A pea-pod, a huge bag, a potted plant, advertising slogans, self-help books—in her work, Sereina Steinemann focuses on simple things, everyday life, normality. Her first comprehensive presentation is therefore simply called Works and covers the entire spectrum of her production, from paintings to flyers, and from drawings to sculptures. While the Swiss artist clearly shares her interest in the world of commodities with Pop Art, she presents these ordinary things with great affection and with a smile, instead of as cool-sleek still lives. Thanks to the simplicity of the motif and painting style, her works have a quietly touching impact—as in her painting of a colourful striped woollen sock or a blue cup on a red-and-white checked tablecloth.
Sereina Steinemann (born 1984 in Richterswil) is a Swiss artist who works in various media and paints both non-objectively and figuratively. What her works have in common is a great formal clarity and the (often humorous) play with forms between professional production and visible handwriting. With her conceptual approach—whether in painting, drawing or in booklets and books, on postcards and posters—she's always interested in the specific possibilities of the respective media. In this way, she places colors and shapes, found and her own pictures and titles, non-fiction photographs and poetry next to and in relation to each other and thus gains unusual insights into the interaction of the individual elements in a book, an acrylic painting, an encyclopedia or an installation.
