Matthias Amsler

Matthias Amsler’s practice engages with the spatial dynamics of everyday objects and environments. Through minimal interventions, he shifts the perception of materials and contexts, allowing ordinary elements to take on new significance before returning them to their original surroundings. His work moves fluidly between found objects, site-responsive installations, and painterly explorations, blurring the boundaries between presence and absence, function and form.

Alongside these material explorations, Amsler’s engagement with painting unfolds as a study of impermanence. Informed by impressionistic sensibilities and his background as a muralist, his works capture transient atmospheres while extending painterly expression into public space. This duality—between the ephemeral and the material, the gesture and the object—frames his broader artistic inquiry.

Amsler navigates questions of value, power structures, and the human condition, constructing subtly distorted realities that probe contemporary urgencies. His work operates as both a reflection and a disruption, positioning itself within the tension between presence and disappearance, permanence and dissolution.

EXHIBITION (selected)

Solo

2025 Out of Office, ELEVEN TEN STUDIO, Basel

2024 Through The Night Sky's Door, Support Your Local Artist, Zürich

2023 The Smell Of New Things, Kramer, Aarau

2023 Fine Art – Best Price, Parzelle403, Basel

Group

2024 Basel Social Club, Bottmingen

2024 Basis, IAGN FHNW, Basel

2024 Young Swiss Artists, Galerie Carzaniga, Basel

2021 Public Provocations, COLAB Gallery, Weil am Rhein

2021 Jungkunst, Halle 53, Winterthur

Murals

2023 Arboles, Isla Maciel, Buenos Aires

2022 3x3, mit A. Laguna und E. Cerezo, Almagro

2022 Waiting People, mit E. Cerezo und Mase, Granada

2021 Antibocktrin, Chur

2020 Güllen, Leutwil

2017 Rider of Sumy, Sumy

2017 Slug, Aarau