Hanna Roeckle Liechtenstein, Switzerland, b. 1950

Hanna Roeckle's art is diverse and yet her work revolves around the question of space. Whether panels on the wall or steles in the room, the viewer is always immersed in the depths of three-dimensionality. 

Starting with everyday objects, found objects from nature, Hanna Roeckle first sketches her objects as drawings in one of her countless templates. Crystalline forms, which creation has produced over centuries, are meticulously researched and depicted in drawing form in all their aspect. When this sketch is transferred into space, small preliminary studies follow using cardboard and paper, and only then does the artist transfer her own colour studies. Each object lives from these iridescent colour gradients, which, depending on the point of view, lend the respective body its own dimension. These objects are to be understood as sculptures in interior and exterior spaces, standing freely in the room or hanging expansively on the wall.

Hanna Roeckle's oeuvre oscillates between painting and three-dimensional work in space. The boundaries in between are often fluid. All of her works resonate with her engagement with architectural processes and her enthusiasm for open scientific fields such as molecular biology, deep-sea research and fibre optics. The structural and colouristic aspects of her work are formally derived from such fundamentals.