Works by Daniel Göttin
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.
Education / residencies
Initially working as a technical draftsman for an engineering company, Daniel Göttin later entered the School of Visual Art in Basel, where he graduated in 1990.
Daniel Göttin has held an artist residency at the Fremantle Art Foundation (now Artsource), Australia in 1990, Donald Judd‘s Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas in 1993, the Shed im Eisenwerk, Switzerland in 1994, the:artist:network in New York in 2005, Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, in 2007 and 2013/2014.
Technique
Göttin is working with common industrial material which can be paint, tape, wood, metal, polystyrene, plastic, carpet. The concept for an installation work depends on the site and its conditions. For his objects and paintings, he uses similar material. His interest and concept are to examine the subjective nature of perception, and playfully responds to the characteristics of an architectural site or space and activate the viewer’s relationship to it. In the series of works made of aluminum and painted MDF, due to their simplicity, the attention is directed to the space within the object, corresponding with the reflection of light and shadow. Thus creating a new quality of perception between concrete and abstract reality.
Inspiration
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, Daniel Göttin has focused on making temporary and permanent site-specific installations and interventions, Art in Public Space, objects, paintings, drawings, collages and prints.
Relevant quotes
“Daniel’s art possesses clarity and thoughtfulness. But this clarity is not the result of a fixed or repetitive position or strategy. Instead, his art is iterative, responding to changing conditions and environments. Different aspects of his work, both the works made on the wall and the objects made for the wall, are inter-related and work off of and reflect on each other. There is a wholeness to what Daniel refers to as an entity—his body of work.” (Chris Ashley, Minus Space)
Notable distinctions
Daniel Göttin has been awarded grants from the City of Basel, Switzerland.
Exhibitions
Daniel Göttin has organised 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 he started the artspace Hebel_121 in Basel in 1998, offering foreign artists a platform for installative exhibitions. Hebel_121 is showing continuously.
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Concept Space / R2, Shibukawa: Fold / Flat Fold
Stein Egerta, Schaan: Verbindung/Connection: Transition (with FauZie As'Ad)
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney: Daniel Gottin: Pool
Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz: Jahresaussenprojekt: Shift and Slope (C)
AC4CA Urban Orhard Wall Project, Perth: TILT
2016
dr. julius I ap, Berlin: The Pattern is Set (with Jose Heerkens)
Galerie Wenger, Zurich: Hier da da dort (C)
Botao Gallery, Nagoya: Double View
Gallery Gen, Tokyo: Screens and Soft Stones (with Gerda Maise)
2015
Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt: eingangs #4
PS Project Space, Amsterdam: Double View
2014
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney:On Site
Utengasse sechzig, Basel: Diorama
Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo: Balance (C)
2013
Gallery Gen, Tokyo: Correlation
Gallery Cocon, Tokyo: Constellation
2012
Galerie Wenger, Zürich: line - up
imprints - Galerie, Piégros La Clastre: Structure
Field Institute, Raketenstation Hombroich: Passage
Kunst Raum Riehen: juxtaposition (with Atelier Hauert - Reichmuth)
Kunstraum Oktogon, Bern: Objekt und Raum
2011
Anne Mosseri - Marlio Galerie, Zürich: Concrete Relations
Galerie Florian Trampler, München: Objekte und Tafeln II
2010
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney (with Lisa Jones)
Gallery Terashita, Tokyo: Diamond Shapes
Sleeper, Edinburgh : Edinburgh Tape
Minus Space Project Space, Brooklyn/NY: Network 45 with Signs
2009
PIT, De Verschijning, Tilburg: Panorama
Embassy of Switzerland, Tokyo: True Memory
Concept Space, Shibukawa: New Works
House of Art, Budweis: Daniel Göttin
2008
Peloton, Sydney: Network 40
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney: New Works (with Rosa Hessling)
Factory 49, Sydney: Sydney Tape
2007
Konsortium, Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf Tape
Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo: Transformer
Gallery Gen, Tokyo: Tokyo TapE
2006
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney: New Works
Hebel_121, Basel: Post No Bills (C)
2005
the:artist:network, New York: Minimal Improvisation
2004
Städtische Galerie im Kornhaus, Kirchheim - Teck: Multiple Display
Concept Space, Shibukawa: New Works
MOP Projects, Sydney: Cool Mode
2003
CCNOA, Brussels: Network 23 (with Jan van der Ploeg , Philippe Van Snick)
Institut für bildnerisches Denken, Grenzach - Wyhlen: Network 22 (with Gerda Maise)
PS, Amsterdam: soft shapes
2002
Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka: Links (with Takashi Suzuki) (C)
Gallery Gen, Tokyo: Correspondence (with Takashi Suzuki)
2001
Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth: lounge (with Jurek Wybraniec)
Haus für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zürich: The Go Between
1999
Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel
