Monika RECHSTEINER

Profile

Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Lives and works as artist, filmmaker, photographer in Basel, Switzerland and in Berlin and Potsdam, Germany.
Studies: 1995-1999 Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Lucerne | 2004-07 Master of Arts „art in context" University of Art Berlin, Germany | 2004-07 Guest student at Media Arts (Experimentelle Mediengestaltung) University of Art Berlin. Grants: 2000 studio residency, Kulturzentrum Nairs, Scuol, Binz 39 | 2002 artist exchange programm, residency in Helsinki, iaab, Christoph Merian Stiftung | 2007 grant (Werkbeitrag) Ausserrhodische Kulturstiftung | 2008/09 Audiovisueller Wettbewerb Aargauer Kuratorium. Selected recent works: 2010 Trugschluss, video and sound Installation 2009 WIE VON SELBST (As If by Itself), 33 min., HD-Video, Film essay | 2009 61 MINUTEN 27 STATIONEN, 61 [+] min., Video for a circular rotating screen, co-production | 2007 TAWISUPLEBA documentary photo-essay, 38 min., Video.

About works / performance

"With photographs, films and installations I want to create awareness for the perception and foster sensitivity to issues such as the opposition between movement and stasis. It is often a kind of advanced photography, on the border of still image and moving image. It is a web of different things that inspires my work. Through various experiments and assembly technology spaces of experience are created."