Claudio Köppel

With my artworks I try to make the invisible visible. Depict things alternatively than experienced obviously in everyday life. Aspects like history, physics, biology and psychology extend my endless research for unique creations and its meanings. Over all, I understand this as a visual poetry.

Formaly seen, it is about the tension between abstraction and figuration; a miraculous field in which I move.

2019
International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg
«Pendant»
19 to 31 August, studied with Svenja Deininger and Manuel Gorkiewicz



2017
International Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg
«The Future is Painting»
14 to 26 August, studied with Paulina Olowska and Martina Borowiecka


Why is painting the future? My answer: because it is an amusing, very clever, ancient, outgoing, silly, smart, stupid, groundbreaking, world-changing method of social confrontation and a tool for the future. Painting is a very hard, intensive, do-it-yourself experiment, time consuming, life consuming, it sucks you in, but also tears you apart. So why do we do it? Is it for the luxury? Or is it for the belief that it can really change something? Or maybe it will make us old quickly? Don’t tell me you just like mixing colours… After famous Texte zur Kunst applause that “painting is a commodity”, and now just live with that, I think it is time to change and investigate painting again.

Having realised that painting is a “thing” I would like to investigate how we can challenge and denude it. So let us leave painting as a method of control, and embrace it as a method of freedom. In the class, I will share my methods, work in a group, undress the usual ...

ARTBOX PROJECT Zurich 4.0
SWISSARTEXPO 2022
(SBB) Swiss Railway Event Hall Zurich
December 24 – 28, 2022
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SPECTRUM MIAMI 2016
November 30 – December 4, 2016
Represented by
THE ARTBOX.GALLERY
Zug, Switzerland
Booth 211
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GALERIE ROSSI GENÈVE
SWISS CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT
August 8 – October 15, 2015

2 Rue du Puits-Saint-Pierre
angle Rue Calvin
1204 Genève
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SALON D'HIVER 2013
Swiss Art Space, Lausanne
Exposition nationale suisse d’art contemporain
January 17 – February 28, 2013
Rue du Valentin 32, 1004 Lausanne