DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum – during Art Basel 2017

The artist duo has been working together since 2010. In their mostly site-specific and expansive video installations, they repeatedly question our viewing and perception habits.

Argentinian artist Celina Jure was born 1963, he lives and works in Buenos Aires, Jujuy and Dusseldorf (GER).

The Swiss artist studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Alfonso Hüppi and Helmut Federle. Transparency, layering and compression appear again and again in his work. After years of monochrome, he has returned to color.

Christoph Dahlhausen born in 1960, has been an assistant professor at the School of Art in RMIT University Melbourne/AUS since 2013. His works follow light in abstraction.

The artist duo Copa & Sordes (Birgit Krueger & Eric Schmutz Krueger) have been working together since 1995. Central topics are the interfaces between art and everyday culture.

Doris Schmid is a visual artist working in the fields of video, installations and photography. The Swiss artist has already realised numerous international projects and exhibitions.

Dorothee von Rechenberg born in Horb / N (GER) in 1947, has lived and worked in Basel (CH) since 1989. She mainly works with photography.

The British painter Eric Cruikshank studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. His painting seems to have lost all materiality and to consist only of color and light.

The Swiss artist has lived at the Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London since studying. For several years he has been working exclusively with the color Bau Pink, which he developed.

Born in Oberhausen, lives and works in Cologne. Since 2015 artistic-scientific assistant at the University of Cologne / GER. Their work is often reminiscent of modern chambers of curiosities (Wunderkammern).

Katarzyna Badach is a polish artist who lives in and works in Berlin. Her large format art works deal with the representation of urban space.

Swiss artist Magdalena Gerber (Langenau/Emmental, CH) works primarily with ceramics and porcelaine, which she adapts for current times.

Maria Magdalena Z’Graggen is a Swiss painter. She studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York (USA) and at the University of Art, Basel (CH).

Marianne Eigenheer was a Swiss artist who preferred to work with gestural and free line drawings.

The Swiss artist Marianne Halter is represented internationally in solo and group exhibitions with her work repeatedly issues of spaces and their corporate and social functions.

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.

Petra Egg was born in St. Johann/Tyrol (A) and studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where she currently lives and works.

In addition to painting, the focus is always on the object, the sculpture, for the artist Rainer Barzen, who lives and teaches in Cologne, who studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and received numerous awards.

Swiss artist Selma Weber studied in Basel, where she also lives and works now. She works with painting, installation, film and photo art.

The Swiss artist Sibylle Feucht, *in Kaufbeuren (DE), lives and works since 2010 in Bonn (DE), previously in Basel (CH), conceptual approach to work with different media such as photography, video installation and fused plastic beads.

The Swiss artist couple Annette Stöcker and Christian Selig have been working together as stoeckerselig since 1987. Her multi-layered work moves between (video) installations, objects and large-format drawings.