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Our Artist Archive concludes with Oliver Kümmerli, whose practice operates at the intersection of photography and sculpture to explore the relationships between materiality, memory, and infrastructure. During Zahn der Zeit at Art Under Dock, he presented works from his Gotthard series. Through image layering, cyanotype, and UV printing, he transformed historical imagery into sculptural objects, examining how landscapes and architectural structures shape collective memory and national identity. Read the full interview at 🔗 matazz.ch Photo portrait by @valentina_bubola Artworks photos by @antimatiere77 by @ooli.k
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Edition on Paper G.1.1 – Gotthard, 2026 Inkjet on Hahnemühle, framed with Wenge 70 x 50 cm Edition 1 / 1AP G.2.1 – Gotthard, 2026 Inkjet on Hahnemühle, framed with Wenge 70 x 50 cm Edition 1 / 1AP G.3.1 – Gotthard, 2026 Inkjet on Hahnemühle, framed with Wenge 60 x 42 cm Edition 1 / 1AP The works in Gotthard operate between photography and sculpture, exploring the relationships between materiality, memory, and infrastructure. They examine how landscapes, architectural structures, and historical images shape collective identities. For this series, he worked with archival photographs of tunnel construction projects in Switzerland. Through image layering, cyanotype, and UV printing, historical images are transformed into sculptural objects. The works explore the tension between tunnels as technical interventions in the landscape and as powerful symbols of national identity. In doing so, the works engage with questions of collective memory and belonging, revealing infrastructure as both a physical and cultural network of connection. by @ooli.k
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Gotthard G.1-G.4, 2026 UV print on aluminum, framed aluminum profile with LED linear lighting and colored plaster on alu frame with LED pendant Installation variable size Exhibition: Zahn der Zeit by @_matazz The works in Gotthard operate between photography and sculpture, exploring the relationships between materiality, memory, and infrastructure. They examine how landscapes, architectural structures, and historical images shape collective identities. For this series, he worked with archival photographs of tunnel construction projects in Switzerland. Through image layering, cyanotype, and UV printing, historical images are transformed into sculptural objects. The works explore the tension between tunnels as technical interventions in the landscape and as powerful symbols of national identity. In doing so, the works engage with questions of collective memory and belonging, revealing infrastructure as both a physical and cultural network of connection. taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @ooli.k
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Gotthard G.1-G.4, 2026 UV print on aluminum, framed aluminum profile with LED linear lighting and colored plaster on alu frame with LED pendant Installation variable size Exhibition: Zahn der Zeit by @_matazz The works in Gotthard operate between photography and sculpture, exploring the relationships between materiality, memory, and infrastructure. They examine how landscapes, architectural structures, and historical images shape collective identities. For this series, he worked with archival photographs of tunnel construction projects in Switzerland. Through image layering, cyanotype, and UV printing, historical images are transformed into sculptural objects. The works explore the tension between tunnels as technical interventions in the landscape and as powerful symbols of national identity. In doing so, the works engage with questions of collective memory and belonging, revealing infrastructure as both a physical and cultural network of connection. taken in Zürich, Switzerland by @ooli.k
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G.3 – Gotthard, 2026 UV print on aluminum, framed on aluminum profile with LED linear lighting 150 x 64 x 22 cm Exhibition: Zahn der Zeit by @_matazz The works in Gotthard operate between photography and sculpture, exploring the relationships between materiality, memory, and infrastructure. They examine how landscapes, architectural structures, and historical images shape collective identities. For this series, he worked with archival photographs of tunnel construction projects in Switzerland. Through image layering, cyanotype, and UV printing, historical images are transformed into sculptural objects. The works explore the tension between tunnels as technical interventions in the landscape and as powerful symbols of national identity. In doing so, the works engage with questions of collective memory and belonging, revealing infrastructure as both a physical and cultural network of connection. by @ooli.k
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Proto-Architectures – PA. 1 & 3 What happens when materials act as independent agents, following their own logic of growth, decay, and resistance? Situated between modern technology and an archaic relation to nature, these sculptures occupy a space where the manufactured and the organic converge. Integrated pump systems circulate a crystalline liquid across their surfaces at irregular intervals, continuously transforming their appearance and blurring the line between process and object. Currently on view in Ozeane Fliessen Aufwärts at the EWZ Unterwerk Selnau, Zürich. Selnaustrasse 25a, 8001 Zürich 8 May – 14 June 2026 Kuratiert und organisiert durch: 6 ½ @6einhalb Hotel Tiger @hotel.tiger Die Diele @die_diele_die Papillarya @papillarya volumes @volumeszurich Material @material_zh zwischentext @zwischentext taken in Selnau by @ooli.k
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New Edition out now 80.- (without Frame, +10.- Shipping) DC.1 (Dissolving Constellation) Risography 42 x 29.7cm Constellation of crystals scattered across the floor, slowly vanishing into the brightness around them. by @ooli.k
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DS.4.1 – Data Spaces, 2026 UV Druck auf Alu, Paraffin und Bienen- wachs, gebeiztes Holz 29.7 x 42 cm DS.4.2 – Data Spaces, 2026 UV Druck auf Alu, Paraffin und Bienen- wachs, gebeiztes Holz 29.7 x 42 cm Dans l’eau froide – Krone/Couronne, Biel by @ooli.k
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OLIVER KÜMMERLI Punt dal Gal, 2020 inkjet on matt paper, walnut wood 60 x 40cm The project explores a dam in the Unterengadin region as a powerful human intervention in the landscape. The photographs are physically altered by burning, crumpling and tearing. The damaged surface reflects irreversible changes in nature. #oliverkuemmerli #puntdalgal #lineofart #skulpturfestival #contemporaryart artphotography conceptualart landscapeart taken in Erlenbach, Zurich by @ooli.k
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A look back at the making of «Tracing Matters» Every material carries its own agency. Our duo exhibition asks: what happens when materials — caught between high technology and primal nature — enter a space and begin to act? Behind the scenes, before it all came together. Together with @chiaramariasarbach taken in Zug, Switzerland by @ooli.k
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fractured molds,2023 FM.4 negative of a car hood in plaster and acrylic resin, rust, spruce wood 160x140x25cm FM.5 spray painted polypropylene panels with engraving, spruce wood 80x315cm taken in ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste by @ooli.k
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Die Duo-Ausstellung «Tracing Matters» widmet sich Fragen der Materialität, ihrer eigenen Wirkungsmacht und den Räumen, in denen Materialien wirksam werden. Die verwendeten Stoffe tragen jeweils ihre eigene Geschichte und Charakteristik in sich – sie bewegen sich zwischen moderner Technologie und archaischer Natur-verbundenheit. Dieses Spannungsfeld bildet den Ausgangspunkt für eine installative Auseinandersetzung mit Themen wie Transformation, Ortsspezifik und dem narrativen Potenzial von Material. taken in Zug by @ooli.k
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