What happens when thirty artists with completely different hands are given the same boundary? That is the question behind the group exhibition «Kunst im Quadrat» (Art in a Square) at Galerie Immaginazione in Brugg, Switzerland. Each artist shows two works, every work measures exactly 30 × 30 cm and sits in an identical steel frame.

One format, sixty answers

My paintings usually come out of a single body movement, often on large canvases laid on the studio floor. A 30 cm square asks for the opposite: compression. For this exhibition I am painting two new works that hold the vocabulary of Cosmic Syntax in the smallest possible space. Signs, gold and gesture, concentrated on a surface you can hold in two hands.

That is what makes the show compelling: once size is no longer an argument, only conviction remains. Sixty works side by side, the same size, the same frame, and each one still speaks its own language.

Opening

  • Thursday, 10 December 2026, from 6.30 pm, opening and apéro
  • Bar with small bites from 4.45 pm
  • Welcome at 7.30 pm by Claudio Cassano
  • Live: «STONEE» Martin Wettstein, piano and vocals

Venue: Galerie Immaginazione, Aarauerstrasse 96a, 5200 Brugg, Switzerland
Runs: until approx. March 2027
Opening hours: every Thursday 4.45 to approx. 9.45 pm, or by appointment

I will be at the opening in person and look forward to meeting you there. If you would like to see or reserve the new works in advance, simply write to os@oliverschibli.com.