Installations & Projects
A four-week studio residency at Casa Schiaredo, built in 1932, one of the earliest examples of modern architecture in southern Switzerland. The golden cube stands in the middle of a lively biotope, a huge park with old trees, many plants and also many insects, which often stopped by to take a look around or even to […]
A four weeks residency on Inish Oirr at the Aras Éanna Art Centre, in April 2025 Inis Oírr, the smallest of the three Aran Islands in Galway Bay, Ireland, is approximately 3 kilometres long and 2 kilometres wide and it has a population of 343 (2022). Its highest point is 58 metres above sea level. […]
The 10 most beautiful mountain lakes of Switzerland was just one of many suggestions of destinations in the Swiss media landscape during the Covid pandemic. Our idea was to google this term and work with the 10 most beautiful mountain lakes that came up as a search result. We then printed out the pictures, cut […]
An invitation as artists in residence at the birthplace of Gustave Courbet in Flagey in autumn 2020 gave us the opportunity to explore the Paysage Courbet during many walks. Alongside his idea of landscape, the subject matter of the cave evolved more and more as the main content of our research. The suggestions for destinations that […]
Collectionner des images de la région jurassienne pour les coller dans un cahier aux allures d’album Panini, telle est l’invitation des artistes Hendrikje Kühne et Beat Klein. Pour élaborer le projet Une heure dans le Jura, ils ont observé dix lieux dans le Jura et le Jura bernois durant une heure. Il en résulte une […]
10 rows of 8 cardboard collages of bird resembling specimen created during a month long residency at Gilfelagid in Akureyri/Iceland in 2017. Each one of them is unique and is looking in the same direction. The source material stemmed from used food packages making use of the various colours and patterns that are printed on […]
The installation ‹FOOD DESIGN-2016, revised and applied› by Kühne/Klein meets its culinary transformation by Ulrich Kraus – chef, artist and gallerist- in ZAGREUS PROJEKT – Koch/Kunst/Galerie. Three dimensional collages from pictures of foodstuff are being presented on shelves alongside one wall: A little cheese is balancing on a ham that is resting on a piece of blue cheese […]
The source material for theses sculptures stems from Sotheby’s auction catalogues. The pictures were glued onto board and assembled to seemingly precious formations. The title ‹Schätzewert: $ XXX,XXX› (estimate price: $ XXX,XXX) for the individual pieces is a German play on words on the double meaning of Schätze (treasures and to estimate). The figures are the added up […]
‹Panorama› is a sitespecific installation all the way round the 26 meter long walls oft the Kunsthalle. Using art posters as the raw material Kühne/Klein broaden their way of constructing collage worlds by yet another layer. Gabrielle Obrist: Sehkreis, Brennglas und Vogelperspektive PANORAMA Sehkreis, Brennglas und Vogelperspektive Das Panorama schafft Überblick. Es erweitert den optischen […]
Alles was in der Zürcher Verlagsszene Rang und Namen hatte, traf sich am 1. September zur feierlichen Eröffnung des ‹Begehbaren Buchs› in der Villa Mainau. Bis Ende Monat inszenieren über 20 Verlage in je einem Zimmer der Abbruchvilla je ein Buch. Danach wird das Haus durch einen Neubau ersetzt und das denkmalgeschützte Kino Razzia umfassend renoviert und […]