Sandra Knecht – Home Is a Foreign Place. Artist Book, Exhibition Catalogue - Hardcover

 
9783775759342: Sandra Knecht – Home Is a Foreign Place. Artist Book, Exhibition Catalogue
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3775759344 ISBN 13: 9783775759342
Verlag: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Art, Identity, and the Meaning of Home

What does home mean? Is it a place, a feeling, or an idea? Swiss artist Sandra Knecht has been exploring this complex concept for nearly a decade, examining it from geographical, historical, sociological, philosophical, and culinary perspectives. Her artistic practice blends cooking, photography, film, installation, and performance, continuously redefining identity and belonging.

This 288-page artist book presents Knecht’s new photographic series Tschinn, unique work documentations, and images from her extensive archive. It accompanies the exhibition Home Is a Foreign Place at the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger | KBH.G, which represents the culmination of ten years of artistic research and Knecht’s largest solo exhibition to date. This book is a profound exploration of how our understanding of home evolves and how deeply it shapes human existence—offering a compelling reflection on origin, diversity, and identity.

What to Expect in This Book:

  • 170 high-quality images offering unique insights into Knecht’s work
  • An in-depth examination of home, identity, and diversity
  • Documentation of the exhibition “Home Is a Foreign Place”
  • A look into Knecht’s long-term artistic research

A must-read for art lovers, cultural enthusiasts, and anyone interested in exploring how home shapes identity and society!

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sandra Knecht (*1968) worked as a social pedagogue for 25 years before deciding to work primarily as an artist. She studied at the Zurich University of the Arts from 2011 to 2014. Since then, she has participated in national and international exhibitions. She lives near Basel with her animals.

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Sandra Knecht is a Swiss conceptual and performance artist whose themes revolve around identity and home. Her practice encompasses cooking, photography, film, installation, and performance. For almost ten years she has been investigating the concept of home-geographically, historically, sociologically, philosophically, and culinarily. Her long-term research has resulted in an artist's book that presents the new photographic work group Tschinn and an unusual documentation of her work, drawing on her extensive image archive. For Knecht, home is an unknown place that constantly feeds her artistic imagination, and which must be continually questioned and renegotiated.

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Verlag
Hatje Cantz Verlag
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3775759344
ISBN 13 
9783775759342
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
288
Herausgeber
H. Geiger Geiger | KBH.G Kulturstiftung Basel
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