Marguerite Hersberger

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Marguerite Hersberger in front of her studio. 1989

Marguerite Hersberger (born August 29, 1943 in Basel ) is a Swiss artist who lives in Zurich .

Life

Marguerite Hersberger attended the Basel School of Design from 1964 to 1966 . She then lived in Paris for three years and worked in François Stahly's internationally networked sculptor's studio (Recherche de groupe). In 1970 she moved to Zurich, where she has been working in her own studio ever since.

From 1981 to 1989 she was a member of the collection commission of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, Kunsthaus Zürich . From 1982 to 1994 she was a member of the Culture Promotion Commission of the Canton of Zurich . In 1989 she became a member of the board of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft Kunsthaus Zürich.

Hersberger works in the media of painting, drawing and photography. She designs reliefs , object art , installations , light art and art in buildings .

Awards

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"Mixed Colors", 2008, F. Hoffmann - La Roche AG, Basel

Hersberger is a representative of constructive-concrete art. Since the early 1970s she has developed her own artistic language. The most important medium in her work is light. It arouses associations, creates moods, changes material properties, evokes spatial impressions and brings about various qualities. In her architecture-related projects from 1980, too, light became an important distinguishing feature. Hersberger prefers to use geometric shapes in a variety of color contrasts and constellations. An important focus of her work are the works “Art and Construction” in public spaces in Switzerland and Germany, which she realized between 1980 and 2020. She does not see the artistic designs and implementations as additional applications, but as a real dialogue between architecture and art. Your installations are characterized by clear staging. The room and wall objects as well as the free works on paper are characterized by a simple design language.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1976: Kunsthaus Zurich , Zurich
  • 1977: Stedelijk Museum , Schiedam-Rotterdam (archive does not begin until 2018)
  • 1980: Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur
  • 1986: Art Museum of the Canton of Thurgau, Ittingen Charterhouse , Warth / TG
  • 1995: "Retrospective", Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (publication)
  • 2017: Installation «il presente - assente, the present absent». Atelier Giacometti, Stampa / GR (catalog)

Group exhibitions

  • 1974: "Prospectiva 74". Museu de arte contemporanea da universidade de Sao Paulo (catalog)
  • 1982: "art concret suisse: mémoire et progrès", Strasbourg (catalog)
  • 1988: "Light and Transparency". Museum Bellerive, Zurich (catalog)
  • 1998: "Structure - Field - Space". Museum of Concrete Art , Ingolstadt (catalog)
  • 2000: Ruppert Collection, Museum Kulturspeicher, Würzburg (publication)
  • 2010: "Homage to the square - works from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter collection". Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch (publication)
  • 2016: “Thinking around the corner - The Haus Konstruktiv collection from 1986-2016”. Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (publication)
  • 2018: «10 years of art (stuff) house». Art (stuff) house, Rapperswil / SG

Works in public space

  • 1980-1983: "Colored Light Fields", Irchel University, Zurich
  • 1986: «Light fields». Center Ville de Genève, Vernier / GE sports hall
  • 1991: "Rotation". Forecourt design with stone sculpture, Kerenzerberg sports center, Filzbach / GL
  • 1992: «Light tower and light cylinder». Galleria Klassenstein Immobilien AG, Zurich (company deleted)
  • 1996-1997: «Light bridges - light column». Allianz AG, Leipzig
  • 1997: "outside-inside-inside-outside" - light steles. AXA Insurance , Frankfurt a.Main
  • 2001: «Light triad». Government building, Schaffhausen
  • 2002-2003: “Colonnes Lumineuses”, International Airport Center, Lumion, Genève
  • 2008: "Mixtes colors" - 12 light pilots. F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG , Basel (picture above)
  • 2013: «Skylines». Swiss Epi-Clinic, Zurich
  • 2017: "Following the color wheel". Age Center Wägelwiesen, Wallisellen / ZH (in-house newspaper Winter 2017, page 11; PDF)

Literature (selection)

  • Anette Bühler and Marguerite Hersberger (eds.): Il presente assente - the present absent. A photo polissage installation in the Giacometti studio in Stampa . Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-033-06227-6
  • Light notes. Solo exhibition by Marguerite Hersberger in the Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery, Bielefeld . Galerie Samuelis Baumgarte, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816408-1-6
  • works on paper 1967-2009 . Galerie Schürch and Gonzenbach, Zurich 2009
  • Elisabeth Grossmann (ed.): Marguerite hersberger. Retrospective . Foundation for constructive and concrete art, Zurich, Waser Verlag, Weinigen-Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-908080-43-6
  • Marguerite Hersberger Pages . In: DU , Heft 872, 2017, S, 76-79, ISBN 978-3-905931-68-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marguerite Hersberger. In: sikart.ch. Retrieved December 19, 2019 .
  2. ^ Archives of the Kunsthalle Winterthur. In: kunsthallewinterthur.ch. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  3. ^ Exhibition archive of Haus Konstruktiv. In: haus Konstruktiv.ch. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Museo Bregaglia - il presente - assente. In: ciaesagranda.ch. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Invitation card for the exhibition “Light and Transparency”. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  6. ^ Catalog for the exhibition "Light and Transparency". In: emuseum.ch. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  7. ^ Catalog for the exhibition "Structure - Field - Space". In: google.ch. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  8. ^ List of artists in the Peter C. Ruppert Collection. In: Kulturspeicher.de. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  9. ^ Text on the exhibition "Homage to the Square - Works from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection". In: museum-ritter.de. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Text and list of artists for the exhibition “Thinking around the corner” in Haus Konstruktiv. In: archithese.ch. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  11. ^ "Colored light fields" Uni Irchel ZH. In: sikart.ch. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Kerenzerberg sports center. In: szk.ch. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  13. ^ Allianz AG, Leipzig. In: allianz.de. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  14. ↑ "Colonnes lumineuses". In: sikart.ch. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  15. ↑ "Colonnes lumineuses" Lumion, International Airport Center, Geneva. In: samuelis-baumgarte.com. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Swiss Epi-Clinic. In: kliniklengg.ch. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Wägelwiesen Retirement Center. In: waegelwiesen.ch. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
  18. ↑ in- house newspaper Winter 2017, page 11. (PDF) In: waegelwiesen.ch. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hersberger, Marguerite
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel