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Material Archive as an App

The multifaceted database at www.materialarchiv.ch can now also be used as an ...

Mariana Castillo Deball at Sitterwerk

Mariana Castillo Deball (*1975 in Mexico, lives in Berlin) has already come to work at the Sitterwerk several times for a period of days or weeks. For her exhibition in the Kunsthalle ...

Gladstone Gallery, New York: Rondinone Shows Josephsohn in a Group Exhibition

Ugo Rondinone took the title of the exhibition – “The Spirit Level” – from a book of poetry by the Irish writer Seamus Heaney. This in turn makes reference to the water level, which ...

March 24, 2012 to April 21, 2012

Josephsohn in Lismore Castle

Castle Lismore in Southern Ireland, which was founded in 1170, today provides premium accommodations for private events. During the summer months, the west wing is open to the public: ...

May 12, 2012 to September 30, 2012

Andrea Vogel in the Guest Studio

From November 2011 to January 2012 Andrea Vogel worked in the guest studio. During the winter months, it is not possible to give artists the opportunity to use the guest studio in ...

Art-Public Chur
Group Exhibition with Josephsohn in
Fontana Park

Fontana Park in the heart of the city of Chur, which was laid out as a garden for one of the most magnificent stately homes in Graubünden in the eighteenth century, has long been a ...

May 06, 2012 to October 28, 2012

Josephsohn at Art Basel Miami Beach 2011

Three large half-figures by Hans Josephsohn can be seen at the stand of Gavin Brown's Enterprise from December 1 to December 4, 2011 in Miami. The presentation was ...


The Archive of the Future: Workshop in the Sitterwerk

October 21, 2011 to October 23, 2011

The Archive of the Future —
New Orders of Knowledge

 

November 04, 2011 to November 05, 2011

Museum Night St. Gallen 2011

September 10, 2011 Event date: 18.00

Kunikazu Kadota - Japanese Guest Artist

In the months of August and September 2011 the Japanese artist Kunikazu Kadota (*1985) was a guest in the studio in the Sitterwerk. On Tuesday September 6, he gave an insight into his ...

New Presentation of Josephsohn’s Work in the Aargauer Kunsthaus

The museum in Aarau has played a quite significant role in the reception of Josephsohn’s work in the last two decades. An extensive, retrospective exhibition of some 150 works from the ...

Guest Artists in June and July 2011:
Minze Tummescheit and Arne Hector

Minze Tummescheit and Arne Hector, two filmmakers who live in Berlin, were guest artists in the Sitterwerk in the months of June and July 2011. They were working on the editing of ...

Studio Mumbai Exhibition

       

June 06, 2011 to August 28, 2011

Hommage à Josephsohn
A Sound Installation by Hans-Peter Frehner

ensemble für neue musik zürich

Kesselhaus Josephsohn, St.Gallen

May 29, 2011 Event date: 15.00

«Caravan, descending a staircase»
– from the sound poem to the speech bubble

Start of the trilogy: «Sprechmusiksprachen – Crossing Frontiers between Lecture, Concert, and Theater»
Organized by «bibliOnzert» – Ueli Vogt and Jürg Hochuli

May 18, 2011 Event date: 20.00

Kulturlandsgemeinde Appenzell Ausserrhoden 2011

The Kulturlandsgemeinde Appenzell Ausserrhoden
as guest in the Sitterwerk

May 08, 2011

Shana Lutker – Guest Artist in May 2011

While staying in the guest studio of the Sitterwerk, the American artist Shana Lutker prepared for her exhibition “A. G. L. & X.” at the Galerie Barbara Seiler, which opened in ...

Josephsohn Exhibitions in Japan

With this exhibition of several large half-figures, one large reclining figure, and various smaller works in the Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo, Josephsohn’s work is presented to ...

March 26, 2011 to August 07, 2011

ORTHOGONAL ORNAMENTAL ONDULATORIC, OR:
Andreas Karl Schulze in the Guest Studio

At the close of his stay in the Guest Studio of the Sitterwerk, Andreas Karl Schulze presented at the «open studio» on December 2010 works created on-site. Although the title may at ...

