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Monika Rechsteiner

Basel/CH + Berlin/GER | Website

A Swiss Artist Monika Rechsteiner lives and works in Basel und Berlin. Central issues in her videos and installations is the urban space and its perception.

Biografie

Born in 1971 in St. Gallen (CH), lives and works in Basel (CH) and Berlin (D).

Completed her education at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (CH) as well as M.A. courses in Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts (D). Foreign exchange scholarship in Helsinki and Tokyo as well as several prizes for her work are part of her CV.

Central issues in her videos and installations is the urban space and its perception.

exhibitions (selection)

  • 2020 NA HRANE – AT THE LIMIT – AM LIMIT, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, Slowakei | HILTIBOLD, Monika Rechsteiner & Stefan Vollenweider, St. Gallen, CH
  • 2019 PEACE – dont make me laugh // You A Two Minute Brother”, SPOR KLÜBÜ, Berlin, D | POETISCHE FLUCHT IN DIE WIRKLICHKEIT, Kunstraum Reinart, Neuhausen am Rheinfall, CH
  • 2018 HEIMSPIEL, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, CH | NICHT GANZ 100, DOCK, Basel, CH | PREVIEW II, offene Ateliers 2018 in Brandenburg, Luckenwalde, D
  • 2017 PORZELLAN & GOLD, Stadtgalerie Bern, PROGR, Waisenhausplatz 30, 3011 Bern, CH | DIE NÄCHSTEN 100 JAHRE? tête, Schönhauser Allee 161A, 10435 Berlin, CH  | NO LIMIT | AM LIMIT, Museu da UFPA in Belém, Brazil
  • 2016 IM GEGENÜBER, frontviews, LAGE EGAL, Berlin, D | MARIMBONDO E ORQUIDEA, Museu de Arte Contemporanea do Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil | AGLOE, Artists’ Window, DOCK, Basel, CH
  • 2014 REGIONALE 15, Städt. Galerie Stapflehus, Weil am Rhein, D
  • 2012 Sinopale 4 (Sinop Biennale), Türkei, (TR) | MOVING SURFACE, Künstlerforum Bonn (D) | IN TRANSITION, Swiss Church London, London (GB) | URBAN RESEARCH, The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge 2012, Video-Screening, Berlin (D)
  • 2011 Kollateral | Collateral, DAS ESSZIMMER – Raum für Kunst+, Bonn (D) | KERNFRAGEN, Ausstellung zum Tempelhof-Schöneberger Kunstpreis 2011, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin (D) | WAS BLEIBT, Stadtgalerie Bern (CH) | SITE ACADEMY, Womens Plaza, Tokyo (Japan)
  • 2006 Kunstraum L6, Freiburg (D) | 2010 WIE VON SELBST, Kunstraum Winterthur (CH)
  • 2009 Directors Lounge Berlin | Filmfestival Thunersee <TAWISUPLEBA>| 2008 Solothurner Filmtage Uraufführung von <TAWISUPLEBA>, 38´30″, dokumentarischer Bild-Essay durch Georgien mit Gesprächen über die Kunst | Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Videothek
  • 2006 Réingénérie du Monde, Maison de la culture de Plateau-Mont-Royal et Frontenac, Montréal (Kanada)
  • 2004 Drempelzucht, Arts Place, Amsterdam (NL) | fictitious landscape…, Galerie Muu, Helsinki (FIN) (mit Birthe Zimmermann)

 

 

Exhibitions

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  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS)
  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)
  • Karel Doing (London/UK)
  • Adam Knight (London/UK)
  • Marianne Halter (Zurich/CH)
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)

Kollateral | Collateral

08.12.2011 – 19.01.2012

The video programme “Kollateral/Collateral” attempts to illuminate the unkle time: with the light of the projected videos and as an invitation to open the view for the collateral – the simultaneous, neighbouring and often overlooked.

Past
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  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Celina Jure (Buenos Aires/ARG)
  • Christoph Bucher (Dusseldorf/CH)
  • Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS)
  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)
  • Doris Schmid (Berlin/GER)
  • Dorothee von Rechenberg (Basel/CH)
  • Eric Cruikshank (Edinburgh/UK)
  • Felix Baudenbacher (London/UK)
  • Ingrid Roscheck (Cologne/DE)
  • Katarzyna Badach (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Magdalena Gerber (Geneva/CH)
  • Maria Magdalena Z`Graggen (Basel/CH)
  • Marianne Eigenheer (Basel/CH + London/UK)
  • Marianne Halter (Zurich/CH)
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)
  • Petra Egg (Vienna/AT)
  • Rainer Barzen (Cologne / GER)
  • Selma Weber (Basel/CH)
  • Sibylle Feucht (Bonn/GER)
  • stöckerselig (Basel/CH)

DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum – during Art Basel 2017

14.06.2017 – 16.06.2017

The second collaboration between the Weltraum (Basel/CH) and the ESSZIMMER during the ART Basel.

Past
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  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)

more of the same

29.11.2012 – 26.01.2013

The works of Monika Rechsteiner (Berlin/DE) reflect (built) space. Her (moving) images seem to scan the visible and invisible surfaces and create a new space through her camera work.

Past
  • goes
  • Adam Knight (London/UK)
  • Alfredo Ramoz Fernandez (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Anne Hody (Basel/CH)
  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Christine de la Garenne (Berlin/GER)
  • Christoph Bucher (Dusseldorf/CH)
  • Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS)
  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)
  • Doris Schmid (Berlin/GER)
  • Dorothee von Rechenberg (Basel/CH)
  • Eric Cruikshank (Edinburgh/UK)
  • Felix Baudenbacher (London/UK)
  • Ingrid Roscheck (Cologne/DE)
  • Katarzyna Badach (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Magdalena Gerber (Geneva/CH)
  • Maria Magdalena Z`Graggen (Basel/CH)
  • Marianne Eigenheer (Basel/CH + London/UK)
  • Marianne Halter (Zurich/CH)
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)
  • Petra Egg (Vienna/AT)
  • Rainer Barzen (Cologne / GER)
  • Selma Weber (Basel/CH)
  • Sibylle Feucht (Bonn/GER)
  • stöckerselig (Basel/CH)
  • Celina Jure (Buenos Aires/ARG)

DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum – during Art Basel 2016

15.06.2016 – 17.06.2016

Gesamtkunstwerk of 49 artist’s opens up the discussion on authorship and genius.

Past
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  • Celina Jure (Buenos Aires/ARG)
  • Eric Cruikshank (Edinburgh/UK)
  • Stijn Peeters (Eindhoven/NL )
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)
  • Adam Knight (London/UK)
  • Petra Egg (Vienna/AT)
  • Katarzyna Badach (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Alfredo Ramoz Fernandez (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Ine Lamers (Rotterdam/NL)

FAR OFF 2017

27.04.2017 – 30.04.2017

DAS ESSZIMMER is presenting works, among others, by Celina Jure (Buenos Aires), Eric Cruikshank (Edinburgh) and Stijn Peeters (Eindhoven) at FAR OFF Art Fair for young artists (Cologne/GER).

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