Atelier for special tasks
The studio for special tasks is a small artistic company founded in 1999 in St. Gallen for the realization of art projects. It consists of the conceptual artists Patrik and Frank Riklin. The twin brothers (born December 17, 1973 ) both completed art studies, but soon turned away from the classic art business in order to be able to implement their creative ideas uncompromisingly.
Act
Often the focus of their projects is on social interaction. B. at BIGnik and Quatschmobil .
To mark the 200th anniversary of the Swiss Art Association , the studio for special tasks realized the film Art, Life and Death .
For the label Null Stern Hotel that they had devised for a project (first realized in 2008/2009 in Teufen AR ), they received worldwide attention as well as a purchase offer worth millions, which they refused.
The art project Fly Rescue in Deppendorf , originally planned by the client Reckhaus GmbH & Co KG in Bielefeld as an extraordinary advertisement for a fly trap, inspired the company owner Hans-Dietrich Reckhaus to create his Insect Respect (R) quality mark and the books Why Every Fly Counts (3rd edition 2018 ) and let fly ( Murmann Verlag , 2020). This project was also the subject of a case study by Berit Sandberg and Antje Hering as part of the research project Arts Push Business - Art-Enterprise-Cooperation (KUK) as a motor for business and art at HTW Berlin .
Her book and art project Denkpause (2013), which was actually planned as a contribution to the “Kultursommer Mels ” 2010, was awarded CHF 15,000 in 2012 by the canton of St. Gallen . funded (project number L.12.1.23).
The studio was allowed to participate in the three-phase art project “New North Zurich”, a special “drinking fountain” (drinks machine) was created for the area development project Mehr als Wohnen in the north of Zurich.
In 2018 they made a contribution to the Super simple festival of the Swiss Werkbund .
Projects (selection)
- 2004: Smallest summit in the world .
- 2007: City telephone
- 2011: Fly rescue in Deppendorf . Deppendorf / St. Gallen
- 2013: Drinking fountain in the Zurich Hunziker area (Leutschenbach)
- 2015: FREITAG AD ABSURDUM feat. Frank & Patrik Riklin . The Freitag brothers received a carte blanche from the musée de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains (mudac) in Lausanne .
- 2016: Planet B . 100 ideas for a new world, group exhibition in the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf , curated by Alain Bieber
- 2016: Zero star hotel as part of Art Safiental
- 2017: direct marketing .
literature
- Gerhard Mack: “Atelier for Special Tasks”: How art and business become accomplices . Portrait in the NZZ on Sunday 17 August 2019
Web links
- Homepage of the studio for special tasks
- Art to the power of two - Patrik and Frank Riklin. Film portrait in the SRF “ Sternstunde Kunst ” on July 12, 2020
- Katalin Vereb: Wrapped properly. Portrait in the Coop newspaper on February 17, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maura Kressig, Selina Kaess: Promoting social cohesion through participatory art. Bachelor thesis at HSLU , 2015 ( PDF , p. 51 ff.)
- ↑ items from the Art Bulletin 9/2006 on artlog.net
- ↑ Christian Spiess: Alternative uses for Swiss military and civil defense systems - inventory analysis and clarification of potential. Master's thesis at the University of Zurich , 2010 ( PDF , pp. 35–40)
- ↑ Box 2: artist collective Frank and Patrik Riklin (studio for special tasks). In: Holger J. Schmidt, Carsten Baumgarth (Hrsg.): Forum Markenforschung 2018. Springer-Verlag, 2020 (p. 129, with photo and links)
- ↑ Website for the campaign
- ↑ The story on insect-respect.org
- ^ English edition: Why Every Fly Counts: Value and Endangerment of Insects. Springer International Publishing, 2017 (2nd edition 2019)
- ↑ KUK case study VIII: Reckhaus GmbH & Co. KG - "Save flies in Deppendorf" ( PDF )
- ↑ Cultural Funding St. Gallen ( PDF )
- ^ Margrit Hugentobler, Andreas Hofer, Pia Simmendinger: More than living . Birkhäuser Verlag, 2015, p. 165 f.
- ↑ Super simple solutions . Article in the schreinerzeitung.ch from January 22, 2018.
- ↑ Caroline Micaela Hauger: The time is ripe for a new minimalism . Schweizer Illustrierte from July 12, 2020
- ↑ When the Riklin brothers' phone rings . Article in the Zofinger Tagblatt from 23 August 2019
- ^ Dieter Langhart: Art togetherness . Portrait in Ze! Tpunkt from June 5, 2018
- ↑ Housefly comes to the HSG , article on news.ch from December 16, 2014
- ↑ Juho Nyberg: Vision Social Urban Zone: Leutschenbach drinking fountain . Video on swiss-architects.com
- ^ Susanne von Schenck: The expensive zero star hotel . Deutschlandfunk Kultur on August 22, 2016
- ↑ Nicola Brusa: We'll get up quickly! . Tages-Anzeiger from March 21, 2017