Trix & Robert Haussmann

The Kunsthalle Fri Art hosts the largest exhibition dedicated to designers and architects Trix and Robert Haussmann for over a decade, that examines every aspect of their research.

Since 1967, the couple has built an idiosyncratic oeuvre that has continuously challenged architectural, design and aesthetic conventions.

In the 1960’s they began to elaborate a complex language that can be viewed as an early post-modern or Radical Design position. Throughout their fifty year long career they have explored many creative perspectives, such as poetry composed by chance, drawings, collages and texts.

The exhibition, entirely conceived in close collaboration with the architects over a long period of time, examines every aspect of their research. Nevertheless, far from being a classical retrospective, it will weave together different bodies of works. Trix and Robert Haussmann have chosen 8 furniture objects belonging to the Röthlisberger Collection (Bern, Switzerland) that will give an overview of their challenging design experiments from 1967 to 1988, as well as a series of unique mirrors made in the 1980’s.

In addition, they have conceptualized, designed and produced about 10 new mirror works (all produced in 2014) that will be installed in the space of the Kunsthalle to create different optical illusions. These mirrors will produce slight or strong disruptions of both themselves and the space in which they will be installed.