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Markus Goessi was born in Eastern Switzerland, the son of a paralyzed, feminist mother and a social democratic factory worker. First Goessi did an apprenticeship as an optometrist and lived for a long time as a middle-class optician in Central Switzerland. He loved to travel, to dance, photograph and paint.
It was not until he was over 30 years old and attended a independant school of art and design in Lucerne that the final decision came about to make art. Before and during his art studies at the FHBB HGK in Basel, he attended various performance workshops.
Monika Günther's teachings were particularly rich. His lecturer Muda Mathis had a great influence on his work as well. Thanks to the well established networks of the Swiss art academies, he was able to learn and profit from different artists around the country. Hence, the workshops of Stelarc, Monica Klingler, Esther Ferrer, Yan Duyvendak were very formative.
Today Markus Goessi lives and works in Basel.
The presence of the body together with the simplest materials from everyday life fascinated him from the very beginning. For a long time, food and wrapping material were his favourite working tools, which were used both in performance and installation. In 2005 he won the Swiss Performance Art Award. Further invitations followed in Switzerland, Europe, Chile, China, India and Mexico. Some years, he co-curated the performance art series in Kaskadenkondendensator Basel and, among other things, focused on dance from the perspective of a performer.
The most important festivals on his journey were: International Performance Art Giswil, BONE Performance Festival Berne, DEFORMES Primera Bienal de Performance Santiago de Chile,
NAVINKI Performance Festival Minsk Belarus, 10th OPEN Performance Art Festival Beijing,
LIVE ART 2011 Bangalore India, INTERVAL°8 Performance Festival Essen, EXTRA! Festival Internacional de Performance Ciudad de México.
Mein Zitat für den März
„Meine Harmoniebedürftigkeit ist erschreckend anstrengend.“
Serial art photography
Block 4Teilig 2019.
Block 6Teilig 2021
Art photography
Statement
Meine Fähigkeit, alles um mich herum aufzusaugen,
ermöglicht mir das Gehörte, Gesehene, Wahrgenommene,
Erlebte und Gefühlte zu speichern und in einer Art
Metamorphose in Kunst zu verwandeln.
Dabei ist mir jedes Medium willkommen, auch wenn die
Performance Kunst mein Raumempfinden stark beeinflusst
und verfeinert hat.
Die verwendeten Materialien kommen aus dem Alltag,
Kleider, Lebensmittel, Verpackungsmaterialien, Tonerde,
Draht und Gips.
Ähnlich, wie bei den Künstler*innen von Fluxus, haben
für mich das Leben und die Kunst eine sehr flüssige und
transparente Struktur, die sich gegenseitig brauchen
und unterstützen. Ich operiere mit den daraus entstehenden
Diskrepanzen und Absurditäten um Unsichtbares
sichtbar zu machen.
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Photography
Photo Atelier Basel 2017.
Photo Atelier Basel 2013.
Photo Atelier Basel 2021.
Photography Helsinki 2013.
Photo Locarno 2012
Photo Basel 2015.
Photo Basel 2015.
Many thanks
Monika Günther und Ruedi Schill. Emil und Hedy Gössi, Nick Limacher, Toni Huser. Norbert Klassen, Muda Mathis, Rene Pulfer, Andrea Saemann, Monica Klingler, Pascal Grau, Maricruz Peñaloza, Margarit von Büren, Judith Huber, Boris Nieslony, Barbara Sturm, Lilian Frei, Gisela Hochuli, Chris Regn, Dominik Lipp, Klara Schilliger & Valerian Maly, Glynis Ackermann, Irene Maag, Fränzi Madörin Sus Zwick, Rolf Hinterecker und Familie, Evamaria Schaller, Olivia Wiederkehr. Thanks to all the filmers and photographers for the great pictures. To all the lecturers of the former Farbmühle Design School and the FHBB HGK Basel. Pro Helvetia & Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt BANGBANG, Translocal Performance Stories, Performance Chronicle Basel, perFORM, Kunst im Depot Winterthur. Performance Reihe Neu-Oerlikon. International Performance Art Giswil. Muchos Gracias !EXTRA! Ex Teresa Arte Actual CDMX, ArtSpaceMéxico CDMX, Biosfera Experimental, Arte De Acción CDMX. Thank you LEGS. Merci Unwrap The Present. Thank you to the teams of INTERVAL, FIXATIONS and PAErsche. To the team of LIVE ART 2011 in Bangalore. The Offenburg Art School. The huge team at the OPEN Performance Art Festival in Beijing. The organisational team of ART OF ENCOUNTERING Basel. Les Reines Prochaines, the team of the Kaserne Basel and the Wildwuchs Festival. The organisational team of Liste 09, Kasko Basel. The PERFORMANCE SAGA team and the Theatre Arsenic in Lausanne and BONE Festival Bern. And to all those I have forgotten