Pop up exhibition No 1/4 2026
Opening 05.02. / until 08.02.2026
LANDSCAPE/WITHIN brings together three artistic positions that reveal landscape as a cultural, physical, and mental space of experience.
The exhibition unites three artists from Switzerland, Austria, and China, who explore the relationship between human beings, space, and landscape in distinct ways. Through reduction and abstraction, the works investigate perception, scale, and atmosphere, opening up new sensory and conceptual spaces. Emerging from diverse artistic practices, the exhibition unfolds as a dialogue that approaches landscape from multiple perspectives.
Pia Simmendinger explores landscape as a spatial and sensory experience through sculptural processes using plaster and wax. Her works emerge in slow, successive stages, shaped by repeated physical engagement and close attention to surface and material transformation. Intuition guides the making, while reflection allows forms to shift and open toward the unexpected. The sculptures invite viewers to navigate space without fixed orientation, discovering form through movement, proximity, and touch.
Toni Schade examines alpine infrastructures as imprints of human existence and agency within the natural world. In his photographs, the mountain landscape appears as a terrain in which technical interventions become quiet witnesses to our presence—symbolic outposts of our relationship to the world and to ourselves.
Wang Liqun develops her paintings from the philosophy of classical Jiangnan gardens. By combining the spatial rhythms of these gardens with everyday artifacts, she creates multilayered garden landscapes and still lifes. The fusion of Chinese ink tradition with the transparency of Western watercolor generates an atmosphere in which harmony, warmth of life, and ideals of dwelling resonate.
Thus, LANDSCAPE/WITHIN unfolds a sensitive interplay of material, cultural, and poetic landscapes—an interior that becomes visible in the exterior and invites us to reflect on our own embeddedness in the world.
