Baltensperger + Siepert

Artist duo Baltensperger + Siepert (Stefan Baltensperger + David Siepert) explore essential themes of our time. They question the dispositives of perception by shedding light on them from alternative angles, thus allowing for different approaches to observation.


Books


Ways to Escape
One’s Former Country

Handbook for an Uncertain Migration

Baltensperger + Siepert - Ways to Escape Ones Former Country

dear your spring
this can’t work

A free interpretation based on Martin Heidegger’s “Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes”

Baltensperger + Siepert - dear your spring this can't work

Invisible Philosophy




Recent


No Real Body
@Espace Diaphanes, Berlin.

Baltensperger + Siepert – No Real Body

Espace Diaphanes

22.6. – 26-8.2023, Dresdener Str. 118, Berlin.
 

Baltensperger + Siepert, Claire Fontaine, Antoine d’Agata, Luc Mattenberger, Luc Meresma, Julian Röder, Vittorio Santoro und folle durée, a video series curated by Damian Christinger.
 

Ways to Escape One’s Former Country
@ Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich.

Baltensperger + Siepert – Ways to Escape One's Former Country

RE-ORIENTATIONS

24.3. – 16-7.2023, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich.
 


Ways to Escape One’s Former Country
@ Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich.

Baltensperger + Siepert – Ways to Escape One's Former Country

RE-ORIENTATIONS

24.3. – 16-7.2023, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich.

Kuratiert von Sandra Gianfreda. Mit Arbeiten von: Clara Laila Abid Alsstar, Hélène Adant, Anila Quayyum Agha, Nevin Aladağ, Baltensperger + Siepert, Muhammet Ali Baş, Marwan Bassiouni, Edmond Bénard, Henriette Browne, Carlo Bugatti, Théodore Deck, William De Morgan, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, Karl Gerstner, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Jaʿfar ibn Najaf ʿAli, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Wassily Kandinsky, Gülsün Karamustafa, Bouchra Khalili, Paul Klee, J. & L. Lobmeyr, Henri Matisse, Gabriele Münter, MuhammadʿAli Ashraf, Muhammad Jaʿfar, Muhammad Yusuf, Osman Hamdi Bey, Lotte Reiniger, Charles Claude Rudhardt, Salah al-Din.
 


Patterns & Traces
@ LES OBJETS MIGRATEURS, Marseille.

Baltensperger + Siepert – Objets Migrateurs

Katalogbeitrag zur Ausstellung “Objets Migrateurs”.

8.4. – 16-10.2022, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille.
 

Unser Unvermögen
@ GZ Wipkingen, Zurich

Baltensperger + Siepert – Unser Unvermögen

Beteiligte Kunstschaffende: Eoldie Pong; Navid Tschopp; Nicole Bachmann;
Sally Schonfeldt; Baltensperger + Siepert.

Mit Interventionen von: Livio Baumgartner; Jonas Burkhalter; Sieglinde Geisel; Marianne Halter; Simone Lappert; Uwe Lützen, Katarina Meitz; Alexander Tuchaček und vielen weiteren Küntler*innen und Denker*innen.

Podiumsgespräch: Damian Christinger im Gespräch mit Johanna Lier und Baltensperger + Siepert.

Performance: Sally Schonfeldt + Emre Sarigöl; Andrea Marioni.

8. Juni – 20. Juni 2021
 

Dream of Futures within Futures
@ Diele, Zurich

Baltensperger + Siepert – Diele Zurich

Diele Zürich
Kuratiert von Damian Christinger.

