curated by Ugo Pecoraio
What lies beyond the surface of a painting? What remains unseen? In his solo exhibition for KUNSTSURFER, Linus Weber delves into new realities by crafting digital landscapes that extend the life of his originally analog paintings. Weber's works inhabit these newly imagined environments—universes where stories persist and flourish, transcending the boundaries of imagination.
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curated by Chiara Giardi
Pasuth Sa-ingthong presents a new body of work titled “Interconnectedness”. The project shows fragmented views of a glowing fractal-based structure in a swampy area. This was inspired by the folklore surrounding the Phae Mueang Phi forest park in northern Thailand. The park is well-known for its mushroom-like stone formations and the legend of an old woman who suddenly found gold and silver but could only find her way home once she left the treasure behind. Pasuth Sa-ingthong draws on the mystery of this place to explore the interconnectedness between the natural and digital world through myth and fractal structures.
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curated by Ugo Pecoraio
Jennifer Merlyn Scherler’s work "Wasteland, Baby!" returns in a new form as a digital portal on KUNSTSURFER. Originally presented as a video installation at HEK (House of Electronic Arts), this work delves into grieving strategies for coping with global warming and ecological catastrophes, often embracing back-to-nature movements.
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curated by Chiara Giardi and Evita Verbrugge
For “All too human?” Dagmar Schürrer presents excerpts of "Where does the rest of the world begin" and Nanut Thanapornrapee shows his work “CAPTHCA” (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Humans and Computers Apart). Their independent research interestingly meets in the quest for understanding the human condition. If Schürrer’s work challenges the notion of a human as an exceptional, singularly conscious individual entity, Thanapornrapee’s reminds us of our cyborg identities through speculation and sci-fi.
curated by Heiko Schmid
TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS: A Simulacrum within Simulacra" is a small digital excerpt from the intricate, research-based artwork TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS, which explores the Deleuzian concept of the simulacrum. Utilising KUNSTSURFER, it replaces generic online advertisements with artistic representations, effectively transforming the digital realm into a promotional platform for a fictional museum.
curated by Heiko Schmid
A shimmering space opens up when the human is touching the non-human. AND THEN WE TOUCH raises our awareness of the performative nature of categories such as humanity and animality and confronts us with our own needs for sensuality, touch and playfulness.
curated by Chiara Giardi & Kenneth Ting Yu Lin
How do web-based creative practices relate across cultures and national borders? ‘Framed : Wormhole’ is a cultural and professional exchange. It asks questions like: If we take culture to include our online activities and identities, how do their online and offline sides relate to each other?
curated by Noemi Garay (Panke Gallery)
"Soft Narratives" presents works by Molly Soda, Maya Man, and Chia Amisola - three artists who use the internet to develop their sensitive and multimodal narratives. In the exhibition, the selected works are also interpreted as examples of a new generation of internet artists.
curated by Evita Verbrugge, Heiko Schmid & Ugo Pecoraio
Testing, downloading, and conversations at Helmhaus, Zurich.
curated by Chiara Giardi, Evita Verbrugge, Heiko Schmid, Itay Blaish and Ugo Pecoraio
The exhibition will reflect on current digital culture and online advertisement, taking over imagery from memes, cyborg-like figures, people created by artificial intelligence, virtual reality worlds and even internet porn.
What lies beyond the surface of a painting? What remains unseen? In his solo exhibition for KUNSTSURFER, Linus Weber delves into new realities by crafting digital landscapes that extend the life of his originally analog paintings. Weber's works inhabit these newly imagined environments—universes where stories persist and flourish, transcending the boundaries of imagination.
These universes reveal dissonances between inside and outside, romance and loneliness, dystopia and utopia. Experiencing Weber's art feels like navigating through endless dream sequences, transporting the viewer to a realm where nothing is as it seems, where new possibilities for the analog emerge, and where new paintings begin to dream.
curated by Ugo Pecoraio
Linus Weber is a multidisciplinary artist based in Basel who bridges digital and analog spaces, inviting audiences into his universe of drawn, painted, and animated creatures. His work balances humor and horror as his creatures traverse desolate landscapes marked by shifting shadows and fragmented growth—a complex fusion of real and artificial, romance and isolation, dystopia and utopia.
In 2023, Weber received the Cristina Spoerri Prize, building on his recognition with the Basler Kunstverein Travel Prize in 2020. His work has been exhibited at Basel Social Club, Kunsthaus Aarau, Kunsthaus Baselland, Milieu (Bern), Kunsthalle Basel, Kunstraum Baden, Historisches Museum Baden, Offspace Flüelastrasse (Zurich), Palazzina (Basel), and other venues.