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sigma_space
sigma_space presents druckwerk
Edition Variable; druckwerk across dimensions and disciplines
A suite of videos promoting expanded thinking and collaborative processes in printmaking featuring Soft Mechanics and Edition POW!, both part of druckwerk's Alive! Contemporary Printmaking series, June 2026.
Soft Mechanics A site-specific installation by Altherr/Weiss, turning industrial heritage into an immersive encounter. Presented by The Racket Club.
Altherr/Weiss visualisieren den Kreislauf des Papiers durch die Druckmaschinen und setzen Bewegung in dreidimensionale Form um. Papier wird zur Skulptur: voluminös, wolkenartig, in der Zeit schwebend. Während die Maschinen schwer und unbeweglich sind, wird das Papier zu etwas Luftigem, Zerbrechlichem und sich ansammelndem gesteigert. Es ist eine Meditation über die Schönheit industrieller Prozesse und die Bedeutung des kreativen Schaffens für die Vermittlung von Ideen und den Austausch von Wissen.
Die Maschinen im druckwerk stehen für eine jahrzehntelange Tradition, die in einer zunehmend digitalisierten Welt vom Aussterben bedroht ist. Die wogenden Papierformen der Installation verweisen zudem auf ein umfassenderes Paradoxon: Die Formen, die wir mit digitaler Immaterialität, Clouds, Daten und dem schwerelosen Versprechen des Internets verbinden, werden in Wirklichkeit durch eine physische Infrastruktur getragen, die enorme ökologische Kosten verursacht. Papier, Gusseisen und menschliche Hände verleihen der Welt eine andere Art von Gewicht. (The Racket Club, 2026)
Edition 'POW!' Live artist / printmaker collaborations featuring Kerem Ozan Bayraktar, Zeynep Deniz Çalışkan, Adrian Künzi and Lucinda Tanner. Focused one-day, two-way exchanges – responsive, playful, experimental, high energy.
'artists working with professional printers...have played a crucial role in printmaking for centuries. Nevertheless, the recent past has been marked by an enormous growth in collaborative printmaking, transforming the art of the print ... to one that rivals painting and sculpture in scale, technical complexity, and place of importance in many artists' oeuvres.
(Graphicstudio: contemporary art from the collaborative workshop at the University of South Florida / Ruth E. Fine and Mary Lee Corlett, 1991)
druckwerk's Alive! Contemporary Printmaking series is housed in the iconic Warteck Brewery building, thereby returning Warteck to the satellite exhibition circuite of Art Basel Week. It's program approaches contemporary printmaking from a multitude of angles, delighting in its reach across disciplines and declaring its expressive potency beyond the multiple.
‘the unique ways that printmaking generates meaning at the level of fundamental physical operations…’ have the potential to ‘… create paths of thinking across different spheres of making…’. Jennifer L. Roberts, Contact; Art and the Pull of Print, 2024
Founded in 1995, druckwerk is a collective studio dedicated simultaneously to nurturing traditional printmaking knowledge and securing its ongoing role as a contemporary art medium.
druckwerk
Werkraum Warteck pp
2nd floor, Burgweg 7, 4058 Basel
www.druckwerk.ch
Video footage Soft Mechanics: Sarah Keenlyside
Video footage Edition POW!: Sophie Musoyan
Editing and curation: Lucinda Tanner
2026