Fredi Gertsch

Like the primordial mother of all living beings, the cow appears in every painting. In doing so, I bring colours that do not seem to fit together at first glance, into harmony and combine different techniques to create a vibrant production. 

I draw from legends, myths and fairy tales, the current history and everyday life and spontaneously use figures, objects and pictograms - so that an expressive, wild picture can be created from the moment that surprises me, which I have never painted before. 
Once I am closer to drawing, then again I fall in love with the surface. I am constantly repeating myself by combining both and observing the landscape growing in all directions.

Humour and positive feelings are important to me, the smile of the understanding viewer is reward for the eternal struggle for the perfect work. 
I am pleased when my art touches me, be it through the composition of colours, the symbolic content, the profound, the wit. Or if my painting simply fits over the sofa and the current mood.
It's nice that my pictures found their lovers right from the beginning and that almost all of them sold. Many traveled halfway around the world, decorating cool apartments and holiday homes, medical practices, companies and h...

2019 Galerie Lindenhof, Zürich
2019 Salon d'art contemporain, Montreux
2019 4. Basler Kunstmarkt, Basel
2019 Kulturmühle Lützelflüh
2019 Kunstsupermarkt Solothurn
2019 Front of bicycle gallery, Basel Art Center
2019 Kulturraum Kägiswil
2018 Kunstsupermarkt Solothurn
2018 galerie m beck, Homburg/Saarbrücken
2018 ART3F, Salon international d'art contemporain, Cannes
2017 Basel Art Center, Basel
2017 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles
2017 Kunstwarenhaus, Zürich
2017 Simple Gallery, Gstaad
2017 Galerie Hotel Spescha, Lenzerheide
2017 Galerie am Lindenhof, Zürich
2017 Galerie SABA, Lenzerheide
2016 Galerie Hess, Bern
2016 TheArtBoxProject, Miami
2016 Kunstsupermarkt Solothurn
2016 18. Art International, Zürich
2016 Milano Nord, Burgdorf
2016 Art-Thur, Frauenfeld
2016 Galerie Hadorn, Lichtensteig
2016 Galerie SABE, Lenzerheide
2016 Bremer Kunst, Roggwil
2015 17. Art International, Zürich
2015 Affordable Art Fair New York
2014 Rüttihubelbad
2014 Galerie Hadorn, Lichtensteig
2014 Künstlermärit Langenthal
2014 Galerie am Lindenhof, Zürich
2014 Kunstmarkt Zofingen
2014 Kunstsupermarkt Solothurn
2013 Künstlermärit Langenthal
2013 Milano-Nord in Burgdorf
2013 Kunstsupermarkt in Solothurn
2013 Halde Galerie, W...