Matthias Amsler’s (*1992) practice engages with the spatial dynamics of everyday objects and environments. Through minimal interventions, he shifts the perception of materials and contexts, allowing ordinary elements to take on new significance before returning them to their original surroundings. His work moves fluidly between found objects, site-responsive installations, and painterly explorations, blurring the boundaries between presence and absence, function and form.
Alongside these material explorations, Amsler’s engagement with painting unfolds as a study of impermanence. Informed by impressionistic sensibilities and his background as a muralist, his works capture transient atmospheres while extending painterly expression into public space. This duality—between the ephemeral and the material, the gesture and the object—frames his broader artistic inquiry.
Amsler navigates questions of value, power structures, and the human condition, constructing subtly distorted realities that probe contemporary urgencies. His work operates as both a reflection and a disruption, positioning itself within the tension between presence and disappearance, permanence and dissolution.
