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Seiler Kerim



Kerim Seiler was born in 1974 in Bern. He studied at the Kunsgewebeschule in Zurich, then later at the Ecole Superieure d’Art Visual in Geneva. He received his degree from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. In the years 2007 and 2008 he received the Advanced Sciences in Architecture CAAD title from the ETH in Zurich. His art is abstract, and produced using a variety of media. He also creates installations both based in architectural principles and using “mental constructs”. He also makes prints using copperplate and wood. His work alludes to situationism. His individual show The Situationist Space Program will be opened in September of this year at the Adreiana Mihail Gallery, in Bucharest. His most recognisable works are those constructed in public spaces in many cities around the world, such as Bucharest and Kapstadt. He lives and works in Zurich.


Selected individual shows:

2010 Nomadic structures, located at many sites around the Republic of South Africa
Maintenant, Grieder Contemporary Gallery, Zurich
2009 Pneuma, somnambul, Villa du Parc, Annemasse
2008 Cravan, (Collaboration with Caroline Pachoud and Adrain Notz), Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
2007 MgBeth, ETH & MGB, Zurich
2006 Creature Comfort, Blank Projects, Kapstadt
2005 Heliopolis, Ruzicska / Weiss, Düsseldorf
2004 Planetengetriebe, Galerie Susanna Kulli, Zurich
2003 Episode, Center, Berlin
2002 Hall of Fame, with Tjorg Beer, «artGenda», Alte Börse, Hamburg
2001 Rampensau, Theater an der Winkelwiese, Zurich
2000 Schlaf, Ausstellungsraum Taubenstrasse, Hamburg
1999 Made in Egypt, Cairo-Berlin Gallery, Cairo
1998 Serge Ziegler Galerie, Zurich
1997 Kein Titel, Akryl auf Pavatex, message salon, Zurich


Selected group shows:

2009 Utopics, Biel
2007 Situationistes Internationale, Museum Tinguely, Basel
2001 Pflumm Seiler Stucki, Kunsthalle, Zurich
1998 Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus Zürich / Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt
Hypnos (Situationist Space Program)

Kerim Seiler’s installation was part of the larger project, the Situationist Space Program 2010. It was consisted of a glass pavilion and a chemical compound structure (molecules) situated on top of it. It had been several metres tall so that the viewer/passer-by could entered the structure and become, for a moment, a part of the structure, thereby acquiring a new temporary identity. The construct was to reflect the mutual interpenetration and analogy of the micro and macro-cosms and the artist’s fascination with nature, chemical structures and abstraction. The installation was designed to extract a new aspect of reality in the situationist understanding. Colours, space, and structures had meaning. Seiler is inspired by the colour theory of Paul Loose. He is also interested in the neurotransmitters found in the human brain (their structure and function). The play of light and location were also part of the meaning of the piece. While remaining an extraordinarily visually attractive work due to the intensity of the colours of the light, the installation also had a deep foundation in ideas, which the artist did not want to reveal altogether.



Pictures: Weronika Szmuc

Project curators: Paulina Włodarczyk, Magda Bińczycka

11 - 27/06/2010

Hypnos (Situationist Space Program)

Maria Magdalena Sqare