THE OFFICE

01.09 – 16.09.2023
13th FLOOR
HARDTURMSTR. 3
ZURICH



WITH
AATB, (F/CH) ALEXANDRA GERBER (F/UK) ANGELIKI PAPAVASILEIOU, (GK/CH), BEN GANZ (CH/USA, DANIEL DURNIN (UK), ELISSA LACOSTE (F) GREGORY TSANTILAS (GK/CH), HAUS OTTO (D), HOT WIRE EXTENSIONS (CH), LAURIN SCHAUB, (CH), MEUBLES MELDEM, (CH), OFFICE FOR ORDINARY OBJECTS, (D/CH), PANTER TOURRON, (CH), RAPHAEL KADID, (CH), RETO ANDRI OBJEKTE, (CH), ROBERT A. WETTSTEIN, (CH), SALIENTI, (IT/CH), SANCHEZ MORGILLO, (CH), SÉBASTIEN EL IDRISSI, CH, STÉPHANIE HORNIG A/CH, STUDIO MARTHINS (DK/CH), STUDIO PICCOLLI, (CH), TINO SEUBERT, (D/UK) TOBIAS BIERI, (CH)



The Office brings together contemporary designers and architects from Switzerland and beyond to celebrate and promote interdisciplinary and experimental creative work. From the ready-made and playful to the technical and minimalist, each work on display foregrounds objects and furniture pieces that transcend functionality and exemplify vision and exploratory processes. Alluding to the changing role of the office from a space with standardised fit-outs to a more hybrid and social space, this year’s exhibition exemplifies the search for alternatives and counter-strategies that respond to rapidly shifting realities.

THE OFFICE is a project by RAW SENSES - a collective endeavour organised in collaboration with Hot Wire Extension (Fabio Hendry), Kairos Studios (Sebastian Vargas), Villa Nomad (Sarah Quan) and Second Nature Projects (Giovanna Lisignoli) on the occasion of Zürich Design Weeks 2023.


Oliver Kümmerli © profiler.world

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SAMPLING

23.02 –
26.02.2023

NOMAD ST. MORITZ 2023



With
Stéphanie Baechler
Dimitri Bähler
Fabio Hendry
Yvonne Rogenmoser
Tino Seubert



Second Nature presents a collection that includes textiles, ceramics, lighting objects and small furniture pieces. Common to all is an approach that can be interpreted as 'sampling' – a process that borrows fragments from other contexts to organize them into a new relationship. This re-reading and collaging of existing materials stand for artistic approaches that freely move between medium and context to bring forth intriguing objects and new ways to imagine our bonds with the things around us.  



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COUNTER VIEWS


26.02 –
16.04.2022

Chesa da Pravenda
La Serletta 5, St. Moritz


Stéphanie Baechler (NL/CH)
Dimitri Bähler (CH)
Martino Gamper (UK/I)
Valerio Glisenti (CH
Reto Grond (CH)
Jo Nagasaka –
Schemata Architects (JP)
Yvonne Rogenmoser (CH
Robert Wettstein (CH
Wiener Times (AT)  


Following up on last winter's exhibition at Casa Faoro, Second Nature is excited to present 'Counter Views'. This season's show takes place in a disused and dismantled apartment (shell) in the centre of St.Moritz.

'Counter Views' plays with the contrast between the apartment’s  off-space character and its exposure to the scenery. The show is conceived as an alternative dialogue centred around the transitory conditions of the space and the potential of narratives beyond established modes of presentation.

The diverse approaches by makers and designers featured in ‘Counter Views’ deal with materiality –clay, wood, stone, and textile– to create multifaceted objects that move between the functional, decorative, and conceptual. Some of the works reference local typologies; others highlight material characteristics in a game of concealment and exposure; some play with daring juxtapositions and use objects and techniques as devices for their artistic research. Through their multiple reference points to the handmade, the cultural landscape and natural environment, the works in the exhibition act as tools for conviviality, correspondence, and a shared outlook.








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info@secondnature.ch