Ilona Ruegg presents Conference 2, a space-defining sculpture. Three discarded conference tables rest on nine used neon lights. Crumpled rubber mats cushion the weight in precarious places. The layering and wedging of the parts are absolutely interdependent. Two legs mounted on each table top, holes where these are missing. Tables penetrate each other. A play of light, reflections and shadows creates a presence that can no longer be evaluated and located in the usual way. Beyond their intended purpose, the conference tables, at which decisions are otherwise made, seem to become actors themselves. Beyond their role of illuminating objects, the light sources are literally actualized as carriers.

I am pleased to start the Artist in Residence at Embassy for Foreign Artists in Geneva in September. I will develop a photo series in the project Art et Territoire.

I am pleased to announce my exhibition at Kunsthalle Arbon.
With a cinematic insert by James Beacham, particle physicist at CERN, Geneva

Ilona Ruegg and James Beacham, CERN Genf, in conversation

For the first exhibition of its two-year program, 360° Lemme, Josiane Imhasly has invited the artist Ilona Ruegg.

Three window grills, a double threshold, darkness, and an absent display table. The exhibition LIMINAL brings together four so-called 'Drop Outs' by Ilona Ruegg, all created in 2013: objects familiar to us from everyday life, but through spatial-temporal shifts and minimal changes, they are charged with new meanings.

The Drop Outs carry moments of liminality, transition, and threshold states within them. Through reflection and dematerialization, they play into the confusion inherent in Lemme as both sculpture and architecture.