Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger - COPAIN - Anna Bürkli Stephan Kunz Juri Steiner Reto Bühler Pius Tschumi Kartoniert (TB)

With their installations Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger develop extensive complex world-analyses. Their creative output is marked by vivid fantasy political orientation abundant inventiveness and nimble humor. Now they have turned their attention to a basic foodstuff-namely bread. It is not political activists who are at work here but two politically thinking poets. What they spread out over four floors is above all a celebration of bread an exuberant tribute to the abundance of its types traditions and baking procedures. In the exhibition space Friedhof Forum the artists bring th e theme of bread into connection with death and dying. They do so in a surprisingly playful manner. Ships of the dead made of bread a flour clock whose time does not trickle away miniature coffins for pesticide victims a mobile made out of pieces of bread crust cardiac pacemakers and cigarette filters-all this is gathered into a cabinet of curiosities in which death is transformed. Matthias Balzer Frida Magazin The exhibition COPAIN of the artists Gerda Steiner and Jürg Lenzlinger is a hymn to bread and to the people who produce and enjoy it-bakers both male and female but also bread enthusiasts from all cultures-and offers a new perspective onto this foodstuff whose history begins with the birth of agriculture and which since then has continued to develop.