01.09.2023 – 24.03.2024

HAVE FAITH

Upcoming solo show in dialogue with Musée d’art et d’histoire MAHF. Museum für Kunst und Geschichte,Fribourg
In dialogue with the MAHF collection, I reveal the material and conceptual tensions between contemporary art and heritage tradition around bronze, glass and neon. Inspired by medieval phylacteries “Have Faith” conveys a message of hope and trust.

Address: Rue de Morat 12, CH-1700 Fribourg
Download exhibtion guide (French)
Download Press article (French)

01.09 – 28.10.2023

Der zweibeinige Stuhl

Group show at Galerie Mark Müller
curated by Susanna Koeberle, Fredréric Dedelley & Jörg Boner
With Joachim Bandau, Marion Baruch, David Bielander, Jörg Boner, Heidi Bucher, Katja Schenker, Florian Slotawa, Christine Streuli, Fabian Treiber, René Zäch, Lütjens Padmanabhan, norm

Address: Hafnerstrasse 44, 8005 Zürich, CH

05.11. – 10.12.2023

espèce d’espace

Duo show with Charlotte Mumm at Whitehouse Gallery, Lovenjoel, BE
On the 7. September 2022, I arrived in Cairo for a 3-month residency program with Pro Helvetia. I decided to use the topic of increased pace of demolition of buildings in Cairo for the textile works. Besides that, I was working with several local artisans on knot carpets and sculptural works of palm wood. During the exhibtion Image Vehicles @Whitehouse Gallery, I will present for the 1.time in Europe the works I made in Egypt.

Address: Groot Park 2, 3360 Bierbeek, Belgium
Opening: 05.11.2023

COLLECTIVE EMBROIDERY “AU BOUT DU FIL”

CREAHM is an atelier based in Fribourg, Switzerland that offers mentally and physically disabled people the opportunity to exploit their creative talents; to work in an atelier, to exhibit and sell artwork like any other artist. Creahm invited me to collaborate with 7 artists from the CREAHM (Pascal & Guy Vonlanthen, Jean-Yves Masset, Bernard Grandgirard, Rémy Vuillème, Emilie Frosio and Géraldine Piller). We created together a giant embroidery (5.2 m long and 1.5 m wide) on an embroidery machine in St. Gallen (CH).

Issu de la collaboration entre Stéphanie Baechler et les artistes de l’atelier CREAHM, Broderie monumentale est un ensemble de textiles réalisés sur une machine à broder en Appenzell. Les oeuvres traitent de l’art même de la broderie et montrent des dessins transformés par un processus industriel. Elles évoquent ainsi la disparition de l’artisanat et du travail produit de mano.
L’atelier CREAHM, situé à Villars-sur-Glâne, permet à des personnes en situation de handicap et dotées de compétences artistiques de développer une œuvre personnelle.

Le projet est lauréat de la bourse de création de l’Etat de Fribourg. Avec le soutien de la Ostschweizerische Stickfachschule et de la Fondation Guignard

Out now!

Book: RADICAL FASHION EXERCISES

I am happy to be part of the book: Radical Fashion Exercises. The book contains a copious collection of bottom-up activities, prompts, and workshops designed by contributors (from all around the globe), who explore fashion in an extended field. Designers, curators, artists, educators, fashion practitioners, DIY home sewers, students, and other creatives responded to the book’s open call with contributions that challenge how to practice fashion and reflect on its systems, politics and economics.

The book will be part of Valiz’sSpring/Summer 2023 release, exciting!
EDITORS Laura Gardner,Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran

PRESS

Article in kM 123 (kunstenaarsmateriaal) 2022 (Text in Dutch)
Taiwan Art Magazine, Artist (since 1975) 2022
Article in St.Galler Tagblatt: Fünf Meter gestickte Ostschweizer Textilgeschichte (Text in German)
Article in Saiten: Der Faden des Schicksals (Text in German)
Article in Saiten: Textilkultur Revisited Download here (Text in German)
Article in Swiss magazine hochparterre.ch , Download here (Text in German)
Interview in tique.art: Six Questions: Stéphanie Baechler
Article in Kunstbulletin 4-2019 about exhibtion at Spazio Lampo, Chiasso CH (Text in Italian)
Granary Interview: The Joy of Learning: Shift is making the creative process fun again