About
a-space is a network that supports aspiring new artists from many countries. Our network enables artists and sponsors to create an extensive network with galleries and collectors, who alone can open the path to success in the art world. At a-space, artists have trustworthy and experienced partners on their side, who give help and support in a variety of practical ways.
Founded in the Basel area in 2012, a-space has represented artists through solo and group shows and at art fairs nationwide and around the world. With it's recent activities a-space became a global network with dependance's in Taiwan and Japan. We are connecting east and west and fostering a wide array of possibilities for artists, curators and collectors.
Our vision is to create a vivid network of sharing and colla-borating. While today’s art world so often puts the individual ego in the centre, we as makers greatly appreciate being able to multiply our connections, pass on our experiences and give advice to each other.
“SEED” by ASF – a leap forward
in cooperation with a-space and RSS
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“ASF_a leap forward” is an online/offline forum for arts focusing on sustainability via panel discussions, VR reality artworks and online streaming talks. ASF’s first exhibition “SEED” collects the seed of art to contribute to sustainability and new ways how to see it. Artists from Asia and Switzerland are encouraged to tackle at least one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals goals and to incorporate them in their artworks. The physical exhibition will be held from September 4-6 at RSS in Tokyo.
Along with the physical exhibition “SEED”, ASF is also presenting an online room experience where some of the artworks from the participating artists can be seen from mid-July to mid-October (07.15 – 10.15). |
Online room "SEED"
photos by the participating artists
photos by the participating artists
Photos by Satoru Takahashi
miniature of nature_vol.2
„miniature of nature“ exhibition-series brings not only artists together, but also educators, organizers and historians in the field of art.
„The exhibition is in it‘s nature collective while the nationalities, ages, backgrounds, styles, and approaches differ, all nine artists present works in the field of condensed nature.“ says the co-organizer Roy Hofer.
Another key part in this unique groupexhibition is the focus on the worldwide artist-run movement scene. The participants and the audience will start building connections between Japan and Switzerland, and doors will be put open for new projects and exchange in the field of culture and art.
Kohei Kanomata the owner of Shinagawas creative co-op ARTnSHELTER will be the host for the second „miniature of nature“ exhibition-series.
The exhibition is daily open from 3pm until 11pm until January 12th 2020.
https://doorstoswitzerland.com
„The exhibition is in it‘s nature collective while the nationalities, ages, backgrounds, styles, and approaches differ, all nine artists present works in the field of condensed nature.“ says the co-organizer Roy Hofer.
Another key part in this unique groupexhibition is the focus on the worldwide artist-run movement scene. The participants and the audience will start building connections between Japan and Switzerland, and doors will be put open for new projects and exchange in the field of culture and art.
Kohei Kanomata the owner of Shinagawas creative co-op ARTnSHELTER will be the host for the second „miniature of nature“ exhibition-series.
The exhibition is daily open from 3pm until 11pm until January 12th 2020.
https://doorstoswitzerland.com
Installation view "miniature of nature_vol.2" at ARTnSHELTER Tokyo
Photos by Satoru Takahashi
Photos by Satoru Takahashi
The jubilee show at Art Market Budapest 2019
In 2019 a-space Gallery Switzerland is represented for the fifth time at Art Market Budapest. On the occasion of this anniversary, a-space Gallery is showing works by 10 international artists from Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Australia and Taiwan. In this large group exhibition, a selection of works will be presented that inspire visitors with innovative techniques and clear aesthetic languages.
The spectrum of works ranges from painting and drawing to photography, sculpture and installations. Besides established artists like the Swiss painter Steph Hermes this year young talents such as the Hungarian Fanni Bacskai will be shown. For those who like paradoxes and absurdities, Martin Gut is the right choice, while lovers of figurative art should take a closer look at the works of Laura Badertscher and Joey Schmidt-Muller. The works of Tyrone Richards deal with technological and scientific themes, while the Taiwanese artist Wei-Yun Chang sees herself more as a multidisciplinary visual storyteller. Fabian Bürgy and Megan Rodgers work sculpturally, while the Zurich photographer Bruno Alder captures spaces with his camera. This year the founder of the a-space Gallery, Roy Andres Hofer, is showing a part of his „too big to fail“-Art Basel objects. A special anniversary selection of a-space Gallery are this year‘s artists Michael Cheung from Hong Kong and Jonathan Ouisse from Hungary. Their work is highly inspired by todays media influences.
www.artmarketbudapest.com
The spectrum of works ranges from painting and drawing to photography, sculpture and installations. Besides established artists like the Swiss painter Steph Hermes this year young talents such as the Hungarian Fanni Bacskai will be shown. For those who like paradoxes and absurdities, Martin Gut is the right choice, while lovers of figurative art should take a closer look at the works of Laura Badertscher and Joey Schmidt-Muller. The works of Tyrone Richards deal with technological and scientific themes, while the Taiwanese artist Wei-Yun Chang sees herself more as a multidisciplinary visual storyteller. Fabian Bürgy and Megan Rodgers work sculpturally, while the Zurich photographer Bruno Alder captures spaces with his camera. This year the founder of the a-space Gallery, Roy Andres Hofer, is showing a part of his „too big to fail“-Art Basel objects. A special anniversary selection of a-space Gallery are this year‘s artists Michael Cheung from Hong Kong and Jonathan Ouisse from Hungary. Their work is highly inspired by todays media influences.
