Kunstraum Richard Sorge
Strich & Faden Exhibition: Johanna Schweizer - Androgyna
Johanna Schweizer's fiber chrochet sculpture "Androgyna".
Size: 60 x 18 x 9 cm, made 2008.
View from the current Strich & Faden art show at Kunstraum Richard Sorge in Berlin-Friedrichshain.
Johanna Schweizer (Netherlands):
Johanna Schweizer is often - lazily - described as the Dutch Louise Bourgeois. This may refer to the surrealist aspects of her work; her perseverance and consistent vision; or the long time it took for the world to catch up with her work.
After impressive presentations at Brutto Gusto fine_arts (Berlin), and her recent participation in the "Just Different" Queer-art exhibition in the Amsterdam Cobra Museum, the interest in Schweizer's oeuvre is now steadily growing.
The artist's extensive collection of crocheted fiber sculptures are made in the last six years. Both profound and witty, it has a wholly un-academic rootedness in contemporary life, alluding to a wide array of themes, from cross-genderness and cross-speciesness; to religious suffering and sexual ritual. Folkloric, pagan, and fairy tale elements are incorporated as well, the sensually playful and the deadly serious going hand in hand.
The artist has a Diane Arbus-like fascination for deformity and otherness, but leaves out the voyeurism. The colorful sculptures offer a perceptive, amused female view of male sexuality and chauvinism that is arguably unique in contemporary art.
From the exhibition "Strich & Faden - Heimat, Folk-art and Travesty" featuring: Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek (Netherlands), Astrid Küver (Germany), Betty Stürmer (Germany), Cross stitch ninja (Sweden), Jn. Ulrick Désert (Germany/USA), Johanna Schweizer (Netherlands), Kathrin Schädlich (Portugal), Mumbleboy / Kinya Hanada (USA), René Schmalschläger (Netherlands), Sharon Pazner (Israel).
Strich & Faden Exhibition: Johanna Schweizer - Androgyna
Johanna Schweizer's fiber chrochet sculpture "Androgyna".
Size: 60 x 18 x 9 cm, made 2008.
View from the current Strich & Faden art show at Kunstraum Richard Sorge in Berlin-Friedrichshain.
Johanna Schweizer (Netherlands):
Johanna Schweizer is often - lazily - described as the Dutch Louise Bourgeois. This may refer to the surrealist aspects of her work; her perseverance and consistent vision; or the long time it took for the world to catch up with her work.
After impressive presentations at Brutto Gusto fine_arts (Berlin), and her recent participation in the "Just Different" Queer-art exhibition in the Amsterdam Cobra Museum, the interest in Schweizer's oeuvre is now steadily growing.
The artist's extensive collection of crocheted fiber sculptures are made in the last six years. Both profound and witty, it has a wholly un-academic rootedness in contemporary life, alluding to a wide array of themes, from cross-genderness and cross-speciesness; to religious suffering and sexual ritual. Folkloric, pagan, and fairy tale elements are incorporated as well, the sensually playful and the deadly serious going hand in hand.
The artist has a Diane Arbus-like fascination for deformity and otherness, but leaves out the voyeurism. The colorful sculptures offer a perceptive, amused female view of male sexuality and chauvinism that is arguably unique in contemporary art.
From the exhibition "Strich & Faden - Heimat, Folk-art and Travesty" featuring: Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek (Netherlands), Astrid Küver (Germany), Betty Stürmer (Germany), Cross stitch ninja (Sweden), Jn. Ulrick Désert (Germany/USA), Johanna Schweizer (Netherlands), Kathrin Schädlich (Portugal), Mumbleboy / Kinya Hanada (USA), René Schmalschläger (Netherlands), Sharon Pazner (Israel).