Kilian Rüthemann

His sculptural interventions, which are occasionally minimal, transform the space around them into a sculpture and vice versa. The sculpture thus becomes an architectural intervention that acts as a temporal expression set against the permanence of the architectural structure. The sculpture symbolizes transformation and evanescence; it counteracts heaviness with lightness, and it negates the function of individual elements, interpreting the space anew.

As with all of Rüthemann’s works, assumptions are being tested by new relationships; the viewer’s expectations are considered and played with, equally subject to the artist’s manipulation as the physical materials he uses.