-Ringier, Zürich 2011 Good Design vs. Minimal Art Ever since industrial design emerged as a discipline in the nineteenth century, artistic engagement with its aesthetic has provoked heated debate over dividing lines and common ground. … Continue reading Design as Self-Criticism of Art
Published in: frieze d/e, Summer 2011, London/Berlin. From the late 1970s to the late 1980s, Mark Morrisroe photographed himself and his circle of friends, including Nan Goldin, David Armstrong and Jack Pierson, in countless portraits and nudes. Unlike in Goldins work, the emphasis here is not on the emotional aspect of an intimate situation in a relationship … Continue reading Mark Morrisroe
Published in: Michael van Ofen, Distanz-Verlag, Berlin 2011. Several scenes of departure by the Austrian Biedermaier painter Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller form the starting point for four works by Michael van Ofen, painted between 1993 and 1997. From a certain distance, The Bride’s Departure (1993) provides an inkling of the construction of an interior, yet due … Continue reading Side Part
Published in: Stefan Burger, Sehr, sehr dünne Suppe, Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2010. Stirrings Still. Doing something. Not doing it. Omitting to do it and at the same time wondering how it would be to do it, and thinking of having done the same thing often. Samuel Beckett’s last work reads like an allegory of Stefan … Continue reading To do or not to do: the act of omission, under given circumstances
Sorry, this entry is only available in German. Continue reading (Deutsch) Beni Bischof
Published in: frieze 127, London. To the extent that art is about that which can be imagined, it has always carried a Utopian charge. Many group shows in recent years have been imbued with Utopian purpose by their titles, but whether the exhibited works truly contain such aspirations or whether they have been framed this … Continue reading Utopics: 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition
Sorry, this entry is only available in German. Continue reading (Deutsch) Was vom Körper bleibt – Ein Maskenspiel
Erschienen in: Ana Roldan, Edizioni Periferia, Luzern 2009. Two sticks are propped against a wall. They lean towards each other at eye level. The ends are tapered forming pointed arrows; there is a grip in the middle. Despite these features, it is hard to see the objects as being particularly dangerous since their wood tips are much … Continue reading Impossible Weapons
Published in: frieze 120, London 2008. In huge, bright-red letters the upside-down writing on the wall of Kunstmuseum Stuttgart promised comedy on a truly grand scale: Christian Jankowski’s first major survey show in Germany. Since the artist went hunting for food in a supermarket with a bow and arrow (The Hunt, 1992), he has, with increasing … Continue reading Christian Jankowski
Published in: Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Zürich (ed.), Zürich 2008. I might almost have walked past a freestanding wall corner placed in the middle of the exhibition hall without paying any attention to it, had it not been for the inconspicuous indication of the label that records it as a work of art-Gregory and Cyril Chapuisat, Intra Muros. The experience-based work of the … Continue reading The last Frontier