Kesselhaus Josephsohn – New Rooms

Since the beginning of November 2010, the expanded rooms in the old annex building of the Kesselhaus have also been opened up for the work of Josephsohn as exhibition and storage space ...

FADING OUT «Fasson Theater» at Studio House

September 30, 2010 to October 02, 2010

François P. Boué in the guest studio

In summer 2010 the New York artist François P. Boué was a guest in the studio of the Sitterwerk for three months. He was preparing for an exhibition that he will present in February ...

Library of the Future:
Flexible and associative organization systems

The organization of the Library in the Sitterwerk is flexible. In the catalogue, the current location of every book is shown along with the surroundings in which the book is located at ...

Josephsohn on the terrace of the
Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin

Between the epochal works of Moore, Serra, Calder and Chillida, a half-figure by Hans Josephsohn also recently found its permanent location in front of the Neue Nationalgalerie in ...

Löwenbräu Zurich:
JOSEPHSOHN

An exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, curated by Peter Märkli

March 27, 2010 to May 29, 2010

Limerick, Ireland
Josephsohn in the EV+A Group Exhibition

The ev+a exhibition that takes place annually in Limerick is considered in Ireland to be the most important event in the field of contemporary art: A guest curator of international ...

March 13, 2010 to May 23, 2010

Continuous Library Inventory
using RFID Technology

To mark the launch of the RFID system in the Art Library, the Sitterwerk presents a thematic evening

February 17, 2010 Event date: 19.30

The Andreas Züst Library makes a stop in the Sitterwerk

For over three months, the Art Library of Daniel Rohner in the Sitterwerk is receiving a visit from an intellectual kin — from the library of Andreas Züst. Around 10,000 volumes from ...

November 30, 2009 to March 07, 2010

Josephsohn at Parasol Unit, foundation for contemporary art, London

«Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real»
Group exhibition with Cecily Brown, Hans Josephsohn, Shaun McDowell, Katy Moran and Maaike Schoorel.

November 25, 2009 to February 07, 2010

Jackie Wullschlager presents Josephsohn in the exhibition «The Discerning Eye»

The exhibition «The Discerning Eye» has taken place annually each November since 1990 in the Mall Galleries on Trafalgar Square in London. With this group exhibition, the organizers ...

November 12, 2009 to November 22, 2009

«The Xanten Boy: Original or Roman Copy? — A Technological Excursus »

Presentation by Uwe Peltz, restorer at the Collection of Classical Antiquities, Berlin

October 19, 2009 Event date: 19.30 to 22.00

Josephsohn – Southwood Garden, London: Outdoor Sculpture I

Hauser & Wirth has initiated an outdoor sculpture project consisting of a series of exhibitions of sculptural positions in Southwood Garden, a charming, slightly neglected park ...

September 28, 2009 to February 27, 2010

From Reproduction to Ornament

Experiments with Plaster in the Material Archive and the Art Library

Museum Night 2009

Museum Night bus: stop at the Sitterwerk or shuttle from the Stocken bus stop

September 05, 2009 Event date: 18.00 to September 06, 2009 Event date: 01.00

Flora Cohen, Guest Artist

In August 2009, Flora Cohen, a Columbian artist from Miami, moved into the guest studio. Here she is working on the subject of the human tongue using a wide range of diverse media. Her ...

Plaster Tartlets with Strawberry Cream

Workshop for children within the framework of the St.Gallen Sommerplausch

July 13, 2009

Prof. Monika Wagner, University of Hamburg
‹Clay and Plaster — History and Function in the Artistic Design Process›

The presentation by Monika Wagner addresses the question of why clay and plaster were already assessed in extremely contrary manners during the 19th century and how ...

