Gabriela Löffel, Grammar of calculated ambiguity, 2023-2024, video still
Gabriela Löffel, Grammar of calculated ambiguity, 2023-2024, video still
Gabriela Löffel, Grammar of calculated ambiguity, 2023-2024, KorSonoR, Genève, photo: Emmanuelle Bayart / Arta Sperto, 2025
Gabriela Löffel’s video works explore how political and economic power operates through language, spaces and infrastructures. The exhibition invites visitors to experience how realities are staged, mediated and interpreted from different perspectives.
Gabriela Löffel’s (*1972) solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle explores how political and economic power operates through language, space and infrastructures. Her video works are grounded in long-term research at sites that are often diffificult to access, including military training grounds, international fifinancial congresses, fifilm studios, courtrooms and spaces of negotiation. Rather than seeking immediate disclosure, Löffel is interested in how realities are produced and mediated: Who speaks? What remains audible or invisible? What role do mise-en-scène, translation and architecture play? Voices, pauses and interference noise become just as important as the images. The resulting multilayered installations make complex relationships perceptible from multiple perspectives.
kuratiert von Stefanie Gschwend
A varied programme of talks, guided tours and film screenings explores the themes of Gabriela Löffel’s exhibition in greater depth. A highlight is BETWEEN THE LINES, a day of events featuring a panel discussion on law, power and financial systems, as well as a concert by Louis Schild, who also contributes to Löffel’s video works.
SAT / 14.11. /
EXHIBITION OPENING
— 17:00 / Kunstmuseum / WELCOME ADDRESSES
Marianne Burki, Chair of the Board of Trustees, Heinrich Gebert Kulturstiftung Appenzell
Stefanie Gschwend, Director, Kunstmuseum / Kunsthalle
— 18:00 / Kunsthalle / ARTIST TALK
With Gabriela Löffel, artist, and Stefanie Gschwend, curator (in German)
— 19:00 / Kunsthalle / FOOD, DRINKS, MUSIC
DJ Fundus, St Gallen
FRI / 20.11. / 29.1. / 26.2. / 19.3. / 12:00–13:30 / Kunsthalle
ART IN BRIEF & SEASONAL LUNCH MENU
Short guided tour (25 min) of Gabriela Löffel’s exhibition (in German, English upon request).
Guided tour and lunch menu: CHF 25, booking required via info_at_kunsthalleappenzell.ch or +41 71 788 18 60
Guided tour only: regular admission
SUN / 13.12. / 11:30–17:00 / Kunsthalle
BETWEEN THE LINES
GABRIELA LÖFFEL – DAY PROGRAMME
11:30–13:00 PANEL DISCUSSION (in German)
— Gabriela Löffel, artist
— Katharina Pistor, Professor of Law at Columbia Law School / Director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation
— Karine Pfenninger, journalist and editor at Public Eye
— Moderated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Director of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
13:00–14:45 SEASONAL BISTRO
15:00 CONCERT BY LOUIS SCHILD
Bassist, composer and performer, recipient of the 2026 Swiss Music Prize
SUN / 17.1. / 15:30–16:30 / Kunsthalle
ARTIST TALK – IMAGINING KUNSTHALLE
With Gabriela Löffel and Basma al-Sharif, moderated by Luca Tarelli (in German / English)
THU / 1.4. / 18:00 / Kunsthalle
IN FULL LENGTH
Gabriela Löffel, for the record (2026), approx. 60 min.
Collective viewing and discussion / followed by Keine Ahnung, Irgendwo (No Idea, Anywhere)
As part of IMAGINING KUNSTHALLE, artists curate the video programme at the historic brick kiln. From 15 November 2026 to 11 April 2027, Gabriela Löffel presents the second edition of the series, entitled You May Own the Lanterns but We Have the Light.
15.11.26–11.4.27
The exhibition is generously supported by
Patron Association
