Daniel Göttin

A15 - I am working so hard

2005

Daniel Göttin is a Swiss artist, whose work is divided between site-specific work and coloured or painted objects for walls. He lives and works in Basel. Göttin is working with common industrial material, which can be paint, tape, wood, metal, polystyrene, plastic and carpet. The concept for an installation work depends on the site and its conditions. For his objects and paintings, he uses similar material. Göttin's interest and concept are to examine the subjective nature of perception and playfully respond to the characteristics of an architectural site or space and activate the viewer’s relationship to it. His artistic background relates mainly to Minimal Art, Concrete Art and Conceptual Art. Besides these art tendencies, he works also with aspects of Dada/Merz, Constructivism and Arte Povera. For more than 25 years, he has focused on making temporary and permanent site-specific installations and interventions, Art in Public Space, objects, paintings, drawings, collages and prints. Göttin has organized more than 60 solo exhibitions and projects since 1990 at museums, institutions, galleries, public and private collections as well as non-profits, throughout Europe, Japan, Australia, Mexico and the United States. Together with his partner Gerda Maise, Göttin started the philanthropic artspace Hebel_121 in Basel in 1998, offering foreign artists a platform for installative exhibitions.