June 18, 2009 Event date: 19.30 to 22.00

Open Studios

5pm — open studios
6pm — bratwurst and beer
7:30pm — presentation by Prof. Monika Wagner, University of Hamburg

June 18, 2009 Event date: 17.00

Katja Schenker — Guest Artist in the Sitterwerk

Summer 2009 – Artificial Sediments

Michelle Grob — Guest Artist in the Sitterwerk

April to June 2009 – Sugar-starched object-contours

Katalin Deér

Two, two-and-a-half, and three dimensions

Art Basel 09

Ian Wallace's Homage to Hans Josephsohn

STUCK A TOUR Excursion

Car trip to visit stucco ceilings and to the Schleitheim Gipsmuseum

June 06, 2009

Film cycle ‹Stone, Steel, Styrofoam›

In cooperation with Kinok, Christoph Holenstein stonemason atelier, and the Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen AG
April 22, May 15, July 02, 2009

Exhibition ‹On Materials and Artworks›

Exhibition to mark the opening of the Material Archive

March 23, 2009 to September 06, 2009

Josephsohn at the Armory Show in New York

Positive response to the solo-presentation by Hauser & Wirth

March 05, 2009 to March 08, 2009

Launch of the Online Database www.materialarchiv.ch

www.materialarchiv.ch, with its online database and the various collections of materials included in it, provides ...

February 25, 2009

Mariana Castillo Deball

Kaleidoscopic Eye — Artistic intervention in the Sitterwerk and in the Kunsthalle St.Gallen

February 14, 2009 to April 12, 2009

If One Thing Matters
a film about Wolfgang Tillmans

D/USA 2008, 72 Min
Swiss film premiere of Heiko Kalmbach’s film in the Sitterwerk

December 11, 2008

Regula Engeler and Susa Gunzner

Summer 2008 — On the Life of Death

Asi Föcker / Henrik Strömberg

Summer 2008 — In Search of the Holy Barbara

Hauser & Wirth London Piccadilly

Josephsohn exhibition in London

May 28, 2008 to July 26, 2008

Gregor Passens

Spring 2008 — Pencil Sharpener and Excavator Shovel

Volume of photographs “Kesselhaus Josephsohn”

Book presentation and exhibition of hand proofs of the photographs by Katalin Deér

February 24, 2008 to April 05, 2008

MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt/Main

‹Josephsohn Bildhauer›

February 08, 2008 to April 06, 2008

Sculpture at Schoenthal

Josephsohn in the context of the former Schoenthal Monastery

November 03, 2007 to April 27, 2008

Jason Klimatsas

Autumn 2007 — Sculptural Building Ruins
The Zurich artist Jason Klimatsas in the guest studio.

Farewell to Daniel Rohner

May 20, 1948 – October 9, 2007

Palais de Tokyo, Paris: Rondinone Shows Josephsohn in a Group Exhibition

In the fall of 2007, Ugo Rondinone as guest-artist-curator in the Palais de Tokyo in Paris presented a group exhibition with the title "the third mind" with larger work ...

September 27, 2007 to January 03, 2008

Museum Strauhof, Zurich

Der gestillte Blick - Klaus Merz and the images

September 19, 2007 to November 25, 2007

Kolumba – in the new Art Museum of the Archbishopric of Cologne

Peter Zumthor integrated a large reclining figure by Josephsohn into the new building.

September 15, 2007

Joe Fyfe

Summer 2007 — Textile Paintings

‹Aus dem Off legen›

Six publishing houses for art and one collector

June 04, 2007 to September 09, 2007

‹Book Design in St.Gallen›

Spring 2007 — an exhibition catalogue is created in the Sitterwerk

Anne Chu

Spring 2007 — New Yorker Sculptor in the Guest Studio

“Josephsohn Bildhauer”

A documentary film by Matthias Kälin and Laurin Merz

May 01, 2007

Andro Wekua

Summer 2006 — Manor Prize Exhibition in Winterthur

Eliza Proctor

Spring / Summer 2006 — Fleeting Artworks

Peter Fischli/David Weiss:
‹Bücher, Editionen und Ähnliches›

An exhibition to mark the opening of the Art Library in the Sitterwerk

April 22, 2006 to May 02, 2006

Ugo Rondinone

Spring 2006 — Caricatured Masks

Stefan Banz

Autumn 2005 — The Dent Blanche in Styrofoam

Heiko Kalmbach

Summer 2005 — If One Thing Matters — a film about Wolfgang Tillmans

Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture

Workshop for Architecture Students

April 04, 2005 to April 09, 2005

Nic Bezemer

Spring 2005 — First Guest in the Studio House in the Sitterwerk

Daniele Buetti

2004 - Le Grand Rhume