Saturday, 25.09.21 - 17:00
Opening Schieflage – eine Haltung / Lopsidedness – a Position

Artists of this exhibition project
VISUAL ARTS
Katharina Bürgin, Schaffhausen
Ray Hegelbach, Oslo/Frauenfeld
Leo Bettina Roost, Schaffhausen
Joseph Sappler, Düsselforf, D
Ursula Scherrer, NYC/Schaffhausen
Margrit Schlumpf-Portmann, Bauma

PERFORMANCE
Christine Bernhard, Überlingen, D
Gisela Hochuli, Ruppoldsried
Judith Huber, Emmenbrücke
Ursula Scherrer, NYC/Schaffhausen
Julie Semoroz, Genf

Katharina Bürgin is concerned with the how we remember, to what extent memory and one’s own sense of identity are contingent with one another. The works thrive on their focus on moments in which coincidences repeatedly co-determine the outcome.

Ray Hegelbach’s artistic approach reveals the veracity of everyday experiences: fragility, vulnerability, and the uncontrollable. He distrusts painterly virtuosity and questions the quotidian aesthetics. Questions about visibility and the vulnerability of our vision have become formative motifs in his work during the past months.

Leo Bettina Roost deals with topics such as migration, homeland, identity and relation to nature. Her installations are precise placements in space. They are strong political and poetic statements both in and from complex “transitiory spaces”. The crooked floor of the rooms of the Haus zur Glocke serves as starting point.

Landscape depictions from Disney films serve as material for Joseph Sappler’s new images. The digitally generated, commercial motifs undergo a transformation and are brought into a new reality. In the pictures – which ostensibly deal with ideal worlds – the crisis-ridden present is “melted down” and reflected in painting.

The interweaving of space and time, often combined with light, are the protagonists in Ursula Scherrer’s work. Frequently, Scherrer uses photography as a sketches for further works. For the exhibition at Haus zur Glocke, Scherrer dares to bring together these old works with her current approach, her present-day being.

Margarit Schlumpf-Portmann created large-format textile works in the period around 1960 to 1983, for which she coined the term “string-paintings”. Her artistic position is clearly feminist and reflects both her own situation and the social reality of her time. In a long second creative phase, the artist devoted herself to the motif of the child.

In Christine Bernhard’s artistic work, the topic of lopsidedness is located thematically in contemporary society’s handling of nutrition and food, among other things. At Haus zur Glocke, she presents a performance that pushes visitors further towards the Rhine as correspondence to the river of life.

Judith Huber explores the manifold possibilities and circumstances in the relationship of physicality, movement and space. In different ways, she uses her own body as an expandable and malleable mass in order to intuitively, sensorially and holistically fathom the interactions of inner and outer images, of body sensation and body images.

Gisela Hochuli will present three minimal, condensed performances, each lasting about an hour. Every action is repetitive, yet always different, and creates unusual, absurd, as well as poetic images and moods through its manifold momentums and internal dynamics.

Ursula Scherrer explores the question “how can I be and not be or not be me at the same time”. Can she not be seen by showing herself, or by showing herself and not be seen? Where does a performance begin to be performance?

Julie Semoroz sees the interaction of post-industrial society with the capitalist system as a skewed position, as lopsidedness. Visually and sonically, she proposes views and provokes reflections on urban space, ecology, utopia, a living together with an anthropological approach mixed with art.