Artist Talk: Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger

Swiss artists Gerda Steiner's and Jörg Lenzlinger's, bring together the natural and the synthetic, life and death, the spontaneous and the ‘rooted’.  They explore fantasy and allegory with  their webs of falling gardens and crystal accretions.  They create interactive wonderlands using taxidermy, insects, ponds of motor oil, decaying trees and plants, and flowing streams of chemicals.

Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger live and work in Uster, Switzerland, and has collaborated since 1997. Individual exhibitions include Night Moths in the Whale Belly, Artium, Fukuoka, Japan (2006); Seelenwärmer, Stiftsbibliothek, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2005); and Giardino Calante, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy (2003). Group exhibitions include ARS ’06, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland (2006); 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Spain (2004); and Wurzelbehandlung, Rose c’est la vie, National Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel (2004).