Installationen 09.-15.06.2006 / Bollag Areal, Basel

For one week Showroom changed the usual use and meaning of the courtyard belonging to an artists studio building in Basel from a casual parking and every kind-of-use place to an art space and installation playground. Bollag is like an island lying amidst the industrial area of Novartis pharmaceutical company. Artists from Switzerland and Germany constructed works dealing with the formal and social aspects of the area, which reflected the political and economical situation of the surrounding space. Showroom1 was developed in cooperation with the arts organizations Planet 22, Geneva, Marks Blond Project, Bern and Amberg & Marti, Zurich which organized a video-art screening, showing video works from young European and American artists.

Artists

• Solvej Dufour Andersen

  Born: 1974
  Lives and works in Geneva (CH)

• Nino Baumgartner

  Born: 1979 in Bern (CH)
  Lives and works in Zürich (CH)

• Cosimo Gritsch

  Born: 1982
  

• Alexander Hempel

  Born: 1977 in Leipzig (D)
  Lives and works in Leipzig

• Dagmar Heppner

  Born: 1977 in Hamburg (D)
  Lives and works in Basel (CH)

• Karin Hueber

  Born: 1979 in Zwingen (CH)
  Lives and works in Basel and Rotterdam (NL)

• Dominique Koch

  Born: 1983 in Luzern (CH)
  Since 2004 studies at HGB Leipzig (D)

• Hans-Christian Lotz

  Born: 1980 in Hamburg (D)
  Lives and works in Leipzig (D)

• Annina Matter

  Born: 1981 in Bern (CH)
  Lives and works in Bern.

• Christian Mueller

  Born: 1981 in Breitenbach (CH)
  Lives and works in Basel (CH)