Spatial Positions 8: Cooperations

In the year 2014, the Swiss Architecture Museum S AM celebrates its 30th anniversary. The anniversary year began with the exhibition “Orientations. Young Swiss Architects”, curated by Hubertus Adam, director of S AM. It will be brought to an end with the exhibition «Cooperations. Diener & Diener, Martin Steinmann / Josef Felix Müller; Peter Märkli / Josephsohn», curated by Dr Ulrike Jehle–Schulte, founding director of Architecture Museum Basel.

Artists conceive voluminous objects. Sometimes, they design entire rooms or architectures, securing the assistance of architects and engineers. In contrast, architects often see themselves as artists, legitimised by the attention paid to them worldwide in recent decades, which to no small extent is due to digital networking.

The disciplines’ boundaries have become noticeably blurred in recent decades. The exhibition «Cooperations. Diener & Diener, Martin Steinmann / Josef Felix Müller; Peter Märkli / Josephsohn» looks into the question of what emerges when artists and architects, in a lively exchange, develop a work together from the very start. This is demonstrated on the basis of cooperation between architect Roger Diener and artist Josef Felix Müller, as well as between architect Peter Märkli and artist Hans Josephsohn. The exhibition presents an installational arrangement of models, plans, drawings and sketches.