Matthias Amsler
Sole Polishing Station 2024, participatory concept, Basel Social Club
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.
Wystawy
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
