Julia Wolf (curator) und Denise Bertschi (artist), photo: Roberta Fele
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2025, 7 P.M.
MEETING POINT: Kulturhaus Obere Stube (foyer), Oberstadt 7, 8260 Stein am Rhein
Together with curator Julia Wolf, artist Denise Bertschi will give a guided tour through her exhibition Colors of (Colonial) Chemistry.
In her new works, Denise Bertschi (*1983) examines the interrelations of chemical substances, industrialization and globalization. The starting points are the dye chemistry and photographic chemistry of the 19th and early 20th century as well as the biographies of the ETH professors Pompejus Bolley and Robert Gnehm. Parts of Gnehm’s estate were passed on to his nephew Jakob and niece Emma Windler, from whose inheritance the Jakob und Emma Windler-Stiftung emerged. A special focus of the exhibition lies on the dye brazilin obtained from brazilwood. The artist and researcher follows the visual and material traces between Brazil and Switzerland. In her audiovisual, textile, and installation works, she shows how science was embedded in economic and colonial structures from an early stage.
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