Editions and Media

The new edition We Live from Darks Miranda combines animal and human elements. Nets and scales and a play of colors make the ceramic objects appear almost alive. The design obviously stems from the artist's earlier works, but her experimental use of materials and the aesthetics of the edition also show the influence of her experience in the guest studio.

From July to September 2025, the artist lived and worked at the Sitterwerk as part of a residency in cooperation with Pro Helvetia. For the edition produced during her stay, Darks Miranda used a technique of ceramics, glaze, oil paint and nail polish to create differently shaped, organic and surreal volcanic craters – small objects that seem to have a story and mythology of their own.

The edition We Live consists of seven unique pieces in a small version and three unique pieces in a large version.

Sara Masüger was a guest at the Sitterwerk Foundation's Atelierhaus for four weeks in summer 2022. During this time, she produced the edition «To Us and All the Others» for the Sitterwerk Foundation in close collaboration with the Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen, in addition to further developing several works by invitation.

The bronze cast is based on the hand of the artist Michel Auder, who was a guest at the Atelierhaus at the same time as Sara Masüger: «On the first evening of my stay, I met Michel Auder (...) and we had dinner together. I noticed his hand with all the finger rings and bracelets. We had wonderful conversations. Michel gesticulated a lot, and there were always these rings on his hand. This image made such a strong impression on me that I wanted to make a work with his hand. I asked him if I could remove his hand with alginate and he agreed immediately.» The edition has been given a raw cast patina, which captures the iridescent character of the raw, untreated cast skin.

You can find the full interview with Sara Masüger and a video of the production process in our «Journal».

Sabrina was a guest at the Sitterwerk Atelierhaus from July to October 2022. In this time working in St. Gallen, alongside new works, she produced the edition Alibi Alibi in collaboration with Sitterwerk Foundation. It is an edition that consists of two elements: a carved wooden salami cast in bronze and a St. Galler-Bratwurst, a typical local sausage, directly cast in bronze.

In our journal, you find an interview with Sabrina Chou and a video about the production.

Stefan Burger arrived at the Sitterwerk studio, where he has been working on photographic and sculptural works, at the end of July. For the Open Studio, he is presenting the new Sitterwerk edition ‹Sankt Galler Schwund›.

Starting from the process of shrinkage in the process of casting metal, with ‹Sankt Galler Schwund› Stefan Burger uses loss as a sculptural strategy. The sculpture consists of a laundry drying stand reduced in size by 5 percent, along with a single sock. In contrast to the sculptural process of enlarging to scale, which often requires space, the sculpture ‹Sankt Galler Schwund› cannot only be folded up practically and stowed away behind furniture, but already also comes with the offer of its own dissolution from the very beginning already.

Stefan Burger arrived at the Sitterwerk studio, where he has been working on photographic and sculptural works, at the end of July. For the Open Studio, he is presenting the new Sitterwerk edition ‹Sankt Galler Schwund›.

Starting from the process of shrinkage in the process of casting metal, with ‹Sankt Galler Schwund› Stefan Burger uses loss as a sculptural strategy. The sculpture consists of a laundry drying stand reduced in size by 5 percent, along with a single sock. In contrast to the sculptural process of enlarging to scale, which often requires space, the sculpture ‹Sankt Galler Schwund› cannot only be folded up practically and stowed away behind furniture, but already also comes with the offer of its own dissolution from the very beginning already.

Alex Hanimann is a Swiss artist who lives in St. Gallen and teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts. Through earlier work, he was already familiar with the Kunstgiesserei and thus also got to know the Sitterwerk Foundation. He had young people stand as models for his sculptures and reproduced them in various sizes and materials. Among other things, he produced Shirin, Ana, Christoph, Reinhard and Romy in almost lifelike appearance for an exhibition in the St. Gallen Art Museum. The same models are available at the Sitterwerk as editions much smaller and in glass.

Anton Bruhin (*1949, lives and works in Zurich) draws on a broad palette of topics and media in his artistic work. His oeuvre consists of portrait and landscape paintings, collections of palimpsests that he has realized as books, reliefs created from Lego building blocks, and many other things. Although he remains offline until today, he already engaged with the possibilities of artistic work with the help of computer programs at a quite early point in time.

Anton Bruhin has been exploring realistic and archetypal forms of presenting heads and faces in various series and techniques for decades. In 2019, an extensive, still open series of «heads consisting of formwork panels» has been created within this context. He has commercially available concrete formwork panels with their characteristic materiality and color cut to size based on lists of parts available at the hardware store, and assembles them precisely in his studio to create diverse representations of heads. He thus sounds out the boundaries between figuration and abstraction when portraying human beings in a stringently limited vocabulary of forms.

For the St.Gallen Museum Night in 2019, the Sitterwerk Foundation produced individual objects from this series in bronze in the open casting method at the Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen AG.

The two works “Bronze Head” can be seen in the exhibition “Anton Bruhin – Hauptsache” in the Haus für Kunst Uri from 7 March–17 May 2020.

Lena Henke is a sculptor and lives in New York. She moved into her temporary studio in the Sitterwerk’s large project studio at the end of August 2017 and meticulously and with ever greater concentration worked on developing her solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Zürich (An Idea of Late German Sculpture; To the People of New York, March 3 – May 13, 2018).

