Irene Schubiger

Irene Schubiger (born September 1, 1948 in Näfels ) is a Swiss artist who works with plastic , drawing , watercolor painting and textile art .

Live and act

In 1973 Irene Schubiger completed her studies at the Zurich University of the Arts . She paints watercolors with mostly non-representational compositions and text fragments that suggest a reference to her own biography. She creates her sculptures from materials such as plaster of paris, styrofoam, paper mache and wood, which she covers with a silicone layer, thus blurring the shape.

Konrad Tobler wrote in the magazine Kunstbulletin about her exhibition entitled tout rêvé ( all dreamed , 2010) : “The exhibition title says it all : Irene Schubiger's works are, as real and present in space, always in a state of suspension . The artist draws from ambivalent childhood memories. [...] So it is a very special, a very fragile and poetic world of things that the [...] artist creates with her mostly greatly reduced sculptures. "

Irene Schubiger lives and works in Reichenbach near Bern.

Awards (selection)

• 1977/1978/1979: Federal Prize for Design
• 1992: Studio grant from the City of Bern in New York City
• 1998: Sponsorship award from the city of Bern
• 2002: Monographic publication by the Canton of Bern
• 2006: Art Prize of the Glarus Art Association

Exhibitions (selection)

• III. Bern Art Exhibition (1977)
• Christmas exhibition, Kunsthalle Bern (every year from 1994 to 2013/2014)
• Bern Biennale, Kunstmuseum Bern (1990)
• Et passim , Kunsthalle Bern (1994, catalog)
• tout est sculpture . Swiss sculpture exhibition, Môtiers (1995, catalog)
• Clouds and Rivers , Wilfried von Gunten Gallery, Thun (2002)
• Shift work , group exhibition, Kunsthalle Bern (2004, catalog)
• Focus: Irene Schubiger , Kunsthaus Glarus (2008/2009)
• tout rêvé (solo exhibition), annex14, gallery for contemporary art, Zurich / Switzerland (2011)
• Behind the words annex 14th Gallery for Contemporary Art, Zurich (2014)

literature

• Kathrin Frauenfelder: Irene Schubiger. The sculptures look back. In: Kunst + Stein (journal for sculpture), Bern, October 2009, pp. 26–28.

Exhibition catalogs

• et passim . Stefan Gritsch, Eric Lanz, Irene Schubiger, Beat Streuli, Natalie Tison, Mitja Tušek , Bernard Voïta, Kunsthalle Bern 1994, ISBN 978-3-85780-090-0 . (German and French)
• Verne, Leo, Wahler, Marc-Oliver: tout est sculpture. Swiss sculpture exhibition. Motiers 95th Editions Acatos, Lausanne / Paris 1995 (French)
• Irene Schubiger - castles in the air. Sculptures and drawings. sculptures and drawings 1990-2001. Published by the Commission for Art and Architecture of the Canton of Bern, 2002.

Web links

• Schubiger, Irène. In: Sikart

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Focus: Irene Schubiger, Kunsthaus Glarus ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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.  
2. ↑ Konrad Tobler: Irene Schubiger. In: Kunstbulletin 12/2010, online ( 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. 
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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.  
4. ↑ Christmas exhibition 2013/14, Kunsthalle Bern ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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.  
5. ↑ Focus: Irene Schubiger, Kunsthaus Glarus ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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.