Marcellus Steiner

The spectrum of his work ranges from quick, intuitive sketches to elaborated landscape compositions and surreal pictorial worlds. This stylistic diversity does not stem from a programmatic approach but follows different states of perception and the demands of each particular motif.

His working process is characterized by an openness toward the material and the creative process itself. The years as a boat builder taught him to understand materials and work with precision; the years in India taught him to let go and trust the process. These two poles – control and surrender – continue to define his artistic practice today.

Shaped by craft precision from his boat-building training and meditative depth from his years in India, Marcellus Steiner has found an independent artistic path. His works are testimonies to a lifelong engagement with existential questions: the relationship between transience and presence, between solitude and connection, between outer landscape and inner space.

Since 2025, Marcellus has devoted himself intensively to painting and photographic study work. His current works display a mature, meditative quality. The themes that have occupied him throughout his life – human and nature, presence and transience, body...

upcoming exhibitions near Basel
32. Internationale Kunstausstellung - arte binningen vom 06.-15. November 2026

2017
Solo Exhibition As Time Goes By, Rosengarten Senior Center, Laufental, Switzerland
2014
Solo Exhibition KIGA 3-Klang Exhibition, Röschenz, Switzerland
2013
Group Exhibition Exhibition Drawings, Arambol, India
2012
Solo Exhibition KIGA 3-Klang Exhibition, Röschenz, Switzerland
2011
Solo Exhibition Jari Art Gallery, Gwangju, South Korea
BPS Banca Popolare di Sondrio, Italy
2010
Solo Exhibition Scala, Basel, Switzerland
ArtQuerfeld 10, Basel, Switzerland (Group Exhibition)
2009
Solo Exhibition Art Praxis Atelier, Switzerland
Swiss Ayurveda Center, Basel, Switzerland
Art Praxis Atelier, India
2008
Solo Exhibition Galerie Bürgerschüre, Aesch BL, Switzerland
India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India
2008
Group Exhibition Kulturbar Bären, Laufen, Switzerland
60 Years Swiss-Indian Friendship, Switzerland
Das Schiff, Basel, Switzerland
A.I.F.A.C.S., All India Art and Craft Society, New Delhi, India
2007
Group Exhibition Gallery Art Farrago, Harianna, India
Swiss Embassy, New Delhi, India
2006
Solo Exhibition Galerie Milchhüsli, Grindel, Switzerland
1991
Group Exhibition Gewerbeschule, Lucerne, Switzerland