* 1992 Bern (BE/CH)
Sebastian Haas uses oil and spray paint to produce reverse glass paintings of reduced color and emphasizes that he deliberately uses the chosen materials .
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The glass surface levels the different paint applications and the paintings attract you with their reflective surface. The image compositions are courageous. At first glance it appears abstract, but if you take a longer look you recognize in the black, gray and white surfaces, architectural elements, to recognize figure-like forms or seemingly organic structures.
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Sebastian Haas is interested in this ambivalence between Abstraction and Figuration. He wants to explore the reduced representation and force those tipping moments in which the viewer suddenly begins to see concrete things. He's interested
Artist especially for stage-like spaces, which he participates in
created a horizon line visible in all paintings.
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Its gleaming appearance is reminiscent of the reflective screen
of the smartphone - note the technical device that is in the present more and more between us and the world pushes and the appropriation of Landscapes and spaces determined.
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Sebastian Haas lives and works in Bern (CH).
Awards
2023 C. & A. Kupper Foundation, Zurich 2023 Bürgergemeinde Bern, CH
2023 Canton of Bern, CH
2021 Max von Moos Foundation, Lucerne
Continuer, Canton of Bern, CH
Chapeau, HSLU D&K Luzern, CH 2019
Lions Club Zentralschweiz, Zug, CH
2018 BEWE Foundation, Basel, CH​
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Exhibitions (Selection)
2024 (Im)permanence, Vitromusée, Romont, CH (Solo)
Braids: Time and Traces, Gepäckausgabe, Glarus, CH (Solo)
Preview, La Chambre Bleue, Grenoble, CH
Fondation Jetzt Kunst, Freibad Marzili, Bern, CH
AC-Stipendium, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH
Werte im Wandel II, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Interlaken, CH
2023 Cantonale Berne Jura, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH
The Incident Ray, with Sebastian Burger, Kali Gallery, Lucerne, CH (Duo)
AC-Stipendium, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, CH
Text-ure, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo-si, KR
2022 Blocks, Galerie Tracanelli, Grenoble, CH (Solo)
Un disegno sul vetro appannato, Galleria Daniele Agostini, Lugano, CH
Dessin, Kunsthalle Luzern, Lucerne, CH
Beyond the Anthropocene, CLP, Montreux/Madrid, CH, ES
OneHundred, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, CH
2021 Zentral!, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, CH
Dreimaldreimaldrei, Kunsthalle Luzern, Lucerne, CH
Positions Berlin Art Fair, with Kali Gallery, Berlin, DE
Nothing’s gonna change my world?, Gr_und, Berlin, DE
Liminoid, Netzwerk Neubad, Lucerne, CH (MA Show)
2020 Plangent, Kali Gallery, Lucerne, CH (Solo)
Sentimental, Chez les Artistes, Basel, CH
Cantonale Berne Jura, EAC les halles, Porrentruy, CH
Rea Fair, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
2019 Raumung, Sattelkammer, Bern, CH (Solo)
OneHundred, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, CH
Biennale Mulhouse 019, Parc des expositions, Mulhouse, FR
Hohoho, Kali Gallery, Lucerne, CH
2018 OneHundred, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, CH Kunst18, Förderkoje BEWE Foundation Art Fair Zurich, CH Jungkunst, Halle 53, Winterthur, CH
Werkschau HSLU D&K, Messe, Lucerne, CH (BA Show)