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The monograph of the artist Eduard Tauss presents the series "Farbkörper" and "Offene Formen", which were created in recent years in an organic and material-gestural formulation. "The paint has freed itself from the pictorial carrier and, by means of its own malleable substance, becomes an expression of itself and serves as the subject of its contemplation in the space." Eduard Tauss' series of works arise in dialogue with or investigation of ...

Since the beginning of mankind, it has interfered with nature and its surface by its very existence, whether by deforestation, planting or by building houses and cities: welcome to the anthropocene! Still nowadays and in our country, an enormous amount of land is sealed every day and thus forever withdrawn from permanent biological production. And no, we will not suddenly stop maximizing our profits and chasing the eternal premise of progress ...

Between Venice, Innsbruck and Florence, the Austrian painter Franz Jenull (1949-2017) developed - after his studies with Emilio Vedova at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice - in many layers of paint and overpainting, 'sharpenings' as he calls them, and in an interplay of spontaneity and control, a non-figurative painting that combines color and form to create a poetic density that is also musical in its rhythm, thus opening up completely ne...

The catalogue is being published on occasion of the exhibition "DUSTribute" (March - May 2022) by the Polish artist Robert Kusmirowski (born in 1973 in Lódz, Poland), with a new, comprehensive interview by Thomas Häusle and a text by Sina Wagner. For Kunstraum Dornbirn, Kusmirowski created a new, temporary and site-specific environment. Visually and atmospherically, his work was based on the film classic "Stalker" (1979) by Soviet director A...

Clara Oppel's works are situated at the interfaces between sound, space, installation, and sculpture. She combines sound into a symbiosis with image and space, so as to create spatial sculptures which can be walked around in. By means of audio recordings, she penetrates deep into the materiality of perception. "It's like zooming in, " she says, "but with the microphone, in order to make a microorganism audible." Particles of original sound are...

Since 1968, Bernhard Leitner has been creating sound spaces, meaning he considers sound to be an architectural, sculptural material. His first work in this regard was a model of Soundcube, a walkable cube with a grid of 384 loudspeakers lining its six inner walls. Moving sound through individually controlled loudspeakers distributed over an area creates spaces that are entirely auditory in nature. Initial empirical studies conducted by the art...

Christian Thoelkes Malerei ist mit ihren zum Teil sehr großen Formaten, auf denen menschliche Behausungen und Infrastrukturen in verlassenem und verfallendem Zustand oder in Momenten akuter Bedrohung zu sehen sind, eine zeitgenössische Position von hoher inhaltlicher Brisanz. Es geht in diesen Bildern um Verlust von Gegenwart, Geborgenheit, Verankerung im Sicheren und Eingespielten und darum, ob die Natur als Zufluchtsraum noch zur Verfügung s...

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Natasza Niedziólkas faszinierende Werke bewegen sich an der Schnittstelle von Malerei, Zeichnung und Textilkunst. Die Leinwand bildet den Träger für ihre abstrakten, haptischen Stickereien. In repetitiver Manier bringt die polnische, in Berlin lebende, Künstlerin über das Material und seine Verwendung eine Leichtigkeit und einen meditativen Gestus in ihre formal kraftvollen und sinnlichen Arbeiten, die an Marcia Hafif oder Agnes Martin denken ...

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami (*1993, Zimbabwe) combines visual fragments in her paintings, revealing a multi-layered and personal vision of life. She experiments with photographs and digital image collages, using them to create large-scale works on paper or canvas with intensely pigmented oil paint, often employing other media and techniques such as silkscreen, pastel or charcoal. She draws her inspiration from a variety of sources, including archiva...

Das Werk der österreichischen Künstlerin Iris Andraschek ist geprägt von dem Interesse an alltagskulturellen und sozialpolitischen Motiven. Die Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Natur, alternative Lebensentwurfe sowie Fragen über ein gerechteres Zusammenleben sind wiederkehrende Themen ihrer Kunst. Kommunikation ist zentral für ihr recherchebasiertes Arbeiten. Dieses spiegelt sich in Projekten wider, die die persönlichen Erfahrungen der Menschen i...

The monograph "Inverse Painting" by Gerhard Himmer documents the most recent works by the artist, whose pictures may be understood as a continuation of Concrete Painting. In his painting, Himmer endeavors to empirically transfer into oil paints the supposedly flawless arrangement of information in a digital world. The compositions, which at a first glance seem monochrome and to possess a perfect surface, reveal upon a detailed inspection the w...

This reader gathers 13 interviews with artists from different generations and backgrounds. Conducted in recent years, these conversations have always been associated with their solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Baselland, where some were presenting their work for the first time. All conversations have opened up, thanks to the generosity on the part of the artists, new insights and findings on the main or secondary approaches within their artistic ...

What I also like is its fixed, focused view-it (photography) only grants the viewer one perspective and imposes a restricted gaze ..." In her first monograph "Bound by Echo", Nadine Bracht combines thematic circles that could not be more different - horses, photography and teaching at an art academy. In the phase when the horse lost its importance with the technical development of the automobile, photography continuously prevailed and became...

Gottfried Mairwöger (1951 - 2003) ist jener Maler, der jenseits von Fotos und Videos seine Eindrücke im Bild erleben lässt. Er sucht das Fremde auf, andere Aufenthalte, die sein Leben neu definieren. Er sucht die Ahnungen der Welten. In seinen Abstraktionen begegnen wir uns selbst, und wir erfahren die Fülle und die Strahlkraft seiner Farben. Wichtig werden seine Erfahrungen mit der amerikanischen Farbfeldmalerei - die Erfahrung, Farbe beim Ma...

Geta Bratescu was born in 1926 in Ploie¿ti, Romania. Despite state repression during the period of the Communist-Stalinist dictatorship under Nicolae Ceaüescu (1965-1989), she developed an oeuvre characterized by an impressive understanding of playful and artistic freedom. The revolution against the regime and the enormous changes that the introduction of democracy and a free market economy triggered on a social and political level were artist...

Ruth Weigand's works elude contemporary trends and current discourses. [..] They appear to be divorced from time, intangible, while they are paradoxically primarily distinguished by one aspect: their unconditional presence." (Jari Ortwig) Ruth Weigand (*1978) works across media with a focus on sculpture. She explores physicality, temporality, and materiality in an experimental and intuitive way. In doing so, she forms graphically organized, ex...

Irma Sitter's painting begins in her head. Inspired by landscapes, memories, odours, or thoughts, she composes a picture and ushers it into the light of day as a sketch on canvas. Then instead of conducting the painting process dogmatically, she allows herself to be guided by the colours. She paints on the floor with a rich array of colours and an abundance of water, using the brush as a guidepost and a baton, under which the work grows as if ...

The declared goal of National Socialist art policy was the creation of a "German" art. To this end, modern art was removed from collections as "degenerate" and art that conformed to the system was presented annually in the "Great German Art Exhibitions" in Munich from 1937. "Grey Zones. Nuremberg Artists under National Socialism" explores how Nazi art policy affected the regional art scene. For this purpose, the collection holdings of the Kun...

The subtly elaborated ink drawings which Ulrich Elsener creates on maps connect the physiognomy of the human body with the topography of the landscape. These works engender multiple resonances: from James Lovelook's Gaia theory, which equates the world viewed as an organism with the human body, all the way to far-eastern philosophies with their abrogation of the object-subject dichotomy. Concerning these pictures, Sibylle Omlin writes: "Elsene...