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Roman Signer, Bürostuhl, 2006courtesy the artist, photo: Tomasz Rogowiec

Roman Signer, Bürostuhl, 2006
courtesy the artist, photo: Tomasz Rogowiec

24 May / 18:00 / Kunstmuseum and Kunsthalle

Exhibition Opening


Sound of the Earth
Ceramics in Contemporary Art
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Roman Signer

Super 8


Sound of the Earth
Ceramics in Contemporary Art
Kunstmuseum /

The international group exhibition on ceramics in contemporary art is the first exhibition in Switzerland to explore current approaches to this medium. It focuses on artists for whom ceramics has become a core element of their practice, whether as the sole medium or in parallel with painting, sculpture or other media. The exhibition brings together works that experiment with the sculptural potential of ceramics, blurring the boundaries between high art and craft.

With Caroline Achaintre, Christian Andersen, Nicole Cherubini, Woody De Othello, Martin Chramosta, Edmund De Waal, Clare Goodwin, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Isa Melsheimer, Lindsay Mendick, Shahpour Pouyan und Paloma Proudfoot.

Curated by Stefanie Gschwend and Felicity Lunn


Roman Signer
Super 8
/ Kunsthalle

From the very beginning, the work of Roman Signer (*1938, CH) has been concerned with ephemeral events and the release of provoked and existing energies. His materials are natural forces such as water, wind, fire or gravity, which he relates to everyday objects such as chairs, buckets, red kayaks, blue barrels, remote-controlled flying objects, umbrellas or fans and which repeatedly appear as leitmotifs in the artist's work. He forms grotesquely comical situations into images and unfolds a subtle poetry of humour. Signer documents the precisely planned actions, which are composed of the potential of the situation, the transformation of energy and the trace of the process, in photographic series, on film or later on video. The Super 8 films that Roman Signer shot from the mid-1970s onwards play a special role. They go far beyond a filmic documentation of his actions and become an independent medium in his oeuvre. At the centre of the exhibition are the Super 8 films made in Signer's hometown of Appenzell and the surrounding area. This is Roman Signer's first solo exhibition in Appenzell, CH, which extends over three floors of the Kunsthalle and parts of the former brickworks.

On the occasion of the exhibition, a Catalogue raisonné of all the Super 8 films will be published by Verlag Walther König, edited by Peter Zimmermann, with texts by Stefanie Gschwend (Director of the Kunstmuseum / Kunsthalle Appenzell) and Stephan Kunz (Director of the Bündner Kunstmuseum).

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