köfer | hess

The Luetzelow Project

February 24 – April 14 2013

Andri Köfer was trained as a stone sculptor, Robert Hess graduated as a graphic designer. They met each other in 1992, when together with others they founded a studio community called Kunstnovember in Wetzikon. They became friends and since 2000 they have worked collaboratively as köfer | hess. Right from the beginning, their artistic production has been focused on the interface of art, space and image; at the same time, their performative and sculptural interventions have always been strongly influenced by given or found contexts and situations.
The huge installation in the premises of Kunsthalle Winterthur is also embedded into a wider context: the large-scale residential landscape they have been working on for four weeks will be shipped to a small island in the Lake of Zurich called Lützelau after the show, where it will be inhabited by Andri Köfer and his partner Daniela Villiger during the summer months. Besides some basic infrastructure such as a kitchen and bedroom, the building will also house the collection of the Minimuseum Viganò. Inside, art collector Peter Bosshard will install a small but ever so delicate show with exhibits from his vast collection based at the Kunst(Zeug)Haus in Rapperswil.

Oliver Kielmayer