marion strunk / CH

Marion Strunk (*1949) is an artist and art theoretician born in Germany and based in Zurich. She studied fine arts at the University of the Arts and art history at Freie Universität in Berlin. She is a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts. Her works are in public and private Swiss art collections. The main question of Marion Strunks work is: What is an image? By bringing together photography and thread it can be shown what a picture actually is: a fiction. The thread is always concretely in the picture, it can be touched and is really a thread at that moment. In public space she shows the theme in reverse: She puts balls of wool in hedges or in trees, form balls into shapes or wraps sculptures around them – the thread, the artificial, connects with reality, culture and nature.

​PUBLICATIONS
2019 Marion Strunk: FOTO UND FADEN. Till Schaap Edition, Bern / CH
1999 Marion Strunk: WOLLE 2/EMBROIDERED IMAGES. Foto+Faden. Memory/Cage Editions, Zurich / CH
1998 Marion Strunk (Hg.), BILDERGEDÄCHTNIS / GEDÄCHTNISBILDER. Edition Howeg, Zurich / CH
1999 Marion Strunk (Hg.): SUBJEKTE, STARS UND CHIPS. Edition Howeg, Zurich / CH
​1999 Marion Strunk (Hg.): VOM ANGENEHMEN LEBEN. Edition Howeg, Zurich / CH

Portrait Marion Strunk © Courtesy of the artist

WEBSITE marionstrunk.ch
SIK ART link

SOLO SHOWS
2019 Buchhandlung NEVER STOP READING, Zurich / CH
2017 Installation, Samstagern (Hof Blum) / CH
2016 Lebewohlfabrik, Zurich / CH
2015 Barbarian Art Gallery, Zurich / CH
2013 Forum Vebikus, Schaffhausen / CH
2013 Installation, Samstagern (Hof Blum) / CH
2010 Georg Condors Kitchen, New York / USA
2002 Galerie Stefan Witschi, Zurich / CH
2001 Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon / CH
1999 HOTEL-Kunstraum, Zurich / CH
1998 Georges Condor Kitchen, New York / USA
1997 Russian State University, Moskau / RU
1988 Galerie Espace, Paris / FR
1986 Galerie Vita, Bern / CH
1985 Goethe Institut, Düsseldorf / DE
1985 Goethe Institut, Schwäbisch Hall / DE