21.10. – 28.11. 2021
 



No Real Body
@ Fotomuseum Winterthur

Baltensperger + Siepert – No Real Body

NO REAL BODY
The Fiction of a Singular Identity

a project by Baltensperger + Siepert in collaboration with Uwe Lützen
B+S Productions 2020

Produced and directed by Soe Arkar Htun + Sai Naw Kham

Fotomuseum Winterthur
SITUATIONS / The Right to Look

February 29. – October 18. 2020
 

No Real Body
@ Fotomuseum Winterthur

Baltensperger + Siepert – No Real Body

NO REAL BODY
The Fiction of a Singular Identity

a project by Baltensperger + Siepert in collaboration with Uwe Lützen
B+S Productions 2020

Produced and directed by Victoria Akujobi + Bunmi Ajakaiye

Fotomuseum Winterthur
SITUATIONS / The Right to Look

February 29. – October 18. 2020
 

No Real Body
@ Fotomuseum Winterthur

Baltensperger + Siepert – No Real Body

NO REAL BODY
The Fiction of a Singular Identity

a project by Baltensperger + Siepert in collaboration with Uwe Lützen
B+S Productions 2020

Produced and directed by Rushdi Al-Sarraj + Ahmed Hassouna

Fotomuseum Winterthur
SITUATIONS / The Right to Look

February 29. – October 18. 2020
 

Ways to Escape Ones Former Country @ Museum Haus Konstruktiv

Werkschau Kanton Zurich
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
September 25. – October 6. 2019

DER MARBACH

Marbach, September 20. 2018 10am
Rathaus Marbach am Neckar

Dancing Queen @ 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art

Dancing Queen
33B Vostochnaya St., Ekaterinburg, RU
September 12. – December 1. 2019

DIE GLOCKE

August 25. 2018
Zurich, Hunziker Areal

DESTI-NATION
@ OnCurating Project Space

Baltensperger + Siepert – OnCurating

games.fights.encounters

Exhibition and mediation project on art and activism

OnCurating Project Space
Ausstellungstrasse 16, 8005 Zurich

March 7 – 28. 2020, Thu–Sat 3–6pm
Opening: March 6. 2020, 5pm
 

DIE GLOCKE

Zurich, Hunziker Areal


Baltensperger + Siepert
Invisible Philosophy
@ Kunstmuseum Olten

Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof
Kunstmuseum Olten

Opening: June 2. 2018
Exhibition: June 3. – August 19. 2018

One Way Home

Trans Alpin
Sarajevo – Zürich

Baltensperger + Siepert One Way Home
Baltensperger + Siepert One Way Home

Zürich
Kunstraum Walcheturm
July, 21. – August 13. 2017

Sarajevo
National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina
September 1. – September 23. 2017

Invisible Philosophy

BINZ Foundation
Sihlquai 133, Zurich Switzerland

Opening: February 24. 2017
Exhibition: February 25. – March 25 2017

Invisible Philosophy
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Baltensperger + Siepert Territories
@ la rada, locarno

la rada – spazio per l’arte contemporanea, locarno
Exhibtion May 4. – May 26. 2018

Invisible Philosophy@
Zurich Liest

Baltensperger + Siepert @ Zurich liest

Reading and book presentation at “Zürich liest”
October 29. 2017

Invisible Philosophy@
Zurich University

Reading and book presentation at “Zurich University”
Zürichbergstrasse 4, Raum 416
November 2. 2017

Invisible Philosophy
Book launch February 24

… working on our upcoming book ‚Invisible Philosophy’
Who do we empower to define philosophy? Whose thoughts and visions does society acknowledge?

Book launch @ BINZ39 Foundation, Zurich
February 24. 2017

Books can be preordered

Ways to Escape
Ones Former Country
@ Museum Burg Zug

Baltensperger + Siepert - Ways To Escape - Carpet

ANDERS. WO.
Museum Burg Zug
November 24. 2017 – July 8. 2018

Ways to Escape
Ones Former Country

Baltensperger + Siepert - Ways to Escape Ones Former Country - Buchcover
Baltensperger + Siepert - Ways to Escape Ones Former Country - Doppelseite

Book-launch:
January 24. 2018 6 – 8 pm
Archiv – UC Books
Erikastrasse 11, CH-8003 Zurich

Invisible Philosophy@
11th Shanghai Biennial

Shanghai biennial

Performance @ Powerstation of Art
December 3. + 4. 2016

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