Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger

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Installation on the occasion of the BUGA 2011 in Koblenz: Les envahisseurs! (Container filled with plants 2004; loan from Geneva)

Gerda Steiner (* 1967 in Ettiswil ) and Jörg Lenzlinger (* 1964 in Uster ) are a Swiss artist duo.

Life

The artist couple Steiner / Lenzlinger have officially lived and worked together in Uster, Canton Zurich since 1997 , but are mostly on exhibition trips that have already taken them to all parts of the world. A recurring feature of her division of labor is the combination of poetic-looking elements from natural found objects by Gerda Steiner, who has also become known as a wall painter, with Jörg Lenzlinger's mostly artificial installation components made of plastic, styrofoam or self-grown crystals made of urea .

Works (selection)

The central theme of the artist couple is in the area of ​​“people and the environment”. Their participation in the 50th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2003 brought them increased international recognition, where they created a vegetative dream landscape with constantly overlapping and crystallizing objects in the San Stae church with the Falling Garden . Their extensive, mostly site-specific joint works were shown at numerous exhibitions outside of Europe.

Plants inside the container (Buga 2011)

Conceived only in a few exceptional cases as permanent installations: The autonomic nervous system , a 16 meter high, delicate branching tree structure (since 2006 in the foyer of the Museum Kunst Palast in Dusseldorf) or The Sleeping Beauty , a contribution to that of Erwin Wortelkamp initiated sculpture park in the valley of the Year 2009. In the latter work, a six-meter-long flat feed silo , the duo plays with the association of the Sleeping Beauty with the annual winter sleep in nature.

In the installation flood - drink oh heart from the abundance of time! Steiner and Lenzlinger create a three-part relationship between the location (i.e. the Arp Museum in Remagen , which is located directly on the Rhine ), the regularly flooding river with its corresponding flotsam , and the element of water itself, its microorganisms in a separate room as a gigantic enlarged video become visible. This exhibition was also a contribution to the 2011 Federal Horticultural Show in Koblenz, funded by the Swiss Consulate General .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2000: "Drink, oh heart, from the abundance of time!", Kunsthalle Winterthur
  • 2000: "Les maux de dents du Romantisme", Center culturel suisse, Paris
  • 2001: "The seed sounds of the vegetative nervous system at the hydroponic nectar lakes", Contemporary Arts Center CAC, Cincinnati (USA)
  • 2002: "The Home Machine", Expo.02 , Murten, Switzerland
  • 2002: "Lift-up", Kunsthaus Zurich
  • 2003: "Cómo llegó la morsa a Madrid?", La Casa Encendida, Madrid
  • 2003: "Giardino calante", Venice Biennale
  • 2004: "Whalebalance", Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
  • 2004: "Brainforest", 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Japan
  • 2004: "Root canal treatment", Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 2004: "Fountain of Youth", Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla
  • 2005: "Mischwald", Museum for Design Zurich
  • 2005: "Le méta jardin", La Maison Rouge, Paris
  • 2005: "The Soul Warmer", St. Gallen Abbey Library
  • 2006: "Grottes sauvages sur forêt cérébrale civilisée", Palais de Tokyo , Paris
  • 2006: "Night moths in the whale belly", Artium Fukuoka, Japan
  • 2006: "Joutsenlampi", Kiasma , Helsinki, Finland
  • 2006: "Found & Lost Grotto for Saint Antonio", Artpace San Antonio, Texas (USA)
  • 2006: "The Vegetative Nervous System", museum kunst palast , Düsseldorf
  • 2006: "Artificial Fertility", Shanghai Biennale
  • 2006: "4 bedrooms", Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum , Rotterdam
  • 2007: "The Desalination Plant Waste Garden", Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates
  • 2007: "Le Jardin de Lune", Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France
  • 2007: "O Escritorio", CCBB Brasilia, Brazil
  • 2008: "Bürokult", Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
  • 2008: "The Mystery of Fertility", Sonsbeek 08, Arnheim, Holland
  • 2008: "Die Rossgeister vom Lousberg", Aachen
  • 2008: "Die Verquickung", Zentrum Paul Klee , Bern
  • 2008: "The water hole", Australian Center for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne
  • 2009: "The Treatment", Moscow Biennale
  • 2010: "Wild Things", Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
  • 2010: "The Conference", La Casa Encendida, Madrid
  • 2010: "Comment rester fertile?", Center culturel suisse, Paris
  • 2011: "Flood - drink oh heart from the abundance of time!", Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
  • 2011: "La soupe verte", Château de Chaumont sur Loire
  • 2011: "Meanwhile along the railway track ...", Kunsthalle KAdE, Amersfoort (Holland)
  • 2011: "The Invaders!", Federal Garden Show Koblenz
  • 2012: "Power sources", Art Tower Mito , Japan
  • 2012: "Ghost Satellites", Etchigo-Tsumari Triennale Tokamachi, Japan
  • 2013: "National Park", Bündner Kunstmuseum , Chur, Switzerland
  • 2013: "Paysage au grand galop", Musée de Valence, France
  • since 2014: "offering stock", KKLB , Beromünster, Switzerland
  • 2014: "Bush power", Sydney Biennale
  • 2014: "The little pleasure garden", museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf
  • 2015: "Les pierres & le printemps", Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
  • 2015: "Crystal soul nursery", Kunstmuseum Bern
  • 2015: "Пикник" - " Picnic ", Museum of Modern Art PERMM, Perm, Russia
  • 2018 " Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger. Too early to panic " Museum Tinguely, Basel , Switzerland

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Figure and text on The vegetative nervous system
  2. ↑ Photo and description of The Sleeping Beauty
  3. ↑ aachener-nachrichten.de: Colorful skeletons haunt the yew grove (accessed on September 9, 2015)
  4. ↑ zpk.org: Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger at the Zentrum Paul Klee (accessed on September 9, 2015)
  5. ^ Past Exhibitions: The Water Hole
  6. ↑ see artist directory of the 3rd Moscow Biennale 2009 ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 3rd.moscowbiennale.ru
  7. ↑ Archive entry (2011) of the lock administration ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 8, 2012)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.domaine-chaumont.fr

literature

  • Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger: "National Park". Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03778-425-9 (German)
  • Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger: "Namida". Edizioni Periferia, Lucerne / Poschiavo 2012, ISBN 978-3-906016-10-8 (eng./jap.)
  • Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger: "Power Sources". Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito (Japan) 2012, ISBN 978-4-943825-98-2 (eng./jap.)
  • Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger: "Comment rester fertile?". Edizioni Periferia, Lucerne / Poschiavo 2010 ISBN 978-3-907474-82-2 (German / French / English)
  • Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger: Flood . Snoeck-Verlag, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-940953-76-6 (German / English)
  • Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger: The Mystery of Fertility . Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-85616-495-9 (German / English)
  • Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger: Brainforest Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-85616-243-7 (German / English)
  • Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger: Good and stupid miracles . Ed .: Swiss Federal Office for Culture, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden 2003, ISBN 3-03778-009-6 (Ger./it./frz./engl.)
  • Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger: Heimatmaschine Urs Engeler Verlag, Basel 2003 ISBN 3-905591-59-6 (German / English / French)
  • Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger: Seelenwärmer Verlag am Klosterhof, St. Gallen, 2005 ISBN 3-906616-76-2 (German / English / Japanese )

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