www.artmarketbudapest.com
Installation view a-space booth G501 ART MARKET BUDAPEST 2019
Photos by Martin Gut
Photos by Martin Gut
Opening speech at a-space booth during Art Market Budapest 2019
CAMPBASEL revisited
Temporary space for the arts, wherever we decide it will be. Depending on your social perspective, we create situations of parasitism or symbiosys. Holzpark-Klybeck is our platform, where both,chaos and order have room to encounter. Value lies in perception, we might just get souvenirs. Time limit, interest and basic infrastructure are the set of rules to allow art to happen. In the end CAMPBASEL resets the location … we’re Swiss, can’t help it.
Come keen!
Come keen!
Exhibition view CAMPBASELrevisited 2017
photos by Roy Hofer and participating artists
photos by Roy Hofer and participating artists
The Others Art Fair Torino (IT)
At The Others Art Fair a-space gallery is sharing the space under one curated theme called HOMELY ENVIRONMENT. The curators presenting the works embedded in a homely environment that invites to stay. With this approach we attempt to clarify that the exhibition space could be a cosy space like a living room at home.
Exhibition view the others art fair Torino 2017
photos by Jasmin Glaab and Kohei Kanomata
photos by Jasmin Glaab and Kohei Kanomata
Set up art fair Bologna (IT)
The Set Up art fair in Bologna is a experimental fair. The room booth is in a former bus terminal. The opening times of the fair is more in the evening. Daytime is the big ARTE FIERA art fair going on with modern and contemporary art showing. In the evening the Set Up art fairs rocks with a diverse programme.
Exhibition view Setup art fair Bologna 2017
photos by Bettina Costa
photos by Bettina Costa
Into the deep woods
In collaboration with PAPER in Manchester, a-space in Switzerland presents Into the Deep Woods. Drawing inspiration from the interpretation of the forest as the unconscious, 10 artists and a poet have responded to this notion, creating within their works a narrative construct to explore the theory of the forest as a psychological space. The forest signifies the realm of the imagination, which, according to Lacan, is the psychic place, or phase, where the child projects its ideas of self in order to develop its own identity, sexuality, and gendered self. A recurrent theme in fairytales is the protagonist entering the forest. Through the ensuing narrative and their chilling encounters, they inevitably gain a sense of the changes in their lives, particularly from child to adult, and also a sense of morality.
Exhibition view "Into the deep woods", Basel (CH) and Manchester (UK) 2017
photos by David and Roy
photos by David and Roy
campbasel the first edition
A. A LOCATION that is inusable industrial wasteland, owned by a company being inable to get sufficiant funding to proceed with their project.
Ah, yeah and they use police-force to keep people away => Why not try to use this land in the name of art? B. An IDEA copied from the occupy movement => Except for we do not let this end up in stupid infinity. All traces will be gone by JUNE 18th 2012, 8pm (except for memories and souvenirs). C. TENTS have given shelter to both spectacle and lovers => But we are neither a circus, nor w...s, we just need some space to group. D. ART because it is ON => Yippie-aye-yeah! (extract from the idea produced by STUDIO-Basel and artspaceswitzerland) |
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CROSSING BORDERS
Crossing Borders – art intervention LOOGSTRASSE+ Münchenstein (CH)
Freitag, 13. Dezember 2013 ab 17.00h
Das Architekturbüro FUERTE AG gibt Kunstschaffenden die Möglichkeit, Grenzüberschreitend ihre Werke in den 600m2 des neuen Wohn- und Geschäftshaus an der Emil Frey-Strasse 137 zu zeigen. Mit der Unterstützung von The Cube Art Trading (Galerie Daniel Tanner GmbH) & a-space werden vom 13. Dezember bis 23. Dezember aufstrebende Nationale und Internationale Künstler gezeigt. International bekannte Künstler wie Li Wei und der national bekannte Künstler Olaf Breuning sind in der Ausstellung ebenso vertreten wie aufstrebende junge KünstlerInnen (Jelena Savic, Satoru Takahashi, John Trashkowski, David Rosado und weitere...)
Freitag, 13. Dezember 2013 ab 17.00h
Das Architekturbüro FUERTE AG gibt Kunstschaffenden die Möglichkeit, Grenzüberschreitend ihre Werke in den 600m2 des neuen Wohn- und Geschäftshaus an der Emil Frey-Strasse 137 zu zeigen. Mit der Unterstützung von The Cube Art Trading (Galerie Daniel Tanner GmbH) & a-space werden vom 13. Dezember bis 23. Dezember aufstrebende Nationale und Internationale Künstler gezeigt. International bekannte Künstler wie Li Wei und der national bekannte Künstler Olaf Breuning sind in der Ausstellung ebenso vertreten wie aufstrebende junge KünstlerInnen (Jelena Savic, Satoru Takahashi, John Trashkowski, David Rosado und weitere...)
Exhibition view "Crossing Borders", Münchenstein (CH)
photos by Roy
photos by Roy