Born in Warburg in 1982, Lena Henke studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main from 2004 to 2010. Her sculptural works are made from a wide range of materials and preferably conceived as large-scale installations. Urban and spatial planning theories, relationship systems as well as recurring form elements such as horse and female bodies often play a decisive role in them.

Jali is a work of Turkish artist Nevin Aladağ, produced 2017 in the Sitterwerk’s guest studio for the Documenta 14. As support of the project and the Sitterwerk an edition of single bricks was made which is on sale at the Sitterwerk.

Keeping out and letting in, showing and concealing, intimacy and display are important themes in Nevin Aladağ's work. In cooperation with the Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen Aladağ developed her contribution for the Documenta with light and sight-permeable ceramic bricks, glazed in subtle pastel shades and stacked in a screen-like manner, drawing a filigree, yet firm and insurmountable barrier through the Landesmuseum in Kassel. The different clay elements are inspired by Moroccan, Japanese, and European lattice and window ornaments.

The Edition Being Safe is Scary by Banu Cennetoğlu was conceived in connection to her contribution for Documenta 14. Banu Cennetoğlu discovered the text for the new inscription on the Fridericianum in Kassel during Dokumenta 14 on a graffiti in Athens.

In August 2016, on the occasion of its ten-year anniversary the Sitterwerk published an edition. For it, ten artists with close ties to the Sitterwerk each contributed one work.

One hundred copies of the edition were produced, with each work numbered and signed. The edition can be purchased for the price of 1,800 francs and proceeds go to support the Sitterwerk Foundation.

For their works we express our heartfelt gratitude to the artists.

Edition: 100 Edition folders with each ten works, each work is signed and numbered.
CHF 1’800.00

The guest artist Ueli Torgler has been working on an experimental garden since September 2014. He is modeling a sculptural landscape from a large amount of clay. His work also incorporates external influences and the circumstances given by the material. Weathering and the changeability of the material therefore affect the temporally extensive process of building. The edition Wurmgold (Worm Gold) was created from this work; cast golden worm balls in the original size, available in gold bullion or in brass fire-plated with gold.

The cast apple still lifes by Yves Netzhammer are offshoots of the outdoor installation Die Sprache spielt Zeit oder Fabelhaft war der Apfelsaft (The Language Plays Time or Scrumptious Was the Apple Juice). Yves Netzhammer traced the position of the former fruit pressing facility in Affoltern am Albis in a larger work with cast piles of apples. The apple still lifes, which are available as single apples or in groups of up to four apples, were created from the production using the direct burn out technique.

The artist Mariana Castillo Deball was a guest in the Sitterwerk in 2012, where she produced a larger work in stucco marble for the documenta 13. A series of smaller, unique stucco marble works were created within this context and are available for purchase as a patron edition. The objects with the title Uncomfortable Objects go back to a formula of the mathematician Felix Klein (1849–1925). The last unique works from this edition are still available in the Sitterwerk.

Poster, single, 2024
“Sitter-Ciné 2024”

Fotos: Katalin Deér
Design: Rosario Florio, Larissa Kasper
Year: 2024
Size: 89.5 × 128 cm
colored, inkjet

CHF/Euro 25.00, plus shipping cost

Poster, single, 2024

Fotos: Katalin Deér
Design: Rosario Florio, Larissa Kasper
Year: 2024
Size: 89.5 × 128 cm
colored, inkjet

CHF/Euro 25.00, plus shipping cost

Poster, single, 2023
“Mein ABC ist elementary”

Fotos: Katalin Deér
Design: Rosario Florio, Larissa Kasper
Year: 2023
Size: 89.5 × 128 cm
colored, inkjet

CHF/Euro 25.00, plus shipping cost

Poster, single, 2023
«Sitter-Ciné 2023»

Fotos: Katalin Deér
Design: Rosario Florio, Larissa Kasper
Year: 2023
Size: 89.5 × 128 cm
colored, inkjet

CHF/Euro 25.00, plus shipping cost

Publisher: Lena Henke
Editor: Pia-Marie Remmers
Photography: Katalin Deér
Illustrations and graphic design: Rahel Süsskind, Lena Henke
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln / Cologne

ISBN: 978-3-7533-0352-9

CHF/Euro 14.–, plus shipping costs

Published by: Kunsthalle St.Gallen and Katalin Deér
Photography: Katalin Deér
Graphic design: Samuel Bänziger, Rosario Florio, Larissa Kasper
Colour pictures

CHF/Euro 10.–, plus shipping costs

Katalin Deér
Photography: Katalin Deér
Graphic design: Samuel Bänziger, Rosario Florio, Larissa Kasper
Published by: Katalin Deér and Jungle Books, St.Gallen
70 colour pictures
ISBN: 978-3-9525726-0-3

CHF/Euro 18.–, plus shipping costs

Publications about Hans Josephsohn can be found in the Kesselhaus Josephsohn Shop.

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A Movie from Margit Bauer
Location: St. Gallen, 2006
Idea, Camera, Montage: Margit Bauer
Music: Tango 2, Hannes Enzelberger
Production: Timecode Düsseldorf
Duration: 34 minutes

CHF/Euro 35.–, plus shipping