Exhibition at Galerie St-Hilaire
The exhibition ESTHER STOCKER・TERRA INFINITA is the second solo show that Galerie St-Hilaire is dedicating to the Austrian artist, whose international career continues to shine. It features wall, floor, and suspended sculptures, as well as recent paintings.
Opening on Thursday October 3, from 5pm to 8pm, the artist is present
Born in 1974 in Silandro, South Tyrol, and based in Vienna (A) for 25 years, her work is regularly exhibited in museums and institutions across Europe and worldwide, including in 2024 at the Mondriaan House in Amersfoort (NL), in 2023 at the Alberto Peruzzo Foundation in Padua (I), in 2020 at the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt (D), in 2018 at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich (CH), in 2015 at the Vasarely Museum in Budapest (H), in 2013 at the Kunsthalle Palazzo in Liestal (CH), and in 2012 at the Museum Ritter in Waldenbuch (D).
Active in the fields of painting and sculpture, she has created numerous spatial installations and architectural facades, whose monumentality and visual impact reveal her ability to conceive and perceive space in a manner that is both disorienting and fascinating. Among her recent works are a spatial installation at the MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome (I), a mural (16m x 20m) titled GALAXY for the main staircase of the Austrian Parliament in Vienna (A), the entrance hall of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, and the entire facades of the North Bank of Huangpu River in Shanghai. She has also participated in several sculpture biennales in Japan and South Korea.
Esther Stocker is regularly sought after for projects in the fields of design and fashion.
In 2020, she received the Aurelie Nemours Prize.
In her sculptures, the regular and structured motif of the grid or mesh is challenged by the folding and volumization of the surface, revealing the fragility and impermanence of a system. In her paintings, the degree of shift is sufficiently undefined so that our perception oscillates between order and disorder, between the perception of the whole and of the unit.
And it is also a shift, that of our observation in time and space, to which the artist invites us in her spatial installations. Esther Stocker creates infinite spaces in which the viewer can lose themselves. Happily so.
Dates and timetable
From 3 Oct to 9 Nov 2024
Wednesday14:00 - 18:00
Thursday14:00 - 18:00
Friday14:00 - 18:00
Saturday10:00 - 17:00
Galerie St-Hilaire
Rue des Alpes 32
1700 Fribourg
+41 26 322 21 59
