Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger
Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger have been working together since 1997, creating immersive in-situ installations. The audience is invited to immerse themselves in a fantastic vegetative universe or take part in experiments that awaken their senses and mind. The equally unsettling and enchanting installations by the two artists establish connections between antagonistic worlds and propose to observe the strange laboratory of the living with its biodiversity and to question notions of fertility and growth. They took part in Expo.02 with the gigantic installation “Heimatmaschine” and they represented Switzerland at the Venice Biennale in 2003 with a delicate “Falling Garden” in the church of San Stae. Other invasive installations were on display at the 21st Century Museum in Kanazawa, Japan (“Brainforest”), in the Baroque Library in St. Gallen (“Selenwärmer”), at the ACCA Melbourne (“The waterhole”), at the Kunsthaus Bregenz (“Lungenkraut”), at the Museum Tinguely, Basel (“Too early to panic”) and at the FRAC in Marseille (“COPAIN”). The artwork “La belle vie souterraine” for the Chevilly-Larue metro station in Paris was opened in 2024.