Rebekka Steiger
"wild is the wind"

February 14 – March 30, 2019
Galerie Urs Meile Lucerne

Press Release – English

Galerie Urs Meile is pleased to announce wild is the wind, the second solo exhibition of Swiss emerging artist Rebekka Steiger (b. 1993, Zurich, Switzerland) with the gallery. The Lucerne exhibition follows 猫头鹰–virages nocturnes, which was shown in Beijing and focused on Steiger’s residency in Beijing, where Galerie Urs Meile runs its artist residency program. From March to November 2018, Rebekka Steiger painted extensively as a means to cope with the unknown environment she was plunged into, while new motifs as well as a more spontaneous approach to painting found their way into her practice. The artist also started entitling her work as well as mixing languages as a way to create a kind of “poetic chemical reaction” and unexpected associations between words.