The human body is the central theme and tool in Lotta Gadola‘ s artistic work. The interest is focused on the discussions about, around and with the body, in connection with social and identity-creating topics. From the body‘s own hair, through the contact lens to the smartphone — the body and its physical prostheses and mental extensions are often the subject of the investigation. In the image-search the artist draws on precise observations of everyday life.

The publication of the “Junge Kunst Stadt Luzern” series focuses on the youngest groups of work, consisting of performance, video works and photographic series. In order to translate the cinematic of the artistic creation into book form, individual video sequences are prepared as flipbooks and enable different speeds of reading of the contributions, which are contextualized by an art-historical and media-theoretical text.

This publication documents the solo exhibition «Spots» by Franziska Baumgartner. As a last intervention before the reconstruction, she covered the walls of the exhibition space Klingental, Basel with rice paper. The starchy material combined with the wall paint and began to dissolve during the drying process. At one point the spots burst open, bulging and bending, elsewhere the paint together with the rice paper flaked off in large shreds and fell to the floor, revealing traces of paint, wall drawings and drill holes from earlier exhibitions – allowing an insight into the eventful history of the room.

In spring 2018, students of option «Construction, Art et Espace» of HEAD – Genève participated in a workshop in Langenthal’s former porcelain factory. They reflected on issues relating to this now abandoned industrial site. Fascinated by the factory’s history and the stories that surround it, the students and their teachers shared their experiences in the form of artistic projects that evoked, through the site’s furniture and materials, the anecdotes and atmosphere of this unique part of the Swiss industrial heritage.