Robert Wettstein

I live and work in Zurich, Switzerland. My studio is centrally located in the city and close to a green park. I work in product design, lighting design and furniture. My work is therefore related to space and involves many artistic techniques, such as photography and painting.
I work as a lecturer and mentor at the Zurich University of the Arts. My mother tongue is Swiss German.

I have completed a medical vocational training in orthopaedic technology. This is a craft which has enabled me to work with many different materials. Plaster, metal and fibre composite plastics I soon understood as creative material and made free sculptures and furniture. Afterwards I have studied :
Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) Design,Art & Inovation, 2009, Basel FHNW.
Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS), “Material and art techniques” 2018, Zürich ZHdK / SIK (Schweizerische Institut für Kunstwissenschaft)

2023 Participants of the curated group exhibition "Perfectly Imperfect” Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland; curated group exhibition "The office", Zürich;
Studio exhibition, Zurich;

2022 “Design without borders” group show at Kiscell Museum Budapest, curated by Szilvia Szigeti; Part of the group show “RAW SENSES” at Zürich Design Weeks; “Design Galerie im Museum” group show at Gewerbe Museum Winterthur; Second Nature Galery, COUNTER VIEWS group show, St. Moritz.;Finalist and participant in the exhibition and Video “Paper on Skin” Tasmania, Australia.

2021 „Inspired by Switzerland“ Participation with a wooden cutlery at Decorative Art Museum Moscow, curated by Gabriela Chicherio.
May 2021, Robert Wettstein's pilot chair is one of the first vintage chairs minted as NFT.

2020 Vienna Design Week in cooperation with OKRO & Pro Helvetia ; DESIGN DAYS LAUSANNE, „Inspired by Switzerland“ at Viceversa Galerie curated by Gabriela Chicherio.

2019 „Rebellische Pracht – Design-Punk statt Bauhaus“ Museum Marta Herford.

OKRO Gallery Chur “Lieblinge”

2018 “Kunst: Szene Zürich 2018” Artspace Shedhalle, Rote Fabrik.

2018 Armory Artweek, New York at Artbox Project.
2017 „20 YEARS SALONESATELLITE. Planets and Stars of new creativity“ at ...