Raum für Gegenwartskunst/d8, Linz: Sandwich
1998
Kunsthaus Baselland , Muttenz: Ort (C)
1997
Gallery Gen, Tokyo
1995/96
Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth: WAP (with Jurek Wybraniec)
1994
Shedhalle im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld (C)
1993
Locker Plant, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa/TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Network 60, Art Paris, Paris, France
drei fünf acht, Maison 44, Basel, Switzerland
2017
Start Up ! Dr Julius, Berlin, Germany
Amstersam Concrete Assemblage, Concrete Store, Amsterdam
See what you see, Claudia Weil Galerie, Friedberg, Germany
2016
Kunstraum Alexander Burkle, Freiburg: Concept and Idea in Art
Kunst Lokal, Rheinfelden: Filter-Karo-Kiesel (with Gerda Maise)
Art Obulist 2016, Obu/Nagoya: Hurry! Slowly
Saitama Triennale, Saitama: Envisioning the Future! (C)
Haus der Kunst, Munchen (Kunstlervelbund im Haus der Kunst Muchen e.V): Essentials. (C)
Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal: Japan im Palazzo (C)
GLUE@ Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin: PS in Berlin
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney: The White Collection
Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich: Um die Ecke denken: Die Sammlung Museum Haus Konstruktiv 1986-2016 (C)
Lage Egal Raum fur aktuelle Kunst, Berlin: = NORM WIRD FORM
PS projectspace, Amsterdam: Julian Dashper and Friends
2015
Gallerie Wenger, Zurich: alle
Vila Renata, Basel: Upfall (with Stephen Bambury)
Ausstelung Munster, Basel: An(ge)sehen, Reflektor 5
Bureau 14c, Bern: Network 55
Spendhaus Museum, Reutlingen: KA! Editions
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney: Heavy Metal Poetry
2014
Kunsthalle Basel (R15): form follows form follows form
Kunsthaus Baselland (R15): Approaching Architecture
Gallery Coexist, Tokyo: Songs for a pigeon
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth: One Place After Another: AC4CA (C)
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Cologne: 25 years CDG
PS Project Space, Amsterdam: PS 1999 - 2014
Museum Meermanno, Den Haag: Van Picasso tot Sol LeWitt
2013
PIT, Eindhoven: The GREAT little Graphic Art Show
Rinkou - Kaku: Maebashi: Suki - Mono - Tachi
2012
Fabrikculture Hégenheim : AC4CA à Fabrikculture (C)
Minus Space en Oaxaca: Biblioteca Henestrosa: Oaxaca Tape (C)
dr. julius I ap, berlin: FutureShock OneTwo - The New Concrete International (C)
2011
Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel (R12): merge 3 (with Jeannette Mehr und Yvonne Mueller)
Hermannshof, Völksen: Dark Light/Reflector 4, 2011 (C )
Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth: Konkrete 2
2010
Kunst im Zeughaus Gelterkinden: mobilmachen (C)
Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf: Edition 5 Erstfeld (C)
Centre d’Art Neuchâtel: Composite Visions
2009
Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal (R10): Transformer 4
Hotel Beethoven, Bonn: fully booked (C)
2008
Kunstverein Freiburg (R9): Network 43
P.S. 1, Long Island City/NY: 5th Anniversary of Minus Space
Gallery Terashita , Tokyo: Akio Igarashi, Daniel Göttin, Natsuo Hashimoto
Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth: Daniel Göttin, John Nixon, Helen Smith, Jurek Wybraniec
2014
Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo: Balance
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth : One Place After Another : AC4CA
2013
Edition Hebel_121, Basel: Digitale Noten1982 - 2012, concrete poems
2012
FABRIKculture Hégenheim, France: Australian Centre for Concrete Art (AC4CA), FABRIKculture & Hebel_121 Project 2012
Instituto de Artes Gràficas de Oaxaca: Minus Space en Oaxaca • Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal: minimallinie bern – basel
dr. julius I ap, berlin: FutureShock OneTwo - The New Concrete International, Text S.36/37, Abb. S.38/39
2011
Hermannshof, Völksen: Dark Light
Australian Centre for Concrete Art (AC4CA): Public Projects 2006 - 2011
2010
Kunst im Zeughaus Gelterkinden: mobilmachen
2009
Edition Hebel_121, Basel: Tokyo Skylines , 54 photographs
Hotel Beethoven, Bonn: fully booked
Expo Turbine/Transit 09, Giswil: Der letzte Koffer
Edition Hebel_121, Basel: 10 Jahre Hebel_121, Basel
2008
Visarte Region Basel 08: Was tun?
Arte Libro, Schellebelle 2008: Tape This
2006
Edition Hebel_121, Basel: Post No Bills , New York City 2005, 155 photographs
2005
Galerie Les filles du calvaire: Peinture: cinq regards, Abb . S.48, Text: Friederike Nymphius
2004
Australian Centre for Concrete Art (AC4CA): Public Projects 2002 - 2004, div. Abb,Text: Julian Goddard
2002
Musée d'art et d'histoire Neuchâtel: Big is beautiful , Abb. S.53, Text: Walter Tschopp Museum Haus Kasuya/ADSP Shiseido: Links (with Takashi Suzuki), div. Abb., Text: Andreas Baur
2001
Musée d'art et d'histoire Neuchâtel: La grande illusion, Abb. S.10
2000
Verein Kunst Treff 13: Kunstraum Obwalden 97/98/99 , Abb. S.75 - 82, Text: Andreas Baur
1998
Kunsthaus Kunstverein Baselland: Nummer 1, System und Raum, div. Abb, Text: Andreas Baur
1997
Haus für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst Zürich: Regel und Abweichung, Schweiz konstruktiv 1960 - 1997 , Abb. S.202, Text: Elisabeth Grossmann, S.102 - 103
1994
Shed im Eisenwerk: Sommeratelier 94 , div. Abb, Text: Beatrix Ruf
1993
Donald Judd: Spaces , Abb. S.89