While in his early career he painted standard-sized panels by hand with a paintbrush, Schiess increasingly wiped out all traces of painterly craftsmanship and had his large-scale panels sprayed in refined colors and layers by the specialized car painter Pfenninger. Then subjects taken from photography appeared in screen printing on the painted panels, which vary greatly in materials and thickness. Densely covering the floor, painting will flood the museum’s unique exhibition halls and shine in the building’s natural light.

For the exhibition, Edition Cantz will publish a comprehensive anthology of the paintings created in connection with architectural projects. This central part of his oeuvre will thus be made visible in its entirely for the first time. The volume was created in close collaboration with Ulrich Loock and will also include a wide-ranging interview with Adrian Schiess.

Curator: Roland Wäspe